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Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by TCSurf »

Waterluvian wrote: post #23
benatkin wrote: post #9

I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.

I find this evidence of the autistic mind at work.

Normal people understand the scissors aren't meant to be 'closed', they simply mean "Cut" in most circumstances.

Most people have better things to do than waste time on some bizarre concept like 'animating emojis like scissors'.

But it is a good activity to keep the autistic mind occupied. Makes babysitting a lot easier!

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by specialist »

Waterluvian wrote: post #28
benatkin wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Profile checks out. todays.pointless.click looks good :D I started https://furious.engineering/ to add random stuff, but so far there's only one which shows the spanish equivalent of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. I think these ones could be added to awesome-falsehoods. I'd love a list that was more centered on this idea, but for now awesome-falsehoods would probably be the best place for it. Maybe a design or visual category?

I had hoped that the internet, beyond the 90s, would be a place where almost everyone has a webpage like ours populated with whatever it is the individual decided was noteworthy. To an extent it's come true in a small subset. But discovery is the hard part. Right now discovery leads you to social media pages full of, for the most part, a low budget substitute for air.

Ya, I also assumed, hoped?, the 80s quirkiness (weird news, dr demento, archie mcphees, zines, and other earnest trivias) would have flourished. Making the jump from BBSes to the web.

Instead we got ad funded autobot outrage factories.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by nightcracker »

hydgv wrote: post #75
read_if_gay_ wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand how "there's a fricking gun in the system keyboard" => "hard to make apps that are age-rated for small children". It's just a tiny picture of a gun, hidden in a pile of hundreds of emojis at that. Where's the problem?

It was quite literally leftist virtue signalling. A way for those companies to say "I support gun control".

I support gun control but do not support the censorship in emojis. So I don't know about that.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by abcdef123xyz2 »

TCSurf wrote: post #81
Waterluvian wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.

I find this evidence of the autistic mind at work. Normal people understand the scissors aren't meant to be 'closed', they simply mean "Cut" in most circumstances. Most people have better things to do than waste time on some bizarre concept like 'animating emojis like scissors'. But it is a good activity to keep the autistic mind occupied. Makes babysitting a lot easier!

Calm down, it's a bit of fun.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by jablan »

btown wrote: post #3

Even if you don’t care about scissor physics, read the article for the A-level file pun, which is fully worth the price of admission.

I missed the pun initially because I associate that icon (U+1F4C1) with a folder, not with a file. :(

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by mrec »

Waterluvian wrote: post #23
benatkin wrote: post #9

I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Yes!!! I live for these completely pointless obsessions into a topic.

If you haven't seen the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group yet, you really should.

https://www.horg.com/horg/

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by fanf2 »

matsemann wrote: post #71
userbinator wrote: post #43

I'd never even realised that scissors could be right or left-handed, and now that I do, I checked all the (physical) scissors I have, and it turns out I have one left-handed pair and the other three are right-handed. I never used one after the other, so didn't notice the difference.

I don't really find that the way it's hinged make any big difference. So I've never used that to consider if a scissor is left or right handed. The problem is when it's not symmetrical. For instance the Fiskars [0], is impossible to get the thumb through when using the left hand. [0]: https://imgur.com/a/bN3XkHp

It depends a lot on how much slop there is in the hinge. Your grip should pull the blades together; if you use the scissors with the wrong hand it pulls the blades apart. The shape of the grips is just for comfort, the geometry of the blades is the true handedness.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by rvz »

The latest responses to the grand unsolved question of "Which Emoji Scissors Close?"

> Designers: What were the design teams behind these scissor emojis thinking? Some of the designs break made important design principles these 'scissors' should be redesigned by an AI. Dieter Rams would call this another level of wrongness.

> HNers: Look at the intricate detail with all the designers from different companies attempting to create an emoji for a pair of open and closed scissors. Wow!, great analysis, so cool!

> Everyone: It's a scissors emoji.

> Me: Who cares? They are scissors emojis. Even if the designers can't create one closed so what, do a redraw later?

I'd side with the everyone else crowd here, since the change will be so tiny that this storm in a tea cup will be a thing of the past.

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