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The Anime-Style Challenge (Revival)
This challenge takes its inspiration from the challenge that was originally posted here, https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=365891 ,but was locked due to inactivity. The challenge is the many rules that are meant to create an experience in the games similar to the journey the anime characters go on. Note: if you want to do this challenge it may help to look at the original thread, but I am slightly altering some aspects of the challenge for this version, to make it more interesting.
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EXTENDED CHALLENGE: If you have the ability to do so,you may trade/transfer your BFL to another game and embark on a new journey there. If you want to do that just post a new sign-up saying so. Sign-up sheet: Username: Game: Optional Rules/Tweaks?: My Sign-Up: Username: Armaada J Game: Soul Silver Optional Rules/Tweaks?: I HAVE to hatch any eggs I receive and revive any fossils I receive. I'll also use the randomizer to give myself my BFL as a starter and enable evolutions. And my Bro For Life will be.... VULPIX!!! Yeah I know he's catchable in this game but he's so far down the line it makes more sense to get him as a starter. For balance purposes he'll replace Cyndaquil. Plus Vulpix is awesome. I'll post updates when I can, and I'll try to write it as more of a story, to fit with the anime theme. Completed Challenges: Spoiler:
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I saw you post about this in the challenge ideas and I decided to start it on my own.
Username: AlmightyBreloom Game: Y Optional Rules/Tweaks?: Allowed to heal in battle, as long as the Pokémon that is being healed is not currently battling. This makes more sense because even though they don't show potions, often times Ash would retrieve a Pokémon and when it went back out they would say "It seems that ______ has recovered energy!" or something like that. Also, my BFL is a Growlithe, kinda amusing because yours is a Vulpix |
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Username: LRachelR5
Game: Moon Optional Rules/Tweaks?: Allowed to heal in battle, as long as the Pokémon that is being healed is not currently battling, held items are allowed. My BFL is Mimikyu. In terms of evolution, if I get a number between 1 and 5 I will evolve pokemon and if I roll between 6-12 I will not evolve a pokemon. And in terms of team departures between a 1-8 I will not release a mon and between 9-16 I will release a mon |
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On our way back to Cherrygove, Kyuubi and I add two new members to our team: Specs the Hoothoot, and Joplin the Geodude. Specs was captured when she started chasing us down the road. Joplin was in a larger group of Geodudes and was being bullied, so we brought her along. After some team building excersises (read: grinding), we set off and reached Violet City. We'll begin training tomorrow and then take on our first challenge: Sprout tower. (Also, all of my pokemon are female. Girl power I guess) Team so far: Spoiler:
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]Neto the Growlithe(BFL)-Male Lvl 22 [/QUOTE]Ryu the Pikachu(Can't evolve)-Male Lvl 22 Saur the Ivysaur(Can't evolve)-Male Lvl 24 Protein the Machop(Can't evolve)-Male Lvl 22 Mars the Tyrunt(Can evolve)-Male Lvl 22 Wow, it'll be interesting to see how you manage with so few evolved mons. |
To be fair, most of them are quite decent. I just kinda wish I could get rid of Machop. He can't evolve at all and I only got him for the gym, and I don't really want to box him
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Always up for interesting new challenges, and this is definitely one.
Username: KimbosUnova Game: FireRed (will do a different sign up for every version of the game I do, using a Pokemon from that generation) Optional Rules/Tweaks: Not using the move rule, as it just seems a nuisance rather than making anything more difficult. BFL for this game will be Electabuzz (if this is deemed cheating because he doesn't have the option to evolve, I will swap to Seel). The first update will come soon. |
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My team and I confront our first challenge: Sprout Tower. It proves to not be much of a challenge as Kyuubi and Specs easily handle the Bellsprouts we encounter, and the few trainers with Hoothoots are taken care of by Joplin. After defeating the Elder we are deemed ready to challenge Falkner. I decide to bring Kyuubi and Joplin with me for this battle. The first fight is Kyuubi vs Falkner's Pidgey. Pidgey causes some trouble with Sand attack, but Kyuubi keeps up an assault of quick-attacks, and eventually takes it down. The next fight is Joplin vs Pidgeotto. Despite being Falkner's ace, it is taken down quickly by Joplin's rock throw. And so we quickly earn our first badge. Upon leaving the gym, I get a call from Elm, who informs us that he's giving us the egg from earlier. Now with my team being 3+an egg, I head south, my next stop being Azalea town. On the way, we find a Mareep that had lost its herd, so we brought it along with us and named him Fleece. (he won't be able to evolve :( ). |
Minor Update: We made it to Azalea town after trekking through Union cave. Next update will cover our encounter with Team Rocket and challenging the 2nd gym.
