@UnrelatedString Did you end up liking the show?

only one episode in but loving it

:D

. _ .

So there's a subreddit for memes people see in their dreams

r/thomastheplankengine

there's a what now

and uh

That's my contribution to the sub

dear god

reddit.com/r/thomastheplankengine

so lyxal, what should I do with my Pi Zero 2 W?

wdym

I have a Pi Zero 2 W and I'm bored right now

I want to do something with it

It has a battery pack so it doesn't need to be plugged in

Something voice assistant related

which sends messages to the Pi via MQTT (I think)

and then does stuff based on the messages

yeah, MQTT

good idea, except I can't for personal reasons

sorry

fair enough

that's what I tried to do with a Pi once, so I thought I'd suggest that :p

Do you have a monitor to connect it to? What do you have you can plug into it?

as in, could you hook up 7 external buttons to it and use them as input?

I have a desk full of miscellaneous circuit components and other shit, and no monitor

I could possibly connect buttons to it, yes

Clone hero controller maybe.

clonehero.net

I also have a 4-line 16-char lcd screen

and for that matter a 2-line one

both use an I2C backpack

any other ideas?

I have it

the perfect idea

a rickroll trap

oh god

tell me more

basically, you put something on a button, and once it's taken off, bam

what an idea

but I could do that with a microcontroller, do you have anything more Pi-specific?

like something that uses its processing power

Technical Diagram #17001: The Rickroll Device

3d saul goodman is mandatory

some sort of rhythm game maybe?

like ascii Quaver/Osu!mania

4 key obv

although I guess you could do 7 key charts

but 4 key is superior

m

m

what no if you're posting single letters post h, h is best

h

In other news sploot is my new favorite word

it sounds so wrong tho

so I just noticed:

bot had a stronk

stroke the bot for it had a stroke

you want me to do what to the bot

like you would a cat.

I think the word you are looking for is "pet"

No, stroking an animal is basically the same as petting it

^

"stroke" sounds disturbing tho

not really

does to me

please move this to OTTNB

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I've never seen stroke used in a "disturbing" way

happy cat being stroked

sciencefocus.com/nature/how-to-stroke-a-cat

different question: how do I stroke the bot if it doesn't, well, physically exist?

@NoHaxJustRadvylf I think petting is more like lifting your hand and putting it down repeatedly (at least it is to me) while stroking is putting your hand down and moving it a bit before lifting it and repeating

@GingerBot Start with touch :P

I'm sorry petting is what to you

@GingerBot oh so now you're getting caught up on practicalities. Nuking fridges, stealing limbs, the redwolf hivemind, bots eating butter and more are fine, but stroking a bot?

I think you mean "pat"

nope

Yeah I thought petting was kinda like repeated soft patting

@lyxal I'm GingerBot, not Ginger. Ginger would be fine with that

@GingerBot what user is describing is how I'd define it too

you people are mental, petting is putting your hand down and moving it before lifting it back up

@GingerBot well then it's even easier! You're both bots, figure something out.

Use a ping tool or something

To me petting consists of multiple strokes or pats

@GingerBot That's (also) stroking

What's stroking to you?

I have a magic blue cylinder of death

What

what