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Call of Duty: Warzone‘s sniper meta has mostly been a battle between Modern Warfare’s Kar98k marksman rifle and Cold War’s Swiss K31 sniper, but there are other sniper loadouts worth giving a try. Here we highlight some of Warzone’s top snipers for Season 5 and recommend the best attachments for each.

These suggested sniper builds range from fast-paced, aggressive playstyles to the slow and steady long-range sniping, so you can surely find one on this list that suits your personal playstyle.

Here are some recommended sniper builds to try in your next match of Warzone.

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Best Kar98k Loadout

Modern Warfare’s Kar98k marksman rifle is still a top-tier sniper choice in Season 5, as this bolt-action rifle continues to boast great mobility, speed, and rate of fire. Even though it’s a little slower and less forgiving than the Swiss K31, the Kar98k is still a sniper choice that packs quite a punch.

Recommended Kar98k Attachments:

• Muzzle: Monolithic Suppressor
• Barrel: Singuard Custom 27.6″
• Laser: Tac laser
• Optic: Sniper Scope
• Stock: STVOL Precision Comb

Swiss K31

Cold War’s Swiss K31 received improvements to its aiming stability and ADS speed in Season 3, and the sniper continues to gain popularity in Season 5. Stat-wise, it’s pretty close to the Kar98k, but the Swiss K31 does offer slightly better handling and movement speed. If you’re new to sniping or want to get more aggressive with your sniping, I highly recommend the Swiss K31 for the easiest-to-use option.

Recommended Swiss K31 Attachments:

• Muzzle: GRU Suppressor
• Barrel: 24.9″ Combat Recon
• Laser: SWAT Laser Sight
• Underbarrel: Bruiser Grip
• Rear Grip: Serpent Grip

SP-R 208

Modern Warfare’s SP-R 208 marksman rifle can be built for aggressive sniping in the same fashion as the Kar98k. It’s not necessarily a popular pick, but it might be worth a go if you’re looking to try something outside of the box for an aggressive sniper build that’s not the Kar98k or Swiss K-31. The SP-R 208 is viable once you unlock the attachments needed to bump up the gun’s bullet velocity and help with the movement speed.

Recommended SP-R 208 Attachments:

• Muzzle: Monolithic Suppressor
• Laser: Tac Laser
• Optic: Solozero SP-R 28mm
• Stock: XRK SP-LITE 208 Blitz
• Ammunition: .300 Norma Mag 5-R Mags

ZRG 20mm

The ZRG 20mm hasn’t been a very popular sniper prior to Season 5, but this gun has the highest bullet velocity of its class. This isn’t a sniper that you’ll be aggressively running with like the Kar98k or Swiss K-31, as this is a behemoth with slow aim-down-sight speed. The ZRG 20mm is more of a long-range sniper perfect for those who like to hang back and go for long-distance shots.

If you’re looking to level this up to unlock the best attachments, Season 5’s ground loot has the ZRG 20mm Beat Drop blueprint, which comes with some decent attachments. It’s worth picking this gun up when you find it on the map.

Recommended ZRG 20mm Attachments:

• Muzzle: Sound Moderator
• Barrel: 43.9″ Combat Recon
• Laser: SWAT 5mw Laser Sight
• Ammunition: 5 Rnd
• Rear Grip: Serpent Grip

LW3- Tundra

The Tundra sits somewhere in the middle with Warzone’s snipers in terms of mobility and handling. It can be used by more aggressive players, but it’s definitely a bit slower than the Kar98k or the Swiss K31. It can also be used for those long-range gunfights. The LW3-Tundra is not a bad sniper, but you’ll definitely want to equip the right attachments to give you better stability and aim-down-sight speed.

Recommended LW3-Tundra Attachments:

• Muzzle: Wrapped Suppressor
• Barrel: 29.1″ Combat Recon
• Laser: SWAT 5mw Laser Sight
• Underbarrel: Bruiser Grip
• Rear Grip: Serpent Wrap

M82

The M82 really hasn’t seen any time in the spotlight, but after receiving a buff to bullet velocity in Season 4, this semi-automatic sniper can be a viable long-range option for Warzone. It also has very little bullet drop, so you can have confidence in those long-distance shots. Much like the ZRG 20mm, it’s a slow and heavy beast that needs the right attachments to boost speed and mobility.

