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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2024 20:51:18 No.11061051 View View Reply Original Report

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Why are so many idiots just taking photos of toys in their hand on IG? What's the obsession? Why aren't people interested in creating stories and interesting photos anymore?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2024 20:52:41 No.11061053 Report

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>>11061051
It's narcissism. Americans cannot tolerate the idea of show casing something without having a literal part of them display next to it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2024 20:55:46 No.11061058 Report

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>>11061053
You'd say the same thing even if they were doing what OP suggested.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2024 20:58:06 No.11061061 Report

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>>11061051
Cause it's significantly easier to do and generates far more engagement.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2024 20:59:26 No.11061062 Report

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>>11061061
Engagement? Sounds like a kino way to level up those ranks for a badass swagger when showing off how epic ones 1/12 kino six incher collection is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jul 2024 03:01:59 No.11062747 Report

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>>11061051
what figure is this and why is it so greasy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jul 2024 10:18:12 No.11063056 Report

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>>11062747
Usually a greasy figure is because it is leaking plasticizer. It’s really gross feeling. You can clean it with soap and water, but odds are it will just leak again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jul 2024 10:23:40 No.11063058 Report

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>>11061051
what spider-man is this

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 04:36:45 No.11064300 Report

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>>11062747
>greasy
Probably from too much hand posing

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 04:40:49 No.11064309 Report

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>>11061053
Fuckin this. 90% of mutt toy reviewers want to show their face rather than just focus the video on the toy they're reviewing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 04:42:19 No.11064310 Report

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>>11061061
More like lazier and generate warranted criticism

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 04:45:24 No.11064312 Report

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>>11064310
>warranted criticism
Here maybe, but not on instagram

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 04:59:59 No.11064321 Report

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>>11061051
Attempting to ensnare Kira Yoshikage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 05:11:14 No.11064328 Report

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>>11064312
Instagram has thousands of circlejerking NPCs who eat up shit like AI slops. Hand posing is perfect for those kind of people

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 09:19:41 No.11064449 Report

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>>11061051
Right now? Dataset poisoning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 09:37:26 No.11064457 Report

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>>11061051
I think it makes it looks like it's effortless compared to setting up a stand, and it is indeed less effort. Thus it is quicker, it lets commenters write an easy "so dynamic and natural" comment, and everyone gets the screentime, likes and support they've come for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 10:41:21 No.11064496 Report

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>>11061051
cause they're lazy and it's easier to use vs a stand that could actually fall
i hate all hand posers

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 19:52:16 No.11065077 Report

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>>11062747
probably a bootleg
which makes this even worse
like imagine being proud of a bootleg that hand post it
handposing is so fucking cringe and i hate going into threads on this board and seeing retards fat brownish ham hands

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 19:54:48 No.11065079 Report

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>>11065077
Even worse than that. It's a redditor

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2024 21:51:52 No.11065200 Report

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>>11061051
People don't want to spend the money on flight stands.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jul 2024 08:00:14 No.11065993 Report

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>>11061051
They're faggots. Any other questions you need answered?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jul 2024 08:45:49 No.11066011 Report

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>>11065077
No seriously what is this? Revoltech joints that cant go past 90°? Is this some toybiz revoltech kitbash bootleg or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jul 2024 09:10:57 No.11066018 Report

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>>11066011
it's a 7" figure from aliexpress
it seems to be a unique sculpt

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jul 2024 22:00:51 No.11066667 Report

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>>11061051
I have an IG for my Transformers and I've posted a few hand pics, but only because I don't have any stands and sometimes I want a dynamic shot of a jet or something swooshing around. I always try to make my hand as unobtrusive in the shot as possible as though, and I do usually try to tell a story with my pics or at least have them doing cool poses outside or something. (pic related)
It does get frustrating when I go through the trouble of posing a bunch of bots looking cool, or ask open ended lore questions to engage with my followers, and top out at like 2 comments and 20 likes. When meanwhile some autist will post a pic of his bots doing the toy soldier pose crammed 50 to a shelf, or even still IN the fucking box it came in, and get 10 comments and 100 likes. Oh well, it's only social media. It doesn't really matter much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jul 2024 23:27:36 No.11066736 Report

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>>11066011
just reverse image search. it's a reddit post. the guy says its a bootleg.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2024 03:25:27 No.11066992 Report

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>>11061051
Its algorithmic, human element in social media and youtube guarantees more views.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2024 03:59:00 No.11067030 Report

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>>11066992
>youtube
You mean tiktok?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2024 04:50:13 No.11067073 Report

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>>11066667
Something I've noticied is people like characters, not the whole picture, so a regular picture or a popular character will always get more engagement than a great pic of a random character.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2024 06:32:46 No.11067184 Report

Quoted By: >>11067187

>>11061051
Maybe he just doesn’t have a stand or it’s easier to get a more dynamic shot?

