I don’t know why inanimate objects treated like this makes me feel sad. It reminds me of the Mars rover comic where he’s left asking if he did a good job after the radio goes silent.
Adult. Have to go back to Herbie the Love Bug for my childhood versions. Or plenty of children books that animated things, my first being a vivid one about a lighthouse tugboat lost in a storm. With a companion 45 rpm record that read and sung the book.
I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it’s kind of forgotten and useless.
I tried to revive it a while ago, but it’s too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it’s a real shame. It’s still working fine, otherwise!
I don’t know why inanimate objects treated like this makes me feel sad. It reminds me of the Mars rover comic where he’s left asking if he did a good job after the radio goes silent.
Quit making me feel bad for machines damn you!
Thanks for sharing, though it did make me sad.
Empathy and anthropomorphization. It’s a good quality to have as a person, but it does cause these false positive triggers.
This is my go-to antidote for that one
https://xkcd.com/1504/
Especially the alt-text.
Never checked in alt-text. You made my day (:
Here’s this again. I get to bring it out every time this sort of thing comes up. It never ceases to be a masterpiece.
Empathy ia possibly the beat quality a person can have.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326979070_Object_personification_in_autism_This_paper_will_be_very_sad_if_you_don’t_read_it
The comic, for today’s lucky 10 000.
maybe you watched toy story as a kid
Or the brave little toaster 😭
Adult. Have to go back to Herbie the Love Bug for my childhood versions. Or plenty of children books that animated things, my first being a vivid one about a lighthouse tugboat lost in a storm. With a companion 45 rpm record that read and sung the book.
I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it’s kind of forgotten and useless.
I tried to revive it a while ago, but it’s too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it’s a real shame. It’s still working fine, otherwise!
Old macbooks make great Linux machines!
Not that old, unfortunately.
Linux runs fine, but even when underclocked, it turns into a space heater by just using a browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIJOE9jNcM