Yeah it's more complicated that 5e, but 5e is often not complicated enough where it needs to be, which is still why my group is largely still on 3.5e (and also we have all the books

Such a beautiful anthem, only New Zealand, The Internationale, and the Soviet ANthem come close.

Gates needs to unfriend Kurzweil he has no defence against these brainworms

Oh no

I mean, it's still probably ok if transmission rates remain low...but...yeah...

It me

The two genders: H&M

MIlksop is an even better version than Milkdrinker.

"And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow, Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost A milk-sop, one that never in his life Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?" -Richard III

The trick is to know it and give the children a withering stare of contempt every time they use a word that Chaucer didn't invent.

Oh, I like Brecht as a playwright, but his thoughts on "epic theatre" and keeping the audience emotionally detatched from the characters and constantly aware they're watching actors on a stage requires a deft hand and a great sense of comedy, or it all falls apart.

The best productions I've seen are the ones that ignore the stage directions and treat them as straight plays with suspension of disbelief.

That said I dont like Mother Courage, and I think the Threepenny Opera is worse than the source material of the 18th century Beggars Opera.

They just had a bunch of terminally ill research monkeys hanging about. That's definitely a thing that happens. It's definitely not like live primate studies are so hard to both arrange and get past an ethics board that most people just give up and go straight to human trials,

stab in the back

very normal, non fascist turn of phrase there.

Yeah, I can pick out Melbourne vs Sydney accents, and even Sydney East vs North vs West (and the various cultural group differences such as Mediterranean-influenced Australian), but it's not something most people would pick up on, even many Australians. Someone from out in the country is gonna think the West and upper North has harsher vowels than them (a holdback of First Nations English vernacular) and the others are just posh city boys.

It's more like someone from London being able to pick up what street you're from.