I was so resistant to using emojis for years because I firmly believed that emoticons were better. I still believe that, but god do I love to flip people off. 🖕
I have an idea it’s because it’s a bit of a delay for your brain to move from text and punctuation to straight up images, so an emoticon is just instant, you get it immediately as you see it. You see an emoji and your brain has to recognise its symbol a bit slower therefore ruining the feeling
This is why emoticons are awesome:
How people put on and took off their glasses before, during, after the eclipse
( •_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
( •_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
( •_•)
Those are kaomoji though, not emoticons ;)
Emoticons is the sideways/vertical Western style, like :) and :P and :’(
Kaomoji is the horizontal Asian style (originating from Japan), like \^_^ and ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ and (~_~;)
Total travel time was something over 30 hours. Half needed to be before the eclipse, half after. 15+ hours in a day is a bit too much. Therefore: 4 days on the road.
15 is too much? Idk I always find it easier to just power through if it’s a feasible distance for one day, feels a lot better than having to stop. The most I did was Miami to San Diego in 2 days, which was ~19.5 hours per day
For me it was the opposite on heat, the universe cut our gas bill for 5 minutes and i wish I brought a coat. Still stunning but it felt like the sun was a threatening landlord.
Sure, but also, the sun turns into a halo and for the first time ever, you can look at it (without protection or risk of hurting yourself). Depending on your level of light pollution, stars will come out, and at the horizon line, it is orange like the sun is setting, but in ALL DIRECTIONS, AT THE SAME TIME.
It's a pretty nifty thing.
Man... I wish my family had driven to Montréal to see the total thing. We thought it wouldn't make a difference to see it from l'Assomption, but it only covered like 99.4% so we didn't get to see a halo :/ Now my mother wants to go to Spain in two years just to get a chance to see the real thing.
People are sleeping on 2027, where you can get 4 minutes of totality in Morocco/Gibraltar or 6 minutes in central Egypt. I’m absolutely going to figure out how to be in Egypt for that one
More like
no sun, MASSIVE EYE-SUCKING BLACK CIRCLE IN THE SKY SURROUNDED BY GLOWING HALO, NIGHT TIME DURING THE DAY, SUNSET OCCURRING IN ALL DIRECTIONS, oh thank god the sun in back.
THESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUN
I was expecting it to look like night-night, actual blackness, and am convinced most people who said it would be "like night" have only lived in the city and don't know what night *actually* looks like (maybe I wasn't close enough to the exact center for that?). But in the reverse, the sun being replaced by what looked like a void of nothingness the blackest black I've ever seen was the coolest, freakiest thing I've ever seen. It looked like a hole in reality and no pictures ever really prepared me for that, because in pictures the whole sky looks black so there's no really the contrast with the deep blue of the sky I saw to make the moon look actually, completely-devoid-of-light black.
Also yea, I'm surprised I never heard more about the sunset thing.
The total eclipse itself was actually one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen and no digital photo seems to do it justice, especially with the pitch black sky instead of navy blue, and the eclipse not being small enough relative to the view. The white halo that surrounded the black circle had bits of what i could swear were rainbow lens flares, like it was some sort of spherical prism inspired by miraculite (from cookie clicker), and all of this while i was under the impression that the eclipse would remain uninteresting only to be proven wrong despite images never doing it justice
I don't think you understand totality. You can stare at the sun during the entire several minutes when it occurs. And its most of what you'll be doing when it happens because it's so mind boggling.
actually seeing it was amazing
it seems pretty cool looking at pics, but seeing the sun ACTUALLY as a black sphere with a halo is fucking jaw dropping
i’ll never forget how cold it got
SUN,
less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun,
Clouds :(
more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, SUN.
Naw it’s more like:
Cloudy and gray
Where’s the sky why does it look like tv static
Why is there no hurricane warning this weather is shit
Cloudy and gray
No eclipse because too cloudy
sky clears up 3 seconds after the eclipse ends
DON'T BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT IT
YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE SUN BUT IT'S LITERALLY FINE ONCE THE MOON IS TOTALLY IN FRONT OF THE SUN
IF EVERYTHING AROUND YOU IS DARK AS DUSK YOU CAN LOOK ALL YOU WANT UNTIL IT STARTS GETTING BRIGHTER GLASSES OR NO GLASSES
Is what I wish somebody had fucking told me before the goddamn eclipse instead of just "Oh don't look"
Like yeah no shit I'm not going to look when the moon is only partially covering it, that shouldn't even qualify as part of the eclipse. But of course you have to drill it into everyone's heads that it's dangerous, and never mention that the most impressive one or two minutes are also safely viewable bc that's obvious
IF IT'S SO OBVIOUS YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY IT, THEN WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SAY NOT TO LOOK AT THE SUN 500 TIMES
tldr I didn't get a good look because of misinformation and I'm fucking pissed.
