lunarul

u/lunarul@lemmy.world
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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

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.

on Flooring Pop · c/homeimprovement · 1 pts · 348d

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.

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.

on This game is fantastic. · c/games · 5 pts · 349d

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.