I never saw anything of it that compelled me to watch it. Nobody really talked about what it was or what it was going for, and "quirky 3D CGI that looks like the mid late 90s/early 00s" isn't an instant-hook for me.

I had started to get a little interested in it, because our roommates enjoyed it and were going to see the ending, but I didn't have the time (or energy) to catch up on it. Once the ending got put on YouTube and people could not shut up about specific parts of the ending, it was... well.

There's a NES game I like, Faria. I got real big on it back in '07/'08. Kinda like bizarro world Zelda 2. As I'm playing it, a friend casually drops: "Oh yeah, I remember that game. About halfway through it, (plot point) happens." ... I was about 80% of the game, and that plot point had not happened. It turns out it happens just before you go to the definitely final dungeon, and is a huge spoiler/twist. Learning this completely took the wind out of my sails to finish the game. I still did, eventually, but simply knowing "oh yeah, this is how it ends" takes a lot of the drive to finish a story out.

I'd still like to see it, eventually, but now I've transitioned into the "I'm going to wait for the hype to die down a little, and maybe for myself to forget most of The Discourse".

i came of programmer age around the era of eevee's "php: a fractal of bad design", a document that in hindsight was profoundly harmful. alas.

i actually like php. as far as scripting languages go, it is (or was) extremely easy to pick up and play with. it's actually one of the reasons i really liked it as a language: in the era before "package managers" and "containerization" and the like, a lot of these apps were tiny and could play together. a ton of the reason early php shit was so "terrible" was because we were all amateurs playing with toys, it hadn't really solidified yet.

php includes a ton of shit in its standard library, almost anything you could want to do is there. you don't have to deal with compilation, building, trying to find what stupid package happens to have a library to do string parsing or figuring out dates. it's just there.

people used to hate on php, but at least php is server-side. php loves you. php does not require you to download packages to pad strings, require you to devote bytes to caching certain numbers of spaces to juice performance. php will just sit there and work and do its job.

i've been using it for like 24 years and if you asked me i'd still buy php a beer and shoot javascript in the back of the head. and if i did, the world'd be a better place.

(at least until dreamhost force-upgrades you, but that's a different problem)