[HN Gopher] ASCII FacePalm
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ASCII FacePalm
Author : saltysalt
Score : 31 points
Date : 2023-10-02 17:14 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.asciifacepalm.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.asciifacepalm.com)
| ShrigmaMale wrote:
| ...why is #1 bald? this probably sounds like a weird observation
| but we don't generally draw the generic guy as bald so it seems
| intentional.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| I always thought it was based on Captain Picard's iconic
| facepalm, i.e
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| https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...
| ShrigmaMale wrote:
| ahh never saw that but explains it. thanks
| emeraldd wrote:
| If you don't know the story...
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
| ljm wrote:
| It's Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
| dsgnr wrote:
| https://youtu.be/6rYhRqf757I?si=5wt-K686FH6WqGZy
| Modified3019 wrote:
| That's captain picard's facepalm, a popular "reaction image"
| converted to ascii.
|
| https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...
| dylan604 wrote:
| what's the purpose of padding with the "." instead of spaces?
|
| also, the "dirty" chars where they are not all "." chars. is this
| just a quirk of the sketch to ascii code base? it's like the
| first prompt to an image generation, but the second modified
| prompt starts to clean up the image. only, they stopped and
| accepted the results of the first output.???
| diath wrote:
| Some chat applications used to strip leading and trailing
| spaces in messages, or even replace consecutive spaces with a
| single one, padding ASCII art with printable characters allows
| you to just copy paste them as-is.
| photonerd wrote:
| Some systems & software treats rendering of spaces/whitespace
| as a special case. Can lead to messed up rendering.
|
| IRC clients in particular were notorious for collapsing spaces
|
| That said, I found it wasn't super common until it was used on
| the web more, with htmls collapsing spaces.
| badrabbit wrote:
| Reminds me of copyshrug when it was trendy
| https://www.copyshrug.com/
|
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
| michaelsbradley wrote:
| Additional ASCII Unicode fun:
|
| https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji
|
| https://asciimoji.com/
| zimpenfish wrote:
| Could at least credit the original authors of the ASCII arts.
| [deleted]
| MilStdJunkie wrote:
| Isn't there unicode for facepalm?
|
| U+1F926 or
|
| EDIT ah that explains that.
| Cockbrand wrote:
| The author missed my favorite, very minimal rendition of the
| facepalm
|
| m(
| GeorgeTirebiter wrote:
| I think using characters to make pictures started with teletype
| machines - maybe even on typewriters! It was common with ham
| operators in the 60s (RTTY & Teletype machines) and it surely
| must have been popular before that.
|
| On the IBM 1401 (1959) "Edith" is legendary:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtlrITxB5qg
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Yep, an early example of how computers are always repurposed
| for porn, despite original intended use.
| nom wrote:
| Here's something from 1893:
| https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smileys_1893_from_...
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