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PC cases are all the same. Boring black boxes, IO out the back?

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No, that's where the Thermaltake Tower 300 comes in.

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There's eight different colors, they've cut the corners off, and all the IO actually comes out the top.

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But I don't wanna build in the blue one, this looks like a Fortnite chug jug.

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I wanna build in the pink one, pink's more my color.

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See, I was really interested in the Tower 300, mainly because I've actually owned the Tower 900 twice,

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the Tower 100, and I've built in the Tower 500 before.

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But this one, I was really attracted to all the colors they come in.

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Oh, look at that. Oh, it's got a little bit of blue, it's got a blue inside.

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Oh, that looks so awesome. It looks like cotton candy machine.

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Yeah. Looks like that bell-doping keyboard. So you still got the three glass panels

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that the Tower series is kind of known for, but they've again decided to angle it this way,

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giving you kind of more of a rounded glass effect to it instead of having big pillars in the way.

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And everything is mounted with all of the IO at the top.

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So your GPU is gonna be vertical, and this is an MATX case,

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even though it's quite large for a micro case.

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Still very excited to get in here. I think you just,

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oh, it's taped. I've actually been a fan of rounded glass style cases

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for a while now. Fan tech started rounding their glasses, doing a take on the classic Lee and Lee O11 case.

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There we go. And I think this one does it very subtle, and I actually kind of enjoy this rounded look.

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Wow, there's a lot of room in here for a micro-ITX case.

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Let's get all of our mounts out here.

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Beautiful. So these are all the plates and the screws to hold everything on as well as in here.

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There's this little plate, which can actually replace the front plate,

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and you can put a screen there. Why?

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Because you want to. It also apparently comes with a stand,

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which I'm told we have, that can mount your computer at a weird angle like this,

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taking up 90% of your desk. That's fine though.

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What's up? Can you cut that at her?

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For front IO, you've got your power button, your reset button, your mic, headphone jack,

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two USB three ports, and a USB type C.

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Enough IO, I would like four USB ports, but that's kind of just a nitpicky thing for me.

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Underneath this, it actually comes with thermal takes two 140 millimeter fans.

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The airflow design of this case is it takes everything in from the bottom and the sides,

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and the idea is hot air rises, so they want to shoot it all out the top.

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It's got these thumbscrews on the top that they claim are tool-less, but I'll use a tool.

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Just to get it started. Nope, okay.

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We're going all the way. There we go. There's that one on the other side here.

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Oh, seems like they're captive. That's great. And this whole thing just tilts up.

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And this is where you're going to be able to access, you know, plugging in a USB drive

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or plugging in your cables, bit inconvenient, but it gives a really clean look

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when all the cables just come out the back like this. And this whole case is very easy to build in

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because every single side can just all come apart like this

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until you're all the way in. And oh my goodness, you have like 720 degrees worth

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of working room to really be able to get in there and plug in your cables.

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Wait, what? 720 degrees?

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Yeah, because you don't have 360. Yes, you would go less.

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Which is 720. 720 is two full circles.

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Oh, I meant 270.

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Can you cut that out of it? And like I mentioned, all the air is meant to come in the bottom here,

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so every little one of these sides has a tiny little dust filter on all of them.

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Here, here, here, some at the bottom, which you can flip that and get at.

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Oh, perfect. I'm gonna take this out once a year, two years.

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Give it a little bit of a wave. Slot it back in, perfect.

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And the back one is even magnetic as well. Makes it nice and easy to clean.

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These bottom ones a little bit harder to reach at, but.

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That's okay. Let's tuck it back in there.

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What the heck? It was bad design. Totally wasn't user error.

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You have to slide in one side first, then it magnets down. I was doing it the opposite way.

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It was user error. Oh, wow, never mind. The whole back panel comes off too.

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Dang, it's just a shell of itself now. It weighs like nothing.

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All your cables for your front IO. One rubber grommet for all the cable management.

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Your fans came down the side here. Power supply mounts at the bottom of this case,

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and then everything can tuck up behind the motherboard, just like a traditional PC.

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There's room for two drives back here, either 2.5 or 3.5.

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But if that's not enough storage for you, there's actually one more little mount right here

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for a 3.5 or a 2.5. I've heard online, though,

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that apparently if you have a full 420 millimeter radiator,

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here, fitting a 3.5 drive might be a little tough,

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but the fact that you can fit a 420 millimeter radiator in an MATX case is kind of wild already.

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Now that I've torn it all apart, it's time to build a PC in it. Before I even start, not super happy.

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All the screws are just in one baggy that I just have to sift through.

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In goes our motherboard. We got an MATX. We're gonna try to fit as...

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Wait, I went to put the motherboard and I was putting it like this way

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because I'm figuring this is the back. No, the IO's gotta go at the top.

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We got our MATX ASUS board here,

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with a Ryzen 7900X. Line it all up.

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Oh. You might have to be careful about that.

