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Reply #26 November 26, 2008 11:49:53 AM
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there's three idlebots now?!?!

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Reply #27 November 26, 2008 11:52:16 AM
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 duplicate post

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Craig Fraser
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Reply #28 November 26, 2008 11:55:06 AM
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Morning Idlebot.

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Reply #29 November 26, 2008 12:00:05 PM
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Haha, someone was abusing their god voice!

I thimk we know who that was now!

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Reply #30 November 26, 2008 1:40:19 PM
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Quoting Ron Lugge,
reply 25
./snicker this is amusing!  Idlebot, idlebot, wherefore art thou idlebot?

Now that is funny I just went on to ICO and there is idlebot and idlebot2

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Reply #31 November 26, 2008 1:45:19 PM
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Impostors and copycats! There is only one true Idlebot!

Annatar11 builds a shrine.

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Reply #32 November 26, 2008 5:27:29 PM
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Now that is funny I just went on to ICO and there is idlebot and idlebot2

So it this a copycat user, or really SD or IC playing with us (even though they HAVE denied it...) Surely same person can't be logged in twice (unless they got 2 CD keys and 2 comps....)

The mystery deepens...

I want to dedicate the following to Idlebot (apologies to Elizabeth Browning)

How do I love thee (Idlebot)? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height (as much as the Z axis allows anyway....)
My soul cap can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light skybox.
I love thee freely, as (TEC) men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose (except I don't lose, I just quit instead....)
With my lost saints ships, --- I love thee with the breath egg suck ability,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God Blair/Craig choose,
I shall but love thee better after deathsurrendering.

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Reply #33 November 27, 2008 3:57:34 AM
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Idlebot is there again tonight!!!

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Reply #34 November 27, 2008 11:17:25 PM
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so no one knows whatan idlebot is?

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Reply #35 November 28, 2008 2:11:21 AM
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Autobot - yes. Idlebot - No....

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Reply #36 November 28, 2008 4:36:44 AM
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So I was just talking to Blair in ICO lobby. Idlebot was there.

I put my latest conspiracy theory to him.

"Idlebot is something to do with testing of entrechment". He laughed and said no.

And then suggested it was an alien AI invasion or something.... Or some weird virus even....

But since he didn't worry about it - what does that mean. ICO cannot be used to infect anything, so he is not worried - just laughing at the aliens. Or he knows the truth about it, but won't say...

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Reply #37 November 28, 2008 4:43:36 AM
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Blair is right. Idlebot has nothing to do with Ironclad. We see her/him when we show up just like you do

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Reply #38 November 28, 2008 4:46:44 AM
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yeah - but that kills a good conspiracy theory....

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Reply #39 November 28, 2008 4:55:56 AM
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How do you know this isn't my cover?

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Reply #40 November 28, 2008 6:47:07 AM
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Hmm - Craig and Blair in on this together??? Idlebot and Idlebot2???

What are the chances of that???

And who was it who sent the message from the ICO Server???

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Reply #41 November 28, 2008 8:04:37 AM
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I've seen this exact same predicament on the Homeworld 2 server (before my computer fried!!! )

there were two "people" on the server many times(it may actually  have been Idlebot, i forgot the name of the two)and they were always on the server(sometimes i saw one or both of them leave, but then immediately come back). I ignored them, thinking they were ordinary bots.

if it is not a bot (a monitor of the chatrooms), then what is it!!??

 

I AM NOOOOBBSAAAUUCCEE!!!!

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Reply #42 November 28, 2008 8:09:49 AM
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Well if IC wanted to kill the fun they'd compare the cd key attached to the account with Stardock to see what forum name they go by, in case it's one of the regulars here.

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Reply #43 November 28, 2008 10:08:25 AM
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Quoting Annatar11,
reply 17
Well if IC wanted to kill the fun they'd compare the cd key attached to the account with Stardock to see what forum name they go by, in case it's one of the regulars here.

 

Don't give them any ideas, don't want to ruin the cover of... The Great and Powerful Idlebot!

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Reply #44 November 28, 2008 10:32:59 AM
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/TC on

Idlebot is NSA.

It had it's roots earlier, but in 2003 the DHS began in earnest to tap game chat by proxy, trying to have at least one feed on each large game lobby.  Games with realistic FPS or RTS elements were singled out because theoretically 4th world elements could use the chat to send coded messages and the games themselves to practice attacks they would later take to RL.  Idlebot is rooted in a network which scans tens of thousands of key words and names, when one triggers a live operator is notified and takes control. 

/end Tom Clancy

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Reply #45 November 28, 2008 10:40:35 AM
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Someone go test that theory. Write something to the effect of "Bush sucks and should be terminated" in ICO and let us know how long until the black suits knock your door down. Thanks!

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Reply #46 November 28, 2008 10:45:21 AM
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O no, Anna   They monitor these forums as well...

Get out of your house!

Actually, I've always assumed you worked for them too - no mere "human" could have accrued so much karma

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Reply #47 November 28, 2008 10:51:01 AM
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Get out of your house!

I'm not in my house, so that solves that.

.... I just hope they don't discover the dungeon while they're in there.

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Reply #48 November 28, 2008 10:52:24 AM
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Actually, I've always assumed you worked for them too - no mere "human" could have accrued so much karma


That's because Annatar isn't human -- he's Superman!

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Reply #49 November 28, 2008 10:56:03 AM
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In school one of my projects was to make a simple IRC-like chat program. However, my program had a slight bug that caused the server to crash when no one was on it. The solution was what could be called an idlebot

Of course, i excpect that Stardock has higher quality standards

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Reply #50 November 28, 2008 6:36:07 PM
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Plus the fact that idlebot didn't exist for ages in 1.05 AND sometimes doesn't exist in the lobby (but usually does)

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