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Emojis are just hieroglyphics or, at the best, ideograms. As a Something Awful Forums poster, you may know how to translate all kinds of them.
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ElwoodCuse posted:literally everything the Cincinnati Zoo tweets now gets mention-bombed by people talking about Harambe They should get mention‐bombed by people talking about Martha and Incas. Non Serviam posted:Having said that, Wtf is the relation between those and a science museum? It’s a lesson in the dismal science. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 12:42 on Aug 22, 2016 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Emojis are just hieroglyphics or, at the best, ideograms. As a Something Awful Forums poster, you may know how to translate all kinds of them. Weren't hieroglyphics just normal letters (ie. no inherent meaning to the symbol), as compared to ideograms?
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Serperoth posted:Weren't hieroglyphics just normal letters (ie. no inherent meaning to the symbol), as compared to ideograms? Hieroglyphics are weird. They had meaning as sounds, specific items or people, and more metaphorical meanings simultaneously depending on the sign and context.
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 This is how an Austrian politician decided to get voters last year.  I have never seen the guy wear sunglasses. Amazingly, he won (with losses, though). I have no idea how his campaign influenced results. What I do know is that a lot of young Austrians are electing basically nazis who brand themselves as young, fresh and contrary to the old, out-of-touch political elite. I wonder if the smiley campaign helped win voters from them? 
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thecluckmeme posted:awful.app has a keyboard you can choose to put onto your phone through its keyboard settings that is just an extra emoji keyboard with all the smilies you have access to in awful.app How do you do this? Can't find keyboard settings anywhere?
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Simply Simon posted:
At least now we know which symbol will be on their red armbands.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:How do you do this? Can't find keyboard settings anywhere? The phone's keyboard settings, it turns out. You add keyboard like you're adding any language and suddenly it's an option.
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AlphaKretin posted:The phone's keyboard settings, it turns out. You add keyboard like you're adding any language and suddenly it's an option. I go to choose keyboards and I only see Google keyboards. Is this an iOS only feature?
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That's what thecluckmeme meant by Awful.app, Android is Awful.apk.
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Lagomorphic posted:Science museums need to extract money from bored schoolkids to survive. Bored schoolkids buy crap like emoji pillows. We all learn about symbiosis and that's kind of a science lesson. In the good old days, we would all buy those wooden snap-together dinosaur skeletons on our museum field trips. Maybe a few of the small skull replicas. drat kids these days, who the gently caress would pick an emoji over a goddamn t-rex skull or raptor claw!
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There is something incredibly Austrian about these people and the whole scene. I think I would've guessed the country even without seeing the language and the car plate.
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AlphaKretin posted:I would kill for an SA emote plugin on, well, anything. Everything.
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I don’t know if it’s a “dumb advertising move” or as a member of Generation X I’m just “out of touch,” but every single ad for Adam Ruins Everything that I see on TV or on Facebook doesn’t make me want to watch the show so much as punch that smug looking rear end in a top hat in the face.
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It's actually a pretty good show, but I can see where you're coming from. It works a bit better in the actual show because he's got at least one straight man an episode to play off of.
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Waffleman_ posted:It's actually a pretty good show, but I can see where you're coming from. It works a bit better in the actual show because he's got at least one straight man an episode to play off of. I've heard good things about the show from my friends, however the ads just make Adam look like a smug hipster douche. Having someone other than him would be the difference between Bullshit! With Penn and Teller and Bullshit! With Penn. (which isn't the best example since Teller doesn't talk, but I got nothing else)
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Red Bones posted:The Natural History Museum in London is pretty interesting in that the gift shop stuff ranges from £6 dinosaur toys and stationary and all that cheap poo poo to high-end jewelry, clothes and art prints costing upwards of £100. Most of the museums I've been in just have priced-up cheap crap, but that museum has some real upmarket stuff too. You can buy a legit suit of armour for thousands of dollars at the Royal Ontario Museum gift shop.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Sort of. If memory serves you can't legally say "gently caress" on the radio to this day. Traditional, terrestrial radio, anyway; anything publicly broadcast that can be picked up free can have limits put on it by the FCC. They could very easily say "no more [censored] sirens and crashes on the radio, OK?" but haven't. I think part of it is because terrestrial radio is dying so nobody cares enough. After I posted that, I thought "man, I should've been more specific." Sorry. The First Amendment only protects ads in terrestrial AM/FM broadcasts insofar as you don't say anything indecent or profane outside the "Safe Harbor" established in FCC v. Pacifica (10:00 PM to 6:00 AM). Technically, you can get on the mic then and go nuts (and I'm sure some stations do), but the vast majority of radio stations have voluntarily elected to nix the indecency and profanity completely, because it's hard to fill ad slots from 10-6 if the client knows their stuff will be alongside cursing or a raunchy call-in show. Obscenity, however, is not protected speech in a broadcast at any time, so we don't dare cross that line. The differences between obscenity, profanity, and indecency are a bit muddy sometimes, but to give you an idea, reading tentacle rape fan fiction on the air would be obscenity. The FCC can certainly regulate broadcasts (after all, that's part of its job), but when it comes to First Amendment stuff, they tend to put their hands up and back away slowly (that's probably why there are still bleeping sirens and crashes on the bleeping radio). Hell, I don't even think there's a list on paper saying exactly which words you can broadcast and which you can't, but we do know that when kids could be listening, anything on George Carlin's list of dirty words is verboten, as well as anything sexually explicit. Justice Potter did us such a favor when he said "I know it when I see it." I hated that loving thing so much. It started with a couple talking, then the husband gets distracted, wife screams "WATCH OUT," then loud car horns, tires screeching, and a ridiculous car crash mixed in stereo. Then, the wife moans "help...me," and a VO starts about distracted driving. I told my ops manager that it would be a shame if we lost it somehow, and well gosh, it vanished. I guess the new guy must've moved it somewhere?
