I think it’s clear by the end of Ender’s Game that Ender was never the main character (his realization of that drives a lot of his character development in the following books). And Bean is not really the main character in that part of the story either, just someone much smarter who better understands what’s going on and who the real players are.

Meanwhile, my company was asking us why do we even want an office, can’t we all just work from home? That was years before the pandemic (when Google bought the building we were leasing and the company had to find a new one).

So as soon as the first lockdown happened they immediately closed the office and said everyone is fully remote now. They did give us money to set up a home office, but overall they saved a ton by getting out of an expensive rent (I’ve heard $1m/yr) and getting rid of all the perks we had in office (free breakfast and lunch, snacks, beer and kombucha on tap, unlimited coffee, gym membership, etc.). I don’t imagine them ever deciding to go back to that.

My company goes the split services way and all logins are federated through okta, or if they don’t support SSO, the logins are synced to LDAP (which in turn is synced with Okta). IT has to do a one time setup when adopting new services and then it’s good to go for years.

But yes, it’s a complicated setup, and I didn’t even mention the Sailpoint integration to manage which users have access to which services. But there are over a hundred different services in our ecosystem and all are synced up to a single login per user, so it’s definitely possible.

I was smoking in middle school and high-school. Decided to stop around 11th grade, smoked a few times socially in the next few years, then gave it up completely. People I know who started around the time I gave it up are still smokers today. I now live in an area where smoking is frowned-upon, so it’s not something I’ve had to think about in the 14 years since I moved (in my country you couldn’t escape the smoke anywhere).

Tried weed three times in my life and each time the effect was the same: similar to drinking too much but without the feel-good part. Black-outs, confusion, headache. Guess it doesn’t agree with me, so no reason to try it again.

I grew up in a country where having alcohol with your meals is normal. I don’t drink to get drunk, just enjoy a drink with my meal (especially if eating something like a steak or a burger, a cold beer goes great with it). Had to adjust when moving to the US, it’s apparently weird to drink at lunch here.

My dad used to make those types of CDs. I remember one with 200 games on it. The first time I saw a non-pirated CD was MK Tilogy and I thought what a waste to use up a whole CD for just one 30MB game.

Extending the study to an onion’s actual shape, the conclusion would be conical cuts…

I definitely have, but can’t remember which off the top of my head. Looking at other comments, Ori and Stray are likely on the list. But I cry at movies too (off the top of my head Artificial Intelligence, The Bicentennial Man, Cloud Atlas, The Other Sister) and even books (bawled at Gloriously Bright’s story in Xenocide).

I prefer digital for convenience, I never liked the idea of a game not being playable unless there’s some physical media inserted in my device (be it CD, cartridge, or whatever). I only buy physical when getting collector’s editions.

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You probably don’t have fantasies of sex with odd slugs in proxima centauri. You probably don’t dream of being a brain parasite.

You’re making some big assumptions here

Over 10,000km. This is home, it’s where my kids were born and are growing up. But there’s also “back home”, where I spent more than half of my life, where I met my wife, and where both our families are other than the two of us and our children.

If you’re not very familiar with JS, watch the Wat talk before taking the quiz to know what to expect from this wonderful language.

and is typically eaten with a fork and knife

Afaik that varies by region

Not sure where you got that idea. Pizza was brought to America by Italian immigrants, but it has existed for long before that. Modern pizza is well known to have originated in Naples.

As a fan if open world RPGs, Valhalla was a great game for me, and I didn’t have any past expectations of an AC game to go by (it was many years since I played Unity when I got into Valhalla).

I definitely enjoyed Unity and didn’t know about its bad reputation until after I finished Valhalla and started looking into which one I should play next. But coming to it again after playing all the previous ones, there was a definite “wtf, why is this not as polished as Black Flag” moment when I started. There are also some big changes from previous games that I had to get used to (no more whistling, no human shield), but I’m still enjoying it and I remember how much I loved exploring Paris the first time I played it (now I’m playing it more in completionist mode than stopping to take in the view).

TL;DR I’m playing Assassin’s Creed Unity this week.

I’ve been playing the entire Assassin’s Creed franchise in release order and this week I’m at Unity. It was actually the first Assassin’s Creed game I’ve ever owned, bought the collector’s edition when it came out.

I first heard of and saw Assassin’s Creed when Black Flag released a free demo on the Xbox One. I absolutely loved it, so the first game in the series to come out after that I just bought right away (and it was Unity). I played it a bunch, finished it and got most achievements, but it didn’t really stay with me that much.

The next game in the series that drew my attention was Valhalla and when I saw it on sale for a ridiculously low price I just snatched it up. Absolutely loved that game, played it to 100% completion of everything, got the game pass and exhausted all content possible out of it.

I wanted more AC and grabbed Origins on sale. Loved that one too, played everything out of it. Still needed more.

But there was a lot of present-day back-story in Valhalla and Origins that I didn’t know about, which is why I decided to go back to the beginning of the series and play every game in order. It has been a great journey, I love seeing how the series progressed, and I also now understand why Unity has such low reviews (every game so far has been a visible improvement over the previous one, except Unity which looks and plays worse than Black Flag). I’m still going to 100% it before moving on though (looks like back in 2014 I didn’t go for 100% on the main sequence, so I scrapped my save file and started over, since I didn’t remember the story anyway).

I can imagine him just living a hippie life, not putting labels on things, just shagging whomever he felt like.

inb4 microplastics found in paracetamol

Same. Spent a good minute looking at the pics trying to figure out what she’s trying to show before reading the title and sub name.