nephelokokkygia
nephelokokkygia t1_j6llsc8 wrote
Reply to comment by looselypoint21 in Bowie in Japan looking effortlessly cool. by iklegemma
There's a lot of lines to Umeda lol
nephelokokkygia t1_iwldnk9 wrote
Reply to comment by low-ki199999 in Hobbyist adds a hinge to the Game Boy Pocket, delighting everyone | No, it's not a Game Boy Advance SP. This is the monochrome Pocket with hinge. by chrisdh79
Generally speaking, text online is encoded in a giant huge enormous standard called Unicode. Unicode is cool because it definitionally encodes every possible character in every language in one standard. Uni = single, code = code. However, Unicode is not quite so cool because to do this, it needs to
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Be huge
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Get updates from time to time to add new characters people might want to encode
The person I replied to probably copy+pasted the best-looking arrows they saw off some webpage online. This would have been fine, except that the arrows they happened to choose were relatively new to Unicode (from 2014), with relatively little support in fonts. That, by the way, is the other, other issue with Unicode — just because it theoretically supports a character, doesn't mean the specific font you're using on your computer/phone/smart fridge does too. Your font could have been created before the character was added to Unicode, or you could be using a version of the font released before that character was added, or the font creator might just not care about that random arrow you want to stare at with your eyes. So, to support more devices, I chose old symbols for the arrows (technically not even arrows in my case, they're just triangles — from all the way back in 1993!) and old emoji for the A and B (because most devices these days support emoji and I thought they looked neat here). Fun bonus fact, those A and B symbols aren't even designed to represent buttons — they're for blood type, which Japanese people (Japan being the origin of emoji) have historically been obsessed with. It's kind of like the Chinese zodiac, or star signs. But I digress.
This is probably more info than you wanted, but sometimes answers just be like that.
nephelokokkygia t1_iwkcxmk wrote
Reply to comment by I_Do_Not_Abbreviate in Hobbyist adds a hinge to the Game Boy Pocket, delighting everyone | No, it's not a Game Boy Advance SP. This is the monochrome Pocket with hinge. by chrisdh79
Alternate symbols because the directions showed up as rectangles on my phone:
PRESS | COLOUR |
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▲ | Brown |
▲+🅰 | Red |
▲+🅱 | Dark Brown |
▼ | Pastel Mix |
▼+🅰 | Orange |
▼+🅱 | Yellow |
◀ | Blue |
◀+🅰 | Dark Blue |
◀+🅱 | Gray/Monochrome |
▶ | Green |
▶+🅰 | Dark Green |
▶+🅱 | Inverted/Reverse |
nephelokokkygia t1_iqtp1yq wrote
Reply to comment by zarek1729 in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
I mean there's lots of options for that. You could order one book ahead in the series as you're reading, you could pick an arbitrary point in each book (like halfway through) to order the next one, you could buy the books in a brick-and-mortar store, or you could just exercise patience.
nephelokokkygia t1_iqtgw0h wrote
Reply to comment by PM_ME_MY_INFO in I created deAMAZONatorto help you find a non-amazon place to buy your books! by LordGnomeMBE
How often is 2-day shipping really a necessity?
nephelokokkygia t1_jd1ylyj wrote
Reply to comment by brendanepic in PsBattle: Hasbullah in the MSCHF Big Red Boots by chazleeper
Not super good taste to make fun of disorders like this.