Bring them smilies BACK!

[Freelance Henchman]

I'm offering this spiffy thing here what I just made and am disproportionally proud of:

Not sure what it stands for, maybe.

 

[sportforredneck]

Darken the top of the eyes for the pupils. Or point them in two different directions and it could be :derp: or something.

 

[Freelance Henchman]

 

[sportforredneck]

We totally don't need any more though. Adding new codex trolly ones are a bit

 

[Freelance Henchman]

Just showing off, I'll just post these as images where appropriate.

 

[Kingston]

My reaction to finding my emoticon suggestion as an actual emoticon:

For fuck's sake.

Do you guys know why Cleve's posts are so entertaining? Because he writes them! He doesn't look for a picture that sort of conveys what he is thinking. He funnels the product of the neurons firing in his brain into symbols which he can easily manipulate. A different word order, a slight intonation, a subtle punctuation mark and a clever synonym makes a mediocre post into Cleveian brilliance. With words we are unique.

With emoticons, whatever slight differences of opinion and experience there might be between posters is lost because, ehh, I can't be arsed to write, the funny picture is close enough.

Why, we could just add an emoticon for every occasion.

This facepalm is different from the classic Picard: where the Picard shows subdued frustration, this facepalm has the atmosphere of grief, of giving up. Perfect for when you've argued for seven pages and your opponent goes back to his original shitty point (and forgets everything you argued).

The "unspoken facepalm", if you will, this time with a House flavour. It is more frank and calm that the Tommy Lee Jones original. A straight-up "no", instead of a "WTF...". Any thread started by Andhaira that ends with a question mark should immediately have this picture posted by a bot and the thread moved to Retardoland.

A man denied of something. Either by fate, God or other people. Sadness fills his heart at the thought of what could have been. Basically Andhaira's reply to the image above this one.

See how easy it is to justify an emoticon? By the time we have every emotional combination in image form, it'd take an eternity to find the right picture. So which ones do we actually need? Which ones have a good justification that goes beyond "well we don't have an emoticon that says that thing right now"?

 

[Freelance Henchman]

:derp: ?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

For fuck's sake.

Do you guys know why Cleve's posts are so entertaining? Because he writes them! He doesn't look for a picture that sort of conveys what he is thinking. He funnels the product of the neurons firing in his brain into symbols which he can easily manipulate. A different word order, a slight intonation, a subtle punctuation mark and a clever synonym makes a mediocre post into Cleveian brilliance. With words we are unique.

With emoticons, whatever slight differences of opinion and experience there might be between posters is lost because, ehh, I can't be arsed to write, the funny picture is close enough.

See how easy it is to justify an emoticon? By the time we have every emotional combination in image form, it'd take an eternity to find the right picture. So which ones do we actually need? Which ones have a good justification that goes beyond "well we don't have an emoticon that says that thing right now"?

Cleve is an ubermensch exception. Few people here (if any) can write like him. We're manboons, so we have to rely on images to convey the feelings we can't quite put into words.

 

[dr. one]

A goat scratching his ass? I don't get it.

Butthurt detected.
it´s a rather nuanced version though.

 

[sportforredneck]

You need to make more birdies. There's top hat and monocle birdie and regular birdy. Someone make more. Preferably racofer because he is the shit.

 

[TheFurryFrau]

You need to make more birdies. There's top hat and monocle birdie and regular birdy. Someone make more. Preferably racofer because he is the shit.

Please and thank you!

 

[TheFurryFrau]

And make the other bird an emoticon so I can use it in my sig.

 

[Micmu]

So what does the birdy "SMILEY" mean?
"Sorry I am complete DaCtard please disregard my post and you can safely ignore me"

 

[Der_Unbekannte]

So what does the birdy "SMILEY" mean?
"Sorry I am complete DaCtard please disregard my post and you can safely ignore me"

"Awwwww birdie is soooo cute daaaawwwww. And because I posted him I'm also cute! daaaawwwwww"

Purge the retards. Purge them with fire!

 

[Shannow]

"Spieß voran, drauf und dran,
setzt aufs Klosterdach den Roten Hahn!"

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

This one is mandatory.

 

[Melcar]

More tap dancing birds please.

 

[racofer]

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

 

[DefJam101]

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Racofer is a genius. :D

 

[GarfunkeL]

Racofer delivers.

 

[Kingston]

Cleve is an ubermensch exception. Few people here (if any) can write like him. We're manboons, so we have to rely on images to convey the feelings we can't quite put into words.

What feelings can't you put into words? How often does an image actually snapshot your experience completely and totally? And how often do you cut pieces of yourself away, like rounding the edges of a cube so that it fits into the circle hole? How often do you betray yourself when a picture also conveys emotions that you didn't feel?

Could it be that the emoticons actually guide the formation of our feelings? That we train ourselves to downplay the parts that don't fit the emoticon because it's just convenient? That makes us cowards!

Whatever, I tried.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Cleve is an ubermensch exception. Few people here (if any) can write like him. We're manboons, so we have to rely on images to convey the feelings we can't quite put into words.

What feelings can't you put into words? How often does an image actually snapshot your experience completely and totally? And how often do you cut pieces of yourself away, like rounding the edges of a cube so that it fits into the circle hole? How often do you betray yourself when a picture also conveys emotions that you didn't feel?

Could it be that the emoticons actually guide the formation of our feelings? That we train ourselves to downplay the parts that don't fit the emoticon because it's just convenient? That makes us cowards!

Whatever, I tried.

 

[DefJam101]