So... Remember all those times when I panicked because LJ or DW or some other site I like (or sometimes not even one I like!) went down for a few minutes or hours and I thought it might turn out to be a permanent outage? Remember when sometimes I even thought it might be an indication that the entire Internet might go down?

That's because I was ( Read more... )

You know what ( Read more... )

Two weeks later, and STILL no actual, definite proof that it's not the end of the world? :'(

Can one of you please collide with the Earth already??? I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. So. Every sporting event in the entire world is cancelled. Every restaurant is closed. Every grocery store is closed. No movies or video games will ever be released again. E3 is cancelled. TV shows are being cancelled. obligatory in-joke incoming: Authors are being cancelled. Every xkcd comic from now on until the end of time will be about ( Read more... )

Dear Homestar Runner Wiki:

OKAY. I GET IT. THE CORONAVIRUS IS A BIG DEAL AND WE HAVE TO CLOSE EVERY MAJOR SOCIAL GATHERING AND BASICALLY DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD TO STOP IT FROM SPREADING ( Read more... )

Okay, I was hoping I wouldn't have to make a post about the coronavirus, and initially I wasn't all that worried about it, but I've been hearing about the coronavirus so frequently, for so long, that I have to ask ( Read more... )

One hour to go.

Dear everyone who has told me, or their YouTube followers, or whoever, that the YouTube COPPA thing is nothing to worry about:

There's enough of you by now that I can KIND of take your word for it. But I am going to be SO MAD if you turn out to be wrong and this is the end of YouTube as we know it after all.

I thought the fact that a webcomic I've enjoyed for years is no longer working and may be unfixable was scary.

TURNS OUT SOMETHING EVEN WORSE IS GOING TO HAPPEN ( Read more... )

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