Otaku can now get their own virtual 2D waifu!

[CrimsonBlaze]

They seem cool.

I don't like the idea of smart home tech being manipulated by a pseudo-AI, but some people might not even think twice about it.

I personally wouldn't want one because it doesn't really add or remove anything from my daily routine. For some people that might like the idea of having some form of companionship at home, this might work for them, so long as it's temporary.

Let me know when they have an independent, mobile, full-scale model composed of solid light with genuine AI.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I don't see it as attempting to emulate a real life dating situation at all though. This is more towards the realm of trying to blurr the lines between 2D and 3D, more like cosplay or maid cafes. You know how maid cafe maids aren't at all like actual real world maids. The same goes for these relationships. This thing exists to emulate a three derees removed from reality, fictional, animelike representation of a relationship that never mind 10%, more like 0.01% of the "general population" would even comprehend never mind pay money to experience, as you are very aptly displaying here I may add lol. This is higly specialized, novelty fantasy fuel for a tiny demographic that really loves their fatasy and spends all their money on it. It isn't at all something for general audiences or people who may like to have general ordinary relationships.

Personally, the novelty of something like an AI texting you is inherently fun, but that is kinda where it stops, to get into something like this it'd have to not use an original generic character but someone established from some other medium I already like or it would have to come with a story like Love Plus did. As I said in my very first post, this is basically a fancier high tech love plus without any of the character, and if you think getting texted is "creepy", in love plus you have to say i love you to your ds and if you ignore it she gets actually mad and stuff, you heard of the guy who married his DS, right, that was love plus lol. Compared to that this waifubot is entry level stuff XD.

I don't know. I have auditory hallucinations with minor delusional episodes before I developed mental exercises (and taking medication) to combat them, so maybe that's colouring my perception of it. The last thing I want to ever do is feed or entertain that the demons have a point in their existence. So maybe that's interfering with me seeing it as all that innocent. Don't feed delusions, don't sacrifice independence or emotional stability for comfort and flights of fancy. Which I think is incredibly unfair, because people then accuse me of lacking an imagination or being uptight. I'm pretty sure that if I allowed myself my blackout conversations with the toaster and forget I ever did it infront of them they would find it incredibly creepy also.

Discipline, focus, willpower. Never surrender.

So I admit I'm probably more offput by this than most. I kind of see it feeding an addiction, rather than dealing with the problem. Kind of like advocating blow to get over your tobacco wants. Then again I'm not really hugely into anime or other Japanese fandoms, and I have experienced a maid cafe in Ikebukuro. Wasn't my thing. See, I like anime ... inasmuch as I like any decent story whether it's animated or not. For example I love Patlabor, particularly the movies, I like all the mainstream stuff like Ghibli studio stuff, I love CCS ... I adore Spice and Wolf, and I've read the light novels, and I'm getting into the manga of it, and while not as good as the light novels I did very much enjoy the anime.

Medieval and early Modern economics, a story of totemistic/animistic belief systems conflicting with organized religion, a light hearted romance concerning a larger motif and message of the divine relationship between humanity and gods new and old? Sign me up ... that's awesome.

But I'll be the first to say that 95% of anime is garbage. Which is okay, because 95% of movies and tv shows in general is garbage.

So I'm pretty sure most of my dislike is purely on this basis, as well as the standardised cultural trench. I'm Australian and most Australians tend to look poorly on gauche displays of having servants as opposed to conventional workers. When staying with family in the Philippines, they had two live in servants. I told them specifically not to clean my room or wash my clothes. It feels wrong. I get that this is a hang up and they're not slaves, and they're treated like part of the family ... and legitimately speaking, many servants are very poor and actually live better lives by being live in servants ... but there's something about not being responsible for your own life that urks me.

I get what you're talking about, but honestly it still creeps me the fuck out. I also question whether it's healthy, but that's just me.

Haha, I also love Spice and Wolf light novels included, they actually finally continued the novel series after a 10year timeskip a few months ago. See, if this was Horo pestering you to bring her various foods in an archaic Japanese tone I'd already have mine ordered lol.

I think as long as you don't let it become a problem it never really becomes more than entertainment. Sure, some folks will go overboard, but people do so with literally anything. People in Japan die from overwork and I am pretty sure they're not building Pyramids by hand lol. Balance is all you really need.


As for servants, it isn't a sign you can't take care of yourself and more a sign of how busy you are I think. When I was young we had a cleaning lady because my mother was working some 14 hours a day so she would be too tired to do cleaning etc. though yeah, I didn't really enjoy it myself eitber, my room was always off limits. Anime maids on the other hand are just a mass of cuteness, I see nothing wrong about them.