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Now we’re getting somewhere.
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#touchdesigner#generativeart#creativecoding#ascii#gif#creativetechnology#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#small artist#girls in stem
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I specialize in one-character ASCII art. Here is a small gallery of my work. I am not currently taking commissions.
PLEASE DO NOT USE OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY EXPLICIT PERMISSION!
Sideview of a Sawhorse:
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Well-used comb with only three teeth left:
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Bird's eye view of a person ordering a drink at a bar:
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Two way intersection:
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A hiltless katana:
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Lucky four leaf clover:
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Eye Of A Dead Man:
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Snake Woman:
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Development files for Super Mario 64 contain a text file with copyright information and dates when development of the program was started and finished. Of special interest is the ASCII art border made out of a diagonal pattern reading “SUPER MARIO 64″.
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how the rise ninja turtles would text i thinkies…
MIKEY !
uses a lot of exclamation marks!!!!!! and emojis !!!!! :0 !!!!
mixture of typed emoticons and emojis !!! but like the happy smiling ones 😁😘😊😸🫶👌👏🙌
wouldn’t send TOO many texts at once but it’d be a long ass paragraph if he had a lot to say (which he does. but he thinks his words through.)
AND uses the whole like cute emoticons i forgot what they’re called but it’s like the faces . KAOMOJIS i think . he’s got a whole app for it i know he does
would probably use the gifs that are like ‘sending a virtual hug’ but would also have good taste in reaction gifs you know what i’m saying
leo…
uses lol and lmao as punctuation
would probably say shit like ‘*dabs*’ just to piss people off
so many. messages. at once . just says what comes to him
uses the 100 emoji and 😂 to be a dick. reacts to peoples texts with nonsense (this massively confuses raph) “WHY ARE YOU REACTING WITH SNAKE” “snake is cool. remember the snake game”
uses the tildas and shit (~)
sunglasses emoji all day long
sends random tiktoks to the gc and assigns a person to it and he’s always right . that video DOES encapsulate their whole being.
HE WIULD MAKE VINE AND TIKTOK COMPILATIONS
has the weirdest fucking images saved on his phone. like the most specific getty images shit
RAPHSTER!!!!!
uses capital letters and shit but doesn’t really use full stops so it’s just like. a very long sentence
says eveyrthibg in one message but never backspaces . i think he’d make a spelling error and then write the correct spelling after without deleting the misspelling
probably doesn’t correct misspellings though . he’s got big ass hands typing on a small ass phone he can’t be fucked. they know what he’s saying.
doesn’t use emojis a lot but DOES use the hearts and the ‼️⁉️
MAKES his reaction images. takes a close up blurry photo of himself looking like 🤨
“autocorrect, my strongest ally and yet also my greatest enemy” - quote from my boyfriend and also raph would say this
donatello
perfect grammar but doesn’t use capital letters because he has to keep up the emotionally unavailable bad boy image
like he uses semi colons and shit
HE WOULD SO HAVE HAD A TEXT SIGNATURE IF THIS WAS 2013 i know he would
corrects ONLY leo when he misspells something
god he’d make his own emojis. also he’d make all the hands ones green and have 3 fingers
he’d also make shitty ascii art that mikey would ALWAYS say is amazing and cool. but he’s lying it sucks so much
#hi rottmnt community !!!#please share your thoughts with me if you would like… smiling#sorry i have so much on leo i am unfortunately a lot like him.#rottmnt#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt raph#rottmnt leo#will probably post more headcanons like this in the future i think about them everyday every hour#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles
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this last weekend i made myself a small challenge to design a website using minimal external assets because i am getting rusty at web design but i always want to do big projects with it and it’s bringing me down…!!! so i made this little thing:3
if you want you can also view this on my neocities but mobile users beware beclaws i did not design this to be responsive and the ascii art gets uhhh well it gets up and leaves.bye
#web design#webcore#neocities#IDK WHAt to tag i don’t want to spam#also#if anyone knows if i can fix the ascii art on mobile w/o media queries lmk…um#i think maybe i could make my whole thing into percentages but i can’t remember if that would make it wonky or not… like i said i am rusty#and i did this over short time so idk😭
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i often see your posts next to the screenshots of Geocities homepages captured by @oneterabyteofkilobyteage, and that made wonder: if you were on Geocities, somewhere back in the 1990s, instead of 2020s Tumblr, what would your personal site look like? What would you talk about? Would it be loaded with gifs, personal poems, low-resolution scans of photos of you? Would you join a thematic webring? MIDI files? ASCII art?
