Thread:The Zog./@comment-25653892-20150208010652

So Neilstar and I went on chat a while back – like, around the day when he returned – and we started talking about the emojis. I had some cray-cray ideas on that topic, such as including the letters from the other SM64 fonts, or using some screwed-up markup language for easier emoji-font usage. So here's that second idea:

If you go to chat and type "\lel\", the word lel is converted letter-by-letter to the blocky things – as if you had typed (L) (E) (L). There would be two benefits to this: it's faster to type, and I don't think backslashes are used by anything else, in terms of chat.

The backslashes would kinda function as emoji shortcuts, except that they would convert all of the individual letters typed to separate emoji. Surely there must be some way to do this? Some Js thing or other? It probably wouldn't even have to hinge on the emoji shortcuts MW: page! If somebody could find the process that uses, maybe that could be modified for this thing I came up with.

Now of course this is just an idea, and one of minimal importance at that. But I still think it would be a cool thing to implement.

Bonus idea: wrapping more slashes would change the emoji the text would be converted to. e.g. \\lel\\ would print the word lel using the ugly, cursivey SM64 message box font. Or something. 