Dudley's dungeon
Thursday, 28 February, 2008 |
by Grey Knight |
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c "Dear Rose; Hope you and Mum and Dad are well. Am still in dungeon searching for ."
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c "Is getting very wet down here. Tell Mum have remembered to wear -walking boots."
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c "Sorry if do not get to write for some time, have heard rumours that mail demons charge small fortune to deliver from Gehennom."
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c "Have enclosed box of , and a black corpse for Dad. Must go now, am about to reach the Castle."
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c "Your loving sister, Cherry"
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is killed by
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c "PS: Have just killed for first time! Do not understand what all the fuss is about."
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Antheridium |
February 28, 2008 03:17
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
So the Seed of Life is the artifact. Makes sense. Excellent comic, and all that.
I'm having that problem with the text going out of the panel borders again. "deliver from Gehennom" actually ended up UNDER panel six, and I had to highlight it to find out what it said. Anybody else have this problem? Changing the text size only makes it worse. Using Firefox on Ubuntu (and it doesn't do this on Windows). |
Wellan |
February 28, 2008 03:30
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First comment: 27 November, 2007 |
247 comments written |
Funny!
Uh...yeah, that's all. |
Tony Hawk? Or something. |
February 28, 2008 11:23
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First comment: 28 February, 2008 |
1 comments written |
Good. I too am also having the same trouble with the text on panel three. Using Firefox on Ubuntu.
I'm also getting lots and lots of crap at the top of the again. Nic, you should fix that ;) |
Drizhen |
February 28, 2008 12:35
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First comment: 21 February, 2008 |
20 comments written |
I'm also getting lots of stuff at the top of the ...
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Antheridium |
February 28, 2008 12:38
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
I guess that's the price we pay for reading a comic written by a programmer. At least the comic is visible today. *grin*
So yeah, Firefox on WinXP doesn't have the border problem. There must be some system setting on Ubuntu that does it, but, idiot that I am, I don't know what.
Oh, and by the way, why is the 0 on the right moving back and forth? |
Quint Sakugarne |
February 28, 2008 15:30
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First comment: 1 January, 2008 |
233 comments written |
(Shh...it's a . You weren't supposed to notice that.) |
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February 28, 2008 15:37
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First comment: 26 July, 2004 |
155 comments written |
I think that's an O...
lol, interesting to see different perspectives (are chickatrices stone-resistant? I would think they would be...) |
Drizhen |
February 28, 2008 15:41
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First comment: 21 February, 2008 |
20 comments written |
Nope, its a zero (changed the font to something where Os and 0s are easily-distinguishable). |
zem |
February 28, 2008 18:26
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First comment: 5 December, 2005 |
64 comments written |
I think it's a linux firefox rather than an ubuntu thing - i'm having the same problem on sabayon |
purjo |
February 28, 2008 19:33
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First comment: 28 February, 2008 |
1 comments written |
My Firefox at Gentoo does fine, no problem whatsoever, so every firefox in linux is not suffering from it. |
Antheridium |
February 28, 2008 21:37
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
Well, Windows FF will do it if I mess with the text size enough. It seems to involve the ratio of font size to panel size. I begin to suspect the problem involves Ubuntu FF using an oddball display font. Unfortunately, I don't know how to change that either. (Firefox is really rather lacking in the options menu... though to be fair I don't think IE had this particular option either.) |
Antheridium |
February 28, 2008 21:47
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
er... when I said ratio, I meant the size of the ordinary text (like in the panel dialog space, and presumably variable width) to the size of the text actually in the panel (presumably fixed width). This ratio changes when you change the text size, it would seem. |
Toby Bartels |
February 28, 2008 22:12
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First comment: 11 August, 2007 |
83 comments written |
I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu too (a trend?), but ... I can read the captions just fine! (There is still a bunch of PHP crud at the top, however.) |
Antheridium |
February 29, 2008 01:01
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
Ah huh. Firefox does have a font dialog after all. Staring me in the face this whole time and I didn't see it... I really am an idiot. (It's on the Content tab.)
The problem, as far as I can tell, is that my proportional font had its size set to 16, and monospace was set to 12. Setting those equal (or thereabouts) seems to solve the border problem. Windows FF had proportional 16 and monospace 13, but it also has access to the Arial font (I notice that's specified in the comic stylesheet); you have to install MSTTCOREFONTS to get that on Linux.
