James Galizio
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I'm very happy with my position at RPG Site still, but I realized it's been... 3 years? Since I did a thread like this (whoops!) so let's do another one of these, shall we?
Hi, I'm James! I write and talk about games; especially Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy XIV, etc.
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I don't think I can convey just how much of a piece of art this shitpost is. You can tell whoever made it truly is into rhythm games and specifically concocted something that would make literally everyone mad at it.
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its still very funny to me how buying the steam deck gets you 5 quadrillion steam fartbucks that you can use for absolutely nothing
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A list of games running on Unity:
-Genshin Impact
-Honkai Star Rail
-Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
-Fate GO
-Among Us
-Fall Guys
SOMEONE is gonna end up sending John Unity a horse's head as a message
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The "Silksong is delayed another 5 years to get ported off of Unity" tweet being liked by a programmer at Team Cherry hit me like I just got shot
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Hollow Knight Silksong delayed another 5 years to remake the game on a game engine that's not Unity
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The fact that this panel is no longer a joke and actually happened makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
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"I just realized if you showed an elementary schooler one of these now they'd ask what it is, and I feel only dread"
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Is literally every game that was originally a PS2 exclusive worse when played literally anywhere else
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Geoff saying this is kinda like signaling that the emperor has lost the mandate of heaven
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No this is true. I hate to say it, but 100% true.
As someone who was an early subscriber to Crunchyroll, I can say with authority that the anime that made CR a true force of nature wasn't JJK or My Hero Academia. It was this fucking thing.
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The real reason they changed it is a QA tester got frustrated playing Demon's Souls and when they threw the controller it hit them in the eye on the way back
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Imagine having such a bad take that a series creator tells you that you're no longer allowed to be a fan of it
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The fact that we've let companies completely destroy a major form of communication for profit without any real consequences to the point where even major politicians refuse to pick up the phone is probably one of the worst indictments to the current state of our country.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Imagine this. You are the Mayor of the 5th largest US city. A piece of highway that is the backbone of US commerce collapses in your city. Then, you start to get lots of calls from DC. AND YOU THINK ITS SPAM? JFC come on.
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This has aged like fine wine, goodbye to AI because holy shit
@reefraf64
My guess: there is a significant amount of CSA present in an image pool that all of these companies are drawing upon and it was just recently discovered.
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The one and only time I got jailed I broke some boxes in my cell and found one of those keys just sitting there.
this is maybe one of the most insane things I've ever seen in gaming. asking for $1.50 to let your singleplayer character out of jail in a singleplayer game... once. and then the key breaks.
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Never forget the pivotal Evil scene of Infamous: Second Son is the MC randomly killing his entire family - while the whole reason he got involved in the story in the first place was to save them.
"in a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the good side?" because the bad side is often very badly written
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"Wii U was a golden era for Nintendo fans" I was sitting next to GameXplain and Nintendo Enthusiast folks in the press room at E3 2015 and the direct was a funeral procession.
@Spletz_
This thread really shows who owned a Wii U and who didn't. Wii U was a golden era for Nintendo fans. It felt like every 6 months you had a first party exclusive, and it was very good. MK8, DK Tropical Freeze, Bayo 2, Splat 1, HD Zeldas, Pikmin 3, Xenoblade X, 3D World, Mario…
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This anime explored the idea of if gay people should exist and you wouldn't believe the conclusion it came to
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I'm sorry; did JoCat get doxxed, his family sent weird objects, and endlessly harassed... just because he did a body positivity video? That's it???
If this is what it takes to be a content creator online, I don't think I'm cut out for it
read:
TL;DR, I’m going to finish up my current ongoing projects, and then I’m going to be taking an indefinite break from making content
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CDJapan really said "we're pretty sure the exchange rate is not getting better anytime soon, we need your USD"
1 dollar = 152 yen . . . !!!
Please place an order with us even if you don't need anything right now, as this chance may never come again. I'm sure you'll be glad you did later on.
I'd be happy if you could share this with everyone.
Items in Stock
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A reminder that Nintendo literally hired private investigators to stalk a modder in the Nintendo 3DS hacking scene that deliberately, and publicly, went out of his way to only enable homebrew support on the system instead of piracy.