The answer to this question is kind of funny because I had actually made a fake Geocities page for a project back in college, but I never actually hosted it anywhere!
(The project was based on something I'd read about Alexanderwohl, a community in Kansas populated by Russian immigrants. Among other things, it featured a "Russian tourist attraction" called "Valentine Village," which was a little frontage town on the main highway, done up in a cheesy attempt to recreate Russian culture. There was a huge sign which said "Универсальный магазин" and went on like that, but no one could read Cyrillic, so no one knew what it meant. The frontage town was very small and was all you could really see when you drove by, so a lot of people saw it as a joke, as silly cheesiness, or just as bizarre.)
So I had this idea for an experimental webcomic in which a guy is driving through Kansas and in the middle of nowhere he sees this frontage town out of nowhere and then he just sees it. He knows he's been there before, but doesn't know how or why, and then . . . it's all gone. And he has a panic attack and turns on the radio and hears about the whole Valentine Village thing and the mysterious Russian tourist attraction, and he starts having a nervous breakdown.
Well, it had a prose version (which was eventually published in a lit mag) but I also drew a fake Geocities page for it. My idea was to have it be a realistic "mirror image" of the prose excerpt, i.e. write the page as though I were really the guy, except I know he's fictional, and make it pretty true to life as a Geocities page from 2002 might have been. It'd be kind of "eerie" in a very conventional way, I guess.
It's a shame I never actually put it up. I think I still have the image files somewhere . . . I should track them down and post them.
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A Small Look Into 0xEmpress
Alright so I was a little bit bored so I did a dive into a figure I thought was... interesting, to say the least. If you know the name 0xEmpress, you probably already know what you’re in for, but for those that don’t:
CONTENT WARNING: A LOT OF TRANSPHOBIA/HOMOPHOBIA AND SLURS
OVERVIEW
Alright so recently Hogwarts Legacy was cracked by a pretty infamous figure in video game piracy, 0xEmpress (Empress for short).
Empress is a Russian games cracker (as in they crack video games, I'm not sure if there's a better operative for this, sorry) who accrued attention in the games piracy scene for their specialty; routinely bypassing Denuvo DRM. A feat which no one had been capable of doing until, or since, Empress.
A DRM (Short for Digital Rights Management) is something added to a piece of software to prevent or restrict unauthorized redistribution. This is usually in pieces of code which check digital certificates which, if not present, will prevent the software from operating.
DRM is known for being annoying, even to players who play games legitimately. To pirates, though, it is the major obstacle they need to overcome when cracking a game. And with how often DRMs are updated, this makes the challenge an active battle between the creator and the pirate.
Cracking is simply the act of making the game not limited by this DRM and putting it into a state which allows it to be pirated and distributed.
Empress is known amongst video game pirates specifically for her ability to bypass Denuvo.
Denuvo Anti-Tamper is a DRM developed by Denuvo Software Solutions and is notoriously the toughest DRM to bypass for most pirates.
This is due to the methods Denuvo used, being “integrated into the games code” and “assigning a unique authentication token to each copy of the game” according to Empress. That, coupled with just how frequent Denuvo updated made any attempt at bypassing the DRM hopeless.
Very few had cracked Denuvo games, and none did so frequently. Until Empress.
Every game she cracks uses Denuvo. Her refusal to share her methods also means she practically owns the market when it comes to cracking those games.
Other than being free copies of otherwise expensive games, Empress’ cracks of Denuvo games have been reported to actually speed up the performance, as the DRM seems to be rather CPU intensive on games it is installed on.
Her ability to crack impossible DRM quickly and efficiently has given Empress a reputation as a one-of-a-kind legend in video game piracy circles.
So Empress is, in short, incredibly good at cracking games. She's gotten past the worst of the worst when it comes to DRM and publishes her cracks online for the masses.
Except, like many of history's greats, Empress is fucking insane.
NFOS
Within a lot of pirated games are included specific types of files, .nfo files. NFO, short for info, is a type of text file created by a videogame cracker which contains information about the game and the specific pirated copy, such as language changing options.
Like many text-only formats, the users of NFO files have gotten creative, drawing elaborate ascii art within the files as a way to distinguish themselves. Empress is no different.
Empress' NFOs include her name in giant bold letters, held up by pillars which stretch the entire length of the file. Additionally, she includes boxes of text with a distinguishing calling card.
