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Hi, it's me, Gen. DeGroot of House SPUF. Artwork thread dude, former TF2 player, pretty decent dirigible pilot in Guns of Icarus. Uh...Hi.

Tonight was the High School's drama banquet. We reviewed the year, recognized our greatness, prepared for next year, and were shown next year's season of shows in chronological order: The Music Man, When (A play written by the wife of our drama teacher. She has a degree in directing.), and the highly-anticipated Pippin.

​BancSTAR is a programming language lump of congealed failure. It was used by banks to manage their operations, despite looking like a joke programming language. You cannot use alphabetical characters in the language, so everyone is a jumbled mess of commas and numbers. This means that you almost certainly have to have a big lookup table on hand to actually write code, since this: if (cmd.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("register")) { if (sender instanceof Player) { if (selection.containsKey(((Player) sender).getUniqueId())) { registerNewTower() } } }is a billion times more readable than this: 3001,1316,3,30078 11528,22052,22002,22002 9301,0,1528,1528 31568,10001,800,107 8560,,,1568The fun continues. The language doesn't give each program its own set of variables - they're all global. This means that one program can break another program, even though the two programs have nothing to do with one another. Without looking at every single line of code in the entire codebase (which would be a LOT for a bank), you will have no idea why your program is failing to work. Worse still, these sorts of errors are very transient - they come and go at random, often disappearing entirely when debugged (since you might run it in by itself, without the unrelated program that's actually responsible). On top of that, there's a hard limit on variables. Constant values (e.g. 5) have to be stored in variables, so there is an extremely limited amount of data for the entire system. As a result, programmers had to look and see if constant values they needed were already available somewhere else! This meant that any change to any program could break several programs that were written after it. Also: "Reverse conditional block." That's a sex position, not a piece of logic. It's so godawful that it's regularly mistaken for some kind of twisted joke.

I'm always a bit jealous when I hear about nice well-established drama programs, my schools was a fucking mess that only got revitalized last year and still gets kinda ignored and brushed aside or even flat-out frowned upon by certain members of the community and school. We had to argue for a looong while to be able to do a play where we yell the word "bitch."

​People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Literally no story comes close to Ziltoid the Omniscient. Devin Townsend is fucking amazing