Via geek.com... Introducing the SarcMark. It's a new punctuation symbol meant to identify sarcastic sentences. Effectively, it's a dot encircled. I wonder how many people bought it, not realizing that the @ character is essentially the same thing. :) Too funny. On that note, I'm going to to buy it right away, as soon as I get back from getting the oil and transmission fluid changed on my level 90 gold dragon@

To be fair, it's not really anything like the @ which is more of an 'a' encircled.

That said I can't see buying a single character, one which only can be seen by others who purchased it, for $1.99.

Quote: Original post by NickGravelyn
To be fair, it's not really anything like the @ which is more of an 'a' encircled.

That said I can't see buying a single character, one which only can be seen by others who purchased it, for $1.99.

I was being sarcastic man. :)

However, if you want to get technical, it's also rotated 180 degrees.

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Quote: Original post by NickGravelyn
To be fair, it's not really anything like the @ which is more of an 'a' encircled.

That said I can't see buying a single character, one which only can be seen by others who purchased it, for $1.99.

I was being sarcastic man. :)

Man, maybe we do need the SarcMark. ;-)

How exactly are you supposed to purchase a character, anyway? Does it have a Unicode code point assigned to it? Is a glyph for it supposed to magically appear in every font in your system, or something?

tl;dr sounds like someone is trolling.

I can't really see how this is useful in any way, or will make the creator any amount of money.

It's gotten some press, though, so maybe that's part of it.

I like the idea of a standard sarcasm button, but technically I don't see how this can work well.

There's a crapton of characters that go unused in every fontset, why don't we pick one of those instead?

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How exactly are you supposed to purchase a character, anyway? Does it have a Unicode code point assigned to it? Is a glyph for it supposed to magically appear in every font in your system, or something?

tl;dr sounds like someone is trolling.

So my first thought was "They must be joking. Right? Or are they?" and then I realized that it markets itself.

Anyway, the only reason I use sarcasm in the first place is because I like the momentary confusion it creates.

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Anyway, the only reason I use sarcasm in the first place is because I like the momentary confusion it creates.

Agreed. What's the fun in being a royal smartarse if everyone can instantly tell whether or not you're being serious?