what do you want us to do. spell out "shadows and lines" every single time they're brought up? it's a skinmaking server. it gets brought up a lot. literally every single community out there abbreviates a long term that comes up frequently in the convo this feels like you yourself have never talked in the server that much or don't make skins so you don't have to use the terminology
fwiw I am not in the skinmaking community and only skim posts regarding it, and it took me only about 5 seconds to figure out what 'shlines' meant in context. It's not deeply arcane jargon.
Yeah, same here, not in the UMA community at all. In context, a UMA server in which I'm sure a majority of discussions are about the UMA making process, I could totally tell that it was supposed to mean 'shadow lines' or something to that extent because even I know that Lines & Shadows are a common denial reason.
It's like 'derg' or half the gene combo names. It sounds stupid, it reads stupid but it's a shortform term that's regularly in use that a lot of people do understand in context. And either you use it or you don't.
DA it's also a relatively established (although intentionally silly) shortening! there are over 600 instances of it being used in the server. (there are some on-site as well but much less)
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Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-03-07 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)this feels like you yourself have never talked in the server that much or don't make skins so you don't have to use the terminology
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-03-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)fwiw I am not in the skinmaking community and only skim posts regarding it, and it took me only about 5 seconds to figure out what 'shlines' meant in context. It's not deeply arcane jargon.
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-03-08 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)Yeah, same here, not in the UMA community at all. In context, a UMA server in which I'm sure a majority of discussions are about the UMA making process, I could totally tell that it was supposed to mean 'shadow lines' or something to that extent because even I know that Lines & Shadows are a common denial reason.
It's like 'derg' or half the gene combo names. It sounds stupid, it reads stupid but it's a shortform term that's regularly in use that a lot of people do understand in context. And either you use it or you don't.
Re: Minor/Petty Salt Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-03-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)it's also a relatively established (although intentionally silly) shortening! there are over 600 instances of it being used in the server. (there are some on-site as well but much less)