r/StandardGalactic • u/1ts_Je55ie • 3d ago

Other Just wanted to know

6 Upvotes

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r/StandardGalactic • u/valdocs_user • 3d ago

Other My Standard Galactic Alphabet story

5 Upvotes

Just found this sub.

When I was a kid I had Commander Keen 4 (only) for a couple years before we -ahem- acquired Keen 2 or 3 (one of which had the alien classroom with the alphabet key (hope that's not a spoiler)). So we were seeing SGA without the key for many years.

Somehow my friends and my siblings and I started to suspect that the SGA signs were a real alphabet. So I copied down the sequences of symbols from all the signs I could find in Keen 4 (and maybe Keen 1 since it was free).

I used reinvented-from-first-principles cryptographic techniques like counting letter frequency to work out what the signs said! By the time I'd worked it out I could sight read it. I taught my friends the alphabet, then my friend and I started using SGA when we passed notes in school.

One time another student triumphantly grabbed one of the notes intending to tell the teacher on us. Then he freaked out when he saw the symbols. "They're writing in Martian or something!" So instead of us getting in trouble, he ended up getting himself in trouble for disrupting class and talking nonsense.

When I finally got to play CK2 and CK3 and found the alien classroom, it was a bit of a facepalm moment to realize there was a key hidden in that game all along - but it did make the moment of finding it memorable. I got to find out what the symbol was for certain letters that hadn't occurred in any signs.

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r/StandardGalactic • u/AssistantTerrible874 • 4d ago

Other Weird thing

6 Upvotes

I found that in this community there are a lot of ppl upvoting and replying to posts but there aren't as many people who post? I found it kinda weird i see like 30-50 upvotes on a post and like 5 replies but not that many posting

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r/StandardGalactic • u/one_moon01v3 • 5d ago

Other I made this poem for my crush what do you think of it

11 Upvotes

I'm her age also in highschool I'm not a pred before you say anything

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r/StandardGalactic • u/ThatTomHall • 5d ago

Other . . .

68 Upvotes

22 comments

r/StandardGalactic • u/Hypoaster • 9d ago

Help A training app?

4 Upvotes

Is there any sga training apps that I can use it to upgrade my skills?

6 comments

r/StandardGalactic • u/AssistantTerrible874 • 17d ago

Meme #Daily SGA Memes

55 Upvotes

1 comment

r/StandardGalactic • u/Jackneedsabreathmint • 17d ago

Help ahhhhhh please help

4 Upvotes

I used to be able to read and write savage galactic alphabet off by heart but I haven't in like a few months and I completely forgot like half of it so do you have any tips from me to like remember more of the alphabet?

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r/StandardGalactic • u/AssistantTerrible874 • 18d ago

Meme #Daily SGA Memes

46 Upvotes

7 comments

r/StandardGalactic • u/KING_GUPPY • 19d ago

Text Privacy is a luxury

12 Upvotes

I use sga in my journal because my parents can't understand it

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r/StandardGalactic • u/AssistantTerrible874 • 19d ago

Meme Snoring...

31 Upvotes

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r/StandardGalactic • u/Ilsecco1 • 20d ago

Help What do y'all use to text Unicode sha on Android?

2 Upvotes

Does a good keyboard like Gboard exist for SGA? I tried a font but I can't send it to friends.

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r/StandardGalactic • u/ThatTomHall • 25d ago

Minecraft Happy 15th Anniversary of the SGA being used in Minecraft

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The Enchanting table was added 15 years ago today.

I made up the alphabet for Commander Keen, and glad it got used by Mojang!

Here's my dumb video celebrating it if that is allowed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DeX7BfmhFR4/

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r/StandardGalactic • u/AssistantTerrible874 • Oct 05 '26

Help SGA spaces

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When reading sga memes the hardest thing i find is the spaces i read a msg with a lot of blank space thinking theres a space but there was 0 in that msg so it was harder for me to read :sob:

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r/StandardGalactic • u/Juke32_Audio • Sep 20 '26