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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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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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 1 month ago (2 children)

1911 is the chuddiest of pistols lol

[–] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month 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)

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

haha yeah who in their right mind would want to own one of those 😰

[–] VHS@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

It doesn't even look like a M1911, it looks like a HK45

Struggle session: what gun should it be?

[–] edge@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 1 month ago (1 children)

Rifle emoji would have gone crazy lmao

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The design is finalized as a mosin

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

xicko

Tiktok displays it as a QBZ-95 just so the American right freaks out about CHYNAAA wojak-nooo

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

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