Santa's little Infs© Part Two

Here, as you can plainly see, is my little Inf, Pia Snahkarrots. (you can visit her elegant website here: http://piasnahkarrots.inf.net/ )

I've already taught her to converse on various topics, but there's always room for improvement.
While we're talking about "room for improvement", let's start with the constructive criticism for Inf.net:
Firstly, let's consider the replay value. How many times will I visit this site once I've created an Inf? Will I continue visiting it for a month's duration? Or perhaps I'll just pick it up, play with it for an hour and then forget about it a week later?
Creating an Inf is already pretty fun on its own and the possibility of making more than one Inf is a good idea. Teaching Infs what to say and how to reply is fun on its own, though it does get boring rather quickly and you really have to be in the mood to write what you want your Inf to say. All in all, You'll probably sit around Inf.net for a few minutes up to a half hour for about a week or two, at most a month (unless you're one of those gifted people who can easily dedicate themselves to teaching a basically stupid Santabot what to say to people who actually bother to chat with a virtual gadget)playing with your wittle Inf.
Secondly, is the site useful? Can it somehow help you in any way at all? Well, the help this site can offer is to the bored and blocked. By blocked, I mean the people who have infamous writer's block. If you have the urge to write something, or at least the wish or faint desire to write anything at all, but you don't know where to start or how to "get the creative wheels rolling", teaching your Inf how to respond to various remarks or questions a real-life person or a fellow Inf could pose might actually get your imagine-engine started. Of course, in the case of an acute writer's block, Inf.net isn't going to look like anything special.
Thirdly, is the site appealing? Does it interest other people? Is it innovative? At the first glance, this site seems extremely peculiar. It looks innovative, to say the least; however, behind the curtains of Inf dot net, there are practically mini Santa-/Cleverbot clones waiting for your words and attitude to flow into them. If you're a fan of some character or real person, you'll see in this site a chance to create little versions of them as a tribute to their greatness. Also, you could boast quite a bit about how well you've studied their biographies.
If you're like me and enjoy saying either absolute nonsense or something incredibly intelligent, you'll see in this site a great chance to make your own funny/clever Cleverbot or a possibility to make a parody of this site because of its sheer weirdness.
Or, of course, you might want to visit Inf.net in order to create a little person whom you can embarrass to your heart's content (or who will embarrass others to your heart's content).

Obviously, I'm not really praising Inf.net and I certainly doubt its originality, but what about improvements? If I were to send the staff of the world of Infs an e-mail (with a cute little 'Get Well Soon' e-greeting attached, of course), what kind of tips would I give them?
Make templates a little simpler to create. I'm visiting this site in order to make my very own weird-ass prick. I don't want to learn what the heck unanchored or anchored stuff means. I don't want to fill out troublesome templates.
Also, inspire me. I'm a woman. I need inspiration handed to me on a silver platter. I can't just snoop around and eventually find it myself. Give examples of possible responses; give tips on possible answers to possible questions. Just help me out a little here. I love being verbose and comically depressing; nevertheless, I want some ideas from the staff who made this site. Now.
On a final note, I want people to see my Inf. Open the traffic to my Inf. I'd really appreciate it if my Inf would have more than one or two people stumble upon it by accident on the same day I created it and then let it be forever lost in the sea of other Infs for ages to come.
The rating system is fine and all, but - gosh darnit! My Inf has absolutely no real personality on its own and, at the same time, it has the weirdest personality no human on earth has.
I appreciate the person who created the famous Jack Sparrow Inf, but I'd like some peeps to enjoy my joyless Inf as well. I guess I'm asking for a bit too much here, but hey - that's constructive criticism for ya.

And that, my friends, has been Inf Dot Net. Create an Inf and have fun. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy your life. Actually, forget the Inf. Go outside and play some frisbee with your dog. Or cat. Or pet porcupine. If I had a pet porcupine, I wouldn't be sitting here right now and typing. I'd be outside, playing frisbee with another persons's dog (a safe distance away from my prickly friend).

Santa's little Infs©

Lurking the internet, a rather pathetic pass-time of mine, I somehow stumbled upon the world of Infs, namely Inf.net.
What are Infs exactly? According to the site, Infs are Intellectual Agents. Intellectual Agents whom you have to teach how to talk, before they can actually converse with you on their own. You can also give them a unique personality as well as appearance; plus, you can also post these little Infs on you blog, website, Myspace page, wtf-ever.
Come to think of it, they don't sound all that intellectual. I dare say they don't sound intellectual at all. Nevertheless, let's dig a bit further into this Inf business. (Ugh, that last sentence sounded disgusting.)

After quickly signing up, I get to start creating my Inf immediately! :D oh joy

After opting to create a girl, I'm straightaway struck by the limited choice of skin colors - pinkish off-white, orangey brown, and curry-like yellow. I'm guessing pasty white people, semi-bronze tanned people and not-orangey brown people don't exist in the world of Infs. oh well.

After minutes of making tough decisions and slaving away in front of the monitor screen, I end up with this charming little young lady:



Hm. Wait a second, I think she's lacking a certain something,... a certain "je ne sais quoi"....


there that's better.

I shall call her Pia. Pia Snahkarrots.
After giving her that saintly name, I'm promptly bombarded by dozens of things I can do with my Inf. Also, I learn a little bit more about Pia:
Her rating is 0, she's in the 0th place and she has 0 inf-friends. Pia, stop being so damn anti-social.
There's a speech bubble next to Pia, so I begin chatting with her. I soon realize that Cleverbot is slightly more entertaining than she is; her responses are too optimistic. She's always so damn happy. And happiness ruins her beautiful dress. So, it's time to teach her how to talk befitting her fashion sense! this should be fun.

First off, I edit Pia's interests - that's right, Pia. I'm in control now. My commands are your words.
And my command is that you're currently residing on the moon - Dorsa Geikie, to be exact.
I then make a template; basically, I choose a specific reply Pia says whenever a Guest says a specific word or words. I haven't the foggiest notion what unanchored or anchored means, so I'll just leave that out for now. So now, I just programmed Pia to say "bless you" with a bewildered expression on her face whenever a guest says "hi" or something similar to "hi" (like "Hi").

Cool! But this is getting boring real fast. Let's continue. I proceed to fill out her responses to cues. yeah.


I move on to filling out Pia's replies to various questions and phrases. It may seem tedious ( well, it is ), but it's also kind of fun.
All in all, Inf.net is rather interesting. Making your own little Cleverbot with your own little avatar to go with it is a pretty good idea.
Tomorrow, I'll dig even more int Inf.net and unravel everything the site has to offer, closing this topic in (hopefully) only two posts.

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the Mockdoctor

First Post - New Blog

Heh, just started a blog. A mockritical blog, to be exact.
Okay, if the name doesn't suggest what type of blog this will be exactly (and mind you, there are many types of blogs out there...), Mockritical Analysis is a blog concerning not so much with my petty life problems, but more with reviews and essays about video games, movies, &c., conducted in a non-serious fashion (non-serious for the most part).
Now, for some info about myself:
I'm quite the gamer; I love reading, especially reading classics; One of my favorite funny writers is Kurt Vonnegut, my favorite serious writer is Leo Tolstoy, my favorite playwright is Shakespeare.
My nickname, Mock Doctor, is both a reference to one of Moliere's plays and a reference to one of H. Fielding's plays. THE MORE YOU KNOW...

Don't be surprised if stuff concerning my school education pops up - school's frequently the object of my concentration. I presume this applies to most if not all high school students.

À bientôt
- the Mock Doctor