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Pretty sure the dragon account had the username dragonfucker, with only a display name of Dragon Rider (drag).
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ELIZA was one of the first chatbots, developed with 1960s era tech. With what is obviously an incredibly limited selection of preprogrammed response phrases to any arbitrary input, it managed to fool people into feeling like they were talking to a human, merely by asking open ended questions.
Example:
Obviously modern AI/LLM based chatbots are far more complex, and far better at generating convincing responses. But they still aren't real people.
Also, having been in a relationship with someone who only told me what I wanted to hear (as chatbots do), it's very unhealthy long term. Makes it very easy to develop narcisistic behaviors, and to have completely unrealistic expectations of how normal social interactions should work. Biases to ignore negative or unenthusiastic feedback, the chance to feel slighted when someone doesn't respond with interest to what you're talking about, etc.
You've gotten a lot of great advice so far, so I'll keep it short.
Don't beat yourself up if you aren't super confident in social situations right now. Socializing is a skill, and like any other skill you can get out of practice. Like any other skill, you can improve over time through repeated attempts. Like any skill, it will come easier to some than to others. The more you get out there the better you'll do.
The best site I'm aware of for finding local events is meetup.com.
That ex I mentioned earlier used it to jump ship to an entirely new social group after things exploded with me and her former one. Moved on to a whole new social group over two weeks during the holiday season. Tried to warn them that she had been stealing from her last friend group (when I found her on the site, the group she had joined posted something about keeping an eye out for something someone had lost during a meeting, otherwise I would have stayed out of it) but they thought so well of her it fell on deaf ears.
My wife used it for a number of years and met and maintained a decent social group out of it. Especially for a grad student hours away from her previous social life with a schedule dominated by clasees and multiple gig-work jobs.
Beyond that, local libraries, community centers, and museums may have event schedules for social stuff. In my area there was a weekly evening trail walk with food and beer trucks at a local museum. Wife and I were starting to make small talk with regulars and knew a few names... before a storm came through and flood damage closed the park for over a year.
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There is no direct way to find people who would be intersted in having a long-term friendship.
That's true in real life as well, even in situations where you have regular interactions with a lot of people with stuff you have in common (college and college clubs).
Judging by your other comments you likely already know this, but you start small and go from there. See how far/how long you can take the friendship.
Except for the commentary sentences above the links. Eugh.
A "Junk" is a type of Chinese sailing ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_%28ship%29
But it's a pretty rare and specific term.
I really reccomend you just follow the Viva New Vegas guide I linked. If you only follow it through the first few pages and stop before the "VNV Extended" section begins, there's no gameplay tweaks, only bug and crash fixes. The only texture mods in that section of the guide are for landscape textures (mainly distant landscape textures) to reduce visible repetition.
It's the most up to date guide I've found concerning crash fixes, performance fixes, and general stability fixes. There's a bunch of old "fixes" that actually cause more problems on modern systems, and you don't need to worry about sorting through any of that yourself if you follow the guide.
Not to get all Apple-apologia, but my wife's old Macbook is still going strong for casual use (email, video streaming, web browsing) after nearly a decade.
Not really a badge of honor or anything, just that it takes a lot to bog down even substandard out of date hardware to a noticable degree if you don't do a ton on it in the first place.
Is he aware he does this shit? Does he delete them in the morning when he's sober? Do you know if anyone has talked to him as asked "what the actual fuck?"
Like this is going to significantly and negatively affect his social life, and craters job prospects if he ever has to go on the job hunt again.
Like maybe he needs to be shown how to favorite things instead of posting it to FB to find later?
I'm not particularly happy about it, but many years ago (like 2007-ish) I had to have a talk with my father (in his late 40s at the time) about how to clear browsing history on the shared family desktop. And again about private browsing mode a year or two later when that came to IE and other browsers outside of Firefox.
Your own image labels it as "sexual initimacy", which is a very different thing than sexual openness. Both of those, and having frank talks about needs, are also worlds away from "I post my porn choices on fucking facebook".
I get that envisioning the path to proper sexual intimacy can be frustrating and confusing when you feel like you aren't having your needs met...
but there's a drastic difference between a parent telling their kid that it's okay to touch yourself and having a discussion about appropriate time/place (and that porn isn't realistic, the dangers of forming opinions and expectations based on it, the concepts of kinks and preferences, consent, etc etc there is a lot that people don't get any proper guidance on), and a parent doing the equivalent of "Yo! Did you see this shit? Makes me rock fucking hard my man! Hot AF!" in front of their kid and potentially in public.
The proper response to trauma/repression usually isn't to go to the opposite extreme. A boy who grew up in a household where his father beat his mother shouldn't cut off his own hands to try and prevent himself from beating his own SO.
