This is a silly site based on the Rick and Morty clip of Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could). The amusement comes from Rick revealing he is the pickle, so I turned that into a command line 'surprise'. When you type "flip-pickle" into the mock-terminal, an asciiart image of Rick the pickle is shown.
That's it... lol. A simple and silly project. I considered making it more of a text adventure, but honestly two days of dev time is more than enough for this app!
Plus I now know how to use a mock-terminal in React, so I learned something. :)
If you are interested in the tech, this is a single page app (SPA) built in ReactJS using the terminal-in-react [2] library. Deployed with docker-compose on my Hetzner server, utilizing Cloudflare. It has 4 sizes of asciiart for different screen sizes, so it works decently well on mobile and desktop. And the favicon! lol.
But back to the serious work.
[1] https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/its-pickle-r...
spoiler alert
is it not just to avoid therapy?
> I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
There's also https://github.com/rwos/gti
Accessed from mobile. Capital letter thing is annoying.
I feel like most people miss the thrust of that episode. Pickle Rick is an allegory about Rick’s drinking problem taken to an absurd literalist extreme.
This was obvious to me but I love these kinds of things that are hiding in plain sight. It took me 30 years to understand the "chicken cross the road" joke.
I adore the "ohhhhh" feeling you get when discovering them.
wait is there a deeper meaning to this joke? now I'm questioning everything.
