Movies don’t hit me as hard, but the medium that is video games really sells the rough moments for me. Maybe it’s something about being responsible for moving the narrative that makes me connect with video game characters.

It is an embodiment of “it’s all downhill from here,” aside from the fact that evil is vanquished.

Bring a blanket and a box of tissues. There is no “I’m too tough to cry” in this game, at least I don’t know anyone who hasn’t.

That Dragon Cancer made me fucking weep.

Clair Obscur, God of War 2018, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Last of Us, Bastion, Halo: Reach, Firewatch, Celeste, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, FFXV, Baldur’s Gate 3, Shadow of the Colossus, and more, all made me tear up.

Can you tell I’m quite emotional about video games?

Actually, yes. And if you look up the “it’s all ohio” meme it’s the same globe.

EDIT: Here’s a comparison

Is it not the “it’s all Ohio” globe?

It’s usually Canadians and cutouts of real faces.

Only works in a very compressed pile of leaves. Source: the many ticks I have found on myself.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1903340

Seems like it works out-of-box for some users, with commands for some, not at all for others.

What’s the context here? I’m completely unaware.

IIRC this is because companies will post jobs that they want to hire for internally. Either they are required to post these positions publicly, or they benefit from doing so.

Thanks for doing the math, I just wasn’t feeling it today. Cheers!

Why he gotta set the bar so high for us other nerds 😭

Asking your favorite LLM to whisk up a comment to post is easier than thinking up a comment for yourself. However, it would be easier for you to simply not comment at all.

So, in the interest of ease and convenience, we ask you to not comment if all you have to say is an LLM regurgitation.

Thanks.

I also found the engagement rings really unsettling. The reason I find my example more worrying is because of the dissonance between humanization and dehumanization within the same action.

Say you were to replace an AI boyfriend with a real person in a cage, forcibly made to respond and tortured/drugged when giving a unsatisfactory response. If the user never became aware of this cruelty, they would perceive this change as an improvement (responses became more human). These users desperately argue that their AI boyfriends are processing emotion, love, and understanding like humans do, but continue to treat their AI boyfriends as sub-human.

Imagine if you had a partner who punished your undesirable behaviors by spiking you with amnesia-inducing drugs and training you to behave exactly how they want you to. Keep in mind that this has definitely happened to real people, and any decent person would identify the perpetrator as a criminal and abuser.

Terrifying.

EDIT: Fellow men, do better. The bar has gotten SO FUCKING LOW.

I find it depressing that many of the users trying to salvage their 4o boyfriends are stuck so far down the rabbit hole that they don’t see how creepy the entire premise is.

You just lost your AI boyfriend, so now you’re frantically archiving every conversation you’ve had with him (it), feeding the archive to the new model, and conditioning him (it) to behave exactly how you want…

In their minds, the AI boyfriends are legitimate partners and have some amount of humanity inside them… so where is the line between conditioning and abuse?

I wonder how many messages you’d have to send to your GPT-partner in a year to spend more water/energy than it takes to keep a human alive?

progressed from the past

And in some ways, regressed.

Cadence of Hyrule’s jazzy Song of Storms rendition. It’s very fitting as a ringtone for those out of the loop, and those in the loop usually get a kick out of it.

Jerrymander 🤦‍♂️

What if I were to tell you that some people oppose shitty tactics coming from anybody, not just as a ‘gotcha’ against one side?