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A formal request for help

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Hello everyone. Today, I'd like to take a bit of your time to talk you about a problem I've had with this website for as long as I've been here. I promise it won't be long.

Any member of this website knows that a fundamental part of communicating with others is using words to express what you mean. Each word represents an idea, an abstract concept if you will. However, sometimes words are not enough. Sarcasm, for example, is not conveyed well with words because it depends a lot on the context and also the pronunciation of those words. Many other emotions and feelings cannot be expressed clearly through text.

That's why, in the 1980's, we invented a technology in order to convey those expressions: emoticons. Emoticons can be either sequences of characters or an icon that represents a face, a person or some other object or action. Here are some examples of such emoticons:



With the advancement of the UTF-8 standard, soon many character sequences were reserved for these emoticons, so nowadays they can be displayed simply by having a font that supported them in your computer. However, the Unicode Consortium never standarized exactly how these emoticons should look like, only what they should represent. This left those who are making the fonts to take some liberty into what each emoticon should look like.

This liberty has created what we call "emojis". While fairly popular, emojis differ depending on what platform or service you're using. This can lead to some frustration with communication, as exemplifyed below:



Hopefully you can understand the problem of typing a certain emoticon only for it to be converted into something else entirely. This conversion process can vastly change the expression you're trying to convey.

This gets us back to my original problem. There exists, in this website, one such case where emoticons might be unwillingly converted into emojis. I'm referring to a set called "Gooey". Gooey is a small set of emojis, with only 8 emojis total, even so it replaces many common expressions such as :P :( :) O.O :O and :D. This is unacceptable. I'd like to request for Gooey to have his emojis renamed, or even, for him to be entirely removed altogether.

If you're still unconvinced of the scope of this problem, I'd like to provide an additional argument: the Gooey character is not very popular or relatable. Here's an analysis of results for the character Gooey in most modern search engines, compared to other popular Nintendo characters:



That's why I'm making a petition. And this is where I need your support. If any of you are interested in having Gooey removed, please print this petition and sign it with your SMWC username and e-mail. Once we get enough signatures, I'll send this towards the administration so that they can formally recognize our request.

Anyone willing to back me up with more arguments against Gooey is welcome.

Thank you all for listening. Together, we can eliminate bad emojis from the internet.




















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still wished that someone would actually fix that tho
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>take down gooey emotes and not mlp emotes

humongous thonk






and grats. just need 4000 more to join the cool kids :D
rip gooey :𝖯
Also, congratulations on acquiring a big number on you post count!
Хуй войне!

桐生会FOREVER #ThankYouCoco / Rest in peace, Near, thank you for everything
please kill mlp

the heart can stay though
HackPortsASM"Uploader"

I think there was a conversation similar to this in one of the threads in the announcements subforum. If I recall correctly, it went as follows:

>Person mentioned that some emotes (dont remember what) should be purged because "no one uses them".
>Common argument was more or less, "it doesnt kill the site to have them" or something to that effect.

Personally, I'm indifferent on that argument. But I will suggest one thing. If one plans to do something to one set of emotes, I think all sets could use some work. Here's my opinions on each of the emotes.

-Mario and Wario emotes look too blocky for my liking.
-Gooey barely even looks expressionable.
-Touhou's emotes are too squished to make out any expressions.
-Turnblock emotes barely even look like turnblocks.
-There could be a better selection of SMRPG emotes.
-Nothing wrong with MLP emotes (even though admittedly, I'm not a fan of them), but it feels really out of place here.
-AcmlmBoard emotes look like they were made 20 years ago.
-Lunar Magic emotes serves its purpose for guides, and... that's pretty much it.

WYE's emotes are really the only ones that I feel look even close to pallatably modern, and to be honest, I don't think there's enough of them.

I don't know how you could fix this problem beyond just, well, designing better emotes, really.


Edit: It took me a while to realize what kind of thread this was. Carry on.

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STELLA!
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What the actual fuck is Yandex? I've never heard of this browser before
Originally posted by Samantha
What the actual fuck is Yandex? I've never heard of this browser before


A browser for people to stalk their beloved ones anonymously.
Хуй войне!

桐生会FOREVER #ThankYouCoco / Rest in peace, Near, thank you for everything
Originally posted by Y.Y.
A browser for people to stalk their beloved ones anonymously.


I thought that was Instagram
Originally posted by Samantha
Originally posted by Y.Y.
A browser for people to stalk their beloved ones anonymously.


I thought that was Instagram

Nah, clearly it was Reddit.

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STELLA!
Don’t touch Gooey #fim{:'(}
all i know about yandex is that it's russian and i use it for automatic image translations

also xXx fuck gooey xXx 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Originally posted by Falaflame
crossed out words

a community without dumb injoke emotes is not a community i want to be a part of



they vary from rena injokes (haruna, slowpoke, churuya), to lp injokes (the flesh wall from soldexus, cat crime, alice, sanae and reimu), the obvious (cat planet), demoverse characters (all the cyclops, the dog (pal), raocow, the koopa (kood) which i think we also have), to pride flags (because important), to a bunch of dumb megaman edits i made once that everyone was horrified at but kilga thought were hilarious

my point is we need more things that display the spirit and heart of the site instead of actual quality emotes

think vip, not smwcp2
HackPortsASM"Uploader"

y'know i just realized that if i had waited a little bit longer i could've posted this on April Fools. oh well

thanks everyone! here's to many more posts! #tb{:D}

Originally posted by Ladida
and grats. just need 4000 more to join the cool kids :D

took me 5 years to hit 1000. i'll reach 5K by 2040.

Originally posted by Samantha
What the actual fuck is Yandex? I've never heard of this browser before

A russian search engine. I wanted to put DuckDuckGo but they don't tell me how many results each search has and it makes me sad. #smrpg{sad}

Originally posted by Ladida
>take down gooey emotes and not mlp emotes

humongous thonk


Originally posted by lion
please kill mlp

the heart can stay though

y'know what, yes, the MLP emoji need to be ditched too.

Originally posted by Ultima
still wished that someone would actually fix that tho


you can sign the Jebaited face, right next to Aja's signature. i know you can do it! for the people! for justice!
Originally posted by lion

think vip, not smwcp2


Which one will come out first, VIP6 or SMWCP2?
Хуй войне!

桐生会FOREVER #ThankYouCoco / Rest in peace, Near, thank you for everything
Originally posted by RanAS
Originally posted by Ultima
still wished that someone would actually fix that tho


you can sign the Jebaited face, right next to Aja's signature. i know you can do it! for the people! for justice!


ok

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