You fight like a dairy farmer! Some Twitter whimsy with Ruby
March 14, 2012 § 1 Comment
When I was a kid I used to love playing The Secret of Monkey Island. I played it on my Commodore Amiga 500 and it came on four 3.5″ floppy disks. Those were the days.
My favourite part of the game was the , where, instead of strength, a sharp wit was the only way to overcome your opponent. The insults range from derogatory (“You fight like a dairy farmer!”) to egotistical (“I got this scar on my face during a mighty struggle!”) and you take the lead character, Guybrush Threepwood, through a number of fights to learn them all.
Fast forward to today and with the power of Twitter and a few lines of Ruby we can recreate insult sword fighting for the modern world!