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

( DogHorse lung nearly gave!, 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 Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:20, archived)

Yeah but the filesize is too big!

( riverghost bringing you bollock moustaches since, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)

pfft!

( Sir T. Skellington, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)

God that stinks!!!

( riverghost bringing you bollock moustaches since, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:40, archived)

ASBD

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

Too brown

( epiphany coming live from Umeå, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)

I don't like the font

( ClanSoul lives in the penthouse, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)

GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!

( epiphany coming live from Umeå, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)

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

( ClanSoul lives in the penthouse, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:48, archived)

Dail Mail.

( Ttssattsr Hurry, potato delicious., Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)

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

( The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:30, archived)

Daily Mail. Daily. Mail, Daily.

( Ttssattsr Hurry, potato delicious., 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 lung nearly gave!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:23, archived)

no, I meant a single compo entry, not a new compo
I'm confused now
( Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:24, archived)

Oh, right.
Ditto, then.
( DogHorse lung nearly gave!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:24, archived)

Think of the IMMIGRANTS!

( Monty Propps, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:33, archived)

QOTW answer right there.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:34, archived)

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

( Ttssattsr Hurry, potato delicious., Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)

www.b3ta.com/board/8938311
( Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:22, archived)

whut?

( discomeats COME BACK MOGGY! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!, 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 Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:26, archived)

whut!?
whut whut!

sorry, I gots me stuck a whut

whut
( discomeats COME BACK MOGGY! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:39, archived)

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

( Ttssattsr Hurry, potato delicious., Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:25, archived)

sbupixelerendirnring

( Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, 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 Hurry, potato delicious., Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)

yes
I gave you 'spect for your pixelled tag the other day
( Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:28, archived)

Erp. I don't remember that. :)

( Ttssattsr Hurry, potato delicious., 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 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:35, archived)

Because its made by Mr bill gates

( epiphany coming live from Umeå, 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! @thehittvshow, 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.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:35, archived)

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

( Jamnog 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.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, 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 - guide onion for the blind, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:33, archived)

super
edit : uh
( Jamnog and then, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 18:27, archived)