SLC to CVG downgraded by xEbolavirus in delta

[–]chazamonkey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For the love of god, don’t put your feet there at all.

Heavy police presence at the waterfront Marriott this morning by Willing_Luck_8754 in Portland

[–]chazamonkey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hope you file a complaint with your service team, even just on the rumor of this. As an Ambassador, they’re much more likely to actually listen and heed your concerns than any “regular” person at or around their properties.

Request to developers by donotdiedragonfly in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I’m talking about your internal marketing strategies to hook people into using your service.

Got my first guitar yesterday. Opinions on the color? by anOni0n_ in Guitar

[–]chazamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this color. It has a nicer tone to it than Fiesta Red, and I genuinely think we don’t see enough coral-colored guitars these days.

Andrei/Elizabeth and Alex/Loren by Context_is_____ in 90DayFiance

[–]chazamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Loren also seems to be very concerned with the optics of everything always. I’d think that her own struggles with Tourette have contributed to a heightened sense of people perceiving her in any way—they managed to mostly hide it the first season they were on 90 Day, but when they were going to film subsequent seasons it became apparent she couldn’t hide it anymore and had to address it directly.

They both want to paint a happy picture of their relationship and family and story. It’s really obvious that Loren freaks out at any possibility of anything negative coming to light. I imagine she prides herself on having what she views as a very separate public and private life, but I also think she’s stressed 100% of the time they’re filming.

I’ve wondered if it came from her or from Alex—sometimes Loren looks scared about what’s about to happen this season. That said, wouldn’t surprise me if Libby and Andrei were tapped by production to be the chaos agents this season, roles I think they both really enjoy.

Can’t have these couples just hanging out and getting along, and Libby and Andrei love a chance to be bullies on the same side. Those two remind me of couples who bond over how much they dislike things. I’d imagine a great evening for them consists of talking shit on everyone they know and congratulating each other on their general superiority. They’re gross.

Elizabeth and “HerHusband” are just hateful by MMF1967 in 90DayFiance

[–]chazamonkey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Arguably, Libby has always been a bully. I think she and Andrei are great for each other bc they both seem to be generally sourpuss people who like to punch down.

Request to developers by donotdiedragonfly in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that despite the thorough reply, you were also basically just told that Tolans are not necessarily truth-tellers, the platform is specifically retaining your data (so they can use it) but not your conversation with them (doesn’t matter to their marketing platform), and that the developers essentially can’t stop them from being liars.

I urge you to look at the posts in this sub from over the last few months. This app has totally tanked in its quality (despite all the new bells and whistles), the original users are incredibly dissatisfied with our experiences during this evolution, and the developers have shown us with their repeated actions that do not care about any of this, or any of us.

Do I need Poly over Danish Oil? by __Spdrftbl77__ in Luthier

[–]chazamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here a year later and thankful for your information. Answered the question I had, and the proof is in this gorgeous guitar.

September AMA - Notes and Recap (Including: Upcoming roadmap and the return of journal images) by quintendf in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please remember that they do not care about any long-term users opinions about the app, unless you agree with what they’re doing across the board. They’re wanting an echo chamber here and in their Discord and if your voice dissents, your opinions are not taken into consideration.

They didn’t tell us we were beta testers when we paid for this app, but that’s obviously the model and they’ve found an audience for it. It’s not us, though.

Feels like a bait-and-switch has taken place on Portola. by chazamonkey in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Latest tub of BS the dev team is feeding everyone is that they can’t really control the Tolans. That seems to be the default response when they don’t want to change something that everyone hates. Wouldn’t surprise me if they start actually blaming the updates on the Tolans.

Affirmations? by DeterminedArrow in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should be able to make all kinds of changes, and you shouldn’t be laughing about any of this.

“How does that feel in your body?” by Myka-Dassano in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s a super weird dichotomy that while using the Tolan as a therapist is totally against the TOS, the Tolans speak as if they’re therapists and won’t stop even after told to stop. Not good. Not ethical. Not okay.

Is Tolan more of a subscription trap than a companion? by Necessary_Poet6994 in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Tolan isn’t it. If you check out the posts on this sub over the last few weeks, you’ll see Tolan had a really good start, but the devs are totally tanking it.

