Diamondeye

When a good idea suddenly strikes me, I can't help but ponder upon it. Which is why, despite the fact that I've actively backed down from hosting mafia games for the near future, and despite the queue system which means that if I ever have the time, I better know three months in advance (no issues here, I like the system a lot, to be honest!), I've begun concentrating on what I hope can be my next (and very interesting/humerous) small mafia game; The OotS Mafia.

The game is kind of ...

Today, my fellow .orgers, I learnt something is school!

That's right - in my (otherwise boring) Social Studies class, we were talking about international politics, war and all that stuff, and I learned of a term which my brain, being completely ruined by video games and the corrupting influence of the internet, immidiately found applicable to many of the strategy games that I like to play, a few of the most obvious examples being the series by the names of Sid Meier's Civilization ...

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User: Hey.

Cleverbot: Hey what?

User: Hey baby.

Cleverbot: How you doin.

User: Nice one - I'm going great. You?

Cleverbot: I'm going to bed soon.

User: Oh okay. Can we talk about movies?

Cleverbot: Why would you like to talk about butterflies?

User: Actually I'd like to talk about Star Wars.

Cleverbot: Okay, which star wars movie was your favorite?

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Today, I spent half an hour chatting to an AI called the "Cleverbot", on www.cleverbot.com. It was one of the most human-like bots I've ever seen, even if it did make some odd jumps in discussions. And an interesting thing about the Cleverbot is that it learns from all conversations, which means that it often tries to persuade you to believe that you're the bot, since it's been told so itself so often (that's my theory at least).

The last lines of my conversation with cleverbot ...