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Is there a line from a movie that really resonated with you but when you say it most people don't get the reference? (lemm.ee)
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Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Im glad to know that arm goes missing here too. Makes me feel right at home.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    For those who actually don’t know: MarkDown (the markup language used by Lemmy and Reddit) uses the backslash as a “cancel” command. And it uses the underscores as an italicize command, just like the *asterisks* you’re probably in the habit of using.

    For instance, _this_ turns into this. But when I cancel those underscores with a backslash \_like this\_ they appear.

    So why does the backslash disappear on the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ face? For starters, the backslash cancels the underscores around the head. So the underscores show up, but the arm doesn’t. So what if we try two backslashes? Then we get:

    ¯\(ツ)/¯

    The first backslash canceled out the second, but now the underscores are italicizing the head. So let’s try three:

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Now the first backslash is canceling out the second, and the third backslash is canceling out the underscore.

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