Fake girlfriend, revisited

Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by Scarblac on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @03:43AM (#11165367)

That's romantic comedy stuff. Both sides believe they've hired a bot but have been secretly matched and are just talking to each other, to save costs. They are really happy with the "relationship" they have with the "bot". When they find out, they are outraged and sue the company...

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by geon on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:56AM (#11165837)

There was a Swedish summer hit song with basically this premisse a few years ago. "Anna, the bot".

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by JonnieCache on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:34AM (#11166229)

Isn't that song about their IRC bot and how they love her because she kicks all the lamers from their channel and protects it from takeovers?

Here's a video with english subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iU0GGVco8

EDIT: oh yeah at the end <SPOILER ALERT> it does turn out that she's really a human girl. </SPOILER ALERT>

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by corin_ on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:34PM (#11168516)

Basshunter (the artist) is famously geeky, another of his song's is "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" ("We're sitting in Ventrilo, playing DotA". If I remember correctly he performed at some gaming/esports event like DreamHack a few years ago, too.

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by annnnd on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:09AM (#11166394)

Hey! At least write "spoiler alert"!

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by dnate on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:10AM (#11165876)

Boten Anna! such a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQUsp-jxDQ

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by icoder on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:32AM (#11166212)

Haha, was that about this? 'Boten' sounds like 'boat' (and the Dutch equivalent, 'boot'), and so we had a cover in our language about someone who had a 'really beautiful boat' called Anna.

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by geon on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:16AM (#11173266)

With his accent, it is the same in Swedish. Combined with the song playing way too much in commercial radio, it created some resentment. Someone on a festival had a sign saying "You have a boat up your ass".

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by personlurking on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @06:45AM (#11165997)

Reminds me - still waiting for a season 3 of Äkta människor

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by mbrock on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @03:51AM (#11165397)

Plot twist at the end: they are actually both replicants.

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by VLM on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:15AM (#11166441)

Tell Alma, "The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."

Hard to believe that movie is three and a half decades old.

Speaking of replicants getting interviewed by HR, another possible profitable relationship simulator, "The HR interview simulator" asking both classics such as "Can you describe how you solved a work or school problem?" and "What bugs you about coworkers or bosses?" and for an additional $10/month it adds "Mr Neckbeard McNed" to the conversation, who asks you to explain various algos randomly drawn from the Book of Knuth. "So I see you're applying to be a web page designer ... css, check, jquery experience, check, no Fields Medal or Nobel, thats something we kinda require here for writing our CRUD app, preferably both, but maybe we can make an exception just for you ... I was wondering if you could psuedocode the Hopcroft-Karp bipartite algorithm on the whiteboard for me. No pressure, I'll give you a minute or two. Or you can write it in Haskell, 6502 assembly, or APL, whichever you'd prefer."

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by justinjlynn on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:05AM (#11165446)

Bot talks to Bot talking to bot thinking bot is not bot but is actually bot. Bot is also talking to bot thinking it is not bot but is actually bot. Both bots find out Bot is bot but not bot. Both Bots bot. The net Bot is bot net. Bot-ception.

Edit: Bbbbwwwwoooooottttt. Oh, my brain.

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by restalis on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:48AM (#11166300)

"When they find out, they are outraged and sue the company..."

So knowing this possibility, write a disclaimer first! A generic one of course, that won't rise awareness in (the unlikely) case your clients actually bother to read something before signing up!

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