• Waterpistol Takeover
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There is a thing called a water pistol you know
Literally nobody says "water pistol" except the Chinese companies printing vaguely English gibberish on their packaging.
Searched Pistol on Google Images. Not a single water pistol, I'm sure you'll get one if you keep clicking "view more images", but I think contextually, pistol means pistol.
It's what pretty much everyone called the pistol-design squirt guns when I was a kid.
imagine being the actual human getting worked up about a jpeg of a water pistol being rendered on ur screen
Imagine being the actual human getting worked up about a jpeg of a revolver being rendered on ur screen that u push major tech companies to replace it in all applications with a water gun Imagine being the actual human getting worked up about other people going "bleh that's a waste of time" in response 🤔
im not the one getting mad about a emoji on the internet lol
Where is the anger in your quoted example?
I think what most people fail to realize is this isn't major companies trying to bubble-wrap an issue or push it away, they're literally just trying to avoid the controversy entirely by just not participating it and and instead replacing the gun emoji with a water gun. It's not some secret liberal agenda to try to make it so guns don't exist, it's just companies trying to protect their business repuation. Just move on and discuss the actual issues that are taking place that caused this for fucks sake.
damn dude the libs really went too far on this one, i cant send pixels of guns
This is about as useful as changing your Facebook photo to overlay a flag pattern
Maybe you didn't mean for it, but this comes off as pretty angry: Also, it doesn't sound like this is a result of consumers pushing the company to do this. It seems like this is just an internal decision to make a slight difference, that will take no major amount of time or effort to implement, to something that actually doesn't matter.
What if there is a mass murderer that kills people by drowning them with a watergun?
Just because he cursed doesn't really mean he's angry. It didn't seem particularly angry to me tbh. I curse all the fucking time even when I'm not trying to convey anger. Anyway yeah it's likely just a typical response from Apple to something that could potentially be considered controversial. Even though it's highly unlikely to ever be a controversy, big companies often go out of there way to remove anything that could come remotely close to being disagreeable in any way in case someone gets offended by it in the future and makes a big stink over social media.
It's not meant to sound angry, no. I'm pretty loose-tongued when I'm not trying to be diplomatic, i.e. for the purpose of a debate. Anyway, no, I agree it doesn't really matter by itself. I just think it's a pointless gesture for the sake of bubble wrapping.
The first time we see someone filling a squirt gun with hydrofluoric acid or whatever will be the day they remove the water gun emojis.
I'd say "hold my beer" for comic effect, but anyone who actually decides to do that is the world's largest shitbag and needs to be blown out of his socks.
First they took away the gun emojis and I did not speak up for I was not a gun emoji
this is besides the point entirely but i think that depends where you're from. ive literally only ever heard 'water pistol' and ive never heard 'water gun'
Protect 2A at all costs #stopemojiconfiscation #MOANAABE
Person 1: x is dumb Person 2: UHH WHY YOU GETTING ALL OFFENDED?! Y U MAD BRO? This always happens in threads like this
Variants of "water pistol" is the standard in some (possibly many) languages. For instance, in Norway it's "Vannpistol" and in Germany it's "Wasserpistole". I think this whole situation is pretty stupid though.
imagine being the actual human who got worked up about a jpeg of a pistol being rendered on people's screens and pushed for it to be censored
Honestly as long as my ability to rampantly shitpost on Discord doesn't get ruined I can't care too much about what apple does and pressures others into doing as it continues to pretend that it's king of the emoji with its fucking shite worst-in-class designs.
What annoys me more than anything is Google replacing their adorable and nice blob emojis with MSN era emoticons
On the plus side, this opens the path for someone to make an 'actual gun' emoji proposal
but emojis are svgs
That's what I said. Nobody. I jest. It isn't English convention. I've heard it, but "water gun" or "squirt gun" are the go-to. When people say "water pistol" it's usually because they already said "water gun" and don't want to say the same thing multiple times.
At least there's a pretty big community on discord making new blobs Discord uses twitter emoji so it'll depend on what they do (altho discord also doesnt update their emojis so i guess it wont)
I dunno man I'm from the UK and it was always water pistol when I was growing up, never really heard water gun or squirt gun. And squirt gun is definitely only a US thing
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