Line #6 WebVideo/TheRageaholic


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4	''The Rageaholic'' is a {{review}} series from Website/YouTube user [[HeavyMetalUmlaut RazörFist]]. His series is known for [[MotorMouth his witty fast talking nature]], [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness large vocabulary]] [[SophisticatedAsHell paired with a never-ending deluge of swear words]], [[AccentuateTheNegative using pictures along with his rants to accentuate the comedy]], and his mostly [[CausticCritic his contrarian and opinionated nature]]. His biggest comedic influence is Creator/DennisMiller, which makes sense since Razör's comedy style is all about using similes and metaphors with pop culture references.
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6	Not only does he review video games, he also does movie reviews under the ''Rageaholic Cinema'' banner. Lately, he started his second most popular types of videos where he does music review episodes called ''Music Mythos''. This is where he reviews a band's entire discography in one video. For these episodes, the bands featured are usually under the HeavyMetal genre (thus these episodes are called ''Metal Mythos'') although he has reviewed non-metal artists like Music/{{Michael Jackson}} and Music/{{Queen\|Band}}. He also reviews comics (''Razör v. Comics''), does rants, and has a LetsPlay series called ''RazörFist Arcade'' where he and his editor Terran Gell usually play through the demo of an up and coming game release. He makes a wrestling rant show called ''The Razör's Edge'' and the videos have been featured on Wrestling/{{Vince Russo}}'s [=YouTube=] channel. Lastly, he does rant videos where he discusses his opinions on various current topics, particularly involving social and political issues both in the United States and abroad.
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8	His [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/xRazorFistx/videos here]] and he also has a [[https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Twitter]] page.
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11	* AccentuateTheNegative: His use of gameplay footage and pictures does this for the subject he is reviewing.
12	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Loves using this to add just a little more emphasis to his punchlines, standouts include "bite-sized Bon Jovi with a boomerang", "buckshot ball-massage" and "flagrant fanservice fuck you".
13	* AntiHumor: At the end of his ''Splinter Cell'' retrospective:
14	--> “I’m RazörFist and ''Metal Gear Solid'' is shit and you should feel bad for playing it. [[Main/{{Beat}} beat]] There’s no punchline it’s just shit.”
15	* ArchEnemy: Creator/{{Bioware}}. [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Three]] [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 of]] [[VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda their]] games have topped his "Top 5 Turds of the year" lists.
16	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: From his ''Resident Evil 5'' Review:
17	--> “If you judge this as a survival horror game, it falls clean off the failure spectrum, plummets to the earth’s core directly into the 9th circle of hell to play strip poker with Mussolini, Hitler, and Justin Bieber.”
18	* AuthorAppeal: Frequently employs Professional Wrestling video and audio as a cutaway gag, and is a professed colossal fan of the sport.
19	* AwesomeMcCoolname: Absolutely unironically loves the impossibly manly monikers of the protagonists from his favorite [[TestosteronePoisoning machismo-laden]] actions flicks, usually pausing to gush about them.
20	* BaitAndSwitchComparison: From his video on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict:
21	--> '''RazörFist:''' He spots a dumpster fire. And, right next to CNN, someone setting ''actual'' dumpsters on fire.
22	* BerserkButton: Despite some similarities that he shares in terms of his preference in games and his style of reviewing to an extent. It is not a wise idea to say he is similar to Yahtzee due to his dislike of him. His actual inspiration is Creator/DennisMiller.
23	** In addition, he ''really'' hates it when he sees UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} at work, which is part of the reason why he stopped reviewing ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' games and gave ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' his disapproval because, regardless of its strengths or flaws, it was essentially a carbon-copy of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' mechanics.
24	** A recurring theme in his rants is his white-hot hatred of [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrites]] and [[SmugSnake deliberate liars]], especially when they're engaged in historical revisionism or character assassination. Of particular note are his ''Hollywood Was Always Red'' and ''Michael Jackson Rebuttal'' videos, where he tears into the mountain of lies that have been erected on both subjects and widely become accepted by the public.
25	* BlindIdiotTranslation: From his rant called ''Downfall of Video Game Journalism #2: The Kotaku Conundrum'':
26	--> “As someone who does speak Japanese and has been to Japan, I can tell you Kotaku’s Japanese translations half the time are about as faithful as Jude Law after a box of wine coolers.”
