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[–] 188 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I love that pirate groups still use ascii text art in their release notes. It’s like a little piece of the world that hasn’t changed in 30 years.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    On Linux, you'll want to install figlet and toilet (both available in the debian repos)

    Alternatively you've got this online frontend

    If you really want to get weird with it you can also play any video in ascii art through libcaca and mplayer. Looks like this

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I use Arch btw Endeavour OS so don't have Debian repos but I will definitely check them out. I especially like the fancy dark mode.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    it's typically just a kind of pixel art with monospaced fonts¹. any characters you see that's not typically shown on your keyboard (e.g a filled square) can be found in a character selection program in your OS. anything else related to texts, templating and line breaks you can probably find a program somewhere on places like crates.io or gitlab or write something of your own without much trouble.

    ¹ a monospaced font is a font where every letter and character has the same spacing from each other, and are the easiest to do ascii art. (ascii is just one character table, but you can also gather unicode chars all you want)

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    And still include cheesy mp3s playing too loud in retro-futuristic-looking installers

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I pirated a cracked version of Adobe Acrobat Pro recently. First thing I had to crack in years. It had a sketchy crack installer , with music and everything. Like it was back in the 90s. Of course it worked perfectly lol.

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