Being the governing body means having responsibilities towards the population. They want to erase the population, obviously they don’t want to be in control when that happens!

The one thing that surprises me the most about US nowadays is that revolutionary violence is not significantly more widespread. I posit that it’s a combination of too much to lose and no hope for success, but u don’t really understand it

The Trump presidency is eroding the international US standing at a pace that leave me speechless. He is shooting in the foot all the US historical allies and enemies alike. Even Europe is slowly distancing itself from US, that was unfathomable a decade ago.

During the last evening of a short campaign, my character got unreasonably upset about their pet being killed and as a level 3 ranger climbed on top of an undead dragon and started stabbing it. Rolled an absurd sequence of nat 20 to make it happen, but all luck has to run out, and rolled a 2 at some point. The dragon yeeted me to the skies and I flew away, smashed against a tree, with just the time to yell to my party “I regret nothiii”-SPLAT.

I loved that short lived character, loved the death he encountered!

Or, sometimes, their are that weird brand of «  great at teaching but totally forgot this is not a graduate class »… there are quite some proofs like this in my uni now, and convincing them, every semester, that asking for active research results in a 1h30’ test during the fourth semester is NOT reasonable is a pain every time.

On the positive note, all their students are great at the subject matter and significantly more advanced than expected… if they didn’t give up completely

It always shocks me how the whole plot of Star Wars original trilogy (and now Andor) is “how the young people get radicalized into terroristic organization”. But somehow the clash with our international politics is never noticed, how we create exactly the same scenarios…

(Sorry, messy comment, I hope it makes sense)