Author: Goldpanner

me: *hmm i want a pop tart. but i cant eat two, thats like 400 calories damn*

me: hey tob-o, there’s a pop tart in the fridge if you want one!

toby: *stands up with a very serious face*

toby: *walks over to me and hugs me*

toby: you know how to make a grown man cry

toby: by which i mean, a grown 14 year old man

me: omg mum just showed me something her kid wrote
me: Q. in the 1900s, the krill population exploded. what happened to the Antarctic food web?
me: A. the plankton well blo up. and the krill well die. the food chain will finish
matt: hahahahahah
matt: how old?
me: uhh 11
matt: man i kind of feel bad lol
matt: like just a misunderstanding of the question, should get creativity points
matt: but fuck me that’s a great line
matt: the food chain will finish
matt: that’s it sam
matt: all it took was for the plankton to blow up and the krill to die
matt: the food chain has completed its purpose
matt: nothing else matters. there is no food chain anymore
matt: that was its natural intended end
me: hahahahhahhaah
me: i just
me: so many things
me: like, apparently this already happened in the 1900s too
matt: yeah we actually live in a post food chain society

unprofessionally:

I’ve grown into a habit of staying to watch the credits and stay in theaters until the very end—when the projector is turned off. I was happy I stayed until the bitter end of Wreck It Ralph, and discovered a half-glitched Disney logo in the final seconds of the reel. I recognized it as the split-screen glitch from Pacman, a very genuine homage to the games the movie was modeled after.

Here’s some background on the glitch for those that don’t know, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Pac-Man was designed to have no ending – as long as the player keeps at least one life, he or she should be able to play the game indefinitely. However, a bug keeps this from happening: Normally, no more than seven fruit are displayed at the bottom of the screen at any given time. But when the internal level counter, which is stored in a single byte (8 bits), reaches 255, the subroutine that draws the fruit erroneously “rolls over” this number to zero, causing it to try to draw 256 fruit instead of the usual seven. This corrupts the bottom of the screen and the entire right half of the maze with seemingly random symbols, making it impossible to eat enough dots to beat the level. Because this effectively ends the game, this “split-screen” level is often referred to as the “kill screen”. Emulators and code analysis have revealed what would happen should this 255th level be cleared: The fruit and intermissions would restart at level 1 conditions, but the enemies would retain their higher speed and invulnerability to power pellets from the higher stages.

A very nice touch.