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CobiWann posted:I don’t know if it’s a “dumb advertising move” or as a member of Generation X I’m just “out of touch,” but every single ad for Adam Ruins Everything that I see on TV or on Facebook doesn’t make me want to watch the show so much as punch that smug looking rear end in a top hat in the face. Same here! I don't know anything about the guy at all, but just based on his appearance and expression I want him to be launched into the thermosphere. It makes me feel bad and I try not to, but I can't help it.
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evobatman posted:This is McDonalds in Norway: The whitewashing of Norway continues.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Same here! I don't know anything about the guy at all, but just based on his appearance and expression I want him to be launched into the thermosphere. It makes me feel bad and I try not to, but I can't help it. It's kind of the show's shtick and yeah it's stupid. It's never just Adam by himself and is, in fact, a good show but the character is deliberately an insufferable jerk. He's a correct insufferable jerk but still, you know, a jerk.
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Yeah, I don't get the channel, but I pay attention to the FB ads in spite of Adam, because I'm the sort of guy that finds that sort of information interesting. He's a whiny jerk that seems like he wants to be Alton Brown so bad in his delivery but can't at all do it. Also his hair makes him look like a nerdy version of Johnny Bravo.
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Adam Ruins Everything can actually get kinda depressing at times because it can deal with some hot truths and injustices like how unpaid internships suck or how Nintendo choosing to market the NES as a toy was the beginning of the attitudes that cultivated Gamergate or how Disney has literally killed the public domain.
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If the ads for it on MBMBAM are any indication then it's probably garbage.
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That's just the supplementary podcast where he talks to experts who appeared on the show and yeah, the podcast is boring as hell. Also all MaxFun ads are bad anyway.
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Waffleman_ posted:That's just the supplementary podcast where he talks to experts who appeared on the show and yeah, the podcast is boring as hell. MaxFun seems like trash and their ads have made me actively avoid any non-Mcelroy shows they host.
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Improbable Lobster posted:MaxFun seems like trash and their ads have made me actively avoid any non-Mcelroy shows they host. Flophouse is still good, and Elliott Kalan holds the key to my heart.
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Waffleman_ posted:Also all MaxFun ads are bad anyway. The only MaxFun show I listen to is Judge John Hodgeman (even as I recognize the entire podcast to really just be "white people problems"), but I don't really remember the ads being that bad. My favorite podcast ad is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Startalk advertising loving Soylent, though.
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Lamprey Cannon posted:Flophouse is still good, and Elliott Kalan holds the key to my heart. Word. E: You on the Facebook group?
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Lamprey Cannon posted:Flophouse is still good, and Elliott Kalan holds the key to my heart. The ad for flophouse is so irritating to me that I can't get past it. I liked mst3k though and I think flophouse is similar so maybe I should erase the ad from my mind and give it a try? On the other hand I just keep hearing that loving "singing long irritating sooongs like this ooonnnnee". One time they did a swap over where the flophouse crew hosted The Adventure Zone and he actually broke into a long irritating song within the first 5 minutes.
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Elliott only sings as an intro to the letters segment, and it's not as irritating as on the Adventure Hour episode. Listen to the latest episode, it's in the 1998 Godzilla. Then choose whether you'll keep listening. If you don't want to hear the singing, stop the episode when the mid-episode ad break starts. After that, it's just letters and recommendations.
