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[databoner]

[You're never going to fill a quadrant with that attitude.]

They make perfect sense.

Perhaps, just not to an alien of human culture. It's a very human thing to see "faces" everywhere, even on lifeless objects, due to our predecessors instincts of trying to find other humans. I don't know if the same applies to your culture.

[glowsferatu]

[ quadrants will be fine, but buckets are another matter. ]

Human Culture Didnt Invent Even Them
We Had Them Before You And They Were Just As Inane Then
Look At This One
>:?
What Even Is That
No Ones Mouth Can Do That Why Would Someone Even Use It

[databoner]

[ You don't need to fill buckets anymore, Kanaya. Your evil pink dictator no longer rules you. ]

It's meant to be a more symbolic representation of confused anger than a literal one.

[glowsferatu]

[ none that she needs to, just the ones she wants to. which is perhaps a more terrifying thought. ]

It Wasnt Anger Actually
Thats Just How She Looked Sorry I Should Have Removed That Part

I Still Think That Meaning Could Be Conveyed More Clearly In Other Symbolic Representations Of Emotions
Namely Words

[databoner]

Words convey meaning, but the idiosyncrasies of tone over text are lost without some form of input otherwise. Adding variety to capitalization, punctuation, or grammar can add to tone, but if one doesn't want to sacrifice anything there, faces are a good substitute.

[glowsferatu]

That Will Simply Be A Limitation In My Quirk
Which Im Not About To Change Now
Ive Developed Workarounds For Some Things But There Are Tones That Wont Be Conveyed Easily Through Text No Matter How You Express Them
Short Of Actually Qualifying Them Explicitly

But If I Had To Add A Disclaimer That Oh By The Way Our Entire Society Was Largely Shit But That Doesnt Mean Humans Do It Any Better
Id Be Typing It Almost Constantly

[databoner]

Say what you will of the human race.

But I'm personally offended by your dislike of my emotes. （￣へ￣）

[glowsferatu]

Well At Least I Know What That One Is Doing
Though It Is Odd That You Paranthesize Them
Ive Only Seen One Person Do That Before And She Wasnt Very Good With English

[databoner]

It's a cultural aspect. In English-speaking countries, a sideways face without parenthesis is more common, like your >:[ face. In Japan, it's more common to use an upright face, and for the sake of ensuring the characters of the face aren't to be confused with lettering, the parenthesis are used.

[glowsferatu]

Oh
Its Japanese Then
Somehow That Seems To Be About The Only Other Earth Language I Encounter In Imports
They Tried To Teach Me French At School But That Doesnt Count

[databoner]

I've noticed that as well. Percentile wise, the most common two cultural backgrounds are American and then followed by Japanese. American, I understand, given our location. But why Japan? Perhaps it is because we are more significant, for some reason.

[This is what Personal Bias looks like.]

[glowsferatu]

But Significant In What Way
And To Whom
Not Being From Either Culture I Suppose I Know Americans Better Just Due To Exposure
But You Might Know Japanese Well Enough If You Are One

[databoner]

I don't know to whom or in what way. I just was saying that having a Japanese background might for some reason be more significant than say, a British one, if all we have to judge by is population percentiles.

[glowsferatu]

It Wasnt A Question I Expected You To Answer Just One I Thought Might Need To Be Asked
If The Who Was Known Id Probably Have Been Able To Answer It Myself By Now
Though I Wouldnt Discount The British
Theyve Had Considerable Populations In The Past

[databoner]

They were mostly as an example. I don't mean them exclusively. I could say Germans instead, in that case.

[glowsferatu]

I Dont Know Any Germans
I Don't Know That Ive Ever Known Any Germans
Wait No I Have
But Yes They Were Always Far Smaller In Terms Of Numbers
Whatever Significance You Hold Wouldnt Quite Translate

[databoner]

My point still stands, though.

[glowsferatu]

I Was More Confirming Than Arguing
But The Question Of What That Point Means Still Stands Unanswered
And Im Not Sure Who To Start Asking It To

[databoner]

...Neither do I, honestly.

[glowsferatu]

I Guess That Gives Us Something To Determine Then