27	* BrainBleach: The conclusion to his rant on Creator/AlanMoore:
28	--> '''RazörFist:''' "People who enjoy superheroes are emotionally deranged and childish", you say? Capital stuff coming from the guy who participated in a full-length documentary on the life and career of Creator/SteveDitko, only to dedicate its entire runtime to bashing the man and his politics knowing full well he would never publicly rebuff you or your incredibly pedestrian worldview. I hate to break it to you, Alan, but that's not only childish, it's the intellectual equivalent of Duck Duck Goose. (pause) And now I need two gallons of mind bleach to sear away the mental image of a fully-bearded Alan Moore playing Duck Duck Goose.
29	* CausticCritic: In a show called ''The Rageaholic''? Who would have guessed?
30	** Then again, the man himself has taken issue with this characterization in the past, carefully pointing out in earlier videos that his review content tended to be divided 50-50 between positive and negative review and that he himself tends to take a positive outlook towards games.
31	* TheChosenMany: He's not very fond of this trope when games such as VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline ostensibly have the protagonist as TheChosenOne or the SoleSurvivor in-story, but in practice there are hundreds of similar "protagonists" running around with the exact same backstory and obnoxious gamer tags.
32	* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: Ruthlessly mocked in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7BK6io0XU China: The Paper Dragon]]", where he notes that contrary to what fiction or even propaganda and conspiracy theories might say, China's military and ''especially'' economical issues actually make the chances of China's superpower status upgrading to "world domination" laughable at best.
33	* ClusterFBomb: Happens when Razör gets even more worked up than normal, typically when a creator displays ambivalence or outright contempt for source material he feels rather strongly about.
34	--> '''RazörFist:''' "Fuck you! Fuck you, Creator/GeorgeMiller! Fuck you in your fat fuckin' facehole!"
35	* CoolShades: He wears Aviator sunglasses whenever he's in-character.
36	* CueCardPause: Referenced in regards to UsefulNotes/BarackObama.
37	* CultOfPersonality: Ripped ''thoroughly'' apart in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZG7snE7tU&t=2s Abraham Lincoln: American Dictator]], wherein Razörfist goes straight for the throat in dispelling the almost Messiah-like reverence surrounding the life and presidency of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and lays down the truth of his various abuses of power during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar with sources written straight from that time itself.
38	* DamnedByFaintPraise: In his ''The Order 1886'' review:
39	--> “You know it’s bad when the principal promotional poster for your game needs a glowing press quote to establish excellence, and the closest thing to positive is a bought out [=GameFaillers.com=] quote that roughly amounts to ‘shit’s pretty yo'.”
40	** He acknowledges when he's engaged in a similar activity when discussing what little he liked about ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
41	--> "If any of this praise sounds somewhat hollow, I would argue that's reflective of the vacuous nature of the film itself."
42	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Whenever Razörfist appears on camera, this is his visual motif of choice.
43	** Reaches a point just below self-parody in his review of the ''Black & Chrome Edition'' of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.
44	* DisproportionateRetribution: He really likes this trope. A common gag is Razör proclaiming that encountering a repetitious, exhausting and annoying cultural trend will be greeted with a hail of gunfire.
45	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: InUniverse. During his review of Doom he criticizes the WarIsHell aesops of military video games finding them to be hypocritical.
46	-->Narratives castigating the "Horrors of War" in a genre that exclusively features it!
47	* EveryoneHasStandards: Has confessed to going against his nature as a self-described "selfish fucking prick" to do volunteer work on occasion.
48	* EvilInc: He is convinced that [=EA=] is powered by a process that consists of harvesting human souls.
49	* FatBastard: Portrays Jim Sterling, [=MovieBob=], and Gabe Newell as this.
50	* FanHater:
51	** ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' fans seem to get criticized the worst as he hates the franchise and the praise it gets from both critics and gamers, seeing Kojima as an overrated hack who is propped up by his overzealous fans despite his many flaws.
52	** He has a particular sour spot for fans of ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' franchise, as he believes that the main character, Geralt of Rivia is a rip-off of Elric of Melniboné, the [[ProtagonistTitle titular character]] of a series of fantasy novels he deeply enjoys.
53	* FloweryInsults: His vocabulary in terms of name-calling is so extensive and [[PurpleProse verbose]] that it could fill its own dictionary.
54	* FourPointScale: He has rallied against this as shown in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pss0hJkmLBA Downfall of Gaming Journalism video on Game Informer]], noting that plenty of articles have been written on the subject, and further puts the blame on Game Informer and by extension [=GameStop=] for having a hand in the skewering of the scale so far by being the most popular print magazine for gaming owned by the largest retailer in gaming and thus allowing their influence to affect others.
