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Color Ascii Art Library
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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This is an offtopic rant, but I must object to this posting. Colored ASCII movies is cool of course, but what has porn got to do with anything?
You have toyed around with aalib or maybe you use it all the time to watch your pr0n :)
Is the assumption that a slashdot reader watches porn? I must point out that not all do, and that porn is not OK. Porn is not just an innocent fantasy, because real people (men and women) are being exploited in this industry where surface is everything and people are only instruments to give you and orgasm and the porno company money. It doesn't matter if you're paying for it, you're still lending your support to it.
Even if there were indie porn it still wouldn't be ok as long as the value system where the male orgasm is the center of the universe is in place -- ask yourself when last you saw porn where the man is licking away between the womans legs with an obedient look on his face, and where the woman rushes to squirt the man in some odd place as the orgasm comes closer, the man smiling not getting an orgasm of his own.
I can't stop anyone from watching their "pr0n", but don't make that assumption about all of us!
Just imagine: the goatse guy drawn with libcaca... the perfect match!