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This standoff is actually not on this motherboard. There's no hole right there,

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which means if I had screwed that down, I could have shorted the board. So I'm gonna have to remove my center standoff here.

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Your motherboard may vary on that, but you might wanna double check before you start building.

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There we go, oh, I dropped it. I'll get it later.

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There we go, now it's resting on all the standoffs. Oh, I forgot to put the SSD in.

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Oh, actually, nevermind, it's right there.

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Boop. Man, having this case so open like this

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makes it just so easy to work in. Oh, it's great.

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Man, it's got the radiator support, but it's got all the room for a big cooler.

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Which one do you guys wanna do?

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Yeah, okay, we'll go with Noctua.

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Make sure you install your cooler backplate before you put the motherboard in.

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Otherwise, you gotta do a little bit of finagling, but through those thumb screws,

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you can actually remove the hard drive mount. So that's kinda good.

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Then we get all the access to the back panel there.

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Oh, there we go. This is a chonker of a cooler.

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I need to put thermal paste on. One moment, please.

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Thanks, Belle. All righty.

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Apparently, this case supports up to 210 millimeter tall coolers, which is very large,

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again, for a small form factor case. And the airflow goes from bottom up,

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so we're still gonna wanna position our fan this way.

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It blocks the GPU. Well, that was a fun experiment to see

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that it will fit the air cooler, but we're removing it because if you look closely,

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you can actually kind of see that the cooler here

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is cutting off the GPU riser, so we won't be able to slot our GPU in.

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You know what? I feel like I should just go with liquid cooling.

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Let's open this up. All right, now let's take out the removable bracket

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and slide our radiator bracket out. Dang, it fit a lot of radiator in this bad boy.

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There's also another radiator slot. You could take out the fans here and put it up top.

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We're gonna pounce it on the side. It's gonna look a little nicer that way.

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I think the best part about this radiator install, boom, once you got it in there,

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it's just those two screws again. If I wanted to cable manage it behind,

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it's a little tough there. Well, thankfully, take off this radiator.

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Just like that. This is gonna be such a small nitpick.

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But if you're gonna go through the trouble of coloring the inside of your case,

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why can't you color the PCIe brackets? Oh, there we go.

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Woo, that might be one of these snugest fits

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I have ever had to do for a GPU.

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I actually kind of like the look of that.

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Time to start closing up some panels here. Boom, hide my lack of cable management.

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All right, well, that went on super easy.

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Oh, there's magnets. It's kind of nice, actually.

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I didn't even realize that when I took them off. Man, I love this GPU orientation.

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I think it's the reason I love these tower series so much.

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As GPUs have gotten heavier and heavier, they've all started to sag, right,

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when they're on your motherboard. There's no sag with this. It takes all the stress off of it.

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One more thing, just before we finish up, we gotta swap out our front panel.

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You get the screen, it goes on there. Two little screw holes.

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That should be nice and easy. How does this screen come off? Oh, man, all tool is, oh, oh, that looks cute.

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$90 for the screen, though. Maybe not worth it, but I think it looks cool.

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One thing I was just gonna ask, you know how it's bad heebies to like close the side panel before you boot?

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Which side panel? There's eight of them.

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There we go.

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Oh, yeah. Dang.

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Oh, man, I love this so much. We'll see how it looks when it turns on. Moment of truth.

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One moment, please.

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Moment of deuce. There we go.

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Whoa, the screen. Oh, yeah, no thermotec logo.

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One thing to point out, we actually have these radiator fans pushing out the side here.

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Normally, on their website, they describe it as pulling in the sides, pulling in the bottom, and then out the top and back.

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But that's how they came installed on this rad, so. Man, I think this is in the end

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why I just love the thermotec tower designs. It takes your traditional PC and flips it on its side.

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Speaking of which, for $30, oh, it's kind of a chunker.

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You can actually lay it.

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Oh, yeah.

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That looks awesome. The $30 kit does come with a color match bottom,

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but we ordered the hydrangea blue one, so it doesn't quite match our build.

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I mean, we could take the top off that one and put it here if we wanted to, and then we got two blue caps.

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But I think the sideways look is honestly

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maybe the way to go for this if you have the desk base. That's a big ask.

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Big desk is what you need to get this working.

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I think it looks really cool on the side, though. Overall, I actually really enjoyed building this,

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but again, I might have a little bias building in the tower systems before.

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And being this kind of unique case, you're either gonna love it or hate it.

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Thankfully, it does out that customization if you want to go vertical or horizontal.

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For $150 US dollars, I think the price is actually totally reasonable personally

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for a case that definitely had to go under a lot of R&D

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to make it all work like this. Having eight different color options

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is really cool as well. You can do so many different kind of themed builds.

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You can maybe make this one like Diva from Overwatch or Bumblebee from Transformers.

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I love the different colors instead of just a typical white and black

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that we're used to. Make sure you guys like, comment, subscribe. If you're looking for another weird case to look at,

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maybe look at the one Ploof built. It was called the POC. It's like origami.

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Kind of weird.