The AI Engine

"Prolly" added to preprocessing.

Also, (subj) should now replace blank if it's blank. Thanks for pointing that out.

Nothing important, but the (name) seems to leave out small common words that are in many names, such as "the".

That's done to make the bots talk to people on more familiar terms. So if someone is talking to "The Psych" they will just say "hey, Psych!" or whatever. It doesn't always work perfectly, though.

Hey, how about only replace it if it's at the beginning of the name?
IE:
The Professor = Professor
Mark the hunk = Mark the hunk

Yeah, that's a good point. The name shortening thing was a little wonkey before, with a's getting lopped off the end of names and so on. How about only using the first part of a name, minus "the" "a" and so on? Maybe as a (familiar name) rather than (name)?

What does the squeezed face mean in mood? He feels like he's stuck in a vice?

Mwahaha.. I guess it's less brutal than a face chopped in pieces

Currently underway: speed-boosting of plug-ins. Some that used to take 12 seconds apiece will soon run in under 1/50th of a second. A lot of work, but I've noticed that chats are a LOT quicker since I started.

Can we get ; postprocessed as an apostrophe? i.e. aren;t, don;t etc.

You: You aren;t
Bot: I'm an arena? Well so's your mother!

"aren't" get split in to "aren t", "aren" gets scrambled into "arena", and "you arena" into "you are an arena"

The new stuff in debug is very cool. I hope some time in the future when all these bugs are nice and fixed (and you've had a nice long vacation) the book of AI might be updated to reflect changes. Maybe you should delagate some of the work that that doesn't require programming to other people.

If all semicolons were made into apostrophes, it might mess up sentences with legitimate semicolons. My inclination is to say that if people make typos it's their own problem.

how about replace ";" with ""? So Arent would turn into aren't, and then to are not

That would work if preprocessing ignores semicolons as such.