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yugimoto

new cospa standees

#ygo

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they haven't taken a picture better than this which is kinda crazy if you think about it

millenniummmbop

Emotional Support Favorite Coworkers TM

kujakumai

Top Ten Lines Where The Anime Writers Didn't Predict Memory World

kujakumai

autistic-coded

growing up being autistic but not knowing is just *hiding in room while people are over* *getting tired and needing to recharge after the smallest chores* *getting called a gifted kid* *knowing that you’re “weird” because people are making fun of you but not knowing how to stop being weird* *having adults tell you how “mature” you are* *getting in trouble for not doing work* *convincing yourself that you’re just lazy and stupid because you can’t make yourself do work* *getting really invested in “weird” media*

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Borders doesn’t real I have more in common with the Chinese man seeding the torrent I download than my congressman

scoes

people who are like "oh but you can just buy x thing online" are missing the point. its about the joy and journey

scoes

"just find it on amazon" what next. do you want me to throw rocks at babies too

porcelain-animatronic

This made me think of the thing Kurt Vonnegut said about buying envelops

strangestcase

Man I love paratexts. Yessss tell me more about a piece of media that doesn’t exist and that I will never be able to consume in the ways the characters can.

strangestcase

you can make a real life Candle Cove but it won’t be the Candle Cove the creepypasta was about. you can make a real life Navidson Record but it won’t be the Navidson Record House of Leaves discusses. you can make a real life King in Yellow play but it won’t be the cursed King in Yellow play that messes with your head. you can make a real life Goncharov but it won’t be the Goncharov that could have existed.

jb-blunk

I want it back = I drag its dead weight forward

ketamie

this is literally profound to me like it blasted my hairline back.

janmisali

the /hj tone indicator is worse than useless

sqbr

As someone who has always found tone indicators confusing and irritating for exactly the reasons listed, I've been watching with some amusement as Jan Misali posted various polls which demonstrate the wildly varying interpretations of various 'obvious' uses of 'half joking'. But it wasn't until this video that I went OH. THEY'RE SLANG MASQUERADING AS AN ACCESSIBILITY TOOL.

As far as I can tell they DO make communication more accessible for many autistic etc people who happen to already hang out in circles where such slang is popular, because it is easier to talk to people using forms of communication you already know. But they are not very helpful for those of us who are used to different slang. Communities using text communication have developed slang and conventions to indicate tone and intent since well before the internet, and I can't see how tone indicators are inherently any more clear or helpful than lol, <joke>, (just kidding), etc.

They're sometimes more succinct, which I can see being useful for stuff like mobile messages, but I saw people earnestly suggest that everyone on a large, international discord server learn them, even though discord messages can be paragraphs long. I had to be one of several people saying "typing out '(sarcasm)' or '(this is sarcastic)' is 1000% more accessible and less work than typing '/s' and then linking to a guide to tone indicators" before the people arguing for them to be made official server policy backed down.

EDIT: Thinking about it, the extension of "it is easier to talk to people using forms of communication you already know" is that to be more accessible you should try as much as possible to only rely on words and terms etc that most people reading your words are likely to be already familiar with. As far as I can tell, people who speak moderately fluent English, regardless of dialect and culture, will generally be familiar with the concepts of sarcasm and parenthetical asides (putting extra information in round brackets). So if you add '(sarcasm)' to a sentence, they will probably be able to figure out what you mean, and if you add '(this is sarcastic)' they should definitely be able to figure it out, because that's just a standard, simple English sentence. Using tone indicators, or other subculturally specific slang like 'lmao', requires learning new terms, and is thus inherently less accessible.

At least the way I see it, maybe there's some overwhelming advantage to tone indicators I'm missing along with the OP.

grenade-maid

I am not good at BlazBlue but I do very much like the girl with her robot girlfriend 'v'

grenade-maid

I cannot emphasize enough how much I am not exaggerating with this description.

LIKE

GIRL IS JUST FEELING HER UP RIGHT THERE ON THE CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN IN FRONT OF GOD AND EVERYONE

All of their fight animations are literally like "Look out! Trouble! Quick, jump into my arms so I can hold you so tenderly!"

And then there's THIS which is just. Look this isn't even a metaphor at this point.

It carries over into other promotional art and stuff too:

And then there's this little gem from Minerva's bio

I'm unconsolable. Big scary killer robot and only her girl understands her. Jesus Christ. They put gay people in fighting games. And to think they said it could never be done.

grenade-maid

Good morning kings they also make pancakes