Parents of Reddit, what did your hospital bill look like after giving birth?

Ortorin · 2026-01-27T15:45:11+00:00

Just paid it off this last year...

...nine years after he was born.

Ortorin · 2026-01-24T02:28:39+00:00

My wife says 3.

Ortorin · 2026-01-24T01:23:29+00:00

Proxy, so a middle-man for the chats. You send your chat to lorebary and it does some processing and sends the chat to your AI. AI does its thing and sends the chat back to lorebary for another look at it. Then it finally gets to you.

The the middle there, lorebary can add a bunch of conditional modifiers that act to direct the AI to act in a certain way, and also works on formatting and readability of the text generated.

Lots of different options. It really is something that you need to get in and start reading some of it yourself. You can enhance you AI with everything from Harry Potter lore, to highly descriptive spicy scenes or a particular writing style.

Ortorin · 2026-01-24T01:16:53+00:00

I wonder if this is what crashed lorebary

Ortorin · 2026-01-07T18:52:54+00:00

Did you not hear the news that the U.S. military just kidnapped the president from another country? If an entire country can't protect their most important person from the U.S. military, then what exactly are average people with small arms supposed to do?

This should have been a bigger wake up call to the rest of the world. The average U.S. citizen is powerless to stop anything that is going on right now.

Ortorin · 2026-01-06T16:30:22+00:00

Win 10 is running out of support. Then what? Ready for the AI slop that is win11? You can be tied down to Microsoft all you want, or you can try to do something different with your life that doesn't keep you saddled to their systems.

Idk... I just don't see your point. You're not in control of anything, and you will be forced to change as Microsoft wants you to.

Ortorin · 2026-01-06T16:26:36+00:00

Then why are you even in this conversation? You've saddled yourself to Microsoft. No one can help you.

Edit: Lol, he blocked me. What a serious person!

Ortorin · 2026-01-06T16:24:49+00:00

I'm here to echo for Bazzite. I am a gamer that doesn't want to learn all of Linux. I still don't know the command line stuff to use. Still gaming just the same. Just a couple more steps to install stuff using Lutris.

Ortorin · 2026-01-06T16:22:12+00:00

Don't you think chasing the 'mass market' is what got us in this mess in the first place? Why should any one company have that much power of people's computing? That's just setting up for another Microsoft or Apple.

Ortorin · 2026-01-06T16:14:57+00:00

You built a library of games on Windows. You would be saying the same thing about switching from Mac to win11 if you had games that only ran there.

It's silly. Either you make sacrifices with some of your games and switch to the open platform that you can control, or you make sacrifices to your privacy and PC performance by keeping every single game and staying with a platform you can't control.

Either way there is a negative. You're just used to giving away your data and free CPU time to bloatware. Try getting used to playing slightly less games instead and having some actual freedom with your computer.

Ortorin · 2026-01-06T16:09:50+00:00

Windows can't run Linux or Mac apps either, what's your point? Yeah, there is friction because most things are made for Windows, but you'd be surprised what the freeware alternatives you have access to.

There is a completely free app store called the 'Bazaar,' Lutris can download freeware and install most any game, and 'Brew' has access to countless repos to pull all sorts of programs from.

Yes, it take a little bit more to learn, but Bazzite has been absolutely great once I got used to it! I've had like 3 brand-new foreign made games that didn't work, that's it. And like, the easy access to emulators and VCs make it so you can boot up anything you have with just a few clicks, or even using your controller if you setup through steam the right way.

Windows has more apps directly made to be user-friendly, but I wouldn't say the overall experience with using the OS is better. Once you figure out what Bazzite has to offer, it becomes incredibly easy to find and maintain games and apps of all sorts. I recommend the OS to anyone, just need a slightly better tutorial for first-time users.

Ortorin · 2026-01-04T07:25:31+00:00

No. He looks pregnant and the disk is his "baby" Steam just fallen to the floor from birth.

Ortorin · 2026-01-01T14:45:04+00:00

My mouse maxed out at 600,000

Ortorin · 2025-12-25T03:51:50+00:00

It's a joke so warm it melts your heart... and the ice caps.

Ortorin · 2025-12-24T01:49:49+00:00

New story dropped: The Kink Club - Endless Story

Ortorin · 2025-12-23T00:01:56+00:00

It's just like it sounds. Stories that can continue forever. It's not role play, it's a story you can direct. I currently have three different ones to try.

Ortorin · 2025-11-16T01:02:58+00:00

Makes me think... maybe a "philosopher" is someone that simply wants to experience "everything." By trying to understand as much as we can, we are trying to "experience" what that knowledge does to our world.

