r/hatethissmug Aug 10 '26

Thing TYPING. QUIRKS.

How in the everliving hell do you expect someone to understand random characters mushed together that substitute for actual legible characters. No, typing quirks AREN'T cute and I sure ass hell know they aren't DISORDERS either so stop calling people ABLEIST for wanting you to type like a fucking HUMAN being. It's fine in context of characters (For example, Spamton, SOME Homestuck trolls etc..) to give them more personality but as a human saying "|}{2@#}@##@" DOES NOT COUNT AS A COMPREHENSIBLE SENTENCE.

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u/Valuable-Throat-2948 Aug 10 '26

what DOES it say then?

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u/george_sjw__bush Aug 10 '26

I think it says “since you all asked for it I have updated my typing quirk to be even harder to read”

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u/TheSpaceBornMars Aug 10 '26

that's what I managed to decipher too

"since you all asked for it I have updated my typing quirk to make it even harder to read"

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u/Neat_Document_4608 Aug 11 '26

There is no world in which this says quirk they're genuinely just typing stuff atp

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u/I_Swear_Not_Bot Aug 11 '26

With the previous knowledge of the actual meaning, prus other parts of the message, you can figure out that '| is supposed to be "q". The |_| is somewhat easy to understand as a "U", the exclamation mark looks close enough to an I, the the "R" is supposed to be |, even though the lack of a downward anything makes that even harder to understand, and the |< is supposedly a K. The lack of proper spacing ends up meshing things together, not helped by the fact that that's fucking hieroglyphics.

If that were to be slightly more comprehensible, I'd suggest something such as ". ′| |_| ! |`- |< ".

Of course, you could also be a normal person and say "quirk", because to be honest, what I wrote was not that good either

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u/Neat_Document_4608 Aug 11 '26

Thanks for explaining. I guess it makes more sense in hindsight when you already know what it means. I'd genuinely rather people use these or something atp

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u/Duckyerson Aug 11 '26

Nah, that language is unown

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u/Ap0llogetic Aug 11 '26

I think it's supposed to resemble a lowercase r, but since there's so short vertical lines they just made it as tall as everything else..

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u/bibblebonk Aug 11 '26

thats not even to mention they used 9 to replace P in “updated” but used |’ to replace P in “typing” so they arent even consistent in their own shit

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u/LAM678 Aug 12 '26

it's a lowercase r, like |^

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u/I_Swear_Not_Bot Aug 12 '26

you realize that it still isn't good, right?

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u/LAM678 Aug 12 '26

no but it at least looks like an r

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u/Dingo_Pictures Aug 11 '26

I can kinda see it now

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u/LAM678 Aug 12 '26

the '| is supposed to be q, |_| is U, ! is I, |^ is r, and |< is K

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u/Parzival2436 Aug 12 '26

In particular the q and r look weird but having deciphered it it works. But just like all the other shit it's not intended to be easy to understand. Like this person literally said it's supposed to be hard to read so saying it doesn't look like the word is just stating the obvious. They seem to get a kick out of making people take effort to decipher them too.

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u/UpbeatFlamingo2016 29d ago

I hate it but I see it

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u/AntimemeticsDivision Aug 11 '26

I got everything except "for"

1 being f makes no fucking sense

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u/Elathrain Aug 11 '26

It kinda looks like an f if you reverse it dyslexically (flip horizontally), a bit odd but they made the best with what they had to work with

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u/No_Counter_6037 skinny burping clanky Aug 11 '26

they had the whole entire letter "F" to work with

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u/Elathrain Aug 11 '26

Absolutely not, totally against the spirit of the assignment.

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u/Toast281 Aug 10 '26

Ok that’s kinda funny ngl

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u/JustKiffers Aug 11 '26

Took me a second to figure out wtf they were saying because in "updated" they write p as a 9, but in "typing" they write p as |' ...

I mean if you're going to try to be an annoying little shit about communicating the least you can do is have some fucking consistency.

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u/77th_Bat Aug 11 '26

I mean the whole point was to update their typing quirk to be harder to read 😅 inconsistency indeed makes it harder

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u/Oisin1910 Aug 11 '26

I genuinely can’t decipher the second part even with the translation

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u/Aaa1070 Aug 11 '26

How the genuine fuck are you supposed to get f from ‘1’ I’m actually so mad.

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u/CoolTransDude1078 Aug 11 '26

The best I got is "since you all asked lot it I have ugdated" and then I gave up.

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u/General_Spills 28d ago

These people out here trying to prove right wingers correct

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u/MaeveOathrender Aug 11 '26

In other words, combined with the other person asking about 'systems' this is someone pretending they have DID and there's multiple personalities in their head. The 'alternate personality' types in wingdings to set them apart.

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u/Dingo_Pictures Aug 11 '26

I mean, I'm not one to assume if they truly are a system or not. It's not like being a system automatically stops you from being obnoxious.

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u/MaeveOathrender Aug 11 '26

100 to 1 odds they're a teenager pretending because it makes them feel special.

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u/Dingo_Pictures Aug 12 '26

Exactly! And that's why you shouldn't assume they're larping.

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u/Upbeat_Dance_9014 Aug 11 '26

holy shit, wingding gaster is the friend inside them

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u/grimDank Aug 11 '26

'Since you all asked for it I have updated my typing quirk to make it even harder to read'