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Iranam

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Problem with ASCII visualisation
« on: February 16, 2013, 06:44:48 am »
Greetings! I've been playing DF with graphics set for a while, but later decided to use native, ASCII graphics. At first I couldn't  even understand what's going on on my screen. All i saw was a great wall of incomprehensible text. To learn what all the symbols mean, i tried to look closer at them and understand what do they resemble. That tactic works very well. :) I began to understand more and more tiles, and noticed that all of them actually look like the object they represent. With that in mind I had no trouble with ASCII...

until this day, when image of one creature lodged in my mind, shattering the sanity through thick layer of imagination
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2013, 08:05:23 am »
Contortionists?  :P

I love the statue.
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2013, 08:16:05 am »
Oh god I died when I saw the statue. Amazing.

I guess "human" could technically start with a "U" sound if you have a very strange accent. Possibly.
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2013, 08:24:43 am »
Don't you know? All humans are badass gymnasts, able to perform unaided shoulderstands while raising their arms.
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2013, 08:34:29 am »
A human is you.

Actually, that wasn't the reason.  It was horses vs. humans.  We thought O was definitely going to be ogres or something, and also that U is traditionally taken by a DND monster (umber hulk) that were never going to be put in.  So the horse won the first letter race, and the human was stuck with U as a consolation prize.  There are no doubt many superior choices.
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2013, 10:53:29 am »
Well, at leat in spanish it starts with the "U" sound.

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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2013, 06:45:13 pm »
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2013, 04:10:33 am »
Statue is amazing.
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2013, 11:35:24 am »
Quote from: Toady One on February 16, 2013, 08:34:29 am
A human is you.

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A Human is U
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2013, 01:37:21 pm »
Don't you pronounce human as u-man?
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Re: Problem with ASCII visualisation
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2013, 02:22:17 am »
That statue.

Quote from: Dutchling on February 17, 2013, 01:37:21 pm
Don't you pronounce human as u-man?
This is why I thought 'U' was chosen.
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