• vane@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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?

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    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.