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Retro Misc Pics
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Friday, 30-August-2024 13:18:02 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A busy day before a busy weekend, so here's Retro Misc Pics from October 2011:
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Tuesday Night Reviews
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Tuesday, 27-August-2024 23:08:52 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Cooling:
DeepCool MYSTIQUE 360 5th Gen Liquid Cooler With LCD Screen on NikKTech.
darkFlash Nebula DN-360 AIO on TechPowerUp.
Arctic Freezer 36 Black CPU cooler on Vortez.
Input Etc:
Razer DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed mouse on TechPowerUp.
AQIRYS THEMIS Gamepad on MadShrimps.
MelGeek MADE68 Pro Rapid Trigger HE Keyboard on ThinkComputers.
Audio Visual:
Quick Look: Final Audio VR3000 earphones on TechPowerUp.
Meze Audio 109 PRO Wooden Open-Back Headphones on NikKTech.
Dell Premier Wireless ANC WL7024 Headset on Tweaktown.
Fifine AmpliGame AM8T RGB USB Microphone on FunkyKit.
Sipeed NanoKVM Review – Affordable RISC-V IP-KVM on StorageReview.
Power Supply:
BLUETTI AC70 Portable Power Station on APHNetworks.
Lian Li EDGE EG1000 1000W ATX 3.1 on Guru3D.
Storage:
Crucial P310 Gen4 Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers.
Western Digital SN861 Gen5 SSD on StorageReview.
TEAMGROUP PD20M MagSafe Portable SSD on StorageReview.
Team Group GE Pro 2 TB Review - The new Innogrit Gen 5 Controller on TechPowerUp.
Software:
Black Myth: Wukong Handheld Performance Benchmark on TechPowerUp.
Black Myth Wukong: DLSS vs. FSR vs. XeSS Comparison on TechPowerUp.
Once Human Handheld Performance Benchmark on TechPowerUp.
Black Myth Wukong Performance Benchmark Review - 30 GPUs Tested on TechPowerUp.
Cases:
Corsair 3500X ARGB Computer Case on APHNetworks.
NZXT H5 Flow RGB (2024) on TechPowerUp.
Lian Li SUP01 Mid-Tower Chassis on Tweaktown.
Portable & Prebuilt:
HP EliteBook Ultra G1q Laptop on HotHardware.
Dell XPS 16 (2024) AI Laptop on Tweaktown.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Review: Refined Evolution Not Revolution on HotHardware.
Geekom XT13 Pro (Intel Core i9-13900H) Mini PC on Guru3D.
Lenovo ThinkStation P8 Workstation on StorageReview.
ASUS NUC 14 Pro on StorageReview.
Misc:
AMD Zen5 – 9950X and 9900x Flagship on StorageReview.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs RTX 4080 Super on ThePCEnthusiast.
Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6000 32GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit on Tweaktown.
Thanks to Andrew this week!
     
     
     
     
     
Tuesday Night Reviews
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Tuesday, 20-August-2024 22:59:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Audio Visual:
MSI IMMERSE GH50 Wireless Headset on Guru3D.
FiiO K11 R2R Desktop DAC/Headphone Amplifier on TechPowerUp.
XPG Precog Studio Gaming Headset on Tweaktown.
Gigabyte AORUS CO94DQ 49-Inch QD-OLED Gaming Monitor on ThinkComputers.
iFi audio iDSD Diablo 2 Ultra-Res Portable DAC / Headphone Amplifier With Lossless Bluetooth on NikKTech.
Input Etc:
ASUS ROG Keris II Ace mouse on TechPowerUp.
SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Wireless Gaming Keyboard on OCInside.
Turtle Beach Burst II Air Wireless Optical Mouse on APHNetworks.
Logitech G G309 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse on Tweaktown.
Akko MU01 Mountain Seclusion Wooden Mechanical Keyboard on TechPowerUp.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Laptop Review: Great Performance, Killer Display on HotHardware.
Cyberpower PC Ultra 55 (2024) on Vortez.
Cases:
Corsair 2500D Airflow on TechPowerUp.
