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.
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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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?
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-06 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)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.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 11:09 am (UTC)(link)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.