#*grateful

[pileofpawns]

Finally started homebrewing my WiiU yesterday and the 3DS being so ridiculously easy to hack left me SEVERELY underprepared for how tedious of a process this is in comparison lmao

[iv0rys0da]

We got told that our art work isn’t allowed or shouldn’t be self indulgent the other day

I’m electing to ignore the fuck out of that

[punkfob]

ok so i booked my flights to chicago today...it’s official... everything is brought... tickets hotel flights done!! it’s actually happening....im actually jetting across the globe to see fob play wrigley field !!!!

[nintendosformerlover]

Hey I really liked your scooby doo breakdown, are you ok??

Yeah, I'm good. Thank you for checking. Sometimes autism is fun, other times rejectiom sensitivity is hell. Especially when the situation wasn't anyone's fault.

[specialagentartemis]

@ontologicalsynaesthesia said:

I feel like there were a lot of genderless AIs in sf lit of the 70s or so like in the Culture series maybe? But it sure does seem like everyone has been gendering their robots for at least the last 30 years

Yeah, for all that it’s supposedly such a thing, it feels hard to think of many prominent AI characters who aren’t gendered.  (I’ve still never read the Culture series...)  But for real, Breq and Murderbot are the only ones I’m coming up with, and Breq comes from a culture where no one, humans included, have a gender anyway.

Is it the idea that if you’re treating an AI like a full-fledged person and not “just” a robot, gender comes part and parcel with personhood?  You’d think you’d see more pushback in recent years on that.

Is it because Data was played by Brent Spiner and was thus *obviously* a man and no one on TNG was allowed the imagination to be queer because it was 80s/90s tv and run by Rick Berman, and Data just set the template for AI personhood in sci-fi for the next three decades?

Is it because of Siri and Alexa?

(I find the same thing with aromanticism.  Where are all these aromantic robots that you (general you) insist exist.  Again, Murderbot and Breq are the only ones coming to mind!  And the personhood thing is absolutely a big part of why)

[ciwyw2]

so I have a daily mood check in app and it’s crazy looking at the past month

[pheadrus]

you don’t even appreciate how much you like normal life till you spend over half a year constantly getting ill and the last few months not even having intervals of being well :))))