the-useless-one / parrot

A fun server that repeats what you tell him to repeat

Parrot

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A fun server that repeats what you tell him to repeat. An original idea from Guillaume Chelfi and Yannick Méheut.

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How can someone win an argument? By repeating one's point of view over, and over, and over, and over, [...], and over.

Let's look at an example:

"- Dude, this movie totally rocks!

• Meh, I think it's pretty boring...
• Is not.
• Is too.
• Is not!
• Is too!
• Is not!
• Fine, you win..."

The original idea behind Parrot was this simple craving from Chelfi and me to win every argument. The first version of this script was written by Chelfi to tell me to shut up.

We made improvement when we came to the point where we were out of ideas to implement. Obviously, the next step was to make it "networked", and Chelfi had this amazing idea of enabling everyone to connect to a server to see the general trend of words.

REQUIREMENTS

All you need is Python! At the moment, we use Python2, but a port to Python3 is definitely on our TODO list.

USAGE

parrot_server

Just go to the parrot_server directory and type the following command:

./parrot_server.py <port>

where port is the port the server will listen on.

Don't forget to make the script executable by with:

chmod +x parrot_server.py

parrot_client

Whoops! Nothing to see here at the moment!

COPYRIGHT

Parrot - A fun server that repeats what you tell him to repeat. Guillaume Chelfi and Yannick Méheut Copyright © 2013

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.