55	-->'''RazörFist:''' A bad game isn't a 6 or a 7, you colluding [[CountryMatters cuntflaps]]! A bad game is a 1 or a 2! [...] ''shows Game Informer's review of'' [[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawks:]] [[{{Sequelitis}} RIDE]] ''with a 6 out of 10'' You can not tell me that score isn't about spinning a ''bad'' game as "[[SoOkayItsAverage mediocre]]" so that [=GameStop=] can move the metric shit-load of Tony Hawk skateboard peripherals they'll be stacking in their storerooms to the ceilings with otherwise.
56	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In the ''Deus Ex'' review:
57	--> “If you don’t play ''Deus Ex'', I will kill you. Oh, you think I’m joking? If you don’t play this game, I will make you swallow a pufferfish!”
58	* GameOfNerds: RazörFist ''loves'' baseball.
59	-->[[https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/198599215453188096 An evening of grilled burgers & dogs & a baseball game. I'd have to fuck Martha Washington to be any more American right now.]]
60	* TheGlassesComeOff: Sunglasses in his case. He'll remove them whenever he drops character.
61	* GunNut: Has several videos denouncing gun control and defending the 2nd Amendment. Prefers revolvers, Mausers, bolt-action rifles, and other "classic" style firearms (which fits an Arizonan).
62	* SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: His ''Rageaholic Cinema'' series is basically one long love-song to cheesy 70's and 80's action flicks, extolling their glories in arduous, loving detail.
63	** His ''The Depths of [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]]'' series is a more focused version, dedicated to giving the same treatment to his absolute favorite ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, albeit more concerned with the merits of well executed [[MythArc Myth Arcs]] and superb characters than sky-rending machismo.
64	* HeavyMetalUmlaut: Uses one in his name.
65	* HellIsThatNoise: Beware the high-pitched squealing of hentai girls, as they're apparently capable of causing an EarthShatteringKaboom. Or as Razör describes them...
66	-->'''RazörFist:''' "The infantilized fuck-shrieks of underage hentai bitches!"
67	* HiddenDepths: During his VideoGame/GhostOfATale video, he reveals that he's been a fan of the {{Literature/Redwall}} series since he was in middle school and finds the protagonist of the game to be rather adorable.
68	* {{Hipster}}: RazörFist opens his ''Film/DeathWish3'' review with a rant against hipsters, listing things they've ruined (like Music/TheBeatles, [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest the Pacific Northwest]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking skinny jeans]]).
69	* HypocrisyNod: Will happily stab holes in his own claims for the sake of a laugh, usually during his movie reviews.
70	** ''Film/EscapeFromLA''
71	-->'''RazörFist:''' Because nothing with Creator/SteveBuscemi in it can possibly be considered bad. '''poster ''for Film/INowPronounceYouChuckAndLarry'' peeks into frame''' That doesn't count, Terran Gell!
72	** ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''
73	-->'''RazörFist:''' Max files in with the rest of the Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail extras to arrive at the first proper town in this tittyfuckin' series! '''Mad Max Town Counter sequence activates''' Get the fuck outta here, [[Film/MadMax first film]], whaddya think you are, the empirical baseline upon which this whole franchise is based?
74	* InsistentTerminology: He is convinced that the term “streamline” is industry code for “Dumb the fuck down.”
75	** He also has his own personal examples, such as [[Main/ThirdPersonShooter Turd person shooters]], [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare Modern Borefare]], [[Franchise/{{Battlefield}} Banalfield]], [[VideoGame/{{Destiny}} Density]], [[VideoGame/Thief2014 Teef]], [[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Hitman Abomination]], [=GameFailers=], and [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare Fall of Spacey: Infinite Chorefare]].
76	* LeanAndMean: Trim of body, full of rage.
77	* MaliciousMisnaming: A favorite gag of Razör's during his videos lambasting specific people. Using [=MovieBob=] as a case study, he's been referred to as: The Game Overeater, [=MovieSlob=], [=MovieKnob=], [=MovieSnob=], [=MovieBobba=] The Hutt, and [=MovieBlob=].
78	* MemeticBadass: InUniverse with actors that he likes, such as Creator/CharlesBronson and Creator/ClintEastwood. His film retrospectives on the ''Film/DeathWish'' series and the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' series paint their respective characters as [[TestosteronePoisoning absurdly awesome]] murder machines.
