Can we get /facepalm emote?

Hello,
I have just decided to come up with another suggestion.. can we get facepalm emote?
I was just casually wiping trough Brayflox trash with a few random guys and decided I definitely need it. :eek:

FYI: I did not ragequit or flame them.

I also wouldn't mind this emote! I can imagine its main usage would be at a the site of a freshly killed A/S rank monster. :rolleyes:

I do not support this.

Why, you ask? Because it's a shallow form of expression crafted for people who can't convey their frustrations in any other way besides performing stock emotions. It is on my list of pet peeves along with people saying "Really... REALLY?" and "Lol, wut". Please find other ways to express your emotions. Humanity has been blessed with faces that can contort to many different abstractions. Consider typing that your ears have shriveled to the point of atrophy upon hearing such complete nonsense. Or maybe your eyes have rolled to the back of your head so far from reading the ignorance that the exposed rods and cones became bleached by natural sunlight and has rendered you permanently blind.

The point is, get an identity.

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

I do not support this.

Why, you ask? Because it's a shallow form of expression crafted for people who can't convey their frustrations in any other way besides performing stock emotions. It is on my list of pet peeves along with people saying "Really... REALLY?" and "Lol, wut". Please find other ways to express your emotions. Humanity has been blessed with faces that can contort to many different abstractions. Consider typing that your ears have shriveled to the point of atrophy upon hearing such complete nonsense. Or maybe your eyes have rolled to the back of your head so far from reading the ignorance that the exposed rods and cones became bleached by natural sunlight and has rendered you permanently blind.

The point is, get an identity.

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I can. On other hand, my character has a limited number of options and I asked for one more. Please, don´t confuse FFXIV up with real life.

Only if I can get a /youmadbro emote.

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

I can. On other hand, my character has a limited number of options and I asked for one more. Please, don´t confuse FFXIV up with real life.

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FFXIV or real life. Communication skills are essential. And I mean the ability to convey the positives and negatives. The last thing I want to see when I'm playing FFXIV is someone /facepalm-ing me if I need to quickly brb before a boss or /facepalm-ing me if I ask a question about a mechanic. It is not a form of negative expression. It is the very deterioration of communication itself. I'm afraid that you are confusing FFXIV with a Text message service.

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

FFXIV or real life. Communication skills are essential. And I mean the ability to convey the positives and negatives. The last thing I want to see when I'm playing FFXIV is someone /facepalm-ing me if I need to quickly brb before a boss or /facepalm-ing me if I ask a question about a mechanic. It is not a form of negative expression. It is the very deterioration of communication itself. I'm afraid that you are confusing FFXIV with a Text message service.

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You must be a riot at parties.

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

FFXIV or real life. Communication skills are essential. And I mean the ability to convey the positives and negatives. The last thing I want to see when I'm playing FFXIV is someone /facepalm-ing me if I need to quickly brb before a boss or /facepalm-ing me if I ask a question about a mechanic. It is not a form of negative expression. It is the very deterioration of communication itself. I'm afraid that you are confusing FFXIV with a Text message service.

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Ok, and what is the difference between facepalm and slap emote? If you ask something or go afk and someone slaps you, it is not a form of negative expression?
Sorry, but if you are troll, these 3 posts are the only fodder you are going to get from me as I am on my way to bed.

I posted my suggestion and let the positive and negative replies be the feedback for devs. :)

I would like this emote as well.

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Ok, and what is the difference between facepalm and slap emote? If you ask something or go afk and someone slaps you, it is not a form of negative expression?
Sorry, but if you are troll, these 3 posts are the only fodder you are going to get from me as I am on my way to bed.

I posted my suggestion and let the positive and negative replies be the feedback for devs. :)

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This post is not only for you but for all who are reading. Do not contribute to devolution of what makes us as humans so unique. Monkeys can throw poo at each other to convey emotions. Should we as well? The foundation of our communication lies on our abilities to string words together into a concept. Slapping someone has been a concept we understood since the dawn of human consciousness. It is a wonderful of emotion that can convey anger, fear, even happiness (Omg, you're alive! *Slap* Don't EVER do that again!) However, face palming was bred on the internet to shorthand the concept of frustration itself.

