Be Excellent To Each Other

For the reason I stated. The emoji keyboard on the iPhone, which took its terminology from the Japanese equivalent which had existed for years on Japanese phones - while we had no equivalent and used things like colons and brackets for the same task, and eventually used substitutions of those characters for pictures such as happens on this forum.

(And you've got the etymology entirely wrong. emoji = 絵文字. 絵 (e) = picture. 文字 (moji) = character)

Right. But in the UK we used the word emoticon for a number of years then we stopped, and started using emoji instead. I totally get why the japanese use it! It seems like a very odd borrow word for English though. Ta for the etymology clarification though.

Well, partly as technically they're not the same thing
- Is an emoticon, is not an emoji.
^-^ - Is not an emoji.
Unicode character 1F419 - Is an emoji, is not an emoticon. Well, unless you want to say you're feeling octopussy or something.

After you said that I thought "Well he's clearly a massive fanny so I will download that and have a go and well that's not scary at all really I don't know and no wait I am turning it off now. NO THANK YOU"

Took me about 10 minutes to calm down properly.

Emoji has gained traction simply because it's on our phone now. So blame iOS and Android designers for using that word.

it's not as good as Dimlie anyway.

Dimoji

Weirdly I was alright with this one. Got me a couple of times but I thought the jump scares were used just a little too frequently to be effective. Chair in a Room shat me up me more because of the darkness I think.

Because emoticon sounds like something Bill Gates would say.

Fucking shut up about emoticons, every time this thread gets bumped I think it'll be some cool new VR thing to try. I can't cope with this sort of mild disappointment.

Yeah!

What's Windows 10 compatibility looking like for this?

I've got a load of stuff I installed weeks ago that I kept forgetting to try out so buckle up for some more reviews:

Hidden Temple VR Adventure: a short but brilliant 'escape' type game where you navigate an Incan temple solving puzzles and trying to, well, escape. Everything from movement to puzzles to inventory management is done just by looking at stuff and it works incredibly well once you get used to it. The cartoon graphical style is even quite nice in a Wind Waker sort of way. Definitely the most fully formed game implementation I've played yet and well worth a look.
A Time In Space: short on-rails fly through of a sci-fi environment as a taster for an alleged full version the dev is working. Nice music and sound in general and quite pretty to look at; worth a go.
RoboBliteration: a shooter where you direct your auto-firing ship around a small globe avoiding enemies and destroying them. Controlling direction by looking is initially weird but becomes second nature pretty quickly. Sadly the game itself doesn't do very much and is very repetitive; although, to be fair, it's only a demo for the premium version.
Alien Apartment: another demo of an game allegedly in development and what will presumably be a point and click adventure. The explanation of the controls is needlessly complex but if you get past that there's a convincingly built (albeit very small; it's a single apartment) environment to fiddle with while listening to a nice minimalist soundtrack. A particularly nice touch is, when you sit down at the guy's desk, the picture frame there is in itself in 3D because it's the future innit?
The Black Mass Experience: another one from the devs who did the Jack White concert thing I mentioned previously. This time you're dropped in the middle of a very short horror film which is a bit too eager with the jump cuts to effectively build a proper atmosphere but is very well done and absolutely worth watching. They do at least pack a whole load of stuff into each scene so it would rewards repeated viewings to see what's going on from each angle.

I tried a few more apps by Jaunt, they guys who did the Jack White thing. It's worth nothing that for all the Jaunt apps you can either stream the video or pre-download a higher quality version and it's well worth the download as it massively improves the experience.

Earth Encounter: another short 3D film about a weird space DJ and the FBI. It's very silly, in a good way, and pretty well put together.
The North Face: Climb: another short film with various scenes of two guys climbing a cliff then parachuting off. Interesting stuff for the few minutes it lasts.

Cardboard Crossy VR is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: Crossy Road in VR. It's actually very well done, capturing the look of the original very well and the VR effect is pretty immersive. The downside is it's hard as fuck because from a first person perspective the game's a nightmare but that's an obvious consequence of the conversion. This is probably a good one for demonstrating stuff to other people as anyone who's played the original game will likely be amused by the change in perspective.

Lost in the Kismet: a short but well designed VR 'room escape' type game that's well worth a go.