79	-->'''[[Film/DeathWish3 Bronson, as Paul Kersey]]:''' Excuse me, please.\
80	'''The Rageaholic:''' If Paul Kersey is using his manners, it can only mean one thing: he is about to excuse someone of the burden of being fucking alive!\
81	'''[[Film/MagnumForce Clint Eastwood, as Dirty Harry]]:''' May I make a suggestion?\
82	'''The Rageaholic:''' Yeah, what's it to be, Harry? Air Marshal? Trained SWAT team? Open hostage negotiati--(Harry comes through the door dressed as a pilot)--holy fuck, this will be a massacre!
83	* ObligatoryJoke: On his review of ''Film/{{Commando}}'', he adds the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' "ROCKET LAWN-CHAIR!" power-up sound to John Matrix's robbing of the survivalist store's secret gun room that has, yes, a rocket launcher.
84	-->'''The Rageaholic''': [[WorthIt Had to be done]].
85	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: On the ''very'' rare occasions he drops the "RazörFist" character it means he wants to be absolutely clear that what he's about to say is extremely important.
86	* PeopleFallOffChairs: During his ''Rageaholic Cinema'' of Escape From LA, the footage cuts to him being taken aback (see: flinching/leaning back in his chair) whenever Snake Plissken utters a badass line punctuated by a ''"badass 80s synthesizer riff"''; usually, ''"Call me Snake."'' The second time this happens, both he and chair collide with the ''Punisher'' stand/cutout/DVD rack, whereupon the camera cuts away again moments before he's bundled out of his chair.
87	** And, when this happens the ''third'' time, it cuts back to him, having pulled a full-on FaceFault.
88	* PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: RazörFist ''despises'' this, feeling that not only does it often suck the enjoyment out of media for the sake of virtue signalling, it also does a disservice to the actual sacrifices of those who lived through such events.
89	* PrecisionFStrike: He turns this into an art form. Despite not being averse to swearing in any sense, he always times them at just the right time.
90	* RatedMForManly: RazörFist's main theme. He dabbles in HeavyMetal, video games, and action films that seem to be fueled by testosterone.
91	* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: So many that they practically need their own separate page, be they simple sections of his videos or ''entire'' videos. Here is a great example from his ''Resident Evil 5'' review:
92	--> “So by all means ''[=RE5=]'' fanboys, hoodwink yourself into liking the game. Pretend the lack of tension and horror is forgivable. That Capcom was having an off day and that the magic will reappear in ''Resident Evil 6''. It’s gone like Freddy Mercury, It ain’t coming back, and Capcom are solely to blame. Buy their games and you just support the same sort of vapid, overhyped, corporate pablum that gives us a new ''Call of Duty'' every 8 months. Capcom, Capcom, for ruining one of the greatest survival horror franchises of all time, this middle finger is for you. And for rejoicing in Capcom’s endless barrage of mediocrity and putting this shitpiece at the very top of the sales charts, Capcom fanboys, this middle finger is for you. I’m RazörFist, god fucking speed!”
93	** The entirety of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5s_XMJbWG0 The MovieBob MASSACRE]] video was one giant one towards Creator/BobChipman after the latter's TakeThat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJi0C3fhVtc video]] towards him.
94	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5s_XMJbWG0 One to]] WebVideo/{{Moviebob}}, primarily for a ShallowParody of him.
95	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Arb_oPvXdM One to]] Creator/AlanMoore and his attitude towards comic fans.
96	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I1X-UH3GOQ One to]] WebVideo/TheAmazingAtheist (TJ did apologize for the video that provoked the rant, though)
97	** [[https://youtu.be/_fhFdJWgUQ0?t=1422 One to Gaahl and King ov Hell]] regarding the supposed importance of their roles in Music/{{Gorgoroth}}.
98	* RuleNumberOne: A few of his ''Rageaholic Cinema'' episodes make reference to numbered rule lists; mostly populated by themselves.
99	--> '''Razorfist ''[on Malone]'' ''': But, before she can return that thing to the bow of the ''USS Ronald Reagan'', she comes face-to-mustache with 80's Action Rule #5: Behind every door... there is a ''BURT FUCKING REYNOLDS!''\
100	'''Razorfist ''[on Death Wish]''''': Paul Kersey is a pacifist, soft-spoken, left-wing architect whose immediate family are about to become acutely aware of the Cardinal Rule of Death Wish: To be related to Charles Bronson... ''is to FUCKING DIE''.
101	* RunningJoke:
102	** His method of continually finding creative ways to make fat jokes at Jim Sterling's expense. It would not be funny if it was not for his increasingly innovative ways to time them and word them perfectly.
103	** In his ''Music Mythos'' series, he continually points out when vocalist's voices sound like Franchise/TheMuppets with accompanied clips of said muppets synced up with their music.
