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The Audi S1 was a pocket-sized quattro hot hatch that felt almost too interesting for its era. Short wheelbase, serious traction, and a level of drivetrain character that Audi never really returned to in this size. It sat against cars like the F56 Mini Cooper JCW and the Polo... WRC, small performance machines built around real intent rather than just numbers. The S1 disappeared quietly, replaced by softer, more standardised models. Today the most powerful model shares the powertrain with the Polo GTI, yet itself is not positioned as a true hot hatch. It’s one of those cars that makes you wonder why brands stop making the fun versions first, even when the formula clearly worked.show more

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❤️DO YOU REALLY KNOW KIM SEOKJIN? If you know more about him, read this❤️ Op introducing a comment found on Kian’s B& B YouTube It’s 2019 KBS Song Festival BTS Stages she ‘s talking about, and here’s the video clip of the jacket moment, watch SeokJin at the end of the clip! 🗣️ I am writing this comment because I want to record something I remember about SeokJin ☺️ In the winter of the year the pandemic hit, the last year-end before the pandemic, I was lucky enough to win a spot for the pre-recording of a year-end stage, and I spent almost 5 to 6 hours with BTS. What was even luckier was that my assigned spot was in top 10%, so I was quite close to the stage. That year, the time given to BTS for the year-end stage was over 30 minutes, it was like a mini concert. They did pre-recordings for several songs while changing the stage sets and also did rehearsal for the next day’s live broadcast, so I was able to watch them closely for a long time. And the one who left the strongest impression on me, even more than my bias, was SeokJin. When the PD-nim had messages or directions to convey to the members about the stage, or when he had something to discuss, he mostly communicated with SeokJin. And SeokJin took on the role of relaying all the messages to the other members. While managing the stage, if there were small details like, for example, if a jacket taken off during the performance was left there when it might get caught on camera and look messy, so make sure to throw it over to the back of the set, things like that. Jin relayed all those messages and directions to the members, and if there were members who couldn’t follow that direction, he quietly took care of small details behind the scenes, like quickly tossing away the jacket that was left behind when the camera was on other members. He was handling those little details behind the scene quietly alone with care, that was my impression. Even though he's the eldest, he's not the leader, not the main vocalist, nor the choreography leader, so when BTS is all together, I personally feel that the spotlight rarely shines on him. Also, since he's not the type of hyung who bosses around other members, saying, "I'm your senior," it’s probably not easy for SeokJin to leave a strong impression (*to casual viewers/general public) But the deeper you look into BTS, the more you see that SeokJin is a true gem, quietly working behind the scenes and taking good care of his younger members with a genuinely beautiful heart. While watching SeokJin for hours in moments that weren’t captured on camera, what I felt was that he’s truly sincere, attentive and meticulous, leading by examples with a strong sense of responsibility. And while taking care of everything like that, he’s not interested in taking credit for the things he did, he just quietly accomplished everything without drawing attention, his presence was like salt and light, I felt. I think this is why there are so many heartwarming stories about SeokJin in the entertainment industry. Seeing his good characters that I saw get recognized in detail through this variety show, and feeling like many people will come to appreciate his integrity, somehow it makes me feel really happy. #Jin #방탄소년단진 #진 방탄소년단

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59,667 views • 1 year ago

I MADE MY AI AGENT 10X FASTER WITHOUT CHANGING THE MODEL not a smarter model, not a bigger context window, not another clever prompt the same kind of AI that designs vaccines for viruses we have not even met yet was spending two minutes opening the wrong files just to hand me a brief from three months ago the problem was never capability, it was the scaffolding that piled up around my agent by accident, folder by folder an agent does not think in your categories, it searches from scratch every single time, and your tidy human folders are a maze to it the fix was almost stupidly small, one index file at the root of each big folder and a few numbers in front of the folder names slowest task dropped from 2 minutes to 26 seconds, fastest ones hit 10, zero model changes capability is cheap when the scaffolding around it is broken the article breaks down the whole system in 15 minutes ↓

