07-03-2007, 06:45 PM
Quote:Would you consider formatting that to look like something other than hammered, cut and paste crap? Something like this:
Occhi
Well his intended audience was the Lurkers who play WoW on the Terenas realm (which was why it was in the WoW Meeting Stone forum originally). We just looked at the formatting as his silly Aussie accent that we have come to know and love. :)
I also think some (not all) of the format (minus the carrots of course) choices were intentional, even if I don't think the emphasis they provide are good or needed in most cases, but I think some of the choices were intentional to try and increase the impact.
As an example
1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!
Left multi-line creates a longer pause after reading each statement, which can be viewed as a pause for effect on the colon and an emphatic gesture on the exclamation points. This effect can certainly be achieved without the multi-line formatting, but the multi-line and the punctuation does lend to that being more obvious. Does a silly little work of humor like this need it? Nah. But it does help achieve it.
*The whole point of this post was to rib on Mist's accent, because he's too good a guy to not get ribbed about something. :) We just like to rib on him about being on the odd side of the world. :) All of that other stuff about formatting was just added because I felt like arguing about something and creating a potential tangent because tangents are fun! :)
(Don't mind me I'm just letting me broken brain do it's thing today mostly unfiltered, the use of me instead of my earlier in this sentence was in fact intentional as well.)
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.