That was the beginning of the end for me. I think by the time I got to that part the series had already been going downhill but I remember that being a really sharp turning point.

I tried to press on a little further. The introduction of the straw man nation with the innocent child king who’s only existence was to be blown the fuck out by the brilliance of objectivism is when I finally decided I just couldn’t go on.

Ooo, I was trying to think of what to answer in this thread and you just reminded me of another Orson Scott Card book, Empire.

Absolute trash. Prior to that I had read all of the Ender and Bean series and loved them. Didn’t know much about Card personally, but picked up this book because it was supposed to be tied in with a video game I was looking forward too.

Reading this book is how I found out what a shitty person he really is. It was basically all him hitting you over the head with his shitty fascist ideology while jerking off to a bunch of military porn like a dollar store version of Tom Clancy. I never did play the game.

Lately I google for someone that should give me a direct, exact result. First five links are fucking paid ads.

Well that just solved the question of “what should I watch tonight?”

Until you find out those were also built by a junior using an llm to help 🙃

They actually have a fairly comprehensive training program setup through their “University.” They also mix in foreign contractors, usually from China.

My dad cracked three ribs while surfing in his 20s. He caught a wave much larger than normal, fell off his board near the top and landed flat on his back.

I almost did before the outage. Their pay was pretty low compared to similar positions at other companies though.

One of my favorite T-shirts. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/23763923-utc-or-gtfo

(I am not affiliated in any way with this shop)

Magic carpet 2, the Netherworlds is one I played a ton and think of from time to time. I wonder what I modern remake would be like.

It’s the first game I remember playing with deformable terrain.

Already answered more it less but:

https://www.centralcoastbrewing.com/beer/p/p-nut-butter-breakdown-stout

First time I’ve seen something from my home area pop up on Lemmy. CCB is a solid brewery.

The first trillionaire ain’t gonna make themself.

Absolutely. Anansi boys is my personal favorite of his, but I think highly of all his books.

I’d second all three.

Neil Gaiman is absolutely one of my favorite authors and from what I’ve seen, a pretty great human being as well.

I loved Orson Scott Card’s books when I was younger, even the later Ender books. Unfortunately he’s also a pretty terrible person much like Rowling.

I never even received an email. I haven’t touched Minecraft in years, probably never would have again, but my daughter is getting into it and I thought it would be fun to play with her. I found out about the migration when trying to troubleshoot why I couldn’t log in.

I tried to contact support and they told me that they had “widely communicated the migration through email and social media” and that because I had missed the migration window, I would simply have to buy a new copy. I double and triple checked. No emails regarding the migration and I’m not on social media.

While I don’t disagree, this person was also quite clearly mentally ill.

Now who is it that keeps cutting support for… Oh right…

I was fired from a job over an error of about that much. After working there for 5 years.

Then they fought me on unemployment. The judge was not amused with them

I love Takis. One of my guilty pleasure trash snacks is a bag of Takis and a couple hazys.

I used to do penetration testing and only got to dabble in physical penetration testing a couple of times. Hell of a lot of fun.

For anyone reading this chain and interested in hearing more, this is a pretty fun interview with someone known for doing physical presentation testing.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/134/