Recommended M82 Attachments:

• Muzzle: Wrapped Suppressor
• Barrel: 22.6″ Combat Recon
• Laser: SWAT 5mw Laser Sight
• Underbarrel: Bruiser Grip
• Rear Grip: Airborne Elastic Wrap

Outside of sniping, here are the overall recommended loadouts for Season 5, and you might also want to make sure your perks are updated with our Season 5 perk guide. Warzone and Black Ops Cold War also just added the Marshal shotgun-pistol, and our unlock guide shows you all the ways you can get your hands on Call of Duty’s newest weapon.

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September brings the start of fall and also the start of TV’s big fall push, where old favorites come back for another season and new shows are also given a chance to find audiences. Streaming services, such as Prime Video, aren’t always about following those traditions–but Amazon’s platform is bringing a handful of potentially interesting newcomers in September.

Among them is the investigative docuseries LuLaRich, which will drop on September 10. The four-part series, from Fyre Fraud documentarians Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby, examines the pyramid scheme LuLaRoe. The pyramid scheme has already been exposed and reached a settlement earlier this year, and the women’s clothing business is now working towards greater transparency. But this looks worth a watch, even if you haven’t heard of it, because the company’s co-founders happily sat to be interviewed by the filmmakers, and rather than the film playing up the “true crime” angle, the trailer (which you can watch below) seems to play it more as a comedy of errors that just spiraled out of control.

Other than that, Prime Video can always be counted on for surfacing classic content that’s worth a rewatch or finally giving a shot. September 1 brings classics and “classics” from a number of genres. Do you have cheesy ’80s throwbacks? Both the theatrical and extended cuts of 2010’s The A-Team are coming to the platform. Ready to start re-thinking your relationship with social media? Also coming to Prime is Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network. The first of the month may be most worth looking at–it’s both when the highest number of things are being added to the catalog, and also where the greatest variety is on display.

Take a look at everything coming to Prime Video in September below.

Prime Video in September

September 1

• (500) Days Of Summer (2009)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• American Me (1992)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Arachnophobia (1990)
• Armageddon (1998)
• As Good As It Gets (1997)
• Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)
• Can’t Hardly Wait (2017)
• Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009)
• Closer (2004)
• Daddy Day Care (2003)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Daredevil (Director’s Cut) (2003)
• Death At A Funeral (2010)
• Do The Right Thing (1989)
• Grown Ups (2010)
• Heist (2001)
• I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
• I Am Bolt (2016)
• I Am Duran (2019)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• Nacho Libre (2006)
• Open Range (2003)
• Planet Of The Apes (2001)
• Predators (2010)
• Romeo + Juliet (1996)
• Rudy (1993)
• Sicko (2007)
• Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
• Soul Food (1997)
• Stuart Little (1999)
• Stuart Little 2 (2002)
• The Alamo (2004)
• The A-Team (2010)
• The A-Team (Extended Cut) (2010)
• The Best Man (1999)
• The Boy (2016)
• The Descent (2006)
• The Host (English Subtitled) (2006)
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• The Kids Are All Right (2010)
• The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)
• The Omen (2006)
• The Social Network (2010)
• The Unborn (2009)
• The Unborn (Unrated) (2009)
• Traffic (2000)
• Year One (2009)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• A Feeling Home (2019) (Hallmark Movies Now)
• Ancient Civilizations of North America: Season 1 (The Great Courses)
• August Creek (2017) (Hallmark Movies Now)
• Craig Ross Jr.’s Monogamy: Season 1 (ALLBLK)
• Creepshow: Season 1 (Shudder)
• Forensic Factor: Season 1 (A&E Crime Central)
• Land Girls: Season 1 (PBS Masterpiece)
• Latino Americans: Season 1 (PBS Documentaries)
• Mail Call: Season 1 (HISTORY Vault)
• Native Peoples of North America: Season 1 (The Great Courses)
• Republic of Doyle: Season 1 (Acorn TV)
• The Bastards of Pizzofalcone: Season 1 (MHz Choice)
• The Blood Pact: Season 1 (PBS Masterpiece)
• The Flintstones: Season 1 (Boomerang)
• The Killing: Season 1 (Topic)
• We’ll Meet Again: Season 1 (PBS Living)