Corsair iCUE LINK 3500X RGB Mid-Tower on FunkyKit.
Storage:
Silicon Power Armor A60 5TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 Portable HDD on MadShrimps.
KIOXIA TransMemory U202 USB 2.0 Flash Drive on MadShrimps.
Kingston XS1000 external SSD on DVHardware.
Misc:
G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal DDR5-8200 48GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit on Tweaktown.
Seasonic VERTEX GX-1000 SAKURA Limited Edition PSU on NikKTech.
Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC High-Performance CPU Cooler on FunkyKit.
Team Group Memory Winner
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Saturday, 17-August-2024 22:41:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Congratulations to OCAU Forums member jamesbond who won our Team Group Contest for messiest desk. I'm sure you'll agree it was a magnificent effort:
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Friday again - thanks to Paul this week!
     
     
     
     
Tick Tock - Win Some Team Group Memory!
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Friday, 16-August-2024 07:17:18 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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Not much time left to win some DELTA RGB DDR5 DESKTOP MEMORY BLACK from Team Group.
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The perfect excuse to upgrade the rest of your old rig ;)
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X CPUs
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Thursday, 15-August-2024 19:11:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AMD have followed up their earlier mid-range CPUs with the new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X CPUs, with 12 and 16 cores respectively:
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X on HotHardware.
Ryzen 9 9950X processor on Guru3D.
Ryzen 9 9900X processor on Guru3D.
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X & 9950X on Vortez.
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Review - But that Price on TechPowerUp.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review - The New Flagship on TechPowerUp.
Discussion continues in this thread.
WD lost its hard drive patent lawsuit and now gets to pay MR Technologie a paltry $262M. Well this should help HDD pricing. Right! Suess is a professor and head of the Physics of Functional Materials department at the University of Vienna and MRT is his company. The two patents in question refer to ways to increase the signal to noise ratio in the recording medium layer of hard disk drives and using anisotropy – directionally dependent – magnetic effects in a multi-layer recording material to help switch bits from one magnetic direction to another.
Google tells Android users: go into your settings and turn off the "Allow 2G" toggle. It works like this: a group uses a device known as a Stingray, a False Base Station, or an "SMS Blaster" to pretend to be a 5G cell tower. Smartphones connect to it and it immediately sends them a command to step down to 2G, which they will obey if the "Allow 2G" option is still enabled. Once that happens, they can exploit the lack of modern security features in the 2G communications standard to essentially pretend to be you on the internet.
Why are criminals using video games to launder money? (Podcast). Cryptocurrency and block chain technology has dramatically shifted the way criminals launder money - so what are the techniques some criminals are using to clean dirty money and what does it have to do with a video game about salamanders?
I saw this on The Sizzle. Do you know who Fabrice Bellard is? He's the original developer of FFMPEG, an impressive piece of software for video/audio encoding (and more) that's used in a lot of places thanks to being open source. That alone would put you in the deadset legend status of computing, but no, Fabrice is such a genius that they also decided to muck around and spit out QEMU. If you've ever used a virtual machine that isn't VMware, chances are it was some sort of QEMU variant. Fabrice's website is banger after banger of projects that even if you did just one, you'd be absolutely stoked with and would dine out on it for years. I haven't read it yet, but the ACM did a profile on Fabrice in 2009 and put him in the same league as Alan Turing, Donald Knuth and Edsger Dijkstra.
And IntelInside sent in news of a critical flaw in AMD chips. Now security researchers have found one such flaw that has persisted in AMD processors for decades, and that would allow malware to burrow deep enough into a computer's memory that, in many cases, it may be easier to discard a machine than to disinfect it. “I think it's the most complex bug I've ever exploited,” says Okupski.
