Heheheh, yeah someone today online in LFS was complaining that frequent chatting while racing was getting really annoying. There is the "-" key afterall to block such messages... but yeah, come on, smilie icons in the chat text?!??
I'd rather have a console to hide & store messages so you can view it all later.
maybe avatars Webcam? Send small speech messages?
I like it to stick with :-) and :-(, those are enough. It doesn't need to be that graphical. It would be pointless and distracting... What the hell am I babbling about? I'm just saying what everyone else said just in a long version... Okay, now I'm really going to sleep
^^^ Yeah. It's especially annoying if there is some lag and 20 messages queue up, only to be all played together in an insanely loud "BBWWWYYYYOOOPPP" as soon as you sync up again, ugh.