Seasons

I'm finding it quite interesting that most of the people active on these forums fancy themselves as a bit of a writer. It seems to be a common thread. I guess it kind of fits given that we also create bots, which is kind of like telling a story in no particular order.

A while back I thought of doing a little choose your own adventure story in my bot. It's totally possible, but doesn't exactly fit with the rest of her, so I haven't done it and doubt I will. Besides, I've made a few fragments of games like that, and they tend to involve a lot of people shitting their pants and falling on the neighbor's dog and running into gangsters named Buggsy DiBunnio.

I dunno about moosey's theory, but I made NotKirby because I thought a bot would be a cool feature for my site.

I made a bot because an email list pointed me to Alice, and after a few chats with her I said, "Hell, I can do better than this!"

I made a bot because all the other ones I found pretty much sucked, and I didn't even bother with Alice or Eliza or any of that crap. Also because I thought it'd be good for a few laughs if nothing else. And so far it has been.

You should enter yours. It would be a scream! Most of what she says makes sense, unless someone is deliberately being mean (as I often am).

I bet she could actually answer "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" too, providing it doesn't bug her out.

Even if she can't, you could add that one. I have a pretty good collection of answers to stuff like that, because I don't trust my bot to wing it.

Well insanity is a good defense. If you claim to be insane, you don't hafta make sense unless you really want to.

You just have to go to an institute, but hey! Free bouncy walls!

Onyx, you have stumbled upon the secret of NotKirby's greatness. Let us bow to thee while I play random notes on my primitive keyboard to recognize your achievement.

There, do we feel better not that we've all fessed up? We're writers. How about an informal contest, just for us: the best short play composed of dialogue from the transcripts.