Wednesday Night Reviews
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Wednesday, 14-August-2024 21:04:59 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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Audio Visual:
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo @ FunkyKit
ZMF BOKEH Closed-Back Dynamic Driver Headphones @ TechPowerUp
Antlion Audio ModMic USB 2 and UNI 2 @ LanOC
MAG 341CQP QD-OLED @ cowcotland
VIVIDSTORM 120" S PRO P Motorized Tension Floor Rising UST ALR Perforated Projector Screen @ NikKTech
Cases and Cooling:
Endorfy Fluctus 120 PWM Fan @ TweakTown
GIGABYTE AORUS WATERFORCE X II 360 ICE Liquid Cooler @ TweakTown
Noctua NH-D15 G2 CPU Cooler @ guru3D
Cooler Master MasterBox 600 @ TechPowerUp
Cougar FV270 Mid-Tower @ TweakTown
Enermax Marbleshell @ cowcotland
Software and Benchmark:
Testing Intel’s Raptor Lake CPU Microcode Fix @ HotHardware
Zen 5 Tested with SMT Disabled @ TechPowerUp
Portable & Prebuilt:
Pixel 9 Family @ HotHardware
Microsoft Surface Laptop Review (7th Edition) @ SMBtech | High Performance Laptops
OneXGPU 2 eGPU To Flex AMD's New Radeon RX 7800M @ HotHardware
Misc:
ASUS RT-BE96U Tri-Band WiFi 7 @ FunkyKit
Corsair MP700 PRO SE 2TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD @ FunkyKit
Reminder - Win Some Team Group Memory!
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Monday, 12-August-2024 13:35:08 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Less than a week left to win some DELTA RGB DDR5 DESKTOP MEMORY BLACK from Team Group. This is a 32GB (2x16GB) kit of 6000MHz DDR5. Plenty fast, with lots of headroom for your apps, easy overclocking and even some bling - what more could you ask for?
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RIP Lynn Conway. Co-inventor of VLSI (very large scale integration). She invented multiple-out-of-order dynamic instruction scheduling, a technique that allows a CPU to reorder instructions based on their availability and readiness instead of following the program order strictly. That work led to the creation of the superscalar CPU, which manages multiple instruction pipelines to execute several instructions concurrently.
Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection. The pieces at Living Computers: Museum + Labs represent just a portion of Allen’s collection. Last year the Museum of Pop Culture, located in Seattle just like Allen's museum, acquired several rare items he acquired, including a smashed guitar that Kurt Cobain used, Prince's motorcycle jacket, and loads of sci-fi media props like Darth Vader's helmet and the Captain Kirk’s Command Chair from the USS Enterprise.
Intel gives two extra years of warranty to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors. Intel's announcement comes as investigations of the crashing issue begin for a potential class action lawsuit. Intel hasn't shared the full details of its new warranty extension yet, but it says more details are to come. We do know that some models, like the Special Edition KS models, only have a one-year warranty, but that will now extend to three years. The two-year warranty extension applies to the boxed units found at retail, but Intel's statement says those with OEM systems should reach out to the manufacturer, hinting that we might also see extensions from OEMs.
Seagate might sell you a 30TB HAMR hard disk drive, my guess is you cant afford them though. The complex Mozaic 3+ technology has taken years to refine and develop, with Seagate working on the technology’s reliability, yield, and manufacturing cost. Now it is able to qualify and start mass-producing the drives, with 10 x 3 TB platters. This gives it a 6 TB capacity advantage over arch-rival Western Digital with its 24 TB conventional and 28 TB shingled drives. Seagate will have shingled HAMR drives too, at the 32 TB level.
Secure Boot is broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers. On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022. In a public GitHub repository committed in December of that year, someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers published what’s known as a platform key, the cryptographic key that forms the root-of-trust anchor between the hardware device and the firmware that runs on it.
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees. It's striking to consider just how small Valve is compared to other major players in the game industry. In 2021, Microsoft estimated Valve's annual revenue at $6.5 billion, roughly on the same scale as EA's $7.5 billion in 2024 revenue. But Steam achieved those numbers with around 350 employees, compared to well over 13,000 people employed by EA.
And here's a couple of interesting threads I stumbled over;
Dodge M4S wondered about gaming CPU utilisation.
hutts24 bought something old for $1.
