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foolm0r0n posted...

- Disarm cops
- Reserve-only military
- Only declared wars (foreign AND domestic) allow govt use of guns

subversive propaganda only meant to weaken the united states in the global theater. I hate the state as much as the next person, probably moreso, but this is a really bad long term plan. united states is one of the few places in the world where the citizens have fully secured their own rights, by their own power.

there are way too many people who would be interested in coming in and changing that. they're already hard at work right now. one of the few actual uses of the federal government is their ability to deter foreign invaders.

and before someone tries dropping some anti-vaxxer tier logic on me. 'why isn't anyone currently invading us right now then????' because we have guns right now.

foolm0r0n posted...

- Generous buy back of civilian guns

this is a dumb waste of tax money but so is most everything else. you could try, but I doubt it would accomplish much.

foolm0r0n posted...

- Registry (private) of all remaining guns

it's not the government's business but funny enough almost everything I said above just applies anyway. it's a dumb waste of tax money, first of all. I guess the unarmed police officers will be going door to door to politely inquire about "illegal" unregistered guns? this is literally the kind of fan fiction that conservative message boards already jerk off to, they already have their "I conveniently lost all of my guns in a boating accident" stories ready. I wouldn't agree to this solution in the first place but it would be hilariously ineffective, especially with a disarmed police and military.

and lastly before we get anymore anti-vaxxer logic -- 'if private civilian owned firearms are so important to protecting our rights how come I never see anyone having to use them for that???' because we already have the guns. if you take them away, the equation changes.

also this observation is dumb to begin with because they were important and we did have to use them. it was in a year around, I dunno, 1776 or something. you might remember a big event that occurred around that time.
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and yeah it is certainly possible she just wanted to end things and go to portugal by herself, and now she feels a bit blindsided because she wasn't expecting you to be enthusiastic about coming along. that would be kinda shitty but people can be shitty sometimes. it's not inconceivable.

I would still say you should operate under the best possible assumptions until directly proven otherwise.
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hey david, thanks for your initial reply to my responses in this topic. it was very refreshing.

I'm very used to people on this board being pretty frustrating and disappointing, but I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt. I think this is definitely a case where I failed to do that, and you were the victim of my frustrations toward other people being directed at you.

also if I had just said something when I initially saw this topic instead of holding it in until I was annoyed with the discussion... I think I probably would have come across a lot less harsh.

I actually did get the vibe that she was not originally from portgual, but that was sort of unrelated to my main point so I'll just simplify it even further: she wants to be with her family, you want to be with your family. you get to be with your family, but she doesn't get to be with her family. you just need to consider things better from her point of view.

reading your most recent reply, well, I guess it might not matter anymore.

my interpretation of the most recent conversation: she doesn't want you to tell her to break up. what she wants is you to reassure her that you really do want to go and be with her.

however, at the end of the day, a lot of relationships that start in high school are doomed to failure. people grow and chance too much. our brains don't even finish developing until the early 20s. it's easy to take someone for granted after 8 years; I've been broken up with for that reason, and I've had to end relationships due to being on the receiving end and feeling that way. and a lot of people, in their first ever serious relationship, can certainly make the mistake of taking someone for granted after a long 8 years.

I think you both have a lot of stuff to think about and there could be many factors playing into this situation beyond just the idea of moving to portugal or staying in canada.
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in fairness most people don't actually want unfiltered comments. they want their friends to pat them on the back, tell them they are in the right, and that they did nothing wrong after hearing only one side of the story.
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do you really not get the absurdity of someone refusing to do something because they "know they won't like it" without even giving it a try, in literally the same breath, accusing the other person of "refusing to move an inch" when that person has been living in the exact same conditions that TC is hesitant to put himself through

this is all right there in the opening post so yes I assure you there are people saying that.
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Robazoid posted...

My brother is married to someone from another country. If she decided she wanted to move back, I don't think it would be fair to say 'well she already tried living here so I guess you have to try to keep it fair'. Granted they have a house, children, and careers so it would be a much bigger thing, but still.

