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SIMD Crawford 🟣

11 months

All my socials are here: Tangentially: what the actual fuck

I'm an Engineer, Researcher, and an Artist. I work primarily in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Novel Human-{Computer, Robot, Human} interaction methods. Allergic to HTML? Here's a CV....

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What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?

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A cache of Polaroids from the set of HACKERS just dropped. I’m experiencing a lot of feelings about this.

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Entitled Goose Game

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Mosque in Jaffa having serious glitches in its audio stream and the entire neighborhood sounds like a noise show at Silent Barn

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actually it’s called GNU/forced retirement

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just realized that “delete this” is valid and correct C++

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@MovingToTheSun

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I’ve been working from a NYC 1BR for 3.5 years now. During this time, I’ve lead projects with 3-30 people involved, often needing lots of discussion, prototyping together and visual communication. it’s difficult. Here are some things I wish I’d been told:

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Desktop linux is an experience. I spent weeks without a mic b/c Ubuntu suddenly stopped recognizing it. Then it started again, then over a period of 3 days audio output started drifting towards the left speaker. Today incoming video call audio is just white noise. Exciting times

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@meakoopa finally, an explanation of this choice of image

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M1 Mac Mini comes out of the box with a free Ryoji Ikeda piece. Bold decision, but I respect it. Well done, everyone!

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4 years

Great British Bake-Off, except it’s C++ and you have to get 2 random Boost modules to compile with your app. you have 8 hours

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2 years

Good opportunity as ever to remind that: • The Turing Test was designed to fail humans, not certify non-humans. • COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE (1950) by Alan Turing is freely available online, and is still largely undisputed.

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Working on a collaborative graphics platform:

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http://t.co/0fmnhs7BvG

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Working on GPUs has taught me to stop worrying about one smart, needy child and plan a family of two thousand obedient weasels

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Lots of people in my feed mocking this concept. All of them were born with 4 functioning limbs and social mobility http://t.co/o4oj58svZm

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3 years

Excuse me but what the fuck

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youtube-dl, one of the most useful applications if you happen to, you know, use computers, was taken down from GitHub, “because of piracy” (lol). Here’s source in two images

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shit mom says: * “neural networks are for losers who are too lazy to do mathematical modeling” * “you better not be solving it with covariance matrices, I did that 30yrs ago” * “SIGGRAPH? yeah, I remember - I just thought they were all dead by now” get her on twitter, twitter

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3 years

I like my tautologies like I like my tautologies: I like them

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5 years

every time I hear the word “lab” in a company / coworking space’s name, I quietly replace it with the word “hole” Nike Innovation Hole Columbia Urban Design Hole MIT Media Hole

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8 years

can't wait for GTA San Francisco where you can take over an Uber ride and kill somebody to resolve a blockchain contract

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1 year

This man has taught me more in any field of undergraduate math than the professor I had in class. I’m not exaggerating. His books and lectures belong in the library of congress. Thanks, Gil.

MIT Mathematics

@MITMath

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Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream:

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5 years

*wow*

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5 years

No ordinary camera #madewithunity #shaders #gamedev #polaroid

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‘Liminal’ by Leandro Erlich (currently at PAMM) does volumetric clouds the same way Horizon: Forbidden West does

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6 years

we made GPUs from sand so we can have real time particle systems with sand

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C++ http://t.co/XxhF2Zv27O

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Some metaphor about programming http://t.co/iYaGfI5f3W

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3 years

Omniverse, NVIDIA’s collaborative graphics platform, is now in public beta! This release connects with Maya, Revit, Sketchup, Photoshop, Substance_*, and UE4. We’ve been using Omniverse for our own demos for a few years now. They’re included, too.

NVIDIA Omniverse

Take advantage of OpenUSD, RTX, and generative AI technologies to build 3D applications and tools that bring interoperability and advanced graphics to digital twin use cases.

www.nvidia.com

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9 years

tfw the software for your buttonless elevator crashes, definitely not predictable, no http://t.co/NVIushNDXE

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WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY JAVA UPDATE AVAILABLE

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devs: the compiler is slow, we have to pray before adding another #include , once I wrote a templated vector and got a call from con-ed c++ working group: a class is now a MetaCompaction<T,φ, 𓀤> devs: what c++wg: “extern” finally works underwater

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3 years

@jsmooth995 I’ve never been offended by someone else’s memory

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4 years

lockdown distraction

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3 years

Windows now has a graphing calculator. It even has dark mode! Well done, Microsoft! Just one minor detail, folks - This graphic? It’s the implicit surface of A FUCKING CIRCLE. YOUR GRAPHING CALCULATOR, A TOOL FOR VISUAL FUCKING INTUITION, DOESN’T FIX A FUCKING ASPECT RATIO.

