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[–] [email protected] 145 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I'm sad to report that this is not true.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Aw, well maybe it's coming!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If Apple really wanted to spearhead sportsball representation, theyd give me a Harlem Globetrotters color option.

A Harlem Globetrotters basketball made by Baden, sporting the famous red, white, and blue color scheme and logo.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Th- that’s what she said

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Most recent. I just updated yesterday.

Barring a bug in a recent beta, this is probably not going to actually happen.

(As cool as it may be.)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How have I never heard of this?!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

SNES emulator, if you can't find it let me know I have it on my desktop. The story is so fucking good dumb. So fucking dumb in the best way. Gameplay is actually alright, like an old SNES RPG.

Here is the mood music. https://youtu.be/lWKQiZVBtu4?si=_hH1cn01OeJgcEKH

Edit: ahhhhhh I can't simp any harder for this game, just the plot gets me going.

"In 2041 "post-cyberpocalyptic Neo New York", Charles Barkley performs a powerful "Chaos Dunk" at a basketball game, inadvertently killing most of the people in attendance. As a result, basketball is outlawed and many basketball players are hunted down and killed."

It just gets crazier from there...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Amazing. I'm going to have to try this one of these days.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Anyone that changes colour of emoji are weird.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I like the default one because it makes me feel like I'm from the Simpsons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I read an article which stated that by Apple introducing the colorized emoji, they actually increased racism. The author said that people feel awkward not using the different skin tones since they're there, but by doing so they expose their race, which opens them up to racist attacks and makes them stand out of the group. I'd argue that it's just exposing the racism that was already inherent in the community, but I didn't write the article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a double-edged sword. It could reduce racism by making people of color more visible. Most racists aren't inherently pro-white, rather they're picking some arbitrary criteria for us vs. the others. As a result, making it visible to them that their 'us' is lots of people of color, they'll drop that nonsense criteria pretty quickly.

But of course, chicken-egg and all that, people experiencing racism may not necessarily want to expose their race for the reasons you named, and so they don't become collectively visible.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's all The Simpson's fault. They shouldn't have given people of colour human skin tones. Apu should be yellow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Would they do like Doug and make Carl blue?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My former boss always made sure we knew she was white when she used emojis. I'm like, lady- we all see you. Even the people who work remotely see you via Zoom meetings. You don't need to let us know you're white. Why are you making an effort?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

New fun activity in RimWorld

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

1 more Masterwork Human Leather Basketball and I'm off this planet for good!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, so standard orange color basketballs are made of Oompa Loompa skin? Gaahhhhhhh!!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Special Presidential edition

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m already creeped out by the fleshtone emojis as they imply that Simpsons primary yellow is a normal colour of human skin.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I thought the whole point of emojis being yellow in the beginning is to eliminate the hassle of making one for every skin tone.

And then some assholes got offended by it and demand the exact opposite.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Person 1 - "We want equal rights and protections for all people, fair wages, and the right to live healthy and happy without the threat of state sanctioned violence"

Capitalism - "Sorry, best I can do is performative gestures with no real world impact."

Person 2 - "These got dam libs ruined my emojis!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I like the fact that I can use emojis that are in my skin tone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah. What kind of skin are you making your basketballs out of, dolphin?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We make terrible basketballs.

Now puffer fish on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

*New England Patriots noises*

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

And if you're tired from playing basketball all day maybe read a book bound in human skin to relax.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

And that word is nik... uh... necktie?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

🏀 Excellent (human leather)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Look if they didn't want to be made into basketballs they should have stopped raiding me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Is the ball made of me, or am I made of ball?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Would fit into a Wolfenstein game. We in Germany have lampshade made out of human skin, in a concentation camp.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

In this chat, we stan for blacksket ball

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It's good that this was done, otherwise people may believe that all basketballs are made by oompa-loompas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Just updated to the latest iOS (17.4.1) and it (un)fortunately does not work 🥲

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is probably just a consequence of how unicode emoji modifiers work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

But why on earth is the basketball modifiable with the skin color? Are we going to do that with all emoji? Are we finally gonna have the 🍆 in all skin tones?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's not how it works. A user may add to the modifier character but they still need to be an actual image change to actually cause the character to do anything.

It's not a tint it's actually a different image that's being loaded.

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