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Upon reaching Azalea town I learned that Team Rocket was chopping off slowpoke tails at slowpoke well. Since I find that to be really fucking dark for a pokemon game, I decided to do something about it. I was briefly accompanied by Kurt, before he....tripped or something and was taken out of the fight. Sure, make the ten year old do everything. Anyways Fleece and Kyuubi cleaned house, leaving only the Rocket Exec in charge of the cave operation. Again, these rockets put up very little of a fight. While freeing all of the Slowpokes however, we found one that seemed uninterested in staying in the town. Odd behavior for a Slowpoke, but I decided that I would bring her along with us, and named her LaZ (pronounced Lazy). After some training in the well, I decided we were ready for our second gym challenge. I decided I would use Kyuubi, Specs, and Joplin, as they all had advantages on bug types. Getting through the gym trainers wasn't too tough. Then came the actual battle with Bugsy. I started off with Kyuubi, and he sent his Scyther. I had hoped that Kyuubi could steamroll this gym with Ember but Scyther got a quick attack in that did more damage that I was comfortable with. So I switched in Joplin and crushed him easily with Rock throw. 4x effectiveness ftw. Kyuubi and Specs cleaned up Bugsy's Metapod and Kakuna with ease. I'm hoping that the next few gyms provide more of a challenge. Anyway, we got our 2nd badge, and decided to head through Ilex forest. However before we could leave, we encountered Jackass again. Of course he had to battle us, I think he may be a masochist. Anyway the first fight was Specs vs Gastly. HE was probably all smug thinking he had an advantage but I'd had the Foresight to let Specs keep Foresight on its moveset, and annihilated him with Uproar. Next up was his Croconaw. I was hoping that Fleece could handle him due to his type advantage, but Croconaw was just a much higher level. Fortunately Fleece got him to a low enough hp that Kyuubi could finish him with quick attack. His Zubat didn't do much better. As he left I felt a kick from inside the Eg. It must be hatching soon! Anyway, next time, we'll head into the forest. Team so far: Spoiler:
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Username: Disturb Not The Harmony
Game: Blue Optional Rules/Tweaks?: I'll be hacking in Rhyhorn as my Bro For Life and enabling trade evolutions. |
POKEMON ANIME CHALLENGE-LEAF GREEN-Part 1
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I'm still going, but here's my progress so far.
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POKEMON ANIME CHALLENGE-LEAF GREEN-Part 2
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Sorry for my lack of activity. I just got done with finals so I'll be updating my run soon
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Well, I've finally updated again. I'm gonna be writing this as I play so I may not get through it all on the first go. Anyways, here goes.
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This seems like a unique challenge, also, how do we handle Pokemon with multiple evolutionary lines? (eg. Eevee, Bellossom/Vileplume, Slowbro/Slowking etc)
Username: SilverLeafeon75 Game: Fire Red Optional Rules/Tweaks?: I will allow healing in battle a long as the pokemon is not in battle. BFL will be a Clefairy(chosen due to how diverse it's move pool can be) |
Sorry, but I will no longer be participating in this challenge. I just don't enjoy it as much as my other challenges I am sorry.
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I've been waiting for an interesting challenge since I completed my last one. :D
Username: RibbonsAndRings Game: X Optional Rules/Tweaks?: I may not use healing items until two turns have passed. No timer ball allowed to catch pokemon. My Bro For Life is going to be Zorua. (Do you have to send it in as a egg or a lvl 1 pokemon?) I'm a little confused about the evolution method, alas, how it works. I could use an explanation to make it easier. |
Forum username: AceTrainerMo
Game: White 2 Optional rules/Tweaks: None. Actually, since I am playing White 2, my BFL will have to be obtained after my first gym, because I can't trade anything over before then. On a related note, I caught a Pokmon prior to my BFL, but if not for that trade rule, I would have avoided catching her, even though she was a female Riolu. BFL will be a Castform :) |
Sounds interesting I'll give it a try.
Username:kirby100o Game:Leaf Green Optional rules/Tweaks: Made rival have a shuppet while I get duskull. Also gave myself everstones for the pokemon that can't evolve. |
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I just picked this challenge back up. When I last left off, I had just barely defeated Roxie to obtain my second badge. Currently, I am grinding in Castelia City, so I can earn my third badge from Burgh before midnight - since I am playing White 2, I have a Braviary to catch. :)
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I really want to try this as this sounds like a genuinely interesting challenge.
