Christine tries the Miiverse for his noble cause

"He's been boycotting Sega for about a month. That's actually a pretty strong commitment from Chris, given china isn't on the line.
He never really was a "SEGA" fan right? Just the typical Sonic-fan (more about the cartoos and lore than the actual games)? Atleast that is what i thought, sure, he got most SEGA-consoles, but he got the Nintendo's aswell... So i wouldn't give him too much credit for boycotting SEGA.
 
I think It's more that he feels Sega is doing this to spite him directly, like the pickle scene in Sonic Boom.
 
Some people at 30 are already have things such as a spouse and children, a college degree, an invested career, and their own house.
On the other end, Chris only ambition is complaining for months about a successful cartoon show and its aesthetic alterations. What a noble cause.
 
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I found his Miiverse account, and here's a clearer image of his post. It also seems like he's been playing Super Mario 3D World and Hyrule Warriors lately.

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I found his Miiverse account, and here's a clearer image of his post. It also seems like he's been playing Super Mario 3D World and Hyrule Warriors lately.

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Does he always have to capitalize every single noun in the English language? Last time I checked, you only do that in the German language. Unless, he forgets that he can't rely on autocorrect all the time.
 
Does he always have to capitalize every single noun in the English language? Last time I checked, you only do that in the German language. Unless, he forgets that he can't rely on autocorrect all the time.

It's not about nouns. Like most people, Chris types in lower-case letters when he is trying to type normally. Like a lot of people, he busts out all-caps when he is trying to express emotion. Unlike anyone else on the face of the earth, he has a middle ground. If he is trying to express a moderate level of emotion, somewhere between lower case and all-caps, he capitalizes the first letter of a lot of words.

I think it is not dumb in concept. There is a certain logic to it. The problem is that almost noone else does it. When you do something like that that noone else does it tends to look dumb. Particularly if you already look a little dumb anyway.
 
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It's not about nouns. Like most people, Chris types in lower-case letters when he is trying to type normally. Like a lot of people, he busts out all-caps when he is trying to express emotion. Unlike anyone else on the face of the earth, he has a middle ground. If he is trying to express a moderate level of emotion, somewhere between lower case and all-caps, he capitalizes the first letter of a lot of words.

I think it is not dumb in concept. There is a certain logic to it. The problem is that almost noone else does it. When you do something like that that noone else does it tends to look dumb. Particularly if you already look a little dumb anyway.

It reminds me of the style that books like Winnie the Pooh use, where Important Concepts are Capitalized to make them Stand Out from The Alternative. I do it myself occasionally! But, like, I think the weirdness with the way Chris uses it is that his idea of Important Concepts (see, there's an example right there, it's like that these Important Concepts are so much more important than plain old regular important concepts) doesn't really match up with anyone else's, so it comes across as just being random.

EDIT: I found some related stuff on another forum I frequent. Several members (including me) spoke in a similar manner and one user asked why, leading to several people trying to explain it. This was the administrator's explanation: "What these people do, as far as I've seen, is capitalizing for emphasis, as a way of transferring some of the implications of uniqueness and importance of proper nouns onto concepts that aren't. So, for example, "I don't really think that's an important thing" vs. "I don't really think that's an Important Thing" is the distinction between merely saying you don't think something is important, on the one hand, and implying there is a special category of things called Important Things and you don't think this is one of them, on the other. In the latter scenario, it may be somewhat important, but it's not important enough to be considered one of the Important Things." Another user wrote "There's a certain kind of emphasis that's appropriate for Capitalised Things. It's kind of visual shorthand for when you're careful to enunciate."
 
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It reminds me of the style that books like Winnie the Pooh use, where Important Concepts are Capitalized to make them Stand Out from The Alternative. I do it myself occasionally! But, like, I think the weirdness with the way Chris uses it is that his idea of Important Concepts (see, there's an example right there, it's like that these Important Concepts are so much more important than plain old regular important concepts) doesn't really match up with anyone else's, so it comes across as just being random.

EDIT: I found some related stuff on another forum I frequent. Several members (including me) spoke in a similar manner and one user asked why, leading to several people trying to explain it. This was the administrator's explanation: "What these people do, as far as I've seen, is capitalizing for emphasis, as a way of transferring some of the implications of uniqueness and importance of proper nouns onto concepts that aren't. So, for example, "I don't really think that's an important thing" vs. "I don't really think that's an Important Thing" is the distinction between merely saying you don't think something is important, on the one hand, and implying there is a special category of things called Important Things and you don't think this is one of them, on the other. In the latter scenario, it may be somewhat important, but it's not important enough to be considered one of the Important Things." Another user wrote "There's a certain kind of emphasis that's appropriate for Capitalised Things. It's kind of visual shorthand for when you're careful to enunciate."

I think the difference is some people capitalize words to empasize those particular words. If Chris wants to put some emphasis on a sentence or paragraph, he will capitalize a lot of the words in that sentence or paragraph. Kind of like him or anyone else might all-caps that sentence or paragraph. In that sense it is fairly unique.
 
Is the Miiverse community anything like heXBox Live's community? ie, made up of irate 14-year-olds that yell racist sluts at each other....and then hamfistedly hit on anybody with a female username/avatar.

I kinda hope so.
"Christine" will loooooove being able to go all Social Justice on these phallocentric oppressors with their unchecked privilege. This Tomgirl is a free bitch, and this bird you cannot change. (Three Snaps Up in a Circle!)

No, the Miiverse is full of kids, bored housewives who only play WiiFit, spergs, some pretty decent artists actually and people trying to gain attention from the Game Grumps. Nothing more.
 
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