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+A simple, built-mostly-from scratch discord bot in lua, written using discordia
+Feel free to use, modify, and remix
+---
+Thanks to everyone who worked on Discordia, without it I would not have written this.
+https://github.com/SinisterRectus/Discordia
+Credits to let for inspiration on the command detection code
+https://github.com/letiulthecode/Old-Machine
+Kudos to the people at the Discordia discord for help on programming.