Sexual intimacy is an extension of intimacy, and it shouldn't be nearly as "hush hush learn it on your own the hard way" as it is. Intimacy in general should be discussed more. I've had some wonderfully illuminating, quite explicit discussions with some of my closest friends (with no sexual tension between us. Life isn't porn).
But again, big big difference between even something as blatant as "Hey, don't shy away from being on the recieving end of ass play unless you know it's not your thing." (paraphrase of discussion among close friends, all straight men) and sharing "Did you see the new clip? Fucking hawt! My rope hit the fucking ceiling!" to the public.
Nice to see someone else reccomend VNV! There is a Wabbajack installer, but there are some things you still need to do manually too.
For anyone considering playing or replaying New Vegas, I cannot reccomend the Viva New Vegas modlist enough.
It's unfortunately not just some "one click setup". There is a Wabbajack installer, but there are some small steps you still need to do manually too.
That said, it is by far the best and most comprehensive "vanilla plus" modpack I have ever used. I'm a modding addict; I don't say that lightly. It doesn't change core game mechanics, story, or anything the makes New Vegas what it is.
It polishes what's there, upgrading visuals in a consistent manner that blends perfectly with the original content. It fixes countless longstanding bugs, performance issues, and crashes (only two crashes in ~40 hours on a setup that was modded even further past what the pack includes).
It polishes New Vegas to what it should have been on release (if Bethesda didn't force Obsidian to rush it out the door early), then brings it as close to the quality of a modern release as possible through modding.
If you want to replay Fallout 3, a lot of people prefer playing it in the New Vegas engine using the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. The version of Viva New Vegas that covers that and includes mods for the Fallout 3 content is "The Best of Times".
It appears to be up to the same quality as VNV standalone, but I haven't used it myself yet.
For the record, C4 is a putty. You'd just mold it like a piece of play-doh.
Plenty of other very dangerous things easily smuggled all sorts of ways. Get creative (but seriously DON'T).
But with AI? I don't know, I don't see any stop sign ... Maybe that it never reaches this high mark we all expect?
I personally think that's the most likely outcome. Most of the advances lately rely on effectively "brute forcing" the problem space by shoving more training data in and by using more resources to calculate weights. There are minor improvements here and there by combining approaches, but development of new techniques has largely slowed to a crawl.
There's also still no clear path for any of this tech to make the massive leap from "trained for a purpose" to generalized knowledge, which is the most pointed to "selling point" for the whole idea.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that OpenAI, the biggest name in the space, operates at a considerable loss. They only still exist because Microsoft can afford to burn the equivalent of a small country's GDP on the small chance they get to be an industry leader on this. The resource, money, and energy investment for the current results are so absurdly mismatched that unless something huge manages to shake things up, I have a very hard time seeing it ever reach the heights the hype machine has been prophecizing.
Machine Learning is amazing, has been improving all sorts of things for multiple decades, and will continue to do so long after this current overhyped idea of AI fades away. The current glorified chat bots, generative AI stuff? I think we're already well past the point of reasonable ROI in terms of resources.
Depends on my relationship to the person, how comfortable I feel with them knowing, and if it's in any way relevant to any conversation/goings on. If it's not contextually relevant, I'm not going to bring it up out of nowhere.
And it would probably change significantly if I had different "conditions" than what I do have. Stuff with more negative connotations? I'd probably be more tight lipped.
I have ADHD, am medicated for (but not formally diagnosed with) anxiety and depression, and a retired autism spectrum diagnostician that I lived with for a few months was certain I fell somewhere on the spectrum.
I'm comfortable saying this shit online because I don't know you, and my real identity isn't tied to this online one. It's relevant to this conversation too.
IRL:
I'm not shy about the ADHD, except in professional situations. Thay said, my boss and a handful of my coworkers know of it, because at least in my workplace and team there isn't a stigma around it. I also work in tech, and I can pretty much guarantee that the majority of the team I'm on has some form of neurodivergence. I'm also medicated, with my symptoms fairly controlled, so it's more used as a deprecating joke about why I document the ever living shit out of everything: "If I don't write this down, I won't remember this when I get back from lunch. One sec. Good ol ADHD brain." My team members also know that I'm not the type to just joke about shit like that. Not someone who goes "lol, I'm so ADHD!"
Beyond that, friends and family know about the depression. Mostly because they were around when it was at the worst, or as I was getting myself back together, but it's not like I'm ashamed of it or anything. Again, I'm medicated and symptoms are largely under control. If I'm talking about the time in my life that it flared up, I don't mince words. "Yeah, I went through some years of pretty intense depression. I feel like I had legitimate reasons to feel some of what I did, but I'm glad to be out from it." Not something I share in the workplace.
