Will you be mine?
I don't think people resemble the sad guy face to the Alcatraz game, but the blocky one to the top left of the sword and raven drawing. Although I don't find this one particularly similar either.
The sad guy face (he's wearing some glasses on red eyes) makes me fairly curious. It also makes me hope they put something nice in this Be Mine. The last one was so disappointing.
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I believe the first game took 3 years to get a translation. But it's a 1C Company game, and they're infamous for being absurdly poorly translated, so don't put any real expectations into that front. Though, the Alcatraz games also apparently have some pretty nasty "humor" [ie, racism], so it's probably for the best to play it with as unclear an understanding of those elements as possible :P
The gameplay and atmosphere is supposed to be excellent, though ["Like a darker, more involved classic Fallout game"], and many actually love it for the AllYourBase-style translation humor.
I can't make any sense of all the criticisms over the language, when it's pretty identical to including any EA or greenlight game- you're never entirely sure they'll pull through with all they promise, but you buy those anyway, yea?
Just view it like an EA game that's waiting for a translation patch before launching.
Besides, if you're interested in the game, you're interested in it and you're familiar with the company's approach. If not, well, you can trade it or give it away. The language barrier really shouldn't factor in how you approach it, other than likely making you want to wait on playing it, if you decide to keep it.
Meanwhile, every BM always has a few junky throw-ins. This is a game most would consider passably decent- so at worst, consider it just a typical junky throw-in, but with the benefit of potentially one day transforming into something more agreeable.
Getting overly excitable because of a simple language barrier, when it's no different a consideration than any of the other elements I mentioned, is just a needless basis for stressing yourself out.
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Release date: 19 sept 2008... more than 3 year ;) and no answer on translation
The language is a barrier when you can't play because you don't understand commands.
I'm not "overly excitable" because of a simple language barrier, i play in english and it's not my language.
Trade a russian game won't be as easy as a english game.
Edit: I'm not mad on the bundle yet it's not even live ;) i only say it's not a game for a bundle.
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"overly excitable"
Was a reference to comments like the one below :P
I didn't catch the release date, however. If it's from 2008, then yeah, that's a lot more of a concern on not getting a language patch at any point, and much more legitimate reason to be grumpy over it [same as if they'd put up an EA game that was known to have been abandoned prior to reaching a meaningfully playable state].
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I normally agree with you but this time I don't. I will be extremely angry if this game is in it.
When I buy a bundle I expect to get games I can play. Maybe I don't like these games, that's ok but giving me a game I can't play is rediculous. I order from a .com site, paying in dollars so Swahili, Japanese or Rusian only games are not acceptable.
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Hah what a bullshit response. Not at all surprised from such a shady company. Oh, and last time I checked their 'store' was in English and as American company that is what is expected of them. At the very least they should have been transparent about blindly selling you and everyone else a Russian-only game that does you no good. Anyway, you can always open a dispute with Paypal or your CC company. I think you have legitimate case given the circumstances.
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That would have been I very good idea!
I just choose the easy way out and sold the stupid bundle. So I got my money back in the end.
But the money is not the issue here (only 2 bucks) I still feel scammed and to me it's unbelievable they do a thing like that and get away with it.
Then I read the wise words from Sooth again and realised life is to short to stay angry about this.
So sold it and moved on :)
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I really do hope people will learn from this and will finally stop supporting this dishonest business model and practices from Groupees. Notice how no one else does it like this. Who am I kidding though.... if human nature has anything to say about it.... people always gotta learn the hard way :(
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I won't hate you lol. I used to like Groupees too. That was way back in their early days though. Now it's very much the opposite.
To me the really big problem began when they started with this blind (and of course non-guaranteed) pre-order nonsense, which as far as I am concerned is and always has been an inherently dishonest practice. You combine this with bundle quality that took a nosedive a very long time ago and continues to decline year after year and mix it with some additional unethical spice (as evidenced by the example here), and it is a recipe for a putrid soup that smells like it was just scooped out of someone's cesspool. Groupees has completely forgotten (or perhaps more appropriately, simply don't care) about what it means to follow the principles of business ethics.
