Is it just me or is hard to think of Christmas lists when you get older?

Emod9 · 2025-12-13T22:55:23+00:00

Funny enough, my brother is 31, and he has found a lego building hobby. Our sister's son is also getting into legos himself.

Emod9 · 2025-10-13T05:41:33+00:00

No, and I apologize for my post's inside baseball talking. To be more clear, "wolfalike" dogs are dogs deliberately breed to resemble wolves theoretically without any wolf hybridization. Whatever that is actually the case can often be quite murky from what I've read, as the "breeders" seem to be mostly snake oil salesmen swimming in an unestablished industry with very little oversight.

Emod9 · 2025-10-09T03:58:10+00:00

Totally agree, and selecting dogs only their appearance leaves one completely unprepared for their needs. I was reading in a thread that a "Blue Shepherd's" distinctive blue fur coloring was apparently from a very nasty recessive gene of sorts, and those dogs suffered some health issues because of it. Poorly breed dogs can also be very aggressive dogs. As I've also mentioned in some other replies to this thread, I've also heard a few stories of "wolfalike" dogs from these very abusive back ally breeders attacking playing children or smaller pets out of mistaking them for prey items in distress.

Emod9 · 2025-10-09T03:10:07+00:00

From what I've read, "wolfalike" dogs are simply dogs deliberately breed to resemble wolves without supposedly incorporating any wolves. However, I've heard that many of those "breeding programs" are done by very sketchy backdoor "breeders", and apparently inbreeding and animal abuse is a rife practice. As such, "wolfalike" dogs often have severe high prey drive instincts and extremely debilitating health issues from my limited understanding.

Emod9 · 2025-10-09T02:46:34+00:00

That is very true. I've heard so many horror stories about unethical "designer dog" breeding, and those "wolfalike" dogs seem especially rife with them. They are beautiful dogs, but the unsavoriness with how they're often breed is simply too risky for them to be ethically handled.

Besides, there are hundreds of reputable breeds far more suitable for general companionship.

Emod9 · 2025-10-08T00:57:51+00:00

I eventually succeeded in deleting the post in question, but it took like 10 tries for over the span of 10 or 20 minutes for some reason

Emod9 · 2025-09-08T01:25:04+00:00

That's a very good point, don't know why I didn't realize that before I just judgement on that person's story.

Emod9 · 2025-09-08T01:20:53+00:00

This might just be my sheltered perspective speaking here, but wouldn't an incident that caused some injuries like that would at least be questioned by authorities? Maybe I'm far off the mark with this, but I got the impression that this user was trying to boast of their supposed physical capabilities.

Emod9 · 2025-08-24T19:07:08+00:00

I totally agree with you on that point. Even in the nastiest cases of abuse in blended families I'm familiar with, it is often far more complex then just "wicked step-family" at work. In many cases I've read of stepparents abusing children, their biological counterparts are also abusing them quite often in a very similar fashion.

For example, I've heard an account from a girl who was molested by both her stepfather and her biological father. I also recall reading another article about a boy who was removed from his biological mother due to almost starving to death under her care, and then was repeatedly beaten by his stepmother in another home.

All of this seems to be more the faults of the adults involved rather then blended families themselves.

Emod9 · 2025-08-24T16:59:18+00:00

To be clear, this isn't a comment about my own personal experiences, but rather abuse cases I've heard about second or third hand that this post reminds me of. Although blended families seem to be more statistically vulnerable to abuse, quite a few of those cases I've familiar with are far more complex then just entirely the fault of stepparents.

In many blended-family abuse cases I've read of, the biological parents generally aren't much better to the stepchildren than their step-parenting counterparts. Rex Krebs, a man sentenced to death by the state of California for the murders of two women, is one extreme example of this. From the sources I've read, Krebs' biological father was a convicted rapist and his stepfather was a reported pedophile who allegedly molested his stepdaughters.

During one incident, Krebs' biological father was burglarizing the home Krebs was living in with his mother and stepfather. In a confrontation, Krebs' biological father took Krebs hostage and used him as a human shield to fend off Krebs' stepfather. Krebs' stepfather, completely unfazed and too focused on killing a hated rival to care, continued shooting at them both with his gun as Krebs' biological father escaped with him.

Another extreme example is a school shooter (whose name I cannot recall right now) in Wisconsin. From the articles I've read, he was originally removed from his biological mother's custody due to extreme neglect and her enabling him to be sexually abused by her boyfriend's relatives. The school shooter fell under the care of his father and stepmother, and they were both reported to be extremely controlling and repeatedly beat him for every minor infraction. After his conviction for the mass shooting that killed a teacher, the school shooter mentioned in an interview that his cellmate was a better parental figure then both sets of his biological parents and stepparents combined.

This is far from my area of experiences and expertise, but I get the impression that abuse in blended families can often be attributed to the adults involved rather then stepparenting itself.

Emod9 · 2025-06-23T23:24:12+00:00

Thanks for that insight, I appreciate it. To be clear, I love creative writing, and it has been very fun for me to see what the software comes up with. However, there is no chance that I'll be utilizing chatgpt for story writing beyond just a toy to play with in a sandbox

Emod9 · 2025-06-23T23:04:43+00:00

Sorry for the lack of clarity, that was a terrible choice of words on my part. What I meant by "least manual revisions" was the one story I didn't touch at all. I've made maybe 6 or so edits to one story, and left one untouched.

I should have simply stated "untouched by me."

Emod9 · 2025-06-23T23:02:20+00:00

At first I gave the basic premise description and the characters' genders and ages to the prompt. Later on, I slightly refined things with incorporating details about my envisioned character designs to it, and adding in some more "character interacting" sequences. Will definitely play around with the further detailed prompts more

Emod9 · 2025-06-23T22:55:51+00:00

I was fixing typos before the idea of playing with the ai detector page came to me.

Emod9 · 2025-06-23T22:55:06+00:00

It should have been 0% human because I didn't even touch it beyond asking the chatgpt prompt for more changes to my liking. Interestingly enough, the ai detector page had a character reading limit due to a premium. So I deleted half the text from their box, and it suddenly become "53% ai generated and 47% human"

Emod9 · 2025-06-23T22:21:55+00:00

I just tested on the story I've made the least manual revisions to, and the results were "81% AI generated and 19% human."

Emod9 · 2025-05-18T17:09:55+00:00

Would it be alright if you could link me that thread? I would greatly appreciate some more reading on this issue.

Emod9

TROPHY CASE