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This week my HTC HD2 will arive. I have finally ordered my very own king of the heap. I have waited patiently & I am now satisfied. My "Leo" will be here soon & I will finally be able to smile.
Good for you
That should be one fun toy for you!
The HD2
Just received email my HD2 is in Texas & is on the way.
The HD2
It has arrived! I just opened the box & this phone is sharp. This is what I've been waiting for. Showed the UPS man & he wants me to give him the prices & wearabouts because he wants one too.
OK time to investigate.
Thanks XDA.
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It has arrived! I just opened the box & this phone is sharp. This is what I've been waiting for. Showed the UPS man & he wants me to give him the prices & wearabouts because he wants one too.
OK time to investigate.
Thanks XDA.
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While I am happy for you as a fellow HD2 owner... why did you open a thread in here for this? I could be wrong, but I think this thread is better suited for the off-topic or general section.
Move to off topic
Agree.......
Oops, sorry about that, if you want to close this -OK- I'll move this over, just excited that's all
Not long now
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Let´s see how many xmas & new year threads we see on the hole forum!
From now I have seen more than 5
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Let´s see how many xmas & new year threads we see on the hole forum!
From now I have seen more than 5
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Really Merry Christmas then to all ....before we close them.
Lol
I have revived the oldest xmas thread in OT so now we have 6 circulating around!
Time to use the Merry-Hammer!
Thanks JJ I really needed a count down when theirs 2 days to christmas, just incase I loose count
But anyway like my sig says... Merry christmas and a Happy new year to everybody here on the site
Have a krazy Kwanzaa!
I have been on xda since my hero days so its been a few years. Didn't join til too long ago. Made some good pals along the way and learned tons.
So far this forum for me is a breath of fresh air. The phone forums are so full of hate, trolls, attacks, name calling, disrespecting developer's work and the usual douche stuff.
Of course its here too, just no where near as bad yet. Yet. I hope it stays that way because its so much nicer to thank people than report them.
This may be a gay post but some mods fell the same way. Anyway, glad I got the n7 and glad I'm here.
From the Note to Nexus 7
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I have been on xda since my hero days so its been a few years. Didn't join til too long ago. Made some good pals along the way and learned tons.
So far this forum for me is a breath of fresh air. The phone forums are so full of hate, trolls, attacks, name calling, disrespecting developer's work and the usual douche stuff.
Of course its here too, just no where near as bad yet. Yet. I hope it stays that way because its so much nicer to thank people than report them.
This may be a gay post but some mods fell the same way. Anyway, glad I got the n7 and glad I'm here.
From the Note to Nexus 7
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Gay ?
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Saw that coming a mile away...
Yeah this has been awesome, reminds me of the HD2 forums, at least back when nand android became available, the vivid forums are crazy, these ones are nice.
This forum and the AT&T One X forums have been the best. The OG EVO 4G forums were good in the beginning but it got worse and worse over time. Same thing goes for the Epic 4G Touch. I know I'm guilty of some warranted snarky responses from time to time (Search first!) but I never actually attack anybody on a personal level like I've seen in some other subforums. We are all here for the same purpose so why can't we all just get along?
sprintuser1977 said:
I have been on xda since my hero days so its been a few years. Didn't join til too long ago. Made some good pals along the way and learned tons.
So far this forum for me is a breath of fresh air. The phone forums are so full of hate, trolls, attacks, name calling, disrespecting developer's work and the usual douche stuff.
Of course its here too, just no where near as bad yet. Yet. I hope it stays that way because its so much nicer to thank people than report them.
This may be a gay post but some mods fell the same way. Anyway, glad I got the n7 and glad I'm here.
From the Note to Nexus 7
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Hey I remember you from the Evo 4G forums! =D
Just be glad this isn't like the prime forum was in its earlier days..lol. nexus 7 forum is cool. Since I'm unlocked and running custom kernel, I'm more into developement scene now. Never any issues in there. Only everyone working together to put out the best/most stable stuff. NEXUS 7 is an aAzimg little 7in. Tablet. I would've never thought the experience on it would be this good.