If they originally lived in a third country and moved to Canada at his request, then I'd agree that he wasn't being fair, but the natural course of their lives led to where they are now. I'm also not even saying she's being unreasonable, I don't think anyone is. I just think it's too much of a guilt trip to say 'well she already tried Canada so it's only fair that you try Portugal' when I don't think it's the same thing.

first of all, life isn't fair. so that shouldn't be relevant to this or any discussion.

anyway, no, I don't think he is required to move to portugal just because she lived in canada for a while. if you think that's what I am saying you are totally missing the point. in fact my ultimate conclusion is that they should just break up.

my point is that she is being framed as the one who is "guilt tripping" him, being unreasonable, refusing to budge even a little bit... when that's not even remotely true. and I don't know why you say you don't think anyone is, when there are actually multiple people in this topic, including TC, who are framing her in that way.
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Robazoid posted...

I'm guessing the mental illness theory is based off details we aren't privy to so I won't comment on that. I just want to say that it isn't fair to equate already living in Canada with moving to Portugal. Presumably she came to Canada through her own free will, or at the very least not at his request. Moving to Portugal at her request is a different thing and it's okay to be wary about a change that could easily be permanent.

sure but it's completely unfair to push this narrative that she is somehow being unreasonable and refusing to budge even a little bit when he is actually the one refusing to compromise. she has been dealing with the exact same complications (being away from family) that he is so keen on avoiding! the irony is fucking ridiculous. I wasn't going to comment on this topic until I saw the mental illness thing and now I just can't hold my tongue.
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she wants to live in portugal to be near her family
you want to stay in canada to be near your family

she has been living in canada for years despite wanting to live in portugal
you refuse to even attempt living in portugal because you "know for sure" you won't like it

why and how exactly is she the one refusing to compromise?

she has literally already done, for years, what you are refusing to do for her. and for some reason you're treating her like the one who is unreasonable and accusing her of having a mental illness. wtf...

foolm0r0n posted...

Seems like she should just break up with you and get it over with though.

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goats are cool
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I don't like watching isekai because they remind me of home...
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my favorites are shieldbreaker and musketeer

voted musket waifu because she has a bigger crit rate
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best darkest dungeon waifu
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older people and younger people both seem to have a weird affinity with me. way more than people my own age ever have.

that being said I have no real preference. I don't have strong feelings about most things.
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Reg posted...

The whole system needs to be burned to the ground.

now this is something I can agree with...
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Zachnorn posted...

I thought we all matured since then

why would you think that?

I've never seen any evidence that supports this statement
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surprised no one has mentioned paramore twitter boobs yet. I remember when we found out that mentioning paramore twitter boobs many times in the same topic caused paramore twitter boobs on board 8 to show up higher on google's search results.

not sure about the exact details or if I have them right, but I know it had something to do with paramore twitter boobs
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actually I have no ability to even control who can or can't post on AT, and you literally have that power. so what the fuck are you even on about. you are the only person in this discussion who has excluded a person from being able to post in a private place.
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still no

the only long running topic series I've ever made is the anime and manga discussion topic.
1. I don't even post in there anymore and haven't for years
2. there was never any time where I posted in there and "blocked" anyone from entering, nor did such a feature even exist at the time, nor would I have ever used it if it had.
3. I never told or even asked anyone to leave that topic series.

if you're referring to the crab discussion topic I made recently
1. it's not a long running topic
2. I did not block anyone from there, not did such a feature even exist at the time, nor would I have used it even if it did
3. I never told or even asked anyone to leave that topic series

I don't see how you could even reasonably believe that me making one topic to discuss stuff with my friends, on a public forum, where anyone could post, is somehow the same level as me unilaterally excluding a user from a long running discussion topic. what you are saying is not even remotely close to being true in any way.

if you're referring to mac telling LtM not to post in that topic, what do you want me to do about? I don't control Mac or what he does. he probably tells him not to post in the main topic, either, and people in the main topic are constantly dumping on LtM and I stay out of it. I've multiple times told people on AT that I'm not interested in talking shit about LtM and I'd rather just talk about anime.

it's honestly ridiculous how far what you're claiming is from the truth.
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and since it seems like you're interested in Promised Neverland I'll confirm that is also a good show worth checking out.
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GranzonEx posted...