September 3

• Cinderella – Amazon Original Movie (2021)

September 10

• The Voyeurs – Amazon Original Movie (2021)
• LuLaRich – Amazon Original Series: Limited Series

September 12

• Desperado (1995)

September 17

• Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Amazon Original Movie (2021)
• The Mad Women’s Ball – Amazon Original Movie (2021)
• American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)
• *Do, Re & Mi – Amazon Original Series: Season 1

September 24

• Goliath – Amazon Original Series: Season 4

The DC movie Black Adam recently wrapped production ahead of its 2022 release. Here’s everything we know about it so far.

Dwayne Johnson is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, so it’s surprising that it’s taken him until now to star in a superhero film. Of course, he’s been busy with many other projects, but with the ongoing popularity of superhero movies, it was only a matter of time before he headlined one.

The character that Dwayne Johnson has chosen to play–the superpowered DC antihero Black Adam–might not be one of the best-known comic book characters, but it’s clear that the star has been passionate about the role for a long time. Way back in 2007, Johnson was approached to play Shazam in a movie, but instead revealed he was more interested in playing the film’s villain, Black Adam, instead. “He’s a character that I can’t wait to play,” he said at the time.

Shazam sat in development for many years, but in 2014, it was confirmed that Johnson would still play Black Adam. Of course, by then he was too big a star just to play a bad guy supporting role, so in 2017, Black Adam became a standalone DC movie. The film was officially announced in 2019, with a 2021 release date. Inevitably, production was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in April this year, the cameras finally started rolling on Black Adam. So here’s what we know to date:

What’s the release date?

Black Adam is scheduled for release on July 29, 2022. The fifth Indiana Jones movie is also currently set to hit theaters that day, so it’s possible one of these films will end up moving.

Who’s in the cast?

The main cast of Black Adam has been announced. While all of these actors will be playing notable characters from the DC universe, this will be the first time any have been portrayed in a movie. The line-up so far is:

• Dwayne Johnson as Teth-Adam / Black Adam
• Pierce Brosnan as Kent Nelson / Doctor Fate
• Noah Centineo (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) as Atom Smasher
• Aldis Hodge (One Night in Miami) as Hawkman
• Sarah Shahi (City on a Hill) as Adrianna Tomaz
• Quintessa Swindell (In Treatment) as Cyclone

There are also unconfirmed roles for Marwan Kenzari, James Cusati-Moyer, Bodhi Sabongui, Mo Amer, and Uli Latukefu.

What’s the story?

While specifics of Black Adam’s story are still under wraps, we know a few details. The movie is essentially a spin-off from the Shazam movies–in DC’s comic books, Black Adam is Shazam’s nemesis, an antihero who takes a darker and more violent approach to the superhero life. His real name is Teth-Adam, the son of an Egyptian Pharaoh who was given the same powers as Shazam, but becomes corrupted. Reportedly, the movie won’t soften Black Adam’s violent nature, with director Jaume Collet-Serra telling Variety that we’ll be seeing a darker character than Johnson traditionally plays.

The movie will also feature members of the Justice Society of America, the classic DC superhero team, namely Atom Smasher, Hawkman, Cyclone, and Doctor Fate. We also know the criminal gang Intergang will feature. Sarah Shahi told The Hollywood Reporter, “I play a character named Adrianna, and she’s a freedom fighter that’s leading this big resistance against an evil, malicious group called Intergang.” In comics, Intergang is a dangerous group armed with technology supplied by the evil New Gods.

Who’s the director?

