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What is a Sub System? The word sub system can have several meanings when discussing DID/OSDD. When talking about a personality as a whole a sub system refers to emotional sub systems, or emotional action chains. This type of action chains is present in ev

We have previously shown how Hikari allows you to build simple GUI's with buttons 1 , but it can feel a little clunky to work with. That's because Hikari only covers the Discord API expects you to use handler libraries to fill the gaps. Hikari has an extr

We've produced a lot of helpful articles since the site was created! Articles that help explain Plurality with DID/OSDD , tutorials that teach programming , and a lot more. With more articles coming all the time, some places have found linking our article

Tanjun uses a lot of decorators! The decorators are wonderful in helping simplify and cut down how much code we end users have to write, but it can hide what's really happening. This post will walk you through making a slash command and slash command grou

Tanjun and Hikari go through rapid development! With that come a lot of improvements even between articles. Here's a few quick tips that have changed that will streamline your code! An Example Generic Plugin Let's look at a simple Tanjun plugin outline. F

Tanjun uses a more functional approach than other Discord libraries. Functional in this post does not mean, provides more utility, but rather is written in a functional programming style. One good example is how hikari and Tanjun implement a Bot. In other

If you've never interacted with a System before you might be unsure what's appropriate to ask and talk about. How do I know who's fronting? What if I need to talk to another Part? This is not an exhaustive list and every System will have their own prefere

Get better Bots this Year! We've been running semi-large Discord Servers (25-32K) for about 7+ years now. Over that time we've tried all the popular bots. All of them had their pros and cons but none ever fit all of our needs. We often ended up having 6+

It is not always obvious what Part is fronting in a System. Some have more obvious traits like favorite clothes or specific postures, but that's not always the case. In most Systems the Parts will still have some differentiating behaviors. Katie, in our s