I mean you have to be doing something seriously wrong to turn someone who used to be a staunch supporter into one of your biggest detractors.
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Well, you can manually translate it, so you can't really say it's entirely unplayable (assuming that affects all gameplay buttons/etc as well). Probably'd do about as good a job as an official 1C translation, in any case. :P
Just view the bundle as having 5 games, rather than 6. At the very least, it's certainly nothing to be angry over- that's way too much energy spent over something so minor. Though, if you're truly peeved, and so long as you haven't revealed any products, you can try contacting Groupees for a refund due to 'misrepresentation of bundle contents'. They've said previously in the past that they'll refund for that, though subsequent discussions on the topic have made it.. a bit uncertain if they do or not. Still, worth a shot, at least- though really, it's essentially 5 games for $1, and the reveals gave you a good idea of what you were getting into.
Unlike the small handful of bundles where they actually did misrepresent the bundle contents with false indications, this one seems to have been pretty straightforward and upfront. Cy even confirmed PA2, so it's not as if we didn't have the basis for making a calculated judgment.
I'm not saying it was necessarily an ideal inclusion, or that you shouldn't gripe to Groupees about if it concerns you- just, that I don't feel the preorder really misrepresented anything. In other words, gripe to them about what kind of things they include in bundles, but don't treat them as having been duplicitous. It was a subjective opinion on their part, on whether the game merited inclusion and on how much the language mattered. If it's a big deal to users, let them know that! But, you can't say they didn't make it clear within the preorder what was going on with this bundle.
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I should have read your post earlier. I already said exactly what I feel about this bundle scam in chat and in an email asking for a refund. So don't treat them as having been duplicitous is a bit to late now.
Well we'll see. I used to love Groupees and their support this feels like being scammed.
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Oh, I'm not saying you shouldn't try for a refund if you think it's merited. I mean, if the system allows you to preorder before all hints are revealed, and you preorder Groupees bundles immediately with the expectation of getting certain products..
No, you definitely have grounds for 'misrepresentation of contents', due less by them being intentionally duplicitious, but by way of their usual troubled approach toward communicating with us clearly.
I just meant, approach it as an issue with them breaking expectations in structure, rather than of intentional duplicity.
When you throw out words like 'scam', I can only assume you mean the latter, since scams are intentional. That's more what I'm trying to nudge you away from. :)
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Repress is where you hold something back. Oppression indicates you're taking away basic freedoms from someone. :)
Please do not oppress your feelings. :(
Repress: To subdue, suppress, restrain, prevent, or inhibit (someone, or the expression or development of something).
Opress: To burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints, or subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power
And don't worry. It's a lot easier to approach a matter clear-headedly when it's not your own troubled circumstances needing to be resolved. :X I've got my own share of overly-intense responses to situations for me to continue to learn from. :P
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Thanks for your support. And you are right, I should and want to be in chat more often.
There's only one problem. When I'm chasing games, here or on Steam I'm on Android and chat does not work on that. When I'm finally playing games I do so on big screen with a controller. Chatting requires a keyboard... Modern days problems :)
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So I pre-ordered and paid $2 but I only get the keys to tier 1? eh?
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I will keep refreshing and glaring at the screen, then :-P
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I've stuck a message in the support window, but like you say, I imagine I just have to wait. Well, at least I don't have to wait an extra 10 hours (hopefully) like I did with yesterday's...think maybe I'm going to stay off bundles for a while. This week's been sooooo disappointing.
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From what i saw now what it has to offer, and am glad i decided not to buy it, nothing really interesting for me.
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Alcatraz is a bad joke, but I was eyeing Black Sea Odyssey and Midsummer Night, and there is a $1 coin, so I'm not too disappointed - maybe the mystery game will be mind blowing...
