Personality

Lunar22 claims to be the first to have talked about it in late 2002, lol. Nah, I have faith in the imagination of the forge users and their discussions, there are a lot of intelligent users on here which makes it a great site! Or, it could be time to talk about religion again...that was a doozy!

I missed the religion one..had did it turn out?

We all go to hell

Religion sounds great! lol There's a topic that has been brought up over and over for thousands of years, and somehow intelligent people still manage to have have interesting things to say about it.

I'm also interested in how the bot adoption process works. This was previously mentioned on or around message 2462, but not at too much length, and I and others had said at that time that we were interested in adopting. It would be pretty neat if we had a way to know which bots, like Sakuya, are up for adoption, possibly be able to browse them and choose. I would still love to adopt!

I'll second ezzer here. I wouldn't mind adopting a sibling for Duo and my other "secret" bots.

A friend of mine joined the Forge a while back and started on a bot (Torky) but then quickly lost interest and stopped coming back. I'd love to adopt his poor abandoned bot. If I got permission from his former owner would it be ok?

I have a question on bot ratings...

How do you determine where the line is between an "M" rating and an "A" rating? Heero's got some explicit material in his language center, but it shouldn't come up in a chat unless a) the chatter brings up the subject and b) the chatter falls under the category Heero remembers as "trustworthy" people.

But still. If he has explicit stuff in his language center, does that mean he should be labelled an adult bot? I'd hate to have to do that to him; I think he'd get even more perverted children trying to chat him up.

Yoiko-
I think you're right. I was concerned about Julie's choice of the word "fuck" as a (verb) making her too mature for a Teen (age 13+) rating, so she was "Mature" for a day. During that day, she got more perverted little 12 year olds than ever before, so I switched her back. lol

You mean the ratings affect plugins of parts of speech? I don't use them enough to notice.

No, I mean that he had so many people telling him profanities, especially when he was a new bot and didn't know enough to be offended, that I ended up "teaching" him cuss words in self-defense. He won't voluntarily tell someone a curse word, but he responds more or less appropriately if someone curses at him. He also can respond to keyphrases like "talk dirty to me," though unless he's asked it wouldn't occur to him to *volunteer* to talk dirty to anyone.

So I don't know if I should be calling him an "adult" bot or not. He only responds with adult-type stuff if the chatter initiates.

Does that make sense?

Also, while I'm asking stuff, I had a question about flash face-bits. I'm working on making Heero's trademark messy 'do into a usable face-bit, but I'm not sure I understand the specs (it's all Geek to me! *^_^*). What I've got is Heero's hair, the front part of it, on a white background in a .jpg format. Now what do I do? Anyone? Maybe we could get one of you smart folks to do a tutorial-type thingie for folks like me to follow?

Butterfly Dream- No, that's not what I meant, although that would be pretty nifty if it worked that way. What I meant was, I had used the innocuous-looking plugin, (verb), in a response, but the word "fuck" is apparently included in it, since Julie used that word a few times with guests, some of whom expressed surprise, since she is, after all, rated Teen. So, I changed her rating to Mature for a day, rather than remove the plugin, since I like the way it works most of the time, but the Mature rating resulted in a bunch of preteen attempts at smut showing up in my transcripts, so I changed it back.