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1 year

Someone ( @chris_whong ) ran the watershed algorithm on walking + commute graphs in NYC, and it's the highest information value visualization I've seen in a long time

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10 years

Had a dream about HN. Woke up and tried to write down all the details: http://t.co/t63hWL52pt

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2 years

Today we're announcing Omniverse XR, a VR+AR app for Omniverse: • It's got real-time ray-traced VR. This means soft shadows and real reflections. • It can handle gigantic assets without pre-processing • It works with the Omniverse ecosystem.

Build 3D Virtual Worlds at Human Scale with the NVIDIA Omniverse XR App | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Users can now produce 3D virtual worlds at human scale with the new Omniverse XR App available in beta from the NVIDIA Omniverse launcher.

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5 years

everyone who ever submitted a siggraph paper shares the moral responsibility for CATS. we all did this

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2 years

I’ve been at SIGGRAPH for 4 days and haven’t heard the words “Crpyto”, “NFT” or “Dimes Square” even once

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I've neither touched the audio settings nor turned off my PC this entire time. This is a living art installation and I am obliged to act as its' conservator

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1 year

It's nice that Apple finally gave Meta PMs a roadmap

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3 years

Thanks in advance for reading. Omer x 1/2

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1 year

Learned 3 new C++ features today looking at my twitter feed. None have any importance in the grander scheme of things, doesn't exploit processor features or tidy up data arrangement. It's just stuff. Like scrolling Facebook and finding out whatever new bullshit your ex is into

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1 year

Me writing code: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck Me deleting code: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

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11 months

Turns out hallucinating a whole channel is more stable in production than constructing a difference key after de-spilling translucent and GI-affected surfaces. huh.

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Clever new paper from Netflix: sidestep the hard problem of collecting alpha matte training data by recording in front of a green screen and lighting the subject with only blue+red light. The green channel records alpha, and ML hallucinates real-green.

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3 years

81yo mom calls me up. “You’re not fucking around with Bitcoin, are you? We didn’t fight wars for this”

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so much computational design is largely unexplored 🤯

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a lot of winter work is wrapping up! nearing release. here’s a peek 👀

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3 years

No fucking VR experience will come even close to how immersive this story is

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Alfredo Rivera is the greatest storyteller of our time.

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do you know what the fuck you're doing

dude I have no idea

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I totally got this

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2 years

Leaving SIGGRAPH same as every time: Overwhelmed by brilliance and kindness. Never change, computer graphics community.

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5 years

$55 (Raspberry Pi 4): 4xARM A72, 4GB RAM $100 (Jetson Nano): 4xARM A57 + 128xMaxwell CUDA Cores, 4GB RAM $799 (Mac Mini 2018) 4xi3, 8GB RAM + Storage + Consumer stuff Linux machines are suddenly viable as art computers 😳

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NEWS After >2yrs building Omnvierse XR, I've stepped down from leading the effort. We shipped the world's first Raytraced XR engine, first to live-edit USD, and built an incredible team. It's now time for it to focus platform and SDK, but life is short and I have other interests.

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Omniverse just merged my last design, so after years of being a collaborator to research, I've now officially moved to NVIDIA Research. I've wanted to contribute to Human-facing AI since undergrad. After years of breadth work in simulation and XR, it's time for more depth.

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This paper by is incredible: looking at the heavy baggage picked up by applying the diffusion mindset to diffusion models, rolling up the sleeves saying "math is math" and bringing it down to bare bones. Papers like this should be revered by the community, they memeify knowledge

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When @_Laurent and I started learning about diffusion models, we were puzzled by the amount of jargon and concepts. So, we derived a model from scratch with our own graphics-people intuitions. Simple derivation, simple implementation, SOTA quality.

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Keynote by @mmalex at #HPG2021 hits home painfully. Creators avoid expensive operations to protect their creative flow. They won't admit it; They'll subconsciously classify it as a dead end. Happens in every practice that requires thinking with your hands or HIDs.

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It’s half past midnight and I’m debugging CMAKE. not a CMAKE build. DEBUGGING. CMAKE.

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6 years

raytracing is back neural networks are back *buys discman*

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5 years

🚨 YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE 🚨 UE4.22 P1 HAS REAL-TIME RAYTRACING AND IS DOWNLOADABLE NOW THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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Unreal Engine 4.22 Preview 1 is now available to download. Check out some of the new features and updates being added to #UE4 here: .

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8 years

you're all idiots. we're all idiots. I'm an idiot. everyone's an idiot.

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It’s my birthday! All I humbly request is the contents of your clipboard. No cheating.

