Subject: Yup.
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Posted on: 2009-06-11 08:40:00 UTC
Great fun. I tried similar things several times, that was the first one that actually gave a satisfactory response. I alternated between Ice Cream Koans and things that sounded like passwords to secret societies. Unfortunately no-one responded in kind.
Omegle: http://omegle.com/
Talking to random people has never been so fun. Once you get past the paedophiles and the spambots and the trolls, it can be a very serious and good way to make new friends. Alternatively, you can counter-troll and engage in topics that break the internet (I... *cough* broke the server for a few seconds at one point. Four people were on the site next to me when I copy-pasted an entire window and then repeated and repeated. All of the Omegle windows on everyone's screen froze solid).
It's a crazy idea, but it's rapidly become one of my favourite sites. Tom Francis from PC Gamer UK mentioned it on his blog, which was how I discovered it: http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-03-31-conversations-with-strangers#comments
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hello
You: To find knowledge, you must first seek the bagel of enlightenment
Stranger: mmm bagels
Stranger: yummy
Stranger: and moist
You: They are sweet indeed, yet beware! for the salad of temptation lies hidden
Stranger: nobody likes salad.
Stranger: silly billy
Stranger: person
Stranger: called bill
You: Who would? And yet, the diaphanous willow basks in the smoke, untroubled by the cream cheese of existance
Stranger: haha
Stranger: ok you win.
Stranger: heres a cookie.
Stranger: now get out of my internet!
You: Which is more enlightened - the cookie, or the hand that creates it?
Stranger: It depends on if the hand was washed before making the cookie.
Stranger: I DONT WANT NO SWINE FLU
You: Verily, for the grime of malfiecience pmay penetrate even the cleanest abode
Stranger: ... Yes.
Stranger: No comment.
You: There's not really much you can say to that, is there?
Stranger: NO
Stranger: NOW GET OUT OF HERE DAMN IT
Stranger: i told you already
Stranger: clogging up my tubes
You: Are the tubes clogged, or is the flow merely stemmed as the straight daffodil is stemed in the spring?
Stranger: Ask ted stevens he might know...
You: Forsooth, you are a fount of wisdom
Stranger: he looks like my grandpa
Stranger: kinda scary
Stranger: ...
Stranger: im sick of your nonsense
Stranger: BYE. :(
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
You had a lot of fun typing that, didn't you?
I tried roleplaying the Tellytubbies once, but I forgot to save the convo log. Obviously, it was utter gibberish. :D
The first person I ran into was Korean. We exchanged book recommendations ^_^
I've grown to hate them. About seventy percent of the people I meet are Chinese or Korean or similar. And they all say, at some point, "Do you know Korea?" It's getting on my nerves after the sixtieth time. Frankly, I'm getting to the point where I'm going to disconnect if they ask that.
*pats falcon on the head*
They're not all bad. Just the ones with nukes.
Also: ignore the mini-Boarder -_- (You'd think I'd be able to spell my OWN username...)
I know they're not all bad, but like I said, it's annoying after a while.
Oh, and I'm now saying that my name is Ace Rimmer. :P Cookie for anyone who gets it.
Red Dwarf?
I particularly like the idea of quoting Bloodninja every time someone tries to solicit some cybering. Although trolls (frequently /b/tards) sound like a big problem from what I've read. Might bother people there sometime.
I quoted the entirety of the Gears of War 2 opening speech by Chairman Prescott to harass a troller. "Humans are no strangers to war. After all, we've been fighting for as long as we can remember. War is all we know." They thought I was talking about Iraq. :P