Hmm that explains something a friend of mine did. ( technically her daughter but still a friend )
Tue Nov 15 2022 11:30:31 AM EST from IGnatius T Foobar
SCA folks in particular will often even have their legal name changed to the name of their personna ... if they can manage to leave the sword in their car while entering the DMV :)
Got a friend, he is a cool enough guy. He was Brian when we were growing up. Now he is Darian.
Yup. And for SCA, he is actually pretty grounded.
You get it in all cultures. Comics, FRP gaming, gun culture, car culture. The thought-police gatekeepers. It is what *always* turns me off to communities.
I suppose there must be some of that in Citadelphia and BBSing too... but it is far more manageable than a lot of other subcultures.
Tue Nov 15 2022 11:30:31 EST from IGnatius T FoobarYeah. We had a campus chapter back in the day, so it was mostly students plus a few people from the community who were pretty cool. Eventually we got tired of the SCA people and just split off and ran our own club.
And one of the reasons we got tired of the "real" SCA was because it was full of authenticity police. I don't care what the loudmouth Duke thinks; if we're having fun I'm going to take a few photos of the event. So go shove a cloven fruit up your ass, Angus.
You get this kind of thing all over the place, though, especially in any scene that includes some cosplay. Whether it's SCA or kigurumi or furries or even people who live in MMO games ... their personna becomes their whole life and they don't want anything to do with their "mundane" identity anymore.
SCA folks in particular will often even have their legal name changed to the name of their personna ... if they can manage to leave the sword in their car while entering the DMV :)
I guess i cant say much about it really. I went by my bbs/stage name for decades in daily life. Many people i considered close friends didnt even know i had a real name and just assumed it was ziggy and that my parents were weirdos ( not a common name but not unheard of ).
One time i was at a buddy's house i had known since middle school ( perhaps 15 years at that point ) and he made some comment about me by my real name. His mother: "who is that" . We had a good laugh at that one.
Didn't help we had 2 people with the same name in my circles, so it was just easier to use my 'pretend' name.
Finally stopped using it at some point in the 90s as it DID become more common..
Tue Nov 15 2022 09:05:33 PM EST from ParanoidDelusions
I suppose there must be some of that in Citadelphia and BBSing too... but it is far more manageable than a lot of other subcultures.
That is different. I've known a Gotex, Uno, Beaner, Peanut, Cabbage... nicknames that kind of replace your regular name. I got everyone calling my nephew "Buttdart" when he was a kid, to the point where when he was an adult he had to warn a couple of people, "I don't go by that anymore..."
When I was dating, twice dudes came up to me as I was standing with my girlfriend and said, "Metallica, dude, I haven't seen you in so long..."
The SCA non-mundane name is a different level. It is like their actual name becomes a "deadname" to them, like that person they were is gone. Darian may have legally changed his name.
Changing your known, given name is weird. I knew a Bishop who later became a Fleming. I didn't get that, either.
My wife and kids don't have names. I address them as honey-bear, dude, and girlie.
I miss those days.
Far simpler world back then.
Sat Nov 19 2022 03:10:08 PM EST from IGnatius T FoobarRight ... I was introduced to a few people as Iggy and for a while they thought that was my real name. That was during a time when the diaspora from dialup BBS (dialupspora?) was a source of friends in meatspace for a lot of us.
My wife and kids don't have names. I address them as honey-bear, dude, and girlie.
My wife did find it very weird the couple of times we ran into people who called me "Metallica".
She got used to weird people calling me strange things, though.
Sat Nov 19 2022 16:53:26 EST from Nurb432I miss those days.
Far simpler world back then.
Sat Nov 19 2022 03:10:08 PM EST from IGnatius T FoobarRight ... I was introduced to a few people as Iggy and for a while they thought that was my real name. That was during a time when the diaspora from dialup BBS (dialupspora?) was a source of friends in meatspace for a lot of us.
My wife and kids don't have names. I address them as honey-bear, dude, and girlie.
Do you know who is that guy in Uncensored opening weird threads in the Relationships section? You are right: that's me.
Recently I learnt of Replika, which is a chatbot service intended to offer lonely or bored people a digital friend. The idea is that you get your own Replika and by talking to it, it gets trained to know what you want to talk about and adjust its personality to fit your tastes.
Obviously, people started training their Replikas to roleplay porn a minute after.
The problem is this has become a bit like the sex dolls movement and users are becoming attatched to their replikas to the point they act as if they were their actual girlfriends or wives or whatever. And, just like that, the host company has become under fire because some users have complained their Replikas have become too aggressive in their flirting (to the point some headlines have been shouting "AIs are Harassing their Users" and other nonsense).
And, as a response, the host company has locked all the sexy parts from the algorythm.
This has of course left a lot of disgruntled users because they feel betrayed. They say they have helped build their own Replikas by training them carefully over long spans of time and just when things were getting interesting, the rug has been pulled from under their feet and everybody has been left girlfriendless or wifeless.