I MADE MY AI AGENT 10X FASTER WITHOUT CHANGING THE MODEL not a smarter model, not a bigger context window, not another clever prompt the same kind of AI that designs vaccines for viruses we have not even met yet was spending two minutes opening the wrong files just to hand me a brief from three months ago the problem was never capability, it was the scaffolding that piled up around my agent by accident, folder by folder an agent does not think in your categories, it searches from scratch every single time, and your tidy human folders are a maze to it the fix was almost stupidly small, one index file at the root of each big folder and a few numbers in front of the folder names slowest task dropped from 2 minutes to 26 seconds, fastest ones hit 10, zero model changes capability is cheap when the scaffolding around it is broken the article breaks down the whole system in 15 minutes ↓

shmidt

36,479 views • 3 months ago

When performance SUVs started to become a trend, BMW built this V8 monster in response to ML55. When BMW launched the X5 in 1999, it invented the idea of the “Sport Activity Vehicle.” But in 2004, they went one step further with the 4.8is. Under the bonnet sat a naturally aspirated N62 V8 making 360 HP which is in the facelifted model in place of the older M62, paired with sport suspension, unique styling, and massive 20-inch wheels. It was one of the first SUVs that could actually handle twisty roads better than the average bloated and slower lumps. The 4.8is came 6 years after AMG and M performance SUVs became mainstream as of E70 X5M. It paved the way for the X5 M and every other high-performance SUV that followed.

When performance SUVs started to become a trend, BMW built this V8 monster in response to ML55. When BMW launched the X5 in 1999, it invented the idea of the “Sport Activity Vehicle.” But in 2004, they went one step further with the 4.8is. Under the bonnet sat a naturally aspirated N62 V8 making 360 HP which is in the facelifted model in place of the older M62, paired with sport suspension, unique styling, and massive 20-inch wheels. It was one of the first SUVs that could actually handle twisty roads better than the average bloated and slower lumps. The 4.8is came 6 years after AMG and M performance SUVs became mainstream as of E70 X5M. It paved the way for the X5 M and every other high-performance SUV that followed.

Autowelt

26,914 views • 1 year ago

Speed control being removed from FSD is a hot topic, and I often get roasted for not bringing it up more. Truthfully a lot of the time the lack of a user-defined max speed isn’t that big of a problem - but it still is 100% a problem. Last weekend we went to the island and the car misread the speed limits 90% of the time. The issue was when we were driving around the campsite and the speed limit was 15kmh and FSD thought it was 40kmh. So in that situation even being in sloth mode doesn’t fix the problem with the car driving too fast. Similar issue - two days ago we had a really bad rain storm and even in sloth FSD was trying to go 100kmh on the highway. Almost every other car was driving closer to 80kmh but I couldn’t force the car to drive that slow - so instead we were one of the fastest cars on the road (in the sloth speed profile) and I had to disengage and drive myself since the speeds weren’t appropriate for the conditions. I know Tesla knows about this - but I just think it’s worth bringing up 🤷‍♂️ I really really really hope v15 can fix issues like this. Also please stop speeding in school zones.

Devin Olsen

32,056 views • 10 days ago

Eleven hundred tons of explosives just went off under a ridge in southern Lebanon. 1100 TONS… BOOM 💥 That is the part that matters. For years the argument was which bomb was biggest. Grand Slam at ten tons. The Cloudmaker at twenty, never used. MOAB at eleven tons of TNT. Russia’s FOAB, if you believe the brochure. All of them small enough to hang off an airplane. This was not that. Israel packed more than a thousand tons into the tunnels under Ali Taher and lit them. The night sky went orange. The glow sat on the horizon like the hillside itself had opened. People felt it. Instruments picked it up. From a lookout above the lights of the valley it looked like the world had a hole punched in it. Call the yield what it is… about 1.1 kilotons. That is a hundred MOABs in one shot. That is the same energy neighborhood as a small tactical nuke, dumped into rock instead of air. No mushroom cloud. No fallout. Just a mountain giving up a fortress that took twenty years and billions of Iranian oil dollars to build. Watch the footage. That fire on the ridge is the whole story. And it’s a sight to behold.