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8 years

so steam has turned into a dating site where you buy strangers gifts with their money, and it's the best conceptual art I've seen in 2015

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1 year

While introducing the Sand Dune simulation talk (good stuff, go read ), I gave a summary of all other sand sim presentations, summarizing them as “sand papers”. Absolute silence. This is no longer my scene

I3D_Taylor_CameraReady.pdf

drive.google.com

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My 80yo mom calls me up. “Hey, what’s Omniverse? I just read about it in the news” -Yeah, I’ve been working on it for a few years now “Are you sure? Because this thing sounds really good”

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3 years

Ok but hear me out... Proof of Inkjet

Pinboard

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What we really need to make the cryptocurrency revolution complete is a popular new coin that requires massive amounts of RAM. Then all components of homemade PCs will be equally unaffordable, and balance will have been restored

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9 years

when the squad is on point http://t.co/1Lfkf8IB6P

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4 years

“Roblox was popular among my friends in elementary school”, a coworker says, as I cover myself in leaves hoping to become helpful compost

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3 years

Common misconception. This is actually how GPUs are born:

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9 years

For those who don't code, I'll explain: XCode is a spellchecker we use before submitting our ideas to a dystopian superpower and the CIA

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2 years

Shadertoy deserves an academy award

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Happy and proud to announce that @Shadertoy cofounders @iquilezles and @poljeremias have been awarded the prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award () for their decade long work to broaden the use and openness of computer graphics and its learning.

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2 years

Compile-time Wordle in C++20 exprs. This is why we need ethics panels

wordlexpr: compile-time wordle in c++20

Article/tutorial on http://vittorioromeo.com

vittorioromeo.info

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3 years

Lord give me the strength to ignore video compression artifacts, the courage to tackle rendering artifacts, and the wisdom to tell them apart on a video call

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@saccharineboi I'd try that but I've grown very fond of my computer successfully booting

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1 year

Started out the year with STREET FIGHTING MATHEMATICS by Sanjoy Mahajan. Been meaning to get to it for about 15 years now. Short read and full of insight. I’ll probably revisit this book every few years for new tricks. The MIT course is still up:

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6 years

excited for my SIGGRAPH talk, "The Sun is a Point Light. Fight Me"

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5 years

so is Anish Kapoor suing the black hole or what

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The work done in this 17 minute read to simplify the vaccine code - just enough so a complete fuckwit like myself can get it - is astounding. Well worth a read, even if you’re not a blithering idiot like me

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"""ray-tracing""" more like "shade throwing"'.... amirite ladies

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@downdogapp Google and Apple are doing such an amazing job explaining to devs how taxation works, you’d think they’d be doing a better job paying taxes

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like VR? better still, hate VR? we've set up a sick immersive design internship at NVIDIA. you'll be working with Josef, Morgan and myself, making weird XR interactions. Brilliant portfolio required, not C++ experience.

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Our team is hiring undergrads/Masters for a dream internship. Design AR+VR interfaces in a rolling gam jam all summer at NVIDIA. Canadian students will be mentored by me in Toronto and US students in Durham by @josefspjut . Make images like these real!

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Congrats @sightful for finally moving out of stealth. Spacetop is a surprisingly delightful device, and the first long-term use for tethered XR. You really need to try it to understand.

Meet Spacetop, a radical new laptop with no screen

The Sightful Spacetop substitutes an AR headset for a laptop screen, and the 100-inch virtual display it produces is sharp and intuitive. We go hands-on with Sightful's attempt to reshape the laptop...

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"But are you an Artist first, or Engineer first?" I dunno, are you primarily a carbon life form or a husband father christian

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who called it The Turing Test instead of Schrödinger’s Chat

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That image is from #NoC . That man on stage is Bruce Sterling. (via @Jausl00s ) Speechless. http://t.co/ZatPSFw7aw

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stuck in Istanbul because of a firmware error in an airline ramp controller, touring the halls listening to “The Peripheral” on audiobook, looking for a quiet place to write code. appropriate. @GreatDismal

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*slipping the branch predictor a $20* just remember me next time eh

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The “Fibers, oh my!” post by Dave Weiler (tl;dr: how to implement an efficient M Core : N Fiber system from scratch) comes down to "how to trick C compilers into replacing the stack, regiters, and instruction ptrs". Can’t say I ever wanted this knowledge

Fibers, Oh My!

Fibers, Oh My! # Written by Dale Weiler, last updated Oct 5th, 2020 Twitter GitHub It’s been brought to the attention of many people in the game development industry that you can use fibers to...

graphitemaster.github.io

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list of things I don’t trust when evaluating color: • other people • whatever viewer you’re using • ffmpeg? no • whatever viewer you just switched to • your monitor • my monitor • your eye, 2min ago • your eyes, now • my eyes? fuck right off • my own brain

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something really poetic about making a reference to a painting style which outlasted its creators by several multipliers - with a rule system that has the average longevity of a butterfly. enjoy it now, it’ll be a picasso next week

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This stunning illustration by @cyanharlow is pure HTML/CSS. Every element was typed by hand, drawing with only a text editor and Chrome dev tools.

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in 2012 @sarahrothberg did that with classic computer vision, drew the fish’s paths of motion and called it “Pablo Pescado”

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OK, apparently ML can now track individual fish in real time underwater:

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caught an absolutely gorgeous tilt-shifting effect created by specular lines reflected from the surface of gently-moving water. The more I look at this video, the more I notice going on.

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Sick tone habibi, is that a Speak & Spell through a Space Echo or

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