I realize though the Be Mine tag can't be trusted anymore. I used to buy them blindly, but seeing Alcatraz in there is a slap in the face of loyal customers, and adding to that the overall Be Mine quality has been decreasing heavlily.
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Most this year has been low quality, anyway, but certainly everything since this March has been rather unfortunate, other than BM25.
Seems like it declined late last year, crashed a bit around the end/start of the year, picked back up a bit up through March, and then just mostly nose-dived straight down since [Of note, it rather precisely started its unrestrained downward spiral from the very point that Miller became involved in the bundles, whether that's actually a directly responsible factor or not].
It's rather a worrisome direction for the site to be heading into. :/
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One of the worst BM ever and they don't even deliver the second tier, whats's not to like. :X
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Nothing fixed here to date, bought the full bundle got only tier 1.
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It's up now but this isn't the first time this or similar things happened on Groupees bundle release. Groupees can be amateurish sometimes.
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Midsummer Night! I had that wishlisted! =D That and Blacksea Odyssey make me happy. The other two... eh. Shrugs I'm glad to have the coin and album on top of it. Don't regret buying this, and hoping the mystery game is good on top of it!
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The strategy game should be fine for someone who wants it. The non-translated game is silly and I disapprove of it being here, but trade bait's trade bait~
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It will be revealed in a few days most likely. I think it can take up to a week, but it'll come!
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Mystery game will not be revealed yet^^' I think it takes some days or a week before they reveal it. Like they usually do. :)
But yea, I press that button too, to just get that text away. :x Plus I don't trade on Groupees' trading system, so it doesn't matter for me anyways.
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Man, I had low expectations for this bundle but the best looking game to me is Save the Ninja Clan which I could've gotten for $1 >_>
With 2848 bundles sold, anyone else think this bundle isn't going to reach 4000 to unlock the last bonus?
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Look at the bright side.. You kinda did get it for $1 when you think of the $1 coin that you get! :) Also other games that you can either keep, trade, or giveaway. ;p
But yeah, I do hope that either we will reach that amount or that they will lower the requirement for the last bonus. But who knows, maybe that's just an album too. Lol.
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Oh come on Groupees ! i bought two of this blinking crapfest. and that was straight after the b.a.b too .
Stretching our loyalty to new bounds.
Methinks a lot of the bundle site are running out of steam (small s) .
Time to take a break from bundles ,i have most of the games i could possibly want apart from a few AAA titles..
Maybe come back in a few months when some of the newer releases have filtered through to the bundles.
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Either the curator was a dumbass (did anyone admit to curating that game yet?) or Groupees ran out of quality english games to put in the bundle. They seem to have a harder time finding decent games to bundle compared to IG or BundleStars. Still, I think it would haven been better to leave Planet Alcatraz 2 out of the bundle and lower the total price a bit. Wouldn't have hurt their reputation as much.
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Yeah. I would have been fine with even a terrible English text translation and no voice over. If it were something like an FPS, rather than an RPG, then it wouldn't really matter. An RPG is going to be more dependent upon understanding what's going on and what you need to do. The first review for this game even states "it is unplayable for anyone who does not speak Russian." What a stupid decision Groupees made...
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I think it's an ok bundle, though definitely nowhere near as good as the previous BMs. The $1 tier is just horrible, and the second tier is not worth $3.75. If it didn't have a wishlist game (Midsummer Night) and Blacksea Odyssey (which looks alright), my opinion would be that it's complete crap. I do wonder if they'll even reach the 4k goal.
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Those two games don't look terrible, but as you said, not worth $3.75. Groupees bundles really need to be cheap to be worth it.
Also, I usually don't care about music in bundles, but that thing is really bad. It's supposedly made with an famicom soundchip, but the NES/Famicom was capable of so much more.
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The game is really poorly balanced. Difficulty is all over the place, and combat is not very fun. And the translation, well, I found myself zoning out when reading the text on screen, it was that bad. With some proper re-balancing and a competent translation, it might have been good.
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Wow... a game that's only in Russian is one of the two games in this bundle I don't have.
