Actually, it would seem that, upon checking into this further, NotePad does not have a word counting functionality built into it, or at least not in the version present on my Microsoft Windows 10 Home Edition personal laptop computer. Perhaps the fancier version of NotePad, with tabs and CoPilot included, maligned though it is, may be equipped with just such a capability, but I do not have that version of the NotePad software loaded on my aforementioned Windows 10 Home Edition personal laptop computer, nor do I have an interest in trying to perform a so-called "upgrade" to that version. Possibly the oft forgotten alternative, WordPad, which was killed off by Microsoft to focus on the expanded features for NotePad, is in possession of a word counting feature which would aid one such as myself in the drafting of a six hundred word essay for this comment, as I previously expressed my interest in doing, but that interest does not exceed the threshold necessary for me to make the effort to open up the start menu and search for it, and then paste this text into a new document in said software, and finally attempt to see if that functionality is even there, which it may not be.

In addition to the technical hurdles presented above, which would inhibit the task of composing a six hundred word essay comment for this topic, as a means to amuse myself and maybe others, though I doubt anyone would read such a lengthy comment, let alone go to the trouble themselves of verifying that the comment actually met the alleged length of six hundred words, surely I would be in need of a topic upon which to pontificate in order to reach the proposed minimum word count as originally brought up in the image which is attached to, and the central focus of, this post.

In fact, I would say that not only would I, or someone else, wishing to perform this task of writing a six hundred word essay as a comment under this post, be in need of a topic to write said lengthy comment about, but then if you were to address the concerns regarding software functionality originally brought up, and if someone that was going to go for this feat of elaborate prose had decided upon a topic which they wished to write about, then it would behoove that person to then first make an outline of the topic which they wished to write a six hundred page essay about, laying out their key points, providing supporting statements to those points, and structuring the whole of the essay with said points in a way that effectively communicated the intended message of that essay without rambling or adding a lot of superfluous filler words, repeating overly verbose phrases, or carrying on in paragraph length sentences just to artificially inflate the word count to meet an arbitrary requirement.

Shit I was going to throw in a joke here about this last sentence making the whole thing 600 words exactly, but it turns out I hit 650 words before this sentence so... hahaha did you actually read all this? Oh my god I've wasted your time and mine now. Anyway, now I've bullshitted out a 700 word essay. Not including the previous sentence. Or this one. Or this one. Or...

I was also going to do a bit about how learning to game the system like this got me nowhere in life, but given that I actually took the time to do this, I feel like that part is self-evident. Also, this is crap writing, but I swear this is how I got through everything. We should really do something about our public schools, it's like they just rubber stamp kids to pass because the teachers are overworked and underpaid, the schools are underfunded, parents are overwhelmed with their jobs, and... hey, this would make a good topic for a real 600 word essay.