Audio Visual:
AOC CQ27G2X Gaming Monitor @ aphNetworks
Turtle Beach Atlas Air Wireless Gaming Headset @ aphNetworks
Alienware AW3225QF Gaming Monitor @ TweakTown
Yeyian FlexCam Streaming Webcam @ FunkyKit
TRENDnet TV-IP1515PI Indoor/Outdoor 5MP H.265 WDR PoE IR Fixed Turret Network Camera @ NikKTech
Keyboard, Mouse:
Razer Viper V3 Pro @ TechPowerUp
Kinesis Advantage360 Split Ergonomic Keyboard @ TechPowerUp
Case, Cooling:
Valkyrie Vind SL125 @ TechPowerUp
NZXT H7 Flow RGB 2024 @ OCinside
Fractal Design Mood @ TechPowerUp
sus Ryujin III ARGB - 360 mm AIO @ guru3D
Storage:
Acer MA200 1TB Gen4 2230 NVMe SSD @ Madshrimps
Acer FA200 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 @ FunkyKit
Solidigm D7-PS1030 6.4TB Enterprise SSD @ TweakTown
Motherboard, Memory:
MSI Z790 Project Zero Motherboard @ FunkyKit
G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal DDR5-8000 48GB CL40 @ TechPowerUp
Crucial Pro Overclocking 64GB (4x16GB) DDR5-6000 @ Madshrimps
PSU:
FSP Hydro Ti Pro 1000w 80 PLUS Titanium ATX 3.0 PSU @ TweakTown
Software and Benchmark:
ESP32 Programming Guide @ Funkyhome
Portable & Prebuilt:
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 @ HotHardware
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 Laptop @ ThinkComputers
Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 laptop @ SMBtech/High Performance Laptops
Misc:
WELOCK SECBNEBL51 Smart Fingerprint Door Lock @ NikKTech
What is a Copilot+ PC? Do you need an AI PC? Should you buy one? @ TweakTown
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Thursday Evening
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Thursday, 8-August-2024 19:17:57 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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CrowdStrike have released their root cause analysis for the huge outage last month.. and it's a pretty fundamental error. In this instance, Falcon expected the update to have 20 input fields, but it had 21 input fields. This "count mismatch" is what caused the global crash, CrowdStrike said. "The Content Interpreter expected only 20 values," the RCA report states. "Therefore, the attempt to access the 21st value produced an out-of-bounds memory read beyond the end of the input data array and resulted in a system crash." Discussion here.
Google have been declared a monopoly in the search engine market. The tech world is digesting a US judge's potentially seismic ruling that Google illegally monopolises online search and related advertising. It took four years to get to this point, and Google-owner Alphabet's inevitable appeal means this the legal process is likely to carry on for some time yet. But already the potential consequences of the judge's decision are being considered, ranging from cash fines to other, more complicated remedies.
Backblaze have released their Drive Stats for Q2 2024. As of the end of Q2 2024, Backblaze was monitoring 288,665 hard drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) in our cloud storage servers located in our data centers around the world. We removed from this analysis 3,789 boot drives, consisting of 2,923 SSDs and 866 hard drives. This leaves us with 284,876 hard drives under management to review for this report. We’ll review the annualized failure rates (AFRs) for Q2 2024 and the lifetime AFRs of the qualifying drive models, and we’ll also check out drive age versus failure rates over time.
If you have a flaky Intel CPU, you're not alone. Intel has announced that it has found the root cause of the crashing issues plaguing its CPUs. The company will issue a microcode update to address the issues by mid-August, ostensibly ending the long-running saga that began when the first sporadic reports of CPU crashing errors surfaced in December 2022 and grew to a crescendo by the end of 2023. Intel's response comes after complaints about the issue, which causes PCs to inexplicably crash/BSOD during gaming and other workloads, reached a fever pitch in recent weeks.
Video game actors are currently on strike over AI concerns. The union says it wants guarantees that performers won't be duplicated without being paid and to have control over how their "face, voice, body is used to create performances". TV and film actors were able to reach an agreement giving them protection from unauthorised use of their likeness by AI. Duncan says SAG-Aftra is unhappy with the current offer from gaming companies because they feel it doesn't protect all their members.
