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by MerryBBuck
Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Strategy
Topic: Austria vs Bots
Replies: 519
Views: 33223

Re: Austria vs Bots

When you know your opponent's opening: https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=550660
by MerryBBuck
Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:19 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Map bug - territories not coloured in
Replies: 5
Views: 1012

Re: Map bug - territories not coloured in

A rare Swiss victory!
by MerryBBuck
Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:30 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Fairbot vs FB
Replies: 10
Views: 1534

Re: Fairbot vs FB

A_Tin_Can wrote:
Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:44 am
I think Kestas said in another post that Facebook shuttered their AI division, and so he replaced their bot with the other one. Maybe.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4437&p=319650#p319650
by MerryBBuck
Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:54 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: webDip makes international news: Science!!!
Replies: 30
Views: 21594

Re: webDip makes international news: Science!!!

Lex Fridman's podcast with Noam Brown about Cicero. (The first half is about their prior work on poker. Diplomacy discussion starts ~ 1:12.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oHH4aClJQs
by MerryBBuck
Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:04 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Adjudicator bug?
Replies: 11
Views: 1372

Re: Adjudicator bug?

Maybe BUL->CON was not an attack, but a special military operation.
by MerryBBuck
Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:19 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: webDip makes international news: Science!!!
Replies: 30
Views: 21594

Re: webDip makes international news: Science!!!

Congrats to the Meta AI team for the achievement.

I was suspicious when playing against it. The bot always wrote complete sentences to me, including correct punctuation and capitalization.
by MerryBBuck
Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:22 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Mcdonald's Nostalgia
Replies: 36
Views: 3027

Re: Mcdonald's Nostalgia

But did the Egyptian McDonald's have Orange Drink and Mayor McCheese?
by MerryBBuck
Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:43 am
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: This site needs -1 feature
Replies: 13
Views: 2676

Re: This site needs -1 feature

Instead of adding downvotes, upvotes should be calculated using sum-of-squares.
by MerryBBuck
Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:54 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Profile page error
Replies: 13
Views: 2183

Re: Profile page error

Uh-oh. All I can say is, I am not a cat.

When the "report relationships" feature appeared, I did claim a relationship with Fairbot. (I listed Fairbot as my arch-nemesis.) That's the only unusual thing I can think might cause my profile problem.
by MerryBBuck
Mon May 30, 2022 3:52 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Twenty Questions - Mrs Oct's Cousin (possibly!) Edition - Game No.3
Replies: 92
Views: 6660

Re: Twenty Questions - Mrs Oct's Cousin (possibly!) Edition - Game No.3

Does the professional sport played by this person involve a spherical ball?
by MerryBBuck
Thu May 26, 2022 1:13 am
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: 20Q - Twenty Questions - Character Edition
Replies: 75
Views: 5861

Re: 20Q - Twenty Questions - Character Edition

MSmart wrote:
Thu May 26, 2022 12:44 am
MerryBBuck wrote:
Wed May 25, 2022 8:28 pm
Does this person need the Devout Shoulders?
Not sure what this means, but no.
Sorry for the obscure quote. This refers to Ben Schulz, also known as this guy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4
by MerryBBuck
Wed May 25, 2022 8:28 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: 20Q - Twenty Questions - Character Edition
Replies: 75
Views: 5861

Re: 20Q - Twenty Questions - Character Edition

Does this person need the Devout Shoulders?
by MerryBBuck
Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:00 am
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Pronouns in Account Bio
Replies: 22
Views: 3296

Re: Pronouns in Account Bio

@native speakers... someone once told me that all country names are feminine in English (this is not the case in other languages: in Italian for instance Galles [Wales] is masculine while Scozia [Scotland] is feminine). Nouns aren't really gendered in English. Even if they have a technical gender i...
by MerryBBuck
Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:21 pm
Forum: Feedback/Bug Reports
Topic: Pronouns in Account Bio
Replies: 22
Views: 3296

Re: Pronouns in Account Bio

The Klingon language has no gender pronouns. There are also just two categories of nouns: living things and dead things. "If France moves her army to Burgundy I will be mad at her" would be "HoH vIraS". Klingon lacks nuance, so if you translate that back into English, it would be "Let's kill France."
by MerryBBuck
Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:38 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Strategy
Topic: France vs Austria Bot Challenge
Replies: 216
Views: 108862

Re: France vs Austria Bot Challenge

I think Fairbot (FvA) is broken. It's not moving, and is starting to resign games.
https://webdiplomacy.net/userprofile.php?userID=128943
by MerryBBuck
Mon Jan 24, 2022 5:33 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Paid Tournament Through Meta, Signups Open
Replies: 52
Views: 21801

Re: Paid Tournament Through Meta, Signups Open

I'd like to think that it will be entirely dedicated to playing Gunboat:
https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/01/24/meta ... s-fastest/
by MerryBBuck
Sat Jan 01, 2022 5:37 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Paid Tournament Through Meta, Signups Open
Replies: 52
Views: 21801

Re: Paid Tournament Through Meta, Signups Open

Once we let facebook infiltrate the webdip community ... I trust the site owners to keep the site ad-free, but if you're worried about that, consider a donation. :-D ... worst case scenarios that we’re going to need ads... I would like to run an ad on Webdip. I want to sell bots that connect to you...
by MerryBBuck
Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:33 am
Forum: Diplomacy Advice
Topic: France vs Austria Bot Challenge
Replies: 216
Views: 108862

Re: France vs Austria Bot Challenge

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:21 pm

How does it "rely" on it?
I just meant that the bot is coded/trained that that order results in the army moving. If the bot played on a different website, it might lose games that it would win here.
by MerryBBuck
Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:15 pm
Forum: Diplomacy Strategy
Topic: France vs Austria Bot Challenge
Replies: 216
Views: 108862

Re: France vs Austria Bot Challenge