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		infiniteri on Aug 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger Probably to help someone know what paragraph you're referencing if you're having a discussion. I could see it working better if it only appeared when you hovered over to the left of the paragraph.

benbreen on Aug 7, 2014 | [–]

Yep. The main function is to situate the reader if they get linked to a "supernote" like so:

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-jap...

kingnight on Aug 7, 2014 | [–]

Makes some sense. Seems excessive.

Not trying to being entirely negative... This is a really great article!

Kurtz79 on Aug 8, 2014 | [–]

To be fair it did catch my attention as well, it´s just uncommon.

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