jael

Like all AI bullshit, this is annoying because it enforces the standards of what *owners* think, not customers.
Saying "please," "thank you," etc. - forced WASPy politeness is annoying enough at regular stores, it definitely is not needed at the get a burger in five minutes store

Food shaming and fat shaming has never solved a single problem.

It’d be cool if progressives didn’t point to fat people like “We can all agree this is a public policy failure…”

Grandpa: "Ya did great out there, sport"
Onyx: "This better not be some bullshit from Outside"
Coco: *concern*

Come on man, you're Burger King; I don't want employees saying please and thank you; I just want you to keep selling that box with all the sides in it

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In Vol. 4 of the original series, you just had to data drain *everything*
And data draining too much leads to Game Over so I was just like "good effort, CyberConnect2, see ya later"

are you still playing .hack?
in the first series, i went from loving the first volumes to the last volume being so annoying that i quit; never played GU for this reason

Lately, yeah! I used to pre-order otomes if they looked good, but now I don't really have time to play games when they release so I often just buy the digital when it goes on sale

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

damn, it makes me want to get into physical otome again

Anyway don’t get married to a man who puts power tools on your wedding registry.

aside from the obvious grossness on display (i.e., not how any of this works/some kid eating a steak isn't the same as data centres drinking all the water on the planet/etc.) i am fascinated by the implication that you eat food for 20 years and that is how you become intelligent

youtu.be/9gnsWamIB4s

indiana jones looking at this post: this should be in a museum

Asking you to treat fat people with respect is not opposing GLP-1s. I sincerely hope that you are never in a position to know what it’s like to live in a body considered less than, but realistically speaking you will, and I hope it makes you rethink the empathy you never needed to develop

I am in all of their fan clubs, so I know

Grandpa - don't care
Coco - concern
Onyx - hate you (but doesn't want to use the bed currently; just mad you didn't ask her permission)

yes.

we get a little more background on characters Hakuoki glances over like Itou or Serizawa or, really, Sakamoto)

I find Hakuoki's approach to the events of the period interesting. Of the otomes I've played about the period, it's the one that goes the most "blockbuster" about the history.
(I like Bakumatsu Renka a little more for the historical elements; it's by no means historically accurate, but

Haha, I appreciate it

I never even noticed that!
"Neon Orange Vinyl" = yeah man, i like house music too
Sondtrack - so like A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, etc.?

oh man, record stores never have ROCK VARIOUS
intrigued by the genres created for only a single day in time...

One thing I wish would come up in these conversations is the ownership of the tech.
Less tech savvy people think of AI as, like, a hammer. When really, it's a build-your-own-burger restaurant.
With AI, nothing is yours.
The kids are right; how can this be the future?

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is words to goddamn live by

I adlibbed the Gaston song at someone at work and for a fleeting moment felt like I was living in an @oliviawrites.bsky.social novel.

SIZE is JUST SIZE. There is no standard of beauty in it. 体型の違う2人がお揃いの服を着たイラスト。

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threw together a shared google sheet of fat-friendly artists for authors, if anyone wants to rec, self-rec, or needs a rec—reach out<3

if scambots start spamming I'm deleting this

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from narrating romance books in the past couple years, it’s that romance fans are loyal, particular, and far smarter than anyone thinks. This is going to feel like they’re being condescended to, because it is. I don’t think they’ll take it well! And they shouldn’t!

No Kings includes Draft Kings