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For example: www.flickr.com/photos/inq/3264335602/
Don't let Arty Smokes see that photo :)
The whole watermarked issue should really be left alone to the photographer. We all got our paranoia and some have to do that. Also, there are some good ones out there. One good example is "Vincent's" watermarking. Unfortunately, like HDR, most have to turn all the knobs to 11.
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You know.. I am kind of suprised that people didn't use this as a place to pimp images.
Perhaps I should have put more smiley faces in the OP.
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blown out hightlights, hate it dammit whether its on purpose or intentional, especially on B &W imagery.
I hate framing, if you want a frame, go down to B & Q and buy one.
Never heard bout the orton effect but feel strangely inclined to try it :P
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nice light trails ;-)
since "colors cranked all the way up, and then two more notches after that" isn't on the list... i think i only have one offender in my stream.
i'm sure that all of us here are guilty of something on the list, but doing the cliche stuff is how we learn things :p
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Did I read "pimp photos" Woo Hoo!
The picture that's the first one in my stream right now makes my wife look like a cartoon. It was like I lost control in my retouching. It was certainly fun to play with. Don't go look. (RP again.)
Then this one...
I lost control of both my hands and my mind. The photo of the geese was pretty nice alone -- but it was a photo of geese. So I would call some of my Flickr submissions photo-based graphic art, not photos. I feel shame.
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Frame - AND a flood filter! Bloody brilliant work.
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 Yes! I'd forgotten bad cartoon b*ll*cks! Guilty!
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#16 Guilty - Using Nikon DSLR to reproduce crappy Russian Lomo prints
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Out Of Bounds
Amazing Circles
Create Your Own Planet
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OMG... Planetoids! I remember those. When I first saw them I was amazed by their brilliance. After the 738,002nd I had gotten pretty tired of them.
I never did actually get round to making one. Are they hard to do?
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I have no idea!
oops!
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 Leo Reynolds Oh, the "out of bounds" effect is something I've been meaning to try. Since there are already thousands of examples uploaded, I think I'll keep my attempt private.
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Schrodinger*s Cat [deleted] says:
WTF ??? Throw your doughnuts!
I have a "light trails" shot in my own stream !!!
My first pimp... I fell so dirty (:
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A lot of the "worst" gimmicks are those that are created easily with Photoshop plug-ins that are of little use to "ordinary" photographers. I remember when I first got PS and downloaded every free plug-in I could find, including the infamous "filter factory" library. It took a while for me to realise that the various pencil, kaleidoscope, tiling and mirror effects were pretty much useless except for the very occasional bit of fun.
One plug-in I really liked for a while was Ulead's Particle, which allowed the quick and easy addition of smoke and bubbles. The latter made their way into several of my uploads.
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First time I saw this several years ago I was breathless. I think I will try this sometime anyway. With a good retouching this could look really cool.
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Have you seen the Filter -> Render -> Clouds effect in PS for adding in 'realistic' clouds to spice up your dull sky?
Truly awful.
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I would be curious to see the opposite list : what's in ? cool ? So far I committed about 3/4 of the offenses mentionned.
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What's in at the moment.... They are in the same list Patrick :D
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About to go crazy:
Transparent screens!
I gotta get me one of those.
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for the most part, i hate editing in general. i do as little editing as possible. i think that if you need to edit a photo so much, you shouldn't put it up, because it wasn't that great of a photo in the first place. Not to sound perfect, and i know i sound like an ass. but i see so many people everyday over-edit the hell out of their photos. and its disgusting.
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Please may I take this opportunity to pimp an entire set of mine, which contains:
* Frames
* Black & white
* Selective colour
* Vignettes
* A texture, found in the Textures for Layers group
* Orton
...all in the space of 16 photos. Is this a record?
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I shuddered when I saw the Orton picture. Fantastic effort there. You need some kind of GIF.