Username: FactoriesFarAway Game: Yellow Optional Rules/Tweaks?: Not using optional rule 7. Bro For Life will be Pikachu, because it has to be in traditional anime fashion. Anime Style Challenge - Yellow (mostly notes): Spoiler:
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Username: Leo Van Pyroar
Game: HeartGold Optional Rules/Tweaks?: Not using rule 7 (I've already broken it more than enough times to know to not implement it) Bro For Life will be Totodile because I don't know how to change starters. Current Progression: Just defeated Elder Li in sprout tower Current Team: Nathan (Totodile) (male) lv 9 (BFL) Jenna (Sentret) (female) lv 9 (can evolve) Ayo (Zubat) (male) lv 8 (cannot evolve) Slugma egg (received from Primo) |
Update! (FYI: I'm using the range 7-12 to evolve Pokemon and 1-3 to release Pokemon)
Gym challenge: Falkner Team: Nathan & Jenna Result: Fail (Pigeotto kept using Roost) Visited Ruins of Alph and was attacked by a horde of Unown New Pokemon: Jay (Unown J) (genderless) (It has hidden power psychic, so that will be fun) Gym challenge: Falkner (round 2) Team: Nathan & Jenna Result: Win (Jenna won with literally 1 hp) Received Togepi egg from Prof. Elm's aid (boxed because I don't think I have the responsibility to handle a second egg on the team. Route after Violet City Release roll: 4, no Pokemon released Obtained old rod Trecked through Union cave New Pokemon: Queen Ann (Goldeen) (female) Evolution roll: 3, does not evolve The route that is always raining Release roll: 8, no Pokemon released Defeated the team Rocket Operation in Slowpoke Well (Jay single-handedly swept all of them) Current Progression: Just defeated Proton at Slowpoke Well Current Team: Nathan (Totodile) (male) lv 13 (BFL) Jenna (Sentret) (female) lv 12 (can evolve) Jay (Unown J) (genderless) lv 14 Ayo (Zubat) (male) lv 9 (cannot evolve) Queen Ann (Goldeen) (female) lv 11 (cannot evolve) Slugma egg (about to hatch) In PC Togepi egg |
Update 2 (Bugsy is pain)
Slugma egg hatches New Pokemon: Volcan (Slugma) (male) Evolution roll: 11, can evolve Gym Challenge: Bugsy (1-3) Team: Volcan, Queen Ann, Jay Result: All failures (We almost won the second time, but Kakuna poisoned us) Rival battle Randall (name of rival) Result: Win Helped the kid in Ilex forest find his Farfetch'ds Gym Challenge: Bugsy (4&5) Team: Volcan, Queen Ann, Jay Result: Both failures Gym Challenge: Bugsy (6) Team: Volcan, Queen Ann, Jay Result: Win (Finally) (If Whitney, Chuck, and Claire are this difficult then we are never going to make it to Kanto.) (Dammit autocorrect!) Got through Ilex Forest Route after Ilex Forest Release roll: 10, no Pokemon released Current progression: Reached the daycare Current Team: Nathan (Totodile) (male) lv 15 (BFL) Jenna (Sentret) (female) lv 14 (can evolve) Jay (Unown J) (genderless) lv 15 Queen Ann (Goldeen) (female) lv 15 (cannot evolve) Volcan (Slugma) (male) lv 15 (can evolve) Ayo (Zubat) (male) lv 10 (cannot evolve) In PC: Togepi egg |
I'm thinking of taking on this challenge next, on Black 2.
