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ICE Agent Returns Home to Hero’s Welcome From AI Girlfriend (thehardtimes.net)
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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Kind of. In that episode the soldiers were actually mind washed, and saw victims as literally monsters. And yes, they had intercourse with someone from their imagination (I think), for their better mental health(?).

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    IIRC the programming not only made them see the undesirables as literally alien monsters, they also had a whole simulated happy life going on for them.

    The episode ended with the protagonist being released from service going home to his nice home and loving woman, which is then revealed as still being part of the programming, showing him in peaceful bliss, alone in a wrecked, rotting poverty home.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    This is somehow supposed to give you comfort about the future like yeah life sucks but at least you won’t have to deal with it because we have this great tech that masks reality! But really life will just suck an even if we have that tech it will only be used as a weapon or to give trillionaires brain jobs

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