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[Jain]

Updated TOS are up:
http://robotfriendfinder.ning.com/forum/topics/new-terms-of-service

[danteIL]

At the bottom of the ToS is this:

[Lysithea]

[H(e)x]

[Abraxas]

I like how the TOS talks about "purposes". And that your consent is asked for "when appropriate".

Just a few more couple funny details about the publicity photos, in document properties:
Subject: I am an awesome person and I look really good
Keywords: good looking man pretty glasses beard hairy
And maybe an insight into the character naming process over at MLR, the pdf producer is Quartz PDF.

Loving the mosaic face censoring.

[H(e)x]

Given the nice satire on Facebook and MySpace in the Terms of Service debacle, I thought it would be fun to continue it by creating a group within RFF to campaign against the new RFF Terms. It's at http://robotfriendfinder.ning.com/group/rffloversagainstnewtos -- join it!

[Tresbien]

Nice job spelling out our issues with the new TOS H(e)x. I joined and gave my support to what you wrote.

[danteIL]

AN EXPERIMENT

[kwool]

^ Sure.

I'm following this one and have signed up at RFF; I don't feel like I've done too much, though it doesn't seem like there are too many puzzles and such... yet.

I'm really enjoying it, especially its humor and plot. Kudos to whomever thought this one up--it's both well-written and executed!

Having tons of fun watching (especially the extremely attractive Timmy!)

[SpaceBass]

I'm lurking. It's what I do.

[imbri]

Hi.

I rarely do more than lurk. Heck, I wasn't even sure about posting here because then, omg, I've posted in a game thread and I don't think I've done that since Last Call Poker and when was that? 2005?

This game has me, gasp, almost actually playing it and stuff.

I've thought about getting more involved on RFF. I could talk about my sad tale of years of denial and self-hatred because, yes, I am a bot and it's time that I embraced that and stood up to the bullies and meanies out there. But that's really only funny if you remember how, in IRC, way back when, Martavius would accuse me of being a bot and I had a script that would reply "I am not a bot!" to every imbribot accusation. As there are, probably, few who remember such good times, it seemed like more of an old sad in-joke than anything actually humorous and I left it alone.

But, I must say, I really love this game. I like that I can just follow along and still feel as though I'm participating a bit. Also, it's fun & funny which is really nice change from all of the "omg catch the bad guy who works for an evil company that *twist* is really good and he's killing the bad guys that you've been supporting all along *twist* but they're really bad because they're from conspiracy organization x that you only know about through his cryptic tweets written in cool cipher of the moment that really became uncool the seven hundred seventy fifth time it was used but there are only so many easy cipher encoders that the evil guy could find online" type of games. I like that. I also like that I get to follow the sites that I choose to follow, watch the videos that I choose to watch, and have them pop up on my twitter feed occasionally, while still understanding most of what's going on. Bonus, I can interact in any of those ways if I want. It's passively active and that fits my playing style.

The sad thing is that the story, as it is now at least, doesn't require a lot of speculation and this style of game doesn't require a whole lot of online collaboration - there are no puzzles that require a half a dozen pages of the same half a dozen people struggling through the hints and, because the vast majority of interaction is well documented elsewhere, there's no need for a couple dozen posts filled with minddumbing chat logs or nested emails between character x and player y (that usually reveal little to no story but maybe just maybe there's a hint buried somewhere in there to one of those puzzles that's really just a cipher upon a cipher upon a cipher). And, so, the thread doesn't grow and doesn't get bumped and people don't realize that there is something awesome here. And that, I think, is a real shame.

So, um, bump. And, to paraphrase: ooo sounds awesome! I'm totally gonna lurk through this one!

[ScarpeGrosse]

I love robots like fat kids like cake.

Secretly. When mom isn't watching, ready to harp on you ruining your dinner, calling you a "rolly poly pudding that nobody wants to meet!"

And also when the fat kid peers aren't watching, because then the poor fat kid gets called names like "Fatty Fatty Cake Eater," "Fatty McGoo," and even "Flabbity BoBabbity."

... that kind of love.

So yeah.

I'm gonna be over there. Stocking up on batteries

O_O

[PinkCloud]

I've been lurking a bit for a few weeks and got really addicted by Pastor Ludd's youtube videos... have been throwing in a couple of comments there and enjoyed the raging responses, especially his advice to bathe in acid. I thought you might enjoy that too:

I wrote:
But, dear Pastor Ludd, what would you suggest I do? I am a nice android lady, single, with a sweet robochild. No human man wants to stay with me although I look and behave more or less in a human way. I am a nice android! I won't do any human any harm. I have a soul! And you want to burn me? unhook me?

Pastor Ludd replied:
Well since you are a bot, albeit fleshy, i am going to give you some free logic that will lead you to the only conclusion. 1) You are an abomination to God. 2) Your existence represents the most offensive traits of man 3) The fact that you have enough confusion in your programing that you would contact me shows that you are poorly programmed and therefore an abomination to your own kind as well. The only honorable thing to do is to fill your tub with sulfuric acid and take a bath. PNL

(these were the comments to his 3rd gospel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z3xK2mrBEE&feature=related)

[PostLarval]

Coldoil's holding a live press conference to discuss the new TOS!

[Jain]

Aww you beat me to posting! haha
Sounds like fun, a live press conference.

And for dante's experiment: The only reason I am not more active than I am is that I have a two year old son and I really only get a chance to be online while he's sleeping or watching a dvd which means I have to watch the videos on mute most of the time. Then later I try to sneak watching them with the sound up, sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn't. I keep forgetting to go back and watch the Pastor Ludd videos, I must do that today. But I watch everything on MLR with sound because, as kwool stated above, Tim is too hot to miss out on.