u/OfferLazy9141

So, Hollow Knight introduced me to the metroidvania genre, and I've been chasing that feeling ever since. The problem is that I find most of them are just too long. I usually get 10–15 hours in and lose the motivation to keep going.

I'm not entirely sure why Hollow Knight didn't have that problem for me. It always felt like a new boss, a memorable area, or some big discovery was just around the corner. The atmosphere also changed constantly, which kept everything feeling fresh.

I'm not trying to complain about the genre, as I love everything else about it! I'm actually looking for recommendations. Can anyone recommend some really solid but extremely short metroidvanias? I'm talking 10 hours max, even for a slower player.

Hey M39 and F35 with with two young kids (2 and 5). We make 325K combined, if I stop working we would bring in 125K.

We have 300K TFSA, 300K RRSP, 100K unregistered.

Monthly expenses are about:

- Mortgage: 2K (300k total left on a house worth around 800K) 20 years left.

- car 600

- Internet/phones 150

- hydro 250

- prop taxes 500

- food 1000

- misc (cloths, new thing for house, gift etc..) 1000.

My main concern is retirement years, as if I stop working it will be hard to continue investing each month, and I can see us even needing to withdraw from the unregistered account if unexpected expenses come up.

Do you think I can fire now if my wife keeps working? Will we be fine when she turns 60 and wants to retire too?

I’m not sure if it’s just the cynicism that comes with being in upper management, but I’ve hit a wall with Town Halls. I find them to be giant performances with almost zero substance. I’ve reached a point where I hate being part of them—both as a presenter and a viewer.

​why does it require a two-hour scripted "Apple Launch" event? If the goal is transparency, that information is often better served via internal roadmaps, public documents, or cascaded through managers.

​Spending hours watching leadership pretend they’re on a keynote stage feels like a massive waste of collective billable hours and provides almost no real value to the average employee.

​Am I missing something? Is there any legitimate reason to keep doing these, or are they just a legacy ego trip for the C-suite?