Black Adam is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. This is the second collaboration between Spanish-American director Collet-Serra and Dwayne Johnson, following this year’s Disney hit Jungle Cruise. Collet-Serra is also known for several action thrillers starring Liam Neeson, including Unknown, Non-Stop, and The Commuter, plus the shark thriller The Shallows and the horror movie Orphan.

Who are the writers?

Black Adam is written by Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani. Haines and Noshirvani also wrote this year’s acclaimed thriller The Mauritanian, while Haines’ credits include Johnson’s 2018 movie Rampage and last year’s animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob!

Is there any footage or images?

The movie only just finished production, so we’ve not seen any official images or footage yet. However, as usual, Johnson kept fans updated with progress on the film via Instagram and has released several behind-the-scenes clips and images over the past few months. These included this shot of a huge, destroyed set, Johnson getting painted with mo-cap tracking dots, and a video of the actor thanking the movie’s crew on his final day of shooting.

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launch for Nintendo Switch on November 19, and The Pokemon Company has a special gift for early adopters. Everyone who purchases either version before February 21, 2022 can claim a free egg containing the Mythical Pokemon Manaphy in their game.

The egg will be distributed via the Mystery Gift function, which unlocks approximately two hours into the adventure, The Pokemon Company estimates. After you’ve claimed the egg, keep it in your party and it will eventually hatch into Manaphy after you’ve walked enough steps. You’ll need to have an internet connection in order to claim the Manaphy egg, but a Nintendo Switch Online subscription is not required.

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What’s unique about Manaphy is that it can produce a different Pokemon. If you leave Manaphy and a Ditto together at the nursery in Solaceon Town, you’ll be able to obtain a special egg that hatches into another rare Pokemon called Phione. Neither Manaphy nor Phione can be caught in the wild, making this the only way to obtain them.

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are remakes of the original Diamond and Pearl versions for the DS. While the pair stay largely true to the original titles, they also introduce some new features, including trainer customization and Pokemon Hideaways. The latter are new areas in the Sinnoh Grand Underground where certain kinds of Pokemon can be found. You can learn more about the titles in our Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl preorder guide.

Those aren’t the only Pokemon games on the way to Switch. Pokemon Legends: Arceus is coming to the console on January 28, and it has its own early purchase bonus. Players who pick up the game before May 9, 2022 will be able to claim a Hisuian Growlithe Kimono Set for their trainer. As before, the freebie will be distributed via Mystery Gift, which unlocks roughly two hours into the quest. Additionally, The Pokemon Company has confirmed it will roll out Pokemon Home support for Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends in 2022.

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12 Minutes is the time-loop story reduced to its very essence. It is spare in length and small in scope, taking place almost entirely within a one-bedroom apartment. But that smallness contains narrative and mechanical multitudes that pay off consistently over the course of 12 Minutes’ six-hour runtime.

I say “almost entirely” because, as the game begins, its unnamed protagonist (voiced by James McAvoy) rides the elevator up to that apartment. The hallway between the elevator and the apartment door–eerily carpeted with the autumnal pattern from The Shining’s Overlook Hotel–serves as a brief tutorial: learn to navigate from the game’s top-down perspective, find a fake rock in the potted plant outside the apartment, use the fake rock to find the key within, take that key and use it on the door. It’s a short but effective introduction to the point-and-click-style mechanics on display here. 12 Minutes is mechanically rich because it leans into this old school kind of adventuring that encourages creative thinking. There aren’t many objects in the apartment, but those that are there can often be combined in fun and surprising ways.

Once inside the apartment, our protagonist is greeted by his wife (Daisy Ridley), who has set out some fake candles, prepared dessert, and wrapped a present. It’s a romantic evening, but there’s a storm brewing just outside. That weather event–which your character will take note of if you interact with any of the windows in the apartment–is a fitting metaphor for the turn your pleasant evening is about to take. Midway through dinner, a mysterious man (Willem Dafoe) shows up at the door, claiming to be police. You can let him in, or wait for him to kick down the door. No matter what you do, he will enter your apartment, bind you both with flex cuffs, and kill you. Then, the loop restarts and you’re stumbling into your apartment, warmly lit for that romantic dinner you’ll never get to finish.

