This whole thread has me re-evaluating my prior assessments of "Ender's Game" and the Mind Game it described. When the book came out I was a child programmer a

This whole thread has me re-evaluating my prior assessments of "Ender's Game" and the Mind Game it described. When the book came out I was a child programmer and I had total contempt for the idea that a player could just decide to burrow into the eye of the giant and that the engine would generate a result. I was used to Sierra games where you'd click an inventory item on something you saw and the game would tell you "there's nothing useful you can do with that."