# Emojis: scourge on society, or a threat to all we hold dear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Not Games\ **Created:** [20 May 2020 22:36 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095 "2020-05-20T22:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:35 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/127 "2020-05-22T17:35:48Z")
πŸ† πŸ₯‡ ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:37 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/128 "2020-05-22T17:37:00Z")
How about another: 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 🦴 Another: πŸš‚ πŸšƒ πŸš„ πŸš… πŸš† πŸš‡ 🚈 🚊 🚝 🚞 πŸš† ---
**Author:** ![Cokho](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/cokho/32/1057_2.png) [@Cokho](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Cokho)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:44 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/129 "2020-05-22T17:44:52Z")
Too many bones ! The second one… Railway of the world? ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:46 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/130 "2020-05-22T17:46:45Z")
> [@Cokho](#): > > Too many bones πŸ† πŸ₯‡ > [@Cokho](#): > > The second one… Railway of the world? Not what I had in mind, but I realize now that it would have been better to do: πŸš„ πŸš„ πŸš„ πŸš„ ---
**Author:** ![COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/comaestro/32/1030_2.png) [@COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/COMaestro)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/131 "2020-05-22T17:57:12Z")
Trains πŸš† ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/132 "2020-05-22T17:57:31Z")
πŸ† πŸ₯‡ ---
**Author:** ![COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/comaestro/32/1030_2.png) [@COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/COMaestro)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 17:58 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/133 "2020-05-22T17:58:25Z")
To be followed by: πŸš† πŸš† πŸŒ… ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 18:01 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/134 "2020-05-22T18:01:24Z")
Which, as everybody knows, is the sister game: **Sun: Rising Trains** where players take on the role of vacation property owners on the Sun, vying to build the best resorts where people can visit and use [tower viewers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_viewer) to watch as the most majestic of Earth’s trains come into view - all while they burst into flames, because people can’t survive on the surface of the sun. ---
**Author:** ![COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/comaestro/32/1030_2.png) [@COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/COMaestro)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 18:03 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/135 "2020-05-22T18:03:51Z")
❌ πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 18:09 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/136 "2020-05-22T18:09:17Z")
Fine, **Trains: Rising Sun** (Hisashi Hayashi, when you read this (as of course you do from deep within your secret underground Game Designer Hideout), hit me up, I have a ton more great ideas!) ---
**Author:** ![Brattyjedi](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/brattyjedi/32/1618_2.png) [@Brattyjedi](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Brattyjedi)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 18:55 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/137 "2020-05-22T18:55:56Z")
I make a silly suggestion, I go away for a while to play with Lego, sleep, then play with Lego some more, and I finally come back to find this madness? I’m so proud! ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 19:01 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/138 "2020-05-22T19:01:00Z")
More fun: πŸ€” πŸ’‘ πŸ€‘ ❓ #️⃣ Another (probably pretty difficult and likely way too vague) πŸš› 🌽 πŸ– πŸ„ β›½ πŸ›£ ---
**Author:** ![Gwathdring](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/gwathdring/32/1975_2.png) [@Gwathdring](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Gwathdring)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 20:49 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/139 "2020-05-22T20:49:30Z")
That paragraph was intended very specifically with respect to the aside about emoji art styles. It has very little to do with the broader nature of emoji hence breaking it out into a separate section. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be gleaning from the juxtaposition, as a result. ---
**Author:** ![whswhs](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/whswhs/32/2794_2.png) [@whswhs](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/whswhs)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2020 22:11 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/140 "2020-05-22T22:11:08Z")
In the paragraph I excerpted, you said on one hand that you wanted β€œnuance and flavor” and on the other that this was a way of attaining β€œintimate, unspoken understanding.” I took you to be talking about the use of emoji, as opposed to text, as a medium in which to express yourself, and saying that their use seemed to you to enable a deeper meeting of minds than was possible by relying on words as a medium. And I was saying, first, that this depends on your particular cast of mind, and that for me, emoji don’t convey much understanding; but second, that I believe you underestimate the expressive power of words. I’m not at all trying to say, in this, that words are _superior_. Rather, I’m saying that the expressive power of text shouldn’t be underestimated, and that I think you may be doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Gwathdring](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/gwathdring/32/1975_2.png) [@Gwathdring](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Gwathdring)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2020 04:22 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/141 "2020-05-24T04:22:41Z")
As I just said, I’m not contrasting words with emoji. I’m talking about different emoji styles. ---
**Author:** ![Benkyo](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/benkyo/32/1026_2.png) [@Benkyo](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Benkyo)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2020 05:19 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/142 "2020-05-24T05:19:03Z")
An easy one: πŸ›£ πŸ›£ πŸš£β€β™‚οΈ πŸš£β€β™‚οΈ Another easy one?: πŸŒ‘ Ooh, and: πŸ•πŸ” β›“ 🧲 And a trickier one: πŸ‘Ά πŸ§’ πŸ§‘ πŸ§“ πŸ‘΄ ---
**Author:** ![pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/pillbox/32/1031_2.png) [@pillbox](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/pillbox)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2020 05:28 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/143 "2020-05-24T05:28:09Z")
> [@Benkyo](#): > > πŸ›£ πŸ›£ πŸš£β€β™‚οΈ πŸš£β€β™‚οΈ **Roads & Boats**! > [@Benkyo](#): > > πŸ•πŸ” β›“ 🧲 **Food Chain Magnate** I’m not sure on the others yet… ---
**Author:** ![Benkyo](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/benkyo/32/1026_2.png) [@Benkyo](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Benkyo)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2020 05:31 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/144 "2020-05-24T05:31:01Z")
> [@pillbox](#): > > > [@Benkyo](#): > > > > πŸ›£ πŸ›£ πŸš£β€β™‚οΈ πŸš£β€β™‚οΈ > > **Roads & Boats**! > > > [@Benkyo](#): > > > > πŸ•πŸ” β›“ 🧲 > > **Food Chain Magnate** You win half a πŸ† ---
**Author:** ![COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/comaestro/32/1030_2.png) [@COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/COMaestro)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2020 05:38 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/145 "2020-05-24T05:38:21Z")
> [@Benkyo](#): > > Another easy one?: > > πŸŒ‘ > > And a trickier one: > > πŸ‘Ά πŸ§’ πŸ§‘ πŸ§“ πŸ‘΄ Dark Moon and Through the Ages? ---
**Author:** ![Benkyo](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/benkyo/32/1026_2.png) [@Benkyo](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Benkyo)\ **Post date:** [24 May 2020 05:46 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095/146 "2020-05-24T05:46:07Z")
You win the other half of the πŸ† ! Now you just need to meet up sometime and apply some glue. [Previous page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095.md?page=6) [Next page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/emojis-scourge-on-society-or-a-threat-to-all-we-hold-dear/1095.md?page=8)