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Yet another twitter bot. I did this as a web project a long time ago, and turned it into a twitter bot to see how difficult it would be to write one of those. (Answer: about 15 lines of shell for the comic assembly and 10 lines of python to post to twitter.) It generates and posts a new randomly-assembled comic strip every eight hours.
Yet another twitter bot. I did this as a web project a long time ago, and turned it into a twitter bot to see how difficult it would be to write one of those. (Answer: about 15 lines of shell for the comic assembly and 10 lines of python to post to twitter.) It generates and posts a new randomly-assembled comic strip every eight hours.
Role: programmer
these are amazing
posted by Foci for Analysis at 10:14 AM on September 12, 2016
posted by Foci for Analysis at 10:14 AM on September 12, 2016
I do like how every once in a while it spits out something that actually makes me laugh out loud, which is more than I can say for the source material.
posted by hades at 1:05 PM on September 12, 2016
posted by hades at 1:05 PM on September 12, 2016
Gaaa!!! They almost make sense!!! seems a fitting description for these.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 3:02 PM on September 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 3:02 PM on September 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
No; the original comic author's ongoing assholery made me decreasingly fond of the project, and I shut it off so I wouldn't feel like I was in any way endorsing his work or existence. The web version of it is still up -- search for "driblet" and the cartoonist's name to find it.
posted by hades at 8:17 AM on December 6, 2016
posted by hades at 8:17 AM on December 6, 2016
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