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by KeenRush » Mon Nov 08, 2010 19:52
They might have fucled it up again...
I just noticed this:
The 'E' in the exit sign found in Keen 1 is not quite the E in Standard Galactic Alphabet.
What does this mean?
This might have been said before, and if it has been, I can't remember reading it.
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by Genius314 » Mon Nov 08, 2010 20:45
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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by Roobar » Mon Nov 08, 2010 20:48
How could they do that? What were they thinking! This is blasphemy! This is madness! No... THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAA!!!1
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by Grimson » Mon Nov 08, 2010 20:48
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by Roobar » Mon Nov 08, 2010 20:52
Spartakeen?
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by KeenRush » Mon Nov 08, 2010 20:53
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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by VikingBoyBilly » Mon Nov 08, 2010 21:01
So the dot is one pixel lower. Is this really important enough to *world explodes because of inconsistency*
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by Roobar » Mon Nov 08, 2010 21:01
"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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by Nospike » Tue Nov 09, 2010 13:29
VBB: Nah, the seriousness level is over 9000! It's TWO pixels lower!
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by Roobar » Tue Nov 09, 2010 16:36
I'm wondering how the SGA handwriting would look?
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by Dynamo » Tue Nov 09, 2010 19:30
Pretty much sums up what I think.
(Yes, I got the irony).
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by mortimermcmirestinks » Tue Nov 09, 2010 19:39
CKeen wrote:
Pretty much sums up what I think.
(Yes, I got the irony).
Sarcasm, not irony.
wiivn wrote: I'm wondering how the SGA handwriting would look?
Like this?
(It says "EXIT", by the way)
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by DHeadshot » Tue Nov 09, 2010 19:59
Possibly, but without that squiggle before the T...
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by Grimson » Tue Nov 09, 2010 20:17
(Yes, I got the irony ).
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by StupidBunny » Tue Nov 09, 2010 20:52
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.