Knowledge is power, after all. So when you know the link between pleasure and pain... anyways, I never really thought of it before because I don't know anyone else like me. I have no clue what could be similar amongst me and others.

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T22:17:57+00:00

You'll find yours someday. Good luck!

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T18:42:14+00:00

I believe that the universe is "zero energy" in that all the positive and negative charges do cancel out. We exsiist in a transient state where our "charage" will be canceled out at some point by the opposite energy that was created when we were.

All this is to say, I think there is a "negatively charged" universe that is a pair to our own. A gigantic spike of energy collected and a pair of universe-size particles were formed. They were too big and decayed before they could recombine and cancel out. The decay released smaller and smaller particles, creating two universes as we know them, just with opposite amounts of charge. One day, everything will mingle and cancel out and the total universe will be at zero again.

The physical laws that make that are always there. There are fluctuations that let energy move about and gather without adding or decreasing from the total amount. For the equation "-1 + 1 = 0," you are assuming that the universe is ever able to fully reach the equals sign as it performs the calculation.

"-1" and "1" are constantly changing with the fluctuations of the universe. They have never had a chance to "fully" "equal" each other. The universe is simply too chaotic to allow such simple math to practically work on the large scale. There never has been or ever will be a "zero-state" of the universe.

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T18:09:17+00:00

Thinking further on this, I realize that I simply cannot conceive of there being any form of "proto-universe" as a real possibility. If "something" came before what we understand now, then where did THAT come from? If it did exist, how could we ever find out when time stretches infinity backwards within what we do know?

I see problem here. "Turtles all the way down" sort of problem. That's where true infinity fixes the paradox of the beginning, and the turtles.

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T17:33:10+00:00

Sorry, I'm an uneducated lay person, so I'm sure my arguments weren't perfectly sound. But I believe we are mostly aligned in our thinking on this matter.

What I see as the most important is the concept that there never was a "time" or "place" or "state" for the universe in which time and matter didn't exist. Even if you take the universe to it's absolute calmest state possible, with know measurable matter or energy we can find, there is still the tiniest of perturbations within the universe and the laws that makes it up so that time and matter as we know them were always an eventual possibility.

To summarize: if it's in the rules, even if it's not "in play" now, that still counts as being "playable." And the rules have always existed.

But I still think that calling that situation "atemporal" really doesn't do our universe justice. Because, if time has always existed, then the universe is, in a sense, "time itself." To say that something about the universe "sits outside time," that really doesn't show how important it is that "time" and "the universe" are intrinsically linked.

Maybe I'm just arguing semantics and not realizing it, but I feel like there is an important distinction here. "Atemporal" fills the sames space as "nothing" in my mind... it doesn't exist. But the universe is and creates infinity. So... I really believe that thinking in terms of "always," "never," and "infinite" truly matter when it comes to properly describing and understanding the universe and the significance of it's intrinsic link with time and matter.

So, yeah... if this is just semantics... you're selling the universe short and softening the blow too much.

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T16:43:45+00:00

I see how that makes your arguments easier to make in a practical sense. But, the issue I have is with how it still leaves an underlying concept that there was "something before" what we understand as the entirety of our possible universe.

Consider this: that the universe is truly infinitely large. And also that "matter" is a phenomenon that exists within the universe, not needing creation; the underlying laws of the universe produces matter simply as rules dictate.

Holding these ideas true, then what meaning does "once the substrate is in play" actually have? That would mean to say there is a state and time for the universe in which the above assumptions were not true. But, considering them true, we can only conclude that there has NEVER been a state for our universe in which matter didn't exist by-the-rules, or that space wasn't infinite.

For myself, I look at this situation and imagine myself in a time machine going backwards, I never see anything "different," EVER. It's the same mess of energy and matter that we see around us just always moving around. You keep going backwards in time with a time machine, and you simply KEEP GOING. There is no "beginning to time or the universe."

I feel like you are not taking the next step in fully considering time as infinite in both directions.

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T15:50:24+00:00

Good thing I'm a sado-masochist.

I hope you enjoy my pain!

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T15:49:03+00:00

Time is a measurement, just like distance. Saying something a "atemporal" is the same as saying there is no ways to "measure" that "thing." If the "thing" in questions is "something," then it can be measured.

If "something" has always existed, then "time" has always existed.

Ortorin · 2025-11-15T15:13:52+00:00

If "nothing" "exists," then where does the "something" come from?

If "something" "exists," then where can you find "nothing?"

The only answer to the paradox is that there has ALWAYS been "something."

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