when you signed up for a forum in the 2000s you had to wait in line at a counter with a mesh screen over it in a dingy government office and when you got to the front a bored guy reading a magazine asked if you were going with a matrix, cowboy bebop, trigun, or equilibrium theme for your online persona. if you tried to suggest anything else it was like you were george costanza asking for the bread to go with your soup
