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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-18 22:36 [#02629892]
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past year or two i have found myself evaluating my
harshness on people. for whatever. and why? i realize i just
kind of picked it up from the internet. but i just read this
amazing article:

LAZY_TITLE

...and i'm realizing the internet picked it up from steve
albini. who picked it up from punk:

“I thought it was important to explain how some of the
uglier and more confrontational aspects of my speech and
behaviour came about,” he said


...

in an ecosystem where shit-talking was seen as a sign of
obstinate authenticity


...but then we get to:

Kim Deal told me that Albini’s wife, the filmmaker
Heather Whinna, whom he met in the 1990s, was a crucial
influence. “She told him specifically: ‘I don’t think
you know the power that you have when you just dismiss
people. They really respect you, Steve, and why would you do
that to them?’ I don’t think he understood that people
were actually listening to him.”


i have been considering my tone over the last few months.
like, blackbox thread: "why am i being so harsh," i thought?
feeling bad, i came back and put myself in my own place,
saying, effectively, "...while i'm expressing my honest
feelings here i also feel nothing i've ever done touches
some of the tracks off drukqs"

...as if that'd smooth over the nerves i grated being...
obstinately authentic.

that my dub plates thing, a couple weeks back, i thought:
"this is punk. this a punk thing to do. to piss people off,
to tear down the ivory towers. to shit on vinyl-humping
idiots. i actually have a very punk attitude, how did this
happen? i was never a part of this scene" but then "i should
still stop being so brutal because it doesn't help anyone"

...and, it's funny, i was having these same conversations
with myself along with albini


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-18 22:40 [#02629893]
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...remember when i was being cheeky and ribbing y'all for
implicitly assuming woke-ness was owned by black people
since you declared "let the wokie win" racially offensive?

here's albini:

“However you define ‘woke,’ anti-woke means being a
cunt who wants to indulge bigots,” he wrote recently


...and, fuck me, that's so much more delicious than what i
was saying. so much more succinct. direct

the article continues,

"..but these days he also says things like: “Life is
hard on everybody and there’s no excuse for making it
harder. I’ve got the easiest job on earth, I’m a
straight white dude, fuck me if I can’t make space for
everybody else."


...so i guess that includes making space for the anti-woke
bigot-indulgers?

don't soften too much, steve. the world does need at least
some world-destroying acerbity


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-18 22:44 [#02629894]
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in the end

- i've already tried to tone it down a bit
- it comes from "obstinate authenticity"
- ...which i have no hesitation about applying to myself
- [...what's good for the gander is good for The Goose
Brand™]
- i actually do get genuinely mad at stupid people -- or
people being cattle, whatever -- and that's where it can go
over the line, i think steve has the same problem


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-18 22:51 [#02629895]
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Component A ~ being a cunt is a way to speak with authority.
it implies you know exactly what you're talking about; that
you're so certain of your principles you've no care for what
bridges you burn [and/or you're so committed to your
principles; you're such a purist you don't care how much of
a cunt you're being].

Component B ~ being funny is a way to get away with being a
cunt

...but then Albini became famous for it because he was so
incredibly, deliciously right
so many times [e.g. the
"woke" comment] and he has a whole body of work backing up
his mouth.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2023-08-19 10:10 [#02629902]
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yes, he's right isnt he?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2023-08-19 10:14 [#02629903]
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when he said dumbest guy in the room it hit me in the feels

ive been ignorant and arrogant my whole life

the price to pay is no place in the world to come

ignorant
[ ig-ner-uhnt ]SHOW IPA

See synonyms for: ignorantignorantly on Thesaurus.com
adjective
lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned:
Although he was an ignorant man, he was very excited to
learn.
lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject
or fact:
I admit I'm entirely ignorant of quantum physics.

arrogant
[ ar-uh-guhnt ]SHOW IPA

See synonyms for: arrogantarrogantly on Thesaurus.com
adjective
making claims or pretensions to superior importance or
rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud:
an arrogant public official.
characterized by or proceeding from arrogance, or a sense of
superiority, self-importance, or entitlement:
arrogant claims.


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-19 10:58 [#02629905]
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i can't be bothered to read it really

i'll just say, let me know if it's something the article
says as well: it's striking, to me, that privileged groups,
like white, cishet males (strike through what isn't
relevant) can do whatever and not get canceled. everyone
else can't
(to be sure: i'm pretty privileged. i just have to point out
this stuff, because there's so much ignorance of it)


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-19 11:02 [#02629906]
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i've now read what epic wrote.


