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<title>diagonal scroll</title>
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div {
left: -500px; /* The div is shifted to the left so the left side of the p elements don't get clipped */
top: 0px;
position: fixed; /* Make the div fill the entire screen */
width: 1000px;
height: 100vh;
overflow: scroll; /* This adds the diagonal scroll bar */
transform-origin: top left;
transform: skewX(45deg); /* I originally used a rotate transform, but the math is way easier when using skewX */
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margin-left: auto;
margin-right: 0;
width: 500px;
transform-origin: top left;
transform: skewX(-45deg);
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display: inline-block;
height: calc(100vh - 100vw + 400px);
transform-origin: top left;
transform: skewX(-45deg);
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<p>oh, great. another doe-eyed rebellious anime girl to add to the endless parade of generics that litter the media landscape. ennui, huh? well, isn't that just perfect.</p>
<p>ennui had a seething hatred for modern society, because honestly, who doesn't? she despised the endless monotonicity, er, i meant monotony, of her life and the only emotion she could feel nowadays was boredom. endless, dull, tedious boredom!</p>
<p>one day, ennui had the brilliant idea of running away from home and going for a joyride on the trans-siberian railway. because, you know, nothing screams excitement quite like sitting in a cramped, musty train for days on end.</p>
<p>after breaking multiple countries' multiple laws, the first five seconds aboard the train were a flurry of excitement, but boredom returned as quickly as it had departed. suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, ennui noticed a visibly troubled young man with an exceptionally bad haircut. since she had nothing better to do, ennui roasted his hairstyle, but the man took it as a compliment, and they struck up a slightly less boring conversation.</p>
<p>he introduced himself as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230526184241/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Qi">ben qi</a>, a three-time international olympiad in informatics winner, as if anyone cares. yeah, i'm sure ennui was just thrilled to have met such an exciting and charming individual.</p>
<p>but wait, it gets even better! ennui nosily asked ben qi what was bothering him, because that's totally a question you ask a stranger you just met 30 seconds ago. ben qi just replied cryptically, "i have a secret. a deep, dark, beleaguering secret gnawing away at my soul. and i'll tell you what it is, if and only if, you become an ioi winner like me."</p>
<p>so, because ennui was so utterly bored with life, she immersed herself into ioi training, living and breathing dijkstra's algorithm, avx2-accelerated segment trees, and the knuth-yao dp speedup. robert tarjan the algorithm man soon started haunting her dreams.</p>
<p>and then, surprise surprise, she actually won the ioi! because, you know, that's totally realistic.</p>
<p>long at last, the moment had come. ben qi smiled proudly and said, "congrats ennui! you're now an ioi winner! and now i must fulfill my side of the biconditional. i'm going to reveal to you my secret."</p>
<p>ennui leaned forward eagerly, her heart pounding with anticipation. finally! she had waited so long, sacrificed so much, suffered through so many robert tarjan nightmares! finally!</p>
<p>ben qi took a deep breath and ponderously whispered in a hushed tone—oh wait, i must interrupt! you see, dear reader, i cannot reveal to you what ben qi's secret is. why, you ask? well, simply put, unlike ennui, you are not an ioi winner.</p>
<span><a class="secret" href="you-thought-I-would-just-tell-you?">the secret</a></span>
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