If your BFL is a baby Pokemon, can you evolve it? Rule 1 says you can't, rule 3 says baby Pokemon are exempt from that evolution rule, but are they also exempt from the other evolution rule? |
I have started the Anime-style Challenge. I made the following slight alterations of the rules:
- Rule 2: I will count 10 Pokemon in my possession as the hard limit (instead of a guideline). The starter doesn’t count as it will be released once I obtain my BFL. - Rule 6: I will only use one TM on each Pokemon, no exceptions. - Rule 8: I may begin a Gym battle with fewer Pokemon than the Gym Leader, but never more. - I will add Species Clause (no duplicate Pokemon allowed), HM Slave Clause (may capture HM slaves outside of the rules of the challenge as long as they don’t battle), and Shiny Clause (may always capture shinies – tbh I only needed to invoke that rule once in my entire Pokemon life, but whatever). I named my character Cyan, since Pokemon characters are often named after colors (in the manga anyway), I don’t think Cyan has been used yet, and it sounds pretty cool as a name. My rival is named Beige, which doesn’t sound quite as cool but it’s still okay. I chose Tepig as a starter, although it doesn’t really matter as it won’t be my Pokemon for long. I beat Beige, walked towards Floccesy Ranch as quickly as possible, and started searching for Riolu. I found one after 11 encounters, which is nice (20 would be expected with a 5% encounter rate). It was rather tricky to catch; Rule 7 didn’t allow me to use Tackle more than once, but Ember would have killed it, so I could only chuck Poke Balls after a single Tackle. After six Poke Balls, I got my BFL, Riolu! It was even Adamant, which is an amazing nature. Very happy with it. Bye bye Tepig. Training Riolu was a bit difficult at first with Foresight, Endure and Quick Attack as my three moves, due to Rule 7. Thankfully, I learned Counter and Feint soon enough. The trainers in Floccesy Ranch did not put up much of a fight, so I could quickly start the Gym with my Riolu at level 12. Sadly, I lost the first battle in the Gym. At this point I could do two things – capture more Pokemon, or grind Riolu. Since I use a stricter version of Rule 2 I didn’t want to waste any Pokemon slots, and opted to grind Riolu. At level 14 I did succeed in beating the two trainers, the final of which pushed me over the edge to level 15, where Riolu learned Force Palm. With Force Palm, Cheren was a joke even with Rule 7 in effect (I just had to waste two turns in between). First badge obtained! Oh yeah, I didn’t get a response to my question, but I’m not going to evolve Riolu ever. It seems to be against the spirit of the challenge. To be continued! |
I'm now up to the third Gym and I wrote a story!
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The previous post should be recent enough that this isn't a necro, so here's my entry in this challenge:
Username:Grimoire Dualight Game:Yellow Optional Rules/Tweaks?: The Safari Zone is exempt from rule 2, The Bro For Life is Caterpie, who is exempt from remaining un-evolved, partially because of the exception to rule 3, partially because I want it to have at least some use at any point in the game. For evolutions I will roll a d12,>7 allows evolution, and for releasing I will roll a d20, releasing on 14,15,16 and re-rolling on 17,18,19. If I would have to re-roll twice one of the previously released Pokémon comes back instead. If I have no Pokémon released at that point nothing happens. (Using dice instead of a generator so I can make rolls on the move) I just caught the Caterpie in Viridian Forest, and won't be using nicknames at all. I tried to make the rival use his Flareon team as I cannot recall fighting that before, so I lost the first battle, and then used only Pikachu, who I will box for the rest of the run to beat the optional match before buying any Pokéballs so I could get 5 Pokéballs from Prof. Oak. Edit(May 19th): I haven't been playing much, but here's what I have done so far: Captures and evolutions: Route 22: Mankey, is allowed to evolve. Route 3: Spearow, not allowed to evolve. Mt. Moon: Geodude, allowed to evolve, but only once(since I cannot trade with anyone, Pokémon that have a trade evolution still roll twice, both to increase the chance of them evolving once and to decide if they can use 3 TMs or only one) Has since evolved to Graveler aboard the S.S. Anne. Route 4: Sandshrew, not allowed to evolve. Route 25: Bellsprout, allowed to evolve only once. Evolved to Weepinbell before challenging Misty. Route 5: I originally intended to catch a Jigglypuff, but while level grinding before the gym a Pidgey utterly destroyed both Rattata and Geodude, so I caught it and released the Jigglypuff. This Pidgey is allowed to evolve twice, has already become a Pidgeotto and must now be part of the team I enter into the Hall of Fame. Important battles: Vs. Brock: Butterfree and Mankey, Butterfree didn't even need Mankey's assistance. Vs. Misty: Brough Butterfree and the newly evolved Weepinbell, lead with Weepinbell who, through the use of Sleep Powder and Growth, won without taking damage. Vs. Rival(S.S. Anne): Pidgeotto took on his Spearow, Mankey his Rattata, Weepinbell his Sandshrew and Butterfree his Eevee, and all of them won their individual match-ups. Vs. Surge: The only thing in that Gym that was even remotely capable of threatening Graveler was Sonicboom, which Surge's Raichu did not know, and thus Graveler demolished that Gym. I used the TM 01 Mega Punch on Geodude and the TM 04 Whirlwind on Spearow. I used the HM 01 Cut on Sandshrew. I haven't had to release any Pokémon yet. My currently active team consists of: Butterfree level 23(BFL) Mankey level 23 Graveler level 27(evolving it before defeating Surge caused a bit of a lead) Pidgeotto level 22 Weepinbell level 24 Sandshrew level 8 (designated HM user, this last slot remains variable for the time being) |
This seems a fun way to work on my writing and have a fun Pokemon challenge
Username: MurkyCrow Game: Pokemon Sapphire Optional rules/Tweaks: I'll definitely be using the 'no held items' rule up there. I'll also be leaving it up to chance on whether or not I successfully capture a Pokemon. Since in the anime sometimes a Pokemon runs off, or another person stops Ash, or they just go through an episode with a new Pokemon that they don't catch. I'll use the 5/12 for that. |
I'll do these like journal entries. Was going to make a story but I've been spending more time writing than playing and that's just no fun.
