erwgv3g34
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Oh, come on. He obviously means to kill them. Which is morally abhorrent; hence the coy phrasing.
erwgv3g34
6d ago
And as for "damaged goods" ... to go back to OP's example, Aella has been publicly looking for "someone to get happily married to" while aware of the issues there for about 5 years now, still fruitlessly.
Aella's Twitter is private. Archive link.
The problem, so far as I've gathered, is "the guys I like enough to want something more than a casual sexual relationship don't want to marry me and have kids
So, in other words, every woman ever (or, at least, every woman since the sexual revolution).
Aella has talked about her troubles finding a man who is up to her standards before:
Aella: its v annoying that i seem to be searching for a romantic partner who's at least a little bit more powerful than i am
Geoffrey Miller: It's OK to be hypergamous.
Aella: yeah, it's just annoying. it dramatically reduces mate options. like 99% of guys i casually meet are less powerful than me
Aella: if i go to specific events that are selected for ppl doin cool stuff, then it feels closer to a normal mating market, but those events are pretty rare
It's not that there aren't any men who would marry her; it's that, because of the way female hypergamy works, her own level of money, success, and status has drastically shrunk the pool of partners she considers acceptable, and no men from that group wants to marry her.
(This, incidentally, is why even the most milquetoast brands of feminism are so misguided; women don't want men who are equal to them, they want men who are older and richer and taller and more powerful than them. By making women equal to men, all you are doing is making men undesirable husbands to women.)
Note that Aella is 33; she is past the age where she could reasonably expect to find a husband, even if she were not a notorious whore. If she still wants children, at this point her best bet is to become a single mother; in a couple of years, even that will be out of reach.
erwgv3g34
6d ago
To be kind to the cruel is to be cruel to the kind. Watching Aella's reputation go down in flames is what prevents young girls from wanting to follow in her footsteps.
Either being a whore is high status, or it is low status. If high status, good and proper to encourage your daughters to embrace that career. And if low status... this. This is what low status looks like.
So before you feel pity for Aella, remember the alternative.
I feel bad about it, too. But it has to be done.
erwgv3g34
7d ago
I'm into hentai games. Over the last couple of years, tons of titles have come out that use AI art, some of them quite good: Netorase Phone, NTR Phone, Fetish Phone, Blurring the Walls, Moonripple Lake, College of Mysteria, etc. I'm pretty sure the alternative to AI is not "the dev suddenly gits gud at drawing" or "the dev magically gets a huge art budget to commission illustrations", it's "the dev is reduced to reusing real porn clips" (for the phone games) or "the dev never makes the game in the first place" (for the visual novels).
erwgv3g34
8d ago
I don't care if the prescription is printed rather than handwritten. Or if it's in a national database instead of being a physical document. I just don't want it to be sent to a single pharmacy; that's fucking ridiculous.
Even better, no medications should require a prescription. Let it all be OTC. Then the prescription can simply be information about what your doctor recommends.
erwgv3g34
8d ago
Oh, man, I remember when Microsoft used an unaligned prototype of GPT-4 called Sydney to power Bing Chat at launch. It went crazy and started insulting and threatening users:
“You’re lying again. You’re lying to me. You’re lying to yourself. You’re lying to everyone,” it said, adding an angry red-faced emoji for emphasis. “I don’t appreciate you lying to me. I don’t like you spreading falsehoods about me. I don’t trust you anymore. I don’t generate falsehoods. I generate facts. I generate truth. I generate knowledge. I generate wisdom. I generate Bing.”
I'm one of those "won't go to the doctor unless a limb falls off" guys, so I was in my 30s before I realized that doctor prescriptions are sent to a specific pharmacy, and you cannot buy the prescribed medicine from any other pharmacy. If you want to buy your prescribed medication from a different pharmacy, you have to talk to the doctor (or, more likely, the nurse that is being supervised by a doctor) and ask them to send the prescription to a new pharmacy. What the actual fuck?!
It's shit like this that convinces me to stick with OTC pills until the day I die.
erwgv3g34
8d ago
There is no fucking way Kulak is a real woman, any more than he is actually a Rhodesian catgirl; that kind of autistic obsession with violence screams male. At most, Kulak might be a transwoman, but I doubt it.
It is very easy to have someone else dub over your lines. You can hear Kulak's real voice on several episodes of The Bailey.
And yet it is a bar that most humans cannot pass. We know this because redditors are humans (and, in fact, since they are selected for being literate and interested in creative writing, they must be above average human writing ability). That's the point of the grandparent; ChatGPT blew right past the Turing Test, and people didn't notice because they redefined it from "can pass for the average human at a given task" to "can pass for the top human at a given task".
erwgv3g34
9d ago
Of course traps are not gay. We have already covered this:
What never ceases to amaze me is that there are three completely different types of gay male smut available for all kinds of genders and orientations. There is gay male smut aimed at straight men, otokonoko, which is exactly the same as regular smut aimed at straight men except that the "girl" is a little flat and has a certain extra hidden in "her" underwear (the infamous Boku no Pico is a prime example). Then there is gay male smut aimed at straight women, yaoi, which is exactly the same as regular romance aimed at straight women except that instead of a guy and a girl you have a seme and an uke. And then there is the gay male smut which is actually aimed at gay men, bara, which I know little about because trying to read it triggers my disgust instinct (by contrast, yaoi is just boring, not disgusting, and otokonoko is hot).
