Since there has been more than one person on the Internet, there have been arguments. Some debates in the forums have become so scandalous that they have always been embedded in the collective unconscious of the network. And now they can become Phoenix Wright debates.
A new robot created by Micah Price can take the text of Reddit’s arguments and transplant them directly into a file frame Ace Lawyer scene. The application seems simple enough: look for a good argument, comment in the correct order (the “! Objectionbot” or “! Objection-bot” setting) and the system works.
Price’s bot grabs the two most frequent commentators on the thread and assigns them the roles of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth. All others are random and, depending on the comment score, the robot will also assign the appropriate happy faces or an “OBJECT”.
Add some music to the audience room and you have a perfect setting to remember the Reddit drama. Price says Mashable he did it in just three days using Python, along with some computer vision and machine learning libraries, and the code is open source.
In any case, I hope this robot can expand even further. Twitter threads would be a great implementation, or if they could take even older arguments from other non-Reddit forums. Fortunately, another Ace Lawyer fan has already turned the famous forum thread “how many days a week” in a Phoenix Wright argument, so we are served in this regard.
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The bot does not work on all subreddits: the price refers to the subreddits it supports bot’s Reddit user page—But feel free to use it as fodder for your next dive for a Reddit rabbit hole.