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I've thought of another gimmick I really hate seeing on flickr - people taking photos of themselves holding handwritten "demands". Call the cliché police - it's the donut squad!
The people who uploaded the following shots need to be banned from teh intawebs. ;)
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I Ortonized this one a little, but I think I got away with it
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i was sort of into hand-tinting black and white prints for a while, does this count as a shameful editing offense?
:P
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I do that, so absolutely not, I laud your artistic talents.
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I don`t know if anyone posted, but Book pages forming a Heart... Jeez, I`ve seen like 7 today.
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I love how this thread turned into confessions thread. I'm sure everyone who confess and repel here will be forgiven on the Judgement Day.
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
I was just on my way to rent the Exorcist, and I wonder if it was influenced by all that I read here?
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confessions has totally put me in mind of the monty python spanish inquisition sketch.
"you are hereby charged with using bad fake lens flare and 'jazzy' frames to add interest to your mediocre photography! confess, or we will use... THE SOFT CUSHIONS!"
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I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition here ...
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
Nadie anticipa la inquisición Española.
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What are their chief weapons? Or would that be a History Brush (another editing sin)?
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Schrodinger*s Cat [deleted] says:
alex.dram says:
I love how this thread turned into confessions thread. I'm sure everyone who confess and repel here will be forgiven on the Judgement Day.
okay okay OK!
I have a Bokeh shot in my stream too.... complete with bokeh written in Japanese; because I'm a real girlie swat.
and my URL even has the word bokeh in it.
THE SOFT CUSHIONS, please!
But don't give me shit about my cat pic... he's dead.
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Funny read. The one that annoys me the most is overdone HDR!!
But wtf is wrong with #10? B&W is timeless...
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It's a wannabe artfag cliché
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You've joined the party late Corin.
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lol , i get annoyed from the bkoeh =/ specially the edited one !
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 it's a discussion about photography...
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Has anyone mentioned faux antiquery yet?
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ArchedRoof: "You've joined the party late Corin."
♥ shhexycorin ♥: "it's a discussion about photography..."
That may just be the funniest thing ever written in FC.
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Was duotone / tritone / cyanotype mentioned anywhere?
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 What are their chief weapons?
Their chief weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
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View on Black
Why!? Get over yourself, you pretentious arse.
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 Electric Spam "View on Black"
Oh god, yeah. That's probably worse than putting a black frame round a photo. If I want to view something on black, I'll print it out and shove it up my arse. :/
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View on Black ololo. While it doesn't bother me at all since I rarely do as asked, this is really way too popular here.
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#5 is so 2006. You need to update that one.
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You'd better tell this those who still do that (approximately 2239898409888345555555532409 peoples)
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View on Black. Why!? Get over yourself, you pretentious arse.
Oh boy.
So, you plan to be in a certain place at a certain time, and have to walk for hours just to get there, and spend hours trying to get the shot you want, then later you spend a few hours very carefully processing your shots - and you're telling me I'm being an arse for being concerned about how it's presented? If it's pretentious then so is presenting photographs on the web for others to see (who the hell do you think you are?!), and so is processing, and so is taking them in the first place - ridiculous.
(Incidentally, calling people pretentious is like calling jazz improvisation self-indulgent, ie. it's a bastardly, facile, idiotic cliché used by unimaginative people)
If I want to view something on black, I'll print it out and shove it up my arse
It's amusing, but I don't get it. I agree that some people go crazy with "view on black", and fail to notice that their pictures look considerably worse , but how can there be anything wrong with it in principle, and why does it annoy you?
It's not editing/processing anyway.
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haha - you realise this discussion is now one of the first things I check on every time I log onto flickr? I love it!
Not learnt a lot (other than that you all have fantastic senses of humour and sarcasm) but glad I haven't done many of these things, mainly because I don't know how....
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Hm... I think this tread needs a Flood Filter plugin as well. Oh, wait, I'll be banned first, oh shi..........
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It's a joke in a light-hearted thread.
And I fucking hate jazz.