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Waffleman_ posted:Adam Ruins Everything can actually get kinda depressing at times because it can deal with some hot truths and injustices like how unpaid internships suck or how Nintendo choosing to market the NES as a toy was the beginning of the attitudes that cultivated Gamergate or how Disney has literally killed the public domain. I just want to say iterate that Adam Ruins Everything involves a character in Adam, who is groomed and prepped to be a douchebag, but the facts given are sound (though EXTREMELY given in choice, please look up everything he has a youtube video on through the sources that pop up as he references them) and the character is supposed to be "that rear end in a top hat friend who is probably fishmech, but fishmech is always TECHNICALLY correct, so trust the information given but expand on the sources given to garner a better understanding on the topic at hand" He glosses over important points of information that aren't detrimental to the point, it's just a weaker point because he doesn't properly expound upon it. He'll point out how De Beers fat cats extort you of 2 months of salary for an engagement ring instead of talking about the people who died to gather the diamonds to ship to De Beers to provide the engagement ring. Basically, oftentimes, Adam Ruins Everything pulls punches instead of just laying into you on the reality of the hosed-up nature of the topics he covers. There's also subtle misinformation regarding what sources they pull from, but it's usually accurate with some subtleties missing, presented in the form of "That one guy at the bar who kills conversation with a hot take that's actually true" so it's always important to personally fact-check it regarding, say, his episode on "discuss your salaries!!" when your salary discrepancy won't be the 85k vs 30k divide he points out, but much more likely a 45k to 40k discrepancy due to no reason beyond "well, the other dude asked for more"
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thecluckmeme posted:I just want to say iterate that Adam Ruins Everything involves a character in Adam, who is groomed and prepped to be a douchebag, but the facts given are sound (though EXTREMELY given in choice, please look up everything he has a youtube video on through the sources that pop up as he references them) and the character is supposed to be "that rear end in a top hat friend who is probably fishmech, but fishmech is always TECHNICALLY correct, so trust the information given but expand on the sources given to garner a better understanding on the topic at hand" He only had about 20 minutes air time to explain that DeBeers created the idea of the engagement ring to sell engagement rings. Not sure he could have delved into blood diamond 101.
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Trebek posted:He only had about 20 minutes air time to explain that DeBeers created the idea of the engagement ring to sell engagement rings. Not sure he could have delved into blood diamond 101. I think his smug persona works well, given that his character is telling you that you are wrong. It's hard to hear that without disliking that person, so why not go overboard and make it comical?
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Trebek posted:He only had about 20 minutes air time to explain that DeBeers created the idea of the engagement ring to sell engagement rings. Not sure he could have delved into blood diamond 101.
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spog posted:I think his smug persona works well, given that his character is telling you that you are wrong. It's hard to hear that without disliking that person, so why not go overboard and make it comical? It's really off putting if you don't know it's an affectation. All we have to go on is promotional materials, and that tells us that Adam is exactly as smug and self absorbed as he seems. When I first saw Jim Sterling do the same bit on the Escapist, a friend asked if the show was any good. I told him that, "it's just a greasy, British, Bill Hicks wannabe that can only talk to people because his massive gut stopped him from shoving his head up his own rear end; jerking off on camera for 5 minutes." And the majority of the community also reacted in much the same way, but directly to him. Then he broke kayfabe, said he was listening to the feedback and his next few episodes would be toned down a bit. I've regularly watched his show since, because even when he's wrong, his routine is very well realized and I get a kick out of a fat guy in a bowler hat and trench coat talking about how amazing he is
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It really isn't taught hard enough that every single entertainer you ever see from politicians to wrestlers to movie stars to YouTube "personalities" to cafe musicians are all putting on some level of an act. Hunter S. Thompson's drug escapades? Almost entirely exaggerated because that was what was part of his image, although make no mistake the man did do a ton of drugs. Vonnegut's "wise old uncle" affectation? Carefully cultivated. Bill Hicks' act? Very much an act he'd pull out based on how he likely was in his early 20s. Obama keeps any poo poo he has carefully on-lock, even if he's genuinely a classy son of a bitch. Albert Einstein used to have go-to phrases to shut people down when they'd come up to him in Princeton and try to talk to him like he was the Einstein of lore. You'd think this would be common sense--and it is after the fact--yet I and nearly everyone I know has to go through that phase where they deny it because they really want to believe that somewhere out there is a public figure who isn't acting. Do you know which people do that? The crazy burnout drugged-up folk who actually implode and ruin their careers. They're the ones who aren't acting. Everyone else is managing a stage persona. Everyone. Yes him too. I don't even know who you were thinking of but I guarantee they are too.
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What makes me cringe about Adam Ruins Everything is this constant "oh no, I'm so insufferable, I'm so bad, and now I'll ruin the thing you like by telling you some facts about it, by the way, did I say I'm insufferable yet? I'm insufferable, believe me".
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