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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 63 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

He rarely tells others about his “marriage” to Miku, although he did confide in his son about it.

“He was like, ‘Oh, OK,’ and didn’t seem bothered in the least,” Shimoda said.

That is the response of a young man who has been freed from any concerns about disappointing his father for the rest of his life. Dad found your ladybug mind control sissification vore hentai stash? Big deal, he married a phone. At least a Hitachi wand never accidentally picks up a facetime call at an inopportune moment.

One thing left unanswered by the article: if you propose to a phone, are you supposed to buy it an expensive ringer?

[–] griD@feddit.org 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Dad found your ladybug mind control sissification vore hentai stash? Big deal, he married a phone.

This sentence made my day :)

It was a fun one to cook up.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago

He rarely tells others about his “marriage”

How's that working out for him in light of this article?

[–] Envy@fedia.io 11 points 16 hours ago

/c/brandnewsentence

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 45 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there's a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 2 points 16 hours ago

I can see a die hard macho culture lover doing this as a joke

[–] tal@olio.cafe 19 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

As Miku has no physical presence, the relationship is purely platonic.

If someone isn't already banging on that, I am pretty sure that they will be before long.

kagis

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Yeah.

Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.


Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, HTML, URLs, and HTTP

[–] SirBucksworth@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I‘m already waiting for the fist-bot-3000 !

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Well they do say that's why betamax failed. I think in reality it's fairly was a bit more complicated than that, but it can't have helped.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I told them they should have gone with Alphamax but nobody wanted to hear it once the Sigmamax schism happened.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

And blu-ray over HD-DVD, although I've heard a couple of Sony fanboy rants telling me how wrong I am, so take it fwiw.

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

If you buy one of those then you'd better give up on ever sleeping with actual woman ever again.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

So this is where we're heading as society, when you grow old and you are left alone you can pay $17 per month to be able to speak to someone.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not your hardware, not your girlfriend.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

To be fair, somewhat cheaper than the other way.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This bodes really well for humanity...

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

The internet should be cheering, given how misanthropic and antinatalist everyone on the internet is.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago
[–] johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 0 points 12 hours ago

Less drama, i suppose.