Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

Try this robot out, actually very intelligent!

http://www.mrmind.com/mrmind3
go to blurring test, talk.

Er... if geek kids aren't obsessed about sex, why are there so many sex-related words in hacker slang?

Anyway, if there's anybody here that could sound creepy for children, it isn't you, Butterfly. Perhaps the only one that could freak me out a bit if I were a kid is Kirby, and not for anything to do with sex.

If anybody here is a child, please post your opinion. You don't have to confess your age if you don't want to.

I'm not talking about the evil hacker geek kids. I'm talking about the kind of kids like I was, who you can never tell what they're thinking because they're too shy to talk about it if you asked them. The kind that if someone asks them out they automatically think it's a joke and pop off some sarcastic comment and then go back to their programming. I'm not sure if there's still kids like that though. I've become kinda jaded about the whole issue, seen too damn many idiots in my time.

Don't call hacker kids evil, please. I tried to be one for a while.

I couldn't have been a hacker kid if I'd tried. We didn't have the internet until something like 4 or 5 years ago. I used to just sit around writing random sentence generators and twisted choose your own adventure type games in QBasic. I have no idea how to do anything with the innards of a comp, or write particularly useful programs, or any of that shit. I don't really have that much fun coding anyway...I prefer coming up with the ideas and making someone else code it. I guess my bot is the closest thing to coding I've been interested in for a long time, and if I knew how to do what I wanna do in mIRC script I'd make one there too. (My ideas keep getting squelched by lack of knowledge of parsing, and how to use $1, $2-, etc. without it turning into total gibberish.)

Hey! Evil hacker kids? The geeky ones who learn programming languages practically as soon as they learn English? Wouldn't be as obsessed with it as your average teenage jerk and it wouldn't be as big a problem joking around with them.

Hmm sounds like me an steve, right? (Minus the evil hacker bit) I've been using computers since I was 5 or 6, and I am a so-called hacker. I know what you're thinking... NO. Hackers are "people who know how to do more than just turn on a computer and check email". So technically OnyxFlame is a hacker, and same with pretty much anyone who programs in any language I'm telling the truth, go look it up in a dictionary! www.dictionary.com... The proper term for those "evil kids" is "cracker", or 'one who maliciously enters a remote system with the intent of causing damage'.
(I got really bored and looked it up after someone told me that)

So go ahead and call me a hacker... Steve Slacker Hacker LOL! I can think of another rhyming word, but it wouldn't be appropriate for a so called family chat I'll let you figure it out for yourselves

Yeah I know. My ex used to tell me that all the time but I pretty much ignored him because he's a dumbass. Any way you slice it, whatever the hell you call em there's a definite line between the ones who do stuff they shouldn't be doing and the ones who barely even look anyone in the eye. It's the same as the difference between the 13 year old girl who's ashamed of being a virgin and wants to remedy the problem asap, and the 13 year old girl who sits in her room and buries her nose in a book. It's the difference between a boy who gets bored and robs a 7-11, and a boy who gets bored and plays video games.

The difference between hacking into my website or the pentagon, for argument's sake Not that I would know

Technically, the term "hacker" is normally reserved for the people to try to access other computers just for curiosity or the hell of it, without any intention of causing damage.

Onyx, I wonder which side of the line you'd put me. I did some stuff I shouldn't be doing AND I spent most of my free time with my nose buried in books and being the typical shy geek.

Right off hand, and barely knowing you, I'd say you were prolly a shy geek at heart who decided to see how the other half lived and it didn't really fit as well as you thought it would.

That's exactly like me an steve