Redoubtable Downtown Space Abbey - pregame announcement

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:game_die: 7

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… Okay, maybe that’s unworkable.

Edit: Duh, what am I thinking?

@discobot roll 4d52

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One more time.

@discobot roll 6d52

Edit: oh, come on. This is not rocket surgery.

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@discobot quote

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You broke @discobot.

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Alas. Poor Discobot. I knew him well.

@discobot roll 3d6

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:game_die: 5, 4, 1

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Beep Boop Beep! I am an antique, but may function properly in time.

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

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@discobot, I understand:

@discbot color - discbot will respond with a color
@discbot roll d20 - roll a single 20 sided dice
@discbot roll 2d20 - roll two dice
@discbot roll 2d20+5 - roll two dice with a positive modifier
@discbot roll 2d20-5 - roll two dice with a negative modifier
@discbot roll d20 your extra text here - rolls and parrots back your extra text
@discbot hello - discbot will respond with a greeting
@discbot help - shows all discbot commands

Your special color today is #38A496

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@discbot roll 3d20 for a can of beans

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@gwwar the 3d20 dice reads: 30 for a can of beans (6,9,15)

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Try this again.

@discbot roll 6d52

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@nimelennar the 6d52 dice reads: 199 (8,39,49,20,49,34)

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Hmmm. 8 of clubs, K of hearts, 10 of spades, 7 of diamonds, another 10 of spades, and an 8 of hearts.

Of course, this simultaneously proves both the w feasibility and infeasibility of using discbot to deal cards. Easy enough to interpret the results; no way of ensuring that there aren’t any duplicates.

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I briefly looked at what it would take to build a card-game bot and quickly realized I was lacking:

  1. the skill to do it quickly
  2. the time to ramp up the skill
  3. The motivation for either. (pity)
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Given a chance to look at discbot’s source code and a few evenings, I could probably figure something out. By which I mean, a bot that keeps track of a deck and deals cards, not something that knows the rules of any particular game.

My problem is almost entirely on the “motivation” end.

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See https://github.com/gwwar/discbot

For any sort of games, we’d need storage, but for a first implementation we could perhaps use an in-memory implementation before moving onto a SQL DB.

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Also let me know if folks are interested in contributing scripts. I’m thinking of porting this to plain JS, since I don’t want to bother with coffeescript v2

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Apropos of nothing, I am really enjoying writing letters as SPH, using the guidelines given.

The layers upon layers of subtext, all with a candy-sweet shell of politeness and well wishes.

I really wish people still wrote like this nowadays; it’s a style that suits me well.

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