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Eh... bout as likely not, really. You don't necessarily need nukes yourself if you have someone willing to do the nuking for you. Gods know the eschatological nutjobs infesting our upper echelons would be happy to make sure we'd lend a hand if it came to that.

Move Auschwitz up? Alt history is so much more chic than time travel these days. Can always go time travel and just plain ol' ignore the bullshit irrelevant to the characters. No plot holes to see here, folks, just the blob stuck in a interdimensional tear, pay no attention to the fat man behind the quantum time dickery. Cryogenics accidents are always fun, too. Random encounter with throwaway mutant #652 that happens to catapult people a few decades into the future or leave them stuck in a rock for the better part of a century or somethin'. Lotsa' stuff!

... alternately, from what I can recall of some of the x-men stuff, most of that years of background was explained away by him and xavier just kinda'... not doing much in the interim. Building up certain sorts of foundations and doing stuff in the background, but not really active. Things not really kicking off until they go full ideological split and then starting to ramp up until the main stage starts, somethin' along those lines.

Could have 'em waiting for a certain sort of critical mass in mutant population, not really having the human (so to speak) resources to push for their goals until a particular point.* Mountains of ways you can explain away empty years if you really feel like it, basically. Can either pick whatever's least disruptive to the rest of canon you're attempting to build or go hog wild and leave a billion different background plots hanging in the wind ala Star Wars or somethin'.

* And if you're looking for reasons why that point doesn't conveniently happen until the years you feel like basing your reboot, the X-men universe has like a thousand jackass-ex-machinas you can blame for it, and then either use as a background plot or main/side antagonist, or have hit with a rock and die right when your story starts up. The massive fustercluck that is marvel's material over the years means you got options.

... barely paying attention, but are you intimating that this is another case of people voting for someone who ran on the platform of fucking people, and then became shocked, shocked I say, when the one they voted in started fucking people?

Because it kinda' seems like that's at least been more visible in the last year or three.

... and in today's edition of "words you never thought you'd string together", we have: "Auto-asphyxiation by means dermal excretion."

Aka drowning in sweat. Goddamn florida.

Cat bomb the land and laugh into the distance.

... alternatively, snakes! Some nice vermin primary dieting constrictors let loose can work wonders.

That... sounds abusive as all fuck, SG. Not really sure if I got anything else I can say to that. Consider seeing if custody is a possibility?

If the kids are your worry and her behavior is like that, you've probably got decent odds providing you can get the right folks to testify, if everything else can get put largely in order... have a family member that's been wrestling with a roughly similar situation so far as that goes for a few years now. Major problem being the financials involved, unfortunately.

... any case, good luck. Stay safe. Try to remember that you being in that kind of relationship is probably pretty rough for your kids, too, so getting it to stop (which doesn't seem possible, from that and some of the stuff you've said previously) or getting you and/or them out can be important.

Amusingly enough, I've actually seen a legit cuban before. Old friend of the family (I think they may be dead now, or soon to be) was a first or second generation immigrant, only really smoked cigars and managed to get some into the country. Dunno if they ever got around to smoking all of 'em, though. Never smelled it, but I saw it.

Remember the things (cigars) didn't smell nearly as bad as the more common deathsticks. Still gave a college try at very literally killing me, but didn't smell as bad.

... but yeah, don't smoke, personally. Most of the folks around me don't, either, though about half my immediate family spent a good few years addicted, and I've had friends or acquaintances that did about every normal sort of tobacco from snuff to loose leaf pipe smoking. Above and beyond just not having interest, somewhere like a decade and a half ago being around the stuff's smoke too much started causing headaches bad enough to cause me to straight up black out if I was stuck in it too long. So... yeah, heh. Just wanted to share I've ran into one of the fancy ones before

Eh... I don't think I ever have on my own computers, but I have had to tear the goddamn thing out of a few others.

That said, I'm also pretty sure I recall the performance starting to go straight to shit around the same time the thing began showing up. So it's a good timestamp type thing.