Either everyone is a bot, or the game takes everything you say and replaces it with a default phrase. I've seen different people say the exact same thing several times.
It's pretty creepy...

Ehm - the game can be made compatible with Vista - like all the titles that have been made with older versions of GM. I'm running it on Vista right now.

Here's a link to the official Wiki entry:

Making games work under Vista

I've been a proud betatester of this game since day one, and it's my current favorite game, indie AND commercial!

Seriously, I think this is a "simulation" of a multiplayer game (having chat bots and player bots). The game logs the chat in the "data" file (saw my lines in there too) and then randomly shows the lines with random nicknames.
The even more disturbing thing is that the score remained the same as yesterday, so obviously, something's up :).
Also, the data.xhg file is a Wikipedia article on William Shapespeare in Swedish???

Yeah, I disabled my internet and it still played. I guess that's the "experiment".

My bulk shipment of senses of humour just arrived - email me with your addresses and I'll have them shipped out by next week.

Yeah one of the bots told me it hated it's mother, and it wasn't sure why... x_x;

"Dino Run is a lot better than this game" x)
That's actually quite an ingenious project. You should seriously put a spoiler-warning or something in the news, already reading the comments beforehand basically destroyed the joke for me :)

I'm just wondering if all the chat lines were programmed into the game or if that is actual chat by real players, only "replayed" randomly by those bots.

Anyway, sweet stuff. I guess Erik ist the new cool kid in town, eh? :)

this game rocks!
i played it for like 20 minutes before i got the joke.
=D