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Building a believable Stallman #2

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At the moment, this character is little more than a very loose approximation of RMS' character. However, this actually is a pretty good learning opportunity to fill dialog with things that Stallman actually would say, and positions that he would actually hold.

The personal website of RMS provides a treasure trove of information about himself to the public. However, we don't want to play an encyclopedia of every possible answer in a lineal fashion - that's boring. We want to limit the amount of answers a user can select, so as to actually mimic a natural conversation. After all, you're on a date.

We should keep track of an arbitrary score that allows RMS to talk a little bit about himself, but also forces conversational pauses once that score is hit - for example, if the score is more than 3, the food should arrive, and the characters should start eating. This would force new options to open up, but abandon the old options.

This could also turn the conversation around in certain ways. For example, RMS could briefly ask the player questions for their opinions on certain subjects, which would further affect how future date conversation might pan out - for example, not liking a certain band may bring up a sarcastic pun later in response to another question.

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