I'm not much of a fan of most of these extra icons, but at least none of them is as horrible as that conehead person, who was bumped so far up the list as to appear on the "Post Reply" page.
I have an idea that should appease everyone: Put all the small and default emoticons first, and don't let any of the larger emoticons high enough on the list that they'll appear on the Post Reply page. Instead, put them at the end of the list. Let's use this one as a size cutoff:
Then, put the least used ones, like Purple Rain and ZeaLitY's Emoticon of the Day, all the way at the end. Those ones don't get any real use and they're just causing clutter. "Surreal humor" is great, but interfering with the clean use of the site is not.
Oh, and make sure you move all the way up to where the other smileys are. Right now it's dead last in the list, and people actually use that one on occasion!
There! Everyone's happy.
I'm gunna look for some chrono icons that convey emotion. The problem is that I don't know if gifs can be used as emoticons. Is there a problem with that? I really like this flea one and that Ayla one that Radical Pan is using right now. There is a website... actually I'll try to see if it still exists.
This site-
http://www.videogamesprites.net/ChronoTrigger/ there are lots and lots of emoticons that are relevant.
This one would be really good for surprise...
This one is very silly, and can be used for an "lol" thing...
There are tons, and tons of possibilities. I think I'm going to start a thread and pick the emoticons I like and see if other agree. I just need to know from Zeality or Ramsus if gifs are ok to use as emoticons.
Anyway, J, I quoted you because other than me feeling strongly about getting some chrono icons for the forum, I agree with everything you say and think it should be implemented. Also, I'm disappointed that the one random icon I did like was deleted and that smoking one was put in its place.
One major problem I find with the "surreal humor", if that is the name for it is that no one but Z really gets the reference. Like that stupid cowboy. Everyone but Z and Fafnir didn't get the joke and when a thread was asked about what the hell is up with the cowboy, neither of them said where the reference was from and it was all some in joke that was so hilarious apparently... So if no one gets the reference, I don't get why the Z icons are even needed. Z doesn't even use them himself. If he wants to spam some springtime youth thing, he uses Naruto pics or something else springtime-related... There are just tons of reasons why I'm opposed to the random pics, but I think that your idea at least is good as a negotiation.
Edit:
I'm just going to ignore that comment about the raging idiot who never feels joy, or whatever, but I don't get this:
Of course not.
Do you mean you won't upload chrono-related emoticons I find, or the opposite that I'm stupid for insinuating that you won't upload them just because you don't like me? I don't know which it is.