Oh absolutely. The pre-Youtube web content era was interesting because a lot of stuff floated to the top just because it was good/different, and not necessarily because it was "algorithm friendly."

But that's me being an angry old man, I guess.

sfbgames.com
The "Super Flash Bros" made the "Decline of Video Gaming" series of dumb game commentary skits. I'm sure they're not as funny anymore, but still.
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

That's probably the light mode color options mirroring the pastel pink and blue on the white grid backdrop. I hadn't realized it, but I see it.
Snipperclips is dope. It was developed by the same guys that made some of my favorite flash cartoons growing up.

The whole fucking thing feels very "HAMMERS are BAD because they can HURT your FINGERS." I'm not necessarily some extreme hammer fanboy, but I still like NAILING THINGS

Jesus. I thought the plate was a rug and the pastry was a giant pastry-shaped pillow.

My disappointment is immeasurable

I had seen some autism spectrum characteristics in the Biologist already, but on my second reading, Control is just the definition of ADHD--at least in my experience as a sloppy, burnt-out loser.

Obviously, I love your work, and am thankful to have had these books and other works they inspired.

The "five sentence" people in the replies are ALSO wrong.

It is particularly hard to get a student to understand that something is a guideline... so, instead, we lied. We picked a number and said it HAS to be this many.

Paragraph breaks only exist to allow monks a moment to eat between passages.

Meanwhile, I've completely lost touch with the reality in which my friends live. Or vice versa. I am really not interested in sounding like a huge dick about it. The arrogance in my voice is masking tremendous insecurities.

When your life is a joke, be a clown, lol.

I've spent the last decade slowly turning a funny but relatively unknown YouTube channel into a tongue-in-cheek cinematic universe of bullshit, and I just recently retired the channel due to an overwhelming about of inescapable life shit.

And that's been a really hard pill to swallow for me.

Well, I'm not sure what hiring one is like, but I've been in operations, communications, and administrative odd jobs for 4 years. jgatzb.com

Best of luck buddy. I'm literally watching the live Bluesky feed for "hiring" because I've been job hunting for 10 months.