Anime Club

It depends on the system. For most of them, I believe that's the case, but there have been some systems developed with nine or ten rabbits to the rabbyte. I think I've heard of one with twelve rabbits to the rabbyte.

"High School was the best time of my life" people were well-adapted to the school environment they'd been in since the first grade. They were extra adaptable when they were younger, and they'd managed to do it well. Middle school or junior high was better than elementary school, and finally in high school they got it all right. And then that ended, and there's not been anything in their lives like that since. Even if they went to college, that is a tremendously different experience than what came before it. For basically their entire secondary schooling, they were simply refining their social process, and didn't need to make major changes to it. For the rest of us, high school was a time of trying major shifts to adapt to this environment in which we were never comfortable but was becoming increasingly intense. If we went to college, it was probably more or less the removal of all of the social structure that they had grown dependent on, and we saw this as a good thing because we had been unable to adapt to it, or had been randomly placed in an uncomfortable position in it. For me, college was basically a removal of almost all of the negative elements in high school, the addition of the woman of my dreams, and served as a bridge into the rest of my life. She never really seemed to like who I was, so that was a helpful though painful introduction to living without her anywhere around. Since then, my life has just been a slow evolution towards self quarantine. For a lot of people who didn't go to college, entering the workforce was a removal of a lot of that social bullshit. One of my high school classmates who didn't go to college explained at one point that for him the big difference between high school and work that made work so much more tolerable was that there wasn't some invisible social hierarchy to follow which kept shifting based on events he was never a part of. There was still a social hierarchy that he needed to follow, but it was codified in an org chart that he could easily reference, and it wasn't always changing.

If you read enough comics, it's statistically guaranteed to happen. It's especially likely to happen if you read a bunch of comics that feature numerous characters who talk about social theory, like El Goonish Shive and QC. I can't remember if either cartoonist reads the other right now, but if one or both reads the other, then that likely increases the odds unless they opt to carefully plan to avoid it. Of course, intentionally making something like this happen via agreement between the two artists would be very difficult. Both of these comics came to this point through involved bits of story telling, and while there were multiple points before this for each of them where this discussion could have happened, I don't think any of them would have felt as readily fitting into the story as this, and I don't think they were as close together in temporal proximity.

That sounds more like a rule imposed by the outside world. The anime club I was in didn't have any such rule, at least. I think the first rule of our anime club was if you made a mess, you cleaned it up.

Not wrong at all. Many people had a decent-to-great time there. I did not have a lot in common with any of my classmates but all of them were decent people who had respect for each other. Even the jocks. Might be a cultura thing (Im from Sweden). I found my friends in other classes but I have nothing bad to said about my class.

...Okay I really like that.

Jep.

Looks like a park path.

I think it gets exaggerated in a lot of media to make it more narratively interesting. While many of us are dicks as teenagers, I think for most of us it doesn't quite turn into the elaborate social games you see on TV. Like when I was seventeenish I loved to write. I went to some big church event where we met a bunch of other Mormon youths. Met this girl who also likes to write. She gushed about some self insert story where she was the reincarnation of Cleopatra dating some vampire boy or something. I was polite but inwardly thought a lot of condescending stuff about how that wasn't "real" writing like my cliched swords and sorcery adventures. Never called her back or pursued the relationship any further, even though she was probably pretty cool. A poor reflection of where my head was at but I probably didn't actually hurt anybody or anything. Of course, that's not an interesting story. In a highschool drama, I'd say all those condescending things outright, and then we'd engage in some sort of catty schemes to hurt eachother through convoluted social machinations. The clashing ideologies around writing turn into a more literal interpersonal clash that brings our douchebaggery to the forefront in cinematically interesting ways.

How much time *has* elapsed? We've got to be past the "3-6 months" that Jeph used to say.

My twitch is people saying "and" instead of "an". But somehow I manage to keep it bottled up long enough to not yell at anyone over it. I will admit that I do have a special bit of twitch for MicroSoft's grammar checker, which has both recommended that I use "would of" instead of "would've" and highlights every use of both "its" and "it's" as potential grammar problems despite the fact that it is a grammar checker, so should be able to tell when a contraction with a verb might be appropriate.

Sure, but the nerds never grabbed your folders and whipped them down the hall, scattering your papers.

I don't know where to begin with that grammatically. shit. I think I'm 'that guy'.

NGL, these two are my Lincoln class carrier right now. (Big ship)