Outing the in-jokes: a thread about smilies. :confuoot:

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Groghammer: Aug 10, 2011; On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!

Oh my God, I'm just seeing the face in :pwn:

right now. I thought it was a fish.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 01:30

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Spanish Manlove: Aug 31, 2008; HAILGAYSATAN

Radio Paranoia posted:

I would really like somebody to explain for... reasons.

I think this is it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifrost

# ? Sep 11, 2012 01:43

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

Groghammer posted:

Oh my God, I'm just seeing the face in right now. I thought it was a fish.

How do you possibly look at that and see a fish?!

# ? Sep 11, 2012 02:09

value-brand cereal: May 2, 2008

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

How do you possibly look at that and see a fish?!

I can kinda ee it. The yellow part is the one eyed fish. The white could be a fish egg? I dunno.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 02:14

Groghammer: Aug 10, 2011; On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

How do you possibly look at that and see a fish?!

It's in profile, the right eye is an eye and the left eye is its mouth. The mouth is a neck wrinkle, I guess.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 02:28

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Groghammer posted:

It's in profile, the right eye is an eye and the left eye is its mouth. The mouth is a neck wrinkle, I guess.

I'm trying hard to see it like that but I can't. I think your brain has problems.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 02:58

syscall girl: Nov 7, 2009; by FactsAreUseless; Fun Shoe

gnarlyhotep posted:

I'm trying hard to see it like that but I can't. I think your brain has problems.

It has to be one of those Super Mario fish with the giant clown lips for it to work.

:pwn:

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:06

Hirayuki: Mar 28, 2010

gnarlyhotep posted:

I'm trying hard to see it like that but I can't. I think your brain has problems.

It's more like three-quarters view, the big suction-cup fish mouth pointing to the upper left. The smaller eye is behind it, looking kind of shell-shocked. (So I guess it works if you see it as a face or as a fish.) The mouth could be a neck-wrinkle or even some delineation of the tail.

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:pwn:

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:06

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

You people are nuts. That does not look like a fish. If the big eye is the mouth, then the mouth is on his butt. This poo poo is hosed up.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:09

Hirayuki: Mar 28, 2010

gnarlyhotep posted:

You people are nuts. That does not look like a fish. If the big eye is the mouth, then the mouth is on his butt. This poo poo is hosed up.

I don't see any butt in this picture. If anything, the butt is behind everything. Maybe this fish is half squished and looking up at you like "Please don't step on me."

Hell, I only saw the fish when Groghammer mentioned the possibility, but I can see it, easy.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:33

QuickbreathFinisher: Sep 28, 2008; by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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I took the liberty. It wasn't that hard to see for me but I was curious how fish-like I could make it while still keeping the same general features.

I really have no idea how you saw a fish before a face though...

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:43

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

I took the liberty. It wasn't that hard to see for me but I was curious how fish-like I could make it while still keeping the same general features.

I really have no idea how you saw a fish before a face though...

Ok I see it now. I have no idea how you saw a fish before a face. So there. :colbert:

e: and I think you meant "face before fish"

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:44

ThatPazuzu: Sep 8, 2011; I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.

What's with "rivals.com pun" probations?

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:56

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

ThatPazuzu posted:

What's with "rivals.com pun" probations?

Some kind of sports BS.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:57

Dickweasel Alpha: Feb 8, 2011; Mod Secrets #614 - Experto Crede is the one who bought most of those frog avatars

ThatPazuzu posted:

What's with "rivals.com pun" probations?

It's probations for the people who say things like "the dallas cowgirls" and stuff.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:59

Tangents: Aug 23, 2008

quote:

g. NO RIVALS.COM PUNS Please avoid using any dumb puns or nicknames to insult players or teams. Posting about how much you hate Tony Homo and the Dallas Cowgirls is a great way to lower the level of both humor and discussion and find yourself probated or banned.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 03:59

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

For

, does it go :smith:

, suddenly :unsmith:

then continue to become :unsmith:

or does it start :unsmith:

, looking around then finishes with :smith:

before looping? i.e. is it sad --> happy or happy --> sad

Also what's the relevance behind :gbsmith:

and GBS, if that is where it got its name?

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# ? Sep 11, 2012 05:38

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

toanoradian posted:

For , does it go , suddenly then continue to become or does it start , looking around then finishes with before looping? i.e. is it sad --> happy or happy --> sad

Also what's the relevance behind and GBS, if that is where it got its name?

Probably the fact that almost all news posted is just depressing event after depressing event, with a random happy story or Photoshop thread thrown in.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 05:45

straylightunity: Dec 20, 2005; Scapegrace.

It's so much more.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 05:59

UZworm: Feb 9, 2009; Young wild Elsweyrian
C'mon baby, do you have a soul gem

After that discussion on :pwn:

I started to see it as a side view of Pac-Man choking on a giant donut.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 06:31

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

toanoradian posted:

For , does it go , suddenly then continue to become or does it start , looking around then finishes with before looping? i.e. is it sad --> happy or happy --> sad

The latter.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 06:53

QuickbreathFinisher: Sep 28, 2008; by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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gnarlyhotep posted:

e: and I think you meant "face before fish"

Nope, I've always seen it as a wonky face, but I kinda understood the fish-view once the person who originally mis-saw it (is that a word?) pointed it out. I decided to try and nip the "OMG how do you not totally see what I see" derail in the bud by making a handy mspaint. Which didn't entirely work but there you go.