Give it time. This forum will degrade just like every single other forum on here.
Not trying to trash XDA, but it just isn't the same community it used to be.
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Give it time. This forum will degrade just like every single other forum on here.
Not trying to trash XDA, but it just isn't the same community it used to be.
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Yep, the more popular a device gets, the more trolling and flaming becomes a problem. It's inevitable.
XDA is legit in general, probably one of the nicest put together forums on the web. The new layout really sets it off.
sprintuser1977 said:
I have been on xda since my hero days so its been a few years. Didn't join til too long ago. Made some good pals along the way and learned tons.
So far this forum for me is a breath of fresh air. The phone forums are so full of hate, trolls, attacks, name calling, disrespecting developer's work and the usual douche stuff.
Of course its here too, just no where near as bad yet. Yet. I hope it stays that way because its so much nicer to thank people than report them.
This may be a gay post but some mods fell the same way. Anyway, glad I got the n7 and glad I'm here.
From the Note to Nexus 7
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Gay ?
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LOL. We know you're not gay dude, it's cool. :good:
When your getting the latest updates and everything is flowing as promise there's nothing to ***** about ... besides to Google ...
Its when you go on the older threads where people are angry because they can't get a working ICS build or even a jelly bean .. or too many noobs bricking their devices
It will turn in to that ... after time
The Epic 4G touch forums got real nasty after ICS n the brick montage
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Yep, the more popular a device gets, the more trolling and flaming becomes a problem. It's inevitable.
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Shoulda been here 6 years ago.
It was all fields and everyone used to be on first name terms with each other.
Then the devices came, then they got popular then the neighbourhood went to pot.
>Then the devices came, then they got popular then the neighbourhood went to pot.
Why, when I was your age...
Pining for the golden yesteryear is a popular pasttime, but it's usually distorted by people's selective memory. Reminescing is futile anyway. What matters is how XDA manages the additional influx while still retaining some semblance of its core identity, and not let itself lapsed into another generic techie hang-out.
The dev sub-forum restrictions have been the main instrument in that. But it would be nice to see more care in other areas. The site's UI and layout was never good--check out the classic vs 2010 vs 2013 beta layouts--and now has turned for the worse.
We're not just talking about personal preference for aesthetics, but dirt-basic design concepts like text reflows vs fixed-width. The basic web UI now has orange-on-white. Who thinks up this stuff?
It would also be nice to see more creative solutions to navigate the huge traffic volume and decreasing sig2noise ratio. The most-recent-on-top scheme and the encouragement of long threads effectively bury most valuable info, as informative threads tend to have few inputs, and are pushed off by argumentative or more inane material. I suppose XDA is shackled by its forum software here, but one can hope for better.
Then again, maybe not.
I was a regular over at the SGT7 forums for a few months, didn't see too much name calling and stuff like that.
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>Then the devices came, then they got popular then the neighbourhood went to pot.
Why, when I was your age...
Pining for the golden yesteryear is a popular pasttime, but it's usually distorted by people's selective memory
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Don't take this the wrong way but when the US market opened up the s/n ratio plummeted.
Kids will be kids, wherever, but the US teen speaks a dialect of English and this is a predominantly English forum.
There are many native French & German / Nordic fora although many non native English speakers from Europe speak and type better English than many English teenagers and have better manners.
Sign o the times
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hullbay said:
XDA is legit in general, probably one of the nicest put together forums on the web. The new layout really sets it off.
LOL. We know you're not gay dude, it's cool. :good:
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I'm not? Would it matter ?
Yeah the vivid forums make me me cry
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>Don't take this the wrong way but when the US market opened up the s/n ratio plummeted.
I live in the US, although I'm not a native, so I empathize both sides of the coin.
That said, attributing the deterioration of online communication to any nationality or ethnic group isn't a grounded argument. English is still the lingua franca of the Internet at this point, and the US user population is still the largest group. Failings from them tend to be magnified by their numbers.
