A lot of assets can be set up to load their information from a website.
This makes it way easier to update prompts for games etc, as you dont have to upload a new version of the world to add / edit / remove new lines from the game.

UPDATE: Github gist seems to shadowban accounts that dont have any code uploaded to them and pastebin has a language filter that means some files wont work if they have explicit language.

My goto recommendation is to use dropbox.

Howto for dropbox:
- Upload your file to dropbox
- Get your file share link that will look something like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zhhgoifa3yhug9ii0olfn/SpinTheWheelPrompts.txt?rlkey=ty7okgvf6pshbw8svpvdiygmj&st=xwyu37fa&dl=0

- replace the www with dl and remove the &dl=0 from the end so it looks like this

https://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zhhgoifa3yhug9ii0olfn/SpinTheWheelPrompts.txt?rlkey=ty7okgvf6pshbw8svpvdiygmj&st=xwyu37fa

Enter that into a browser to it loads, and this will update the URL to the one you need.
Copy that new Url from the address bar and that link will now work directly in vrc to load in assets that require a link to a file (this works with images, txt files, videos in video players etc)

Two good sites for this are Pastebin or Github Gist.
How to do this with Github Gist:

(See top note, only use gist if you already have a github with code on it)
- Make an account for github / gist https://gist.github.com/

- Go to this page https://gist.github.com/ Give it a description, filename with .txt on the end, and then the main box will be the contents of the file

- Once you have the file (EG https://gist.github.com/ModerateWinGuy/d9eade715c1a8b260c7d5a0a2097668e) you'll see a "**Raw**" button on the top right of the box for it, if you click that you'll get a webpage with just the file.

- Copy the URL for this page and remove everything after the 'raw' in the url

EG :

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ModerateWinGuy/d9eade715c1a8b260c7d5a0a2097668e/raw/a07cbe19a871c2ba91f7c4e93034f6fb4696ad8e/SpinTheWheelPrompts

Becomes

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ModerateWinGuy/d9eade715c1a8b260c7d5a0a2097668e/raw/

Put that final url into the URL box on the prefab and your good to go.

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