[quote=Dervish]
Text makes for a wonderful communication medium because it's hard to tell anperson's tone by written words.Makes you wonder how all those old famous writers got by without plastering emotes over their work."Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore!' :["
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They got by, because when it came to emotes they had only shit emotes, and refuse to use them like everyone else was, so they are the hipsters, flowing away from the mainstream.