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-19 11:14 [#02629907]
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if you're privileged the punk thing to do is be kind. if
you're not privileged the punk thing to do is kick against
the machine

of course everyone is part privileged and part not. so you
can do both, depending on situations. if you have a minority
opinion, you can put that out there harshly. if you're a man
and have trouble adjusting to that your bathroom is now
gender neutral, don't bother other people with it


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-19 21:13 [#02629916]
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i've now read what epic wrote.

...but did you process how steve albini took A WHOLE
EPICMEGATRAX THREAD -- one that people actually participated
in -- and compressed it down into:

“However you define ‘woke,’ anti-woke means being a
cunt who wants to indulge bigots,” he wrote recently


instead i came about this in such a roundabout way:
0) hi!
1) my lizard brain spews out word jokes all day
2) it's learned i send offensive/racial ones back to the
kitchen
3) it wasn't sure if i'd like "let the wokie win"
4) i understand why it was confused. it felt absolutely
offensive, but... hm
5) it dawns on me you have to effectively treat "woke" and
"black" as synonyms in order to find 3) offensive
6) i make a thread asking what people think
7) recycle, bless him, posts the first thing that comes to
mind with zero thought, and confirms: yes this is offensive

then i'm all "lol, that means you're subconsciously racist"
or something dumb. i was not trying to actually call anyone
racist so much as trying to show everyone a darn fine
example of how subconscious assumptions shape your conscious
thought ...and the hell does woke mean, anyways?

so when albini comes along and 'however you define woke,
anti-woke means a cunt who wants to indulge bigots'

i'm going to remember this one. i need to learn to fight my
way out of these corners better


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-19 21:23 [#02629917]
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main point, i suppose: i've soaked up a lot of albini's
attitude without even realizing. osmosis through the
internet.

a few weeks ago: i'm being a cunt with a brutal takedown
throw; but why? when did this get so automatic? why am i
even doing this?

i concluded punk, plus [#02629894, #02629895] above

...but it wasn't until this article came out that i realized
it was actually albini's voice. and the article is about
"hi, yeah, this got too automatic, i'm tearing a bunch of it
out of my 'tude now, sorry" and how strange i've been so in
parallel without even realizing it's all. his. fault ;)


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2023-08-19 22:22 [#02629919]
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in all honesty i find it heartwarming when people do the
right thing


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-19 23:34 [#02629920]
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what you think are the right things, may not actually be the
right things -- especially once you get a bit older. one day
realizing you feel both guilty and embarrassed for something
you wrote the other day.

something completely honest, but utterly unwarranted. you
think: "what was the point of that? ...it was way too
reflexive. a useless peacock tail of a thing to post"

i wonder if it bugs albini if anyone ever credits his change
in attitude to him "mellowing out" or worse, "softening up"
because it's very very hard to unyieldingly examine who you
are

...and then decide to edit your personality at the age of
[difficult past 25], disown a bunch of your past behavior as
ill-advised, sheltered, etc. and then go speak about it
publicly in an almost embarrassingly earnest manner. because
it's actually a rippling effect across the web of musicians
on the internet


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-19 23:39 [#02629921]
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when he said dumbest guy in the room it hit me in the
feels

ive been ignorant and arrogant my whole life

the price to pay is no place in the world to come


i'm not sure which way to take this. are you saying you're
the dumbest guy in the room, or that i am?

if it's the former, just be yourself, no one can beat you
there. do a hardcore track for jesus or something and give
the lord some shout-outs on the mic. people will say STFU
and you can point like elvis and say "god bless ya"

[...and less constantly selling/buying gear]


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 00:49 [#02629922]
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when some stupid motherfucker tells you that you cant wear
your hair in dreads because you have the wrong amount of
melanin in your skin pigments...

it's worth it to call them, and their whole movement out as
the dogshit it is.

the only reason they reframe you as a bad person for not
getting in line, is because that's all they really CAN say.
It doesn't make you an asshole.

The way you talk to an individual in a condescending way
CAN, however.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 01:04 [#02629924]
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I realized a long time ago that "this person is an asshole"
is a subjective statement anyway.

For some people, not viewing the world through their
quasi-marxist equity based prism of social oppression is
QUITE enough to label you a piece of shit. I don't care.

For me, assholes are the people who don't hold the door open
for the next guy coming in behind them. Assholes are the
people that don't return a small nod on the street. Assholes
find a wallet outside the grocery store and keep it, rather
than handing it in the store.

It's subjective and your mileage may vary.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2023-08-20 04:00 [#02629926]
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to clarify: Wolfslice, for instance, has no interest in
doing the right thing


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 04:37 [#02629927]
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this video i thought explains the issue of
cultural appropriation (some time since i've watched it,
though).


