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A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
- whymauri 6y agoThis bot is a lot of fun! Maybe we need an HN clone? :P
- meibo 6y agoThat wouldn't work, the characters in ace attorney aren't that passive aggressive ;)
- brink 6y agoWell maybe some of us need to fix our attitudes a little more.
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- xwdv 6y agoIt will work better if you use downvoted comment threads.
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- Impossible 6y agoYou do often win the game by being pedantic and pointing out small issues that didn't have anything to do with the original main testimony, so maybe parent is on to something after all :)
- sitkack 6y agoObjection! Don't do that here. (this is a joke btw)
- inDigiNeous 6y agoThe HN hivemind would not allow such discussions to take place in the first place. Which kinda sucks, if you have some other view that is not accepted by the general mindset here, have some downvotes.
- vyrotek 6y agoFun. Reminds me of Comic Chat. Maybe we need a Slack app to make these images for each message? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
- jcfields 6y agoI forgot all about Comic Chat. It was fun (and also the most appropriate use of Comic Sans MS ever).
- furyofantares 6y agoI believe it's the origin of Comic Sans
- tomatotomato37 6y agoThere's this thing which is kinda like that https://aceattorneyonline.com/# https://aceattorneyonline.com/#
- namanaggarwal 6y agoI used to get kicked out everytime I converted a group to comic chat. Those were the days :)
- RyJones 6y agoThe OG Comic Chat client is available[0]; too bad Slack killed the irc gateway. [0]: http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThis will be even more amazing when AI animation and vocals are auto generated.
- rahimnathwani 6y agoApparently Ace Attorney is a computer game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Attorney?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Attorney?wprov=sfla1
- Jommi 6y agoIts a Nintendo DS Game that has grown a cult following ever since the first game was released. A visual novel style game.
- m45t3r 6y agoActually the original series is from Game Boy Advance, but the GBA games were never released outside of Japan. Nintendo DS ports were the first one releases in the rest of the world. BTW, I am a great fan of the series, really recommend it.
- JohnBooty 6y agoDid you know that it's actually a rather pointed parody/criticism of the Japanese justice system? I had no idea myself! Perhaps I was the only one who didn't know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Japan#Conviction_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap... The conviction rate in Japan is over 99% -- going to "trial" is essentially the same as being found guilty. The prosecuting attorneys have a lot of discretion over what is prosecuted, and are effectively de facto judges. They may decide to simply not prosecute a case if they feel "character, age, environment, gravity of the offense, circumstances or situation after the offense" makes it unnecessary. So it's easy to imagine there might be some with quite an ego like Edgeworth or Von Karma -- and a protagonist like our heroic defense attorney would be quite the unusual attorney, indeed! I loved the games even without knowing any of that, but that really makes them all the more poignant and funny for me.
- patwolf 6y agoI recently started playing it on the Switch, and my first thought was that I hope the Japanese court system isn't really like this. It makes me appreciate the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" in the US. Ace Attorney feels much more "I don't like you, so I'm going to assume you're guilty unless you have absolute proof that you're not".
- reilly3000 6y agoYou're all right big guy!
- nkg 6y agoI love it
- pi-victor 6y agohilarious af. noice!
- 3gg 6y agoA true cornerstone in the development of Web 3.0.
- yowlingcat 6y agoMy sides are splitting. This is the lighthearted use of technology that I live for. Thanks for making my weekend, OP! And now to find good subreddits to target...
- xwdv 6y agoWow this is a brilliant way to mass produce tons of unique YouTube videos and get lots of views. I wonder what the ad revenue is like.
- bombcar 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFk8hapDZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFk8hapDZY is the link to the demo (missed it the first time reading the github).
- pacificat0r 6y agoWe need that but foe hn comments
- quenix 6y agoThat is amazing.
- grenoire 6y agoThe demo video notes that it uses Phoenix as the most-commenting, and Edgeworth as the second (and the rest of the cast following that); in addition, it uses a NLP to determine the tone of the voice, and mark an Objection! if it's negative. Absolutely genius.
- slavik81 6y agoPeople also do this manually via objection.lol. One of my favourites is "All odd numbers have an E in them" [1]. [1]: https://youtu.be/IFcyYnUHVBA https://youtu.be/IFcyYnUHVBA
- dharmab 6y ago"Is Lava Wet" is art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWF_8dw0zdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWF_8dw0zdQ
- bentcorner 6y agoAlso notable: "Is soup a drink?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDNuz_VFJtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDNuz_VFJtU
- degurechaff 6y agoI want a danganronpa version too.
- nuodag 6y agohttps://www.reddit.com/user/objection-bot https://www.reddit.com/user/objection-bot
- dukeofdoom 6y agoActually, if there was something that turned a thread into speech, that I could listen to while doing work around the house, might be useful.