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Figures.
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amen!
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Hahahahaha. oh dear.
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As jasohil said..... : )
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View on black
Haha,
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Hahahahahahahaha!
Yes, that needs to be on the list.
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Well, I fought against the inclusion of View on Black, but I lost, so, moving on...
How about crappy titles, like "...And The Wind Swept Away Her Suicidal Bridesmaids Into the Darkness of Love's Twilight" ?
...for a landscape photograph.
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I love that! It is so poetic and tender!
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JAMALROB!!!!
Photographers who think they are poets
YES fucking yes of course!
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Lolololololololololololololololololololol yes
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lost4words [deleted] says:
Printing song lyrics under the photograph is another one.
I know because I've done it myself :-)
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"Incidentally, calling people pretentious is like calling jazz improvisation self-indulgent, ie. it's a bastardly, facile, idiotic cliché used by unimaginative people"
Even musicians think that jazz improvisation is self-indulgent ;o)
Of course, there are degrees of this. Some jazz improvisation is extremely talented musicians creating an on-the-fly work of art.
And some is a bunch of smug bastards wanking over their archtop guitars while hearing only the notes they themselves are playing.
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Facade Man (left due to SAVVOGRAPHY) [deleted] says:
Taking photographs. I bloody hate that. I joined Flickr to get away from photography.
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Even musicians think that jazz improvisation is self-indulgent
Well, musicians can be idiots too.
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while hearing only the notes they themselves are playing
Just sounds like bad music to me, and nothing to do with jazz.
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Photographers who think they are poets
Careful. I know of at least on photographer that doesn't care about titles and just puts the title of songs, that he (I think he is a he) is listening to at the moment, as the title.
He listens to pretentious post-rock Canadian bands with song titles like «She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field»(*), and other assorted self-indulgent pretentious British low-fi bands with song titles like «An Oblique View of an Irrationally Happy Time»... and so no, he is not being pretetiously poetic. I think he hates jazz, at least the 80s+ jazz fusion stuff.
Let's not lynch mob the casually oblivious to pretentiousness with the poetic "titlelers."
(*) someone said that pimpin' was OK this time, and it is linked to be viewed in black. Maybe.
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#23 ???
The hand silhouette behind frosted glass....
WARNING, the following photo is on Explore
www.flickr.com/photos/t_tao75/3301999684/
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The shot is cool but why don't you just allow a larger size view on flickr? That BHL site is awfully sloooow from time to time.
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for the record & to clarify, I don't hate all jazz. Just the self-indulgent type. I don't think anyone can hate all jazz ;)
I used to record a lot of it, and some Jazz Musicians take themselves waaaaay too seriously.
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I was about to say you missed off quoting whole songs / song titles, but I think Fernando beat me to it...
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Jazz is fairly unique in it's freeform nature, so yes, it does have more opportunity for self indulgence than most other forms.
Or more accurately, the self indulgence is more likely to create a cacophonous racket that people adversely comment on than, for example, James Blunt whining about how terrible his life is because some bird on the Tube didn't look at him.
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Indeed.
Sometimes I listen to jazz when processing my photographs. I hope this isn't a "photographic editing offence."
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and some Jazz Musicians take themselves waaaaay too seriously.
I think like all hobbies, some people get carried away and start taking themselves too seriously. I mean, just look at some of the posts and responses to those in FC.
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In art you have to learn when to put down the brush. You don't learn when to put down that brush until you've gone too far and recognize that.
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Holy crap. I just clicked on your photostream.
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Sounds cool but since we're talking about digital editing people can always use history states to revert to the point where "it's time to stop"... but nobody does.
Oh, shit, I looked in your stream... oh gods no...
I can't unsee what I saw!!11
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
Oh dang, I thought I posted that one once I stopped the "big on black" non-sense. Now I see that, yep, it has that link. I went to LoB Anonymous and cured myself. Though, ironically, it is not larger :P
I used to post larger photos, not much larger, but nearly 800 px. I stopped the practice because 1) flickr resizing to 500px was being rather awful, and 2) if I post something, I have to assume that it gets grabbed, so don't want to provide too many pixels.
