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Wife guy. "If you claim to be someone's ally, but aren't getting hit by rocks thrown at them, you aren't standing close enough"


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Druids are so oddly specific. Cleric, Rouge, Paladin, all very general templates. Then there's "I want to play a shapeshifter" and then it became a whole core class. Such a wild ass niche mechanic to build a whole class around

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Maybe an unfair judgement, but I'd bet Buttigieg would seriously court Harris to be her VP nom. He strikes me as very ambitious, and I could see him trying to parlay the nomination into a senate or governor seat in Michigan later down the line. I can see Whitmer being patient

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Importing this from the bad place because I'm absolutely obsessed with A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones

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Breaking: SCOTUS rules that the Tabaxi species feature "Feline Agility" that doubles speed is *multiplicative* of your movement, enshrining into law a divisive homebrew in a stinging rebuke of the Dungeon Master lobby

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The Supreme Court has made its decision that literally nothing is illegal

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You're like this Ticktock account I found of a guy who redesigns signs in New York city. You're like modern day batman

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I'm reading Wheel of Time and I really sympathize with Perrin Aybara because I, too, am a big guy who would prefer if no one noticed me

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My friend had a son and named him Lincoln and just had a daughter and named her Reagan. I can't wait for their next kid, Obama

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Books a million cashier asked me to take a customer satisfaction survey, and I did because those probably help staffers. Survey was longer than I thought, and the coupon they sent me is $5 off my next $25 purchase within the next 30 days. I'll never get back in time to spend it. RIP

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My buddy's TV just said 'sport mode activated' and I had no idea he had one of them fancy off road televisions

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the heat is melting the microplastics in my urine and it's coming out like dental floss and i've been pulling it out for five minutes like a magician's handkerchief trick

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Any #EldenRing players on here got any rune farming tips for a player who's not very good at Elden Ring? Besides the lazy dragon exploit

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Finding good friends to play TTRPGs with around tables both physical and virtual is one of the best feelings in the world. #ttrpgs

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Not really what you're asking for, but basically every Disney movie in the 2000s got a companion sequel show on Disney Channel. Most notable is Lilo & Stitch, which got a sequel series and 2 spinoff series

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That's the crux of it. There's so many *things* going on he'd have to write the longest, busiest two books of his life to satisfyingly conclude them all. I love all the plot threads, but there's so much to handle we're probably talking about THREE books to conclude the story now

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Oh yeah, I think he definitely let the showrunners take some bullets for him lol. Doesn't help that he includes things without a plan for how they'll turn out. He painted himself into a few corners with some of the plot threads

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Pausing every five minutes to impress upon them the importance of following basketball regulations *to the letter*

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They don't tell you that the first 15 minutes of 1917 is a straight up horror film. God, No Man's Land was spooky as hell

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I feel like it was said at one point that the showrunners based season 8 on GRRMs notes, so we can assume evil Dany and king bran and exile Jon are going to happen. My wife's theory is season 8 was a test balloon and now he's totally reworking the whole ending lol

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I'm a SUCKER for like pre-established rules and especially reputations in movies. Like when the Russian guy found out his son pissed off John Wick he goes ghost white and everyone in universe is scared to death of him. I love that shit

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The image of the House singing on the steps of the Capitol while protesters were shoving against barricades at the Supreme Court is seared into my image of the party forever. You said it perfectly, malpractice.

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So, hey, over on Whatever today I have something important to say about "AI" art and my book covers, and why moving forward it'll be an actual contract point that my book covers have to be human-created.

whatever.scalzi.com/2024/06/21/a...

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One of the most fan-arted series in speculative fiction history and Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson are using the cheapest AI art possible on the #ASOIAF wiki.
SHAME

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New D&D rules are making Divine Smite a bonus action and this is the worst day of my life

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9 said it best. "I've seen the fall of Rome, World War 5. Now I'm going to die in a basement in Cardiff"

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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Horse walks into a bar, bartender asks, “Why the long face? Are you depressed?” Horse thinks for a sec, “I don’t think I am” and immediately disappears. This joke is about Rene Descartes’ saying “I think therefore I am” but if I told you that first, I would be putting Descarte before the horse.

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I Googled the phrase "Best action movies on HBO Max" and the featured result was Banshee, a Cinemax show that HBO acquired. This is the first time I've run into a straight up garbage search result on that engine

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Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

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The adventuring party rolls for initiative as my bard launches right into his tight five (50 rounds total of material) to inspire courage

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You may not consider the Stonehenge lichens important, but if under a full moon you stripped bare and crawled in a spiral toward one of the great rocks and then as dawn broke licked the lichen you'd understand. You'd understand everything. This is why the practice is barred.

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Juneteenth makes infinitely more sense than a lot of other holidays. We always should have been celebrating a "Reunification Day" or some nonsense like that. You would think one of those Republicans between Lincoln and Roosevelt would have seen it as a political red meat for the base thing

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The world if Black Sam Bellamy hadn't wrecked in Cape Cod and had managed to establish a pirate colony in Maine

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Wizards ofthe Coast gave a bunch of content creators first viewing of the new 5.5 edition rules and clearly just lifted an embargo because now half my YouTube homepage is reviewing new Dungeons and Dragons content. LOVE. IT

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I love that so many mildly successful dramas from the early 2000s just all have RPGs sitting in thrift stores throughout the country. I bet the Supernatural RPG would have sold 10 million copies if it had come out in 2015

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Anti-corporate graffiti spotted in Wynyard, Tasmania

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Game of Thrones: We changed the names of several characters that sounded similar so you don't get confused. House of the Dragon: There are like five dudes named Aegon. We got twins named Erryk and Arryk, and they've taken opposite sides in the war. Keep up or fuck off.

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Me: WWJD? [A hush falls over the room] Me: get everybody drunk — for FREE Everybody: *shifts focus to lone, greatly outnumbered bartender*

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So now that Bluesky has legit user numbers now, are we all going to come together and melt the servers during #HOTD tomorrow?

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Both historically accurate and on point. A rare combo for the tired "Trolley Problem" gag.

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Just thinking about how Darth Vader decided that his last act before dying was to gorilla press slam a geriatric dictator down a bottomless pit. Valid and inspiring.

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It's only validation if it's from the Valíd region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling acceptance

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