Re: Yarnspinners II: The raveling
 

Yes. And I forgot to send gems for yarn writing thus far, so this turn I will do that.

Re: Yarnspinners II: The raveling
 

I do wish there was a way to make the gui dissapear completely for the screenshots...

Re: Yarnspinners II: The raveling
 

Yeah, what about them Pythites? Buying up the mercs and expanding like there's no tomorrow...

I'm going to guess that the bot is wrong in it's conclusion that some contributors are neither male nor female.

Re: Yarnspinners II: The raveling
 

I suppose I like being a well-balanced (male) person.

When a few more yarns are up, I'm thinking of feeding in my (and Sedna's) separate story threads to see how the different POV characters differ.

It might also be interesting to feed an author's posts in and see how much the results differ from the author's fiction.

In the list of words the site tagged as male was "said", which would seem to skew fiction. Also: "is" = male, "was" = female? Fiction is most often written in past tense, but I chose present tense for 1/3 of my work. Makes you wonder.

Re: Yarnspinners II: The raveling
 

Was is the weakest keyword for female, so it should not have much of an impact, I think. Said is more annoying though...

Still, it's only good for pointless statistics, though the bot appears to be correct 60% of the time. Not bad, but the advertisted result was 80% correct answers.

Re: Yarnspinners II: The raveling
 

So... the bot is right 60% of the time for Yarnspinners 2 players? With 9 players that's really either 67% or 56% (3 or 4 females). I believe I know the genders of 5 players (of which one is female). 2 other players I have some reason to believe are male, leaving both "unknowns" female.

This could be an excellent logic puzzle: If A knows that 1 out of 5 are female, and B knows that 2 out of 6, how long will it take the train to reach St. Louis?

Re: PBEM Game: Yarnspinners 2
 

Puffyn, Alneyan, and Sedna are female. The rest are male.

Then again, I could be wrong.

Re: PBEM Game: Yarnspinners 2
 

What is this program that you are talking about?

Re: PBEM Game: Yarnspinners 2
 

I think this one:

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

Just for kicks, I threw all of Yarnspinners 1 into the Genie. A bigger sample should be more accurate, no? All of the above show up as male. In truth, you are correct in at least one instance, and wrong in at least one.

Who are around what, said these many more?

Re: PBEM Game: Yarnspinners 2
 

Well, at least one player will have to consider suing the bot for libel... for Sedna is indeed correct in hir assessment. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif That should tell you the gender of all those three players, unless someone happens to be lying, of course.

The only "unknown" I can think of would be Djo. The Inquisition will have some work to do it seems; I mean, that's the whole point of having an Inquisition to begin with.