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If you're stuck and need help getting up and running, map chat can be.... helpful like 80% of the time? People generally are pretty helpful if folks ask nicely.

But, if there's something specific you're stuck on, may be able to help here.

Nope. Too late. Ross has ceased to be.

💦DROPS💦
🎁GIVEAWAYS🎁
🎉🎸TROUBADOURS ARE HERE!
🥳MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE!
🎉VISIONS OF ETERNITY EXPAC☕🎃
@guildwars2.com
🎺Jazz Music🎵
www.twitch.tv/matygon

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

It's kind of unreal to process that today we're launching the third expansion that I've had the privilege to work on at ArenaNet. The team works so hard to deliver these new stories, features, and encounters.

I hope everyone has a blast exploring Castora today!

🎉🎸TROUBADOUR PRE-RELEASE PARTY!🥳
☕MATY'S CAFE - TROUBADOUR MINI QUICHES
☕GW2 - TROUBADOUR PREP🎃
@guildwars2.com
🎺Jazz Music🎵
www.twitch.tv/matygon

Promotional photo of Vala standing with her back to what looks to be an elaborate canvas. She is holding a black lace fabric up to her face, so that the viewer can only see above her eyes. The photo is set in shades of neon purple and pink hues. Vala is wearing dark eye makeup that seems to bleed down her cheeks from her eyes in both black ink and pink glitter. The graphic reads "One Week" at the bottom, indicating that Vala's next single, Violent Delights, is dropping in 1 week.

🔮🌹🖤 #newmusic

ChrisofDuke - Twitch [Peregrin] A Hunter hunting for higher levels. !hello !discord | 1558/1600 Follower Goal

2 Days in a row?! Another afternoon #lotro stream!
#lotrocc #lotrofamily #twitch

twitch.tv/chrisofduke

I watched this one yesterday. The very fact that the other creator does what they do and seems to have a very "I did nothing wrong, I'm being attacked" response ... almost makes a person think that maybe the Internet should go back to being a privilege and not a right.
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YouTube video by Abroad in Japan What is Happening to Japan?

This is a very important video, not only for and about Japan, but regarding influencer culture in general and the quality of online discourse.

Chris does good work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEWh...

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot.

We can never normalize this:

Matygon - Twitch 🎃Happy Fishing Fri-yay!🎃Guild Wars 2 - 4 Days until TROUBADOUR!🎸🎺Jazz Music🎵

🎃Happy Fishing Fri-yay!
🎃Guild Wars 2 - 4 Days until TROUBADOUR!🎸
@guildwars2.com
🎺Jazz Music🎵
www.twitch.tv/matygon

On this day 25 years ago Linkin Park's debut album, Hybrid Theory, was released. It's hard to imagine this album is turning 25. To celebrate, I'll be playing the entire album including some bonus tracks. Please note the earlier start time of 5 pm server time. 😁🌈
#lotro #lotrocc

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Malys is OUT NOW on Steam!Play the game via bit.ly/playmalysExorcise the infernal and exact vengeance in this unholy roguelite deckbuilder from David Gaider ... Malys 1.0 Launch Trailer

🔥 Malys is OUT NOW in 1.0! 🔥

For a game about demons, you've all been absolute angels - thank you for your support along the way & we're so happy to share Malys' full release with you 🖤

Check out the launch trailer and then get exorcising below!

D&D: Weis, Hickman, And Manganiello Spark ‘Dragonlance’ Stir At WotC – “We’re Back” A new post featuring Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Joe Manganiello, and D&D’s head of Franchise, Dan Ayoub, sparks Dragonlance hope. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Joe Manganiello loves Dragonlance. He’s one of the franchise’s biggest fans. The saga of Krynn and its Wars of the Lance has captured the actor’s heart. So much […] D&D: Weis, Hickman, And Manganiello Spark ‘Dragonlance’ Stir At WotC – “We’re Back” first appeared on Bell of Lost Souls

D&D: Weis, Hickman, And Manganiello Spark ‘Dragonlance’ Stir At WotC – “We’re Back”

YouTube video by Matthew Colville Community

An hour long!??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdk...

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

YouTube video by Laranity ALL Reasons to be HYPED for Visions of Eternity!

New video!

ALL Reasons to be HYPED for Visions of Eternity!

Visions of Eternity is now less than a week away! Today, we talk about ALL the reasons to be excited for this expansion, based on your answers on social media 🔥

Thanks to everyone who replied!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BihH...

Why would they? He's such a polite young man. He works at a temple!

Rise, my debut novel, is currently on sale for $0.99 to celebrate the audiobook release! You can pick it up at your favorite book retailer: books2read.com/u/m2MEJr

No coincidence this has taken off again in the ICE age

This is tonight 😁

I did get a kick out of picking a character and watching it flail, go in circles, and ultimately start either repeating questions or asking contradictory questions to answers it already had. 😆

Hey guys! 🥳🎉
I'm having a smol #birthday celebration on
▫️ Tuesday, 21 Oct 10am (GMT+8) at
▫️ twitch.tv/ayinmaiden
Let's play #GW2 & #giveaway some stuff!
See you there! ❤️

Show a cartoon you will always love

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

Backpack with a fan-made Mariah Doeheart (Of BREAK!! RPG fame) keychain attached

I am flying today, had to to bring my adventuring pal

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.