I agree that there is a marked decline in social/communicative exchanges online. It's a little sad to see people don't even bother to correct obvious spelling mistakes, let alone correct grammar. Any attempt to better such is derided as grammar nazis.
But it is what it is, and it reflects the population at large, who also exhibited a marked decline in analytic thinking and social discourse. No amount of handwringing or reminescing will change that. And it is an equal-opportunity malaise in that it affects every online population, not just the US population.
It's kind of sad...
It's a bit like saying the Nexus 7 forums only murders 10 innocent children a week so it's not as bad as other forums who murders at least 100 innocent children and their mothers on a weekly basis.
It's unfortunate but unless the moderators are extremely active (and well-staffed) chances are the trolls will ruin it for everyone sooner or later.
Especially now it's the summer and there is nothing pimply-faced 13-year-olds like to do more than to troll forums in between playing the latest shooter on their MicroSony PlayBox, stuffing themselves with greasy pizza and masturbate.
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it is an equal-opportunity malaise in that it affects every online population, not just the US population.
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Amen and pass the ammunition!
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I would like to do a time frame. Where we could talk about our years here. Lets see who is the oldest and what we have gave to this forums.
Personally Ive been here since 2004-05. And basically since its started when it was hard to read the texts on my razor and this was basically Htc only.
This site has been great for me and sometimes missed the simplicity of the starting years. And I believe this forums are the true shapers on the mobile era.
Please post youre time. and a story
I have a few but ill start with loosing my first account. Dont even know how it was called!
Flashaholic Brotherhood
And another reason I would like to make a timeframe so please talk about youre device history and how its been youre experience in each thread.:thumbup:
Flashaholic Brotherhood
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I got my first android in September of last year, within a month I was on xda, and by November, I had an account cause I thought I knew enough to help some folks. I do enjoy the community, even though leeches are always making devs angry (IMO, both their faults). I haven't been around as long as OP, but I know my way around the Nexus S, and android itself!
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I got my Wildfire S at Christmas and it didn't take me long to decide to root it and I found xda and used a guide here to root my phone
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I joined when They JUST started including other windows mobile phones on the forum.
Sent from my Gekko phone.
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Next time I catch you posting a ridiculously unnecessary "IB4L" post I'm going to ban you. There are more pointless posts from you around here than there are pointless threads, and that's quite an achievement.
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Next time I catch you posting a ridiculously unnecessary "IB4L" post I'm going to ban you. There are more pointless posts from you around here than there are pointless threads, and that's quite an achievement.
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Next time I catch you posting a ridiculously unnecessary "IB4L" post I'm going to ban you. There are more pointless posts from you around here than there are pointless threads, and that's quite an achievement.
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well guys tell me, how was xda when you started and how is it now.
How It modified for better or worst?
For me it has been awesome. Ive been impressed since the beggining till mow. How guys seen to know more about devices than now.
when I started the threads were a little difficult to understand. and everything was in one main page. where you could find rhe .cab files. but you had to keep scrolling down to find what you were looking. Now its all organized and eye candy.
keep it going Lets make this thread an archive!
Flashaholic Brotherhood
I haven't been here long enough to see much change but it's certainly awesome
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Bro please stop that before you get banned! youre affecting the course of this thread. Im investigating abut how old is this thread and how long its been effective on the people. I think a great part that since 2003i the % of people buying smartphones has grown from a 20% to 90% has to in great part to forums like this. specially this one. people started to know about hacks and how they affect they to bennefit the costumer rather that the company.
Xda has been the pioneer when people started to know about roots and other methods of hacking the os of their devices. making them better. and having features locked by carriers. Xda has been there to keep this idea forward. and I want people to start talking about xda's evolution. and the we could take this info and make it a news letter for people to continue the tradition which we started years ago!:thumbup:
Flashaholic Brotherhood
I for one part started to love this place when I had my Razor. I started to know about firmwares and hack. and every time I searched the web I ended here. there werent the hacks I needed then. That led me to my first account. but it was good to know this was there. and to read about people doing amazing stuff.