MariaTaylor posted...

this seems like it will cause way more problems than it could ever potentially solve. especially on board 8 or similar boards which have long running discussion topics. all it takes now is for one topic creator to unilaterally decide that specific users are "blocked" from the topic.

don't you have such a topic

no
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this seems like it will cause way more problems than it could ever potentially solve. especially on board 8 or similar boards which have long running discussion topics. all it takes now is for one topic creator to unilaterally decide that specific users are "blocked" from the topic.
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seems like you have mostly watched and enjoyed stuff that makes a lot of buzz, especially western buzz, without preference toward any one particular genre.

list seems to be missing:

Attack on Titan - Interesting setting and premise, very consistent writing, shocking twists dropped on the reader every so often. It's violent but not very sexual. Good if you like dark/mature themes but don't like fanservice.

Fate/A Million Different Spinoffs - You'd have to ask someone else about which of these are worth watching and what order you should watch them in. But Fate/Zero at least is something I would have expected to see on a list like yours, so this immediately came to mind.

also for a personal recommendation that isn't as culturally significant:

Haikyuu! - Definitely one of the best anime ever made. It doesn't matter if you don't care about volleyball. No, this show will NOT make you "care about volleyball." It will make you care about every single character on the cast, their goals, and their progression. It's an addictive, entertaining, funny and emotional show that is absolutely 10/10 at building hype and never fails to deliver on the hype.
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KommunistKoala posted...

but what will happen if you choose $125 and don't have credit monitoring

sign up for credit karma, it's free.

otherwise you're committing fraud by saying you'll have monitoring service for the next 6 months when you know that you don't/won't
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lol
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yeah definitely. and I like her overall growth and development. it's not just that she's badass, but also how she gets there.

anyway finished with the rewatch. I'll do some kind of episode 6 and/or full series write up later.
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Gunbuster Episode 5 cleared. This episode starts to deliver on the time dilation concepts introduced in episode 2 -- it begins with Noriko and Amano coming back to "graduate" 10 years behind the rest of their high school classmates. We get a brief glimpse of how the world and their relationship with other people has changed. Because of an emergency alert there is no choice but to send the Gunbuster back out into space. But this time there's a catch: 6 months of time will pass on earth while they're gone, and Coach might not even have six months to live.

This episode is all about the development and resolution of Amano, as the previous episode was more about Noriko. We'll see this dynamic pop up again later in TTGL. Noriko admires Amano as her "big sis," someone who she can look up to, rely on, and who would never falter. But in reality Amano is the one who lacks confidence and she needs Noriko to inspire her.

The action in this episode was even more hot blooded and awesome than the last episode, although in terms of raw emotional payoff I might still rate episode 4 higher. I like Noriko's arc more than Amano's, and they did a better job of conveying the hopeless situation in episode 4. I don't think anything could beat the amazing impact of Noriko choosing, on her own, to pilot the Gunbuster for the first time when all hope was lost and they were all going to die anyway.

Noriko's amazing VA kills it again with her battle screams and emotional delivery of her inspiring lines. It's a shame she doesn't seem to have any other similar roles because she is seriously iconic here.
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Gunbuster Episode 4 was just legendary. I definitely don't remember this series being THIS good, so I've been nothing but pleasantly surprised at every turn. This episode in particular though has really kicked it up a notch. The tension and feeling of hopelessness throughout is executed so well. Once again the writing does an amazingly efficient job of setting up, explaining, and executing concepts very quickly with the limited time frame of one episode and yet without feeling rushed.

Of course all of this is just makes the last 1/3 of the episode ever better because of how hopeless the situation is. Everything in the first three episodes essentially builds toward the finale of this episode and it does not disappoint. At this point I definitely feel like this is a 10/10 series and I was crazy for ever thinking otherwise. Also I don't usually recommend anime to others but if you haven't seen Gunbuster, maybe check it out. Although the classics aren't really for everyone I would say this is a true classic.

Some cool narrative parallels contained within this episode:
- When Noriko is thinking about whether or not she would die next time she goes into space, her suit gets destroyed and the pilot who replaced her is killed. I don't think this is saying for sure that if she was out there she would have died at that moment, but it really hammers home the point that pilots out there were dropping like flies and could die pretty suddenly.
- The captain expresses his willingness to ram the enemy ship in a suicide tactic if it comes to that, and later Noriko basically says the same thing in the same words when she launches. The captain is willing to sacrifice the ship and everyone on it to protect the earth, but Noriko is willing to sacrifice herself to protect the ship and everyone on it.

