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all right so welcome to a pretty unusual build log around

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here we are going to be building ourselves a badass new

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router yes we've got a wicked new internet connection we need a wicked new

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custom pf sense box to go with it so

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come along for the ride because this one i promise you is going to be interesting

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the master case 5 from cooler master gives you the freedom to truly make your

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in the video description to learn more you missed there Linus yeah first thing

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i need to do is uh follow my own rules about no garbage in

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the new office there next let's have a look at the hardware we're going to be using so step one is CPU we've got a low

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power Intel xeon CPU this is an e3 1260

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l this is an Intel s 1200 kp

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server board provided by kingston we've got kind of a special stick of memory in

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here so this is a low profile ddr3 dim we've got a 1u

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server case so this is a rack mountable case that'll be going in our new cabinet

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from norco you could install up to i believe an atx size board in here if you

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really wanted to but we're just going to be installing an itx board because we're

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going to be using this space over here for an expansion card yes it's an i340

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t4 quad port network card and we're actually going to be installing that

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sideways we're also going to need this was provided by Anthony over at ncix so

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huge thanks to the ncix tech tips crew this is a pci express extension uh what

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else we got for hardware ah yeah we're going to be using an SSD yes i know

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pfsense can run off usb stick i don't care uh the next uh this is a really

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cool piece of hardware so this a 1u

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redundant power supply

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so each of these is an 80 plus gold 250

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watt power supply and then you can actually slide these

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modules out last piece of hardware this is a super micro

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heat sink and that's another challenge in 1u case

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you can't even use a stock Intel cooler you might be thinking to yourself

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gee Linus that doesn't have any fans on it how's it going to cool the CPU

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great question

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i think this is definitely the most constrained case that i've ever worked

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in the part i was worried about was the

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clearance at the back now i already know about some challenges

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that i'm gonna have fitting our power supply in this case so the board goes in

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here and you can see all of my ports

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stick through just fine but the case

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is actually shorter than a standard io shield

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if i mark this really carefully i can basically just

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hack it off with a dremel tool ah i'm getting so much metal in my eye

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not too shabby i hope oh wow i way over did it look at that

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so that is what it's gonna look like

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okay so the next step is to get our CPU installed so the CPU we're using is a

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1260 l we could swap this out

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with relative ease if we needed a beefier router

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let's go ahead and install our back plate oh

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okay this chip on the back

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is interfering with our back plate

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shoot and we're gonna need the angle grinder for this this is not a dremel

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task

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okay not bad at all

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just clean it off i might want to take that in a little

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bit tighter so there we've dug out a little bit more

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material still fairly strong i mean strong enough to hold a cooler on so

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ah yeah there we go so you've got lots of clearance around the contacts for

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that chip there so orientation here is key because the airflow only goes one

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way so our CPU cooler needs to you have got to be kidding me

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we are making contact with the pins on a fan header

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right there

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so the speaker's okay but that

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bit next to the pins has to go this is intended to sit right flat against the

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back of the board but there's quite a few things on the back of this board we

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might just barely be able to screw into that back

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plate and then this corner

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yeah that goes in it's a fair bit of flex on the board but uh nothing deadly

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nothing i think we should just hack off the top

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of this speaker too it should be enough to get the job done

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i just don't want those pins to touch

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yeah take that speaker

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we've been at this for like an hour and we've installed an io shield

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and installed a CPU in a socket i haven't even managed to put a heatsink

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on cold thermal compound there

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let's put the back plate on again

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so if i can just get this on here then we're good okay

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no clearance issues this time

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not too shabby next step

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put motherboard in case

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so this heatsink basically sits millimeters

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from the top of the chassis meaning that you cannot install a fan on there most

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1u coolers are like uh side blowers you know we wanted to

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leave ourselves room for a beefier CPU in the future if we wanted it so that

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option was not going to work for us we're going to have to be careful when

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we slide this on we got to kind kinda okay

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this is the next big challenge i had no idea that there even were standards for

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one new power supplies these two are not the same one the way that this goes in

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just has absolutely nothing to do

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with what the back of this power supply looks like

