Norbynorwest
That’s kinda the message of the last paragraph.
I grew up playing in the late 70s/early 80s, and honestly I didn’t give Gygax a second thought. He was pretty well known to be a coked-up crazy coot, and most of the really interesting AD&D materials weren’t made by him anyway. By the late 80s he was mostly out of the picture.
Water for landscaping use makes up a microscopic fraction of CA’s freshwater use. If you think you’re taking a stand against waste by complaining about golf courses, you’re not looking at the big picture.
I lived in Burbank for a decade, and drove by the water tower a couple days a week.
Oh how frequently I wished they would come bouncing out.
I’m as enthusiastic as mind control fetishists come, but I find the freeuse concept mystifying.
It’s a common high school chem lab demonstration. Without added oxygen, the H2 balloons sort of burn from the outside in, and you get a sort of slow burning mushroom plume. It could light paper or cloth on fire in close proximity.
With added oxygen… BLAM! It could shatter windows.
I respect big butts and I cannot lie