But still above par, considering the competition...

On the contrary, the best part about it is that it's not a compilation of references the audience is supposed to already know about. It's just a fun adventure movie. The reason the RPG crowd sing it praises is that in addition, if you know how to read it, the actual plot is "girlfriend is curious about what we're all doing every Tuesday evening"

You remember r/shitamericanssay? Last time he won, there were a lot of people talking about stuff Europe has but America doesn't, and, if you browse the posts there, a lot of Americans responding how Europe is backwards, in the stone age, and what they do have is paid for by America, out of benevolence.

Well, those folks are in charge now.

Clown-on-clown violence

It's by design very verbose and "English"-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go "MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x", the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.

IIRC "Calendar" was one of the proposed solutions, but the bone actually had a lot more than 28 holes. It's one of the reasons it's purpose is considered unknown.

I always find this particular strain of antiintellectualism deeply ironic, because it claims to oppose women being forgotten, but the premise assumes the "scientists" are all male.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

wizards of the coast

Of the "sent the literal Pinkertons after a streamer" fame.

Oh wow, it's still updated!

He blanks them out in real life too.

So we've reached "bargaining". Good to know.