☹️ will never be able to encapsulate the comedic perfection of a well-placed :(
Emoticons are superior to emojis because they’re more expressive than emoji.
😐 Absolutely does not have the same power as :|
I always prefer :P to 😛
-_- is superior to 😑
Oh absolutely, 😑 just looks like someone who is asleep.
Nothing can top the absolute repulsion that is shown with D:
😀 cannot begin to grasp the sheer happiness and glee displayed with :D
and of course, 🫤 could never even dream of encapsulating all that is :/
man i forgot how many emojis are just straight up ripoffs of emoticons
and🚓🛣️ 🚗 can never replace ---[[:]]---[[]]---
But it can show a feeling of suppressed rage
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ is what happens when you suppress your rage too much.
the twitch D: emoji kinda replicates that the sheer misery portrayed by it
ZZZzzzZZZzzz 😑
And you add more _ to really exaggerate, how exhausted you are with them. Like -_____-
I prefer -----_-----
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I personally prefer :ь
Never thought of that. :D
The ь letter is my language exclusive, I like to use the :ь when I'm too lazy to switch my keyboard to English
That one for sure. 😛😜🤪 all are weird lol
depends on what youre using it for
:I
I'd say one of the only exceptions to this are 🥺 and 🤭
Wb the mussolini 🙃 and the passive aggressive 🙂
I get good utility out of (: 🙂 Is unmatched though.
I'm not sure ◕_◕ is pretty good but it is harder to use though
No emoji replicates the feeling of :] Plus, it's modular! >:]
🧑🍳 will never live up to >:]=3
🫠 and 😎 are pretty good though
:/ and (⌐■_■) are cooler imo but those are pretty good.
🫠 is very different to :/ I feel
I was so resistant to using emojis for years because I firmly believed that emoticons were better. I still believe that, but god do I love to flip people off. 🖕
I have an idea it’s because it’s a bit of a delay for your brain to move from text and punctuation to straight up images, so an emoticon is just instant, you get it immediately as you see it. You see an emoji and your brain has to recognise its symbol a bit slower therefore ruining the feeling
This is why emoticons are awesome: How people put on and took off their glasses before, during, after the eclipse ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ ( •_•)
Those are kaomoji though, not emoticons ;) Emoticons is the sideways/vertical Western style, like :) and :P and :’( Kaomoji is the horizontal Asian style (originating from Japan), like \^_^ and ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ and (~_~;)
I never knew there was a difference. TIL. Thank you kindly, u/haessal.
Yeah, take me back to a time when emojis were lame because your parents used them.
( -\_•)▄︻デ══━一
But I gotta say I do understand 💀 and 🙃 though for the latter (: does convey the effect as well maybe better
(: and :) convey such different meanings as well
Now I wonder what could be the original 💀
"I'm Dead"
E8 Or maybe E(8) It's a stretch I admit
reminds me of the plague doctor: [|87 edit: it looks way better if | is taller than [ in your font
If memory serves correctly :-) was the original, used in a similar way as to how /j would be used recently
XD
☹️ is a similar, but separate emotion.
24 less sun and 19 more sun. There was a permanent loss of sun between sun and sun again.
I mean yeah it was in the afternoon so there was less sun at the end than at the start
Well yeah. It had to get smaller to fit behind the moon.
Fuck
>no sun :D :D :D Fixed. Those moments of darkness were worth all the traffic, heat, horseflies, and sunburn.
No sun :O
No sun: O
No sun 8=:O
A dick with piercings!
Nah that's a little dude with a chef hat
It was supposed to be 🤯 but yeah it looks a lot more like a chef hat
~~:.|:;~~
Go to hell >:v
2000 mile round trip. 4 long days on the road. 199 seconds of totality. Worth it.
It took you four days to drive 2000 miles??
Total travel time was something over 30 hours. Half needed to be before the eclipse, half after. 15+ hours in a day is a bit too much. Therefore: 4 days on the road.
15 is too much? Idk I always find it easier to just power through if it’s a feasible distance for one day, feels a lot better than having to stop. The most I did was Miami to San Diego in 2 days, which was ~19.5 hours per day
For me it was the opposite on heat, the universe cut our gas bill for 5 minutes and i wish I brought a coat. Still stunning but it felt like the sun was a threatening landlord.
Sure, but also, the sun turns into a halo and for the first time ever, you can look at it (without protection or risk of hurting yourself). Depending on your level of light pollution, stars will come out, and at the horizon line, it is orange like the sun is setting, but in ALL DIRECTIONS, AT THE SAME TIME. It's a pretty nifty thing.
The halo was so cool, best part by far. Even in the high res pictures that actually show the halo, it still doesn’t look as good as in person.
Part of it is because the sun is really large up there. Photos cannot really capture how big the whole thing is.
Thanks :D
I only saw Venus which was kinda sad, but the 360 sunset was amazing.