BE EXPRESSIVE

I like the idea of throwing poop... /throwpoop new emote plz. @Pharmacies What are you an English major? As an artist who knows that the post modern movement is very valuable to understanding what is art? Which I think the end result was what someone made art out to be. So yes throwing poop might be the best way to express rage or love. The same as facepalming might just get the jeering/light hearted response to something going wrong.

The only part of WoW I miss is the fart emote

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

This post is not only for you but for all who are reading. Do not contribute to devolution of what makes us as humans so unique. Monkeys can throw poo at each other to convey emotions. Should we as well? The foundation of our communication lies on our abilities to string words together into a concept. Slapping someone has been a concept we understood since the dawn of human consciousness. It is a wonderful of emotion that can convey anger, fear, even happiness (Omg, you're alive! *Slap* Don't EVER do that again!) However, face palming was bred on the internet to shorthand the concept of frustration itself.

BE EXPRESSIVE

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There is nothing wrong with a facepalm. The Naked Gun is a perfect example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLgekyOZA0

I'd support having this emote, for those situations when /no is too subtle and /disappointed is too much. Also, a facepalm-like animation is already in the game, for the "oh-no-I-feel-a-flashback-coming-on" aetheric headache moments throughout the MSQ. It oughtn't be too hard to adapt that into a /facepalm emote.

I generally /stagger.

EDIT: On the topic of desired emotes, I'd definately like an emote which allows me to do the pelvic thrust that really drives you insa-yay-yane. Every time I'd do it, it'd completely warp my comrades' minds, again and again and again.

Yes, we need this.

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

Why, you ask? Because it's a shallow form of expression crafted for people who can't convey their frustrations in any other way besides performing stock emotions.

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http://i.imgur.com/O5bos8i.jpg

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Originally Posted by Aeyis

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If it's good enough for Picard it's good enough for us.

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Originally Posted by Kona_Nightwind

Only if I can get a /youmadbro emote.

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I imagine that as a /trollface.

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

I do not support this.

Why, you ask? Because it's a shallow form of expression crafted for people who can't convey their frustrations in any other way besides performing stock emotions. It is on my list of pet peeves along with people saying "Really... REALLY?" and "Lol, wut". Please find other ways to express your emotions. Humanity has been blessed with faces that can contort to many different abstractions. Consider typing that your ears have shriveled to the point of atrophy upon hearing such complete nonsense. Or maybe your eyes have rolled to the back of your head so far from reading the ignorance that the exposed rods and cones became bleached by natural sunlight and has rendered you permanently blind.

The point is, get an identity.

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This post needs a /facepalm.

I'm for the /facepalm emote simply because as is there's no good middle ground for showing a form of disappointment that indicates that what someone did or said was stupid, but not so stupid it's a big deal, without resorting to creating a macro specifically for such an emote. The "/no" emote doesn't indicate that, as the text simply says you disagree, whereas the /disappointed emote is far to dramatic for simple acts of stupidity or silliness. /facepalm would fit that middle ground by giving you both a motion, and a simple text that changes based on whether you're targeting someone or not, which current macros are incapable of doing as they don't have variables as an option, (which they really should)....

For example the the basic text could read...

"(Player) facepalms."

While the targeted text could read...

"(Player) facepalms because of <t>."

Give it a motion as well obviously, and you have something that would normally take two separate macros to create, and that fits the middle ground of emotion quite well.....