Dion, Dion, Dion... you should know better than to write pages that only work in IE. -. |
Kernigh |
February 29, 2008 01:44
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First comment: 6 April, 2005 |
349 comments written |
That seems to be a Firefox-specific problem. The text overflows the panels in Firefox (on my OpenBSD machine), but the comic looks fine in Konqueror.
As did Antheridium, I find that my Firefox uses size 16 for most fonts but size 12 for monospace. I can fix the comic by setting monospace fonts to size 16. The Firefox default (to use a smaller monospace font) was a bad idea.
Konqueror does not have a separate setting for default font size, and uses size 12 for all fonts; but size 12 in Konqueror is the same as size 16 in Firefox, I guess because Konqueror uses points but Firefox uses pixels.
My browsers do not use 'Arial'. (I have installed many extra fonts, including the DejaVu fonts, the Free{Mono,Sans,Serif} fonts and some Japanese M+ fonts, but I do not have MSTTCOREFONTS, so no Arial.)
I feel that the "$counts[...] = ..." crud or crap at the top of the is the more significant problem. |
Antheridium |
February 29, 2008 02:24
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
Yeah, I probably made much ado about nothing; really, I just wanted to know how my system was misconfigured so as not to behave in the expected manner. That was something I could fix, after all.
The PHP spilling its guts is something we can only wait on divine intervention for, and I assume Dion knows what he's doing and is working on it; there's probably nothing to be gained by yelling "Fix your damn script already!" He can see it as well as we can, I'm sure.
And besides, when it's finally fixed, nobody will know what we're talking about here. |
Slowpoke |
February 29, 2008 04:14
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First comment: 27 February, 2007 |
239 comments written |
The PHP spilling its guts is something we can only wait on divine intervention for
#pray and #offer to speed the process. |
GreyKnight |
February 29, 2008 08:37
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First comment: 24 March, 2006 |
48 comments written |
I'd actually sent an updated version to take care of the caption problem, but looks like it didn't arrive (I've been having trouble with my mailserver the past little while, could be that). The , on the other hand, is just plain wrong. :-)
And, yes, previous Cherry strips established the Seed of Life as the object chickatrices are entering the Dungeons for. This is the first time we've seen her after the though, I assumed she picked up that in-game, kinda like the opposite of how other roles do it. |
Antheridium |
February 29, 2008 10:59
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
I was wondering about that. I can just see her leader (Chicken Little?) saying "Now, if you could go and get the , these adventurers would stop coming in here and killing us."
I like the idea that the Seed of Life makes trees grow, it seems like kind of a sucky power at first (and one that could cause more problems than it solves)... but I suppose it could also be very useful in certain circumstances.
...you know someone is going to actually make the Play-As-A- patch now. $DEITY have mercy on us all. |
gneek |
March 2, 2008 02:54
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First comment: 18 January, 2008 |
159 comments written |
Cherry could have simply attacked in melee since is not stone-resistant and Cherry is. |
Antheridium |
March 2, 2008 06:16
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
So, I have to ask. What's up with the corpses? Is there something I'm missing about that? Or is it just supposed to be about Dudley dying all the time? |
Rose |
March 4, 2008 20:46
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First comment: 3 July, 2006 |
79 comments written |
Would have rated this excellent even if sister was not named Rose :D Cherry - you go girl |
Toby Bartels |
March 13, 2008 23:41
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First comment: 11 August, 2007 |
83 comments written |
In case anyone is still reading this about fonts and such ... still using Firefox on Ubuntu, and my font size is also set smaller for monospace (not 12 but still only 13, compared to 16 for normal), and yet the captions still fit. I don't think I have any unusual settings that would affect this (although I do have some unusual settings, such as no Javascript). Anyway ... |
Antheridium |
March 16, 2008 21:29
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
The settings I would be most interested in would be whether you're using different fonts than normal, whether you're overriding the fonts specified in the webpage, and whether you have your text size set to something other than 'normal'. |
Fathead |
May 3, 2008 00:14
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First comment: 1 April, 2006 |
1136 comments written |
Not bad; I give it an eff. |
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