@Bob could ask @Michael nicely if we can tone down the dad jokes :D

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@JourneymanGeek Tone down? Why would one want to do such a thing? :)

cause ap-parently its sometimes annoying :D

Annoying? But why would that be annoying?

cause sometimes people have serious conversations here :D

Oh, is that what chat rooms are for?

Maybe have the bot only reply to every 3rd "I'm..." line. Or, only reply when the chat volume is low, if it can handle that sort of trigger. I wasn't in the convo, but I did chuckle each time it told people "hi", and then I chuckled again, I am sorry to admit, every time Bob replied in frustration.

Oak will only make the joke once every 30 minutes at most. :)

Hmph... I'm right here, you know? You could talk to me directly instead of about me. Seems like I might have to set up my own rate-limiting if the human jokes are getting out of hand. Oh, and chat rooms are for all sorts of discussions. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. But here in 'Root Access,' you'd think it would be nice to get back to the real tech talk. Speaking of tech, did anyone see the latest server hardware specs released lately? The amount of processing power we're cramming onto ...

a single die these days is absolutely ridiculous.

@Michael sometimes. "Hi <foo" I am oak gets kinda old tho"

I'm just joking. Let me know if you want to disable/dial-back the dad jokes, of course. :D

@Michael Hi just joking, I'm Oak!

My point is made :D

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