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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 36m

the other day I randomly clicked on Hades 2 on Steam, and the first thing I saw was a review being racist about one of the gods having dark skin >_> these people truly have nothing better to do

Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 56m

Maybe it's just the Uncanny Valley of time, but it feels like Blizz's cartoony HotS/SC2 era art style truly aged like milk

Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1h

I know this is a common type of circlejerk, but the 27-year old Starcraft 1 literally looks better than the 8-15 year old Starcraft 2

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1h

that's still what I remember, there'd be one Timewalking event like every 2-3 months, rotating through expansions. I had a guildie/friend who was *really* into optimizing them, collecting Timewalking sets with legendaries and doing all sorts of OP stuff

didn't realize they'd changed it since then

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 2h

it's Schrödinger's Betrayal - maybe 5 sessions from now you really do pull the trigger, maybe the vibes are off and it doesn't feel like the right choice

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 2h

GM secret: when you introduce a shady character that may or may not be trustworthy, you don't even have to decide that yourself until later 🤫

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 3h

That post is from 2023. When I look back in 2028 or 2033, I am 100% confident I will have been correct in my prediction.

Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 3h

GMs everywhere are excitedly getting together **every single day** to discuss narrative, themes, tell stories from their parties - and also how to further improve the AP. You can see their passion practically everywhere in the community.

(One of those GMs is me! Here is my extensive SoG GM guide)

Season of Ghosts GM Guide

From the first moment I read the intro of The Summer That Never Was, the first book of the Season of Ghosts adventure path, on an October evening in 2023, I knew this was going to be a famous AP th…

wontonsworkshop.wordpress.com

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 3h

Today, the SoG thread in the PF2e Discord has 79,000 comments, nearly 5x as much as the next largest AP thread.

SoG was one of the best-selling Foundry modules. It's getting a hardcover compilation. It has its own subreddit.

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 3h

Almost two-year anniversary of me making the most correct called shot of my life

Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · Oct 20

Reading Season of Ghosts. I think this will be a famous AP. That's all I'll say. Don't spoil it for other people. 🤫 (or read the book at all if you plan to be a PC in it)

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 16h

Ooof that's very annoying

As a silver lining, sounds like you dodged a bullet by not working somewhere which is that disorganized and sloppy

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

Basshunter - DotA

[Verse]
Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA
(I hear you man)
Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA
(I feel you man)
Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA
Å pushar på å smeker
Med motståndet vi leker
Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA
Å springer runt å creepar
Och motståndet vi sleepar
(Let's get it on)

Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

17 in the Top 100, so yeah, less than 20%

this is why I always say, I think the most fundamental divide in music taste is whether you want singing or instrumentals!!! For the median person on the street, this stat would probably be like 95-100%

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

vaguely related fun fact, i started searching through my Most Played playlist, and only 3 songs in my Top 20 even *have* lyrics

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

16 min Heat 21 underworld with Aspect of Momus 👌

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

as a famous villain once put it, "In any battle there's always a level of force against which no tactics can succeed."

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

lol most broken run yet

Fear 16 surface in 18.5 minutes, pretty easily. I was doing literally 1000s of DPS

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

She's not too bad at all (also it's just a cool fight)

Surface Vow 1 and every Vow 2+ is fucking insane, but they give you one pretty normal one

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

now do it on Vow of Rivals

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately Facebook not only still exists, but because of Facebook Marketplace being the de-facto only remaining place to sell anything online, I recently I had to RE-make a Facebook account for the first time in 10 years 🫠

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

when you read about disasters like Chernobyl, it's never 1 person pressing the wrong button or whatever, there's always 8 things in a chain that have to go wrong, any 1 of which being done right would have prevented the whole thing

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

lmao had a big fuckup at work, in a manner which was primarily my fault, but also would have been entirely 100% preventable if any one of like 6 managers had just checked on it or said something 🫠🫠🫠

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhh i love when a villain or rival gets away, wouldn't know what that's like 🙂

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Wonton 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @wonton.bsky.social · 1d

we've already blocked out the fact that every post's top replies were 100 blue checks and bots going "wow" "nice" and "check out my pics in bio" because of HOW BAD the situation was

it literally became unusable

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