Nintendo are deliberately ruining this guy's life from now until the day he dies. But they also make Pokémon and Mario so it's impossible to say if they're bad
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Absolutely embarrassing to see someone catch a month ban for this post. They're absolutely right, and these layoffs were 100% predictable. It was always going to be an end result of the merger, and pretending otherwise is ludicrous.
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Genuinely, unironically, people like this do not belong in a civil society. 10 years of ruining another person's life?
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I'm sure that Aniplex isn't afraid to swing directly for their skull
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Me when I hit the "thanks for completing the Pikmin 4 demo!" after 3 hours of childlike joy and wonder (I forgot I was even playing a demo)
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Putting Osu! next to DDR, Sound Voltex and IIDX is art. Pure art.
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Isn't one of your favorite series Dynasty Warriors
Show me someone claiming to love their 20th backtrack through the same long path with the exact same enemy placement and I’ll show you a fucking liar.
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While I fully understand that teams are more than 1 person, how does EA look at the massive critical and commercial success of Baldur's Gate 3, the very direct comparisons to Dragon Age: Origins and then decide to fire potentially the most beloved writer who worked on that game.
So. Hey, if anyone's looking for a writer/narrative designer with kind of an absurd amount of experience, I'm available.
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I'm just gonna say it; there's a ton of folks belly-aching about Yoshi-P's "JRPG" comments that either weren't around for 7th gen Japanese games discourse or simply haven't yet realized how fucking racist a lot of those discussions were. He's valid for feeling this way.
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Pain.
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I'm now fully team "the AAA bubble is going to burst unless teams scale back projects" and I fear for everyone currently working on the AAA pipeline.
GTAVI is gonna make back its $1bil+ budget instantly and all the worst actors in the industry are gonna be blinded to steering their workforces off a cliff.
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Suddenly realizing why Sony has desperately increased PS+ to $80 a year, and is thinking of pushing games to cost $80+ too. We didn't realize it but internally the numbers have them panicking.
I'm now fully team "the AAA bubble is going to burst unless teams scale back projects" and I fear for everyone currently working on the AAA pipeline.
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With all due respect, "the Capcom leak wasn't as damaging?" Capcom's entire slate of releases through next year - and thanks to COVID, seemingly through 2026 instead - were included, as well as employee personal information and *customer* personal information.
A fantastic follow-up to yesterday's Insomniac leak episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily.
Thumbnails, headlines, Suicide Squad, Capcom, and more!
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Hacking a 3DS vs. Hacking a Vita
Ya know, it's always funny how "did you know it's really easy to hack a 3DS" became a meme when you need like a dozen different files in different locations whereas hacking a Vita you can now do just from the Vita itself.
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found a new potential mess of a XIV sentence on Xbox
"was stuck doing savage raids tonight" -> "w?? ?tuck doing ?????? r???? to???ht"
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Yoko Taro's take on the death of E3: "will we be holding industry events in Fortnite in 10 years?"
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@_hanatwothree
There's a whole plot beat in the show where one of the girls says "hey what would happen if we tried to pilot it with two girls" nothing happens and then she's shown to be miserable for the rest of the show.
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Fs in the chat for all my XIV mutuals, Yoshi-P confirmed that Endwalker EX3 is gonna drop 2 totems each clear, because they deliberately made it excessively difficult for an Extreme.
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@GenePark
@PatStaresAt
Palworld doing us a favor by stopping TLOU2 discourse reviving in its tracks
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It's really funny how over the last few weeks I've seen my timeline all realize that Persona 3 is just straight up the best of the modern Persona games.
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why is 2024 just as stacked as 2023, but except this time they're all 100 hour RPGs
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Biden admin was concerned a pause in Israeli bombardment would open Gaza up to more journalists to cover Israeli crimes & “turn public opinion”.
Read that again. They strategized how to subvert coverage using Palestinian lives. Then consider how Israel has killed 49 journalists.
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"...is 3x the investment evident to anyone who played the game?" - Insomniac, on Spider-Man 2
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@GC__Vazquez
They should give you a free steam deck OLED if you can hit 1 million funbucks ngl
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Seeing all the discussion about Dragon's Dogma 2, I think the world is finally ready for Xenoblade Chronicles X.
