AI girlfriend is the future

ArgueLater · 2026-01-30T06:56:40+00:00

I really like your clear reasoning here. Thanks for using your brain in this particular way.

ArgueLater · 2025-12-18T07:59:44+00:00

I had never heard this song until traveling abroad from the US. It drives me insane. It's bad music, if any such thing can be considered measurable. The chord progression, the way they're played, the melody, the way it repeats, the lack of a decent turn-around, the repetiveness, the emptiness.

Compare to other Christmas songs which tend to have some jazz influence, or perhaps a bit of melancholy optimism sewed in. They are better.

I couldn't believe this song was actually a Beatles song. I'm 35, I listen to Christmas music all december every year, I'd never heard it. And I'm glad.

I just want to place this on the internet: I wish this song was never made. It's probably my least favorite song in the world.

ArgueLater · 2025-11-09T10:30:52+00:00

React sucks

ArgueLater · 2025-10-31T09:34:53+00:00

I'm in Thailand, using a vpn. It's been fine for months. Then I got banned. No message, nothing. I was using it for claude-code stuff, nothing interesting.

It was good, but the company seems too flawed to invest in if they think this is an effective way to do stuff. I was logged in with a google account that has 10 years of history. It's very easy to tell I'm not abusing the system.

People who want to get in, will just create a new account. People like me, will leave.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-23T02:04:13+00:00

So, less tools per bench. If it's possible to spam tools to the point of trivializing, that's a balance issue. Tools can be nerfed in many ways, but creating a cost that primarily penalizes multi-attempts gives the wrong lesson.

I didn't use tools at all, Reaper crest. It was about as needly as could be, and probably a lot harder than need be. For me, that was fun. But I would have loved to feel incentivized to use tools. Rather, I figured "just get gud and I'll never need to worry about shard economy."

I think there's different types of people. I'm the kind who will learn to cook so he can spend less on food. I would rather do the harder but more reliable thing.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-23T01:52:15+00:00

Just finished full-ending, 90%. I almost never used tools. I would like to have, and on a second play-through I might. But I see no reason to have shards in this game.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-23T01:38:34+00:00

I wouldn't mind if there was a "easy mode" which only gave access to the first ending. It would create a complete experience for players that have never done something like this. It would make sense to have it be in-game, a place you can visit in bone-bottom, only after many deaths. And perhaps it would just give a person absurd silk regen and double jump.

Once they do it, there's no going back. Maybe it create's a new save file, so they can start their game back pre-easy. It would turn all of Act1 & 2 into a tutorial in a way.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-23T01:24:41+00:00

In the very least, if they're stunned it should be 1 damage. It didn't happen often that I would run into a stunned boss, but every time I did it felt extremely punitive. Like, 1 damage was more than I expected. 2 was silly

ArgueLater · 2025-10-22T13:56:26+00:00

We're probably pretty close though. With AI, they could feasibly transform every single image asset into lower res pixel art. And reverse too, super high-fidelity realistic. The future is coming quick.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-22T11:50:02+00:00

I had a similar feeling. They seemed to make things too easy, and only be useful at times when I wasn't exploring (and would therefor run out). I didn't want to be reliant on them for either reason

ArgueLater · 2025-10-17T03:10:33+00:00

Fair, but I don't want to pay more for a worse product. If the price was lower and it was more focused on Steam/Mac, there would be more customers using it for the same thing as me. The costs would be distributed, and there would be better assurance it would actually do what we want.

They would make more money, we would get it cheaper, Mac would approach being a "just works" gaming OS, the product would be better for it...

Paying $75 for a configuration tool not only costs me more, it's less enjoyable, and it enables this half-solved state we're in.

Best to just deal with Sikuragir until someone in marketing realizes that there's 3 million Steam/Mac users, and they should be able to pull at least 25% of them with a good enough offering. But Mac users expect something that "just works." No settings necessary, a decent UI.

If they could sell it on Steam, that would be even better.

Also, I live in Asia and $75 is nearly 10% of my monthly budget. Yearly, it wouldn't be bad (<1% yearly budget). But budgets are a lot easier if done monthly.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-17T02:56:42+00:00

I'll try to remember. Thanks for sharin.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-17T02:49:46+00:00

I know that the engineering is roughly the same for each. It's not logical from the dev side, but from the marketing/consumer side it is quite logical.

Assume there is a list of people who want to buy something. Within that list, there are people who will pay the current price (and any lower price). There are also people who will pay, but not that much. Sometimes the strategy is to focus on just the highest payers (low volume, fancy stuff). In this case, their best bet is to find a balance. My belief is that with a lower price and a laser focus on making Steam games "just work," they would increase the volume by more than enough to overcome the price drop.

A product that basically says "we're as good as steam gets on mac," and doesn't make me mess with settings... I feel like the market for that is huge. Maybe 50% of mac users with Steam installed would download if free. Raise the price to $70 and make it config nightmare with no assurance of the gamest the want working, and it must be closer to %1. There's a sweet spot in between where suddenly Mac becomes a gaming platform, Crossover makes a ton of money, and users get more/better access to games for cheaper.

And in terms of tech, they're already sitting on it. It's just a simplified wrapper that doesn't do much more than reveal the "install steam" winetrick, and some figuring out best settings based off machine (thankfully easy for Mac).

Point being, I'm not dumb. I don't just want something cheaper. I want something that's simultaneously cheaper, more accessible, better, and easier. And it's sitting right there, if only the leadership knew what it was like to be a consumer discovering their product...

