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by DonHopkins 15 days ago
I'm Comic Sans, asshole!

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

>Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

One other place: We shipped The Sims 1 using Comic Sans, and it did ok.

The Sims, Pie Menus, Edith Editing, and SimAntics Visual Programming Demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs

Dumbold Voting Machine for The Sims 1:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/dumbold-voting-machine-for-the...

The Sims 1 Crowd Sitter:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-sims-1-crowd-sitter-1f478b...
1 comments
rob74 15 days ago
> I'm Comic Sans, asshole! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

That text would have sounded a whole lot more convincing if it had actually used Comic Sans...

EDIT: turns out it actually does, or it tries to. The paragraphs have "font-family:'Comic Sans', 'Comic Sans MS', 'Marker Felt';". But, as a Comic Sans hating Linux user, I of course don't have the first two installed, and no idea what this Marker Felt he is speaking of is! He could have used a Comic Sans lookalike webfont, or at least added a generic "sans-serif" fallback, but since he didn't, the browser falls back to a serif font.

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DonHopkins 15 days ago
Obviously he was just passive-aggressively trolling GNU/Linux users, because he mistakenly thought that 2010 was finally The Year of the Linux Desktop. At least he got you to go "View Source".

If you use eww to browse the web like rms, you can put this in your .emacs file:

  (set-face-attribute 'default nil
                      :family "Comic Sans MS"
                      :height 420)
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