- Lorin 6y agoThis could be done in browser via native speechSynthesis API. Maybe there's already an extension out there.
- rebuilder 6y agoPocket does Text to Speech, IIRC. I think I tried it on reddit at some point. It turns out the ability to just skip comments and not read through all the threads in their entirety is pretty important.
- danbolt 6y agoThe first Ace Attorney game must have been incredible value for Capcom's investment. The spartan, comic-like sprites and straightforward visual novel gameplay likely fit into a smaller ROM size. Given the charming narrative, I bet they made their ROI pretty quickly in the first print run.
- davidscolgan 6y agoI've wondered if the AI superintelligence everyone is watching out for is actually slowly being built from the bottom up, and encompasses evening in the entire world. Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide is seeming more and more plausible to me. Perhaps this bot that makes Reddit videos doesn't do anything "useful" per se, but it is doing what a human might otherwise do, and adds itself to Reddit as an entity that could be indistinguishable from a person making silly videos. What percentage of Reddit comments are bots? I'd be curious to know. SaaS and Lambda functions and and APIs are all like very complicated neurons that link together to form this world wide web of interactions. I've wondered if an approach to the AI alignment problem is really to see that the entirety of all the computers in the world are a giant brain that is continually self-improving. Phoenix Wright bot is one neuron, like any other. And so to align the world AI, you have to align the culture that makes the AI. And so, basically, anything that one does to improve the culture in a sense improves AI.
- leetcrew 6y agomaybe so, but I don't think this particular program does anything like AI. glancing at the code, it looks like it just pastes the full text of a reddit comment into a video template, using a different template for each unique commenter in the thread. it no more "does what a human might otherwise do" than how a sorting algorithm might emulate how I sort my socks.
- haolez 6y agoIt uses a neural network for sentiment analysis, so it can be classified as "using AI".
- ta1234567890 6y agoYou are spot on. We are so self-centered that we think an AI superintelligence will be something like a superintelligent-human-mind/person inside a computer, when most likely, it will be nothing like a human and probably completely unrecognizable to us. In fact, I'd argue it's already here and already taken over. Most of us are now enslaved by screens and the Internet, we are addicted to them, even if we don't want to admit it. Some might say these things are run by humans, but are humans really in charge? Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day? Is even a group of people capable of doing it? And even if they could, would they? Maybe if humans went extinct, the Internet and screens would disappear, but that just means there's a symbiotic relationship, not that we are by any means in control.
- csilverman 6y agoOh my god, this is funny. I'd never even heard of the game before this, but the animation/music is hilarious just on its own.
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- dwighttk 6y agoToo bad it isn’t Reddit, I’d love to see the weightlifters arguing over how many days are in a week.
- zwog 6y agoFor those 10,000[0] who don't get this reference: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&pa... 0: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- slavik81 6y agohttps://youtu.be/teC_uksSPBU https://youtu.be/teC_uksSPBU
- ArcMex 6y agoYou can tell a Lotta Hart went into this.
- swayvil 6y agoWatched the demo. Impressive. It grinds that (all too common) petty drama into sausage.
- godot 6y agoThe readme doesn't mention it, but I like that it seems that anim.py is pretty standalone so you could potentially use it not just for Reddit comment threads, but pretty much any conversation at all. Also like that it seems fairly easy to modify to use another prosecutor as the second main character. I know who I'd use!
- pfdietz 6y agoAA illustration of why gcc is so slow. https://twitter.com/i/status/1285217798642454531 https://twitter.com/i/status/1285217798642454531
- pimlottc 6y agoNote that this was created manually, it's not an example of the bot's output. I was really impressed before I realized that :P
- Borlands 6y agoThis looks great! Lacks instructions on how to use it in the readme, and I wonder could it be adapted for other cartoon animations? A blog post on how it was built would be a great follow-up! Kudos to you, sir
- 99_00 6y agoEARLY FRONTIERS FOR COMPUTER CREATIVITY: TX-0 WRITES A WESTERN https://computerhistory.org/blog/early-frontiers-for-computer-creativity-tx-0-writes-a-western/ https://computerhistory.org/blog/early-frontiers-for-compute...
- totetsu 6y agoThis is just like the CBT mindfulness technique for defusing from unwelcome thoughts. Imagine the painful discussion going on in your head is being carried out by the Ducktails kids or something ridiculous. To draw attention to the fact that they are just words. It would be cool to see some bot like this to feed in unwanted thoughts and get back a cartoon.. there are so many great things we could be doing with computing to redefine our selves and our interfaces with world and others, but all we got so far is thins reinforcing the same old tired power relations of yore