I moved across the country to live with someone I was mutuals with on Mastodon, and then became her girlfriend a couple days later. It’s been almost 5 years now and we’re still very happy together! She’s my best friend and the only person that I feel understands me completely, and it still feels unreal that we even met at all.

I have no problem admitting I downvoted largely because of the waifu stuff. The other problem was that the question is ridiculously leading, but if that were the only problem I would be able to just ignore it and scroll by. Earlier I typed up a response but the more I sat on the question, the more it bothered me, until I just lost any desire to engage it at all.

The concept of an AI girlfriend is just so creepy to me and reeks of incel-y nonsense. Even just within this post, it’s clear the hypothetical AGI “waifu” in question is subservient to the reader. Maybe some don’t see that as an issue because after all, it’s just a program and has no real emotion, and I’m open to admitting I may have misunderstood the intent of the question, but to me it’s far too reminiscent of men I’ve had the displeasure of interacting with who clearly just see me as a commodity for them to aquire. I also can’t help but imagine the potential for people to use AI like the post linked by OP to make recreations of non-consenting women for men’s pleasure, similar to the issue we are seeing with deepfakes currently.

What do you gain from behaving this way? I understand it’s easy to get heated online but you’re just plainly trying to get under someone’s skin for no reason. Maybe you genuinely disagree that calling a stranger “buddy” right at the start of a disagreement is disrespectful, but you’re literally just responding derisively to someone in a way that you know they find disrespectful, underneath a post specifically telling you to be respectful in disagreements.

Also, personally I think it’s strange to question someone else’s understanding of English in regards to calling a stranger “buddy” in a disagreement, seeing as I think most English speakers would understand the passive aggressive attitude of such a thing easily.

I’ve got almost 700 hours in osu! but I’m pretty sure I’d have more hours in Super Smash Bros. Melee by now. Hard to say for sure since I can’t effectively track it

It would be nice if that was an option. I’ve just got the page zoomed in to 150% right now and it’s pretty comfortable on my laptop monitor, but on a full size desktop monitor I feel like the text would be a little large.

God this thread pissed me off, I used to have to block so many of these shit head liberals when I was on Mastodon. Love uncritically accepting statements from “politically neutral human rights groups” such as fuckin uhhhh Amnesty International

I just finished Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and I thought it was a fun watch! I liked the art and direction a lot, and I felt the animation still had quite strong moments despite the show’s age. Unfortunately, the sound quality was not great. I read somewhere that this is a common problem with Toei Animation’s older VHS releases. Thankfully, I didn’t find it too distracting. There were a lot of flashing lights as well, which I could have done without.

Other than that, I had been watching Gintama’, but it’s been on pause for a while. I have really mixed feelings about Gintama, when it’s funny it’s really funny, but when it’s not it’s… well, it’s really not. I can enjoy immature humor sometimes, but there’s a limit to that, and Gintama goes waaay over that limit. Combine that with the show being downright offensive at times, and it just made it difficult to watch. I made it through the first part by just watching a few episodes and then taking breaks to avoid getting burnt out, but even then, I’m like 210 episodes in and still not even halfway done, so I’m kinda losing motivation to even watch for the parts I like.

Next up to watch is either Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory or Revolutionary Girl Utena, depending on whether or not my wife would like to watch with me.