Saturday, April 4, 2009

Annoying Forum Habbit #83

I absolutely can not stand it when people use a centered alignment on most, or all of a post on the Game Maker Community (or any other forum).
First of all, it's simply harder to read, because our eye has to find the beginning of each new line, whereas a normal left alignment has a clear start to each line.
Because of that, it's incredibly amateur, sort of like making your whole post bold, or some crazy font. Doing this doesn't make you cool, it just makes your post harder to take seriously.

Argh, can you see what I mean?
Tell me the truth, this is way harder to read.
Seriously, is this supposed to be some sort of poem?
Posting like this simply makes me go insane.

But enough with my ranting. Progress on my games has been going great. I'm spending the weekend catching up on some exercising, finishing up my math homework, and programming, as well as playing another awesome freeware game made with gamemaker, by the name of Gang Garrison 2. It's a remake (or, according to the manual, a demake) of Team Fortress 2, in a great retro platformer style. It's all online, and unlike many online games made with gamemaker, you can find a consistent amount of players online. Sometimes you can even fight matches with up to 25 players! It's a very impressive little game that I'd recommend you to play.

3 comments:

  1. Hmm...haven't thought about that too much. Center-aligned definitely is harder to read though...

    One place it is acceptable is in people's sigs, especially when haiku was the "in" thing. :)

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  2. Yes, it certainly has it's uses, and is good for titles or small snippets of text. Using it for big blocks of text however, is terrible.

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  3. It's funny how abrasively annoying small things can be. I have an odd hatred for when people use any other amount than 3 periods for an ellipsis...

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