Movie screen

This bad joke requires Tracery.

typeclasses/single/moviescreen.py

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+"""
+Movie Screen
+
+This is a joke object that changes its description every time you look at it.
+Requires installing pytracery as a pip dependency.
+"""
+from typeclasses.objects import Object
+import tracery
+from tracery.modifiers import base_english
+
+class MovieScreen(Object):
+    rules = {
+        'origin': ['This is #genre.a# #movie# about #subject.s#.', '#subject.s.capitalize# #sequel#: The #family.capitalize# Of All #movie.s.capitalize#!'],
+        'sequel': ['from hell #number#','#number#','the Resurrection','Origins','Rebooted','Reimagined','Again'],
+        'family': ['mother','father','aunt','xyther','grunkle','grandpa','grandma'],
+        'number': ['2','3','4','5','6','II','III','IV','V','VI','XXIII','MCMXCIII'],
+        'movie': ['movie', 'flick', 'animation', 'anime', 'moving picture', 'picture'],
+        'genre': ['action', 'romance', 'thriller', 'horror', 'abstract', 'slice-of-life', 'comedy', 'documentary'],
+        'subject': ['wombat', 'stoner', '#pair# love #polycule#', 'smartphone', 'astronaut', 'explosion'],
+        'pair': ['gay','aromantic','nonbinary','clueless','crazy'],
+        'polycule': ['triange', 'pair', '3D icosahedron', 'polycule']
+    }
+
+    """
+    Can't be a self.db.desc because we *need* a function here.
+    """
+    def get_display_desc(self, looker, **kwargs):
+        grammar = tracery.Grammar(self.rules)
+        grammar.add_modifiers(base_english)
+        return grammar.flatten("#origin#")
+    pass