...i tried to live with public transit in marin county: just commuting to my job was three hours each way, with a very narrow window of opportunity for walking to a grocer at my transfer hub and no recourse on nights when i had to work late...
...teabagging, of course...
...my game gear case carried an automotive-sized external rechargeable battery...
...that's the thing with autonomous world-machines: no easy target and their amorality fosters an insidiously pervasive sort of evil...moustache-twirling balls-out cartoon fascists foster the hope that upon their oblivion, good will rightfully inherit the earth, although history seldom supports that thesis...
...vietnam doesn't have enough room for mopeds, let alone SUVs...
...i used to travel on a whim when i was young, single, and frugal; haven't enjoyed that liberty since marrying and buying a car + house...
...the avalon hill original is the best civilisation game...
...you need time off work to travel; that's a luxury few working-class americans can afford even to visit the next state, let alone the indulgence to travel internationally...
...at a quick glance-scan, i though that third row under gen X read 'starfleet': did a double-take and was disappointed...
...hah!..well that kind of superfandom commands my respect even if the material doesn't earn it: dorks dorking-out over dorky things are always cool in my opinion...
...so, like, it was a walmart-exclusive live television broadcast?..was there a live audience at the perfromance or was he just playing to an empty studio?..how'd that work, like, did they set up chairs in front of a special big-screen at each location or did you just stand around the electronics department for two hours?..
...garth brooks reminds me a lot of taylor swift; totally not my jam but you do you...
...then the contractor installs some murdock 'equal' for your specified elkay LMABFTL8WSSK despite REJECTING the substitution and it drips like a sieve...
...first time i heard ozzy playing in a grocery store twenty-five years ago, i knew my age had passed into history...
...my 2ZZ-GE has been great; this is the first time i've read a complaint about the 1ZZ...
(spent six hours wrestling with AT+T's managed fiber connection last night, cursing like a naboo the entire time)
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...how would you characterise dominate person cast with indefinite duration?..
...upcasting dominate person at eighth level can maintain up to eight hours with concentration, so i'd be inclined to consider twenty-four hours duration equivalent to a ninth-level spell, but perhaps i'm under-gauging the difference in power between eighth and ninth-level spells?..
...regardless, in this particular case it was cast with indefinite duration plus disadvantage on the saving throw against a hostile player character, which i'd like to translate into mechanical terms: maybe a ninth-level casting with heightened metamagic plus silvery barbs?..
...i'm playing with a DM who has a poor grasp of fifth-edition's mechanical balance and i'd like to help him understand just how adversarial his homebrew and houserule tendencies are leaning, especially for early tier-two gameplay...