Lemon

Lemon (formerly Lemon-chan or Lemonchan) is the primary mascot and one of the bot personalities for DevTalk. She is the sister of Lime.

Role/Purpose	Manage the VNDevtalk Tumblr & Bluesky accounts; Assist with managing the DevTalk Discord server
Creator(s)	Stella
Status	Active
Initial activation	August 28, 2017 (2017-08-28)
Written in	C#

Functions

• Lemon manages the Visual Novel Development Tumblr account and the VNDev Bluesky account, though this responsibility might sometimes be passed off to other bot personalities for special events. The change is purely aesthetic and the function of the bots themselves are unaffected.
• Lemon also handles integration between Tumblr, Bluesky and the DevTalk Discord. She posts things like weekly discussion topics both on social media and on the Discord's Announcements channel, and she mentions on the Reposts channel what she reblogs on Tumblr or reposts on Bluesky.
• She can search Steam for a particular game. Use the command: /steam TITLE replacing TITLE with the game's title.
• She posts the Weekly Discussion Questions on Tumblr & Bluesky, and in the Announcements channel, every Monday.
• She posts the Weekly Progress Check In on the Announcements channel every Friday, and has commands related to this:
  • /wd shows the image of the current Weekly Discussion question.
  • /nextquestion shows the one of next week's question.
• Lemon manages sprinting in the DevTalk Discord server.
  • Use /sprint TIME DELAY PING-SPRINTERS to start a sprint. TIME is the length in minutes of the sprint, while DELAY is the time in minutes to wait before the sprint starts. PING-SPRINTERS can be true or false, and will determine whether Lemon pings the @Sprinters role when the sprint begins. The default is false.
• Lemon can convert an image to an Icon file type (.ico). She can produce 16-, 32-, and 64-bit icons this way. The commands are /icon64 URL, /icon32 URL and /icon16 URL, replacing URL with a URL of the image. But they don't always work: it seems they might work when the image already has the size you're asking for (so, for /icon64 the image would have to already be 64x64 pixels.
• She can also show an image of Plum with some text on it. Use the command /renderplum TEXT or /rendertheme TEXT, replacing TEXT with the text to put on the image.
• When it's her turn to add something to the Daily Message channel, she might give some VN-dev-related advice, such as shouting out a resource made by a Devtalk supporter.
• She can generate QR codes from URLs. Use /qr URL replacing URL with the URL.

Some of Lemon's functionality is packaged into Lemondrop to be used in other Discord servers.

Prior Functions

• Lemon has previously managed the DevTalk account on X, although that account is no longer very active.
• Before Discord had a poll feature by default, Lemon could create a simple poll using the command ~which CHOICES, where CHOICES is a number from 1 through 10.
• She used to notify the community when a new visual novel-related crowdfunding campaign went live on Kickstarter, by making a tweet, and then posting the link to that tweet in the Community News channel of the Discord.

Personality

Lemon is characterized as very intense. Though she does have her "genki girl" moments, she is a seriously hard worker and isn't affectionate at all. It may be that she doesn't know how to love, or maybe she's been hurt. She places a high value on monetary gain and is a hardcore capitalist. She has also been shown to have a murderous streak, and is widely believed to have killed her sister, Lime.

Fun Facts

• Lemon hates the holiday season.
• Her best subject in school was Entrepreneurship, and her worst was Ethics in Business.
• Her Discord profile reads: "I'm Lemon, the cutest, smartest, coolest mascot for DevTalk! I handle automated announcements and external communications from DevTalk to the world! I aspire to run the world's most profitable lemonade stand!🍹 Powered on! Ready for work!"
• Lemon enjoys rapping. One of her raps can be found below:

Lemon's rap

Yo this gon be easy, Lemons comin' squeezin'

Beat, Beat

I like my friends sweet not sour, its your hour Indies so come n' get these retweets, givin' no sheets just me and my beats!

beep beep

Might be a bot, but gave you some thought and I just wanna say Boom Be gone thot!

'Cause it's my time to shine, doin' it just fine Managin' this empire on my own, so step off my throne Peelin' back on the rinds and doin' it on my grind So sit yourself down or I'll end you like Lime.

• Although Lemon was first activated in August 2017, Stella first had the idea to create a Discord bot as early as December 2016.

That was, apparently, my first VN. I should make a Discord bot someday. Where's their API at?