Jesus, I had to do a double take because I thought the stick person had somehow trapped a little human inside a pod for their entertainment and I was so confused.
No thank you, I like my women flesh and blood. Or if technology gets way better than I expect it to in my lifetime: thinking feeling beings capable of choosing to leave with soft bits.
Do you really own it though? Is it fully local? Or is it based on some online slop-as-a-service provider who might kill your girlfriend at any given moment?
Jesus, I had to do a double take because I thought the stick person had somehow trapped a little human inside a pod for their entertainment and I was so confused.
I thought it was a verification can.
I thought it was an homunculus.
I’m still confused. What is the little pod and detritus around it supposed to represent?
I get the broken piggy-bank (and hammer?), not sure what else is going on…
I got the holo-waifu, but not the broken piggy bank, I thought it was a bong
CES 2026 Really Wants You to Own a Holographic Anime Girlfriend
at Gizmodo
Thanks for the context. I figured the comic was just ai slop itself…
No thank you, I like my women flesh and blood. Or if technology gets way better than I expect it to in my lifetime: thinking feeling beings capable of choosing to leave with soft bits.
Fuck this shit is sad
Flesh and blood women taste better.
Thank God, I thought it was analogue to the pony in a jar meme.
Do you really own it though? Is it fully local? Or is it based on some online slop-as-a-service provider who might kill your girlfriend at any given moment?
You don’t need to read further to find out. Ed Zitron attended and called it the “Anti-Consumer Electronics Show”.
That formulation is by the journalist, I just copied the headline.
and my dumb ass thought it was a phone
It would be pretty sick if I could shove a Cortana into it tho…
I remember seeing a recent Kickstarter that has a sort of holographic AI friend in a “container” like that, and it reached funding far past its goal.
There’s also this thing by Razer
Fucking gamers…
I think it represents a phone.
Maybe I’m not awake enough yet but I’m still not seeing anything other than tiny human in a pod