What is your definition of "stretched" and "squished"/"squashed"?

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• Princess Alice

  2015-09-27 01:20:54

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I would call the second one "squashed" and the third one "stretched", because I tend to think in the horizontal direction.

  
  

  You're thinking in the vertical direction, I guess.
• Princess Alice

  2015-09-27 01:21:25

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Also I'd be more likely to say "compressed" than "squashed" or "squished", usually.
• Klinotaxis

  2015-09-27 01:31:28

  kill living beings
  

  skewed
• Imipolex G

  2015-09-27 01:35:08

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  squishy
• Sredni Vashtar

  2015-09-27 01:36:02

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I am actually with AU here although I can see it Centie's way, too.
• Tachyon

  2015-09-27 01:57:18

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Central Avenue said:

  I would call the second one "squashed" and the third one "stretched", because I tend to think in the horizontal direction.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2015-09-27 03:18:26

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Tachyon, you are clearly my equal and opposite number! We must engage in sacred combat on the field of battle at dawn to determine who shall predominate!
  
  Choose your weapon.
• Tachyon

  2015-09-27 03:22:02

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  *blinks*
  
  do we have to?  i'm not in a predominant mood
  
• Calica

  2015-09-27 04:51:16

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  Central Avenue said:

  I would call the second one "squashed" and the third one "stretched", because I tend to think in the horizontal direction.

  
  

  You're thinking in the vertical direction, I guess.

  I agree with Anonus and I think I think in the vertical direction for text because the letters themselves are usually more tall than wide.
  
• Princess Alice

  2015-09-27 13:51:47

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Calica said:

  Central Avenue said:

  I would call the second one "squashed" and the third one "stretched", because I tend to think in the horizontal direction.

  
  

  You're thinking in the vertical direction, I guess.

  I agree with Anonus and I think I think in the vertical direction for text because the letters themselves are usually more tall than wide.
  

  I think a big part of it, for me, is that I tend to think in terms of signage. It's common to see signs where someone has horizontally compressed lettering to fit too much text into too small a space, but it's less common to see someone vertically stretch lettering to fill extra space. 
• Calica

  2015-09-27 15:13:20

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  makes sense