Idk, it’s the excuse i give myself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2024 06:37:52 No.11067187 Report

Quoted By: >>11072515

>>11067184
I know my hatred of hand posing is irrational, but I just feel like if you're collecting dozens of action figures and want to share photos of them, then you can afford to buy a pack of stands from the numerous listings online and set up a half decent photo that doesn't include your crusty hand holding the figure up to your room light.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2024 06:40:02 No.11067188 Report

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>>11061051
If "creating stores" means ACBA alleyway dioramas, nah. Fucking keep it. I'll take handposing any day, it's the purest expression of enjoying a toy and usually results in more dynamic angles and daring choices. Diorama shots are fussy and overworked 99% of the time.

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Articulated.Snake Sat 13 Jul 2024 05:52:02 No.11068529 Report

Quoted By: >>11068767 >>11068790 >>11068947

maybe its some kind of counter culture. Like, low budget indie movies. Maybe ACBA became so high elitarian that people like the easyness and ascessability of simple pose in hand shots. i remember in photo threads on /toy/ here how it started simple and clean with desk shots, then people started learning actual photography techniques and used dioramas and it kind of splitted the community in two. The more casual posters didnt like those, who invested in the hobby and felt disencouraged. Personally, l ike all of them. i even saved some hand shots in my inspirations folder too, since they can do have some actual neat poses. better than the 1000+ likes basic pose capeshit shots on acba sometimes even.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2024 13:43:39 No.11068767 Report

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>>11068529
based answer from my favorite toy guy. We love you Art Snake :3

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2024 13:57:27 No.11068776 Report

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>>11061051
Kicking so much ass with this kino display.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2024 14:19:35 No.11068790 Report

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>>11068529
Toy photography threads are my favourites, I like the mixture of ‘toy on my desk’ and ‘my beautiful well shot photography’ posters make.

I’ve seen a lot of stop motion/photo story creators handposting too, I think it helps you appreciate how the figure may look in the viewer’s hand and what you can do with no stands or anything. There’s definitely a lot of younger collectors now there’s stuff like $30 Wal-Mart SHF who don’t have alot of resources or the experience to do any high quality photography.

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Articulated.Snake Sat 13 Jul 2024 15:33:52 No.11068899 Report

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>>11068767
thank you anon, thats kind of you!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2024 16:28:16 No.11068947 Report

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>>11068529
But that's the thing, most of the super popular hand posing posters are still putting lots of effort into framing and lighting, and it kinda feels like they are forcibly putting their hands into the shots because they know it gets more engagement that way.
>>11068790
The stop motions are ridiculous. I just wonder what professional and semi-professional animators think when they see some retard posting a jittery stop motion with their giant arm in every single frame get hundreds of thousands of views, meanwhile they're painstakingly editing armatures and wires out and bolting their equipment down to ensure the shot is stable.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2024 16:39:16 No.11068959 Report

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>>11064309
Now this fucking irks me, whenever a toy reviewer shows themselves and the fucking toy next to them. You can barely see the figure's details.
Why the hell do they do this? I want to see the toy not their greasy and fat faces ffs.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2024 16:45:54 No.11068969 Report

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>>11068947
Well, usually pro animators like Animist get paid and have careers in animation whilst random people making little 5 second videos of their toys amateurishly animated to vine audio or something are not, it’s pretty different. If the pro animator wants to make quick stopmotion shorts in a similar vein they can and have the tools to make it way better and to edit their hands out in post of they need to use them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 03:49:52 No.11069542 Report

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>>11068947
>most of the super popular hand posing posters are still putting lots of effort into framing and lighting
WTF? This is such a weird thing to say. Most handpose pics I see have no thought at all put into lighting, it's just snapped in their living room or whatever, with whatever ambient light is present. Most do not even have an actual dedicated light source. And "framing" in handposing just means moving your camera around with your other hand. Which takes like 2 seconds. It's nothing like the fussy adjustment you do with a tripod and carefully planned angles in a diorama and shit.

I don't know where you got this impression that handposers are putting a ton of time into this extraneous stuff. In my experience, handposing's very purpose is to strip away all that shit and focus on the posing more.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 03:58:49 No.11069551 Report

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>>11068947
>>11069542
Handposing also lets you play with the lens differently. When focusing in on just one figure, you can foreshorten, use the lens to block parts of the body or exaggerate others to look larger, and really craft a well-composed image.

