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ASCII FacePalm

34 points by saltysalt 3y ago

michaelsbradley 3y ago
Additional ̶A̶S̶C̶I̶I̶ Unicode fun: https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji https://asciimoji.com/ https://asciimoji.com/
zimpenfish 3y ago
Could at least credit the original authors of the ASCII arts.
- deleted 3y ago
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dylan604 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
  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.
GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtlrITxB5qg
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  Yep, an early example of how computers are always repurposed for porn, despite original intended use.
- nom 3y ago
  Here's something from 1893: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smileys_1893_from_Kreisblatt_f%C3%BCr_den_Kreis_Malmedy_-_vermischtes-18930902.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smileys_1893_from_...
ShrigmaMale 3y ago
...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 3y ago
  I always thought it was based on Captain Picard's iconic facepalm, i.e https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepalm-deja-q.jpg https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...
  - emeraldd 3y ago
    If you don't know the story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
  - ShrigmaMale 3y ago
    ahh never saw that but explains it. thanks
- ljm 3y ago
  It’s Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  - dsgnr 3y ago
    https://youtu.be/6rYhRqf757I?si=5wt-K686FH6WqGZy https://youtu.be/6rYhRqf757I?si=5wt-K686FH6WqGZy
- Modified3019 3y ago
  That’s captain picard’s facepalm, a popular “reaction image” converted to ascii. https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepalm-deja-q-1068x777.jpg https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...
MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Isn't there unicode for facepalm? U+1F926 or EDIT ah that explains that.
_8j50 3y ago
Reminds me of copyshrug when it was trendy https://www.copyshrug.com/ https://www.copyshrug.com/ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cockbrand 3y ago
The author missed my favorite, very minimal rendition of the facepalm m(

34 points by saltysalt 3y ago

Additional ̶A̶S̶C̶I̶I̶ Unicode fun: https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji https://asciimoji.com/ https://asciimoji.com/

zimpenfish 3y ago

Could at least credit the original authors of the ASCII arts.

deleted 3y ago
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dylan604 3y ago

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 3y ago
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 3y ago
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.

GeorgeTirebiter 3y ago

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtlrITxB5qg

SoftTalker 3y ago
Yep, an early example of how computers are always repurposed for porn, despite original intended use.
nom 3y ago
Here's something from 1893: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smileys_1893_from_Kreisblatt_f%C3%BCr_den_Kreis_Malmedy_-_vermischtes-18930902.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smileys_1893_from_...

ShrigmaMale 3y ago

...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 3y ago
I always thought it was based on Captain Picard's iconic facepalm, i.e https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepalm-deja-q.jpg https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...
- emeraldd 3y ago
  If you don't know the story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
- ShrigmaMale 3y ago
  ahh never saw that but explains it. thanks
ljm 3y ago
It’s Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- dsgnr 3y ago
  https://youtu.be/6rYhRqf757I?si=5wt-K686FH6WqGZy https://youtu.be/6rYhRqf757I?si=5wt-K686FH6WqGZy
Modified3019 3y ago
That’s captain picard’s facepalm, a popular “reaction image” converted to ascii. https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepalm-deja-q-1068x777.jpg https://blog.trekcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/facepal...

MilStdJunkie 3y ago

Isn't there unicode for facepalm? U+1F926 or EDIT ah that explains that.

_8j50 3y ago

Reminds me of copyshrug when it was trendy https://www.copyshrug.com/ https://www.copyshrug.com/ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cockbrand 3y ago

The author missed my favorite, very minimal rendition of the facepalm m(