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Also; I saw someone in a discord server trying to shame her for "leading chugga on" and I need to stress two things; you clearly don't have female friends who feel comfortable talking about this sort of shit with you, and you don't understand how being in that situation feels.
If you're trying to turn an otherwise friendly conversation in a way to satisfy your fetishes, you're objectifying the person full stop. It doesn't matter what excuses you make or what you think you're perceiving it as.
Be normal about your female friends, fuck.
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Some folks just cannot accept that MS can do anything wrong oh my god
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Hey if you have an issue with a company's translation of a videogame the absolute last thing you should do is get in some randos face about it at their booth during a convention. Please go touch grass.
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People treating the idea of game prices going up even more like it will solve the issue of rising development costs probably should've been paying attention to how the vast majority of EA's $70 game releases this year underperformed, and quickly dropped to sub-$30.
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Normally I don't like saying they argue in bad faith, but what else do you call this
@Theswweet
In the latest Jimquistion, Steph straight up lies and says they didn't "fix" what they personally perceived as flaws in OG Dragons Dogma to sell mtx to fix the issues such as fast travel.
It is such an insane lie and people I respect are regurgitating verbatum.
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bro they reviewed this on PS5 why did Sony let this on their platform???
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Sakurai was the 8th person to ever finish the original Xanadu and get an official completion card. Holy shit.
『ザナドゥ』がSwitchで遊べる!
そんな時代が来るとはなあ｡
写真は､約38年前にいただいたもの｡
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People are pushing back against the discussion of Dragon's Dogma 2's MTX, not because they think they're ok, but because folks are deliberately misrepresenting what they are and what they enable for the game as a whole. It's disingenuous and of course people are gonna react.
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Metaphor ReFantazio spotted on the Most Played Xbox Games list for the Japan region; test players? If that's the case, it still says a lot about how few people are actually playing on Xbox in Japan 😬
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At this point certain Trails avatars feel like the K-On of JRPG avatars.
I’m serious what do these people look like in real life
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Yup; it imploded, which in this case would've been the best case scenario.
The US Coast Guard announces that a debris field has been found near the Titanic, where the missing submarine is being searched for.
The debris is now being evaluated.
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Excellent writing about Dragon's Dogma 2, and how much the discourse tells on the audience for immersive RPGs such as this.
Taking time this evening to write about Dragon's Dogma 2. It's a miracle this game exists. An astounding work!
But I think 2024 is a ~terrible~ year for such a friction heavy game to reach a mass audience.
my rambles on cohost:
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If a highly successful and respected developer under a successful console manufacturer is worried about breaking even on one of their most successful games of all time, no AAA developer is safe. None. Certainly none of the western ones; Capcom and Square re-use assets at least.
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The fact that this isn't even a shitpost or exaggeration is wild
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Some will tell you FFVII Rebirth had too many minigames, but few are brave enough to tell you the truth - the next game needs even more.
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Just your reminder, since Aniplex hasn't really done anything to market it - Witch on the Holy Night releases on PC *this week*.
If anyone is interested in coverage on the port, I plan on picking it up for personal use anyway. I'd love to cover this historic VN for your outlet!
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"I wonder why Japanese RPG devs felt like they were being discriminated against"
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Literally just like "for the love of god shut up" I've got actual tears in my eyes
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They didn't hide the MTX from reviewers. They were entirely transparent, actually.
@Theswweet
@DiabloTraeluz
It's still really scummy... especially to hide it from reviewers. If it doesn't affect the game negatively that would be ideal, but I'm more concerned about the performance issues.
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ALSO, you can totally just forgery the permanent gaol key you get in the story and just return the forgety instead of the original, I'm like 99% sure.
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There's a very big difference between a bespoke, designed mechanic of a game - that you can personally dislike - and something that was designed to sell MTX. DD2's lack of fast travel is explictly the former and arguing the latter just because you dislike the gameplay loop is bad
@Theswweet
It sounds like they personally found them as flaws. Case and point? Do we only want one opinion on the fucking fast travel mechanic or is there not room for disagreement.
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During the height of the BLM movement in 2020 Reggie proudly proclaimed that some of his best friends were members of the Seattle Police Department
are you telling me...this website...is trying to freaking cancel Reggie? The Reggienator? One of the most wholesome and fun people in the gaming industry...i s2g with this site sometimes...
