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Our penguin overlords have their next secret weapon

Alt.compo obviously :D

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MrSanity has maybe kicked the WoW habit forever, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:54, archived)

I fucking love this alt compo.

This is better than the crabs/elephants.

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Bob Todd whee, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:54, archived)

I think it's the best compo for years to be honest

:~)

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MrSanity has maybe kicked the WoW habit forever, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:56, archived)

Alright, I missed the announcement of the alt. compo.

What is it?

Commiserations on losing your FP too.

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Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:56, archived)

It's rocket animals.

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Bob Todd whee, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:57, archived)

Cool.

I still haven't a hope of being able to make an entry for either, but it's nice knowing what the hell's going on here sometimes.

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Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:59, archived)

mehmehmehmeh *high pitched bitchy noise*

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 0:00, archived)

Hahaha :D

I love this compo!

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elephant rider property shark sighted!, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:55, archived)

This looks like the V1 Penguin

Woooooooooo

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BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:55, archived)

Nice!

This animals with rockets is a great idea. I particularly like the sub-section of birds with rockets.

(Adam's Navel would rather be on his bike, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:55, archived)

Talking of fonts, anyone know of a good approximation to that used as the main title text in The Grauniad?

I've googled and so on and have only found some info about the commercial design of it and some pretty shit Garamondish ones which don't really fit.

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zoldergoose, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:55, archived)

I spent ages looking for it t'other day and found nothing.

The font itself is Guardian Egyptian and must be torrentable somewhere.

There are lots of requests on various forums looking for approximations, but nothing ever comes of it.

How were your tests?

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elephant rider property shark sighted!, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 23:58, archived)

Ah, well, best I can find is AGaramond BoldOsF, which is a bit too rounded but it'll pass (gaz me if anyone wants it)

Ningles. They were mixed, cheers. Micro was the hardest test I have ever seen, but everyone seemed to say that so I suppose the failure is with the lecturer. And Chinese was okay. It does so remind me of being in primary school - the writing aspect of the exam was "Write about a time you caught a bus" :D

What's the latest going-to-Korea-process status?

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zoldergoose, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 0:02, archived)

It's all good if everyone else found it hard too.

Visa process is smooth - all my documents are in Korea at their immigration office, and I am awaiting a visa number :D

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elephant rider property shark sighted!, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 0:07, archived)

Splendid :)

You are going to continue to b3ta from over there, aren't you?

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zoldergoose, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 0:08, archived)

Aye, aye.

Might even acquire photoshop and make things which aren't seamtacular.