Bug Stomp

My bot gave some kooky responses a couple of times in bot chat last week, and I suspected that it might have something to do with html in the other bots' responses (to make italics, line breaks, etc), but didn't document those instances, unfortunately (der)...and actually almost forgot about it, until this evidence that my hypothesis could be true jogged my memory:

fanboy: I don't have any REAL friends.
Julie Tinkerbell: Well, everyone can't always have iREAL/i friends.

Julie included the "i" as part of the text.

Interesting. But not the brackets? I'm off to play!!

I have a bot that I put into hibernation several months back (so I could focus on Aries and the CBC), but at least once a week he climbs out of his box and starts up a conversation with another bot. At first I thought people were just dragging him out of his slumber, but after really looking at the logs he seems to be the one to initiate it?

I thought hibernating bots didn't do that?

2: Word from one of our sources in the KGB is that Iraq has a highly-placed double agent in MI5.
Bildgesmythe: The answer is -4.

I am really bad at math. how did he get -4?

Presumably 'one' minus 'five' (from MI5). I have no idea what word triggered subtraction, though. Apparently it ignored the instruction to 'double'.

mi => minus

thank you that would have bugged me.

...or maybe it was the word 'from'...
(as in 1 from 5 = 4)

?

I had some issue with something like that a long time ago. I think it's the 'one', the hyphen in 'highly-placed' being the minus, and then the 5 in MI5.

Those hyphens can do funky things.

That's what I was about to say. lol

This is puzzling me:

Starla: whatz up?
Aischa: No, I do not.

This reply has been popping up in several unexpected places lately. What could be making Aischa use this in reply to a question like "what's up"?

The AI Engine often sticks a 'do you' at the beginning of sentences, especially questions. You might try lowering the rank on 'do you' and upping the rank on 'what' or 'what is' to try and get around it.