MUTMAN sent in this hackertyper timewaster. Silly but fun.
AMD Ryzen 9600X and 9700X
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Thursday, 8-August-2024 18:58:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AMD have unveiled the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X, the first two CPUs in a complete refresh of their desktop CPU family based on the Zen5 architecture. Here's some reviews from the news box:
AMD Ryzen 9600X and 9700X on LanOC.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X on Vortez.
Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Review: Low Power AMD Zen 5 Impresses on HotHardware.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU Review - Zen 5 Gamer's Choice on Tweaktown.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X processor on Guru3D.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU Review - Mainstream Zen 5 Tested on Tweaktown.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Review - The Magic of Zen 5 on TechPowerUp.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Review - The Best Sub-$300 Gaming CPU on TechPowerUp.
Discussion continues in the Ryzen 9000 series thread.
Win Some Team Group Memory!
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Monday, 5-August-2024 00:52:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Team Group are giving away a set of DELTA RGB DDR5 DESKTOP MEMORY BLACK to one lucky OCAU member. This is a 32GB (2x16GB) kit of 6000MHz DDR5. Plenty fast, with lots of headroom for your apps, easy overclocking and even some bling - what more could you ask for?
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Monday Morning Reviews
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Monday, 5-August-2024 00:51:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Portable & Prebuilt:
ASUS ROG Ally X Review: Handheld Gaming Greatness on HotHardware.
ASRock Rack 1U10E-ALTRA/1L2T Ampere Server on StorageReview.
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 ASUS Zenbook S16 on StorageReview.
Aorus 16X ASG laptop on SMBtech.
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Review: Zen 5 Tested On A Gorgeous ASUS Laptop on HotHardware.
Gigabyte AORUS 16X (2024) Gaming Laptop on ThinkComputers.
Asus Zenbook Duo Laptop on SMBtech.
Cooling:
ID-Cooling FROZN A620 PRO SE CPU Air Cooler on Tweaktown.
HYTE THICC Q60 Digital Processor Cooling on NikKTech.
Scythe Mugen 6 CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers.
Input Etc:
ASUS ROG Cetra True Wireless SpeedNova IEMs earphones on TechPowerUp.
ASUS ROG Azoth Extreme Wireless Gaming Keyboard on Tweaktown.
Quick Look: Awekeys Full Metal Keycaps on TechPowerUp.
DELUX M900 Pro mouse on TechPowerUp.
Elgato Key Light Neo on FunkyKit.
Storage:
Netac NV7000-Q 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD on FunkyKit.
Icy Dock MB021VP-B U.2 NVMe SSD FlexiDock on OCInside.
DapuStor Haishen5 H5100 E3.S SSD on StorageReview.
Micron 2650 1TB SSD Review - World's highest performing DRAMless SSD on Tweaktown.
Micron 2400 2TB NVMe M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 SSD on FunkyKit.
Audio Visual:
Titan Army P32A2S2 32in (240 Hz / IPS gaming monitor) on Guru3D.
ASRock PG27QFT2A 27" Gaming Monitor on FunkyKit.
SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5 Wireless Gaming Headset on MadShrimps.
KTC H27P22S 27in gaming monitor (160 Hz / IPS) on Guru3D.
1MORE Fit SE Open Earbuds S30 Bluetooth Earphones on APHNetworks.
Misc:
Spyra SpyraGO Powered Water Blaster on NikKTech.
Lian Li EDGE 1300W PSU on TechPowerUp.
be quiet! Dark Base 701 Computer Case on APHNetworks.
Intel Core i3-14100 CPU on TechPowerUp.
KLevv FIT V DDR5-6000 32GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit on Tweaktown.
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This month's "Retro Let's Play" for August is Dungeon Siege from 2002
Dungeon Siege combines the immersive elements of a role-playing game with over-the-top intensity and non-stop action. Dungeon Siege plunges you into a continuous 3D fantasy world where you face off against an army of evil that has been unleashed.
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