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Color Ascii Art Library

Posted by michael on from the news-you-can-use dept.

thedj_sd writes "As the true slashdot reader you just love ascii art of course. You have toyed around with aalib or maybe you use it all the time to watch your pr0n :) Well VLC media player's senior developer sam was bored some time ago and created libcaca. The Colour AsCii Art library of which he himself says: 'I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that.' But you just can't help looking at that beautiful picture of Stitch, and Doom in coloured ascii is da bomb. It works on dos/windows, Linux and Mac OS X and there is a VLC plugin and SDL backend available."

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  1. Re:libCACA? by Threni · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >Oh crap (pun intended), two comments above me for the same thing. Score: -1,
    >Redundant, here I come!

    I doubt it. This is Slashdot - home of redundant, duplicate information (or at least, data).

  2. Re:Pornography? No thanks! by foolip · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well you're not watching what I'm watching... I've seen all sorts of stuff where women are the central objects of domination, including of course lesbian action...

    Correct, not all porn is of the same character. As for lesbian porn, the basic idea is that men should fantisise about having two women at the same time, and we all know that what a pair of lesbians really wants to do is pleasure a man, right? Besides, when did you ever see two men getting it on in the middle of a "normal" porno movie? No, female homosexuals are something cute and male homosexuals are something strange to put on a different shelf.

    the market of supply and demand is there, people get paid to do it, stop calling it exploitation for crying out loud! If you're not comfortable with it, you don't have to watch it, condone it, or pay for it.

    Your capitalist point of view is too simplistic. The economical sustainability of an industry is completely irrelevant to its ethical implications or whether or not someone is exploited. Just take a look at the meat industry, or any of the industries which uses underpayed workers in the third world (bordering to slavery sometimes) to see that economics and ethics have nothing to do with each other. I'm not comfortable with it, I don't watch it, I don't condone it and I don't pay for. But I'm not going to shut up about it.