Eleven hundred tons of explosives just went off under a ridge in southern Lebanon. 1100 TONS… BOOM 💥 That is the part that matters. For years the argument was which bomb was biggest. Grand Slam at ten tons. The Cloudmaker at twenty, never used. MOAB at eleven tons of TNT. Russia’s FOAB, if you believe the brochure. All of them small enough to hang off an airplane. This was not that. Israel packed more than a thousand tons into the tunnels under Ali Taher and lit them. The night sky went orange. The glow sat on the horizon like the hillside itself had opened. People felt it. Instruments picked it up. From a lookout above the lights of the valley it looked like the world had a hole punched in it. Call the yield what it is… about 1.1 kilotons. That is a hundred MOABs in one shot. That is the same energy neighborhood as a small tactical nuke, dumped into rock instead of air. No mushroom cloud. No fallout. Just a mountain giving up a fortress that took twenty years and billions of Iranian oil dollars to build. Watch the footage. That fire on the ridge is the whole story. And it’s a sight to behold.

Mor Edge Insight

248,124 views • 1 month ago

Game of Thrones, the most-watched series, sold you on the event anticipated by the elites. ‘Winter is Coming’ is literally the Ice Age they expect with the next Grand Solar Minima, the geomagnetic excursion, and the weakening of the magnetic field. Just like in the show, this event is cyclical and rooted in the past—the Iron Age Cold Epoch, the desertification of the Sahara, the 8.2-kiloyear event, the Younger Dryas—this event is scheduled. Just like in the show, no one pays attention until it’s too late. GOT also used the biblical narrative of Gog and Magog, the army that comes from the North; in GOT, it’s the army of the wildlings. The supernatural beings like the White Walkers are connected to the UAP phenomenon—they are coming like a wave, just like the expected crustal slip and ocean spillovers. That’s why GOT was the most-watched series—because it resonated with you on a subconscious level that you don’t yet understand.

Game of Thrones, the most-watched series, sold you on the event anticipated by the elites. ‘Winter is Coming’ is literally the Ice Age they expect with the next Grand Solar Minima, the geomagnetic excursion, and the weakening of the magnetic field. Just like in the show, this event is cyclical and rooted in the past—the Iron Age Cold Epoch, the desertification of the Sahara, the 8.2-kiloyear event, the Younger Dryas—this event is scheduled. Just like in the show, no one pays attention until it’s too late. GOT also used the biblical narrative of Gog and Magog, the army that comes from the North; in GOT, it’s the army of the wildlings. The supernatural beings like the White Walkers are connected to the UAP phenomenon—they are coming like a wave, just like the expected crustal slip and ocean spillovers. That’s why GOT was the most-watched series—because it resonated with you on a subconscious level that you don’t yet understand.

Open Minded Approach

397,185 views • 10 months ago

There is a room in Málaga that was built to be the closest thing on earth to standing inside heaven. It is called the camarín of the Virgin of Victory, and it is hidden at the top of a tower inside the Santuario de la Victoria. To reach it, you climb and the ascent is the entire point... The building you are climbing through was completed in 1700, and it was designed as a single argument made in stone. At the bottom lies a crypt: a black chamber crowded with white plaster skeletons, a meditation on death and the brevity of life. From there a staircase rises, and as you climb it the light grows stronger and the imagery changes from bones to saints. The architects of the time understood this ascent as the soul's own journey, the dark crypt as the stage of penitence, the staircase as the stage of spiritual progress, and the room at the very top as the final stage: the union of the soul with the divine. That room at the top is the camarín, and its dome is one of the most extraordinary interiors in Spain... Every surface is covered in white and gold plasterwork. There is no empty space anywhere. The Baroque called this horror vacui, the horror of the void: the conviction that a space meant to represent heaven should not contain a single bare patch of stone. Out of that plasterwork emerge angels, flowers, birds, and mirrors. The mirrors are not decoration alone. They catch the light pouring in through the windows of the drum and throw it around the chamber, so that the gold seems to move and the whole room appears to shimmer and breathe. This wonder was built by people who believed that if you wanted to show a human being what heaven might feel like, you did not describe it to them. You built a room, and you let them climb into it... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

