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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.

And this is how a girl got me to sniff straight ammonia gas in middle school.

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.