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Maggarg - Eater of chicke

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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #45 on: April 20, 2009, 10:50:16 am »

I cannot hear you over the sound of how bold I am.
How rude.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #46 on: April 20, 2009, 01:02:38 pm »

Ban comic sans? Pah pah pah. It's just a standard font that people use. They have a bunch of choices; arial, Times new roman, helvetica, comic sans. If you want something fancy, then you look for something else. If you don't, you take one of those.
So yeah, if you use comic sans, you're lazy. But the same applies to arial and such. Just cos comic sans wasn't 'meant' to be one of them doesn't mean they should ban it.

Read the thread.
Read the site.
Read anything.

The problem isn't simple overuse, it's inappropriate use. Cartoon fonts on gravestones and corporate memos?

And like I've said, it's fairly poorly-designed in the first place.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #47 on: April 20, 2009, 04:56:37 pm »

It's good for what it was meant for, and nothing else.

Personally, I like Trajan.



I think my favorite is White Rabbit, though.

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« Reply #48 on: April 20, 2009, 04:56:56 pm »

I hope they use comic sans on my gravestone.  :D
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #49 on: April 20, 2009, 06:08:23 pm »

Please excuse the caps (and swearing), but those of you violently attacking comic sans are just being silly, and I think your behavior merits this, as you don't seem to be paying attention:

IT'S JUST A DAMN FONT, SOMEONE ELSE USING IT 'CAUSE THEY LIKE IT IS NONE OF YOUR FREAKIN' BUSINESS.  YOU TALK ABOUT IT BEING OH SO HORRIBLY ATROCIOUS, IT'S JUST AVERAGE!  FREAKIN' GROW UP!


I mean, sheesh, how the hell could it hurt you? 
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #50 on: April 20, 2009, 06:09:41 pm »

Butthurt, I see.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #51 on: April 20, 2009, 06:10:59 pm »

What does butthurt mean?
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #52 on: April 20, 2009, 06:24:18 pm »

It's kind of self-explanatory isn't it?

And I think we can all agree that papyrus has got to go.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #53 on: April 20, 2009, 06:27:26 pm »

No, I could think of several things butthurt might mean, some of which I really wish I couldn't.
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And this is how tinned food was invented.
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #54 on: April 20, 2009, 07:17:28 pm »

I believe I discovered that Helvetica has some of the biggest letters, so its my font of choice when teachers put arbitrary length requirements on my typed papers.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #55 on: April 20, 2009, 07:19:28 pm »

Please excuse the caps (and swearing), but those of you violently attacking comic sans are just being silly, and I think your behavior merits this, as you don't seem to be paying attention:

IT'S JUST A DAMN FONT, SOMEONE ELSE USING IT 'CAUSE THEY LIKE IT IS NONE OF YOUR FREAKIN' BUSINESS.  YOU TALK ABOUT IT BEING OH SO HORRIBLY ATROCIOUS, IT'S JUST AVERAGE!  FREAKIN' GROW UP!


I mean, sheesh, how the hell could it hurt you? 

There's a difference between "I hate this because it is hurting me personally" and "I hate this because it's overused, mediocre, and applied in places where it doesn't belong." Nobody here is about to blow themselves up over it. Chill out.

And seriously, though, putting comic sans on everything is like putting yellow polka dots or clown clipart on everything. It's just a bad idea.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #56 on: April 20, 2009, 07:23:02 pm »

You want some cheese with that whine?

Them using it incorrectly is not hurting you, so stop whining.  Seriously.  It's more annoying than any "over-use" of comic-sans, which frankly I have not noticed and you shouldn't care about.
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And this is how tinned food was invented.
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #57 on: April 20, 2009, 07:26:51 pm »

You want some cheese with that whine?

Them using it incorrectly is not hurting you, so stop whining.  Seriously.  It's more annoying than any "over-use" of comic-sans, which frankly I have not noticed and you shouldn't care about.

You realize you can actually avoid this thread, right? And that you don't have to post in it? And that it doesn't have to annoy you because you don't have to look at it?

People using the font inappropriately is irritating because some people on Earth actually have a slight bit of aesthetic sensitivity. Presentation and design set the tone of a lot of things, so if somebody's living will or whatever the fuck is in comic sans, or everybody starts writing legal papers in pink crayon, it's going to be jarring to look at and ill-fitting.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #58 on: April 20, 2009, 07:38:36 pm »

Okay, look, I'm OCD, and utterly crazy about making things look nice, and I'm not bothered by it.  And no, even if I ignore this thread, it's gonna come up in other threads, cause that's just the kind of stupid issue it is.  This looks just like the "Spore is Unpopular?" threads (which were stupid things to cause threads and rage about) that have come up on various forums (in response to even less intelligent that complained about Spore); the subject is not only contained to that one thread (in some cases, it came up in every other thread, regardless of original topic).

In that particular issue, I saw that question come up on multiple threads where the subject of games came up, and even more often, I saw people coming onto a thread  - That had nothing to do with Spore specifically but games in general instead - just so they could rage about Spore.  I see that happening with this issue too, looking at some the views about that game some of those who have posted here have expressed in the past.  There have been times where I was just reading a thread on this forum, that had nothing to do with Spore, someone makes some remark about it, and then it's a discussion about How They Hate Spore.  And it was annoying.

So I'm posting in this thread, where comic sans is actually the topic, instead of waiting until these guys go and mess up other threads and saying something on those threads.
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"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
Just so I remember

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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #59 on: April 20, 2009, 07:41:50 pm »

Do you realized that you just accused G-Flex of whining after he told you to chill? Chill because you were hysterically upset and whining about people disliking a font?
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