Paint.NET is great.

Humans have evolved for ages to be socially dependent creatures. Humans are also highly intelligent, and can tool their way through a situation for which they aren’t technically “fit.”

So, is social interaction really all that? Yes. Will you be fine without it? Being charitable and assuming you’re excluding basic needs which have been socialized like shelter and food—maybe.

(I was being facetious and was referring to the joke of making highly complicated evenOrOdd functions)

Damn, I wish I had an algorithm to tell me whether 75 and 25 are even or odd, though.

I think is one of them fool stack engineers or something.

Homestuck. 'Nuff said.

Yes. It was a cousin on my mom’s side who I definitely should’ve recognized. Oops.

If I could cast a spell to rid the world of chewing gum, I’d do it twice.

TIL that dumb is defined as having scored less than 100 IQ.

Anyway, I’ve worked enough customer service to say with some confidence that I’ve met at least a few people who truly just exist and let the world happen to them with zero curiosity.

It’s not a show, and typically one would play that game of “never read this” fairly unironically. But the webcomic Homestuck starts off REALLY slow and takes a few hundred pages to really even become interesting. It was so long ago, but I’m guessing page 246 was when I started to legitimately be interested in it. And I would say it finally gets good at page 1149.

So why did I read 245 pages of a story I wasn’t very much interested in? The music, pretty much. I had already known Toby Fox had worked on something called Homestuck because of the history behind Another Medium (YouTube), and then I encountered this track (YouTube) in the wild and decided to read it at least until I reached the page this music is from.

Also, if you look at it purely for the ratio, getting good 1/8 of the way through is a little better than standard.

I sense great irony in the force, Luke.

Cannot stand this shit. I have two younger sisters, and my extended family loves to go on and on about how they’re bad at math, or how they were not good at math in school because it’s hard. Okay, but you don’t have to seed it into their very impressionable minds that math is hard, because it really shouldn’t be.

Thanks for the sanity check. This fool’s looking like Jim post-Made in Heaven.

YouTube’s playlist shuffle feature has been broken for at least 11 years. I know this because I remember complaining about it in middle school.

Maybe this is what sowed the first seed in my path to becoming a developer.

I can corroborate your last point because I watched both of these series relatively recently, and I also have little to no nostalgia associated with the subject.

I actually used to despise when ATLA came on. At that age, I could never commit to following plot-heavy shows, because I didn’t really watch TV a ton (I thought I watched a lot, but I’m learning now as I talk to peers that it was not lol), and the show felt like it was on forever, eating up time on Nick. I finished it up around this time last year and ATLA is now among my favorite shows ever. I continued with TLOK shortly after, and yeah, those were my feelings.

So from my experience, I’m not gonna say it’s the whole “growing out of it” thing. TLOK just is a less interesting story, the way I see it.

I was extremely excited in the beginning because the setting felt very well-constructed. Bending having contributed to rapid technological progress made a lot of sense to me, and I really like that there wasn’t excessive exposition regarding the state of the world.

So much of what they did from that point just felt so corny.

It was just so disappointing for me. I don’t know if they got creatively restricted, or if something happened with the original writers or what. I don’t regret watching it, but I just wish they had taken or had been able to take more risks.

How did you feel about The Legend of Korra?

Since I’m already thinking of Spongebob, I’ll say that the Sponge Out of Water movie was the first large-scale disappointment that I experienced from a delivery perspective.

All of the advertisement showed almost entirely the scenes where they were, per the title, out of water. Once out of water, per the title, Spongebob and the crew were 3D, superimposed into the real world, and they had superpowers. It should’ve been great.

In the actual movie, they did not become “out of water,” per the title, until approximately the last 20 minutes of the movie, if my memory serves me correctly.

I was also a bit disappointed with Avatar: The Legend of Korra. It’s not a bad show—it’s just that The Last Airbender set the bar so high, and TLOK did not measure up.

Thanks, I’ll try those out.