--EXPRESSES--
ALL HATE & INSULTS
--DEPRESSES--
ALL DENUVO SCUM
--IMPRESSES--
ALL PIRATES ACROSS THE SEA
This is followed by a mention of the game's title, the type of DRM the game had/has (For example, Denuvo v10, Steam, Epic, VMProtect), as well as the emulator a game may be using.
Below the info are Empress' donation links to various cryptocurrency wallets, such as BTC, ETH, and Monero. These donations are said to "fund further DRM research and cover living costs."
Donators of $500 or more are able to request any game they want a crack for, so long as it has Denuvo DRM.
Further are contact links, including e-mail (notably protonmail), qTox (a secure instant messaging service), as well as her subreddit link.
The penultimate section of the NFO are the ~Release Notes~ and ~Install Notes~, which detail methods for installing the game onto a machine, as well as what DLC or edition of the game is included.
The final section, however, is the reason her NFOs are special. Aptly titled ~Special Notes~, this section is for any personal messages Empress wishes to send out to readers.
~SPECIAL NOTES~
Empress uses this ~Special Notes~ section to communicate with her audience, wax philosophical, and generally ramble to a non-specific audience. Often, these are related to videogame drama and events.
This section of the NFO is where Empress will break formality, switching to her signature typing style. Her RANDOM capitalization of WORDS she uses for either EMPHASIS or just GENERAL SHOUTING, her fondness of profanity, the creativity in her insults, ending a large amount of her statements with (middle finger), "quotations, both for emphasis and to actually quote general statements."
This typing style truly makes the ~SPECIAL NOTES~ stand out, especially since a lot of her rambles are utter nonsense.
It is comprehensible, yes. It has a point it is trying to make, yes. It is not as if she is being silly for the sake of it. She is unhinged.
Many of the NFOs are, to put it lightly, mean. Within a good amount of her NFOs, she includes messages to the companies who created the games, as well as Denuvo.
For example, the following was included within the Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak crack.
"Message to capcom:
How dare you charge $430 for 98% worthless DLC
How dare you even charge to make edit to the
main character in the game?
FUCK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES YOU GREEDY FUCEKRS.
It didn't really help paying like little SLUTS
to denuvo to protect your DLCs, did it?...
It also didn't help that you made retarded DRM
of your own on top either, did it?...
Next time, please don't waste more of your
money and don't shame yourselves - focus on the
actual game instead, FAGGOTS.
Message to denuvo:
With this release, I have just proven that I
CAN and I WILL destroy your pathetic protection
no matter what you do. And now you can kindly
go fuck yourselves because your "Anti-Tamper"
has been TAMPERED with by me once again, and
is completely destroyed, LOSERS (middle finger)."
You may have noticed how she ended the statement to CAPCOM. Empress seems to hold many of the same opinions as the far-right gamergate crowd (i.e TheQuartering, Rags, etc.), bashing newer games with representation as "gay garbage".
"Games like: 'Gays Gone, Spidershit, Gay of War" get very high scores. Every fucking gay garbage comes out and you all love it..."
Except, seemingly, female representation. In her Dying Light 2 NFO, she states:
"STOP COMPARING 'SR' to 'GTA' you
DUMB PIECES OF SHIT. And I am
already aware of the "pre-hate" on
GTA 6, just cause people learnt it
will feature a 'female' character.
What the HELL is WRONG with that,
you sexist motherfuckers?"
Additionally, within the NFO for Dying Light 2, she praises the Saints Row reboot, stating it "is the BEST saints row game made." Saints Row, of course, being a series known for featuring gay relationships.
Despite this, Empress claims to be "bi-sexual and fully lesbian." The following statement was also included in her NFO for Maneater:
"3-Yes, I think any game without a female protagonist to be either gay or garbage. And YES,
I fucking hate most female characters in games whom are skinny and skeleton figure.
Big 'FUCK YOU' to every developer who thinks a skinny female is beautiful."
From these details, it can be inferred that Empress is a person with complicated and downright bizarre political views.
Though, this does not compare to her stance on trans people. A stance which has garnered her a bit of attention as of late.
FITGIRL
Fitgirl is a Russian-born repacker, responsible for repacking and distributing a large number of pirated games.
Repacking is the act of taking a game's files and compressing them down into something smaller, while still playing as normal. Repacking can be done to legitimate versions of games, however within the pirating community repacking is an essential practice as it reduces file sizes of cracked games for easy internet transfer.