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 04:37 [#02629928]
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well, explains it well


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 06:07 [#02629930]
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the "right thing" is of course agreeing with your specific
politics.

that's definitely not the very definition of self righteous,
or anything

I honestly think you're *way* more of an asshole.


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 09:07 [#02629931]
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the thing with cultural appropiation is people are just
saying others are just being kind of a dick. because they're
disrespecting other cultures, while culture is important to
people. the people that are told this, though, feel totally
like the victim.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:02 [#02629932]
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dude saying you can or cant do something
or dress a certain way
or have a certain attitude
***because of the color of your skin***

is literally racist. You can redefine the word racism to
suit your world view all you want. I reject your
redefinition. It's a very simple equation.

This is not the only case where progressives do this either.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:07 [#02629933]
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I think sometimes racism is a boogeyman, its just basic
collectivist *group think* garbage that gets overplayed as
the worst of all human's ills.

What bothers me more is just the hypocrisy of the people
that call out others for this kinda shit. The assumption of
virtue, and the labeling of those who disagree as a bigot.


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:13 [#02629934]
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you just know very little about this stuff, watch the video
i posted, or don't


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:15 [#02629935]
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the steve albini article was on my to read list before epic
posted it, through twitter. i do want to read it, but have
to be in the right mind set

i'll now read epics other takes here


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:18 [#02629936]
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you can label me ignorant, I could label you racist. I don't
think anything of this is helpful.

I'll watch the video, but unless it says "It is racist to to
try and pressure someone to do or not do something because
of the color of the skin,"

I will write it off as completely antithetical to my world
view. Every single human is the god damn same fundamentally,
and these little cultures we form are far from sacred to me.
All of them, including my own.

I do not not subscribe to "racism is only racism in certain
power structure scenarios," which is always the crux of the
argument. It's ridiculous.


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:20 [#02629937]
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i'll just go into, concerning some of the things epic
writes: it interests me how people change their mind. it's a
bit like how i write i'll read this when i'm in the right
mind set, because people are very hard headed, and they'll
have to hear just the right thing at just the right right
time. and here i gotta bring up privilege again, i'm afraid:
if someone is a minority in just one respect, they'll be
loads less hard headed (though also they can dig themselves
in deeper, look at JK Rowling, for instance)


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:23 [#02629938]
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that's a reply to myself, and so it riffs on stuff epic
wrote. but also it totally applies to wolfslice


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:26 [#02629939]
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I'll just say this man,

I'm not at all averse to changing my mind. There's a lot of
obstinate assholes across the gamut of worldviews.

I've done a lot of pyschedelics and peeled and probed my
viewpoints trying to filter the bullshit and in doing so I
did hit some bedrock. I'm just an individualist. It's my
basic, most foremost setting and I don't think I'm capable
of ever changing that.

I have never, in my life, felt I belonged to any group at
any time. Even here, lol.

I'm not averse to changing my mind, but I can only take it
so far. Aight time for a little Path of Exile before bed ;)


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:30 [#02629940]
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you're complaining about labels yet you can only think in
terms of labels when you write:
"I do not not subscribe to "racism is only racism in
certain
power structure scenarios," which is always the crux of the
argument. It's ridiculous."

this argument is true. but it's not meant as an 'own' or
something, it puts racism in the context of a society.
that's useful, if only because people get hurt from
institutional racism at least as much as from interpersonal
racism, the last one the only one being you want to believe
in, it seems

i don't know what to tell you: listen to black people and
people or colour, as well as anyone that's antiracist.
they're not antiracist for wanting to feel better than you,
or something, they want to change society for the better


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:32 [#02629941]
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okay, cool. i guess i'd respond to that, that you have to
believe that people (individuals) experience totally
different lives. because of factors like the color of their
skin, or the economic position they were born into.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:33 [#02629942]
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this is the one example where absolutely none of that
context is needed.

There's an action involved. That action is telling another
human being

You don't belong in group X because you are group Y

Where Y is based on an immutable trait. There is no
convincing me otherwise on this particular topic. It's
fundamentally, CORE racist. Ive said what I can say here. I
strongly disagree with you.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:37 [#02629943]
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of course I agree with that!

There's a huge amount of cause and effect and historical
context that goes into EVERYTHING. It just misses the mark
to waggle your finger at someone and say you can't be such
and such. Misses it TOTALLY.

The hippies had it right man. Total free wheeling mind
melding orgy. And I grew up in a less abrasive society than
the one progressives have fostered in the last decade. None
of this shit is working in any capacity.


