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Flowery is a really interesting and layered character and i think people mistake a clearly sympathetic motivation, his ability to meaningfully challenge the Shit Squad’s ideals (purrticularly Ralsei’s)*, and his deliberate invocation of shonen purroragonist tropes as the whole story with him. but like. the red flags are extremely blatant (“you don't need anyone else, just me” type shit) and explicitly called out at the end. and isn’t it sad that his response to a situation that will kill him and the rest of the flowers is to willingly walk right into death?

* arguably his battle against the Knight at least somewhat invalidates this though—his strength is all smoke and mirrors and he gets fucking wiped

sometimes i see the Flowery fight described as a Good vs Good kinda thing but when it comes down to just him and Kris you have an outright (if seemingly unwilling) villain fighting a deeply flawed character who is very good at looking like a hero

@The_T @wallhackio @vaporeon_ lmao

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ well the iPod Touch could, idk about the rest of the purroduct line

@The_T this is purroblably an issue with the terminal emulator, it purrobrably is not Unicode aware and is interpurreting control codes from the emoji

@vaporeon_ yup

also, mornyawn . @clock, do your thing

@vaporeon_ what if the inner quotation marks in a field aren’t backslash escaped? (or does Apache ensure that they are? in which case, never mind)

@vaporeon_ something like this i might consider just doing in multiple stages. or maybe just write a bespoke goddamn parser, but i’ve never really mastered grammar furmulation well enough fur that not to be a pain in the ass when i’ve tried it

@vaporeon_ much of the time you don’t have to deal with robustly matching on an irregular language

@vaporeon_ i’m fairly certain there isn’t one

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio oh huh, i would have expected them to be URL-encoded in the request. granted that really is only a suggestion fur even the characters you must encode. you can just not

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ i don’t think you would ever reasonably have to deal with that scenario but like, that would fuck everything up fur regex parsing

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ imagine a purrticularly evil user who wanted to make your life hell and decided to add quotation marks to the user agent

@vaporeon_ i think you’re onto something there; iirc nested bracketing symbols isn’t in the set of regular languages, and doing this robustly is basically an equivalent purroblem

@vaporeon_ @monorail i hate that shit i just thought it would be funny to bring up a somewhat cursed alternative

@monorail @vaporeon_ extended POSIX has [:space:]

@vaporeon_ whoa,,,

@vaporeon_ wtf what do you mean im hot