The diorama on top here probably took hours to set up, it even has post-processing effects and shopped out stands and shit, and it's just fucking dull. Poses look stiff, and you can't do anything interesting with the camera since you're focusing on such a large scene with so many characters. All you can really do is shoot it flat from a medium distance, or risk most of your painstakingly constructed scene being too blurry from DOF to make it out. It's just fucking boring most of the time, you can make this kind of thing work but it takes more skill and actual photography knowledge than most toy photographers have.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 12:40:41 No.11069764 Report

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>>11069551
At least the bottom picture had the decency to mostly hide the hand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 15:32:47 No.11069882 Report

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>>11069764
I feel photos like the top one are pretentious af.
ACBA slop is the worst.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 18:14:46 No.11070010 Report

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>>11068947
>hand posing posters are still putting lots of effort into framing and lighting

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 18:21:44 No.11070016 Report

Quoted By: >>11070047 >>11072071

This is from the biggest handposer of them all, "lethalcollector". You can check the rest of the post out. Now, tell me. What fucking lighting and framing can you see from this crap? It's sad no one aspires to try to do things actual toy photographers, such as SGTbananas, Hotkenobi, and Sirdork do anymore.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 18:25:23 No.11070020 Report

Quoted By: >>11070047 >>11070067 >>11072071

THIS is actual framing and lighting. People should be inspired to be able to make stuff like this someday. Not just some fucking dumbass with a figure in his hand getting 2000 likes. It's the amount of likes that inspires these idiots. Not the guy making content.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 18:53:56 No.11070047 Report

Quoted By: >>11070067 >>11070077

>>11070020
I don't find this appealing at all. I guess it's impressive that they recreated the anime scene, but that's what it looks like, an anime screencap. As a toy photo it sucks, can barely see the poses, and it feels like they spent more time on the photoshop effects. >>11070016 is simple and to the point, you can see the entire pose and silhouette, and it shows off the posing skill of the user.

Both involve skill, sure, but I am just not interested in shit like >>11070020. I started buying high-end toys because I am interested in pushing posing to its limits, not to make fancy dioramas. These are toys, we're not making movies here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 19:17:44 No.11070067 Report

Quoted By: >>11070083

>>11070047
I agree with most of this but there's no reason for some user's fingers in the frame. It adds nothing to the pose, and frankly it's a crutch. This is a nothing pose, but I don't know what this user was going for. And that ankle??

>>11070020
This is a good image and makes for a nice shot, but I guess it may end up the difference between someone who likes to doodle in his little notebook vs someone who draws beautiful paintings. If I were to post pictures I'd just be doodling. Wouldn't my hands in the frame like a loser though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 19:34:14 No.11070077 Report

Quoted By: >>11072073

>>11070047
Cope

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 19:40:28 No.11070083 Report

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>>11070067
>This is a nothing pose, but I don't know what this user was going for
Are you joking? It's pretty clearly supposed to be a sprinting/dashing forward pose on his way to punch someone. His ankle is sideways like that because it's supposed to be planted on a ground plane. I didn't think this was an issue, but it seems like some people need this spelled out with an actual piece of ground or they can't figure out what's going on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Jul 2024 23:18:28 No.11070274 Report

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>>11069551
Oh sweet, that Spider Gwen, may I ask from which account that pic is from?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jul 2024 17:04:17 No.11072071 Report

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>>11070016
>fun photo to show off the figure's capabilities literally in hand
>>11070020
>pretentious slop

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jul 2024 17:07:37 No.11072073 Report

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>>11070077

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jul 2024 17:09:41 No.11072076 Report

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>>11072073
so uuhh...when is the foot model going up for preorder

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 00:20:17 No.11072515 Report

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>>11067187
>>11067188
The duality of man.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 01:10:52 No.11072583 Report

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>>11061051
I think its fun

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 01:11:57 No.11072585 Report

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>>11072583

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 01:23:20 No.11072593 Report

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>>11072585

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 09:14:51 No.11073002 Report

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>>11063058
Looks like a Frankenstein mix of mafex and amazing yamaguchi.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 11:39:32 No.11073088 Report

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>>11072585
>>11072583
alright even as a fan of handposing, shit starts getting messy when you involve more than one figure

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 12:15:55 No.11073106 Report

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>>11061051
I remember when I first started the hobby, getting a package was a huge event, unboxing all the shit, setting up my lights, taking a bunch of pictures, it would take like the whole afternoon, it was satisfying but definitively very time consuming.

As I got older it was hard to justify investing the time, so I don't necessarily blame anyone that goes for a simpler approach, it does produce a lower quality product tho, that's obvious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 21:18:24 No.11073651 Report

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>>11072583
>>11072585
>>11072593
Soulful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jul 2024 21:24:21 No.11073661 Report

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>>11072593
>>11072585
>>11072583
Nice, handposing is fun. I like you, anon.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jul 2024 12:07:15 No.11074382 Report

Quoted By: >>11077222

I take pictures of my toys outside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Jul 2024 15:19:28 No.11077222 Report

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>>11074382
heck yeah, this is what takes a toy picture to the next level

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jul 2024 15:44:53 No.11078426 Report

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jul 2024 15:44:58 No.11078427 Report

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The funniest thing about a lot of these I see, is the large number of teenaged "figure-heads" that've cropped up on tiktok and the like hyper-fixating on that hood/street swag aesthetic that the ACBA guys started, shits funny as hell. To give credit though, some of them can actually pose pretty well.

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