This led me to buy my first pocketpc-smartphone. a Treo 750 which I bought from second use and I still have it running a custom wm 6.5 rom with titanium.
Then I bought an Lg incite (wm) which kept me here but most of my time on lg-incite.com
the site grew and my fasination for htc too. not to be surpriced as most of the hacks where make for this devices.... check the history of the first diamond with manila. ( what we call now Sense)
So it led me to buy a Diamond 2
this was another revolution. I was a moderator on the htc-pure forums. but kept my profile here. and was as always morw and more in love with this site as I continued to know that the hacks came from here.
Now on the Dhd I had a bittersweet relation. many forum memebers dont like to keep tradition. But this continues to grow fast. Proof of this is the compact view.
We shall continue making history!
Flashaholic Brotherhood
I have been here on xda since 11th of june 2012 thats not even six months. But this place has taught me how to do awesoome stuff with my low end phones (galaxy 5 and galaxy y ) but also taught me many more things,things which no school teaches.
I have learnt to be polite when I am angry, i have learnt to appreciate ones efforts. I have learnt to respect ones work.
Sent from my Galaxy Y - A phone with Small Screen and Big Buttons
I've been here since February of this year but I've lurked since mid 2011. I have to say this is THE best forum ever!
My beloved Desire HD is my first Android phone and I'm loving every second of it
I was previously a proud owner of A Nokia N95 8GB which was one of the best and sturdiest devices ever
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Thats great. Now I see many people with budget phones. which proofs what xda stands for..... everyone should have equal oportunity to have the best phone they can.
Hacks make devices live longer and us spent less money on smartphones. But we still love them!:thumbup:
Flashaholic Brotherhood
I've known about xda since I've had a G1 in early 2009. I didn't join until I got Sparky a MyTouch 3G (3.5mm jack) in June 2010. I'm a relative newcomer compared to some....I really put what I learned here to good use when I got my Nexus One in late June 2010....and I've had tons of phones since and I learnt more with each one.
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Well I started this January. I thought that i was just going to fix my player (it was a bootloop but i thought it was a brick )and be gone but boy I got addicted to this forum. And to this date I am still addicted. Check out my thread. Its like hilarious now that I know that stuff a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1444126
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GuyInTheCorner said:
I've been here since February of this year but I've lurked since mid 2011. I have to say this is THE best forum ever!
My beloved Desire HD is my first Android phone and I'm loving every second of it
I was previously a proud owner of A Nokia N95 8GB which was one of the best and sturdiest devices ever
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Yes its been a great experience!
That's the purpose I want to share how we've come from all over the world.And reshaped business. We've made companies think a bit more about their costumers, although we still need to keep this going proving them wrong in every corner. Like for example Desire Hd and ics!
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Yes its been a great experience!
That's the purpose I want to share how we've come from all over the world.And reshaped business. We've made companies think a bit more about their costumers, although we still need to keep this going proving them wrong in every corner. Like for example Desire Hd and ics!
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Yeah man HTC were totally wrong about ICS and Sense. Forget ICS and Sense 3.6 (sorry Team Blackout and Pacha Nero) we have ICS and Sense 4.1 thanks to torxx!
And I agree we've made companies think twice about their products
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So this is not a place to call people old geezers or young $hit$. This is just for fun. We were having quite a good time talking about some of our older members here on XDA but it ended up getting some attention and was entirely off topic. I decided to make a thread here in general for everyone to come and join in. Feel free to include as much or as little of information as you want. How old are you? How did you get into Android? Do you build roms or anyting? (Personal or public) etc.... The reason this became so fun was because we have some guys over on the PN thread that are pushing 70. Super cool to see dudes like that still tinkering with phones since most everyone I know over 30 never change their wallpaper. Lets have fun guys!
Geezers!
