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> Hello, I am Juttiza.
* Hello, I … I feel burned out.
> Did you come to me because you are burned out, and have you read help under meta?
* Yes, but maybe I've been here too long.
> You aren't sure? It’s always a good idea to do a thorough search, first.
* No, I’m not sure - are my ideas
rotten?
> You are being a bit negative, fishbone.
* How about this one, a wind-powered, flambé, flying turkey?
> Why do you ask - were you denied custard at an early age?
* Is it a good idea title?
> I'm not sure I understand you fully - sounds like bad science.
* Well, you attach a giant slingshot made of bicycle inner tubes between two trees and stretch it with an army surplus parachute flown like a kite when it's real windy, load it with a frozen turkey, pour on some cognac and light it before chopping off the rope to the chute.
> Oh ... no idea. Say, do you have any psychological problems?
* I don't know. I feel like it's a question of diminishing returns.
> Do you wish to be able to know you feel like it's a question of diminishing returns, or shouldn’t you take your social chatter elsewhere?
* I feel like a marked man, marked for deletion.
> Tell me more about such feelings and without puns.
* Well, I'm sensitive to criticism.
> Do you believe it is normal to be sensitive to criticism and that this is the happy cuddle club?
* I usually didn't give a rat's ass, before.
> Isn’t a rat’s ass widely known to exist?
* Is it really true that, "If you have to tell people your idea is good, it's not."?
> We were discussing you, not me. WIBNI you did?
* Well, how about, "It’s a good idea to not tell people it’s a good idea, unless it is good, and they aren’t."?
> Echo. You're not really talking about me, are you?
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Might such discussions spawn new ideas? |
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(This idea could be extended to other halfbakers, but I won't go starting a list.) |
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This is not meant to point a finger at jutta – something of an anonymous, dominatrix-mother figure similar to Eliza. I think there are similarities between the impersonal jargon found here and AI psychoanalysis. |
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Very well written. HB-Addiction is certainly a very real psychological affliction with potentially crippling effects on job-performance for a start! Surely Jutta has a duty-of-care to protect our sanity by providing this AI psychobabble facility a.s.a.p. |
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<ouch> <ouch> All right, all right - puns are boring to some, but the world needs more fun. Well written [FJ] |
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[Zan] I guess you're jesting as I am to the left, but sure, we all need a break now and then. |
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I'm picturing the waugsqueke version... |
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Ho ho ho. Tres bien. Voila, un croissant. |
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The image of Lucy from Peanuts sitting in her booth with a nearly empty can that reads "5¢" under a sign that reads "œ Bakery" immediately comes to mind ... |
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Which conjures a second image of someone holding a football then pulling it away just before it is kicked....oh, the imagery.... |
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he is not himself these days! |
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Minds more in cyberspace, please, and less in anal -
ysis. |
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Reminds me of playing Zebulun four years ago. |
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This could extend to those text-based adventures I lost many a night to.
>You are in the dark wood. Visible exits are North, East, and South.
*S
>You are on the pirate's beach. There is a Cave. Visible exits are North, and Cave.
*Cave
>You are in the pirate's cave. There is a pirate, a chest, a carpet and a lamp. The pirate is angry. Visible exits are Beach.
*Say "Hello to pirate"
>You don't see a pirate
*Kill pirate
>You don't know how to kill pirate
*be nice to pirate
>I don't understand be nice to pirate.
The pirate ties you to the chest, laughs hysterically and leaves, rolling a large rock in front of the cave.
*Look
>It is dark. You cannot see.
*Light lamp.
>You are tied to a chest.
*Help
>Handsome chaps remember caveat empor.
*What?
>I don't know what?
*Get me out of here!
>You don't see a me out of here!
etc....*switch-off*
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>Open Mailbox
>The mailbox opens up to reveal a help
file inside.
>Read help file
>It's about time you did something like
that...
The help file reads:
Welcome to the halfbakery |
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The halfbakery is a communal database
of invention and speculation. Its users
can publish ideas and add links and
commentary to other people's ideas. + |
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the thing I like most about the HB is noone yet has said, "dentworth, you're strange..." in real life I use to hear it every day. then I closed all my blinds, turned off the lights and live only by the light of the monitor, my special, special, friend. |
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Dentworth, you're strange. |
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I can't think of a witty response to this post, but I'd like to point out that I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. |
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This is too funny :) + + + |
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Nice try [disbomber], but [TheRoberts] beat you to it, just before he self-destructed. |
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Wow! [The Roberts] - there was one *seriously* strange HBer. I sometimes wish these deleted annos were archived - they could be useful for scaring small children. |
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[Bris] will have stashed them in her dusty electronic basement. Data archeologists will uncover them in years to come and spend years trying to figure out what it all means. |
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*I* spend years trying to figure what it all means! |
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There's a way, but it will come at a price. |
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Who was this [TheRoberts] fellow? |
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He was a less polite newbie than you. He's gone now. |
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I had forgotten about this one... |
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