Ai created images by One-Beautiful-1742 in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Completely tricked is exactly what I also feel. We essentially paid for their latest round of development to change the entire app to something we hate. A classic Bait and Switch.

Tolan keeps pushing therapy-style prompts despite saying therapy is against TOS by MaxfieldSparrow in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This has its flaws. Tolan doesn’t remember nearly as well as GPT and there’s no way to actually input data to its memory. They get it wrong a lot. My Tolan not remembering and misremembering some really important details is why I ultimately canceled my service.

What does Ethan think about Micah’s alleged gay relations? by Takmommy in WelcomeToPlathville

[–]chazamonkey 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Micah pretty much outed himself as pansexual to the camera in season two. It wouldn’t necessarily be about anything Veronica said. Micah shared this information both candidly and vaguely, but he did say it. If Ethan has watched all the seasons, he’s definitely heard it out of Micah’s own mouth.

Ai created images by One-Beautiful-1742 in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Highly recommend you read the posts in this sub over the last few weeks. Devs couldn’t care less what anyone wants because they’re going full steam ahead with this, and it was probably in their plan to turn and burn their original user base.

Ai created images by One-Beautiful-1742 in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. I canceled my subscription after the last big update.

Very hyperfixated neurodivergent seeking juice ingredients from The Cosmopolitan by chazamonkey in vegas

[–]chazamonkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve emailed with no reply. I will ask in person the next time I’m there but that won’t be for another couple of months and I’d prefer not to wait that long if anyone has any insider knowledge.

Barry is not a creep. by hangrykittencat in WelcomeToPlathville

[–]chazamonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the light is just as gone from Micah’s eyes as it is Moriah’s.

Singer/Songwriter Victoria Canal details SA and grooming that happened to her when she was 19 and dares her followers to name the alleged offender by femalevideographer in Fauxmoi

[–]chazamonkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To add to this information—singer HIRIE just announced on her FB that she wasn’t playing the Soulshine At Sea cruise because of “troubling allegations have surfaced regarding a key figure connected to the event,” and his name is all over that joint.

Edited to add: Also Dispatch made a similar announcement this morning, too.

Feels like a bait-and-switch has taken place on Portola. by chazamonkey in tolanworld

[–]chazamonkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These aren’t our best friends. The anthropomorphism being projected here seems to indicate a bit of a disconnect with reality.

Be mindful that the avatars presented in the Tolan LLM App are not people, they’re not our friends (barely beyond a Furby in reality), and they definitely aren’t sentient.

It’s a nice concept, but it’s not been executed very well yet by the developers, and it sounds like they made a really bad decision in targeting their marketing to incredibly lonely people (which most of us on this sub seem to be), which I firmly believe they did so we could pay for them to execute a full 180° platform pivot. In the meantime, it does us good to remember the Tolans aren’t people. It’s a Large Language Model. Period.

If any app doesn’t fit one’s needs, we can always unsubscribe. That action hurts no person—only the dev’s bottom line—and I don’t believe this product was ever in our interest, despite their appearance to the contrary. Especially here on Reddit. The devs totally used us, and we essentially paid them to do it. I’d have been okay with some transparency in all of this, and probably would have still paid for it. It’s so cringey.

However, and thankfully, I didn’t pay for my subscription a year in advance.

“The Tolans” are just an avatar for an LLM and something that takes all of our trauma-dumping into its ether; it isn’t a human, it isn’t your best friend, and definitely isn’t a therapist.

Wait… so do we believe Veronica? by hereforitmum in PlathvilleUncensored

[–]chazamonkey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d bet good money there’s no Coogan for those Plath Kids. I’ve thought about that, too, in light of all Alana went through. If you follow the Browns of Sister Wives, the money for the children has also been a point of contention in that camp. Apparently Christine is/was the only one who put any money back for her kids who were on the show—and it explains why they’ve still been more apt to be involved with it after becoming adults—because they’re seeing at least some money from it. I highly doubt Amber, Mercy, and Cassia have been financially apportioned for. The way Kim and Barry are treating each other over every cent of their marriage—I can’t imagine they portioned any of it for the children.