New emotes?

[Talan Va'lash]

I keep seeing more instances of people typing things like:

*g* or *L*

What the heck his that?

I initially just brushed it off as a typo or... something but I've seen it too many times now for that.  I think.

No matter how I turn my head I can't get a convincing face out of either of those...  what are they?

[Eloyn]

Well I havn't encountered that, but I'm guessing grin and laugh?

[Weeblie]

Looks like a smiley...

[orth]

I say down with that junk! ruins immersion.  Come on folks, four more letters? Doesn't it just feel so much more natural to do *grins*?  Abandon those lazy text messaging and online chat abbreviations!

We prefer not to see TY, lol, nm, *g* etc. while roleplaying. Please consider avoiding such usages as best as possible. Thank you.

Edit: Wait, Talan were you saying you see this in game or in other communications?

[darkstorme]

Plus, *L* and *g* don't trigger any fire-and-forget emotes in-game.  Thanks to the lovely contextual work in Layo, *laughs*, *chuckles*, *giggles*, etc, all fire the laughing emote, and so forth.  *L* does not.

[Leanthar]

Agreed. Well stated Orth.

[LoganGrimnar]

if you dont wish to hear the Emote all you have to do is add a star **Laughs* Doing this will get no emotes.

[Leanthar]

We didn't say we didn't want to hear emotes......?

[Weeblie]

(psst... in case you don't want to trigger the auto-in-game-emotes, you can also write: "/o C toggle noemotes")

[Talan Va'lash]

orth - 5/16/2006  12:50 PM

I say down with that junk! ruins immersion.  Come on folks, four more letters? Doesn't it just feel so much more natural to do *grins*?  Abandon those lazy text messaging and online chat abbreviations!

We prefer not to see TY, lol, nm, *g* etc. while roleplaying. Please consider avoiding such usages as best as possible. Thank you.

Edit: Wait, Talan were you saying you see this in game or in other communications?

Heh, acctually I meant in other communications.  Well, sometimes in NWN but not IC on layo.

I was just asking as I'm always confused when new emoteish things come around like those non-sideways ones... ^_^ or whatever

[LoganGrimnar]

Leanthar - 5/16/2006  12:28 PM

We didn't say we didn't want to hear emotes......?

oh... well i figured that might be part of the reasion people only say *g* over *giggles*.. ah well *shrugs*

[darkstorme]

I always thought that *g* was *grins*, just as *L* is *laughs*.  Regardless, I think it's just shorter to type, rather than seeking to disable the visual/audio emote triggers.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

I thought *L* was a sudden Alter Self spell to make you look like Leanthar.

*He chuckles.*

[pelordaes7]

Is there a list somewhere with all the "/o" emote commands? I know there are probably many I am not aware of, and they make for great game play.....Ive been looking through the search but havent found any...

Thanks

[osxmallard]

"/o C help"  will give you a list of all speech recognition help.
*emotehelp* will give you a list of emotes.

Hope that helps.  

[pelordaes7]

awesome thanks!,  I loved it when you all implemented that feature, so cool!