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* EasyModeMockery: If you pick the lowest settings for difficulty and danger, both the guy in the game's control panel monitor and your status screen will make fun of you.
* EldritchLocation: The entire game is you traveling through these. Why did your character come to these dimensions in the first place? [[SeriousBusiness Too get good footage for music videos]].

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* EasyModeMockery: If you pick the lowest settings for difficulty and danger, both the guy in the game's control panel monitor and your status screen will make fun of you.
you. Heck, the guy snicker even if you pick the second easiest setting.
* EldritchLocation: The entire game is you traveling through these. Why did your character come to these dimensions in the first place? [[SeriousBusiness Too To get good footage for music videos]].


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* SurrealMusicVideo: You get a whole editor dedicated to making these and In all honesty a good majority of the game's fun comes from messing with this editor.

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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is totaled and you're presented your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you. Surprising considering how in depth the game's intro was.

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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is totaled and you're presented your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you. Surprising considering how in depth the game's intro was.game was in establishing it's world and your backstory.



* GameOverMan: The Guitar Warrior.

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* GameOverMan: The Guitar Warrior. It remains one of the most hilarious examples of this trope.



* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Do NOT touch the ticket lady's breasts.

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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Do Being a rude jerk to the various sponsors you can talk to is an easy way of losing out of a ton of potential money and eventually lose the game.
** Also, [[AbsoluteCleavage as tempting as it is]] do
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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is totaled and you're presented your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you.

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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is totaled and you're presented your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you. Surprising considering how in depth the game's intro was.


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* EldritchLocation: The entire game is you traveling through these. Why did your character come to these dimensions in the first place? [[SeriousBusiness Too get good footage for music videos]].


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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Do NOT touch the ticket lady's breasts.
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* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Famously delivered in regards to the player's demise in the Game Over song.
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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}.

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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}.UsefulNotes/{{Mac}}.
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* HaveANiceDeath / InformalEulogy: Deaths are accompanied by [[EarWorm a truly catchy]] theme: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU "You are dead. Dead. Dead."]]

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* HaveANiceDeath / InformalEulogy: Deaths In addition to unique animations, deaths are accompanied by [[EarWorm a truly catchy]] theme: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU "You are dead. Dead. Dead."]]
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The opening narration to the backstory specifically refers to the setting as \"alternate Earth\", implying it\'s intended to be Alternate History instead of taking place within the future.


Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living beings as it puts the them into a six-week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimension's dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and financially sound.

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Taking place sometime in the future, within an AlternateHistory setting, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living beings as it puts the them into a six-week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimension's dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and financially sound.
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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}.

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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[IBMPersonalComputer [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}.
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* HaveANiceDeath / InformalEulogy: Deaths are accompanied by [[EarWorm a truly catchy]] theme: [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI "You are dead. Dead. Dead."]]

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* HaveANiceDeath / InformalEulogy: Deaths are accompanied by [[EarWorm a truly catchy]] theme: [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU "You are dead. Dead. Dead."]]
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* TheGhost: We never do see what the Metal Lord looks like.
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Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being as it puts them into a six week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimension's dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and financially sound.

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Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being beings as it puts the them into a six week six-week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimension's dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and financially sound.
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* HyperspaceArsenal: Your guitar case serves as a handy portable gateway into a dimension purely used for storing items such as multiple guitars, your video camera and, more likely, the metric ton of synthesized sandwiches and drinks that you wasted your food goo experimenting to make.
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* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: Almost identical words ("What a pitiful waste of human life") are actually part of the lyrics of the GameOver song. Quite fitting since the protagonist is basically an entrepreneur who wanders an alternate dimension chock-full of hostilities merely for profit...

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* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: Almost identical words ("What a pitiful waste of a human life") are actually part of the lyrics of the GameOver song. Quite fitting since the protagonist is basically an entrepreneur who wanders an alternate dimension chock-full of hostilities merely for profit...
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Lauded and acclaimed mean the same thing. The dictionary is your friend.


It was acclaimed for its creativity though was lauded for the numerous backtracking and limited editing of the videos.

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It was acclaimed for its creativity though was lauded criticized for the numerous backtracking and limited editing of the videos.
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* GiveMeYourInventoryItem: [[ViolationOfCommonSense Putting out a fire with booze]] qualifies.
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* EvilOverlord: THE METAL LORD.

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* EvilOverlord: THE METAL LORD. He's also a DimensionLord, according to the Guitar Warriors.
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* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Lord who knows of your presence in the dimension and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't ''even see'' the Metal Lord through your adventure.

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* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Lord who knows of your presence in the dimension and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension suspicion of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't ''even see'' the Metal Lord through your adventure.
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Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being as it puts them into a six week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimensions dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and hopefully financially sound.

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Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being as it puts them into a six week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimensions dimension's dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and hopefully financially sound.
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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is total and your present your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you.

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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is total totaled and your present you're presented your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you.

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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}. Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being as it puts them into a six week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimensions dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and hopefully financially sound.

It was acclaimed for its creativity.

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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}.

Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being as it puts them into a six week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimensions dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and hopefully financially sound.

It was acclaimed for its creativity.
creativity though was lauded for the numerous backtracking and limited editing of the videos.



* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Lord who knows of your presence in the dimension and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't even see the Metal Lord through your adventure.

