Slightly tangential to your point, but I find it interesting.
There is a certain temptation I notice people have to see lolcows as sort of characters, but their lives aren't fiction and don't behave as such. You get little moments that feel cinematic, like Nick's drunk stream happening right before his arrest, but really anything can happen. But in the end there is an overwhelming probability that this will end in some anti-climactic way. Nick may ultimately be given a slap on the wrist, or a short sentence, and simply return to living unaffected by his actions, alternatively he could be found by his child minutes from now face down in a pile of fentanyl laced cocaine, and he'll just be another dead thread.
Watching Nick back in the good ol' days, he got me to see lawyers as storytellers, who turn real spontaneous events into a coordinated narrative for the sake of a jury. It has been ironic, his life has become a story, and he has set himself as the villain. I guess he's not a very good lawyer.