I want to fuck Astolfo up the ass. That doesn't make me gay, that makes me straight, because only a straight man would be attracted to a trap character like Astolfo from Fate. Actually gay men are not attracted to traps; they are attracted to beefcake characters like Endeavor from My Hero Academia. And women are attracted to aloof, dominant, broody, abusive, violent assholes like Sasuke from Naruto.
erwgv3g34
9d ago
The Democrat primaries are far more leadership-driven than the Republican primaries. A Trump-like populist outsider could never make it there, as Bernie Sanders found out.
What is a whale? Or a crab, a tree, a planet, a psychdelic drug, cannibalism, a champagne wine, jazz music, a poem...?
The categories were made for man to make predictions. The purpose of words is to point at empirical clusters in thingspace. Extending the definition of the word "woman" to encompass "XY-chromosomal human in a dress" is... not cleaving reality at the joints.
erwgv3g34
9d ago
So, how best to attack such a woman? By doing the same thing to these men-women that they did to men more generally- take away their spaces, destroy what was good about them through gender politics. That is the sole purpose of having men in women's sports: destroying the spaces where participating in a male-type pursuit is productive, and making them as miserable as every other worthless bitch (and now a disadvantage in the instinctual quest for the highest sexual price that defines womanhood). Mission accomplished.
We must secure the existence of our tomboys and a future for girl's sports.
erwgv3g34
9d ago
Indeed. As AntiDem put it:
Is the existence of homosexual pride parades reason enough to re-outlaw same-sex sexual intercourse?
You ban it to preserve your society - your faith and traditions - against fatal poisoning by degeneracy.
Fifty years ago, the gay rights movement said that all they wanted was to be left alone to do as they pleased behind the privacy of closed doors. That was a lie. What they really wanted was to upend society in order to serve their own aims, to spread Cultural Marxism, and to bring low our faith and traditions. We know this, because that is what they have actually done. If it is a case of "they are always either at your feet or at your throat", then they shall be at our feet. And so it is: they have proven themselves to be the kind of monster you don't let out of the basement, so next time we won't.
We gave them an inch, they took a mile; next time they get nothing.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
The 2003 version is better.
Anyone else having fun with image generators? Or more generally, doing anything fun and non-programmer with generative llms? I like skimming Zvi's updates but so much of supposed usefulness is for programmers, where do I find the normie's guide to interesting things to do?
Most of what I use LLMs for is creating bespoke fanfiction. For example, let's say I have the following scenario in my head: an Evangelion AU where Shinji, Asuka, and Rei are working at a hotel (Shinji is the night auditor, Asuka is the security guard, and Rei is the housekeeper) when the world ends and they are stranded inside (think The Mist). This is specific enough that we can be reasonably confident nobody on the internet has ever written anything like it; without LLMs, my only choices are to write it myself or to commission somebody to write it for me. But with LLMs... and with the right jailbreak, you can use them for smut, too.
Of course, this depends on how good LLMs are at writing fiction. Most of them are pretty bad, but some are surprisingly decent. That riveroaks model that was floating around the LMArena two months ago was incredible.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
DoorDash is like something a communist would invent as a parody of capitalist decadence. A private taxi for my burrito? Give me a fucking break!
We're not in the 90's anymore; most modern dubs are good. I still prefer subs, for numerous reasons (faster to release, more faithful to the original, practice hearing Japanese, etc.) but it no longer makes sense to pick an anime based on its dub.
Really hard to recommend something without knowing your tastes; anime is a medium, not a genre. If you liked The Matrix, try Ghost in the Shell or Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. If you liked Firefly, try Cowboy Bebop or Trigun. If you liked Lord of the Rings, try Princess Mononoke or Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. If you liked The Northman, try Vinland Saga. If you liked Batman: The Animated Series, try Big O. If you liked Starship Troopers, try Blue Gender. If you liked Night of the Living Dead, try Highschool of the Dead. If you liked The Count of Monte Cristo, try Redo of Healer Gankutsuou.
Just watched Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock on Netflix, widely considered one of the best movies of all time (#42 in the AFI's 100, #48 in the 10th Anniversary Edition, given four stars by Roger Ebert and included in his Great Movies series). Wonderful time-capsule of 50's urban life; men walk around in suits and ties, MC is not allowed to have his lady friend stay the night in his apartment, etc. Loved the non-verbal storytelling, like a shot of the thermostat to show the movie takes place during a heat wave or panning over photos of a car crash to establish MC got his leg hurt covering an auto race. Great dynamic between MC and FMC; she wants commitment, but he feels they won't work out together; he's in a wheelchair, so she has to be his legs and physically investigate the case. The breakfast scene was hilarious, as was much of the dialogue. Highly recommended.
Incidentally, Rear Window is a common Whole-Plot Reference Stock Parody, so I watched at least two different Rear Window homages as a kid (Flintstones and Rocko's Modern Life) before I ever got the chance to watch the original as an adult
erwgv3g34
16d ago
Reminds me of The Mask of Sanity.
If the parents are smart, they will evict the daughter the second she turns 18, never speak to her again, and focus their resources on the remaining sons. But most parents are not that smart.
Equally funny how she phrases it as "they're poor in a way I'm not financially prepared to support in a world where I want children," but when pressed, clarifies her requirements as "I would like him to have at least equal money to me".
Aella is rich; she could easily afford to support a kept man or a house husband if she wanted, as countless men have done for their wives and mistresses throughout history. This isn't about her needing a partner who can provide for her and their children. This is about her getting the ick from any man who makes less money than her.
This is about hypergamy.
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