Ender’s Game, Revisited Thoughts and Issues
08 May 2024
I used to think that “Ender’s Game” was one of the deepest novels and series
I’ve ever read. I’ve since reconsidered my opinion on this significantly. I’ve
since decided its quite dumb and overplayed. The characterization of the
children is too much. There’s an obsession with hyper intelligent children that
isn’t realistic or believable in this day and age. I’ve revised this opinion
because I’ve been listening to the audio drama version of it with “Ender’s Game
Alive,” it a great audio production with an extremely high production values
with a full cast and excellent voice actors. It’s been really nice to revisit
this novel and revise my opinions on this novel. Also all spoilers are unmarked
and may include details in the other novels. This is not quite a book review,
its more a rant about organizations and how to build a stable system.
Humans and Improvised Weapons: A Response to a Writing Prompt
25 December 2021
Humans and safety is a long history, because as they say if you make
something idiot proof they will invent a better idiot. Just about any
piece of industrial equipment can become a weapon when misused. Most
other species in the galaxy weren’t that creative to misuse or find the
failure points in their technology. We took a different path than humans
did. Finding solutions that were safer from the get go, that a culture
of safety was not needed.