i knew jeff drew the big pretty vector one so this whole time i assumed it was his design, whoops

I guess I don't know 100% that tom drew the original, but it was definitely around before johnnyutah joined the staff

edge case: trained pet bat reads assassination target name, but while hanging from the ceiling the W in Wario looks like an M and if it just happened to be dropping into flight at that point, the rest of the name would be right-side up and your battle bat would kill Super Mario instead

character name vetoed for security concerns

emoji were more fun before software vendors realized they were a minefield of competing nuances and tried to be better about standardizing expressions



you can probably guess which set i ride for

obviously the problem with deviating too hard from a standard expression is that you send someone a simple 😬 in an awkward situation, and they might end up with a fucked up Samsung grimace that wants to bite their face off, but the flip side of the coin is that you can't send a fucked up Samsung grimace to anyone who doesn't have a Samsung

dang ol, pullin in John Lasseter to help codify what emotional facial expressions should look like, talkin bout all the megacorporations tryin to make their lil faces look the same but different, new world order one world digital currency typa stuff, man

everyone's internet is absolutely fast enough to send somethingawful emotes in text messages. bet that'd take up less bits and bytes on your phone storage than svgs of the committee-designed most unambiguous version of every emotion ever, plus the shit like 🎴 and 🔏 that's only fun because nobody ever uses it

idk maybe we don't even use the angry ones (except for where the anger is directed at a party that is Not reading the comments) because choosing to show anger as anger makes us lose credibility. you see all kinds of catty prescriptive people calling people buffoons with a side of 😒 cuz that's how angry they're allowed to be and still look cool

that 8.5 set... a beautiful dream

also,

Quote from: VCRClock on December 10, 2023, 08:06:20 PMidk maybe we don't even use the angry ones (except for where the anger is directed at a party that is Not reading the comments) because choosing to show anger as anger makes us lose credibility. you see all kinds of catty prescriptive people calling people buffoons with a side of 😒 cuz that's how angry they're allowed to be and still look cool

v. sad

because
the function of emotions is social
the whole reason we have them is to help us understand each other
and parts of that very human innate need to express what you're feeling internally for other human beings to see and understand are locked off because we know people don't respond appropriately to them because of the limits of how we've all chosen to communicate with each other
small wonder everybody's going insane

it's ok for macho men to show every emotion available right there you know because I've cried a thousand times I'm gonna cry some more BUT I've soared with the eagles and I've slithered with the snakes and I've been everywhere in between and I'm gonna tell ya something right now there's one guarantee in life in that there are no guarantees yeah ANNNNNNNNNND understand this yeah: nobody likes a quitter, nobody said life was easy, so if you get knocked down, take the standing eight count, get back up and FIGHT AGAIN. then you're a macho maniac, dig it

Quote from: Slurpee on December 11, 2023, 12:15:35 AMalso,

Quote from: VCRClock on December 10, 2023, 08:06:20 PMidk maybe we don't even use the angry ones (except for where the anger is directed at a party that is Not reading the comments) because choosing to show anger as anger makes us lose credibility. you see all kinds of catty prescriptive people calling people buffoons with a side of 😒 cuz that's how angry they're allowed to be and still look cool

v. sad

because
the function of emotions is social
the whole reason we have them is to help us understand each other
and parts of that very human innate need to express what you're feeling internally for other human beings to see and understand are locked off because we know people don't respond appropriately to them because of the limits of how we've all chosen to communicate with each other
small wonder everybody's going insane

By that token, wouldn't the standardization of emoji be to the benefit of understanding the other party? Because if I type  and appears as the same on everyone's devices, then everyone should know what meaning has, right? Emotions are important for communication because for the most part we experience emotions the same, right?

Don't get me wrong, I like this:

Quote from: VCRClock on December 10, 2023, 08:06:20 PM

Those emojis look waaay more expressive and less boring than modern emoji, and I miss when Android had little blobs instead of the typical yellow circle. I just thought that was the point, is all.

Quote from: TelephoneClock on December 11, 2023, 02:59:28 PMBy that token, wouldn't the standardization of emoji be to the benefit of understanding the other party? Because if I type  and appears as the same on everyone's devices, then everyone should know what meaning has, right? Emotions are important for communication because for the most part we experience emotions the same, right?

sure, yeah, but thinking about it that way kind of turns it into a zero sum game of the clarity of what's being expressed vs. the nuances of expression that variety can provide

why not have both? the recipient always sees whatever it looks like on the sender's side, but senders aren't limited to a single, uniform set
that's what vcr was saying about being able to send somethingawful emotes via text

amusingly, forum posting has always had this ability, because if the forums you're posting on don't have a smily you want to use, you can post it inline as an image.

I don't think this is even actually possible with emojis as they've been implemented. emojis are... kind of a fundamentally bad solution for smilies.

that spiritual successor to Mystical Ninja that Flounder told me about was only released in Japan 😔











so i fucking IMPORTED IT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YEEEEEEEEEAH


also japanese amazon is its own thing and they have "AMAZON EXCLUSIVES" for every single game that sell out in five minutes (it's like acrylic standees and stuff every time) but they also have loyalty points so I got five bucks off

I had just showed my friend the trailer for that. however I get ahold of it I gotta stumble through that game. I still gotta play that one good ps1 game too. not the one with the hilarious impacts for each character but bad gameplay or the mega man x ripoff that ruined the character designs. I'll probably try those anyways though.

Quote from: Slurpee on December 11, 2023, 03:58:03 PM

I was glad to find out this is a real game after watching that. it's just like the cowboy-themed cactus-avoidance simulators of my youth.

now on some distributions of Linux, when you want to update your software, you go into your package manager and check for updates, then if there are updates you install them

debian's a little like that, but you also gotta remember that if you want the new software, every two years or so you gotta open /etc/apt/sources.list and type 'I WANT THE NEW SOFTWARE' [esc] :wq.

debian just had a update that corrupts data (it was fixed like instantly but naturally the raspi server a friend uses was slow to uptake the fix, instantly got the issue)

milves

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on December 14, 2023, 04:59:55 PMmilves

hehe

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