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:37 [#02629944]
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what i said here


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:37 [#02629945]
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that was i reply to this...


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:40 [#02629946]
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well, imo, hippies and other liberals aren't going to change
(bring down) these unjust power structures. you'll say
'neither does complaining', but it's a bit more than that. i
don't know it's still the same message as martin luther king
and malcolm x, in its core


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 10:44 [#02629947]
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Yeah THAT I will admit. I have no real interest in rocking
the boat, revolution, latching so hard onto ideals that
people end up dying. Every system falls apart after enough
time, so whatever is reborn will decay as well. This is sort
of another core tenant.

I do honestly believe in being helpful and kind to others
and treating them as I want to be treated. It's why *I*
don't think I'm an asshole. But your mileage may vary ;p

In the end Big, and I've said this others here before.... I
am HAPPY that you exist, and I'm happy to be here to
disagree with you on this subject. You are worthwhile to me
and I wish things hadn't got so splintered in the last 10
years or so. I really feel it. OK IMA PLAY MY GAME new
league launched 2 days ago and I'm getting behind! PEACE to
you big.



 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 10:47 [#02629948]
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:)


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2023-08-20 12:24 [#02629949]
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has no one ever told you how unattractive spite and
bitterness are?


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2023-08-20 13:32 [#02629950]
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I always try to remember these wise words


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2023-08-20 15:41 [#02629954]
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nah, wouldnt call you a dumb guy, there's something crazy
about your posts, like that accounts thread where you mostly
talk to yourself, but there's a fierce intelligence in your
brain and a kindness in your soul.

ignorance and arrogance is a nasty combination, feels bad
man. in this paragraph im talking about myself. feels like i
cant escape the bed ive made for myself though, what with
the voice of messiah in my brain.

fascism has no future, putin has no future, conservative
ideas have no future, eventually it will all be destroyed
and the world will be a great place for the goodies.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2023-08-20 15:43 [#02629955]
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like, the future will be a time for philosophy and love

it's just teh case that there will be another horrific war
before world peace can be achieved

ive been listening to the psalms on youtube and reading them
after finding them on google, even psalm I is prophetic
about the fight between good and evil


 

offline big from lsg on 2023-08-20 18:44 [#02629956]
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i read the whole thing. it's good

he partly changed because of his wife (probably mostly, but
who knows, really). which makes me think of the idubbbz
apology, from this year. there's a lot of similarities, for
one i think he too thought people would be able to see his
good intentions (he doesn't go into that in his apology,
though). i want emphasize that both said they have done
actual harm to communities


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-20 21:56 [#02629958]
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lol. MLK had many beautiful and completely real quotes like
that.

here's another


 

offline mermaidman on 2023-08-21 12:24 [#02629970]
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guys don't derail the thread please. this is about how much
epic is like steve albini. a previous thread was about how
much he was like phil tippet and you tried to derail that
one as well.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-21 17:03 [#02629973]
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i'm not saying we're clones, you dolt. he seems to reserve
lying for poker; i lie on message boards sometimes. i don't
have any interest in recording indie bands

you still haven't answered my questions about WAV files --
do you use WAV, Wave64, RF64, BF64? or CAF like a fugink
gaffok


 

offline mermaidman on 2023-08-21 17:08 [#02629974]
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i use jpeg


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-21 17:12 [#02629975]
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like that accounts thread where you mostly talk to
yourself


everything i post there is a real quote from somewhere. it's
exactly like Cool Band Names, except it's curious/amusing
phrases i've plucked from wherever

you are free to add your own, comment -- i've no problem
with replying to someone in the thread, instead of just
posting quotes

i hope that makes more sense now. i figure so much of what i
do is obvious but i'm realizing it's often not

in this paragraph im talking about myself. feels like i
cant escape the bed ive made for myself though, what with
the voice of messiah in my brain.


i see your point. i've trained mine to generate Cool Band
Names and ideas like "A Synaesthetic Portrait of Canoes
Being Gay"

keep in mind it's just a million layers of you talking to
yourself and, like a gentle wind, you can gradually nudge
the messiah. if you so choose

raves are kind of like a rowdy southern baptist or lutheran
barn-burner -- and if the drums match the bass and the bass
is 303 then pretty much anything will work, and, well,
that's what i'd do with it. that or reprogram it to be more
funny


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-21 17:14 [#02629976]
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> i use jpeg

you should switch to targa because it can do lossless
AND it's also a porsche


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-21 17:15 [#02629977]
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LAZY_TITLE


 


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