To those arguing that it shouldn't be included because it's an "internet meme", then I have to ask, do you not realize what all versions of human body launguage, words, and dialect are? They are essentially ideas and concepts created over the passage of time to help facilitate communication. This begins when a single person does an action/says something/acts a certain way that they feel is appropriate to their situation, and over time more people choose to use that same form of expression in similar situations. Mankind was not born with the innate idea to greet people with a handshake, bow to those whom they feel deserve to be honored, or address royalty with titles such as "Your Majesty". These were created by the same methods that "memes" are today, with the only difference being the method by which the meme spread. Prior to the internet, these forms of interaction spread more slowly as one person saw another do it and were either told to emulate it or chose to of their own volition, and then the same happened to people who saw that person, and so on until it became common practice to do so in the befitting situation. With the internet however, information, and thus forms of expressing oneself, travels at a much faster rate to far more people, thus creating the "memes" as people know them today. These new forms of communication via physical such as "facepalming", or text/auditory via "lol" are no more or less valid than the manerisms every single person used in their day to day life centuries ago that still hold up now. The only difference is that people are less accustomed to it being a valid form of expression because it's relatively new in comparison to what they are used to. You may see it as "unoriginal" or "stupid", but I'm sure that at some point in history ideas such as kneeling before one whom you choose to dedicate yourself to were considered "degrading" and "pathetic". Simply because you don't personally feel it is a valid form of expression does not make it invalid to others.....

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

The point is, get an identity.

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To this remark, if you still feel this way after reading my post, then I encourage you to get an identity instead of copying all those who came before you and all those around you. Cease copying simple actions such as smiling, or frowning, or even holding a neutral face. Don't say "hello", "goodbye", or "have a nice day" to anyone. Don't stay silent either, because plenty of other people do that, so you'd just be copying their "identity". Don't check both ways before crossing the street, or don't cross the street to begin with, as that would make you unoriginal because part of someone else's identity is that they "move from one location to another" or that they're "careful not to get hit by traffic". Oh, and don't criticize what other people say either many people here on the internet do that, including myself right now towards you, and if you do it to then by your logic, you don't have an identity because "other people do it". The point is, get an identity.....

I love the facepalm idea. It is understood by anyone of any language in the same way. It is also universal (any race and gender) to have the same animation. Therefore it fits well to have its own emote and button.
What Pharmacies is hinting toward would have to be the use of /em, as its high unlikely the devs would create a whole bunch of texts and animation to convey the same message. If you are more into roleplay then might I suggest a a combination? Use the animation of /facepalm with your own custom /em text and set up the macro. Unfortunately not many groups (that Ive come across) would wait even 2 minutes for you to type out something so over-described before moving the subject of conversation along.

Will /facepalm to any goon who died in 10 seconds after any pull.

Are you seriously debating philosophy over a facepalm emote? How bored are you?

People who want it should be able to do it, people who dont for whatever reason i do not care about... just ignore it, hell even disable emotes in your log. End of story.

Female Au Ra already has this in the form if /huh.

Well sometimes I facepalm in real life... like, "whoa boy there"
So why can't my character do it? He would constantly do it.

Also my keyboard is far from me and it's easier to just use the emote list, because I'm lazy. Let me be lazy.

Also it's not like the text would read "Character facepalms". That's silly.

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Originally Posted by Kona_Nightwind

Only if I can get a /youmadbro emote.

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How you gonna emote some childish meme? :)

@OP

No thanks. That would do game not any good. Imagine someone newbie wiping the group then people would only spam /facepalm emote instead of helping the guy ^^

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Originally Posted by Jin-

How you gonna emote some childish meme? :)

@OP

No thanks. That would do game not any good. Imagine someone newbie wiping the group then people would only spam /facepalm emote instead of helping the guy ^^

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I would much rather have a /facepalm than the stupid /brofist that has actually been released :T

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Originally Posted by Kona_Nightwind

Only if I can get a /youmadbro emote.

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Originally Posted by Jin-

How you gonna emote some childish meme?