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It's like Miles said: "Just take the horn out of your mouth"
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
Sometimes I listen to jazz when processing my photographs. I hope this isn't a "photographic editing offence."
It is if you "jazz up" your photos too much, more so with #1-#317*, then it is an editing offense. Sorry to call you on it.
(*) just anticipating that the list will grow by the time the discussion ends, and I want this comment to remain current.
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
Jazz is fairly unique in it's freeform nature, so yes, it does have more opportunity for self indulgence than most other forms.
In that way, Jazz is so much like photoshop. In that sense, Jazz, like photoshop, seems to fit well into this discussion.
What I notice is that Jazz from the late 50s (or so) and earlier, shared the free-form with the Blues, but after that, and more so with 70s onwards, it seemed to be just musicianship self-indulgence for its own sake. Not very appealing, and Miles' Bitches Brew notwithstanding.
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I view things on black......there I've said it :-o
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Cutting the corners off. Why? Have I missed some health and safety b*ll*cks? Do I need to put on a Hi-Viz vest before I go into photoshop. Will I take "someones eye out wi that"?
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I love you Chelseablue
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btw gotta love the cover for that Davis' album from designer's point of view :)
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And I you ArchedRoof. But we must be careful. I don't want people to start calling us the new Aaron and Rosie.
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what about those infidels who increase black canvas size to recreate cinematic war moments? what a bunch of douchebags.
like this one:
PS: i'm a newbie, so where can i find this flood filter?? it might help me storm galveston beach err i mean normandy 1944 =)
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It's a while since this was a fad, but Out Of Frame (or simply "OOF", not to be confused the the "Out of Focus" OOF, though often you wish that they were).
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I've magically developed the power to make it look as though my photo is sitting on aspirins or "hover", if you will.
This ticks two other boxes. Do I win a pound?
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Ha. Amazing. I was trying this out last night for my Facebook profile.
I bet you will too. If you have a Facebook...
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Yeh. Dumbasses. It was suggested earlier, but we sort of said it was the same as framing... Fuck it. Lets stick it in.
And HERE is the flood filter.
BRB, making pancakes.
BTW (Where's the "Fuck the donuts, show me your pancakes" thread?
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I like to view pics on black, but I rarely click on the bighugelabs link. I use a nifty Firefox plugin that helps me do it in one click.
P.S But I do provide "View on black" links in my pics. ;-)
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Is it Pancake Day?
EDIT: shit, it is.
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
Along the reasoning that there may not be only one reasoning for a presentation/editing faux pas as the High Court of the Spanish Inquisition here pontificates.
Flickr does not offer a way to create your own thumbnail view, and so, like the sin of pan & scan of widescreen movies, you get these weird thumbnails*. So, one solution is to put borders above and below to create a much better thumbnail.
(*)** I am beginning to think that flickr is all about thumbnail surfing, and rarely about clicking through, unless you have a huge following with drama on the side.
(**) I am not sure why I am having this propensity for footnotes in my comments, but it is getting to be annoying.
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Yes, and copied ad nauseam afterward (or slightly before? Did they credit the predecessors?). I love that cover and even more so in the little box set for the album. It seems that one can stretch that album cover forever.
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~ fernando [deleted] says:
watch it! Some of us have to do OOF (focus) because of a lack of dynamic range in our cameras!!! :)
Besides, I do not like the eraser brush in PS, and prefer to blur things out. That is why I take a pessimistic approach and just blur the photograph before it is taken!
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Amen*.
(*) I love that trick with asterisks. Will use it on occasion!
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photography is an offence.
oil painting - that's ART!
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What do you call that thing they used to do, when they actually painted in colour on top of black-and-white photographs?
Not exactly topical though.
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