Vinny Bought Bot Colony. Now What?

I wish I could've seen this live. This training process is fucking ridiculous.

Giantbomb is getting back to it's glory days with the new hires and Vinny having his own stage. So much entertaining content in the last week or so. Hopefully Vinny and Alex eventually get a better office space and perhaps another hire or two to help out, then Gbeast will be fully evolved.

The moment Vinny thinks Jimmy is going to put the pepper grinder next to the coffee maker, but trolls him instead by putting it on top of the coffee maker is just priceless!!!!!

Man, Jimmy is one stupid fucking robot.

I really don't get how you can make the objectives that specific, if you know that a) the voice recognition barely works and b) Jimmy's A.I. is terrible. That's just bad programming.

Anyways, it was fun to see Vinny crack. I think that's the first time I saw him rage quit.

was not surprised by vinnys reaction he was slowly cracking towards the end . so funny one of the best. i imagined him running out and screaming at the top of his voice during the dead air section .

It's amazing how more than 10 years later, both voice-controlled games devolve into shouts of "What are you doing?!?"

Thank you for this @vinny. Please keep this kind of content coming :)

Nobody can handle this type of insanity better than Vinnygawa.

I'm imagining this super secret Splinter Cell agent outside of a very fancy modern house, holding up a tablet and just screaming into its shitty microphone "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!??!!?"

Vincent "It's OK Philips" Caravella

are those ath m50s ? Worthe getting those over Creative aurvana live! ?

This was a magical experience.

This is so great. There needs to be more "Vinny Bought".

Daiichi on the base.

IT'S PRONOUNCED VAHHHHHHSE.

I was thinking the same thing.

The homepage for bot colony mentions that you should use it with Dragon NaturalSpeaking for the Speech recognition not to suck, it wont help jimmy's quest for the pepper grinder, but I wonder how much better the recognition would have gotten.

I hope someone was just outside the room listening to this and being so confused and disturbed.

Phillips goes crazy at the end.

This week has been great for videos.

This has to be the best piece of content on the site :D :D i'm still laughing a day later XD

Quality.

reminds me of talking to my brothers xbox one for the first time

Jimmy is a real fucker.

Such a perfect ending. Jimmy better turn up in the game of the year discussions for some category.

Who knew that watching Vinny argue with a glorified roomba for a hour and a half could be so entertaining?

@vinny: Hey Vinny if you are looking for another game with robots and speech recognition, Binary Domain is actually really good. I don't know how much (or if) you played it after the Quick Look ages ago.

Edit: Oh wait I just remembered you actually put it on a GOTY list.

I think this all just goes to show how fucking bad ass that spy was that you're tracing the steps of in the tutorial.

How is the voice recognition that bad? Windows default voice stuff is pretty solid I thought. Hilarious none the less.

YESSSS! The Vinnosphere has a new entry - about damn time Giant BNYC!

Fucking amazing stuff, Vinny!

Oh wow, hazardous to watch while eating...but even despite nearly choking-up, this was pure gold.

...and I can't believe some of those words that appeared. I wonder how much of a struggle this is to someone who isn't a native speaker.

Hah, nice BTTF 2 reference Vinny.

This reminds me of the Experience/eXperiment 112

That game was really interesting. This game is interesting in a different way alltogether.

I'am so very happy to live in a world that has seen fit to give us a sequel to the greatestvideogame evermade, Lifeline.

Fuck you world.

What a piece of shit game. Funny ass QL though.

This game is the devil.

Thank you Vinny.

Is that the the Lost videotape guy?

I immediately thought: "This is Jimmy."

I guess this gives us a whole new level of appreciation for the Kinect.

Absolutely fantastic live stream, had me laughing from start to finish.

Best thing? Best thing.

@truthtellah said:

Thank you to the beautiful @viciousreiven. A bot among bots.

Holy shit.

This video reminds me of a review adam sessler did of a voice controlled PS2 game years ago

The best premium content ever. Thank you @vinny

Managed to catch the last ten minutes or so of it last night, it was great!

@zabant: It's funny because Dinner for Schmucks was worse than this game.

After this, @vinny has to play the voice-controlled Lifeline game for the PS2.

It's like this but semi-functional. It would be a nice mix of an okay game and this voice-controlled madness.

Thanks for the much needed laughs.

It's allows fun to see someone descend into madness, but I felt like I join Philips on this journey...
Great work as always by Vinnco

Yeah!!!!!!

From Wikipedia: "A Bot Colony character can answer factual questions, but it can also answer questions about the 3D environment and the events it witnessed. This ability to reason about the environment as well as about facts is a major innovation, and a stepping stone on the way to achieving common-sense behaviour and passing the Turing Test."

I feel the Turing Test stepping stone that they're referring to, as far as Bot Colony is concerned, is one of those trick ones in Takeshi's Castle where all it does is break your shins and make you faceplant onto a rock.