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From the The Daily Mail challenge. See all 249 entries (closed)

( DogHorse if you can read this so can your mum, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:19, archived)

pfff
Idea for compo entry:

Dail Mail cover redone as if written by board nazis, complaining about newbies and file sizes etc.

actually I'll compo this as I can't be arsed.
( Bloop wasn't here on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:20, archived)

Yeah but the filesize is too big!

( riverghost B3ta: lacking Captain Wow since, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)

pfft!

( Sir T. Skellington LIMES ARE FOR CUNTS!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)

God that stinks!!!

( riverghost B3ta: lacking Captain Wow since, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:40, archived)

ASBD

( Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:43, archived)

Too brown

( epiphany ooooo eeeee what up with that? What up with that?, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)

I don't like the font

( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)

GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!

( epiphany ooooo eeeee what up with that? What up with that?, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)

Ah, I remember that like it was in the past.

( ClanSoul http://www.clansoul.com/community/, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:48, archived)

Dail Mail.

( Ttssattsr farting words onto the websites, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)

Daily Mail? Daily Mail, Daily Mail! Daily, Daily Mail - Mail.

( The Alchemist knows not does he?, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:30, archived)

Daily Mail. Daily. Mail, Daily.

( Ttssattsr farting words onto the websites, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:34, archived)

Well, I've been here a little while
and that's about 4KB, so I'll repost it for your compo.
( DogHorse if you can read this so can your mum, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:23, archived)

no, I meant a single compo entry, not a new compo
I'm confused now
( Bloop wasn't here on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:24, archived)

Oh, right.
Ditto, then.
( DogHorse if you can read this so can your mum, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:24, archived)

Think of the IMMIGRANTS!

( Monty "Merry" Propps if you've got a field that don't yield, get up and, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:33, archived)

QOTW answer right there.

(Santa Clauswitheringlicktacklefeff won't ask if you don't tell, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:34, archived)

I vote the Daily Mail should be renamed the National Socialist Messenger.

( Ttssattsr farting words onto the websites, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)

www.b3ta.com/board/8938311
( Bloop wasn't here on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)

whut?

( Discomeats RUSK! FOR VICTORY!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:23, archived)

paint applications putting coloured lines down the edges of fonts
so they look smoother on LCDs, or worse if your eyesight is great.
But looking shit if you scale them up, or print them out.
( Bloop wasn't here on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)

whut!?
whut whut!

sorry, I gots me stuck a whut

whut
( Discomeats RUSK! FOR VICTORY!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:39, archived)

Well I don't know. I even had to freakin' Wikipedia Cleartype.

( Ttssattsr farting words onto the websites, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:25, archived)

sbupixelerendirnring

( Bloop wasn't here on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)

Weh.
It doesn't really bother me. If I'm just doing a tag or something I write it myself. It's kind of cool up scaling CLEARTYPE'D text anyway.
( Ttssattsr farting words onto the websites, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)

yes
I gave you 'spect for your pixelled tag the other day
( Bloop wasn't here on, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)

Erp. I don't remember that. :)

( Ttssattsr farting words onto the websites, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:29, archived)

Hum, clever.
I tried drawing patterns of alternating 1-pixel wide lines, though, in cyan/red and blue/yellow (and magenta/green, just in case my subpixels aren't in the order RGB) and it didn't work, I wonder why not? Possibly because I have a CRT, but I can't see why that would matter. Maybe there are gaps between the pixels that screw it up. The results didn't even look grey, though. Maybe my monitor needs calibrating, too.

It should have produced alternating black and white lines. So much for the powers of reason, I hereby renounce them.

Edit: oh, duh. CRT screens presumably have their subpixels clumped together rather than in vertical bands, so the trick wouldn't work. Unless they are "aperture grille".
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:35, archived)

Because its made by Mr bill gates

( epiphany ooooo eeeee what up with that? What up with that?, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)

Yeah, I know.
Fuck you Bill Gates and your work in making computers cheap and available to all!

Wanker!
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Ph.D., Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:32, archived)

I'm right there with you
I'm fed up of Steve Jobs and his making-technology-accessible-to-ordinary-people bullshit too. Technology should remain archane and slightly frightening to ordinary people or else half of B3TA are out of a job.
(Santa Clauswitheringlicktacklefeff won't ask if you don't tell, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:35, archived)

My guess is that half of b3ta are allready out of a job

( Radio Active Tea Now and then, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:49, archived)

If we're being honest
for most of us B3TA is here in place of a job.
(Santa Clauswitheringlicktacklefeff won't ask if you don't tell, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:59, archived)

they fixed it now, but I found this quite amusing
www.astick.net/blog/?p=31
( the wub that lies beyond, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:33, archived)

super
edit : uh
( Radio Active Tea Now and then, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:27, archived)