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Musk changed the water pistol emoji to render a realistic handgun on his site last year, because of course he did (lemmy.world)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, if there's one thing that's clear from all this, it's that Microsoft and Google at least used to have some style.

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had to look up what a blunderbuss was and just learned it was a real thing. I'd only ever seen them used in cartoons. It just looks cartoonish.

It looks like instead of BLAM, it goes honk.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

It's got a built-in loudener.