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As for comparison with ruby, all I can say is figurine is a single binary, whereas ruby's lolcat requires ruby's VM. There are a…","open_source","unknown",{"praise":61,"objections":77,"requests":107,"questions":125,"alternatives":131},[62],{"value":63,"source":49,"evidence":64},"Fun, nice eye-candy for the terminal",[65,69,73],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"16952714","jimpudar","Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"16957240","piahoo","quite funny. check lolcat if you are intrested: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fbusyloop\u002Flolcat",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"16956070","doyoulikeworms","This pleasantly reminds me of faders for chat programs like AIM :)",[78,93],{"value":79,"source":49,"evidence":80},"Name is meaningless and not explained by the project; overlaps with figlet and ASCII art",[81,85,89],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"16953056","ktpsns","We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"16953169","orf","Cool? Meaningless though",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"16953249","andmarios","Also on any Linux distribution you will find figlet available from the default repositories. :) http:\u002F\u002Fwww.figlet.org\u002F",{"value":94,"source":49,"evidence":95},"Some fonts render wrong characters",[96,100,104],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"16953420","Gaelan","Occasionally this outputs F'DK'M instead of GAELAN for me. Maybe an issue with some of the fonts?",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"16954273","kkwteh","Looks like an off by one error. I'm seeing this error as well for some of the fonts.",{"id":105,"by":11,"text":106},"16953849","Some fonts are broken I think.",[108,115],{"value":109,"source":49,"evidence":110},"Add a CLI option to choose a font",[111,112],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":113,"by":11,"text":114},"16957390","Just added a flag (-v) to print out the font. Please let me know which font is broken and I will remove it. Thanks. You can also choose a specific font if you want.",{"value":116,"source":49,"evidence":117},"Support piping text in, such as cowsay output",[118,122],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"16955259","hestefisk","Would like ability to pipe cow-say into it (or any random set of strings) on which it will then just add the colour effect.",{"id":123,"by":11,"text":124},"16957383","You can pipe the cow-say to this program: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Farsham\u002Frainbow Is that what you're after?",[126],{"value":127,"source":49,"evidence":128},"Is it faster than Ruby lolcat?",[129,130],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},[132,136,140],{"value":25,"source":49,"evidence":133},[134,135],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},{"value":28,"source":49,"evidence":137},[138,139],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":141,"source":49,"evidence":142},"liquidprompt and spaceship prompt",[143,147],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"16954428","gerdesj","I love this sort of thing. 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