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Badges: 1 Current Team: Mareep, lv 12 Zigzagoon, lv 11 Shroomish, lv 13 |
EDIT Whoops, in my rush to post this, I forgot to actually sign up.
Username: EccentricEncyclopedia Game: Alpha Sapphire Optional Rules/Tweaks?: I can only catch the first Pokémon encountered in each area, so I use Pokémon that I wouldn’t normally. The odds of a Pokémon leaving has been decreased to 1/16. Finally, similarly to Ash, I can only have 6 Pokémon on me (including my BFL) at any time, so no Pokémon in my box, and I can only use pokemon that were introduced in the region that I am playing. This looks like a really cool challenge so I’m going to give it a go! I will be doing this challenge on Alpha Sapphire and my BFL will be a newly-hatched Snubbull that I traded over from Kalos. I’m going to be doing this with a light story format to suit the anime theme. Right, let’s begin… Spoiler:
Team Snubbull Female Level 14 Tackle, Bite, Tail Whip, Charm Run Away Ability Mudkip Male Level 15 Tackle, Growl, Water Gun, Mud-Slap Torrent Ability Zigzagoon Male Level 8 (HM Slave, hopefully this is allowed?) Cut, Growl, Tail Whip, Sand Attack Pickup Ability |
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Current Team: Makuhita, lv 12 Mareep, lv 18 Zigzagoon, lv 12 Shroomish, lv 15 |
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Badges: 3 Current team: Hariyama, level 25 Zigzagoon, level 23 Mareep, level 23 Wingull, level 14 Boxed: Shroomish, level 19 I lost agains Watson so many times it nearly drove me crazy > A < Makuhita was the only Pokemon I had that could take down his Magneton so if he fainted or got paralyzed it was all over. |
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Badges: 4 Current Team: Torkoal, level 17 Zigzagoon, level 27 Mareep, level 29 Hariyama, level 28 Egg, level egg Boxed: Shroomish Numel Lotad Departed: Wingull I keep typing Makuhita instead of Hariyama So if you ever wondered, 'Do Trainers get confused and accidentally keep calling their Pokemon by the wrong name after they've evolved', the answer seems to be yes. |
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Badges: 5 Current team: Mareep, level 30 Torkoal, level 31 Grumpig, level 32 Trapinch, level 30 Zigzagoon, level 30 Wynaut, level 6 Boxed: Lotad, Shroomish, Numel, Taillow Departed: Wingull, Hariyama |
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Badges: 6 Current team: Mareep, level 34 (BFL) Zigzagoon, level 32 (Can't evolve) Gloom, level 28 (Evolved, can not evolve again) Trapinch, level 31 (Can evolve twice) Grumpig, level 33 Torkoal, level 32 Boxed: Lotad(Can't evolve) Shroomish(Can't evolve) Taillow(Can't evolve) Lilleep(Can evolve) Numel(Can't evolve) Departed: Wingull, Hariyama, Wobbuffet |
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Badges: 7 Current team: Mareep, level 40 Torkoal, level 39 Vibrava, level 40 Wailmer, level 35 (can evolve) Gloom, level 38 Boxed: Lotad, Numel, Taillow, Shroomish, Lilleep, Zigzagoon Departed: Hariyama, Wingull, Absol, Wobbuffet |
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Badges: 8 Current team: Mareep, level 45 Zigzagoon, level 44 Torkoal, level 43 Gloom, level 45 Vibrava, level 44 Boxed: Lotad, Shroomish, Taillow, Numel Departed: Wingull, Hariyama, Grumpig, Wailmer, Absol, Wobbuffet |
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Final Team: Torkoal, level 53 Flygon, level 55 Zigzagoon, level 51 Gloom, level 50 Spheal, level 47 Mareep, level 51 Finally. Steven was definitely frustrating. Dude used 3 Full Restores just on his Claydol. 3 Full Restores in one battle on one Pokemon. He only used 1 Full Restore to save his Aggron so I guess we know who he loves more. Only beat his Armaldo because I finally got lucky with a critical hit. This was a fun challenge though! Even if the Elite Four and Champion nearly made me rip my hair out. |
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