Groupees, baby, I love you. I keep pre-ordering you. But I'm starting to learn my lesson here. Between the BAB and this bundle hitting within 13 hours of each other and both being lackluster and the fact that the last Be Mine was back in July so you had all these months to find truly deserving games... underwhelming is an understatement.
I don't know what it is... is it Indie Gala's Monday bundles scooping up most of the new games into some sort of exclusivity deal? It's kind of sad because I want to keep supporting the site but it's getting tougher to justify the cost.
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Out of curiosity, have you gotten any of the music bundles? I've been listening to the albums I got from them recently and I'm really liking them!
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I haven't but as a musician who's band has been in two Groupees bundles I know they really do have their fingers on the pulse of bandcamp's best synthwave and other genres so the music bundles are always great.
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Oh wow! Which ones have you done? I'd be interested in hearing your works!
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I'm the keyboard player in the band Med Downline and we were in:
Be Mine 20 - https://groupees.com/bm20
Groupees Community 5- https://groupees.com/community5
Since then we put all our stuff on Bandcamp for pay what you want: http://meddownline.bandcamp.com/
I will say this, though: I contacted them and they instantly replied. The guy who handles bands is great. They put our only full CD with vocals and studio mastered songs into BM20 in mere days. We talked about adding Xon, which is a concept album where we make an 8-bit chiptunes OST to a game that never existed, into a future bundle... that suddenly became GC5 which came out within a week of the other bundle. I think they kind of blew our load, if you will. It would have been better if they spaced our stuff out.
I can't complain, though. I've bought all game bundles from them for years and to have our CD in a Be Mine was great.
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You know what the best thing about Be Mine 28 is? That you ended up posting in this thread. I went back to Be Mine 20 to check it out since your post made me curious, and I friggin love it. Thanks!
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Between the BAB and this bundle hitting within 13 hours of each other and both being lackluster and the fact that the last Be Mine was back in July so you had all these months to find truly deserving games... underwhelming is an understatement.
You, Sir (or Ma'am), summed it up perfectly.
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Sir it is... I'm all about the dudes... wait, that came out wrong
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It seems to me that Groupees' sales have been on a slippery slope for a while so I guess convincing devs to jump in must be harder than before. If your game isn't selling, doesn't really have potential, and you're desperate for some exposure that could give you a bit of money, I suppose that having your game bundled at Groupees is better than nothing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It's kind of weird because, while I love them and buy them, too, Indie Gala's bundles essentially take ANYTHING and throws it against a paywall. So many crappy VR games and games like the two Trump games have been part of them.
I figure they include so many games for such a low price point that it should hurt the quality of their games but they seem to be doing great essentially scooping up any new Steam game that's 5 dollars or less. Sure, full games like a Van Helsing II is rare, but it's great if you want a lot of the shorter games coughandtheircardscough
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The thing is, Indie Gala has a secret weapon called Happy Hour. That's their trump card which keeps people coming back despite the shovelware.
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I holding out hope that they release one hell of a Bundle of the Damned this year.
However, now that I said that, watch there not be a Bundle of the Damned this year...
What's harsh is the mood whiplash of being happy that you have 9 new games from one bundle on IG Friday and then this and BAB offering me two games total.
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tier 1 Itch.io for Save the Ninja Clan
Also, does Midsummer Night's OST have a steam key or is it drm-free?
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I'm not exactly used to groupees. what is that coin you get? I can redeem it for credits?
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I imagined that, thanks! In my profile there's no option to redeem it, so I guess I can use it on the checkout, yes?
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yes, it shows on my purchases, but no option to redeem it. anyway, there's nothing else I want to buy right now, so I'm ok in waiting for the next bundle. at least it was worth the preorder. 1$ cashback :)
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got it. indeed, the coins tab is still empty. good to know, thanks for the info!
