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Zalgo text. Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy . Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence ...
An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [10] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and variable-width fonts became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art.
Twitch Plays Pokémon ( TPP) is a social experiment and channel on the video game live streaming website Twitch, consisting of a crowdsourced attempt to play Game Freak 's and Nintendo 's Pokémon video games by parsing commands sent by users through the channel's chat room. It holds the Guinness World Record for having "the most participants ...
The Konami Code was first used in the release of Gradius (1986), a scrolling shooter for the NES [11] and was popularized among North American players in the NES version of Contra. The code is also known as the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code", since the code provided the player 30 extra lives in Contra. The code has been used to help novice ...
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media and files.Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".
A visual novel (ビジュアルノベル, bijuaru noberu) is a game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art. As the name might suggest, they resemble mixed-media novels or tableau vivant stage plays. Many visual novels track statistics that the player must build in order to advance the plot, and permit a variety of ...
ASCII stereogram. ASCII stereograms are a form of ASCII art based on stereograms to produce the optical illusion of a three- dimensional image by crossing the eyes appropriately using a single image or a pair of images next to each other. To obtain the 3D effect (in Figure 1 for instance), it is necessary for the viewer to diverge their eyes ...
cowsay is a program that generates ASCII art pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures using pre-made images of other animals, such as Tux the Penguin, the Linux mascot. It is written in Perl. There is also a related program called cowthink, with cows with thought bubbles rather than speech bubbles.