Old fashion 1 line ASCII art would do: <3

And more importantly, you have no control over the state of the duck.

So you can look at 1120 ducks (enough information to encode an SMS in ascii), but you can't change them.

For the puzzled... http://www.binaryhexconverter.com/binary-to-ascii-text-converter

ASCII drawing of Bobbit worm:

\_OmfG_/
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\
//NOPE\\

Good explanation without a high CS knowledge barrier. (Bonus ease-of-grandma-understanding points for avoiding the use of the word/term/acronym ASCII)

Then again, most people that lack that knowledge probably don't much care *why* it crashes Chrome, they just want it to be fixed. Which I'm sure will be imminent, at which point only CS nerds (like me) care.

...Still, at least I found it interesting!

I do a lot of bitcoin mining with ASCII like this.

Oh well shit, when you put it that way. I do not know what I was thinking. Might of been the fact the other persons succinct two characters portrayed the same sentiment you put out in 126.

Picture is worth a thousand words, fuck, maybe we should all communicate with pictures or ascII art.

Haha.

Google's vision:

1. Do no evil.
2. Allow Hitler and Jesus to post ASCII art of penises and swastikas.

"you have to limit the number of characters.. people are posting novels, movie scripts, ascii art of genitalia and swastikas"

That, right there, is why I don't comment on youtube.

There's no community, there's no value, there's nothing to be gained from reading them or posting on them. It's just too many people.

Even if 10% of the comments are insightful, thought-provoking or funny, it's just not worth it.

Youtube, as far as I'm concerned, is a hosting service. That's it.

My problem with the new comment system is the fact that spam is usually the top comments now. The top comments were relevant about 70% of the time before (with the occasional "Reddit sent me here" type BS), now it is ASCII art. They had a thumbs up, thumbs down thing for their comment system before to rate comments as relevant or not, you had to scroll past the top comments to get to the most recent comments...

And to answer Google's question, yes, most recent first... that is why I don't use Google+, because posts are put in some random order (at least on mobile devices) with no option to keep it in post order.

To be fair, there is a drop down menu in YouTube comments to put posts with most recent first. If they want, they could, should add another option to include "replies by poster"... and perhaps a search option to search comments... seeing how they are a search company...

I like the nested comments, but I don't like the way comments are overall now.

Look at the ASCII art found on the top comment of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aD5u02qoxQ how is that comment the top comment? Heck it is hard to even thumbs down it as the text goes over the thumbs.

They want to cross promote Google+? Fine, then put the same bar that is on top of GMail and Google Calendar across the top of YouTube.... instant cross promotion of all your products...

EDIT: Where the heck did that bar across the top of GMail and Calendar go? Seems you now have a less intuitive Apps button on the top...


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Hmm, why my code tags aren't working to show ASCII art?

To those who missed it here's an ascii representation:

B===D O:

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I can do ASCII art roses. How about that?

-_- fine. ruin my pretty ascii. stupid interwebs!
>> ^berticus:

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