...well, he can't back out: his 2016 win was the unintentional outcome of a ~~failed~~ media campaign gone awry, and everything since then has been a mad scramble to avoid prosecution for all the laws he broke along the way and to keep uncle vlad's kompromat at bay...
...once he loses executive immunity or outlives his usefuless, his whole world comes crashing down: you've seen the panic in eyes since late 2016, and most of the remaining GOP have since come along for the same ride...
...i've always read it as the former guy but presumed that folks embrace the ambiguity of that f*cking guy...
...likewise, each character is different distillation of some aspect of my own personality; it's kind of an integral part of the character creation process for me to figure out who they are and properly get into character...
...i, too, had to text-message my coworker...
...just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence...
...new sourcebooks coming next year, but fourth-edition maps kind of butchered the realms and third-edition maps compressed them into a fantasy theme park: i appreciate the proper scale of the fifth-edition map even if broader setting resources mostly entail tracking down older reference material...
...fifth edition does offer officially-sanctioned sourcebooks for the moonshaes, border kingdoms, thay, chult, and icewind dale in addition to the sword coast, though; you just have to delve into the DM's guild for adept and adventurers' league material...
...third-edition maps do alright in a pinch as long as you double the distances...
...when i was in second grade i wrote a book report on chocolate fever, in which the climax involved the protagonist taking vanilla pills, which were so obviously the opposite of chocolate to my eight-year-old perspective, but which no adults with whom i discussed the book found at all obvious...
...we have a couple of industrial fans but the sound's not quite right by comparison to cross-flow impellers...
...at some level i secretly suspect that sleeping under omnipresent white noise has only made my tinnitus worse over time, but that could also be a natural consequence of my ears aging-out...
(could also come from driving a convertible at speed while blasting music on a three-hour commute every day, if i'm honest)
...i don't doubt it: when i left the bay area for cheaper lands twenty years ago, 650sf apartments were going for $1600 and i'm sure prices have only inflated since...my data points are all the cheap minima on my housing curve over the past ~~three~~ four decades...
edit: ...f*ck, i forgot how old i am; it happens on the north end of the century mark...
...i read this in the tone of an exasperated husband responding to his wife waiting impatiently to drag him along to some saturday-afternoon garden tea party...