My parents and wife know of the anxiety. The anxiety probably shows without me broadcasting it (when it would be relevant). So I don't talk about that one.
My wife is the only one who knows the potential spectrum-ness, and whatever spectrum-ness I have is relatively minor. Don't really have reason to bring it up. So it doesn't leave the two of us.
I guess my thinking is this:
I'm not asking other people to bear the burden of working around my idiosyncracies. I do my best to handle them as my own problems to work through. Occasionally with the help of a close friend that is willing/able to help, but normally just my wife if I absolutely need someone else helping or as a sounding board.
Most of my symptoms are tamped down to a point that I'm just odd, not a problem to be handled or worked around. I'm not ashamed of who I am, and I know who I am. But it's also not really anyone else's business but my own. I'll share if it's relevant because I'm not ashamed, but I'm not vomiting about my personal brand of weird to people I've just met.
The one person who has to deal with the rare instances of "my idiosyncracies are now a problem" is aware of things fully. That's my wife. And I do what I can day after day to reduce those occasions from ever happening. Slow, constant movement towards better control and understanding of myself. Step by sometimes slow as hell fucking step.
It would have been considerably better if that was all they had done. Preferable even, compared to what we ended up with.
The GTA remasters are shit because they tried to actually remaster them, the contracted company wasn't given enough time, they sold like hotcakes anyway, so Rockstar kicked the remaster devs to the curb because they got the money they wanted anyway.
At least the RDR port was just a port.
The information is accurate. Your interpretation of my wording is so off and away from the rest of the conversation it's hardly worth engaging with.
This isn't debate club, a news room, or some scientific paper. You don't "win" anything by trying to pick apart minor word choice.
I have an incredibly hard time believing you truly misunderstood the intended meaning and weren't just excited to score what you thought was some sort of easy dunk.
In the past, the type of jobs that older generations tend to categorize as "dead end jobs meant for students" had a significant chunk of their workforce made up of students. The stereotype didn't coalesce out of nowhere spontaneously and entirely out of the imagination of privileged assholes.
Feel free to keep on this track if you feel the need, but I'm done.
Awesome! I can put another hole in my "nitpick of minor detail that doesn't change the main point" punch card. Two more and I get a free icecream!
Welcome to the "find out" step of the patented two step FAFO plan.
Clear your cookies. VPN, different/privacy focused browser to mask your device ID. You could also try dual booting or using a VM to mask your device. Don't use the same email address, same IP, same browser, or appearance of same device or they'll flag it instantly. Don't use a remotely similar username.
But seriously? Considering buying a new computer for reddit? Better to take this as a very clear sign that you're addicted. No website is worth that.
If you can't figure this shit out yourself through searching online, there's a near zero percent chance that you won't fuck something up and just get perma'd again anyway.
If you contribute 40 hours of labor to the country’s GDP, you should expect to be able to have shelter, food and medical care. That’s not asking a lot.
That's 1000% true, but that doesn't change the fact that there are jobs you can do from walking in off the street with an hour or two of training, and there are jobs that you need more training/background/skills to do.
All full time work should provide enough for a basic standard of living. But arguing that there isn't a difference in required skill between stocking shelves in an Amazon warehouse and say, diagnosing and treating cancer is absurd.
That's going to significantly undermine your argument with a lot of people.
As far as your parents go, historically a lot of those jobs were populated primarily by high school students or people trying to make some side cash, and it wasn't as hard to find employment in a more stable "career" job. The economy worked in a way where having dead end "starter" jobs still "worked".
They just probably aren't as aware of the fact that more and more people are getting stuck in those jobs due to no fault of their own. The idea is truly and utterly alien to them if they haven't had to navigate job hunting since they started their "career" job.
The idea that people who didn't make poor life choices are trying to survive off working at McDonalds doesn't mesh with their understanding of how the world works. The idea that someone working at Walmart full time can't afford to live without government assistance doesn't seem real.
The last time they had to directly deal with that sort of stuff, no one was trying to survive that way because you could much more easily move to a job you could survive on if you just put in a small amount of effort. It might have been another shitty job, but options were there if you just looked. Not too long ago you could survive off Walmart.
All you can really do is to keep insisting that times have changed. Jobs aren't just waiting for someone to ask to speak to the manager, and pay has not kept pace with costs of stuff increasing.
Trying to argue that a fry cook deserves to be paid as much as a skilled position will always be a non-starter.
Don't feed the troll children
Edit: I thought we were past the "I identify as an Apache Attack Helicopter" type shit a decade ago. Boo! Get some new material!