There is a room in Málaga that was built to be the closest thing on earth to standing inside heaven. It is called the camarín of the Virgin of Victory, and it is hidden at the top of a tower inside the Santuario de la Victoria. To reach it, you climb and the ascent is the entire point... The building you are climbing through was completed in 1700, and it was designed as a single argument made in stone. At the bottom lies a crypt: a black chamber crowded with white plaster skeletons, a meditation on death and the brevity of life. From there a staircase rises, and as you climb it the light grows stronger and the imagery changes from bones to saints. The architects of the time understood this ascent as the soul's own journey, the dark crypt as the stage of penitence, the staircase as the stage of spiritual progress, and the room at the very top as the final stage: the union of the soul with the divine. That room at the top is the camarín, and its dome is one of the most extraordinary interiors in Spain... Every surface is covered in white and gold plasterwork. There is no empty space anywhere. The Baroque called this horror vacui, the horror of the void: the conviction that a space meant to represent heaven should not contain a single bare patch of stone. Out of that plasterwork emerge angels, flowers, birds, and mirrors. The mirrors are not decoration alone. They catch the light pouring in through the windows of the drum and throw it around the chamber, so that the gold seems to move and the whole room appears to shimmer and breathe. This wonder was built by people who believed that if you wanted to show a human being what heaven might feel like, you did not describe it to them. You built a room, and you let them climb into it... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

69,389 views • 4 months ago

The Circle 🐜 Nobody told the ant about the circle. That, as far as anyone can tell, is the whole problem. A researcher named Kostowski – this was in the early 1970s, at a laboratory in Warsaw that smelled permanently of formaldehyde and institutional coffee – discovered quite by accident that if you draw a continuous line around an ant using a felt-tip pen, the ant will not cross it. It will walk right up to the line, pause with what appears to be genuine philosophical unease, and turn back. It will do this indefinitely. For hours. Sometimes for days. The ant is not stupid. Let’s be clear about that. The creature you are looking at in this photograph – this tiny, improbable machine of chitin and chemical signals, this six-legged marvel that can carry fifty times its own body weight and navigate by polarized light – has a brain roughly the size of a pinhead, and yet that brain contains approximately 250,000 neurons dedicated entirely to making sense of the world. It has survived as a species for 130 million years. It watched the dinosaurs arrive, flourish, and disappear, and then went back to work. And yet here it is. Trapped by a drawing. The reason is chemistry, not cognition. Ants navigate by pheromones – volatile chemical compounds that their legs read like a blind man reads braille. When they encounter the solvent in a felt-tip pen, something in their nervous system fires an alarm. The signal says: boundary. The signal says: edge of the known world. And the ant, loyal to its chemistry in the way that all of us are loyal to ours, obeys. This is the part that stays with you if you think about it too long. The ant’s prison has no walls. No bars. No lock. It is made entirely of information – a chemical whisper laid down by a felt-tip marker – and the ant cannot see past it, because it has no framework for doing so. The circle is not a circle to the ant. The circle is simply: where the world ends. I find myself thinking about this more than is probably healthy. We are, most of us, walking around inside our own circles. They were drawn for us gradually, by parents and teachers and early disappointments, by the limits of what we saw done and the boundaries of what we were told was possible. We bump up against them occasionally – in those moments when a job offer from another city seems too frightening, or a new idea feels somehow presumptuous – and we turn back. Not because anything is stopping us. Because the world, as far as we can tell, simply ends there. The ant in the photograph is walking the inner edge of its circle with a kind of purposeful calm that is almost admirable. It has not given up. It is still looking. It is still moving. It simply cannot conceive of a direction that leads out. Kostowski, for what it’s worth, eventually just picked the ant up and moved it. Sometimes that’s what it takes. Gandalv / Gandalv

