Introduce Yourself!

[Pelar]

Welcome!

I think most of us here are card-carrying geeks... except lady succubus.

Learning a second language is pretty rewarding... I think it should be required starting in grade-school, personally. I learned German through High-School and College, plus I've been over there a few times. It's certainly a shorter jump for an English speaker than Japanese is, though. Stick with it, you'll be glad you did!

[Lady-Succubus]

What's a card-carrying geek? o.o

[Zoko]

Card carrying geek... I have a few friends like that. You don't really need to be a geek to carry cards around, IMO. Some of my card carrying friends just also happen to be geeks, and some aren't. Personally, the only card I carry around with me is my credit card, and I seldom actually use it.

Where I live, knowing a second language is a requirement for colleges (above community college level and stuff like that).  Personally, I know English and Russian and am currently learning French. I agree with Pelar that it's pretty rewarding.

[Nericor]

  Thanks for the encouragement!  Japanese is actual much easier then people make it out to be, not that it's easy just logical.  I feel really sorry for anyone who has to learn English, there are more exceptions then rules and don't get me started on spelling....

  Not sure I agree with requiring learning a second language.  Getting more multilingual people is definitely a good thing (especially here in the USA, probably the most mono-lingual country in the world), you just get much better results when people want to do something then when they have to.

[Zoko]

How the hell are bots getting this smart?

[Xiagan]

My name is Forumirule.  I'm not an indie bundle newcomer, but the HIB did remind me to start another play through of Aquaria. (and post here for the first time)
Starting up aquaria again brought up all sorts of great memories  Smiley.   I'm also the guy who made the aquaria piano tracks.

Oh my, I really missed this one.  Kinda scary, Zoko...

[Align]

I think they copy earlier posts?

[Lady-Succubus]

Maybe they read all the posts on the forum, rank each statement on responses by other people (which are also ranked!) and then compile them together in a way that makes sense through association. Or something. ^^

Or maybe it's an actual person we think is a bot? ^^;

[Alphasoldier]

I'm not even sure what they're trying anymore, seems like humans are far too often working WITH the bots, as in, they compile first post, but I don't get why they would even spam with a single introduction post in the first place.

[Zoko]

Nothin' like a spambot to bring everyone together, eh?

I don't think it's a person Succubus, it followed the same pattern in all of it's posts. Although it wouldn't be the first time I've mistaken a person for a bot, I'm pretty sure about this one.

[GMMan]

I've seen forumirule before on the 2DBoy forums. He has signature spam, but is too intelligent for the mods to delete. (Actually, I think moderation is falling apart at 2DBoy.)

[GMMan]

Have I mentioned 2D Boy's 50% spam detection system? http://2dboy.com/forum/index.php/topic,2983.0.html
Somehow quite a few spambots find their way there. I'm not sure if those spambots are the same type that visit the forums here, but the thread seemed to be catching them a bit.

[BarbieCue]

I guess this is no longer an "introduce yourself" section haha.

[Zoko]

I guess this is no longer an "introduce yourself" section haha.

That's because you aren't introducing yourself!

[Lady-Succubus]

I think BarbieCue is introducing themself as someone who is not someone who introduces themself by not introducing themself. ^^