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that leaves me basically cutting the case to get this in here so

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i need to get this in here and i need to secure it somehow

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you know what let's just hot glue it in because i don't feel that comfortable

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drilling into the side of a power supply the last place you want metal shards

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okay

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the window in go in push down

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cable management is going to be key for achieving

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any kind of proper airflow in a system like this

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yep power led is green so this my friends is where we start to

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get into why it was important that we

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use this low profile ecc memory a full

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height dim would pretty much block airflow to our fins now some boards have

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the dimms this way this one does not so we have to

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deal with what we're given to work with here next step mounting the pci express card

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oh cool you can actually install it either way

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wow i don't know if we're even gonna get a 4x

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extender in here our cable management

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is done so we have a nice clear path

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to our balls so we have a nice clear path from our fans

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to everything here that needs to be cooled the heatsink on our neck the

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heatsink on our CPU and all that's left to do

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is close her up and find out how she runs now what i'm

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actually going to do is put Windows on this machine first just so that i can

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use nice familiar testing tools in order

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to evaluate cooling because i am a little bit worried about this CPU

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so we were defeated we were defeated by a dead motherboard but

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ebay to the rescue i can't say enough good things about ebay i ordered this

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motherboard a 250 watt power supply and four gigs of RAM

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at least i got the motherboard fortunately i didn't need that other

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crap so let's go ahead and rebuild the

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machine this time with a oh

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working motherboard

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oh crap i can't even do it right the second

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time around let's try putting the actual

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cooler back plate on here i don't know how i missed this before

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but on the old board which fortunately we

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can now use as a as a tester for the additional cutting that it looks like

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we're going to be doing there are a couple of components here that are

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clearly interfering with the back plates till so we actually need to do

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more back plate cutting

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so in theory this finally actually fits on the board

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okay great

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it shouldn't be this much effort to build a router

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this is why most people probably buy a router

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i mean they have them they have them at the store they have a whole aisle called

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browders

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thermal compound all right

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and this speaker maybe i'll just

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rip this off this time that seems ill-advised on my working

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board doesn't it we could use the sacrificial board to

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find out if you can rip the speaker off

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okay you can't now we know we can use a dremel if i can

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find it oh yeah there it is sure

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there we go in theory we are

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ready to rock let's see if it's on

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nothing ever takes as long as it's supposed to

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okay that's in let's put our cable management

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nonsense back into place i mean that's nice at least i don't have

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to plan out the cable management anymore since i've already done it once

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there we go okay so that's good i'm

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thinking yep there we go so in theory this time this stupid

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thing powers on all right come on baby

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please work

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what

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okay i'm at a total loss right now i'm not sure what just happened

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i have nothing to say at this point i i think something about our config

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just killed another board but i don't understand

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why that would happen because the only thing in here that i haven't

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run in this board before is a pci express riser

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and um RAM which

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shouldn't make a board scream and then die it's

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unheard of

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but i think we just killed another board

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exact same behavior as last time we're getting beeps

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and then he stopped getting beeps

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our working hypothesis right now is that this is some kind of connector

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that i've never seen before and was actually providing power to the

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motherboard instead of acting as like an RPM sense or something so we're testing

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with the multimeter now we just bricked two boards time to order

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another one i guess stay tuned for part two

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so i learned a lot in this video you know what else i learned

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than me writing on a chalkboard yes my friends they do with squarespace.com you

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can build yourself a beautiful functional website that serves whatever

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purpose it is that you're into you want to make a website about luke having the

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best butt in the biz or how it doesn't you can do that you can make a blog you

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can make a personal portfolio you can make a hey you can make a store you can

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have a store where you sell um you know license plate covers that say luke has

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best bud in biz or you know something people might actually want to

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buy say for example so head over to squarespace.com i think it's Linus i

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guys use offer code Linus you can save 10 but you don't have to buy it up front

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stuff that like i used to talk about but isn't in my talking points anymore but i

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still think is cool like their little logo builder app and uh they've got this

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really cool thing coming up that

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oh i guess i wasn't supposed to talk about that sorry sorry well whatever

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