Listen "Solidus"
Episode Synopsis
I was curious about the Unicode characters involved in the "shrug" text art: ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ so I ran it through charnames.pl: ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ | | 0x0020 "SPACE" |̄| 0x0304 "COMBINING MACRON" |\| 0x005C "REVERSE SOLIDUS" |_| 0x005F "LOW LINE" |(| 0x0028 "LEFT PARENTHESIS" |ツ| 0x30C4 "KATAKANA LETTER TU" |)| 0x0029 "RIGHT PARENTHESIS" |_| 0x005F "LOW […]
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