Since there is more than one person on the internet there are arguments. Some forum debates have become so outrageous that they are forever anchored in the collective unconscious of the web. And now they can be changed to Phoenix Wright debates.
A new bot created by Micah Price can grab the text of Reddit arguments and put them directly under a Ace lawyer scene. Its implementation seems simple enough: find a good argument, comment with the appropriate command (the appropriate “! Objectionbot” or “! Objection-bot”), and the system gets to work.
Price’s bot then grabs the two most common commenters in the thread and assigns them the roles of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth. All others are random, and depending on the score of the comment, the bot will also assign appropriate happy faces or an “OBJECTION!”
Add in some turnabout courtroom music, and you have a perfect frame to repeat Reddit drama. Price tells Mashable that he made it with Python in just three days, in addition to some libraries for computer vision and machine learning, and the code is open source.
In any case, I hope that this bot can expand even further. Twitter threads would be a great implementation, or if it could even grab older arguments from other, non-Reddit forums. Fortunately one more Ace lawyer fan has already flipped the infamous “how many days in a week” forum thread in a Phoenix Wright argument, so we are taken care of in that regard.
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The bot doesn’t work on every subreddit – Price tells you which subreddits it supports on the bot’s Reddit user page– but feel free to use this as food for your next dive down a Reddit rabbit hole.