The Circle 🐜 Nobody told the ant about the circle. That, as far as anyone can tell, is the whole problem. A researcher named Kostowski – this was in the early 1970s, at a laboratory in Warsaw that smelled permanently of formaldehyde and institutional coffee – discovered quite by accident that if you draw a continuous line around an ant using a felt-tip pen, the ant will not cross it. It will walk right up to the line, pause with what appears to be genuine philosophical unease, and turn back. It will do this indefinitely. For hours. Sometimes for days. The ant is not stupid. Let’s be clear about that. The creature you are looking at in this photograph – this tiny, improbable machine of chitin and chemical signals, this six-legged marvel that can carry fifty times its own body weight and navigate by polarized light – has a brain roughly the size of a pinhead, and yet that brain contains approximately 250,000 neurons dedicated entirely to making sense of the world. It has survived as a species for 130 million years. It watched the dinosaurs arrive, flourish, and disappear, and then went back to work. And yet here it is. Trapped by a drawing. The reason is chemistry, not cognition. Ants navigate by pheromones – volatile chemical compounds that their legs read like a blind man reads braille. When they encounter the solvent in a felt-tip pen, something in their nervous system fires an alarm. The signal says: boundary. The signal says: edge of the known world. And the ant, loyal to its chemistry in the way that all of us are loyal to ours, obeys. This is the part that stays with you if you think about it too long. The ant’s prison has no walls. No bars. No lock. It is made entirely of information – a chemical whisper laid down by a felt-tip marker – and the ant cannot see past it, because it has no framework for doing so. The circle is not a circle to the ant. The circle is simply: where the world ends. I find myself thinking about this more than is probably healthy. We are, most of us, walking around inside our own circles. They were drawn for us gradually, by parents and teachers and early disappointments, by the limits of what we saw done and the boundaries of what we were told was possible. We bump up against them occasionally – in those moments when a job offer from another city seems too frightening, or a new idea feels somehow presumptuous – and we turn back. Not because anything is stopping us. Because the world, as far as we can tell, simply ends there. The ant in the photograph is walking the inner edge of its circle with a kind of purposeful calm that is almost admirable. It has not given up. It is still looking. It is still moving. It simply cannot conceive of a direction that leads out. Kostowski, for what it’s worth, eventually just picked the ant up and moved it. Sometimes that’s what it takes. Gandalv / Gandalv

Gandalv

28,368 views • 6 months ago

⚔️ Kingdom Come Deliverance first impressions ⚔️ Loving it so far, basically a medieval detective simulator that really doesn't care that you are the main character. And I'm all here for it. ▪️The WORLD is the real star of the show here and even though it's got plenty of jank and lots of copy and paste NPC faces, it just feels so IMMERSIVE. Even the UI just transports me to the times with a bright colourful medieval art style. ▪️The MUSIC I love, absolutely sells the world and basically ASMR as you trot around on your horse through the world. ▪️THE Combat is a real interesting one, it's got quite the learning curve which I actually LIKE, it definitely has some jank to it as well but I really appreciate the attempt at an original and nuanced combat system. (Having to stop your bleeding with bandages is really cool) ▪️The Story has gripped me (19 hours in so far) And while it seems a simple revenge story on the face of it, I think the story is more about Henry making his way through the world after the horrors of Skallitz. The writing quality is top notch as well as the quest design also. ▪️The CHARACTERS are amazing and the humour is top notch. I'm not sure the last time I laughed so much at a game. Henry is great and so well voiced by Tom McKay This really feels like Warhorse Studios have put a lot of love and work into making an authentic medieval world and as a bit of a medieval nerd I can't get enough of this game. A True RPG as well by all accounts, the game really makes me think hard about how to approach situations. Also I can't wait to get to KCD2.

⚔️ Kingdom Come Deliverance first impressions ⚔️ Loving it so far, basically a medieval detective simulator that really doesn't care that you are the main character. And I'm all here for it. ▪️The WORLD is the real star of the show here and even though it's got plenty of jank and lots of copy and paste NPC faces, it just feels so IMMERSIVE. Even the UI just transports me to the times with a bright colourful medieval art style. ▪️The MUSIC I love, absolutely sells the world and basically ASMR as you trot around on your horse through the world. ▪️THE Combat is a real interesting one, it's got quite the learning curve which I actually LIKE, it definitely has some jank to it as well but I really appreciate the attempt at an original and nuanced combat system. (Having to stop your bleeding with bandages is really cool) ▪️The Story has gripped me (19 hours in so far) And while it seems a simple revenge story on the face of it, I think the story is more about Henry making his way through the world after the horrors of Skallitz. The writing quality is top notch as well as the quest design also. ▪️The CHARACTERS are amazing and the humour is top notch. I'm not sure the last time I laughed so much at a game. Henry is great and so well voiced by Tom McKay This really feels like Warhorse Studios have put a lot of love and work into making an authentic medieval world and as a bit of a medieval nerd I can't get enough of this game. A True RPG as well by all accounts, the game really makes me think hard about how to approach situations. Also I can't wait to get to KCD2.