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* AWinnerIsYou: There's no ending here, you basically head back to Earth. Your score is total and your present your award for how you did, along with a specialized song either mocking or praising you.
* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Lord who knows of your presence in the dimension and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't even see ''even see'' the Metal Lord through your adventure.

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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}. In it, a director invades a [[WorldOfChaos land of chaos]] to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. It was acclaimed for its creativity.

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A 1995 AdventureGame for the [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and {{Mac}}. In it, Taking place sometime in the future, mysterious devices have suddenly appeared on Earth that scientists have found to be useful teleporters (albeit dangerous for living being as it puts them into a six week coma). They also noticed that they can teleport to different dimensions, most of which are based on pop culture. You play as a music director invades whose just recently come into a large sum of money and somehow come up with the insane idea to invade a [[WorldOfChaos land dimension of chaos]] based on rock music to [[SurrealMusicVideo shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there]]. However the endeavor is quite risky as you spent most of your money building a tower to transport in and getting the go ahead to transport there which your government has starchly warned will not bring you back if you don't have the funds. What's more there's the matter of the dimensions dangers as well. So your mission? Get in, get the footage needed and hope you come out of this alive and hopefully financially sound.

It was acclaimed for its creativity.
creativity.

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* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Overlord who knows of your presence in the dimensions and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't even see the Metal Overlord through your adventure.

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* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Overlord Lord who knows of your presence in the dimensions dimension and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't even see the Metal Overlord Lord through your adventure.
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* AbortedArc: Along the journey you find a memo from the Metal Overlord who knows of your presence in the dimensions and orders his troops not to kill you if possible as he doesn't want to draw suspension of his invasion plans of Earth. However the game never follows up on this. Heck you don't even see the Metal Overlord through your adventure.
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* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: Almost identical words ("What a pitiful waste of human life") are actually part of the lyrics of the GameOver song. Quite fitting since the protagonist is basically an entrepreneur who wanders an alternate dimension chock-full of hostilities merely for profit...

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A 1995 adventure game for the PC and Mac. In it, a director invades a land of chaos to shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there. It was acclaimed for its creativity.

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* MundaneUtility: Alternate dimensions are used to expediate shipping in this game's universe (mainly because it's incredibly dangerous to teleport living creatures).

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* MundaneUtility: Alternate dimensions are used to expediate expedite shipping in this game's universe (mainly because it's incredibly dangerous to teleport living creatures).



* TeleportersAndTransporters: Travel to alternate dimensions consumes a lot of energy, dependent on the size of the object being sent. Living creatures sent through are put into six-week comas - as such, you have to use a highly durable nutrient-fluid-filled tube when you want to travel to and from your base, and the sheer energy cost means it has to be preapproved. (Also, the millions of dollars in energy bills it took to get your tower across put you in hock, and they'll cut your power if you can't come up with some good videos ''fast''.)

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* TeleportersAndTransporters: Travel to alternate dimensions consumes a lot of energy, dependent on the size of the object being sent. Living creatures sent through are put into six-week comas - as such, you have to use a highly durable nutrient-fluid-filled tube when you want to travel to and from your base, and the sheer energy cost means it has to be preapproved. (Also, the millions of dollars in energy bills it took to get your tower across put you in hock, and they'll cut your power if you can't come up with some good videos ''fast''.))

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* AllThereInTheManual: Before you begin the game, there are three optional videos that explain the setting, your base, and your mission.



* MundaneUtility: Alternate dimensions are used to expediate shipping in this game's universe (mainly because it's incredibly dangerous to teleport living creatures).



* ThePowerOfRock: A common theme.

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* ThePowerOfRock: A common theme.theme.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Travel to alternate dimensions consumes a lot of energy, dependent on the size of the object being sent. Living creatures sent through are put into six-week comas - as such, you have to use a highly durable nutrient-fluid-filled tube when you want to travel to and from your base, and the sheer energy cost means it has to be preapproved. (Also, the millions of dollars in energy bills it took to get your tower across put you in hock, and they'll cut your power if you can't come up with some good videos ''fast''.)

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* {{Padding}}: The ammount of backtracking [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3utQsGyE1U warranted a song!]]
* ThePowerOfRock: A common theme.
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* {{Padding}}: The ammount of backtracking [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3utQsGyE1U warranted a song!]]
* ThePowerOfRock: A common theme.
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!! Total Distortion provides examples of:



* EarWorm: See HaveANiceDeath.



* WatchItForTheMeme: The death song is much more known than the game iself.
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A 1995 adventure game for the PC and Mac. In it, a director invades a land of chaos to shoot music videos out of the weird imagery there. It was acclaimed for its creativity.

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* DiegeticInterface: Your inventory screen is a guitar case that you carry around.
* EarWorm: See HaveANiceDeath.
* EasyModeMockery: If you pick the lowest settings for difficulty and danger, both the guy in the game's control panel monitor and your status screen will make fun of you.
* EvilOverlord: THE METAL LORD.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial
* GameOverMan: The Guitar Warrior.
* HaveANiceDeath / InformalEulogy: Deaths are accompanied by [[EarWorm a truly catchy]] theme: [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI "You are dead. Dead. Dead."]]
* MiniGame: Lots and lots of them, specially in your tower's book collection.
* MusicalAssassin: The Guitar Warrior, of course.
* {{Padding}}: The ammount of backtracking [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3utQsGyE1U warranted a song!]]
* ThePowerOfRock: A common theme.
* WatchItForTheMeme: The death song is much more known than the game iself.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

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