The apartment is small–believably so, in a way that fictional apartments rarely are–and is composed of four rooms: a primary space which does triple duty as living room, kitchen, and dining room; a bedroom; a bathroom; and a coat closet. There are a few items that seem to have obvious utility, like a knife on the counter and a bottle of sleeping pills in the bathroom cabinet. But most exist in an intriguing gray area. Is there any reason I should study the framed art prints on the wall? Does this dessert exist only to be eaten? Could the book on meditation that the wife is reading possibly have any purpose beyond characterization? In a traditional point-and-click adventure game, these questions could easily lead to annoyance, the kind of frustration that comes from trying every item on every other item until something finally works. I never found myself giving into this impulse while playing 12 Minutes. The environment is so small and well-considered, and loops so brief, that I rarely went longer than a few minutes without thinking up something new to try. The top-down perspective reveals an environment that is so small and starkly empty that, as each new layer of the story is unveiled, it almost feels like magic. Wait, there’s more? In this one bedroom apartment? That I’ve scoured every inch of? How?

12 Minutes is mechanically rich because it leans into this old school kind of adventuring that encourages creative thinking.

12 Minutes’ use of lighting contributes to this feeling. At one point, the bedroom might be brightly lit. Enter again, and the room has gone dark, with blue, nocturnal tones. Later, it’s bathed in an eerie red. This dynamism helps to sell the idea that this small space contains multitudes. Just as there are new shades revealed through shifting light, so too are there shades to this story. They have always been present in the 12-minute loop but can only be discovered by tilting your head in a new direction, focusing your vision on a neglected, dusty corner.

There are similar shades in the performances from McAvoy, Ridley, and Dafoe. That celebrity lineup helped gain this indie game outsized attention, but the Hollywood stars never felt like a distraction and their strong performances imbue the game with unexpected poignancy. As the protagonist, McAvoy has the bulk of the lines, and he does a good job selling his character’s desperation in the face of unbelievable events. The story takes surprising, wrenching turns and McAvoy sells the emotional anguish of his protagonist, while also hitting the necessary light notes in smaller moments. Ridley, similarly, sells us on her character’s shock and anger, while also managing to be playful when the script calls for it. And Dafoe is believably menacing as the “cop,” though his performance, too, contains depths that are revealed slowly over the course of a playthrough. There are real moments of sadness and pathos here. The trio could have easily felt like distracting stunt casting, but each brings real commitment to the material.

You may have noticed that none of these characters have names. Though the intruder and the wife are characters, they are also objects to be played against other objects, items to be used to potentially break the time loop. Because of this, some of the turns that the story takes can feel a little contrived, as though developer Luis Antonio is making do with limited toys in a tiny toy box. There are only so many configurations this trio of characters can take and, as a result, I found myself mixed on the shocking twists the game moves through on its route to the conclusion. That said, while the landing may be a little shaky, the journey there is well worth taking.

Warren Spector, director of Deus Ex, has said that he would like to make a game focused entirely on one city block because the small space would allow for unmatched mechanical depth. 12 Minutes reduces Spector’s scope further, and finds a rich vein for interaction and storytelling. This game may limit its loop to 12 minutes, but I found myself wishing I could stay for much, much longer.

12 Minutes is the time-loop story reduced to its very essence. It is spare in length and small in scope, taking place almost entirely within a one-bedroom apartment. But that smallness contains narrative and mechanical multitudes that pay off consistently over the course of 12 Minutes’ six-hour runtime.

I say “almost entirely” because, as the game begins, its unnamed protagonist (voiced by James McAvoy) rides the elevator up to that apartment. The hallway between the elevator and the apartment door–eerily carpeted with the autumnal pattern from The Shining’s Overlook Hotel–serves as a brief tutorial: learn to navigate from the game’s top-down perspective, find a fake rock in the potted plant outside the apartment, use the fake rock to find the key within, take that key and use it on the door. It’s a short but effective introduction to the point-and-click-style mechanics on display here. 12 Minutes is mechanically rich because it leans into this old school kind of adventuring that encourages creative thinking. There aren’t many objects in the apartment, but those that are there can often be combined in fun and surprising ways.