104	** Treating the screaming of anime girls as a weapon of mass destruction.
105	** His review of the ''Dirty Harry'' and ''Death Wish'' series treated the main characters as insanely awesome murder machines, but he still made several jokes about Creator/CharlesBronson's advanced age, and thus making Paul Kersey an extremely DirtyOldMan.
106	* SigningOffCatchPhrase: At the end of almost every episode to date:
107	-->"I'm RazörFist, God-'''fucking'''-speed!"
108	* SubvertedCatchPhrase: Sometimes he may say something in place of his catch phrase while signing off.
109	** Ironically, the insertion of profanity into his catchphrase "Godspeed!" was this. He has recently gone back to the "clean" version because he found it wasn't funny anymore.
110	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: He's done this to close out several videos, most notably in his review of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' where he brings out a physical revolver.
111	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: His rather large vocabulary tends to give off this impression to most of his detractors.
112	** Parodied in his review of ''VideoGame/{{Battletech}}'' when he launches into a particularly wordy rant about consumer contempt on the part of the publishers, and screenshots of the definition of various rare terms keep popping up on the screen. Followed immediately by the editor getting a giggle [[HehHehYouSaidX out of him saying the words "hard" and "wood"]] close together.
113	* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: Razorfist has gone on record saying that blackpillers and doomsayers are often another form of propaganda and demoralization, and that it's generally not worth taking them to heart.
114	* SophisticatedAsHell: The man can change together swear words and formal words together so quickly and seamlessly that it sounds almost natural.
115	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In his ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'' review:
116	--> “I seem to remember this looking like something I saw in a hentai once… that I just found of course.”
117	* TakeThat: Nearly half of his jokes are some form of take that towards a specific target. His most common targets include Creator/{{Sony}}, [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]], [[Creator/BobChipman [=MovieBob=]]], ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'', [[Creator/ElectronicArts [=EA=]]], Creator/SquareEnix, Creator/{{Capcom}}, [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]], WebVideo/TheIrateGamer, the ''Call of Duty'' and ''Metal Gear'' series, modern anime and [=JRPG=]s, Anita Sarkeesian, and, given the 2016 election cycle, UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton and UsefulNotes/BarackObama.
118	** You can also add Yoshinori Ono (current director of the Street Fighter series), Creator/HideoKojima, and Tetsuya Nomura to that long list. In fact, you can say he has it out for "super star game directors" in general. You can also add Soul Calibur to that list.
119	** A subtle one shows up in his retrospective on Music/{{Gorgoroth}}, where he emphasizes King ov Hell's insincere involvement with the Black Metal Scene by at one point having the caption call him "T.C. Queen", and describe him ''not'' as the "Bassist", but, "Professional Corpsepaint Model".
120	* SwivelChairAntics: Whenever he does his "Fuck you, I was right!" chant.
121	* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Gleefully indulges in a bit of this whenever his predictions are vindicated. Punctuated by spinning in his chair, FlippingTheBird in every possible direction and chanting "Fuck you, I was right! Fuck you, I was right!" Thrusting his crotch at the camera optional.
122	* ViewersAreMorons: A view he very staunchly holds in regards to the modern gaming audience. This quote from his ''Guilty Gear'' review sums it up best.
123	-->"To court a casual audience is to ''lose'' a casual audience. Because casual audiences don't ''decide'' what to play, they are simply ''told'' what to play!"
124	* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: And he is not afraid to use it.
125	* WouldRatherSuffer: He claimed he would rather grow ovaries only for the purpose of being punched in them than play ''Dead Island''.
126	* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: In his ''Mass Effect 2'' review:
127	--> “Yea, verily, yon video game industry art fucking clueless!”
128	** In his Brutal Legend review:
129	--> "While I’d love to drive the '''Murder Jack Black In His Sleep''' bandwagon, because in the words of William Shakespeare: ''Yea, verily Tenacious D doth fellate many a bulging phallus.''"
130	* YouAreFat: In his "Moviebob Massacre" rant he makes a lot of derisive comments and insults at Bob's weight. Videos that bring up Gabe Newell or James Stirling often have him bashing them as fat.
131	* YouBastard: At the end of his ''Final Fantasy XIII'' review, he comes to the conclusion that the reason it ended up as bad as it did was because… of you.
132	* YouAreNotAlone: His stated opinion on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3GV65jLUFg propaganda]] is that it's less supposed to fool you and more meant to to keep you from realizing this trope is in play, and that it starts falling apart the moment you do.
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