I particularly loved the part where Noriko is going to duel with Jung. In the elevator she is all full of resolve, but as soon as they launch she has a PTSD break down. It was intentionally made as jarring as possible and I think it had a lot of impact as a result. That showed another facet of herself that she needed to improve on. No matter how much you train your body and skills it's not going to make you automatically overcome your mental trauma. The characters in this are so simple but so great. I think that is part of what makes them so great really, the writing doesn't try to over complicate them with personalities and backstories that real people can't relate to.

Only two more episodes left.
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texas zea
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Hannyabal posted...

Interesting. I would expect at that age that women (and men, even) might be using tinder differently than people around my age (22-25ish) and that might account for some of the differences. Societal expectations about marriage, etc. are definitely different and more women might exclusively be looking for something that could potentially be long term. Whereas theres not a whole lot of women at 22-25 only looking for that.

could be. I have my age range set pretty wide (18-36). but I know a lot of people are going to use 30 as the cutoff point so I'm not even showing up in their potential matches.

Hannyabal posted...

Whenever I delete my account and start completely fresh, I usually end up with around 25ish matches per day for the first couple weeks (as people out there who have essentially already swiped on everyone in the area are shown my profile within a few days) and then maybe 5ish a day after that.

oh yeah, wow. if that amount of matches is normal then I'm probably wasting my time.
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it would be a better use of my time than playing actual league!
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eh, maybe! I was also told 10% was pretty good for OK Cupid but it never felt very good? and even though I was getting responses at a "good" rate, most of them never went anywhere beyond a few crappy dates.
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these are not very good results considering only 2% of people are even mutually matching me.

counterpoint of course is that it's only been 2 days and I don't exactly know how long this sort of thing is supposed to take before you start seeing results.
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32.

just moved to a fairly major city. the exact spot where I live isn't really urban though so I guess suburbs.

also that 6th person who hadn't responded back, got back to me. seemed promising at first but turned out to be another scammer.

so 1/3 of my mutual matches so far have been bots or scammers. 1/2 have had no chemistry one way or the other. and the remaining 1/6 unmatched me within about 4 hours, before I had time to reply.
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this topic inspired me to make a tinder account just to see how "easy" it really was to get laid using online dating. I haven't had sex in 10+ years, and I haven't been on a date in around 5 years.

in the course of about 2 days I have swiped right as much as possible before needing to refresh (takes 12 hours before they give you back more swipes)... basically with any person that I could conceivably see myself having physical contact with under any circumstances. I gave every single person the benefit of the doubt and assumed the best possible things about them based on their profile.

here are my findings:

I got 6 mutual matches in this time period, out of probably 200-300 right swipes. that means I'm getting 2-3% of people who actually match me back. for reference, my reply rate on OK Cupid was around 10%, but I also sent far fewer messages so that was a small sample size and probably contained selection bias.

3 matches went literally nowhere:

- 1 of them was like a bot, or at least trying to lead me to some kind of paid website service
- 1 of them unmatched me before I could message back. although this is partially my own fault. I wasn't really in the mood to do any chatting, so I went to play games for a few hours. when I came back I found that I had been unmatched.
- 1 person is in my mutual matches list still and I did not message her yet. I feel like we don't actually have anything in common and I can't think of any conversation I want to have. so I dunno if this one will really go anywhere.

of the remaining three

- 1 person I messaged once, got a reply, messaged a second time, and didn't get a second reply (it's been 24 hours)
- 1 person I have messaged but hasn't messaged me back yet (it's only been a short time)
- 1 person I have messaged back and forth a few times but it doesn't feel like it's really going anywhere.

oh. I also used my SUPER LIKE on someone who I thought seemed really weird, and they did not mutual match me... at least not yet.
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a bunch, yeah. my writing projects tended to be between 2 to 6 topics long, each topic hitting 500 posts.

Into the Dungeon had 8 installments.

those averaged around 3 topics per game, so that's around 24 topics that all hit 500. might even be more.