So while repackers are distributors and do work with cracked games, they are not the ones to crack the game. This is a common misconception, many people believing Fitgirl is the one to crack the games. This results in a lot of people thinking Fitgirl is behind the cracks, thanking her specifically for the game.
Empress does not enjoy this fact. At one point during 2021, Empress got into a feud with Fitgirl. She intentionally limited the download rate of her crack to 200kb/s in an attempt to stop Fitgirl and other repackers from accessing it.
This was under the belief that repackers "steal the spotlight" from her work. After this, Fitgirl made a statement saying she would not be repacking any more Empress cracks.
The drama did not end here.
In 2023, the developer build of Atomic Heart was leaked, a developer build which used Denuvo as its DRM. As such, Fitgirl made a statement that, since Empress is the only person who knows how to crack Denuvo, she would not be repacking the build.
In a post on the r/piratedgames subreddit, a user posted a screenshot of Fitgirl's statement and asked why "Fitgirl is butthurt." A comment on this post, notably with more upvotes than the original post, stated:
R-Slur warning:
"FG (Fitgirl) is not ,butthurt'
Empress was the one who got butthurt and went full retard."
Empress, in a move which probably didn't help to clear the "butthurt" label, responded to this comment in a 436 word reddit post on her subreddit r/EMPRESSEVOLUTION. The full post is quite long but contains quite a few accusations against Fitgirl, as well as the typical flavorings of Empress ranting. Notably, Empress does not capitalize the start of her sentences like in her NFOs.
To summarize, Empress claims:
Fitgirl was pretending to have actually cracked the games that Empress herself had done as a way to boost her image.
That Fitgirl is actually a man, along with some transphobic language around that (Sissy and faggot, specifically). (This claim is difficult to prove as no proof was given. Fitgirl uses a picture of a french actress to represent herself online. As I cannot validate the claim, I will stick to she/her pronouns for fitgirl.)
Fitgirl was locking any post about Empress. (I am assuming she meant reddit posts on r/piratedgames, but Fitgirl does not seem to be a moderator so it's unclear if that is what she meant)
Fitgirl was begging for money, including a screenshot of Fitgirl's donation page. (A notably hypocritical statement)
The second point is particularly important because it leads into-
RECENT EVENTS
Her latest crack, Hogwarts Legacy, is a divisive game. To say even that much would be an understatement. It also includes Denuvo DRM, which made Empress the only one with a method of cracking it. Coupled with the fact that it is a popular triple-A release, there was no doubt it would be Empress' next target.
Less than two weeks after the game's official release, Empress announced the game had been cracked. The crack, which was quickly distributed across the internet, contained another one of Empress' rants in its NFO.
This ~SPECIAL MESSAGE~, which is 549 words long, details Empress' support of JK Rowling and virulent hatred of trans/WOKE people, though is surprisingly more legible than most of her other rants. This is not to say that the words she said had any actual weight to them.
The rant contains all the workings of an Empress NFO. Unhinged, half-baked philosophy wrapped with a bow of profanity. The only thing lacking compared to most of her other NFOs is a particular anti-corporate sentiment. Empress even tried her hand at poetry towards the end. It isn't good.
Not long before the Hogwarts Legacy crack was released, Empress made a certain post to Reddit, seemingly trying to “call out” trans people as well as a generalized leftist sentiment. The whole thing is full of logical fallacies and blatant bigotry. Unsurprisingly for Reddit, this had consequences. If you have paused reading this at any point to look up r/EmpressEvolution, you may have noticed a little notice.
"r/EmpressEvolution has been banned from Reddit.
This community was banned for repeatedly violating Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct."
Her reddit account, unsurprisingly, got the same treatment.
In what I assume was a revised version of the NFO for the latest update of Hogwarts Legacy (And thus the latest crack of the game), she added:
"To reddit admins: hey, keep collecting TRASH and
don't be ashamed whenever you drop yours pants in
a BACKLASH.
To reddit slaves: suck it harder bitches, you are
not doing good ENOUGH. Keep on it and do try to
forget the CUFF."
DENOUEMENT
Honestly, I can't think of a great way to conclude this. It's like stopping a story half-way through, since Empress seems to be going strong, as well as how much I glossed over in just trying to get this much out.
There were a lot of details I could have gone into, such as,
Empress' Dark Souls 2 fever dream which got her into cracking games.
Empress' self-proclaimed cult.
Her weird obsession with calling DRM a "Cancer" (which might relate back to her Dark Souls 2 fever dream)
Whoever the fuck Mr_Goldberg is.
