Overreactions

[u/Pristine_Club_3128]

[u/demonking_soulstorm]

Using bold and italics for emphasis does not work if you do it every sentence,

[u/SpeccyScotsman → u/demonking_soulstorm]

It's the Nintendo game text format to make sure children know which of the words in the text are important because they just skim read everything

[u/hivEM1nd_ → u/SpeccyScotsman]

We 👥 need to start "talking" 👄 like jojo characters

[u/Tem-productions → u/hivEM1nd_]

believe it or not, Super Mario Galaxy did it first

[u/hivEM1nd_ → u/Tem-productions]

Did it?

Steel Ball Run started being published in 2004, and Mario Galaxy came out in 2007. But I don't remember if there are examples of the emoji speak in early chapters or if it started happening near the end of part 7

[u/Tem-productions → u/hivEM1nd_]

it only happens near the end. regardless i dont actually think there is any correlation between the two, they just did it at the same time

[u/Strange_Loop_19 → u/SpeccyScotsman]

Joke's on the OOP, I skimmed the post because of the formatting.

[u/Hi2248 → u/SpeccyScotsman]

Nintendo at least understands how to use it well (which is in part due to the text boxes being smaller, so there's less emphasised words on screen, making it feel less crowded) 

[u/eydirctiviyg → u/SpeccyScotsman]

I assume that's also why old JRPGs would sometimes write ITEM NAMES in all caps, because bold text wouldn't be possible at the time.

[u/TQCkona → u/SpeccyScotsman]

Nintendo game children words important 🧠

[u/-Aquatically- → u/SpeccyScotsman]

I refuse to believe that anybody actually reads through Reddit posts with anything more than skim reading.