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Routinely.

I played a D&D character that was, until recently, about as stupid as they could come. Think "Makes Forest Gump look intelligent". A monk who quoted scripture at random that had zero relation to the matter at hand. Never got anyone's name right (always got the first letter right)

So I wrote a discord bot. First in python, then eventually in rust (just because). The bot has a few commands, one to return a random quote from a database, one to add a quote to the database, and one to return a random name that starts with the specified letter.

Of course, things being what they are in D&D, he's suddenly a lot smarter, and the bot is no longer useful. Fun though, an interesting learning exercise.



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