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
View the HN comment section for some more examples (ants, trains,..). I feel inspired and will most likely write a blog post for the parachute emoji soon.
Which Emoji Scissors Close?
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple spearheaded this but you could imagine Facebook spearheading it and everybody else following. Honestly the original gun emoji was simply a bad idea because it makes it hard to make apps that are age-rated for small children when there's a fricking gun in the system keyboard.
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?
There’s also the knife, bomb, cigarette, and middle finger emojis. And Apple decided to keep the peach emoji looking like a butt:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/apple-brings-back-the-peac...
Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
But your statement is about purchases, rather than common use. Just because 4-6-0 locomotives were being purchased then, it certainly doesn't follow that you wouldn't see any 4-4-0 locomotives in 1870, does it? Especially since 4-4-0s were still being built in the US as late as 1893 according to Wikipedia [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-4-0#United_States
Also "wild west era" is pretty vague to start with and can be considered to cover almost whole 19th century. So the specific situation at 1870s might not be even all that relevant
Even parts of the 20th century as well.
Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?
#114Unicode scissors emoji originate from two sources, and they both contribute to this plethora of non-closing scissors.
First, Unicode scissors character (U+2702) originates from ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 [1]. As a result they have, unlike most Unicode characters, pretty much standardized reference glyphs. And scissors glyphs do not completely close too there.
Second, the original emojis were implemented in limited space (say, 16 by 16 pixels) and the design was constrained. In some platforms (especially SoftBank) they were animated instead, and indeed there were some reference emojis that close only in the animation [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapf_Dingbats
[2] https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#2702
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#115What a nice century we live in that we have time for describing and discussing these kind of problems. :)
Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?
#116This reminds me of how someone filed a bug against a quick illustration I did of some cogs on my website because the cogs don't actually turn: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2949
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#117Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you talking about the article? Because the people creating the emojis clearly didn't spend a lot of time checking that the scissors would actually work, which it seems like you'd approve of. The article itself isn't so much "the industry" as a blogger just trying to write something amusing.
You know what he means dude.
I honestly don't.
Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?
#119Reminds me of "Artist Asks People to Draw a Bicycle from Memory and Renders the Results" https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw...
In the MONA museum in Tasmania, they have real life versions of the “renders”. It was amazing to see the inoperable bicycles in front of me.
Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?
#120I 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
I've added these to https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple . Thank ya.
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Awesome site. Thanks
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Perhaps there is no need for friending. For likes. For upvotes. For hashtags. For boosts. For trending. For rank. For followers. For an algorithm.
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