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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 145 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aw, well maybe it's coming!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] Driveway4964@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Th- that’s what she said

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years 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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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How have I never heard of this?!

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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...

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Anyone that changes colour of emoji are weird.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years 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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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Would they do like Doug and make Carl blue?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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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[–] diannetea@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New fun activity in RimWorld

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Special Presidential edition

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 22 points 2 years 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.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 32 points 2 years 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.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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!"

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We make terrible basketballs.

Now puffer fish on the other hand...

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*New England Patriots noises*

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

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

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

[–] ris@feddit.de 12 points 2 years 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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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

🏀 Excellent (human leather)

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

In this chat, we stan for blacksket ball

[–] erp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years 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?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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