The true extent of Empress' weird philosophy. I glazed over it a lot but she's really into pretending to be a philosopher.
Her hatred for Stray. Like she really fucking hates that game.
Her "cult" having a $10k entry fee (I think it's a bit weird in how she words it)
People think she's actually a guy a lot and that infuriates her.
Empress got arrested at some point??? and she blamed Fitgirl??? This one is pretty hard to verify for a number of reasons.
The Sergiu situation
She might possibly include viruses and mining code in her cracks? Difficult to verify as I only saw it from a single source.
Is Empress real? Is this a persona she puts on to attract a cult of personality so people notice her more? Or is this truly how she is, a one-of-a-kind video game piracy expert with incredibly strange worldviews? Either way, she's become an icon, not just because of her skill, but also due to her controversy and unordinary but enrapturing personality.
I would like to say that, while I did write all 2655 words of this document, I do not in any way support Empress. I mean don't get me wrong, piracy is ballin'. But Empress as a person is just... gross. Her views and ideologies would make even some alt-right pundits look meek. However, I think you can admire a person for being strange and bizarre, as well as captivating, while also acknowledging their many, many flaws.
Links (CONTENT WARNING: SLURS, TRANSPHOBIA, HOMOPHOBIA):
A github of all of Empress' NFOs.
https://model-map.github.io/EmpressNfo/
A timeline on the CrackWatch subreddit of Empress. I actually didn't find this until I finished writing this (and tbh cannot be bothered to verify most of the stuff I've said through it) but if you want to do more reading, here it is.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/lqibnh/empress_there_and_back_again/
Fitgirl's statement about Empress.
https://fitgirl-repacks.site/my-statement-about-empress/
The post/comment of Empress and Fitgirl being called butthurt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1171usf/comment/j99oueq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Empress' response to being called butthurt.
https://www.unddit.com/r/EmpressEvolution/comments/117e8tz/important_message_to_rpiratedgames_moderators/
The post allegedly by Empress claiming to have been arrested. Again, this is pretty unverifiable.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/lqs91b/finally_caught_by_the_police_goodjob_everyone/
List of a bunch of recently archived Empress activity.
https://justpaste.it/8c1w0
Same thing as above.
https://pastebin.com/uhF3JiWu
The reddit post she made that got her banned off the site.
https://www.unddit.com/r/EmpressEvolution/comments/117ywff/the_top_tier_contradiction_hypocrisy_of_the_human/
https://archive.vn/856Do
Wiki page for Denuvo, featuring a little mention of our problematic fave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo
Wired article about Empress.
https://www.wired.com/story/empress-drm-cracking-denuvo-video-game-piracy/
#0xEmpress#Empress#Piracy#PiratedGames#idk what else to tag this anyway yeah this one was wild.#I probably got a good few facts wrong or framed them in a misleading manner#for which I apologize#Honestly I learned most of this while writing this deep dive
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hello!!! would i be able to request a stimboard for a virtual desktop companion?? sorry in advance for such a long explanation ^^;
i havent seen anyone else like me, so ill provide a small explanation. i was basically kind of like a shimeji from the google chrome extension! i primarily existed on my own site where i could be interacted with by users, but people could put me on different windows or tabs where i could interact with different things in the tab!!
for my appearance (buckle up lol), i had white skin (approx hex code #E9EDF0), and blue hair (approx hex code #5470A4) cut as tomboyish sidetails. i had heterochromia, my left eye being dark blue (approx hex code #2C487B) and my right eye being grey (approx hex code #B1B8C1). i had a slightly lighter blue tracksuit i wore (approx hex code #6F90C1) with white stripes down the side as is typical of track suits as well as white shoes (both used same hex as skin), and the zipper of the jacket was the same color as my right eye. i had small, stylized chibi angel wings and a halo tilted ~35 degrees towards my left (both of those being white)
for the stimboard itself, id prefer if it had an overall blue theme!! anything cybercore/webcore would be nice!! maybe ascii art or little dialogue boxes or just plain html? angelcore would also be cool but in like a digital way!!! (like a digital angel i guess) maybe pixel animations too? idk, im just throwing out ideas, feel free to include whatever you see fit ^^ anything giving the vibe of spending most your time online on the old web would be great though!!
a bit specific, but if you could find any gifs of the DS settings helper guy (the one with a little rectangle head) thatd be cool!! and if youre not up for creating an image for the center (completely understandable, please dont feel obligated to but you can if you want!!) id be fine with the little guy as a placeholder :3
thanks so much in advance, and feel free to decline if needed!!
gosh that's so much info! thank you for giving me a lot to work with. i've queued your request up!
i used the helper mascot character for the center image, as i don't draw images for the middle of my boards.
