I tried to get hired at an "anti-DEI" company pre-pandemic, for an intern position. They asked my brother if I had "unexplainable" fits of rage that would lead to destroyed equipment and bitten coworkers. Then in the second round they asked if I knew how much is 2 + 2, in a joking manner. Finally they instead tried to hire those who actually cheated the entry tests (they had to be let go), they had the best luck with reeducating a Javascript dev into a Java one. All because they though all disability that isn't coming from amputation is "severe intellectual disability", because joke made at the expense of the intellectually disabled.
It's not that they don't want to sell it to you, it's just they don't want to force you to wear protective equipment, so your employer can cheap out on it.
Also isn't Home Depot one of those very christian corpos in the US? If yes, then there's also a non-zero chance they think wearing protective equipment is "gay".
IMHO, it works better as an allegory for disability. Some people (higher-functioning autists) need acceptance, but I don't think people with debilitating pain or immuno-defficiancy see their struggles as an inseparable part of their personality.
In the middle of developing my own high-level binding for wasmtime in D, I had the thought of repurposing all that XML lexer thing into JIT compiling Lua (which was my first candidate for a scripting engine, until it became apparent how much the community views integers as a "red haired stepchild"), but instead I wrote yet another SDLang implementation, this time with a simple but proper DOM (not as overcomplicated as the standard XML DOM, but supports comments).
There's also some artifacting around the lines that are reminiscent of JPEG, but not kind of that, and it seems like the text is superimposed onto it in a second or third pass by an external tool to make it look more consistent.
I too have some similar concept, but for a Metal Gear (the 2D ones) clone in an Urban Fantasy setting, with the vampires primarily being a stand-in for autistic people, and the vampire myth being adjusted accordingly, with the whole "virality" thing mostly relegated to genetics, but present as a commonly held myth, alongside with power-scaling adjustments (especially due to the protagonist being a vampire), with also its own myth that make the common people afraid of them...
Windows 11 is so terrible so far that if I'll need to use Windows 10 for dev reasons, I'll either pirate the extended support patches, or use a shitbox (obsolete PC for optimization purposes) disconnected from the internet. I do fear that I might have to hack a GUI onto LDB or GDB, because I got too used to RemedyBG (I'm already using Kate).
Yes, but not many games run on ARM natively.