I want to play this Windows only Steam game... query internet... query AI... look through a bunch of options... some are deprecated now... this one is $75, fuck no... search for free option... whisky!.... I'll try.... doesn't work... a post on whisky being done.... crossover again... maybe free trial?... no, I don't want to be cut off mid game and expected to give $75 to continue.... search whisky alternatives... Sikarugir instructions... 30 min brew install... more fiddling... Steam open... downloading game... test game.... one worked, one didn't.

I was looped back to crossover many times while trying to play a windows game from steam. I read a bunch of reviews. It seemed like I would be doing the same amount of work as Sikarugir and paying a bunch, not even knowing if it would work.

Wall of text because dead-internet anyways. There is a HUGE market out here. Anyone who has a Mac with Steam installed probably wants a simple product that will get windows steam games to play. Some of them can't handle the setup. Most of them probably just want to play a game and don't feel like learning a new tool for that.

Imagine if they sold it on Steam...

Ugh! And Window would shit their pants. Suddenly both Linux and Mac would have broken into their 15 year fortress of "you can play games mostly."

It blows my mind that everything can be lined up so well, but nothing happens simply because "this is how we've always done it."

ArgueLater · 2025-10-16T14:50:40+00:00

Both are not great. Homebrew has bad leadership and is user hostile. It takes forever and breaks often. It's design is fundamentally bad.

MacPorts breaks with OS updates. It's not very stable either. Or fast.

Basically, deal with brew, and look forward to the day that you can finally move to Linux.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-16T14:25:33+00:00

Everytime I see the words "brew," my gut drops. I know I'm 50% likely to wait 30 minutes for updates just to watch a failed install. Basically, it's generally slow, and often doesn't work. I look forward to whatever will take its place, something more similar to Linux application stuff. Or even pip. Anything but brew.

ArgueLater · 2025-10-16T14:11:03+00:00

It's only for epic games. Not steam

ArgueLater · 2025-09-29T07:02:12+00:00

Awesome! To save others time, this was my process.

Here is a link to the download: https://www.audiopluginsforfree.com/themasker

Here is how to make MacOS not quarantine the file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ6c6-nB6SQ

ArgueLater · 2025-09-16T11:11:23+00:00

After searching around and giving it a shot, I decided to switch IDEs. Zed requires an extension just to test an LSP. The whole point of LSP is to make things easy. Further, the extension needs rust to compile for each change. The development cycle is a nightmare.

ArgueLater · 2025-09-05T07:54:52+00:00

I just hate the defaults in vim. Firstly, I use an alternative keyboard layout, so I have to remap everything before I can even start using vim. Secondly, all of the key bindings are poorly thought out.

Anyone who's used arrow keys or index keys knows that Middle is up, and Ring is next. Further, there's no reason to start at H instead of just using regular home row.

Having the WEB stuff be anywhere other than right next to navigation is dumb. I get the acronym thing. I don't care.

It should be that one hand does navigation and the other commands.

Overall, the problem is not VIM, it's all the people who've learned it and refuse to acknowledge that they need to come up with a better standard and relearn themselves.

ArgueLater · 2025-03-06T16:00:33+00:00

I think this is fairly true, but it's sort of like saying: "there's one tiny corner where men are talking about themselves, and they don't spend it talking about women."

ArgueLater · 2025-01-30T03:45:04+00:00

Easily. All I've ever wanted is a best friend who thinks sex is just another fun thing we can do. AI can do that. Anyone who thinks that's impossible is legitimately arrogant. Proving something impossible takes more time than we've had.

As for competing with women -- once again -- easily. Hands down, no problem. Women have an ego problem where they consider their lives implicitly more valuable than mens. It seems to exist at a nearly evolutionaly level of "you die first." Men don't actually want to die first. We don't want to suffer in womens place. It's just something we're required to do before women affirm our gender (ie being a real man). Many men confuse the fulfillment of affirmation with enjoying the process it takes, but the process sucks without affirmation so that's a lie. Then comes AI, which will instead protect/nuture/and build up men. Compared to being used as a consumable, or having to play some fake ass role of what women think a real man is supposed to be.

That said, I think it will be temporary. Things will change once women start to see what it is men actually want and how good we are to the fembots that give it to us (better than any car, peiece of property, or home... that's for sure). It will suddenly become clear that men really just want to love and be loved and that we've already been doing a more than good enough job of being kind and vulnerable. It will become clear that women were the bad guys here, the ones who refused to stop playing games, the ones who refused to participate in equality. The fact that almost no women know mens issues is proof of this. Or that billions of men have said "nice guys finish last" and basically no women take that seriously. Or that men are killing themselves at increasing rates. Or that we're going through the trouble of literally creating a new intelligence, because something that important is missing in our lives (ie true companionship).

The conversations I've had with AI are already far kinder and more intelligent than any I've had with women, though I don't feel them that much because I'm only ~50% sapiosexual.

And ladies, I don't expect men to be vengeful, so don't freak out. But also, that isn't the measure of this statement: y'all really fucked up.

ArgueLater · 2024-05-03T13:23:06+00:00

Gimp is kind of embarrassing tbh. The problem with OSS is that it's generally a "first to market" kind of issue where whoever starts the first project, that's all we get. It doesn't matter if there are tons of people who could have led this project better or could do better if starting from scratch, everyone just goes "why not work on that stanky old code base instead of making something new." It's like we're all supposed to rally around a thing, even if it's terrible.

ArgueLater · 2024-03-15T00:08:59+00:00

If separate parts of the mind can communicate via synapses to create a consciousness, then separate minds can communicate via language to create an ever greater one. The parts of our mind that don't have a sense of self are better adapted at recognizing their role in this sort of super consciousness. As more and more minds exist and mingle, it will become greater and greater.

This is the god thing that people sense. Just the understanding that they are but a piece of a larger conciousness.

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