It has to be upscaling of some sort. That’s not the original background from this interaction either.

Probably, lol. Frakes is mugging the camera like in his Beyond Belief show.

It reminds me of how Kirby is drawn differently due to audience preferences.

Lol if I see one at Goodwill some day, I’ll know it was you.

I completely agree.

It’s a weird analogy, but it reminds me a lot of t-shirts with funny text on them. When they originally took more effort to make, someone wearing a shirt that just said “got milk?” or “talk to me after I’ve had my coffee” was considered pretty creative and funny. Now that they can be churned out at will with any image you want (you could literally screenshot our conversation and order a shirt that would be here by the weekend.), it cheapens them to the point that it’s a less desired thing to make in general.

It truly is a curse. The poor librarian is probably surrounded by this all day.

If it’s like the US in that era, students were expected to stand to answer questions. (and it looks like the smart dude is whispering the answer to her)

I dropped it in the body of the post for reference so that people finding this later can follow.

It was this one:

Nice one, lol. I tacked this on to the post too.

Yeah, it’s biblical.

The abbreviated story is that two women were both claiming a baby as theirs, and King Solomon had to make a judgement. He suggested the only fair way was to split the baby in two, knowing the real mom would give up her claim to prevent that from happening. One woman said split it, the real mom retracted her claim, and Solomon gave the baby to the real mom.

The joke here is that they split an atom instead of a baby.

Perfect. I can replace the old one with this!

Ty kindly

Would you please edit and toggle the NSFW tag on (b/c of the gore)?

You just want my watch. You can’t fool me!

What an honor!

It makes me wonder if the alcohol is to distract you. Lol

if you excuse the trek reference.

I’ll always excuse a trek reference.

Since we aren’t capable of gaining absolute knowledge, we’re cursed with having to each set our personal threshold for skepticism/credulity. Setting it too low like your quiet uncle seems like it would be a confusing nightmare.

I tend to be skeptical, but I still went down a rabbit hole the other day re: aliens after indirectly reading about “sightings” in Europe in the 1600s. This one was fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1665_celestial_phenomenon_over_Stralsund