In this thread you post Ascii Art while testing it to make sure things line up correctly, so that you can post it correctly in the thread you want without making that particular thread suck.
★ Always sage when posting!
☆ You can post as many times as you need/want to, don't be shy!
★ Asking for Ascii Art help in this thread is A-OKAY ＼（´ｰ｀）ノ
☆ This thread will be purged of all practice-posts every few days. Discussion posts such as asking for help will NOT be deleted as they could be used as refererence for others.
★ The fun with Ascii Art is to experiment! Similar to a photoshop thread on an imageboard, a fun pastime when playing with AA is to take someone's already-existing AA and edit it! You can use this thread for those purposes as well.
☆ If you're out of AA ideas, browse 2ch for a bit -- you're bound to find something interesting there.
If you have Microsoft IME installed, you can call up symbols easily by typing a keyword like one of the following, and then pressing SPACE. To do so, you must be in hiragana mode.
きごう 【ｋｉｇｏｕ】 gives you a huge list of things, including ∀ and ♪ and ★ and ◎ as well as many of the symbols found below
ほし 【ｈｏｓｈｉ】 gives you stars ★☆※＊
ひし 【ｈｉｓｈｉ】 gives you diamonds ◇◆
ろしあ 【ｒｏｓｈｉａ】 gives you Cyrillic
さんかく 【ｓａｎｋａｋｕ】 gives you triangles △▽▲▼∵∴
てん 【ｔｅｎ】 gives you dots and periods and stuff ・‥
けいせん 【ｋｅｉｓｅｎ】 gives you boxdrawing things ┤┫┰
ぎりしゃ 【ｇｉｒｉｓｈａ】 gives you Greek Letters εΩξ
Typing [ or ( gives you all sorts of brackets
Alternatively, you can always call up charmap at the command line (Start → Run → type charmap)
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', ヽ--'' ﾉ-,!､ ﾞi
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_,,. -''"￣~~ ¨"''ｰ､ you feel like punching me in the face?
／ ヽ bring it on you faggot.
／ ; ヽ I know multiple fighting styles,
,:' ; / ﾞi and I also carry a switchblade with me at all times.
l /7/ ; _ l Something fucking tells me that you'd be better off
_/ j / ﾚ ノノ´ ',, l keeping your arms down at your sides.
/ /ﾉ ﾍ. r'" l ｌ l If you can't fucking put "cause" and "effect"
l/ｲ ｲ!-‐ニ､ヾ ‐---､',,l ', together in that pathetic brain of yours, I'll help you
l/l ﾍl ﾐ´愛 ;l ´莎ミﾍ ' , out here.
＼l ￣ j ￣ ﾚ､ ＼ You'll be standing face to face with me, and let
,,.-', <､ _ノ', ｀ヽ me fucking tell you, it'll already be too
/ 〉、 こつ -､ /´ l 人__,,.-‐‐ ､ ﾞi late to back down at that point.
r‐─''ﾆ,=‐＼ ﾞ _,. '" ノ ﾉﾌﾞ ヽ __ ﾞi You might decide "well shit, I might as well
7二／-''" ゝ,｀¨ﾞ´ ｀ヽ、 ／/ l ', ', l stay true to my word and throw a punch."
j'"う<-ﾆ´､__ ｀ヽ、 ｀j/ / _,,.....,, j l ',! This is where you will go wrong.
／／ ﾄ､ヾ='r'"¨ー-ｯﾞ ノ ﾊll ,,.='"''"￣))ﾉ' l I hope you don't have a job that requires
/／ ヽ,-‐''"=---､ゞ''" ∨ / l two fucking hands, because you're going to
,// / ', ｀¨iﾆ=| ', ,' / be missing one after I'm done with you.
---､＿／7 / ﾍ ¨´ | i / ／
/ / /._ ＼ | ﾞi, / ／ Now, motherfucker,
l ﾄ､ ./ ｀¨ー､_＼ | ﾊ. / { you sure you want to go through with that punch?
l ヽ-‐'ﾉ ｀¨ー-､l j ',l}. l Thought so, faggot.
ゝ､＿_,／ i',, ,,/ j ﾞi ヽ
', ヽ--'' ﾉ-,!､ ﾞi
ゝ、＿_,／ ｀ｰ､_l