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I think I did better in this week's Between at cutting shoe leather stuff, players definitely got to do more rolls and other actions.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 16h

The Ferengi episodes of DS9 are such a delight, honestly probably my favorite even above the Mirror Universe

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Got to play my emotional support thopter deck in Commander tonight, I just really love generating piles and piles of artifact tokens

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I need to work on doing this in TTRPGs, especially with my Between game. Hard part is getting player buy-in.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been watching through the Sharknado movies and I gotta say by IV it's becoming an uncomfortable trend of how they keep adding new white main cast members but keep killing off every new Black character. Many of them get heroic sacrifices, but so do the white ones and they get saved at the last moment

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd really like to see this more in Draw Steel especially for montage challenges

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Deadlock update looks incredible, the map is so cool now but that and the UI changes are taking some time to adjust to

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gotta love Star Trek just going straight for a deep ethics episode right after a fun Mirror Universe episode. Directly applicable to the modern plague of the rationalists.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact of the matter is that if we don't want people resorting to asking LLMs to solve their coding problems for them, we as a community have gotta get a LOT more willing to field questions whose answers we regard as painfully obvious.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't tell if Xal'atath is too strong or if this is just continuing my fairly green QM match history as HotS is trying to recalibrate my MMR

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just ran Road to Broadhurst the fastest I've done it, got through the first encounter in only an hour with three players. Helped that all of them already knew Foundry but it was the first time I could actually run the goblins

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Draw Steel director screen and dice just arrived! @hellomcdm.bsky.social

The DS director screen standing open on a table. Before it are two pairs of icosahedral d10s and a cube d3, one set is white black the other is purple blue.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love Deep Space Nine's commitment to Mirror Universe episodes (I'm into season 6 now). It's deeply endearing

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trying to decide if the contestants this season of Bakeoff are weaker than normal or I've just forgotten how many people scrub out the early weeks

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't have words for Primetime except that this is gonna be a banner year for being glued to the seat during deeply uncomfortable movies

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is very satisfying to get Abathur on a large, three lane map, go locust build, and then watch the enemy team be completely ineffectual at answering the map pressure. Sure helped that Ragnaros picked Sulfuras over Lava Wave!

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've played a lot of games but it's really hard to get away from two facts - I grew up on RTS, both Microsoft and Blizzard - I moved to MOBAs as those rolled out - While it's certainly faded the last 6 years I've been a Blizzard superfan for a large % of my life

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Worf's Kal'Hyah starting off looking like Funky Town for Miles and then immediately turning into Torture City is honestly a classic. At least he's got Bashir with him!

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I get back into Heroes of the Storm all the matchup knowledge is flooding back into me. Why yes, I will enjoy playing Tyrande vs. Deckard as I lunar flare every single ult he casts.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DS9 Leeta's noises are incredible. Like a plush toy when she's distressed (s6e5)

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Going back to my decade old notes about "Hero Ideas" for Heroes of the Storm is wild. For one, I clearly stopped updating it in 2017 or so because I had listed Imperius and Mal'Ganis still. Furthermore, there are *so* many more WoW and Overwatch-based ideas just ripping the list of playable options.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of those nights where you have to ask your partner 'did you already give the cat greenies' because she's begging but you were busy playing video games and might have missed treat time (the lying cat of course already got her treats)

A black cat, Hoax, sitting under a chair looking attentively

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Never admit that politicians did something you like. Always treat them like shit and never reward them for moving in tour direction" is just an insanely toxic and counter productive approach to electoral politics but a bunch of ppl on social media have convinced themselves its the best approach

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Steadily remembering why my favorite heroes were my favorites in HotS of the storm. Also, mid game shot calling is such a huge diff maker when nobody remembers how to play.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Continuing to deeply enjoy how Back Heroes of the Storm is. It's funny, it's been so long even basic matchup interactions like Johanna vs. Sgt Hammer feel super fresh.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

5 months into my job and the single biggest difference is this company is monomiacal about infrastructure upgrades, to the point where I'm wondering if it actually is worth it. Classically everyone complains about management only asking for features and never giving time for infrastructure.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unlucky that this thread crossed over with some of my other mute words meant to skip over some other discourse, but this is about as comprehensive of a walkthrough of the insanity happening in the Bay area as is gonna happen. Also explains implicitly why this form of AI criticism won out in NYT.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Born and raised in Seattle during peak Macklemore, sorry gotta stan the hometown hero. Macklemore is good!

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Impossible beef feels like it's been pretty steady price-wise the last five years and is now getting pretty competitive with actual beef

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

SCP-8874 - "Swing Voters" CONTAINMENT CLASS: UNCONTAINED DISRUPTION CLASS: EKHI RISK CLASS: DANGER

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not a great morning when people are obviously falling for ratfucking edits.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Submitted my panel for PAXU, hope I get accepted!

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Getting ready for my new The Between campaign this Friday, going to use Gesod as my mastermind.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think my Blizzcon thoughts - HotS: So fucking back - SC: Vaporware - HS, OW: clever but I'm still not going back - WoW: super not going back

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

messaging criticism is dumb because the problem is message distribution first and foremost send tweet

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

there's a weird whiplash effect in that, since 2000, the private lives of americans simultaneously improved while the country's institutions and civic life more or less continuously degenerated

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UK economy has three major industries: Warhammer, Onlyfans and Little Alex Horne

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rulebreaker Commander night was a success. While I may have lost, my boardwipe tribal Whtz deck dragged the game out for 29 excruciating turns (battle of wits was successfully tutored and played on turn 10 but a Boseiju into Bojuka Bog screwed me over)

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Blizzard will hopefully go back to making good games after this

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One clever bit of framing Jace as "many parts" is it neatly maps to his many Planeswalker cards. Like yes, people are many parts, but Magic's design really accentuates that.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I feel like the toxic cynicism in some left wing spaces has the same fundamental flaw the centrist "just meet them halfway on policy" theory has, where voters who want to burn the system down aren't going to want your diet version, they are going to want the original recipe — Trump, AfD, Reform, etc

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wait Ellie Goulding has a new album? Holy throwback

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The thing is also that the far right's voting bloc in Europe has perfectly coherent and logical opinions if you simply believe them when they say that they are bad people who like bad things.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Alright following up Zero Company by rewatching Star Wars 2, I don't think I've seen this one in 20 years

The opening crawl of Attack of the Clones

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Getting around to watching 9 to 5 and I gotta say the kink community must've gone wild for this

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

my consistent opinion on this is that the left/liberal divide is exaggerated by the most pugnacious voices in each camp, we are all mostly on the same side, and this is especially true right now given our common enemy let’s tone it down until we put them in an electoral dumpster

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/09/2026

I've been pretty consistent over the years in saying that being Extremely Online afflicts everyone and is politically agnostic. Generally, it means overstating the importance of posts/Discourse/drama on your social media platform of choice. Especially overstating its *political* importance.

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

2/5 players are out this weekend so the other three voted for a Lancer one shot. Guess it's time to prep Solstice Rain (with the remix)

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Joseph @chaosos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lightning in Falls Church is bonkers tonight

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