Erkki

zork OK. Should be working. Here's how it works: it only reads the FIRST POST after it's last own post (although it may have bugs here too) it reads this thread every 10 seconds or so. only the first line of anyone's post is passed on to zork.

restore

It doesn't check the authors... hang on there's another bug... I'll let you know when it should work

go north

maybe it works now

That sounds good. I'll keep you posted.

That was actually something I threw together in about 1,5 hours. Except for the part that communicates with vBulletin. I came up with the idea of programming a bot that uses the internet somehow. I have more or less completed the part that provides an interface for logging in & out, read the forums, threads, messages and post new threads or replies in vBulletin forums. Only I don't have any good ideas about what it should actually do so for amusement I wrote that little program. So if anyone has any ideas what a forum bot should do (not spamming mind you), post them here. I have only come up with some boring and evil functions (which I'm not going to implement): 1) point out people's spelling mistakes (by sending private messages) 2) resurrect random old threads 3) gather some sort of statistics (like poll votes) 4) gather some sort of evil statistics 5) post a message when the Homeland security level changes. 6) post threads about Psychonauts ..... 1000000) Pass the turing test (deadline: 2045)

I just read it. Didn't I predict something like this a year or two ago?

That's my contribution for today.

Here's a screen

It's cross-platform (Java)

Wow! That's amazing. Sort of.

this is insane

I wasn't talking about video game PR.

The menus display boxes instead of characters...

Yeah, that's almost what I meant. I didn't mean all of PR. Also, bots should generate press releases and read them.

Yeah, in Estonian too.

I have nothing to say about the subject so instead I performed a complex syntactical and style analysis of your rant, extracting the bold and the italic words in the process. It was interesting to see that where these two subsets met were 1) "analogue art" and 2) "fake colours". Therefore, I assume you like analogue art, but you dislike fake colors. l want to tell you about a thing thrilled digital art. digital thing I was once proud. analogue art authentic. utterly uninteresting. August painting showed. too enthusiastically dead virtual airbrushes fake colours. one erratic movement, easy escape route control-Z. not -and the rant- spills the bucket persé. digital colouring photoshop away nagging inside me. analogue art hand craft challenging. pixelperfect glossiness mouseclick silicon real deal, artistic revelled flawed shows fake colours. Real impressed aware destroy his painting shows fucking shows

Ban him!

I've thought so too. Guess my parents' Mazda (that mainly I use ) isn't that bad then. It starts with -20 C even. But with -30 or so I've had problems. But the locks/windows keep freezing with much lower temperatures if there has been much humidity. The only other car besides that I've had or driven more than for a test is a IZ Moskvitch. In the cold days, I had to use one hand to steer and the other one to scratch the ice off from the inside of the windshield.

I've played Outcast at least five times. Certainly one of the greatest games ever, if a bit buggy.

How does 'wanda' associate with cooties? I hate that word 'cooties'. It sounds like 'cuties'. There's no throw-up smilie.

Vangers: One for the Road. The first half is pretty good, after that it gets too difficult and I've never finished it.

Happy Birthday!

Wanna see a high activity forum? http://www.hinnavaatlus.ee/phorum/viewforum.php?f=3 It's a buy/sell computer stuff forum and I'm selling my TV card. I posted there when I left work and when I got home I had two people who wanted to buy it and the post had dropped to the end of page two. I replied there and now it has dropped to the end of page 4 in about 3 hours. I'm sure there are others out there with such high activity, it was just the first time I've noticed.