Learning arcane bullshit from the 80s can break your computer, but if you're willing to wade through arcane bullshit from programmers in the 90s and 2000s, you can break everyone else's computers, too.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm glad they at least gave it a shot, though! But I wish more people were willing to hear suggestions on how they could be better, more accurate, more helpful to the people it's intended to help, etc, rather than just insisting they're correct (when they're objectively not.) I see that behavior a lot with things like image transcription/description and content warnings and I just don't understand it.
Good call! Last night, after I finished that article, I liked it enough that I wanted to check out what else they had, and ended up reading a handful from them and their sibling publications and putting the two you mentioned on my RSS feed list. Thank you for donating to places like that & for sharing them with those of us who didn't know about them!
It cracked me the fuck up, personally! Scrolling down, reading your comment text, scrolling further - because I see you've uploaded a photo with your post - to see...that big ol', closely-cropped, blurry, shitty quality, silly, weird, 'cat sticking it's face RIGHT all up in your face' type CAT FACE, boom!
It hadn't even occurred to me that it could've been intended as a lil emoji-sized emoji thing just tacked right on to the end of your sentence like any regular ol' emoji, lol! Even though I'm very aware of that glitch or whatever for people on some instances or clients where some other instances' custom, 'tiny-emoji-sized' emojis (that the comment author just picked out of a short little provided list), meant as a lil bit of an addition to the text, show up as big-ass full-sized photos someone chose (out of the choice of the default, 'no photo,' or any one of every photo ever) to upload to attach to the post with the intention and knowledge that it will be outstretched across a massive amount of everyone's screen.
So, I dunno, I thought it was funny. Especially thinking that you intended it all that way. Then it got funnier when I realized what was going on and that it wasn't intentional at all and even got you with the 'UNEXPECTED HUGE CAT FACE! BOOM!' but it may be because of sleep deprivation, pain, or whatever else I've got going on, though, lol.
Regardless, I thank you for the good laugh and the endorphins that brought me. I hope my long, rambly, silly-ass comment hasn't been annoying or obnoxious or anything to ya 😅😋💖
I just assumed it was somebody's fursona, like probably the artist or a friend of theirs. Good call on it possibly being Blahaj inspired! I hadn't even thought of that, but once you mentioned it, I can totally see it
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