KJPlays

63,735 views • 9 months ago

After months of working on this project, the long days, the unexpected hiccups, the constant race against time, seeing “Skyward” come to life last night was honestly one of those moments that just stay with you. It’s a monumental piece by Ezequiel Pini (Six N. Five) , commissioned by the public government of Abu Dhabi for Manar Art Public Art Abu Dhabi , but once you see it out there in the desert… it becomes something else entirely. Honestly can’t stop admiring how, as an artist, he pushes the boundaries of what’s possible every single time. It looks like a kind of magical portal, standing quietly in the middle of the sand. There’s this beautiful contrast between the physical world, the earth, the stone, all these elements that carry thousands of years of history and the digital side of the piece, with its delicate, floating constellations. Somehow the two speak to each other, and you feel caught right in the middle of that conversation. It’s the kind of place that makes you stop for a second, breathe a little deeper, and let your mind wander. Watching people walk toward the installation, fall silent, get lost in their own thoughts, it was incredibly moving. You could almost watch them start to dream. It’s moments like this that remind me why I’ll never stop believing in the power of digital art and supporting this entire movement.

After months of working on this project, the long days, the unexpected hiccups, the constant race against time, seeing “Skyward” come to life last night was honestly one of those moments that just stay with you. It’s a monumental piece by Ezequiel Pini (Six N. Five) , commissioned by the public government of Abu Dhabi for Manar Art Public Art Abu Dhabi , but once you see it out there in the desert… it becomes something else entirely. Honestly can’t stop admiring how, as an artist, he pushes the boundaries of what’s possible every single time. It looks like a kind of magical portal, standing quietly in the middle of the sand. There’s this beautiful contrast between the physical world, the earth, the stone, all these elements that carry thousands of years of history and the digital side of the piece, with its delicate, floating constellations. Somehow the two speak to each other, and you feel caught right in the middle of that conversation. It’s the kind of place that makes you stop for a second, breathe a little deeper, and let your mind wander. Watching people walk toward the installation, fall silent, get lost in their own thoughts, it was incredibly moving. You could almost watch them start to dream. It’s moments like this that remind me why I’ll never stop believing in the power of digital art and supporting this entire movement.

MP9X

19,215 views • 10 months ago

“In today’s civilized world, there is still a kind of human who is obsessed with the triangular area of the body. Perhaps because it is a forbidden triangle reserved only for those who are permitted to enter.“ What I really like about Episode 2 is that the victims are not portrayed as fragile figures who simply surrender to their fate. They carry pain, fear, and humiliation, yet they still choose to resist and fight back rather than remain silent. Their struggle adds a powerful layer of humanity that makes the episode feel complete alongside Nanno’s presence. At the same time, it is deeply unsettling to witness someone who shares the same gender with them, someone who is also positioned as a leader and a parental figure within the school, their own teacher but fail to offer the most basic thing they should: a safe space and trust. Instead of protection, there is silence and indifference, and that betrayal feels just as disturbing as the crime itself. I also enjoy seeing Becky Armstrong here even more. Every time she shows up, she just commands the scene. #เด็กใหม่TheResetEP2 #GirlFromNowhereTheReset

“In today’s civilized world, there is still a kind of human who is obsessed with the triangular area of the body. Perhaps because it is a forbidden triangle reserved only for those who are permitted to enter.“ What I really like about Episode 2 is that the victims are not portrayed as fragile figures who simply surrender to their fate. They carry pain, fear, and humiliation, yet they still choose to resist and fight back rather than remain silent. Their struggle adds a powerful layer of humanity that makes the episode feel complete alongside Nanno’s presence. At the same time, it is deeply unsettling to witness someone who shares the same gender with them, someone who is also positioned as a leader and a parental figure within the school, their own teacher but fail to offer the most basic thing they should: a safe space and trust. Instead of protection, there is silence and indifference, and that betrayal feels just as disturbing as the crime itself. I also enjoy seeing Becky Armstrong here even more. Every time she shows up, she just commands the scene. #เด็กใหม่TheResetEP2 #GirlFromNowhereTheReset

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16,620 views • 7 months ago