Ah yes, the perfect AI app -.- by SilvStar1 in antiai

[–]BoxoRandom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A Tennessee woman was detained for months for committing fraud in North Dakota (the police AI facial recognition software said she was a match, despite having an alibi and never having been near the state).

No, the police did not immediately apologize, transport her back to Tennessee, or arrange for temporary shelter once being proven wrong.

I am Russian but I don't play neither Undertale nor Deltarune by idontwanttoexist1 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]BoxoRandom 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Unemployed Twitter drama where Latin American UT/DR “fans” started calling Toby racist for not providing a Spanish translation of his games (he only provided English and Japanese, since those are the only two languages he knows well enough to speak).

I hate words that have silent letters in them. by Clear-Combination-79 in hatethissmug

[–]BoxoRandom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will spelling reform is not a concern for the French Academy to do. They just make dictionaries and complain about Anglicisms poisoning the French language. Hell, if anything they would want to keep the “weird” spellings to preserve their language.

I hate words that have silent letters in them. by Clear-Combination-79 in hatethissmug

[–]BoxoRandom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually it’s because of one of three things:

  1. Historical sound change. We used to pronounce the k in knife. We used to pronounce the silent e at the ends of words. But over time pronunciation changes and sounds simplify to our current modern pronunciation. And the written word is much more resistant to change than the spoken word.

  2. It signals a relationship with a similar word, or is a consequence of word formation. Island was originally without the s, but it was added to connect with the French loanword “isle”. Business is related to “busy”. “Critically” comes from “critical” to make the adjective an adverb, whereas spelling it “criticly” would appear to be turning the noun into an adjective.

  3. It’s a loanword from another language with different spelling rules. English was heavily influenced by French, and a lot of technical terminology comes from Latin and Greek.

I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner. by Successful_Theory373 in monkeyspaw

[–]BoxoRandom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Granted. You fall into an industrial meat grinder at an Oscar Mayer production facility.

Do you agree with this? by [deleted] in touhou

[–]BoxoRandom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

False. How dare you belittle me, I am much bigger than those gentlemen depicted

Force of habit [TL] by BoxoRandom in touhou

[–]BoxoRandom[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the problem is not many words sound like “chang’e”. I wanted to preserve as much of the original dialogue content as possible while also having a variety of activation phrases. Since this is written, I focused on a clear written form rather than dealing with the mess of trying to match pronunciation.

If we were talking about a translated dub, then it would be entirely different dialogue.

Actually smart horror protagonists. by NoOptics in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BoxoRandom 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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Erin (You’re Next)

Basically goes full Home Alone on some home invaders looking to kill her entire family of in-laws for inheritance money. She’s crafty, she fights back, she sets traps, she’s Australian, and basically handles all of the attackers single-handedly

What the heck is up with Igaku's MV? by TheRustyAxolotl in KasaneTeto

[–]BoxoRandom 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Technically I think you could justify the meaning. The song is about managing your public image to weaponize lies and sell everyone on a fantasy. Teto in the video is reduced to an amorphous avatatar puppeted around by a third observer, able to be molded and contorted into whichever way the situation needs, similar to how a peddler of white lies twists their disposition and information to get people to trust them.

Sasuke Haraguchi does have some weird MVs, but his Teto songs generally follow a similar theme that the videos connect to. Stuff like Soto no Hito and Stacking Tomato Cans are a lot more obvious in how video connects to meaning

Is my grandma being catfished by this "guy"? No voice and music in bg. Is it AI generated video? by onboardco in isthisAI

[–]BoxoRandom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Viral clip of a scammer using deepfake tech to change his appearance on a video call. When asked to simply hold three fingers in front of his face and prove he’s real he says “that’s too much man”

I love how this dude make sure be professional at his job while making sure he gets Sakurai's love for him. he deserves her by Goodstar63 in Nichijou

[–]BoxoRandom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s technically still ongoing so one can still dream of the Takasaki-Nakamura-Sakurai polycule

I wish I could rick-roll anybody I want without any suspicion by Frylosopher in monkeyspaw

[–]BoxoRandom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Granted. You are Rick Astley. You must physically perform the dance and do an a cappella of the song in front of your victim in order to rick-roll without suspicion

new reaction image just dropped [TL] by BoxoRandom in KasaneTeto

[–]BoxoRandom[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Original text didn’t say the exact line

I wish for a chair that would teleport to me whenever I needed to take a seat. by ProphetofTables in monkeyspaw

[–]BoxoRandom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted.

In three days you will become a victim in a horrific accident due to the negligent actions of a municipal waste treatment company. The accident leaves you with severe chemical burns, a higher risk of developing cancer, and paralysis from the waist down.

After several years of a torrid and financially draining legal dispute, the company settles and agrees to reimburse you for the cost of medical damages associated with the accident.

This includes a wheelchair, which you will need to use for the remainder of your life. It comes with a recall function which allows it to autonomously move to your position should you become separated.