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Originally posted by nulltype
*RANT WARNING*
I am of the opinion that text emoticons are acceptable, if unneeded most of the time. Pictures representing text emoticons are at best repetitive and at worst, highly useless and annoying. The elaborate pictures (such as animated ones) concerning these smilies are even more useless. After many years of using forums, I have not found a single one where I thought the smilies had any sort of positive conversational or aesthetic impact. Perhaps it is just my opinion, and other people derive great utility from cute pictures derived from emoticons and find them indespensible in communicating ideas. I, for one, would not mind if all the smilies died in some sort of nuclear holocaust, their charred remains smiling until the bitter end.
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woah...you like took the words right out of my mouth!