I wish you well for whatever remains of recovering from the illness, it sounds like you’ve had a rough time.

Yay, learning!

I have also had trouble getting into games like this, but advice from my friends is that it’s actually less about the simulation, more about the stories and hilarity that can emerge from the simulation. In particular, I was advised to name each of my starting dwarves, and also to be less “smart” in how I played. In Rimworld, for example, I would load earlier saves if I lost someone important, and I was depriving myself of the kinds of chaos that these games are best at, like the glorious exuberance of rebuilding a colony from one person after a dreadful invasion.

In the past, with similar issues, I’ve had good success with requesting the book on Zlib, especially newer books.

I have a friend who says that “whatever works is elegant” and solutions like OP’s is why I simultaneously love and hate that phrase.

What section would you put it under? It isn’t clear to me where it would fit

My God, that’s hilarious, thank you for sharing it. I enjoyed “I am like the Statue of Liberty: I accept everyone, even the wretched and the huddled and people who enjoy Haskell.”

Whilst this only applies to a minority of people who use these services, if you’re disabled, having someone else stand in line for you is a godsend.

I know, right? I didn’t expect to watch it through to the end, but that was mesmerising

It’s a bit absurd.

Let’s imagine OP was trying to scam the company. The sheer gall of asking for approval on a scam would be so audacious that honestly, it wouldn’t be safe to have an employee like that working on anything of value. The level of “fuck you, I don’t care” that it would show would mean that the safest thing to do with an employee like that would be to fire them.

The guy didn’t ask the basic question of “has OP given us any reason not to trust them?” If the answer to that was “yes”, then maybe flying them out to the UK to act on the company’s behalf isn’t a great idea. And if that doesn’t seem likely, then it’s probably an employee trying to help and they should be encouraged