It all started going downhill when Nethack added color support in 1989: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack_3.0.4#Significant_changes

I have ghosted my jar of ghost peppers.

Lies! I just checked and you have 197. I was so mad I unsubbed

(seriously though, I LOVE that cave story cover you did 2 years ago)

You know it’s a legit scientific conference where there’s a sitting cow.

Do you have a justified true belief they aren’t the same fig?

It’s a parody of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

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Wouldn’t surprise me if this was literally true for someone. Phobias aren’t rational by definition. I’m mostly over it now, but I have a phobia of buildings with high ceilings. I’m guessing it happened because I was in a scary situation as a toddler inside a theatre and my dumbass brain was like “CEILINGS = BAD”. Thanks brain, I really appreciate your help in saving me from the dire threat of seeing Cars 2 in theatre.

The OG. The fact it was all done by a single dude blows my mind. People often praise Toby Fox for the same reason, and he definitely deserves it, but he wasn’t good at programming. Pixel was good at everything: programming, music, writing, and art.

Boy, do I have the game for you: https://noita.fandom.com/wiki/Flock_of_Ducks

Have hope. You can become someone that understands this comic.

I’ll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.

Did you grab the crumbs too?

gr8 m8, I r8 8/8

Thankfully, there’s an official standard for using the internet with just carrier pigeons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

It was a thing in the 90s/early 00s. Google didn’t exist back then. People did it purely because they wanted to share, not for monetary gain, because the ad industry hadn’t thoroughly infiltrated the internet yet.

Were you online in the 90s/early 00s? Because this was a common thing with webrings. Google didn’t exist, so this was sometimes the only way of letting people know about a cool thing you wanted to share.

I miss those days, before the ad industry fucked everything up.

That’s called semantic satiation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

I like the quarterstaff, but you know what would make it even better? If you took a sharp piece of metal and put it on one end so you can stab a dude after bonking him. I don’t know what you’d call it though. A staffstab?

You’d love vbscript: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2202869