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So this is not a place to call people old geezers or young $hit$. This is just for fun. We were having quite a good time talking about some of our older members here on XDA but it ended up getting some attention and was entirely off topic. I decided to make a thread here in general for everyone to come and join in. Feel free to include as much or as little of information as you want. How old are you? How did you get into Android? Do you build roms or anyting? (Personal or public) etc.... The reason this became so fun was because we have some guys over on the PN thread that are pushing 70. Super cool to see dudes like that still tinkering with phones since most everyone I know over 30 never change their wallpaper. Lets have fun guys!
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No 20-25?* xD
No 20-25 :laugh:
So I'm 31 years young from Toronto. I've been loving android/XDA since the HTC legend. I have owned every HTC device released in Canada except the HTC 10, decided to go with a nexus and grabbed the 6p and never looked back. Absolutely the best phone I've purchased I don't develop but I try to help out as much as I can.
Cheers to all the good folk on xda!
Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA-Developers mobile app
@Judge Joseph Dredd could you edit the poll by adding a 20-25 option between 15-20 and 25-30. Thank you Also need 50-55 added in there too, Sorry bout that
Me again......... 40-45 also please.................. *tip toes away*
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No 20-25 :laugh:
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Trying to see if dredd will edit it for us.
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Trying to see if dredd will edit it for us.
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There is no 50 - 55 which is where I fit in ... so your thread is completely and totally KOFFED. So I am reporting it.
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There is no 50 - 55 which is where I fit in ... so your thread is completely and totally KOFFED. So I am reporting it.
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Sounds good Bubba. Maybe it will get fixed then
33 and on XDA since Motorola backflip
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snoprosledneck88 said:
So this is not a place to call people old geezers or young $hit$. This is just for fun. We were having quite a good time talking about some of our older members here on XDA but it ended up getting some attention and was entirely off topic. I decided to make a thread here in general for everyone to come and join in. Feel free to include as much or as little of information as you want. How old are you? How did you get into Android? Do you build roms or anyting? (Personal or public) etc.... The reason this became so fun was because we have some guys over on the PN thread that are pushing 70. Super cool to see dudes like that still tinkering with phones since most everyone I know over 30 never change their wallpaper. Lets have fun guys!
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There's no 40-45 option. I'm 43, been tinkering with various IT type toys since the '80s and running my own BBS's.
WOOHOO! 20 votes in and us old(er) guys are winning. :victory::victory:
Damn @snoprosledneck88, I hate to point this out but there is no option for the 41-44 yr olds
Double damn, reading comprehension failed me on the previous post.
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There's no 40-45 option. I'm 43, been tinkering with various IT type toys since the '80s and running my own BBS's.
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Nice.
But your signature
Don't take any OTA's if you're rooted
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Is apparently wrong in my case xD
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There is no 50 - 55 which is where I fit in ... so your thread is completely and totally KOFFED. So I am reporting it.
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@Judge Joseph Dredd would you please teach these kids some mafs? They seem to think that age progresses at the rate of 5 years at a time once you reach a certain age. I am sure it a Millennial thing .. but at my age I'd rather not rush it that quickly. Also as a side note, as I was tagging you @Judge Joseph Dredd I noticed a user that you must have made very angry at some point. The user is @Judge Joseph Dickass which quite frankly I am surprised made it in but yet impressed at the same time. Just one of those things I thought you may find interesting. Anywho ... please fix mafs in the poll and give @snoprosledneck88 a lesson in mafs and how it works. Bye @Judge Joseph Dredd have a lovely weekend.
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There's no 40-45 option. I'm 43, been tinkering with various IT type toys since the '80s and running my own BBS's.
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Back in the days of mass patience and annoying modem songs.
IIRC; 31
Well I'm 82+ so there been on XDA loooooong time
Andrewbud said:
Back in the days of mass patience and annoying modem songs.
IIRC; 31
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Ahh yes, the halcyon days of my y$#%@SCREEEECH$%&#$%* ERROR - CONNECTION HAS BEEN TERNINATED
26 here. Discovered XDA back in 2012 with my old Xperia P. Disappeared from the community for a while and returned when I got my Nexus 6P.
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Well I'm 82+ so there been on XDA loooooong time
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Whoah. 82++ Osm!
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