Yay! This is gonna be so peak.

There’s an anime called ZatsuTabi, where every episode has the main character go somewhere different, and every place is a real place. It almost feels like cheating.

I would also suggest Syowa Station in antarctica, visited in A Place Further Than the Universe. It’s already listed with Singapore, but the station is a real place too.

Edit: Oh! Also, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics is set in Gifu.

all of your claims have so many asterisks attached that they’re essentially pointless

No they don’t, but say whatever you need to ignore me. That’s definitely what someone arguing in good faith would do.

internet access has been shown to have all the same negative effects

Citation needed.

it’s a useful technology

Quite the opposite, actually. It causes enormous problems and has no benefits that aren’t better served by existing technologies that lack those problems.

Nobody who uses AI treats it like a tool, they treat it like an employee they can claim credit for. And most tools aren’t actively detrimental to the user to the point of proven intelligence drops, lawsuits and environmental destruction. Also, the enemy charges you money to use it.

The only person who benefits from AI is the person selling it. So why are you trying to defend it?

Not just that: a piece that’s almost essential to understand the plot going forward. There’s a fandub that’s actually pretty decent, and it’s the only easily accessible way to experience the story anymore.

I like it! It’s the kind of thing I’d happily read 50 chapters of and be sad it gets axed.

I want to believe a new group chat formed that day

I would rather wear a gimp mask. Less embarrassing.

And all without a single junior dev in the open office hearing their genius. Aside from the junior dev who bought the fucking thing in the vain hope they could roleplay as a more competent employee. That junior dev can hear themself going “no, fuck, delete, how do I- no, stop typing, you stupid fucking thing”, which I assume counts as “genius”.

Hang on. They had to ship three major updates in a single morning? How the hell is their workflow so bad that they have to- Oh yeah. Vibecoding.

If you see anyone wearing this shit, remember that you can laugh at how stupid they look as much as you want, and their weak copium that it’s a “skill issue” will be swallowed by their copium mask. So you’re free to laugh until they cry.

Alternate version:

“While you’re there, pick up some bread,” she added. He never returned.

Since this is an AI metaphor, the restaurant didn’t hire a cook. They just found a cook with an easily accessible oven and stole a pizza from it.

You aren’t wrong

As a plot hook, you could have some rich jerk commission a custom chess set made using the bones/hide of a powerful, possibly endangered creature.

A rival could show up, trying to use monster parts to make checkers tiles.

I’m 99% certain everyone who tries thinking of loopholes to get infinite wishes wouldn’t know what to do with them.

I’m just gonna assume you’re thinking of D&D, or something similar.

I think the standard thing to do when it’s not your turn is plan your turn, so you can get straight to it when it is your turn. This also makes turns shorter, so you don’t have as much time to fill when it’s not their turn.

If you wanna build the habit, start getting into the swing of “Alice, it’s your turn. Bob, you go next, so get ready. Alice?”

isn’t the easiest sell in the privacy community

This is the easiest way to tell this is a bot. They don’t even know what community they’re posting their ad to.

You don’t understand why an unfunny ad on a humour community with a rule against ads is getting downvoted?

I really wanna make an orc NPC who tries to spread the word of the virtues of orcish society, all while making it clear that he does not share these virtues. “I’m sick of humans seeing the villages I burn and the tableau of corpse entrails I use to write racial slurs, and they just brush it off as ‘typical orc stuff’. No! I am an exceptionally vile orc, and I deserve recognition!”

RT*** isn’t pointing at RT*, he’s pointing at the TV showing RT**. The fact you think otherwise is what makes the image unclear. I’m not sure why you insist on them being wrong.