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lmao you really think this took me more than 15 minutes to do?
Can you fix the sign-in loop next?
yes
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
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#93Wow they're working on really important and consequential things over there at Twitter under new management.
Twitter barely changes -> why do they have so many employees if they barely do anything. 80% get fired -> this is the end of twitter. Employee changes emoji -> why are they making such unimportant changes.
Whatever happens at twitter, someone on the internet will complain about it.
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I found it alarming that the meaning of previous texts between many people could be altered by simply changing the glyph of an emote. And noone voted for it, all companies effectively in charge of these emojis (Google, Apple, etc.) decided for everyone that it was for the best. What will they change next, who initiated and coordinated that effort, and why, are all important questions. I'm very much against it. It's t…
Such a thin veiled whistle blow against woke culture. The very concept of corporate-curated glyphs restricts and normalises communication to a limited range of concepts pre-approved by the architects of consumer culture. But apparently this is only a problem to you when it tries to discourage armed violence.
It's not a "veiled whistle blow", it's my personal belief.
But yes, I am against woke culture at it's core, vehemently.
In no way does an emoji encourage armed violence.
Are you against violent video games as well?
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#95I like the Samsung 2018 design where you can't really understand if it's a toy or a futuristic ray gun. ... but more than that, I don't like how they keep playing with those designs all the time.
Ye. Emojis that render differently for different people do not work. It conveys the wrong emotions.
I had this half year when I though my mother was constantly pissed at me becouse she sent these angry devil robots to me. It turned out it was the default emoji font on my phone and all my friends used text based emojis so I didn't notice.
A real pistol and a water pistol send totally different vibes...
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#96Great to see this change. The decision to get rid of the gun emoji was itself an act of political activism, highlighting the left leaning bias in many of these organizations - or at least the power given to the voices that pushed for those changes. It was a naked way to influence the culture around guns, and make them less visible. But it also killed funny uses of the actual pistol emoji. For the record, the underlyi…
Its slow, but I'm pretty sure Unicode updated name. https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html #1121
The most recent Unicode standard (https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf) still names it "PISTOL", although the official locale data designates "water pistol" as the short name in English and most other languages.
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The gun emoji is used to make death threats etcetera. Why do you want that on a social media platform? It's not politics, it's just decency.
Right, because changing it to a "water gun" fixes that problem
Yes. Try making a death threat with a water gun
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#98This is exactly as stupid as changing it to a water pistol in the first place was
The official unicode name is "pistol" (explained as "handgun, revolver"), and the example representation is a modern magazine-fed pistol [1]. Changing it back to what it's supposed to be is fine by me.
1: Page 12 of https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf (search for 1F52B)
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#99Great to see this change. The decision to get rid of the gun emoji was itself an act of political activism, highlighting the left leaning bias in many of these organizations - or at least the power given to the voices that pushed for those changes. It was a naked way to influence the culture around guns, and make them less visible. But it also killed funny uses of the actual pistol emoji. For the record, the underlyi…
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#100I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
Fun fact – Apple will reject your app for using emojis in an unapproved way, for example as a UI element, button or reaction. Default system emojis can only be used within regular text. For any other use you have to import your own versions and can't use Apple's.
Doesn't Slack violate that constraint? Slack allows (or at least seems to) using iOS system emoji to respond to messages.