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Old 01-16-2011, 02:52 AM
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Question A Pressing Matter of Smiley Orientation

This has bothered me for some time and now I'm finally doing something about it. The pressing question is as follows:

Should :unrun: run in the other direction?

Think particularly at the end of a sentence. I feel like he should run away from the sentence, not towards it.
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Old 01-16-2011, 02:56 AM
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I wanted to pick Poland but he's not running upside down when he runs across the top, and he should be. I cannot in good conscience endorse such a half-finished Poland smiley.
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Old 01-16-2011, 02:58 AM
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He has to start right side up, and he has to start all over again at the end because that's how smilies work!!1
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Old 01-16-2011, 03:00 AM
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But! His current orientation has him running to the left, so the bottom right corner of Poland is his starting point. Thus, he should be upside down when he runs across the top. The prosecution rests.
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Old 01-16-2011, 03:05 AM
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Objection! Prosecution wouldn't know the first frame of a smiley from a hole in the ground. EXHIBIT EVERYTHING:

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Old 01-16-2011, 03:08 AM
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Well then he should be upside down when he runs across the bottom, SHOULDN'T HE MR. DRUSUS!!!
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Old 01-16-2011, 03:17 AM
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There should be an ALL OF THE ABOVE option, but Poland. Definitely.
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I vigorously disagree. The magic of :unrun: is that he's purposely running the wrong direction. Namely, towards the stupid, because he is ineffectual.



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Well I haven't forgotten Poland, and what was the question?
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Alright, Kael, you son of a bitch, I fixed Poland.
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And a marvelous job you did, too.
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You may change my vote to Poland, if you see fit.
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Old 01-16-2011, 03:42 AM
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I can just change the number; your name won't follow. I'll keep it as is since the thrad testifies to your preference.
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BOTH! :unnod:
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Why not just have all 3?
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I'm not supercrazy about dupes, even if they are mirror images. I'll consider it.
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But then we can have them running at eachother in a dual or away from eachother in disdain.
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Leave :unrun: alone. He is perfect just the way he is.
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If we are going to scrutinize all of the little guy's self esteem away, I would also like to point out that the static lighting in the Poland version is just plain illogical.
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I suppose you already know that with Internet Explorer, you can use CSS filters to mirror smilies? Sadly this doesn't work in FireFox and other browsers. :not: I shall demonstrate below, but you'll have to fire up Internet Explorer to see it working.

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I fixed Poland.

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For IE users, here are a few other image flips:

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It doesn't matter how they are oriented, we should respect their lifestyle choices.
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I vigorously disagree. The magic of :unrun: is that he's purposely running the wrong direction. Namely, towards the stupid, because he is ineffectual.
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Leave :unrun: alone. He is perfect just the way he is.
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It doesn't matter how they are oriented, we should respect their lifestyle choices.
That and that and that. Leave him alone! Calling rtl running "backward" is just your western lesbian ethnocentricism coming through as usual anyway. The best user of him is BroMan who uses it all like "brb!" like he's going to run back home and get something like an amazing fucking pibble shoop and it's perfect.
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