Lyre was a few topics long
Trauma was a few topics long
Notes of Cain was two, maybe three topics long

between all of those and a misc. project or two that I'm forgetting, it's probably over 30 easily.

also I know you said not to count them but this also got me thinking about the original anime and manga discussion topic. I made the very first one, and probably more of the first 50 than anyone else did. I could easily see another 10 or even 20 "500 topics" coming from there.

then if we include private boards like AT I've made a couple of topics that hit 500, although they were dedicated to discussing specific subject matter, and it was only a handful. so it doesn't really matter if they count or not, I guess.

the bulk of it comes from my writing projects anyway which is just pure content creation on my part and engaging with the readers.
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I don't dislike him. his topics just clutter the board. easier for me to find the topics I want to read if I automatically remove the topics I know I don't want to read.
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I put him on ignore a long time ago and it's only every so often I even remember he still exists... doing... whatever it is that he's been doing all this time. I don't even know how to describe it.

Princess Anri posted...

Just read the whole incel topic and remembered why I always find my way back here.

So good.

haha yeah. I don't post that much anymore either but reading stuff like this gives me energy and life.
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oh no
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SantaRPidgey posted...

tarot card reading

sounds like a reliable source...
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why don't you just date people who live in the nearest towns? if things progress they might be interested in moving in with you
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finished Gunbuster Episode 3 as part of my Gunbuster rewatch. another really good one! this episode did a very good job of conveying what life was like on these roaming battleships that spend extended periods of time in space. things were different, but things were also the same in a lot of ways.

the battle was excellent. I really like long range, tactical battles that are less focused on action and more on the atmosphere. there was a lot of tension and build up even though we did not see much happening on screen. we did not even get a visual of any of the attacking aliens, but it was still very captivating thanks to some stellar directing.

the point of the battle scene here was just how lost and disoriented Noriko feels while fighting in the vacuum of space. she has a partner but he's not even close enough for her to visually see him, even though they are fighting "together." the enemies are so fast that she can't keep up. ultimately she's unable to fire even a single shot due to her fear and inexperience, and her partner dies without her even knowing for sure what happened to him. it's more dark and gritty than you might expect before going in, but personally I really love this portrayal of space combat.

all of the scenes after Noriko returns to the excelion are very good as well. it really drives home the emotional weight and the purpose of this episode that we're able to witness the aftermath of things and it's not just glossed over. that is probably the strongest point of Gunbuster for me. as far as pacing and directing goes, this is a series that excels when it is showing you things that aren't vital to advance the story but are absolutely essential to conveying the overall themes and messages of the episode (and the series as a whole). and the best part is how efficiently it is done with only 6 OVA! there are plenty of mecha series that do so much less with so many more episodes... this is truly a masterpiece by comparison.
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TexasZea posted...

I can't wait to join the divorced club with you in a few years.

this is dark

SantaRPidgey posted...

I hit it off with a lot of people but I'm also looking for a different thing in my life than 90% of women so it's tricky.

what are you looking for? what do you think most women are looking for?
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they're both pretty good. feels kinda pointless to argue over it.
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CoolCly posted...

did they remake harvest moon 64? i've bought a bunch of harvest moons over the years but that's the only one that really sparked with me

the creator of the original harvest moon had said that HM64 was the closest game to meeting his vision of what the game should be.
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Great_Paul posted...

SantaRPidgey posted...

Have you guys tried my time at Portia? It basically plays like vaporware but theres enough good concepts in it to make it worth 30 or so hours

I'm interested to try it but I've been waiting for a good sale.

basically exactly this.

actually it's at the very top of my wish list and I was just gifted like 6 games on steam for my birthday, but somehow this was not one of them.
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haven't played it. went to look it up. wow. for some reason I overlooked this game and never really heard people talk about it. but it seems like there is a lot of stuff to it. guess I always assumed it was one of the more basic games, so I skipped it. I'm pretty curious to try it out now.
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oh okay. just change Natsume in my first post to Marvelous and everything else is the same.
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my top three is probably magical melody, hero of leaf valley, and animal parade. not in that order.

back to nature (also called friends of mineral town in the remakes) is pretty good, but it's hard for me to definitively say that it's top 5 when it's competing for the #4 and #5 slot against the original, sunshine islands and HM64.

I'm sure that it's top 10, so I say that. it might be top 5, but I wouldn't say it unless I was sure. it's definitely not top 3.
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