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[1;44mº /*               Good tidings we bring to you and your kin!                 º[0m
[1;44mº                                                                             º[0m
[1;44mº Two years ago, andyh diverted us from our customary big messy December      º[0m
[1;44mº artpack of seasonal stone soup, and we focused our efforts into a then-     º[0m
[1;44mº unique project that saw us cooking up a large quantity (just over two       º[0m
[1;44mº dozen) of single-screen (25 lines or less) ANSI art screens on seasonal     º[0m
[1;44mº themes, to include in a nostalgic MS-DOS executable to programmatically     º[0m
[1;44mº replicate the experience of a child opening doors daily on an Advent        º[0m
[1;44mº calendar.  (Except instead of milk chocolates, they got that day's singular º[0m
[1;44mº ANSI screen.)  Just to keep things interesting, we undertook to condense    º[0m
[1;44mº the entire creative spree into the scanty few weeks between the end of      º[0m
[1;44mº October and the beginning of December.                                      º[0m
[1;44mº                                                                             º[0m
[1;44mº Well, making it was fun, and the end result was well received, so we        º[0m
[1;44mº reproduced the challenge the following autumn, this time a1pha forking the  º[0m
[1;44mº executable to also allow the daily art display to be appreciated by callers º[0m
[1;44mº to bulletin board services, the traditional natural element in which to be  º[0m
[1;44mº appreciating ANSI art screens.  There was, again, a good deal of interest   º[0m
[1;44mº in our work from parties who for whatever reason aren't making it out to    º[0m
[1;44mº our galleries and social media posts, so when November came around this     º[0m
[1;44mº year we couldn't resist taking another crack at cooking up another ANSI art º[0m
[1;44mº Advent calendar.                                                            º[0m
[1;44mº                                                                             º[0m
[1;44mº Building on the strengths of last year's edition, the BBS door version of   º[0m
[1;44mº this most recent release also includes the complete inventory of every      º[0m
[1;44mº ANSI art screen included in our previous two ANSI Advent calendars, in the  º[0m
[1;44mº event that while you're in the mood to appreciate seasonal ANSI art you     º[0m
[1;44mº just might like to enjoy a little more of it than the single new screen our º[0m
[1;44mº program unlocks on a daily basis.  You can always of course flip back to    º[0m
[1;44mº bask in the screens unlocked on previous dates, but this year's complete[0;34mÛÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº gallery of screens will only become fully available on Christmas morning.[0;34mÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº (Unless, of course, you are an 31i73 hax0r.)[0;34mÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº [0;34mÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº The calendar is a community undertaking but typically there is one artist [0;34mÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº who conspicuously feels a little more Christmassy (or at least, more [0;34mÛÛÛÛÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº productive) than the others and pulls ahead of the pack.  Last year it was[0;34mÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº littlebitspace, answering the question "What's with all the skulls?", and [0;34mÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº this year our star player is [32mThe Green Herring[37m, whose body of work dwells[0;34mÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº on specific themes that should be obvious to the observer!  It is no      [0;34mÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº overstatement to say that without [32mTGH[37m's many contributions to this year's   º[0m
[1;44mº ANSI Advent calendar, it would not have been possible to release on time.   º[0m
[1;44mº Given their incredible generosity and spirit of giving in regards to this [0;34mÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº project, I will be striving to refer to them for the remainder of this   [0;34mÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº holiday season as [32mThe [31mRed[32m and Green[0;34mÛ[1;32;44mHerring[37m.[0;34mÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº [0;34mÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ[1;37;44m                                  [0;34mÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº Thanks to all the participants in this year's ANSI Advent calendar, and to  º[0m
[1;44mº everyone justifying our efforts by checking in to appreciate what we're [0;34mÛÛÛ[1;37;44m º[0m
[1;44mº going to the trouble of sharing with you.  Thanks also to everyone we've    º[0m
[1;44mº worked with over the past calendar year, everyone we've made art with and   º[0m
[1;44mº shared art with!  There are many compelling competing distractions out      º[0m
[1;44mº there in 2025, and we look forward to continuing to connect with you all    º[0m
[1;44mº in cyberspace through vintage computer art traditions... the tech may be    º[0m
[1;44mº obsolescent but the sentiment is evergreen![5mÛ[0;1;44m                             */ º[0m
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