{"id":5741,"date":"2005-06-27T22:27:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/5741\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T06:27:30","slug":"what-is-the-deal-with-these-ascii-art-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5741","title":{"rendered":"What is the deal with these ASCII art cats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I saw a flash movie of a little white cat in a cardboard box.  She sings.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nDuring the song she watches another (boy) cat walk by, who is apparently her boyfriend.  He runs off with another cat.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThe weird thing is- the boy cat looks like it has a &#8220;delta&#8221; character for a nose.  Or the letter &#8220;de&#8221; in Russian.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nRecently I figured out a couple of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The song is from a video game- <u>Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete<\/u><\/il>\n<li>The reason the cats look like they have letters in them is because they are ASCII art characters from the Japanese BBS &#8220;2ch&#8221;<\/il>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for obscure.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Hey, did you notice the Japanese chatroom people make art with Russian characters?  And we just have the Latin character set?<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Know why?<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>BECAUSE WE ARE A BUNCH OF HICKS AND WE ARE FALLING BEHIND.  EVERYONE ELSE IS SMARTER THAN US!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Quick!  Go learn another language!  It may not be too late for you!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giko_Cat\">Wikipedia entry on Giko cat<\/a><\/lI>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mona_%28ASCII_art%29\">Wikipedia on Mona<\/a><\/lI>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shii.org\/2chgrounds\/faq\">a whole bunch of 2ch flash movies<\/a><\/lI>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/4-ch.net\/ascii\/kareha.pl\/1112629846\/\">detailed analysis<\/a>&#8221; of some of the characters<\/lI>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogjam.com\/index.php?p=000948\">blogjam<\/a> entry which has nice pictures of the characters so you don&#8217;t have to have a Unicode browser<\/lI>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Giko:<\/p>\n<pre> &#12288;&#12288;&#65343;&#65343;__&#65343;&#8743;&#8743;&#12288;&#12288; &#65295;&#65507;&#65507;&#65507;&#65507;&#65507;&#65507;&#65507;\n&#12316;'&#12288;&#65343;&#65343;__&#65288;&#12288;&#65439;&#1044;&#65439;&#65289;&#65308;&#12288;&#12288;&#36893;&#12387;&#12390;&#12424;&#12375;&#65281;&#65281;\n &#12288; &#65333;U &#12288; &#12288;&#65333; U&#12288;&#12288;&#12288; &#65340;&#65343;&#65343;&#65343;&#65343;&#65343;&#65343;&#65343;\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I saw a flash movie of a little white cat in a cardboard box. She sings. During the song she watches another (boy) cat walk by, who is apparently her boyfriend. He runs off with another cat. The weird thing is- the boy cat looks like it has a &#8220;delta&#8221; character for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}