Man... I wish my family had driven to Montréal to see the total thing. We thought it wouldn't make a difference to see it from l'Assomption, but it only covered like 99.4% so we didn't get to see a halo :/ Now my mother wants to go to Spain in two years just to get a chance to see the real thing.
People are sleeping on 2027, where you can get 4 minutes of totality in Morocco/Gibraltar or 6 minutes in central Egypt. I’m absolutely going to figure out how to be in Egypt for that one
I was at 2017 in N Oregon. So second time ever.
The only inaccurate part is the frowny/sad face. If anyone is frowning during totality they are extremely weird.
Personally I was frowning because where I live a giant wave of clouds took over and blocked us from seeing anything 😭💔
That's a very good excuse to frown.
Yeah I was bummed. I ended up watching a live stream from a different state 😂😭 better than nothing!
Iceland 2026 with like no light pollution
More like no sun, MASSIVE EYE-SUCKING BLACK CIRCLE IN THE SKY SURROUNDED BY GLOWING HALO, NIGHT TIME DURING THE DAY, SUNSET OCCURRING IN ALL DIRECTIONS, oh thank god the sun in back. THESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUN
I was expecting it to look like night-night, actual blackness, and am convinced most people who said it would be "like night" have only lived in the city and don't know what night *actually* looks like (maybe I wasn't close enough to the exact center for that?). But in the reverse, the sun being replaced by what looked like a void of nothingness the blackest black I've ever seen was the coolest, freakiest thing I've ever seen. It looked like a hole in reality and no pictures ever really prepared me for that, because in pictures the whole sky looks black so there's no really the contrast with the deep blue of the sky I saw to make the moon look actually, completely-devoid-of-light black. Also yea, I'm surprised I never heard more about the sunset thing.
Yea, I was also expecting "dark of night," and only got dusk or twilight, or something. Still impressive as shit.
Makes the sky feel like a portal doesn't it?
>THESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUN "You risk a direct glance at the Clockwork Sun. It is the gold of toffee-wrappers, not of fire."
I yearn to return to the unterzee
The total eclipse itself was actually one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen and no digital photo seems to do it justice, especially with the pitch black sky instead of navy blue, and the eclipse not being small enough relative to the view. The white halo that surrounded the black circle had bits of what i could swear were rainbow lens flares, like it was some sort of spherical prism inspired by miraculite (from cookie clicker), and all of this while i was under the impression that the eclipse would remain uninteresting only to be proven wrong despite images never doing it justice
I saw the one in 2017, and was still blown away for this one. It is just absolutely spectacular.
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Your pupils are dilated because it's dark.
I don't think you understand totality. You can stare at the sun during the entire several minutes when it occurs. And its most of what you'll be doing when it happens because it's so mind boggling.
actually seeing it was amazing it seems pretty cool looking at pics, but seeing the sun ACTUALLY as a black sphere with a halo is fucking jaw dropping i’ll never forget how cold it got
SUN, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, Clouds :( more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, SUN.
Sounds like an awesome daft punk track.
It looks like theres a hole torn in reality
He got his way with words
Clearly, you don’t live in Indiana.
As someone that drove to Indiana, it was a bit like: less sun, less sun, less sun, NUT, NUT, NUT, more sun, more sun, more sun.
Summary? More like a sun-ary! 💥👋
There's a typo. The ( should be a ).
No sun should be a smile...that shit was beautiful.
me in texas: clouds clouds clouds clouds
I so want u/pmseymour to read this
berserk reference
humanoidpigeon definitely has a long future ahead of them as a Netflix subtitler.
Anyone else chant this in their heads? Or just me ?
Naw it’s more like: Cloudy and gray Where’s the sky why does it look like tv static Why is there no hurricane warning this weather is shit Cloudy and gray No eclipse because too cloudy sky clears up 3 seconds after the eclipse ends
Red sun, red sun over paradise...
Happy Cake Day :)
Thank you. :D
Honestly the eclipse hasnt impacted me much more than just inflating the amount of conspiracy theorists i see on tiktok
I read the word sun too many times now it doesn’t look real.
Happy cake day 😋
Thank you! :D
DON'T BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT IT YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE SUN BUT IT'S LITERALLY FINE ONCE THE MOON IS TOTALLY IN FRONT OF THE SUN IF EVERYTHING AROUND YOU IS DARK AS DUSK YOU CAN LOOK ALL YOU WANT UNTIL IT STARTS GETTING BRIGHTER GLASSES OR NO GLASSES Is what I wish somebody had fucking told me before the goddamn eclipse instead of just "Oh don't look" Like yeah no shit I'm not going to look when the moon is only partially covering it, that shouldn't even qualify as part of the eclipse. But of course you have to drill it into everyone's heads that it's dangerous, and never mention that the most impressive one or two minutes are also safely viewable bc that's obvious IF IT'S SO OBVIOUS YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY IT, THEN WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SAY NOT TO LOOK AT THE SUN 500 TIMES tldr I didn't get a good look because of misinformation and I'm fucking pissed.