I bought a Kodak shirt and hat when I went to their retail store in Seoul. It’s a nice shirt, and it makes me wish they had apparel that looked as good in the US market.

“Hey boss I made a novel technology that allows you to take photos without film and you can put them on a computer!”

“WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU STEVEN”

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?

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

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?

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?

Asher was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo

Yeah, I’m sure it was unprovoked by the car full of people following it for hours.

You know that thing where stick someone in a latex sack and suck all the air out of it so it compresses them? I feel like she would be into that.

Thanks for the writeup - I can’t believe they claimed anything about keeping data safe while building the website so poorly…

That thing has an inbuilt DAC, as well as S/PDIF and USB inputs, so I’d imagine any device with enough processing power to play lossless audio files and has the proper drivers should be enough.