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The Fifty-Third

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It makes me irrationally angry that you can't comprehend something as fucking simple as this. THIS IS WRTTEN IN TEXT. Unless someone recorded themselves cosplaying their character and posted it as a response, their reply to a video thread would be written with text. So there's no point in distinguishing IC text with courier because you're still using text to write it.

...yeah i don't think you get what text replies in rp are.

You seem incredibly butthurt that people want to distinguish IC text replies from roleplaying text that characters can't see.

Or you have no IC/OOC divide.

What if I think courier is horribly ugly and harder to read than the default DW font? How the fuck does that mean I don't know what the IC/OOC divide is or I don't understand what text replies are???

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST ARGUMENT ON WANKGATE.

you are so stupid. bless your heart

yes, this is what I was trying to say, thank you.

uh, no? most people tend to go with whatever the op has written the main post in. if a character makes a video post, many people have their character reply in video format. if you want your character to reply in audio or text, you need to label that in your subject line, or somehow otherwise make it obvious that your character isn't giving a video reply.

we're all OBVIOUSLY writing in text. no fucking shit. but we're pretending our characters are using video, audio, and text functions. the fuck are you doing, bro?

are you guys being deliberately obtuse or what.

TL;DR:

The CHARACTERS are doing video, audio, or text.

But the PLAYERS are always writing in text.

THAT'S ALL I WAS FUCKING SAYING WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT A WEIRD CONCEPT JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I HATE YOU ALL

MAYBE BECAUSE YOU'RE EXPLAINING IT LIKE A FUCKING MORON?

THEN HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO EXPLAIN IT

SHOULD I USE TINY WORDS

NOT LIKE A STUPID BITCH, THAT'S FOR SURE

for real though, before you made it sound like you had no fucking idea we were playing pretend

i was worried about your functionality for a minute there tbh

ugh, sorry, that definitely wasn't meant. i still have no idea how people are reading it that way but i guess it makes more sense in my head.

Oh my god you are literally the dumbest person I have met today and I spent all day in a fucking Walmart.

No shit the players are writing in text.

Sometimes the characters talk in text, and sometimes they talk in voice.

The point of using courier is to have an immediate visual differentiation between when the characters are talking in text and when they are talking in voice or video.

Do you understand it now?

Do you need me to draw you a picture?

I understand the point. Yes, i know that sometimes what characters are communicating with can change. Yes I know about the IC/OOC divide.

I just think the courier convention is stupid because (1) courier looks more like a typewriter's text than computer text so it doesn't convey the right thing anyway, (2) us, the players, are writing in text anyway, so why differentiate when the characters are writing in text and not when they're doing audio and video? shouldn't the characters writing in text be the default? (3)courier is an ugly font (and tt is even worse) (4) typing out that html is more of a pain, to me, than paying attention to whether a mun put "text" or "audio" or "mating dance" in the subject line.

Back in my day we put "Text" in the subject line and paid attention to what the other characters were using and kept it in mind because we had enough brain cells to remember what the other character was using without html tags (that could possibly break) and ugly fonts.

shouldn't the characters writing in text be the default?

Well, it's clear where you've gone wrong, anyway.

No, it's not the default. As in there is no reason to assume text over video or voice when both video and voice are generally more prevalent ICly. That makes text the exception. That makes it the one that's easier to differentiate with courier.

(1) courier looks more like a typewriter's text than computer text so it doesn't convey the right thing anyway,

Doesn't it? And who's the say the default font for their IC device isn't Courier? Why are you assuming it's Arial?

What you're hilariously saying is that it's your headcanon that the IC comm device doesn't use courier and you're mad when people imply it does.

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