Roughly 5 years ago, a friend and I were discussing a certain ‘XD,’ which we both experienced at a Final Fantasy site on the internet. Initially, I perceived it as some bizarre European (possibly Dutch) form of punctuation, and he was trying to teach me otherwise. He even went so far as to emulate the text emoticon using an actual face (his own). I got the picture, but I couldn’t help but comment on the size of his nose, which appeared disgustingly large when he tried to squeeze his eyes together and force out the inhuman ‘D’ grin.