skibidi [adj.]
- nonsense (derogatory)
That's my pick.
vithigar
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Ignoring the actual rules and mechanics is basically step one in almost every "isn't this goofy" D&D anecdote.
Not only is it not "decent damage" (even the buff it got in 5.5 just brings it from "the worst" to "poor"), it's also not a subtle thing you can just drop on someone unsuspectingly.
Spellcasting for an attack is an obvious aggressive action, which means an initiative roll comes first to see if you even manage to get it off before they clock you. It's also not like everyone around just shrugs and lets you go about your business because all you did was hurl an insult. You attacked someone with an offensive spell, the response is exactly the same as if you threw a firebolt at them
The flavor of insulting someone to death is fun, I'll grant that, but there's nothing special about Vicious Mockery mechanically that makes it immune to initiative order or people noticing what you're doing.
You never get to court, that's the point the previous comment is making.
As an individual trying to stand up to them you're somewhere between being either completely ineffectual or making the situation worse. Having the law on your side doesn't matter because it's impossible for you to summon the enforcement of it fast enough to help you, assuming they even would.
A local community response that will mobilize and appear in your neighborhood in seconds is basically the only way to respond quickly with enough force for them to care about.
I'm not sure why you're taking a oppositional tone. To be clear I'm complaining, not trying to justify it.
Literally no one I work with likes Teams but we keep using it because that's just what we do. Other options basically don't exist simply by virtue of being either not Microsoft or not overwhelmingly the market leader.
I love the detail that she put "+ AI" on both sides of the equation so that it's still technically correct regardless of what the AI stands for.
This was my very first thought as well. The first section of almost every Wikipedia article is already a summary.
I'm in one of the "certain regions" for carpenter.
Yeah, absolutely. Then they escalate from "innocent mistake" to "accusatory" on a dime.
While desalination does need a lot of energy it's dealing with the waste brine that's the bigger problem when actually planning one. You can't just dump it back into the ocean without killing a huge swathe of marine life.