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Guffe

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Alright this has been bothering me for like a month now and I can't find a thread about it.

So, about a month ago I saw at the top of the escapist when I went to the "search forums part" a smiley that looked like this
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What's up with that? anyone else noticed it?
What is it there for, and it's started to appear in loads of places, at the top of the page, at the bottom of the page, in the sides, inside small grey balks which are supposed to contain small headlines.

I've been on the internet enough to know that I am never the only one, so you others Escapees also see this?
What is it? what does it mean?

Please give me an answer, realistic or completely batshit insane I don't care!
I NEED ANSWERS!
 

Tayh

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Tragically, in this case, you ARE the only one.

Anyway, looks like a bit of extraneous web code.
 

Zantos

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Tayh said:
Tragically, in this case, you ARE the only one.

Anyway, looks like a bit of extraneous web code.
Yeah, I'm with this answer. Unless it's "I want to try and flirt but I'm a little sad that my beautiful face has been marked with quite a large shaving cut" then it's probably just code.
 

Scarim Coral

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Yeah I have seen that recently at where you describle the location. Normally there sometime advertisement at the top so I assume it didn't load properly and load '): that instead as a error code or something.
 

Dead Seerius

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I could tell you what it means, but then I'd have to kill you.

We're always watching those who go looking into business that does not concern them... [small]always...[/small]
 

thesilentman

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TopazFusion said:
Clearly Kross is messing with you.

Screenshot? Because I don't see them...
I'm going to chalk it up to Kross picking a random victim to troll, as I've never seen anyon-

excalipoor said:
Oh. Well, come on everyone. Kross is about to spark a war soon! WE MUST DEFEAT HIM!

...

Or the site bugged and somewhere, a 'divide by zero' happened.
 

Kae

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Lose 1d20 sanity points.
I've had it for months, didn't think it was important enough to bring it up.
 

pffh

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I get him all the time as well. I think it has something to do with localized ads so if you aren't in an area where the advertiser wants to advertise in you get the frowny face.

I usually also get him at the bottom where the desert bus ad is right now.
 

lacktheknack

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Huh.

('blah blah blah'); is common coding. I don't know how it's leaking into your web browser, though.
 

AstylahAthrys

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It kind of looks like a crying, drooling face to me. Maybe it's a baby emoticon?

Maybe the Escapist is pregnant and that's how they're trying to tell us!

... I'll stop now. (Yes, it is probably just some odd coding from the site when something doesn't load, like an ad.)
 

Lucem712

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AstylahAthrys said:
It kind of looks like a crying, drooling face to me. Maybe it's a baby emoticon?

Maybe the Escapist is pregnant and that's how they're trying to tell us!

... I'll stop now. (Yes, it is probably just some odd coding from the site when something doesn't load, like an ad.)
That's definitely the most logical post in this thread. That's why a new company had to buy the Escapist, the old one found out it wasn't the baby daddy.
 

Starik20X6

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Yeah that shows up for me sometimes. There's often another matching one underneath the response-posting-box-thingy. I just assumed it was a minor coding error and ignored it. Tends to happen when I've got to fill out a Captcha...
 

Guffe

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excalipoor said:
Yeah that's the ghost right there D:

On Topic:

Well just some coding error according to most, I liked the baby Escapist theory thou :D

Captcha: '):

[sub][sub]nah just kidding XD[/sub][/sub]
 

Guffe

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Guffe said:
Alright this has been bothering me for like a month now and I can't find a thread about it.

So, about a month ago I saw at the top of the escapist when I went to the "search forums part" a smiley that looked like this
');

What's up with that? anyone else noticed it?
What is it there for, and it's started to appear in loads of places, at the top of the page, at the bottom of the page, in the sides, inside small grey balks which are supposed to contain small headlines.

I've been on the internet enough to know that I am never the only one, so you others Escapees also see this?
What is it? what does it mean?

Please give me an answer, realistic or completely batshit insane I don't care!
I NEED ANSWERS!
can u haz send me screen shots plaz