Let's make our own emoji set!
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I suggest hand-drawn with your non-dominant hand on lined paper and scanned in at 1000 dpi.
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Why don't you looooove uuuuussssssssss!
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Needs a wooden table
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scanned in at 1000 dpi.
how about photograph on a wood grain effect tablecloth with a 0.8 megapixels camera?
that sounds more like us.
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hand-drawn with your non-dominant hand on lined paper
with a 0.8 megapixels camera
a wooden table
Challenge accepted:
OK so I was going to add "uploaded via mobile" but the upload button does nothing wtf
ok:
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hand-drawn with your non-dominant hand
Perhaps it was the artist's creative stagnation in the Discourse world, or a deeper loss of individuality therein...
Without meaningful input and lacking any remaining reason or coherent narrative structure, the Doing It Wrong emoticons grew unstable. They began to fall apart.
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I suggest hand-drawn with your non-dominant hand on lined paper and scanned in at 1000 dpi.
We're not from the Kingdom of Loathing.
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hand-drawn with your non-dominant hand
What about those of us who are somewhat-semi-ambidextrous1? While I'm a better writer with my right hand, for the purposes of crudely-drawn emoticons I doubt there would be much of a difference if I used my left hand instead.
1I don't cleanly fall into any of the "handedness" categories. The best answer to what handedness I am is "That depends," but "kind of ambidextrous" works for a quick though technically incorrect answer.
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What about those of us who are somewhat-semi-ambidextrous<sup>1</sup>? While I'm a better writer with my right hand, for the purposes of crudely-drawn emoticons I doubt there would be much of a difference if I used my left hand instead.
<sup>1</sup><small>I don't cleanly fall into any of the "handedness" categories. The best answer to what handedness I am is "That depends," but "kind of ambidextrous" works for a quick though technically incorrect answer.
Someone once asked me whether I was left or right handed, it took an entire paragraph to explain. But then again I'm not normal, so you know...
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Someone once asked me whether I was left or right handed, it took an entire paragraph to explain. But then again I'm not normal, so you know...
Right-handed is what I'd answer if I don't want to go into it all, because I write with my right hand.
My right arm is physically stronger, I write and play guitar right-handed, and throw footballs and frisbees right-handed. Hand tools and power tools I can use equally well either way, tennis balls and the like I can throw equally well with either hand, garden tools (shovels, rakes, also push brooms) I exclusively use left-handed. If I need fine motor skills, such as connecting header wires to a motherboard, handling small screws, or doing electronics and soldering work, I use my left hand unless that blocks my vision or is somehow physically awkward. And basic stuff like opening doors or cabinets, usually left hand. For chalkboards or markerboards, doesn't really matter which hand.
I'm not sure what that makes me. Some strange kind of ambidextrous with no dominant hand and handedness on a per-task level? Or naturally left-handed but "corrected" at an early age for certain common things? Or maybe just plain weird.
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Oh, I'm not nearly that simple.
I write left handed, mouse right handed, throw things right handed, catch things roughly equally badly, and type two-handedly.
I'm... a weird split between the two.
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Sounds like a left-hander adapting to a right-hand-dominant world. My dad's the same way.
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Sounds like a left-hander adapting to a right-hand-dominant world. My dad's the same way.
Ah but it's not intentionally so. It's not as if anyone ever tried to 'correct' my behaviour or anything. I've just done what came naturally.
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The example you gave of using a mouse right-handed I've seen coming from being taught to mouse by a right-hander and sitting at public computers where the mouse is on the right side. It's easier to do it "backward" than to always be changing the mouse when there's very little fine dexterity needed anyway. (I've been known to mouse left-handed if there's something on my right side making there not enough room)
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Hmmm. I wasn't shown how to use a mouse - it actually struck me very intuitively when I first saw one aged 7. Though now that I think about it, it was kind of on the right of the table because of my folks' being fully right handed.
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play guitar right-handed
You play both-handed, surely?I write left handed, mouse right handed
That's convenient.
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You play both-handed, surely?
Funny enough, before I started I had the handedness of guitars confused. Surely a guitar player would want to use their dominant (and presumably better controlled and more flexible) hand for fretting? Nope, it's backwards.
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What about those of us who are somewhat-semi-ambidextrous?
Well instead of participating, you post dickweedish posts in the thread where you simultaneously act hurt than your rare condition wasn't considered and brag at how great you are.
Oh look! You've already done that! Now you can fuck off.
