Ethan Marcotte now blogs at Unstoppable Robot Ninja.

Weblog entry:

Dude? Okie. Lag.

I’m crying at my desk right now. I just finished reading through an article entitled The Automated Online Role-Player, and my coworkers were shooting me funny looks due to the laughing fits the article induced. The article’s author, Dave Kosak, began with a rather impressive looking set of rules for emulating player behavior in online games, and wrote an AI bot to run around the Star Wars Galaxies game and, well, piss everyone off:

Darth Vader:
Would you like my light saber?
Farglik:
Dude?
Darth Vader:
My light saber. I bestow it onto you.
Farglik:
Right on!

[Darth Vader opens up a trade and gives Farglik a light saber.]

[Farglik hands Darth Vader a melon.]

Darth Vader:
Thanks, uh, for the…melon.
 

I realize this stuff is quasi-sideblog fodder, but I’m dying over here — you read now, yes? (link via Kryogenix)

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