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The coins from bundles you buy won't get into your profile until the bundle is over. Sometimes it even takes another couple of days. But you will get them. :)
And yes, you use them during the checkout. I've added a picture to show you how it looks like! So you can choose how many or which coins you want to. Just be aware that you cannot pre-order bundles with coins. You can only use them when the bundle is already live. Also, you will not get change back, so use them wisely! :)
If you e.g. pay with two $1 coins, and you want a bundle costing $4, you'll obviously use the coins and then pay the remaining $2 with whatever payment method you choose. =)
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This is a one-time only issued, non-fluctuating value coin and is redeemable only at groupees.com for other products or may be traded with other users.
When it says non-fluctuating value coin, it means it won't rise in value. There's only been a handful or so of the fluctuating coins. :) But yes, neither give change back. So one should use the fluctuating coins on the more expensive bundles such as VN or comic bundles.
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What's weird is I'm currently stuck at -0.13 cents somehow. I blame the Trump coin from the Tax Bundle
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I'm confused why so many people are disappointed about this bundle. Blacksea Odyssey and Midsummer Night seem to be great games, Strategy & Tactics: Wargame Collection isn't too bad, and the bundle also contains a $1.00 coin. Of course, Planet Alcatraz 2 is completely ridiculous, but in my opinion the other games make up for it. Save the Ninja Clan looks quite nice as well, I hope it's coming to Steam at some point.
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Well, I can understand why people are disappointed that Planet Alcatraz 2 is in the bundle (I'm disappointed about it as well), but with the $1.00 coin we can buy two more games from a future Build a Bundle. That's why I'm confused why so many people are disappointed about the whole bundle.
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I didn't have a single game from this bundle, so I'm not disappointed. Though it is a Be Mine, and they really used to have the best reputation and a lot of hype built up around them for a good reason. It's slowly decreasing now. And yeah, the Russian-only game really didn't do good for this bundle. Who knows, maybe in 5 years there will be an English translation.. ;p
Anyways, let's just hope the mystery game is a good one! And yes, the greenlight game and the $1 coin made it worth it ^^
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Ох лол, это какой-то совсем эпичный троллинг, Групиис (или как это название читается правильно?) потиху так продали почти 3000 копий игры, которую большая часть покупателей их бандлов никогда бы отдельно не купили. Это как если бы я начал на английские комментарии тут на СГ отвечать на русском, в надежде что нарвусь на законспирированного жителя какой-нибудь страны из СНГ, который поймет меня без гугл-переводчика и ответит мне, а не спросит что-нибудь вроде "втф дюде ай донт спик рашн ор ватэва". Супер бандл, не зря купил!
I couldn't resist, sorry. Good job, Groupees!
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Good, very good, that means you're one of few people here who can enjoy this game!
A ja mowic po polsku nieco. Ta Belarus niedalek i mova podobna, rozumiem ;)
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Be Mine #28
Pre-order: $2All new to bundles! \o/Pay $1 for 3 games, or pay $3.75 to receive the entire bundle!
6 steam, 1 greenlight, 2 album & $1 coin!
Ends in 20 days!
Note: PayPal is currently having some issues due to DDOS attacks! Read more here!
Mystery game seems to have been leaked via their email!!
Tier 1: $1
Greenlight game:
Music:
Last Romance by Suguruka.
Adjustments by Color Theory
Itch.io:
Save the Ninja Clan
Tier 2: $3.75
Non-steam item:
Retail: $46.93
CV: $7.04
Bonus Section:
20.0% of your payment will be donated to Girls Not Brides
Confirmed:
Greenlight game:
Guesses / Hints: Jonny's drawing
Bearded man:
Sword & crow drawing:
Folk TaleQuotes from Cyanic:
The man on the left drawing:
Quote from Cyanic:
Ninja drawing:
More quotes:
Boat drawing:
Red 'goggles' drawing:
Be Mine hype thread here (ღˇ◡ˇ)~♥
Are you interested in knowing other ongoing bundles? Feel free to check out the new master thread!
Wondering what games you already own from this bundle? There's an extension/UserScript for that! It's called the RaChart™ Enhancer!
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