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      <p ns="0" title="Third Party Authentication" snippet="...in a third party site may result in a full block of your site in the API - &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; you can no longer query for basic information such as player profiles, user&#10;" size="1682" wordcount="286" timestamp="2012-04-24T14:40:23Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Team configs" snippet="This will give the class unlimited units, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that the round will not end until a time or score limit is reached.    &#10;" size="5306" wordcount="805" timestamp="2013-01-09T14:10:40Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Chicken" snippet="*While your animations are suspended, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; archers cannot grapple and builders cannot build or destroy, you can still &#10;" size="1773" wordcount="303" timestamp="2016-06-02T09:48:40Z" />
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