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Too Many Glyphs?

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January 19, 2014 - 5:49am — LambFleece
Just a "Who is this?" So, uh... Who is this? And does their picto have too many glyphs? Shouldn't a picto only have 4 individual glyphs? This one seems to have more.
And I've seen this deer before, so its not a one time thing...

Just curious, I'd like to know who this deer is! They are, I believe, still romping about in forest. Smiling Thanks!
January 19, 2014 - 6:16am — AlisonRobin
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Oh yeah, that's way too many.

Oh yeah, that's way too many. There's something wrong with mine to begin with because it has an extra dot but that's DEFINITELY buggy.

I can identify some of those as Gen I glyphs that cannot coexist. I can't even identify the glyph in the top left that looks like a line at the 45 degree angle. Gen I doesn't have any lines that occupy that space. Same with the vertical line to the left of the square against the left border.

Here are the ones I know though.


Glyphs I think I see but they're in a spot other than where they belong:
Shifted down about a third of the way
Shifted all the way left, still at the top.
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January 19, 2014 - 6:20am — Aivilo
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It's a glitch that turns up

It's a glitch that turns up pretty frequently. Sticking out tongue Just a regular nameless with a hiccup for a picto, as far as I can tell.

And yes, you're right - this pictogram cannot be built with the glyphs which should be available, even if you use extras. Some of them are shifted.
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January 19, 2014 - 6:36am — AlisonRobin
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It's certainly

It's certainly bizarre-looking. My brain treats it with the same confusion as if I tried to read a word that starts with "ck," it just doesn't compute.
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January 19, 2014 - 6:57am — LambFleece
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AllisonRobin: Ahh, so it does

AllisonRobin: Ahh, so it does have many glyphs! Thank you for taking the time to even pick them apart. I see that odd line too! How weird. O.o Thanks for your input!

Aivilo: So it's just a glitch. Weird. I was playing in two windows (set stuff) and one window saw this picto, while the other saw a blank glow. How strange!
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January 19, 2014 - 1:36pm — /

I've seen that a couple of

I've seen that a couple of times as well. xD
I think this glitched picto looks creepy o.o
January 19, 2014 - 11:12pm — AlisonRobin
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It's weird how after a while

It's weird how after a while of getting used to seeing things behave a certain way, seeing them differently is "creepy" like Jennie put it. I get that too. It comes with that foreboding sense of "this should not be this way" that Lovecraft tried to grab with his less-pronounceable monster and place names.

But it happens to us with buggy line segments being shifted a few pixels. It says a lot about the quality of the game and the way that the mind reads things.
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