Yes, smelled like a dead animal

Relevant xkcd

Freedom to be alone with his thoughts?

Like this? https://youtube.com/shorts/aR2Ah7mhlZU

And to think he’s the same guy who was losing all the dad joke don’t laugh challenges for laughing at his own jokes.

Does an organization named Antifa even exist?

maintenance and part replacement was a major issue

That was my first thought: who’s going to be the underwater IT guy?

Edit: as an interesting coincidence, I just interviewed an engineer today who has rescue diver on his resume with 16 years of diving experience

And his name is Andrew Hamilton, if anyone is wondering.

illusion of privacy

Are you talking about them looking through his phone? Because I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that they can’t do that when you confess to murdering someone.

Two morons arguing moron talking points calling each other morons

A story as old as time

Most people don’t know the difference, as made clear by the reactions of the public, comments on other social platforms, and the wording of the articles. So it’s just as powerful as it was.

Poetic license 😀

When you’re so into vinyl, your house is covered in it.

No backend database needed for what they did. It was just highlighting where the faces are in a shot of the crowd, same as modern smartphone cameras do, but with a surveillance-type UI around it.

It’s still close enough that I recognized it by the picture first, then by name after.

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.

The way it separates in clear lines between the tiles, it looks like it was applied to the tiles, not to the floor. So I think they didn’t use self-leveling compound at all and just put on ridiculously thick globs of mortar to raise the tiles to the desired level.

If we’re incredibly generous with what we call emoji

This (and all the other "if"s in the comment) implies you do not agree that pre-unicode emoji count as emoji. I find that an extremely odd stance considering the popularity of emoji during those times.

Wtf are you on about? Emoji existed since the 80s and the ones in IM apps were the most popular examples. It’s not “incredibly generous” to call them emoji, that’s what we called them back then, long before they started being included in unicode.

Unicode has always been about matching human usage of things

Exactly. Emoji usage was so widespread and popular, that they decided to standardize it.

I have both Epic and GOG copies from two different free offers and played it a bunch, but could never finish it. I enjoy the atmosphere and the story, but the fights got repetitive and difficult (not in a good way). I stopped at some boss fight, then later decided to pick it up again and eventually stopped at another artificial roadblock.