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Exactly like how DKS did it.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A66oTvc-J5E

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Originally Posted by Jin-

How you gonna emote some childish meme? :)

@OP

No thanks. That would do game not any good. Imagine someone newbie wiping the group then people would only spam /facepalm emote instead of helping the guy ^^

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Is someone wants to use the facepalm emote to spam on someone wiping then I have bad news for you: There are already plenty more worse emotes u could use in that situation. Faceplam would be actually a more subtle one in comparison
Having thrown emotes at myself after wiping a group is actually not bad at all - it wasn't so bad when noone bothered to write anything and emoted instead, wasn't it? And if someone verbally harrases me, I rly dgaf about some emotes they made prior to that

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Originally Posted by ValyrianBlood

Is someone wants to use the facepalm emote to spam on someone wiping then I have bad news for you: There are already plenty more worse emotes u could use in that situation. Faceplam would be actually a more subtle one in comparison
Having thrown emotes at myself after wiping a group is actually not bad at all - it wasn't so bad when noone bothered to write anything and emoted instead, wasn't it? And if someone verbally harrases me, I rly dgaf about some emotes they made prior to that

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I will add that if you feel emotionally affected by people using "bad" emotes on you, you should probably quit online games and consult.

pretty sure the devs said they would add this like half a year ago

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Originally Posted by Pharmacies

I do not support this.

Why, you ask? Because it's a shallow form of expression crafted for people who can't convey their frustrations in any other way besides performing stock emotions. It is on my list of pet peeves along with people saying "Really... REALLY?" and "Lol, wut". Please find other ways to express your emotions. Humanity has been blessed with faces that can contort to many different abstractions. Consider typing that your ears have shriveled to the point of atrophy upon hearing such complete nonsense. Or maybe your eyes have rolled to the back of your head so far from reading the ignorance that the exposed rods and cones became bleached by natural sunlight and has rendered you permanently blind.

The point is, get an identity.

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https://www.netmeister.org/blog/imag...d-facepalm.jpg

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Originally Posted by Miscreant

pretty sure the devs said they would add this like half a year ago

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Well, thanks for the info, I have never heard of that and if it is a true, it is definitely a good news for me. :D

I just use /cry. Probably not viable for most races, though.

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Hello,
I have just decided to come up with another suggestion.. can we get facepalm emote?
I was just casually wiping trough Brayflox trash with a few random guys and decided I definitely need it. :eek:

FYI: I did not ragequit or flame them.

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I would love this myself. However I don't know if SE will do it considering /fume and /stagger express basically the same emotion.

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Originally Posted by Kahnom

Will /facepalm to any goon who died in 10 seconds after any pull.

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Will /facepalm when I am the last one to die as a goon :P.

So I was tanking "The Aery" yesterday did about 8 runs and oh man the amount of face palm I wanted to give..... I keep dying on the fist trash pull.... First freaking trash pull! It's only 2 mob! I dodge all the Aoe and even pop cool down when I hit 50% but nope not a single heal..... Guess what was the healer doing........ Dpsing....

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Originally Posted by Janhyua

So I was tanking "The Aery" yesterday did about 8 runs and oh man the amount of face palm I wanted to give..... I keep dying on the fist trash pull.... First freaking trash pull! It's only 2 mob! I dodge all the Aoe and even pop cool down when I hit 50% but nope not a single heal..... Guess what was the healer doing........ Dpsing....

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Welcome to FFXIV where all the "hardcore" healers focus more on DPSing than healing, no matter the situation, and if someone dies as a result, then it's the fault of anyone but them. They then teach every other healer they meet that as a healer, you should be DPSing constantly, even if said healer they meet isn't skilled enough to do so. It's all fine and dandy to DPS as a healer if you can still maintain everyone's health at at least 75%, (I say that high, because you know what guys? Sometimes stuff happens and for the DPS in particular we can drop from 100% to 10% if we get a bad line up of attacks with no way to get out of the way in time.), but the people who are good enough to do that act as though EVERY healer is good enough to do that when they make their arguments about how "healers should DPS". I've been in enough runs with healers who spend so much time attacking that they only heal the tank while everyone else is dropping right and left......

Situations like that most certainly deserve a "/facepalm"......