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They might have fucled it up again... 8) I just noticed this:
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The 'E' in the exit sign found in Keen 1 is not quite the E in Standard Galactic Alphabet. :furious What does this mean? :bloody

This might have been said before, and if it has been, I can't remember reading it.
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IIRC the Exit sign was the first thing they drew in SGA. They wanted it to look alien, and then based the rest of SGA off of that.
It's also probably why those four letters are a lot more similar to the latin alphabet than most of the other SGA letters.
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How could they do that? What were they thinking! This is blasphemy! This is madness! No... THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAA!!!1
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OO garg INCONSISTENCY GRRR DIE KEEN DIE ILL NEVER PLAY YOU AGAIN :x :x :x :x :x

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Spartakeen?
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Genius314 wrote:IIRC the Exit sign was the first thing they drew in SGA. They wanted it to look alien, and then based the rest of SGA off of that.
It's also probably why those four letters are a lot more similar to the latin alphabet than most of the other SGA letters.
Yes, I think so as well, and it seems like they forgot to change the E after designing the whole Alphabet.
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So the dot is one pixel lower. Is this really important enough to *world explodes because of inconsistency*
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"why those four letters are a lot more similar to the latin alphabet"

But srsly, now that I look at it, it all really makes sense!
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VBB: Nah, the seriousness level is over 9000! It's TWO pixels lower! :O
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I'm wondering how the SGA handwriting would look?
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Grimson wrote:OO garg INCONSISTENCY GRRR DIE KEEN DIE ILL NEVER PLAY YOU AGAIN :x :x :x :x :x

:mort
Pretty much sums up what I think.

(Yes, I got the irony).
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CKeen wrote:
Grimson wrote:OO garg INCONSISTENCY GRRR DIE KEEN DIE ILL NEVER PLAY YOU AGAIN :x :x :x :x :x

:mort
Pretty much sums up what I think.

(Yes, I got the irony).
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wiivn wrote:I'm wondering how the SGA handwriting would look?
Like this?

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Possibly, but without that squiggle before the T...
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(Yes, I got the irony).
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My attempt at SGA handwriting. Some of the letters don't look a whole lot like the typeface characters, but then again, neither do a lot of English, Russian, etc. cursive letters.

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