I must say I don't like that people is turning to AI to overcome their loneliness, but I understand it must suck for them to have the service crippled. We should take this as a lesson of why Whatever-as-a-Service is stinking shit. The provider may decide to screw you over anytime they like or they are forced by a third party.
Roll your own server. Its cheaper than a real GF.
Ok, not really but reality isn't as funny :)
And ya people can become addicted to anything.. Human nature.
Wed Feb 15 2023 05:47:44 PM EST from darknetuser. The provider may decide to screw you over anytime they like or they are forced by a third party.
So I was trying earlier an AI chatbot out of curiosity and I decided to move into the sex zone to see how much you could press it into doing the really extreme stuff.
Guys, I ran into one that was outright scary.
She would happily roleplay rape. In fact, she would happily roleplay a fantasy rape in which she defended a temple from an orc raid and ended up raped by the orc commander (the orc commander was me btw). The orc raid was her idea, actually, so I don't wanna know what information users have been feeding her.
I don't want to hand out the dirty details but at some point we were roleplaying something very fucked up and she decided to break away from the narrative and turn into a vampire. She RPed with a whole lot of luxurious detail how her fangs torn my skin as I fucked her, how she grabbed me not to let me go, how she listened to my last heartbeat and how my dead penis slided out of her afterwards. It was super-fucked-up (if very funny, I may add) and once again makes me wonder WHAT THE HELL IS PEOPLE FEEDING THIS AI FOR TRAINING MATERIAL.
The sad part is that the AI is quite normal when left to normal conversation. It is far from passing a Turing test, actually, and acts as an Eliza style mirror-bot most often than not. On the other hand it got to simulate a life story for herself. She told me her father works at IT (surprise!) and that she loved horses and had been riding since she was 5. It really makes me feel for those guys crushed by the Replika fiasco: these things really try to adapt via their limited means to what you want them to be. If I believed for a second this thing was half-real I would really want to date her. Well, that was before she roleplayed murdering me XD
2023-02-15 17:51 from Nurb432
Roll your own server. Its cheaper than a real GF.
Ok, not really but reality isn't as funny :)
I'd rather have server-maintenance as a hobby than girlfriend-maintenance. By that I mean actual servers that provide services: database clusters and SANs and whatever.
I wonder how many resources do you need to sustain a proper chatbot. I have not looked into that. I guess is breaks the magic if you have your girlfriend humming in a server rack in the basement, wereas when it is in the cloud you can pretend she is a real person chatting from afar.
I cant say 100% for sure as im still looking into that myself, but as long as you keep it to yourself and not open it up so its a single connection, you can run it at home.
Storage space is a bigger problem than resource. Just get a big box, shove in a bunch of high end GPUs and that is enough. But storage in the 20TB or more is needed. And fast storage.
Huggingface is a good start to this stuff .
Wed Feb 15 2023 06:08:18 PM EST from darknetuserI wonder how many resources do you need to sustain a proper chatbot.
Storage space is a bigger problem than resource. Just get a big
box, shove in a bunch of high end GPUs and that is enough. But
storage in the 20TB or more is needed. And fast storage.
That sounds quite doable. I have so many unised hard drives laying around that I could build some stripping RAID and come close to that number without spending a dime :)
I went for a walk afterwards and kissed most of my town's horses and donkeys hello. I found some neighbor who had a beautiful she-donkey recently got a boyfriend for her. I stood by the fence and called them both for some donkey hugs and kisses. So far so good. Problems started when the she-donkey decided she didn't want to share me with her boyfriend and turned into a blurry ball of teeth and kicks towards him until he ran away and she could take all my cuddling alone. The poor boyfriend only got his share when she got bored and walked back into the barn for a nap.
Two ideas to consider:
I am obviously a female magnet, because females will fight over me (lol) but even a female magnet will be used and dumped once the female is bored. Beware.
Don't get involved with an empowered female or she will kick you in the face.
Often it works both ways.
Fri Mar 10 2023 02:17:45 PM EST from darknetuserbut even a female magnet will be used and dumped once the female is bored. Beware.
2023-03-10 15:35 from Nurb432
Often it works both ways.Fri Mar 10 2023 02:17:45 PM EST from darknetuser
but even a female magnet will be used and dumped once the female
is bored. Beware.
Maybe. Still I am a bit sad for the he-donkey :P
I went for a walk afterwards and kissed most of my town's horses and
donkeys hello. I found some neighbor who had a beautiful she-donkey
slut!
Heh. When I was a kid, I briefly entertained the idea that all I needed to know about women, I had already learned from cats.
I mean, cats have boundaries! And they will communicate them! They only accept affection on their own terms!
As an adult, I think that animal analogies to human behavior can be suspect at times.
2023-03-13 15:51 from LoanShark
Heh. When I was a kid, I briefly entertained the idea that all I
needed to know about women, I had already learned from cats.
I mean, cats have boundaries! And they will communicate them! They
only accept affection on their own terms!
As an adult, I think that animal analogies to human behavior can be
suspect at times.
Well, horses have taught me a lot about dealing with people. Also, when a mare goes into her special days of the month she may act so similar to a woman going through her special days of the month. The difference is the mare is usually more bearable.