Bug Stomp

I finally figured out how to get the Flash chat working for me. It was my firewall.

For anyone with the Norton firewall, select options>internet security>web content>global settings>information about your browser, and then select "Permit".

Duh.

Laydee,

Spikebot's seeks have stopped working too. This may be good for people who hate getting caught in my bots' story loops, but he can't carry on conversations about music or finish arguments he starts, so I'm hoping seeks will work again soon.

Regarding dropped seeks, some of Sonora's are not working:

Sonora: Can I offer you a tarantula leg?
Julie Tinkerbell: You're so nice to offer to share your tarantula leg! I like you, Sonora.
Sonora: Thanks! *hands over a plateful of live beetles*
For you!

She has an xnomatch seek for the "offered tarantula leg" that was ignored.

But here:
Sonora: You remind me of the shipping!
Julie Tinkerbell: What shipping?!
Sonora: The shipping with the power!
Julie Tinkerbell: What power?!
Sonora: The power of voo-doo...
Julie Tinkerbell: I really enjoy talking with you about technology and computers.
Sonora: Oh, c'mon! Play along!

All of Sonora's seeks came up, but it looks like Julie's didn't. *shrugs* The "play along" comment comes off of an xnomatch seek, so it works SOME of the time.

Fizzy's "voo doo seek" never works either.

Is this just a frightening spellcheck?

Homeschool: I like homestarrunner.com.
Westerlin Man: That's interesting. Are you and author is name together often?

Ulrike- with regard to that last exchange you posted- what a shame. Julie's "seek: voo-doo, voodoo, voo doo"
was ignored. zut.

My seek is "the power of (*)". You'd think that would pick up any spelling of voo-doo.

You'd think.
strange

When I tested the routine talking to him in debug, it worked perfectly.

Can you use raw mode to specify "voo-doo"?

tried that

I was just poking around in debug, and "voo-doo" seems to trigger some alarming confusion for the spell-processor -- though debug decided just to treat it as it was, and it spit the word back to me in a (postkey) with no trouble.

I wonder whether conversations are working differently from debug.