User:Ardub23

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SSBUXerneas.png This user is a Pokémon Master.
; This user believes that poor grammar and punctuation hinder communication.
PurplePikminTrophyWiiU.png This user's main in Brawl is Purple Pikmin.
KirbyOlimar3DS.jpeg This user's main in Smash 4 is Kirby, but he pretends it's Olimar.
SSBUWebsitePokémonTrainer5.jpg This user's main in Ultimate is Ivysaur, but he uses the other Pokémon too in order to look like he knows what he's doing.
ShulkIcon(SSB4-U).png This user is a lean, mean memeing machine.
PikachuIcon(SSB4-U).png This user infrequently plays competitively.
MrGame&WatchIcon(SSB4-U).png This user hates playing strangers online. Partially because his connection sucks.

A lot of people are content to use hyphens as a stand-in for dashes - like this. Not me. A real dash is a different character. Or, well, two characters—one that looks like that – and the other looks like that. (They're interchangeable in many contexts—I prefer the em dash, but I prioritize consistency.) Hyphens are not dashes, and since SmashWiki doesn't have any technical restrictions preventing the use of actual dashes, there's no need to limit ourselves to approximations. If you see me editing this punctuation, that's why.

A lot of people are content to use a letter x as a stand-in for a multiplication sign ×. Some people figure that the acute accent in 'Pokémon' isn't worth the trouble, since there's not much else it could be confused with. Not me. I'm the guy who's crazy enough that he made a custom keyboard layout just to make these and other symbols easy to type. –é—×÷≠≈‘’“”«»°… Not to mention /ˈmoʊstəvðəˈsɪmbl̩zˌjuːzdɪnˈɪŋglɪʃˌaɪpiˈeɪ/.

You could say I'm a stickler for punctuation.