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the X engineer responsible for the change ... stated that this design is "not the final design (going to make it look more badass)"

incidentally this engineer is a fascist weeb who complains about gay characters in TV shows and bragged about getting trans flags removed from a grocery store by leaving a negative google review

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[-] Realtor_Hate_Account@hexbear.net 85 points 3 months ago

Our emotes are still eons beyond their childish capabilities

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The ruling class caring about the most important thing as always.

People in 2024, barely able to afford rent: "Healthcare pls😞"

Wealthy elites: "Ummmm I changed an emoji, isn't that badass?πŸ€“"

Personally I liked the alien laser pistol that Microsoft had the best, bring that one back.

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

what the hell was Google thinking in 2013 making it an old-timey blunderbuss lmao

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

They were correctly thinking that pirates are awesome.

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

y'know what you're right πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈπŸ¦œ

retvrn to blunderbuss, it definitely better than the super-soaker they changed to for some reason

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

I think it's solid. Gets the point across without taking itself too seriously.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

The alien gun and flintlock are great

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago
[-] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

Good?

You should be able to use gun emoji for actionable threats.

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

this is X we're talking about so you can imagine which kinds of threats will be permitted and which ones won't

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago
[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't have strong feelings either way, the water pistol is a bit silly but this particular decision was made as an anti-woke measure by fascist tech bros who just wanna point the gun emoji at the pride flag again

curiously this chud says the emoji was "returned back into its rightful form: an m1911" when it never was an M1911 in the first place, it used to be a revolver

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

1911 is the chuddiest of pistols lol

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

yeah of course they went with the epic US imperialism gun instead of the more comical wild west revolver that it was before

(yeah ok wild west guns are also US imperialism guns but still)

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, making it a water gun was some over sensitive shit. And it’s just completely out of spec as Unicode intends for it to be a hand gun.

Apple just decided they didn’t like that emoji and substituted their own. Apparently they later pressured Unicode not to add a rifle emoji.

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Rifle emoji would have gone crazy lmao

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

Thread over whether the rifle emoji should be an AR or AK locked down by moderators after 69,420 pages of heated debate

dril libertarian-approaching

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

I remember when every company changed the emotes to the water gun. Everyone made fun of them.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago

Guns should be treated the same way cigarettes are. If you want to reduce their use, you must make them uncool. Branding, packaging and the like should all be disallowed. Advertising should be disallowed. They shouldn't be in the emojis. Their form should also be limited so that "tacticool" shit is effectively disallowed and guns get treated more like a tool.

Essentially do the same shit we did to smoking.

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago
[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

πŸš¬πŸ”«

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[-] iie@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

leftists should have guns and gun emojis while chuds should have water pistols and water pistol emojis

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

The solution is gun emoji should have a hamsic

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

any discourse over this is so deeply silly lol

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

yeah it's not that serious but I do find our modern hieroglyphics somewhat fascinating

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

I recently read that that's not how hieroglyphs worked

[-] HumongousChungus@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

π“…ƒπ“‰”π“…‚π“‚‹π“…‚π“π“‚§π“‡‹π“π“‡Œπ“…±π“…²π“π“‚‹π“…‚π“„Ώπ“‚§π“π“π“‰”π“„Ώπ“?

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago
[-] Storm@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

I know you're not sleeping on the king slayer.

the-doohickey

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[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Finally a good change

[-] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I trust groypers with firearms.

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

better than trusting them with couches

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

I thought it was a zapp brannigan sci fi gun, not a water pistol, lol

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

"Kif, I've acquired Twitter. Alert the men."

[-] iie@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

I can hear it in my head

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

The emoji on their article displayed as a revolver. Also lol at m1911 boomer ass museum gun.

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago
[-] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Bring back the j-frame!

Add the rifle emoji and have it be a 30-30!

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