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You're Not Ninjas Apparently Discord employ ninjas. So do iTunes, on PC at least. Whatsapp prefer Ronin, but the motif holds. Facebook has pirates which is perfect as we know what pirates did wrong and why they died out. I just updated my profile on Linkedin, and rather than getting profile moderators to check it, can you guess? Yeah.  Wow. Apparently it's a thing now. Before you start whining about plurals in Japanese, I don't care. If I don't pluralize it, I'll be attacked by Nazis, which is worse. You're not ninjas, you're software developers. You spend your days tapping away at plastic and staring at radiation, you don't spend your days stopping your heart to float across an ocean inside a dead platypus with a collapsible graphite katana secreted inside your penisgina so you can sneak in through the sewer outlet and coldly remove a threat to our kind. I may be splitting hairs, but there's a difference. Oh, I added a friend on Skype, well may...

Certain books can represent a turning point in one's life. I don't mean the textbooks you had to devour a day before the test, or the even the first Ladybird your mommy read to you before leaving you in the darkness to imagine the critters in your closet and monsters under your bed. I mean the books that change your attitude as a reader. Books that truly open your eyes. Dune is such a book. Herbert doesn't so much tell the story as show us with tremendously evocative prose and emotive characterisations. The worlds he created for this tale are complex, fascinating, and above all, realistic down to the smallest of details. On Arrakis, desert world, where the action primarily takes place, native fauna and flora exist in a state of parched struggle, adapted to he dry wilderness, and perfectly described by this most intricate of authors. The characters thrown into this mix, hard military warriors for the most part, must adapt or die, and in the progress of their change, we see...