SnotFlickerman

I only wish I had such a cool name.

I don't even like my own name for various reasons but I couldn't make a different choice for my own gender even if I wanted to.

I would end up depressively renaming myself something like Rat Bastard McFuckwit

Suzy Eddie Izzard - The Twelve Days of Christmas

twelve monkeys mating, eleven donkeys dancing, ten pygmies farming, nine socks a-swimming... FIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOLD RIIIIIINGS

Also, Murder City Devils - 364 Days

Oh, and Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

I know the second two aren't "classic" songs but they're my favorite Christmas songs.

I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans

The Silent Generation Boomers said this about us watching half hour TV shows.

go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”

Maybe go back and read some Jacques Derrida, because the idea that meaning of words and ideas isn't fixed isn't exactly new.

Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels

You take that back about Dispatch right now!

But more seriously, content changed. Young people just don't watch scripted television and movies in the same form or capacity that we do. Due to this, the budget for that kind of entertainment is slowly receding, because why would companies pour money into a type of content that isn't really making the returns on investment they want because all the old people who enjoy it are slowly dying? It would be like people who grew up in the early 1900s complaining about "talkies" in the 1930s because they preferred the old silent films of their youth. It really isn't for us to say which is better or worse, as much as it is for us to find what's good out of the new stuff that is being produced. There's more content than ever out there, which means you have to sift through more to find good stuff.

Like I mean, that's just part of getting older, the things we enjoy become less popular, and by extension, less money is invested in making good products that cater to that audience anymore.

Also, counterpoint: Baldur's Gate 3 was a return to 1990s western CRPG style and it fucking dominated financially. No other game of that style has come close to that kind of popularity for a long, long time. No, Bethesda games don't count because they don't actually lock you out of different outcomes from the choices you make. The Witcher games also don't count because there's not a real RPG, build-your-own-character aspect to them, you're just Geralt whether you liked it or not. When classic styles of media are done well, people still respond positively to them.

Finally, corporate enshittification dominates all of this, leading to a feedback loop of companies putting less and less money into anything quality at all ever because they don't think its valuable to invest in anything except stock buybacks and firing employees to pump their stock prices.

There's a lot of aspects to it, and a lot of it has to do with markets and how we're no longer the target market, the coveted 18-24 demographic that made our own brain rot television such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force so popular in the early 2000s when we were in that target demographic. Brain rot media has always been there, in the form of absurdist comedy. You go back farther and you had stuff like Mr. Show and The State. When I think of my own high school graduating class, I think most of them were dimwitted fucking idiots, and I don't think it was because they watched short form media: I think it's because most humans are genuinely dimwitted fucking idiots.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling, but yeah we're just getting old and we're not the audience that is being catered to anymore.

I would really hope the password for Wu Tang LAN is "isforthechildren"

I've also seen "LAN of the Lost"

I still have a lot of love for 2.4GHz just because of how much farther the signal reaches than 5GHz. Mediocre only in the sense that it's slower and that there's too many avenues of potential interference (microwaves, other 2.4GHz devices clogging the spectrum).

"Evil Lair"

"Invisible Wire"

I don't know, but I'm gonna take a wild guess and say some Nazis pissed some people off... As they do.

Eat shit, Musk glazer.

Don't forget the inclusion of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack when Prismo is skipping through universe "channels!"

There's also a blue jay that looks suspiciously and sounds suspiciously like Mordecai from Regular Show in the Adventure Time episode "Ketchup."

Gravity Falls had a crossover reference with Rick & Morty. (GF would be the only non-Cartoon Network show in this theory)

Over The Garden Wall is canonically in the Clarence universe.

Samurai Jack has an episode that takes place in post apocalyptic Townsville from Powerpuff Girls.

We are getting closer to the grand unified theory of Cartoon Network.

Arbitrary code execution is tricky to pull off without an existing exploit (or a zero day exploit).

It's smart that you didn't open the file, but I suspect it's probably nothing because it would have required you opening the file for any virus contained within to execute.

Still, worth just running your standard Windows Defender virus scan on it and on your computer in general, if nothing else.