Basically anything by Studio Trigger is worth watching for the animation alone, I think they’re one of the best I’ve seen recently.

I also think modern One Piece has some really incredible moments during the Wano arc.

1. Wasn’t really explained. My mom had a desktop computer in the 2000s though, and was happy enough to let me mess around on it. I think most of my learning was from videogame tutorials.

2. I am absolutely aware, growing up with access to the entire collective human experience is batshit insane. I’m glad that I mostly abstained from the social media craze, but just the sheer amount of noise the Internet generates can be overwhelming.

3. My mother was incredibly distant, and my father wasn’t around, so I had very, very few limiters on my internet access. I feel pretty strongly that this was a mistake, as being raised by the internet in the manner I was led to me really struggling to connect with people and empathize with them, vs just trying to exploit and scam strangers.

As for just general anecdotes…trying to even comprehend the world before the internet is really hard for me. It might as well be the Dark Ages, compared to what came after. Where I work was still using typewriters through the 90s, and only recently started using email in the 2010s, and it boggles my mind that people were able to do my job without a computer at all. It just seems like things would have been significantly more difficult.

I feel like as long as your country has one of our military bases in it, and the chances are unfortunately pretty high that you do, you’ve got about as much right to criticize the U.S. as anyone else. The U.S. falling to fascism would have global repercussions, so don’t let anyone ever tell you that you don’t have skin in the game too.

Mine is Hearthstone, so my life basically just becomes Yu-Gi-Oh? I have to wander around Azeroth getting challenged by weirdos to increasingly elaborate children’s card game battles?

I typically make high legend on ladder though, so I guess I’m okay with this life.

I think there’s something to be said for being able to show somebody you love a thing that you love for the first time, so I don’t necessarily want someone who’s so intelligent that they’re jaded to the world. However, after dating a man who was on the level of “Winter lasts as long as the Christmas season, spring starts in January,” I realized that doesn’t apply to basic facts about the world. I also don’t want someone dumb enough to try and reject those basic facts about the world when questioned. I’m not really looking for a specific level of education, just someone who’s interested in learning more about the world.