Creating ExistentialRickBot, probably the silliest Redditbot yet
So I'd written SchmeckleBot, a simple bot that converts currency from schmeckles to USD. But I decided to go even simpler, still in the theme of Rick and Morty (if you loved Futurama watch this!).
In the pilot episode, when Morty sees something during a chase scene that causes an existential crisis, Rick quickly snaps him out of it with the pithy quote 'Don't think about it!'.
It should be immediately obvious that a reddit bot needs to exist and reply with that quote whenever an existential question is asked on the r/rickandmorty subreddit. And thus was born ExistentialRickBot.
The core logic is dead simple, if an existential question is posted, respond with an existential answer.
questions = ['why', 'happen', 'think'] # Match if any of these are found in messagedefisExistentialQuestion(message): return'?'in message andany([q in message.lower() for q in questions]) defgetAnswerToExistentialQuestion(): return"The answer is don…
In the pilot episode, when Morty sees something during a chase scene that causes an existential crisis, Rick quickly snaps him out of it with the pithy quote 'Don't think about it!'.
It should be immediately obvious that a reddit bot needs to exist and reply with that quote whenever an existential question is asked on the r/rickandmorty subreddit. And thus was born ExistentialRickBot.
The core logic is dead simple, if an existential question is posted, respond with an existential answer.
questions = ['why', 'happen', 'think'] # Match if any of these are found in messagedefisExistentialQuestion(message): return'?'in message andany([q in message.lower() for q in questions]) defgetAnswerToExistentialQuestion(): return"The answer is don…