Me 5 years ago enjoying big big sarcasm and irony posting:
Now knowing there is 5+ years of chapo/hexbear inside jokes, gags, lore that's practically developed into a niche proto-language:
The urge to ask “is this a bit?” is incredibly strong right now. I do think it’s a good idea, though.
I’m not doing a bit! If I were doing a bit I would have just asked if you were doing a bit, but I felt it was a little too on the nose in this context. Temptation was there, though.
As someone who likes to do bits with a straight face to rile up the more earnest people in my life, I consider it proper etiquette to admit to doing a bit the moment someone either takes the bait fully or asks if I’m being serious. It’s sort of like catch and release fishing, but instead of fish it’s people who aren’t terminally irony poisoned.
We'll need a bit clarification parse tree, and a semantic bit analyzer, and a bit symbol table, and...
Pretty reasonable. I don't like using tone indicators, even though I know they are helpful for some, because I love ambiguity. I love the richness of possibility of meaning.
But if somebody asks me outright for clarification of my meaning, I'll generally answer honestly.
Your angle is good enough for me.
I've seen you fuck with liberals by pretending to agree with them until they veer off the road.
if the user is from here assume bit if the user is from elsewhere assume sus
Or when you don't understand how a kilogram of steel weighs the same as a kilogram of feathers, and when it becomes obvious that everyone else understands and is confused at how you're confused, the only way you can preserve a shred of dignity is to say you're doing a bit
I find a lot of bits exhausting unless they're clearly labeled even if that doesn't make me as irony-poisoned-cool as some internet people would otherwise demand of me.
Some of my least favorite experiences in internet conversation that didn't involve outright stalking or other exceptionally fucked up shit involved "you didn't get my very le clever very le ironic joke, you are stupid and bad" victory lapping that goes on for basically forever afterward for that particular irony-poisoned anti-comedian.
Do you have any particular comms youd like this for? List them, and if I mod any, I'll make a thread tomorrow putting it to a vote (its 2AM here and insomnia is a fuck so please remind me).
We can have tags like /b for "bit" and /b for "being sincere"
for future reference if i ever ask if something is a bit, i want you to flip a coin and answer me based on that
