• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    One detail I love in the later Ender’s Game books involves teleporting a properly apocalyptic bomb into a very small room with the people who launched it. One of them pops it open and basically clicks Disarm > Are You Sure? > Yes.

    I think it’s Ender himself who asks ‘… is that all?’ The guy’s like ‘Oh, yeah. We made it very easy to turn off.