I am still loving wondering what :pwm:

is. Does anyone know?

# ? Sep 11, 2012 07:08

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

UZworm posted:

After that discussion on I started to see it as a side view of Pac-Man choking on a giant donut.

This is easier for me to see than the fish was.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 10:25

Mad Hamish: Jun 15, 2008; WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

UZworm posted:

After that discussion on I started to see it as a side view of Pac-Man choking on a giant donut.

Once you've seen it, you can't un-see it!

What the hell is with :coupons:

# ? Sep 11, 2012 13:59

cock hero flux: Apr 17, 2011

Mad Hamish posted:

Once you've seen it, you can't un-see it!

What the hell is with ?

There was this guy named Coupons who put so many people on his ignore list that poo poo started to break.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 14:09

Toast Museum: Dec 3, 2005; 30% Iron Chef

Not sure if you were kidding, but it's because he mostly (exclusively?) posted in the coupons/discounts forum, not his username.

# ? Sep 11, 2012 14:24

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

edit: wrong thread.

Thanks for the spot.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 14:42

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Did you mean to post that in the SA Quotes thread?

# ? Sep 11, 2012 14:47

Friend: Aug 3, 2008

gooby on rails posted:

The latter.

What? I always see it used in "man, that's a sad story, but I'm glad there is a silver lining!" situations, which would indicate the former.

# ? Sep 12, 2012 02:12

Ammat The Ankh: Sep 7, 2010; Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

Was this ever an official emote at any point?

I think I remember seeing it on the forums, but it's not there now. Was it one of the emotes that BYOB voted to delete?

Also what is :fyadride:

referring to?

# ? Sep 12, 2012 02:50

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Friend posted:

What? I always see it used in "man, that's a sad story, but I'm glad there is a silver lining!" situations, which would indicate the former.

Yeah, but I'm preeeetty sure that the original Smith comic (haven't read it in a long time, depressing) has moments of happiness and then ends painfully sadly. So, the latter.

# ? Sep 12, 2012 03:35

Ignimbrite: Jan 5, 2010; BALLS BALLS BALLS; Dinosaur Gum

Ammat The Ankh posted:

Was this ever an official emote at any point?

That's an offshoot of :slick:

. The original version was called danceman.gif and was bigger:

. It was too big to upload as a smilie and the thread was about getting it down to the right size. I don't think the thread was from BYOB. After the guy who made it posted it, people started making versions based off of other smilies. I remember forkbanger did a lot of work in that thread. Also, I think :slick:

the smilie that we have now wasn't bought in that thread but later, only a few years ago, after someone found that thread.

Here are some of the variations I have saved. There are many, many more. That was one of the first threads I remember reading.

e: You're probably also thinking of :owned:

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# ? Sep 12, 2012 03:38

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

Friend posted:

What? I always see it used in "man, that's a sad story, but I'm glad there is a silver lining!" situations, which would indicate the former.

I opened the gif in an image editor and the happy frames are first and it animates to sad and then loops back around. It's nitpicky but that's what the guy asked.

# ? Sep 12, 2012 04:10

Ammat The Ankh: Sep 7, 2010; Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

Ignimbrite posted:

e: You're probably also thinking of

I distinctly remember the .gif with a dude dancing onto the OWNED button, but you're right about it being too big to be an emote. Someone must have just linked it from imgur like I did.

Thanks though!

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# ? Sep 12, 2012 04:24

Bombadilillo: Feb 28, 2009; The dock really fucks a case or nerfing it.

What is

I don't know what's falling and being ignored. I don't get it.

# ? Sep 12, 2012 05:06

Vertigo Ambrosia: May 26, 2004; Heretic, please.

It looks like the Smashmouth guy refusing to eat an egg, maybe? And then the egg hatches and runs off?

# ? Sep 12, 2012 05:16

ThatPazuzu: Sep 8, 2011; I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.

Egg approaches Smashmouth, he refuses to eat it and turns it away.

# ? Sep 12, 2012 05:21

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

ThatPazuzu posted:

Egg approaches Smashmouth, he refuses to eat it and turns it away.

Mr. Mouth lied to us.

# ? Sep 12, 2012 05:39

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Groghammer posted:

Oh my God, I'm just seeing the face in right now. I thought it was a fish.

Why is it called pwn, anyways? It's always looked me more like a "what the gently caress did I just witness" expression with a degree of shock and incomprehension that exceeds :stare:

, but not the accompanying horror that makes it :gonk:

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Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

ToxicFrog posted:

Why is it called pwn, anyways? It's always looked me more like a "what the gently caress did I just witness" expression with a degree of shock and incomprehension that exceeds , but not the accompanying horror that makes it .

I always saw it as "raise my eyebrow so high that my eye pops out". An "Okaaay... -> WTF?" transitions of sorts.

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