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Heroics, Systems, and Accountability A crisis summons heroes.We see it in stories, folklore, and mythology.Mild-mannered journalist Clark Kent transforming into Superman. Hua Mulan enlisting in place of her father. Savitri bargaining with death itself.We see it in organizations.Nurses stretching themselves to meet unsafe staffing ratios. Operations Engineers constantly resolving incidents in unpatched, unstable infrastructure. Essential workers enforcing mask and vaccine mandates.These are employees who take on new roles when the system can no longer handle a crisis - either too new, too large, or, worst of all - designed intentionally with a hero in mind. read more Persona 5 The review goes into heavy spoilers about the first twenty hours and light spoilers later on.If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? read more LENS FLARE, identification, Destiny 2 In Destiny 2, environmental lens flare is often tastefully and subtly applied to make stunning panoramas and scenery. Just take a look below at the Reckoning and Queen’s Court areas of the game. Its the only first person shooter Ive dropped everything Im doing at times just to explore the scenery.What’s even more interesting, however, is where lens flare is slathered like a J.J. Abrams movie: combat. The heavy use of anamorphic lens flare (long tail horizontal flare) and glow in combat fundamentally changes the speed of visual identification in a first person shooter. read more