Once inside the apartment, our protagonist is greeted by his wife (Daisy Ridley), who has set out some fake candles, prepared dessert, and wrapped a present. It’s a romantic evening, but there’s a storm brewing just outside. That weather event–which your character will take note of if you interact with any of the windows in the apartment–is a fitting metaphor for the turn your pleasant evening is about to take. Midway through dinner, a mysterious man (Willem Dafoe) shows up at the door, claiming to be police. You can let him in, or wait for him to kick down the door. No matter what you do, he will enter your apartment, bind you both with flex cuffs, and kill you. Then, the loop restarts and you’re stumbling into your apartment, warmly lit for that romantic dinner you’ll never get to finish.

The apartment is small–believably so, in a way that fictional apartments rarely are–and is composed of four rooms: a primary space which does triple duty as living room, kitchen, and dining room; a bedroom; a bathroom; and a coat closet. There are a few items that seem to have obvious utility, like a knife on the counter and a bottle of sleeping pills in the bathroom cabinet. But most exist in an intriguing gray area. Is there any reason I should study the framed art prints on the wall? Does this dessert exist only to be eaten? Could the book on meditation that the wife is reading possibly have any purpose beyond characterization? In a traditional point-and-click adventure game, these questions could easily lead to annoyance, the kind of frustration that comes from trying every item on every other item until something finally works. I never found myself giving into this impulse while playing 12 Minutes. The environment is so small and well-considered, and loops so brief, that I rarely went longer than a few minutes without thinking up something new to try. The top-down perspective reveals an environment that is so small and starkly empty that, as each new layer of the story is unveiled, it almost feels like magic. Wait, there’s more? In this one bedroom apartment? That I’ve scoured every inch of? How?

12 Minutes is mechanically rich because it leans into this old school kind of adventuring that encourages creative thinking.

12 Minutes’ use of lighting contributes to this feeling. At one point, the bedroom might be brightly lit. Enter again, and the room has gone dark, with blue, nocturnal tones. Later, it’s bathed in an eerie red. This dynamism helps to sell the idea that this small space contains multitudes. Just as there are new shades revealed through shifting light, so too are there shades to this story. They have always been present in the 12-minute loop but can only be discovered by tilting your head in a new direction, focusing your vision on a neglected, dusty corner.

There are similar shades in the performances from McAvoy, Ridley, and Dafoe. That celebrity lineup helped gain this indie game outsized attention, but the Hollywood stars never felt like a distraction and their strong performances imbue the game with unexpected poignancy. As the protagonist, McAvoy has the bulk of the lines, and he does a good job selling his character’s desperation in the face of unbelievable events. The story takes surprising, wrenching turns and McAvoy sells the emotional anguish of his protagonist, while also hitting the necessary light notes in smaller moments. Ridley, similarly, sells us on her character’s shock and anger, while also managing to be playful when the script calls for it. And Dafoe is believably menacing as the “cop,” though his performance, too, contains depths that are revealed slowly over the course of a playthrough. There are real moments of sadness and pathos here. The trio could have easily felt like distracting stunt casting, but each brings real commitment to the material.

You may have noticed that none of these characters have names. Though the intruder and the wife are characters, they are also objects to be played against other objects, items to be used to potentially break the time loop. Because of this, some of the turns that the story takes can feel a little contrived, as though developer Luis Antonio is making do with limited toys in a tiny toy box. There are only so many configurations this trio of characters can take and, as a result, I found myself mixed on the shocking twists the game moves through on its route to the conclusion. That said, while the landing may be a little shaky, the journey there is well worth taking.

Warren Spector, director of Deus Ex, has said that he would like to make a game focused entirely on one city block because the small space would allow for unmatched mechanical depth. 12 Minutes reduces Spector’s scope further, and finds a rich vein for interaction and storytelling. This game may limit its loop to 12 minutes, but I found myself wishing I could stay for much, much longer.

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