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The true test of handedness is how well you can type @blakeyrat. I think everyone on the forum should do so in this thread, just to verify. Try typing it with each hand individually and submit your results on individual replies, just to make sure. We have to be thorough, everyone should participate.
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Unlike you, those of us that are atypical appreciate that we are atypical and celebrate it rather than mourning it.
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@Intercourse said:
The true test of handedness is how well you can type @blakeyrat. I think everyone on the forum should do so in this thread, just to verify. Try typing it with each hand individually and submit your results on individual replies, just to make sure. We have to be thorough, everyone should participate.
I did this in junior high school. I could type 40 wpm with my left hand, 30 wpm with my right, and funny enough I could type 70 wpm with both hands.
Haven't tried one-handed tests since, but I know the highest score I ever got on a typing test was 120.
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Unlike you, those of us that are atypical appreciate that we are atypical and celebrate it rather than mourning it.
You are Doing It Wrong. You should feel deep, dark, shame for your originality. Also, anything that you can do better than @blakeyrat is inconsequential. Anything he can do better than you makes him the greatest incarnation of the human form to ever grace this planet and always correct.
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I used to be like that until I took an arrow to the antiego. Also, I can be me better than even St. Blakeyrat.
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Right-handed is what I'd answer if I don't want to go into it all, because I write with my right hand.
My right arm is physically stronger,
I'm definitely right handed, but my left arm is physically stronger. I think it's probably because I'll carry stuff in my left hand to leave my right hand free to do other stuff, like unlock / open a door.
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You must open a lot of doors then.
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I'm definitely right handed, but my left arm is physically stronger. I think it's probably because I'll carry stuff in my left hand to leave my right hand free to do other stuff, like unlock / open a door.
That might be the reason my right arm is stronger, actually. I carry stuff there and leave my left arm open for whatever else.
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Enough. It's not a huge difference in strength, but I've noticed the difference.
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That might be the reason my right arm is stronger,
Oh come on, it's your wanking arm isn't it?
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I'm right handed but I eat left handed. Not sure why as everyone else in my family eats right handed (even the left handed ones).
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Surely a guitar player would want to use their dominant (and presumably better controlled and more flexible) hand for fretting?
If you're playing at a good standard, you need a lot more fine control with the hand plucking the strings. Selecting what note to play is relatively easy by comparison. It's the same with other string instruments too, except they might be using a bow instead (which calls for a great deal more dexterity than merely pressing the string to the fingerboard, speaking as a former concert bassist).
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I'm definitely right handed, but my left arm is physically stronger. I think it's probably because I'll carry stuff in my left hand to leave my right hand free to do other stuff, like unlock / open a door.
Not so much the arms, but I notice the same difference in hands. My left hand makes up in strength what it lacks in precision, possibly because it holds objects in place while operate on them with the right hand.
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which calls for a great deal more dexterity than merely pressing the string to the fingerboard, speaking as a former concert bassist
I'm not sure I disagree per se (quite-amateur cellist here), though I think "great deal" is overstating things. It's not just "pressing the string to the fingerboard"; it's doing that in the right place, adding vibrato, shifting, keeping good finger spacing, etc.
Of course, my bowing arm is worse than my intonation, and I'm a lefty, so maybe that'd be a good counter argument. :-)
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I suggest hand-drawn with your non-dominant hand on lined paper and scanned in at 1000 dpi.
We all know you really mean "the default DF font."
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Someone once asked me whether I was left or right handed, it took an entire paragraph to explain.
That probably falls into the "overthinking it" category.
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Lesson learned, if Ben wants people to draw emojis he should ask for something completely different than emojis. Like, maybe he could ask how many times Kramer hit the door on his way to Seinfeld's apartment. Then let the conversation drift naturally to emoji-drawing.
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Lesson learned, if Ben wants people to draw emojis he should ask for something completely different than emojis. Like, maybe he could ask how many times Kramer hit the door on his way to Seinfeld's apartment. Then let the conversation drift naturally to emoji-drawing.
Oh please. As if you would've drawn any.
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Is it actually that? I don't know.
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CP437, it's been too long.
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I'm not sure I disagree per se (quite-amateur cellist here), though I think "great deal" is overstating things. It's not just "pressing the string to the fingerboard"; it's doing that in the right place, adding vibrato, shifting, keeping good finger spacing, etc.
Of course, my bowing arm is worse than my intonation, and I'm a lefty, so maybe that'd be a good counter argument. :-)
It's definitely a two-handed operation, but the real nuance is in the bow. That's where you control how the sound really is formed.