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We haven't given TPCi nearly enough shit for forcing Scarlet and Violet out in 2022.
i was trying to show my brother the sandwich making in pokemon scarlet and game fucking deleted my table
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@DiabloTraeluz
It's the worst kind of DLC because it was clearly tacked on, so they're not gonna sell much of it at all and will only lose sales because of the stink (that doesn't impact the game in the first place...)
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Per Nintendo JP's news post for Fire Emblem: Three Hopes, the game is straight-up another possible route/ending for Three Houses.
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If your game is on Xbox Game Pass, and supports xCloud, then even if nobody directly installs it themselves imagine MS installing it on their internal server blades. How many installs would that count for? How much would that charge devs?
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Square Enix having an absolutely real one with the NieR Replicant PC port
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This *should* be a bipartisan matter to fix the situation and punish those who led us here, but it won't.
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@cabbusses
6th gen is such a minefield when it comes to which version of games were best. Some were best on GameCube, some were best on Xbox and even some were best on PS2... PC ports usually sucked, but hey there were exceptions even there.
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Yuji Naka has been sentenced for 2 1/2 years in prison as well as 1.2~ million dollars in fines.
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@envinyon
Even if it was cringe, that's harmless and there's no excuse to harass him and his family.
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This one is actually hilarious wtf
generating greentexts with gpt3 and holy fuck
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Every time you see a slime in a modern manga, anime or JPRG... that's Dragon Quest and Toriyama's influence. Battle shounen? Dragon Ball. It's all so much.
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I know not everyone on my timeline loves Xenoblade X as much as I do, but can we all agree that it's actually criminal that such a major title in Monolith Soft's catalog is essentially going to be abandonware once the Wii U eShop goes down?
(Digital Foundry) Stranded on WiiU: The Best Games Never Ported to Switch
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Before Darling in the Franxx the Shinzo Abe "have sex" meme was just a joke but afterwards we all kinda knew it wasn't
My opinion is that there's a scene where a straight wedding is raided by armed storm troopers led by a group of genetically engineered gender-nonconforming clones because the illuminati who run the world will only allow their sex-powered robots to be piloted by volcel teenagers.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X was maligned mostly because Xenoblade 1's generally poor sidequests blinded folks from the fact that Xenoblade X's quests and how they interact with the open world are some of the best in the entire genre.
Seeing all the discussion about Dragon's Dogma 2, I think the world is finally ready for Xenoblade Chronicles X.
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Also I can't stress this enough: Just because you personally dislike a deliberate design decision in a game, like Dragon's Dogma 2's fast travel, does not give you free reign to lie about the game to justify why you think a mechanic is bad. Is this how you treat art?
If your whole argument is "oh they must've made the fast travel 'bad' so I'll buy their MTX" you're misrepresenting the game at best, and deliberately lying at worst. This isn't a debate; this is a fact.
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Akira Toriyama defined generations of manga, anime and video games. It's impossible to overstate that.
let's not forget dragon quest. he created the orthodox look for jrpgs. the yuusha and maou are icons because of his work.
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It's been wild seeing the whole MTX in DD2 thing evolve.
"Reviewers were in the dark!" -> You didn't read your email
"The MTX informed the game balance!" -> Reviewers didn't have access to the DLC and reviewed accordingly
"Why are folks defending this?" -> Nobody has done this
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Seeing nerds bemoan Vanillaware being "too PC" are failing to account for this game being exclusive to consoles
We'd like to further clarify that the Rite of Covenant marriage mechanic in Unicorn Overlord seems to imply that it is not locked to a single sex, according to one of the official screenshots.
Have Alain pledge fealty to your favorite character with the Ring of the Maiden.
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Everything I've learned about South Korean gender politics in the last year have been horrifying. I feel terrible for folks over there.
remember the convenience store worker who was violently assaulted for having short hair because her attacker thought she was a feminist? the prosecutor on the case questioned her on whether she was one too because she went to an all-girl's middle and high school.
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If Sony really let the original creators of Patapon eat dirt when they wanted to make another, just to turn around and greenlight something once their kickstarter was a success, I...
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