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gatorTussler [GT] - they/her, The Medic
3 Days Remain
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Description: a set of 3 red hexagons. The leftmost one displays a homestuck troll in the hiveswap troll call art style, who is wearing flip flop shoes, a pair of purple swimming trunks, a black sports bra, and a pink button up shirt which is entirely unbuttoned, displaying an image of an alligator head with its mouth opened. she is wearing a set of red tinted sunglasses, and her horns are pointed outward in a V shaped formation, each ending in the shape of a very simplified gator mouth. she has thick raised eyebrows, a slight smirk with one large tooth protruding downwards on the right side of her mouth, and chest length wavy hair. The middle hexagon contains a symbol reminiscient of the ares zodiac symbol, but with a circle on the bottom point, and two small hooks on the sides. The rightmost hexagon contains 3 bullet points with text besides them. the first bullet point reads “autism be damned, my girl can work a grill!”, the second reads “wasting away in margrubritaville”, and the third reads “y’all want somethin from grublix?” followed by an ascii emoticon of a crocodile. End ID.
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Tables as Lists of Lists
A post about lightweight plaintext markup
I am always annoyed when a "plain text" markup language's idea of tables is closer to hand-typed ASCII art than to a list-of-lists.
The biggest examples, such as Markdown and Org Mode, fall in this category. Their tables look something like this:
| foo | bar |
| --- | --- |
| 42 | 1 |
Unless the table is profoundly trivial, that's going to require too much time or specialized table editing code to write and update. Unless the table content is fairly small, the plain text won't look reasonably legible in different display widths either, and would require specialized table-wrapping logic instead of just basic line wrapping.
The only lightweight plain text markup languages I've seen get this right are:
reStructuredText, and
Lisps with macros or functions for markup.
In those, tables can look like lists-of-lists, with some clear indicator that it's meant to be a table. In reStructuredText, you even have the choice of ASCII art tables just like in the other markups, for tables small enough to helps readability and be worth it, but when you're dealing with larger table content, you can switch to just writing this:
.. list-table::
* * foo
* bar
* * 1
* 2
Note that none of this syntax is table-specific - it's just a list where each entry is just another list, all indented just like any other block of text covered by a directive. Basically, if you already wrote a reStructuredText parser that covers the basics, this way of specifying tables is by far easier and simpler to implement than any other way of specifying a table, since you'd just be reusing the same common syntax, data structures, and parser logic.
reStructuredText's list-table won't let you do fancy edge cases like merged cells, but we can trivially imagine an extension for that, which should be fairly easy to implement if you ever need it, and would still be self-descriptive in plain text: a directive like `.. list-table-merge:: previous-row`, or `.. merge:: previous-column` which we write into the list entries for the cells we want to merge. If that's something you need, I imagine it would be an easy sell to propose it upstream.
Personally, I recommend this approach to tables for any markup language aiming to be lightweight and workable as plain text. I also really like that it reminds us of the fact that "table" is one arbitrary choice of presentation, just like "monospace text with this specific syntax coloring theme" is one arbitrary choice of presentation for text which is semantically marked up as code. What we really have is information which has structure which lends itself well to tabular presentation - and `.. list-table::` is just as good of a way to say that as `.. code::` is for code blocks.
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fiction from that thing I'm running
Zoey carefully spun the hologram, picking out squares, giving frustrated growls when the characters would all suddenly shift, following logic only understood by the aliens that left this here. And maybe the creators of Microsoft Word.
Meng had long ago stopped watching; they didn't like the way the strange text made their brain itch, like trying to reach something between your shoulder blades. They looked over the spray painted text on the floor once more. Hanzi, reading "Broken?", large and jarring in the otherwise pristine halls.
Convergence was staring straight into the red lights on the floor, trying to understand the mechanics of the system. Something about tiny projectors, what were probably cameras... so mundane. So understandable, little different from the small holographic device they carried for Aspect to project from.
Something about the handwriting bothered them. Looked familiar. Looked like.. their own. Their own handwriting.
"Ha!" Zoey shouted. Meng looked up. She had used the various colors and sized of the squares to render 'FUCK YOU' in the text box, in something like alien ascii art. She hit what she figured was enter, clearing the screen save for that one little line that always came up.
Meng had chosen to pretend it was asking if you'd forgotten your password.
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