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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > I urge you to put aside your callousness and read this article about modern
 
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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

 Apple is tampering with the past

The change will only produce confusion

just imagine how mad these clowns will be when apple changes the winkey smiley face emoji to :jackbud:

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Cthulu Carl posted:

"And more worryingly, it will retroactively change the meaning of countless historic messages and texts - setting a dangerous precedent, with unpredictable results."

Wanna read these heroic gun messages.
Alright, just gonna read these texts I received more than 2 months ago..

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

hieroglyphic analysis

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-change-pistol-emoji-toy-confusion-precedent-meaning-retroactive-2016-8



frankly, :11tea:
the thing that the picture in this post comes from is a lot more interesting than the dumb water pistol thing, why didn't you link to that?

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

quote:

iOS 10 beta 4 (released August 1, 2016) displays this emoji as a toy squirt gun / water pistol.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update (released August 2, 2016) displays this as a regular pistol, updated from the previous release which displayed a toy gun.
:wth:

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

 What this means is Apple is against gun violence, while Microsoft is pro gun violence.

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