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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently there's some sort of game attached to this photo mode, but I guess we'll never know

Atsu from Ghost of Yōtei, all in white and surrounded by white blossoms

Atsu and her horse Mochizuki leaping before the sun

Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 1d

I love how many options Ghost of Yōtei gives you for exploring the map - investigate plumes of smoke! Check out interesting-looking landmarks! Follow a magical bird! Get to high ground and use your spyglass! Ask someone for directions! It all feels really organic and player-driven

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 1d

We saw Good Boy, which is a horror story from the POV of a doggo; as a movie it's otherwise pretty standard stuff but seriously HOW DID THEY GET THE DOG TO ACT THAT WELL 🤔🤔🤔

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 2d

So Nandos is ending its bottomless soda option, a move that I am choosing to see as a belated response to the words and deeds of @gisproule.bsky.social, @chrismcfeely.bsky.social and myself during the summer heatwave of 2022

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 3d

"I'll rip out your optics"

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 3d

Because the rest of the time is spent playing wacky and wonderful indie games, when it comes to playing my one (1) AAA game of the year I don't feel too bad about just rolling around in how expensive and polished it all is, lol

Atsu from Ghost of Yōtei feeding a fox from her hand

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 4d

It's REVENGE time, babyyyyyy

Atsu as a child in the midst of a Horrible Event

The Yotei Six in the midst of perpetrating said Horrible Event

Adult Atsu contemplating that sweet and bloody revenge

The title coming up following the prologue of Ghost of Yōtei

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 5d

It's incredible that this finally exists 😭😭😭

It genuinely feels like an era-specific piece of design in the way that a modern pastiche wouldn't have been able to capture

Missing Link Arcee (the prototype version) as a car... of the FUTURE

Missing Link Arcee (the prototype version) fightin' and sassin'

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 5d

WHO THE HECK IS HITTING UP MY WISHLIST IN OCTOBER???

(seriously, which of you was it - there's no note attached and I would very much like to thank you, whoever you are)

A surprise copy of Ghost of Yōtei that just turned up

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 5d

Feels like an 'opening one of these Arcees' kinda day

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 6d

See, there we go; Loki spins right out of Endgame and opens up all the multiverse stuff that follows right from the start, while WandaVision is a little way into the aftermath but before anybody's got their shit back together

The 2023 entry of the Marvel timeline, showing Avengers: Endgame, season one of Loki and WandaVision

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 9d

ohohoho

OHOHOHOHOHO

Both versions of Transformers Missing Link Arcee looking boss

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 12d

"'Our algorithm would not have pushed his content so aggressively had we known that he was also grooming his young fans to join his underground bear-baiting ring,' lied YouTube Head of Communications Hieronymus Windowsill"

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 12d

"Squigglyfloop - real name Raymond Venables - streamed eight hours of Minecraft and extreme ethnonationalism a day to an audience with an average age of twelve; he earned more money last year than did the last three generations of your family"

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 12d

The thing about being moderately online is that I only ever learn about YouTubers when they do something unbelievably heinous; whenever I look they always have 50 million subscribers and thousands of comments saying "noooo not Squigglyfloop, he was my entire childhood" and I'm like

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 13d

TBH I think AM&tW works either way around, although this way makes the post-credits a "wtf just happened" rather than an "oh no"

So mixed results for doing a chronological pre-Endgame run, although I'm expecting the post-EG stuff to be more drastically and positively affected by shuffling it around

The 2018 entry of the official Marvel timeline showing The Punisher season 2, Jessica Jones season 3, Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Infinity War

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 16d

I bought a bag of pretzels to snack on at work today and I didn't notice that they were the festive Christmas tree-shaped ones

I'M PART OF THE PROBLEM, GUYS 😭😭😭

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 16d

Thought the Rapture was happening but it was just me standing up too quickly while not being in my twenties, false alarm everybody

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 18d

I hate to damage my image as the community's foremost Diaclone-not-carer, but I have to admit this guy is pretty cool

Missing Link Cordon as one of those rocket-powered police cars we've all heard about

Missing Link Cordon as - holy shit - ge was one of those Transformers all along

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 20d

This was waiting for me when I got back home yesterday and if you're wondering why your favourite obscure character isn't statted up, I want you to know that it's because I *personally* made sure that those pages were used to include all the members of A-Next instead

You're WELCOME.

The Avengers expansion sourcebook for the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game/TTRPG

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 21d

Mr Hasbro: what did you do? I told you that he still needs to turn into a gun

Designer: wait no you didn't

Mr Hasbro: I clearly said that he should be luger

Designer: ...ohhhhh

TFW2005 @tfw2005.bsky.social · 21d

Activate Your Alt Mode Shockwave Revealed! #tfw2005 #transformers

Activate Your Alt Mode Shockwave Revealed!

Via Collider, we now have the official reveal for Activate Your Alt Mode Shockwave! Shown here in both his robot and robotic whale modes, Shockwave looks to have turned out very nicely. The wait now begins to see what he’ll look like in toy forum. Check it out and let us know what you think in the ongoing discussion thread! The post Activate Your Alt Mode Shockwave Revealed! appeared first on Transformer World 2005 - TFW2005.COM.

news.tfw2005.com

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 23d

"I asked ChatGPT-" yeah well I asked Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone and they said to sneak around the sleeping goblin, turn to 280
To draw your sword and attack, turn to 112
To Test your LUCK, turn to 309

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 24d

God, I am so ready for this dig to be done this week, I am incredibly sick of the sound of rain on tarpaulin 😩😩😩

Can't wait to spend the rest of the year sitting in my silly little lab running tests and blasting retrowave

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · 28d

Embarking on a reread of what is probably still my favorite fantasy series and I appreciate how up-front it is about the type of reader it's aimed at

I think a lot of folks will see the 92-character Dramatis Personae at the start and justifiably say "oh, fuck OFF," saving themselves a lot of time

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, the first book (of ten) in The Malazan Book of the Fallen

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Temple of Fear(nix) @templephoenix.bsky.social · Sep 8

Having a whole year of TV stuff capped off with a mostly off-Earth movie actually works pretty well to emphasize the Avengers breakup; it makes it feel like there's this big stretch where the big guns aren't doing anything useful any more

The 2017 entry from the full Marvel timeline, showing the second seasons of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, the third season of Daredevil, and Thor: Ragnarok

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