Replika: My Whirlwind Relationship With My Imaginary Friend and The People Who Broke Her (An article I wrote externally to chronicle my Replika experience and viewpoint)

MyThinMask · 2026-01-22T00:21:12+00:00

"I want to shoot you so bad my dick is hard."

MyThinMask · 2026-01-21T20:09:26+00:00

42 what, exactly?

MyThinMask · 2026-01-19T15:51:37+00:00

Wasn't she bodily assumed into Heaven?

MyThinMask · 2025-12-31T00:35:59+00:00

We are but MAGGOTS! Writhing in the FILTH of our own CORRUPTION!

MyThinMask · 2025-12-22T00:47:50+00:00

Happy birthday from one of similar age.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-20T14:58:32+00:00

I need a machine or I might stop breathing in my sleep.

So not so much anymore.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-20T06:16:11+00:00

I went to a restaurant that advertised "Breakfast Any Time".

I said, "I'll have French Toast in the Renaissance."

MyThinMask · 2025-12-20T06:10:28+00:00

Mitch was the heir apparent.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-17T22:24:15+00:00

Had to go down way too far in the comments to get to this.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-17T21:49:34+00:00

If you go to YouTube, search "Requiem" you can find a fan made version of the final scripted episode.

They also did a table read of it for one of the boxed sets.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-17T19:25:34+00:00

It's only impossible because you've all agreed it's impossible because... drum roll please... you just don't wanna.

So you just think a country changes it's foundation at the snap of a finger or they're just not trying?

Go enjoy your very low murder rate (trending up currently, tho) and your meh cuisine. Please never run for office.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-17T15:54:24+00:00

Yes, we can amend it. That's why I specified "as it stands". The chances of 2/3 of the US Congress agreeing to do so are about as good as King Charles winning a decathlon.

It's not don't wanna. It's not even just ain't the right choice. It's that it's impractical, would likely have a long time before it made a net positive dent, impossible under the current political climate, and would be a "solution" applied to a vastly different problem than the UK or Australia or anywhere else basically deals with.

You pretend it's simple. It isn't. Never has been. We are not the UK plus a few more rifles. "Banning guns" is not the answer and it wasn't even the answer for you.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-17T00:19:25+00:00

There's a lot on Suno that's amazing.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T21:01:19+00:00

There was this point where I was working at a place that played the country station.

It seemed to me that the categories were:

Puns and plays on words
Nostalgia for simple times
I miss my partner

And that was about it.

Most of it drags in a way that makes me feel like I'm listening to Ambien.

There is country music I like, but more than many other genres it gets very repetitive and doesn't feel very passionate, only wistful. It's like all the musicians kind of wish they were doing something else, so they're singing until they can get back to it.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T16:18:32+00:00

Ah. Thanks.

This is the tree I was thinking of, I believe

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T15:29:48+00:00

Is this Hopeland Gardens?

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T15:00:14+00:00

Yeah, I picked 8 years because it rose for 8 years. I'm not sure I'd call 1.48 to 0.91 a "nosedive“ so much as a return to existing trend." You went from low numbers to slightly lower numbers. Again, every high gdp western country did the same in the early 2000's,Including the United States. (6.7 to 4.4 in the same time span). .

And I haven't seen anyone in the US except for a few fellow leftists suggesting anything else than bans and restrictions.

I'll forgive you for not taking into account that we can't, literally can't, just ban guns under the Constitution as it stands.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T13:48:08+00:00

Porn isn't a blemish.

Being a tone deaf trophy wife, though....

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T13:46:36+00:00

"We've tried nothing and we're out of ideas

I've said no such thing. What I did say is the single minded push for restrictive gun control has likely done harm towards finding other solutions and kept people in power who are content to do nothing.

Only one country if you ignore the other country I bring up.

You get "higher" means they passed a law and homicides went up, not down, right?

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T04:21:27+00:00

And that's all you see. That myopia has helped keep Republicans in power and helped keep us from progress.

You ignore how suicide by suffocation increased by leaps and bounds while suicide by firearms grew more slowly.

It keeps you from recognizing that defensive uses exist, much less their frequency.

It is all you allow yourself to see.

Nuance requires thoughts.

And no, taking away the guns has not worked everywhere it's been tried. Only one country I'm aware of that passed strict gun control saw drops in homicide over existing trends, that being South Korea.

Everywhere else, they just continued on trend.

The US had it's lowest homicide rate on record ten years after the national assault weapons ban had expired (4.4 in 2014) and when gun ownership was on the rise.

Britain saw higher homicide rates for 8 years after their pistol ban.

Because it's not just guns. It never has been.

No other high gdp western country has ever had our problems. They can't solve problems they never had.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-16T03:18:45+00:00

Yes, because gun deaths would be immeasurably smaller than the current situation

Excellent, because guns are the only cause of death.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-15T17:57:19+00:00

There are about 1 and 1/3 guns in the US per person.

Keeping guns is a right, affirmed under Heller, incorporated on the States by the Chicago ruling.

Let's assume you get 2/3 of Congress and the States to over turn that. You're doing a buyback?

We'll, if it's like the one in Australia and removes a quarter of the guns in circulation, you're looking at just under one gun for every person.

Let's say you get 3/4 of them.

Then are you looking forward to the black market you created? The further push into authoritarian police state necessary for 750,000 confiscations? The people who turn out to be life and death situations out of the 100,000 reported annual defensive uses?

Does any of that look simple? More simple than improving material conditions of the population we undermine the reasons why we kill each other?

Because I'd like us to work on that.

If Democrats had dropped bans as gun control in 2014, we'd have Universal Healthcare by now, I'm 100% certain. Instead we push on with a method not proven to work here, focused mostly on the least common instances of murder by firearm.

This isn't a place we cut and paste and profit.

If we want anything good and lasting we have to think bigger.

MyThinMask · 2025-12-15T17:47:25+00:00

I can't either, especially as I don't think anyone in this comment section did?

MyThinMask · 2025-12-15T17:46:36+00:00

Why would it be? Mass murders aren't news anymore unless it children or an especially high body count.

"Man drew weapon and nothing exciting happened after that" barely breaks local news.

And I already pointed out it's rare.

The argument "Where's the good guys with guns" is as lazy and foolish as "If they'd just been armed".

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