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The story
A thread popped up on 5ch’s VIP board with a photo of a palm-sized dinosaur figure and the question, ‘Can you guess what kind of dinosaur this is?’ The poster played a character voiced through the text emoticon ‘(っ´ω`c)’, kicking off a naming quiz where other posters threw out guesses like ‘Allosaurus’ and ‘some kind of Honehone Zaurus figure.’ The correct answer was ‘Fukuisaurus,’ and whoever got it right was even promised a handshake. From there, the thread drifted into casual chatter, with another poster showing up to do some palm reading.
What people said
(っ´ω`c) Boo
(っ´ω`c) Boo
Then what character is in Ecuadoru's profile pic?
(っ´ω`c) Lotte
(っ´ω`c) Which dinosaur from the Honehone Zaurus line is it, huh? Huh?
Fukuisaurus!
(っ´ω`c) Boooo
(っ´ω`c) Correct!
I got it right, so it's a handshake — waiting for Pomii-kun to show up.
(っ´ω`c) Sure, I'll shake your hand
I'll be waiting in Kanagawa, so hurry up
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(っ´ω`c) Even if you say that… the manual said it was a Fukuisaurus…
(っ´ω`c) Are you… a palm reader?
(っ´ω`c) Oh really, that's pretty cool — the skeleton look suits it
(っ´ω`c) Oh, someone from Zama… so what are we doing in Kanagawa
A handshake, duh!!
(っ´ω`c) Seriously? I don't remember struggling much… maybe your characters just aren't leveled up enough?
(っ´ω`c) Really? When though… that's scary
(っ´ω`c) Really? Well, that's good to hear
(っ´ω`c) I actually pulled a hit on gacha today though
(っ´ω`c) Well, guess that makes sense at my age
Re: #64
(っ´ω`c) This is exactly why you can't trust fortune-telling!
Background and Key Points of This Topic
On 5ch’s VIP board, threads where posters role-play as a text-emoticon (AA) character like ‘(っ´ω`c)’ — narrating events and chatting in the first person — are a classic genre; the appeal lies less in the content than in the snappy back-and-forth between posters. The answer to this quiz, ‘Fukuisaurus,’ is the genus name of a real dinosaur whose fossils were discovered and named in Fukui Prefecture, one of the names that symbolizes Japan’s dinosaur research. ‘Allosaurus,’ one of the guesses, is a different genus from North America, treated here as a wrong answer that just happens to sound similar. Once the quiz wound down, the talk drifted loosely into unrelated chatter — a promised handshake, a bit of palm reading — which is typical of the pacing in these AA-character threads. Note that the thread also included some exchanges poking fun at crude jokes and sexual orientation, which have been left out of this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newssoku VIP) thread “(っ´ω`c) Pomii Rabokune Made a Dinosaur.”
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