Cheat Engine

Jonyleeson

The other day I was bored, and thought about something to do. I read xkcd's article about ROBOT9000, and thought it was an interesting concept and great way to force people to create discussions without the "lol" or the "yeah" every now and then, which one might say is like the attitude you should adopt in General Discussions.
So after a few hours of coding, and then a few hours of optimizing (the bot is still imperfect, it's in constant update), a small bot came out of the evil corners of my laptop with one intention : to rule mankind!

So far, tests have been conclusive (small stress tests have also been applied, the bot doesn't seem too buggy), and so far people have slowly adopted a better way of speaking, such as elaborating on things instead of simply agreeing. Things are looking great so far, and I'd like to take the bot to the next level to see what would happen : a real irc channel with a pretty large amount of users (30 would be a nice start!), that'd have to have intelligent conversations with pure strangers instead of the random useless conversations one would normally have on the internet.
The message database was initialized at nothing, and has been gradually growing. Some small common phrases like 'roflmao' might still work, but that'll quickly be filled when the user count increases.

The bot itself follows several rules dictated by xkcd, and a few of my own:

serious discussions

I think that's all I have to say for now, the irc details are :

Server : irc.p2p-network.net
Official R9K Channel : #ROBOT9000
Sandbox channel : #R9K-Sandbox

In mirc : /server irc.p2p-network.net -j #ROBOT9000

Don't forget to pass by #cef while you're at it! (Beware, random chats in store if you do!)

Link to original xkcd blog post : http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/

[Spot.] · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:38 am Post subject:

Sounds cool.

lucid · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:47 am Post subject:

Wow, nice work. I might have to get mIRC or something, just for this. Sounds great. Keep it up. Another thing you might want to look into is a proper grammar bot. On sat dont low ting liek dis, and split it into categories, say one for Germans, one for Americans (Grammar here sucks) , and others for Asians, etc. Heck, if you really want to, make a OCD spelling bot. That would be interesting if every person on the internet didn't misspell a single word.

Jonyleeson · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:02 am Post subject:

A spelling bot would be a lot more work, and would limit chats a lot, not to mention people that don't have english as their main language (such as me) that would be detected all the time. ROBOT9000 is nice because it forces people to be innovative and not repeat the same things all the time, whereas a grammar bot would be too strict.
I might look into it if I ever get bored again!

Butters · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:36 am Post subject:

Indeed, and as this channel grows, there will only be more and more discussion with more fun as people slowly get picked off for using the same string of words. :D
I'm looking forward to seeing anyone and everyone in the channel for some actual talk.

HandSmex · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:39 am Post subject:

Oh my , sounds great.
I'll try it out.

lucid · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:43 am Post subject:

What I mean by a spelling bot, is like the same as the proper grammar bot, make it know multiple languages and it will detect when someone speaks a different language to it won't mute them for it. Or make one for American, some for other languages. Break it into categories Wink

Jonyleeson · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:15 am Post subject:

@Shigure : That's a lot of work, especially for a lazy slob like me! x)
@Everyone : Don't hesitate to join, we won't bite!

[SPW]Jsin · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject:

mmmm, i love xkcd comics :3
does anybody have a url to a browser-based IRC?

sponge · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:03 am Post subject:

Everyone fill his database with a shit load of bytes. Very Happy

When the lookup table gets big, it will take a while to kick you. Very Happy

Jonyleeson · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:15 am Post subject:

Sorry for the bot downtime guys, but I've been doing a lot of shit with windows (and stayed up most of the night fixing stuff), the bot should be back up soon.
@sponge: Bring it on!

dinoterra · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 19

I didn't feel like reading your story... so I'll just say.... emmm.... NOM?

Deletion · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

:[ i was going to mess around but there was only 1 other person there.

xMurtaghx · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject:

This sounds cool.
I'm ready to try it.

Deletion · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

Neither bot is working.