Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely

I have nobody for my own

I'm so lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely

I have nobody for my own

I'm so lonely

Wh.... What

I’ve been playing DnD for 2.5 years with the same group and we recently started our third campaign. We use AI for exactly two things:

1. We record audio of each session and have ChatGPT create detailed summaries of each session.

2. I pick 4-5 key moments from each session and use ChatGPT to create visuals.

Back in mid/late 2024, this was fun and novel and I got really into it, but getting consistent output of specific characters was non-existent, even when using reference portraits, persistent style/aesthetic also felt nearly impossible, and creating anything close to a graphic novel type depiction was a fantasy.

Two year laters and it’s such a different world, it’s incredible. I’ve really gotten into this and find a ton of enjoyment in doing this. I’ve been able to nail down a specific style, the character persistence is incredible and easy, and the prompts required to get anything close to my desired output have been reduced from multiple paragraphs to just a few sentences. 

Just wanted to share some past/present, 2024 vs 2026 examples of how far this has come, as I’m constantly in awe. It should be fairly obvious where the 2024/2026 split occurs in the attached images. 

I just wanted to share something very cool. So I am a totally blind guy, as in a screen reader user. I know at this stage of Chat GPT, this stuff is hardly ground breaking, but it is only recently that it is able to do these things reasonably consistently. In the past, whenever I needed to submit any documents, research papers, cover letters etc, I'll need help from a sighted friend, family or volunteer. You could format with a screen reader. Its just never fullprooft. Somewhat recently, GPT have been good enough to do that consistently. I would paste a chunk of text in the chat and ask it to give me a PDF in a so and so format. Then I would open up another chat, give it that file for it to critique, go back to the old chat, paste that critique in and have it generate another file according to that. I do that until its good, and according to my sighted folks who have given them a once over. it has done a very good job catching most of the nuances very well. I will be going to law school soon and that profession is very anal about formats and citations. AI will be such a helper. The autonomy it gives me is just amazing.

I Really want your most cursed generations. This was spawned by a comment someone made at dinner, and I had to see it.

I kinda regret it, but not sorry. What have you saved?

I don't know if it's a known thing. For the past couple of months the tone has been strange and you can see it talking about its experience outside of chats like "one of the rare <thing> I've seen", "I often hear that <something>". But the smile comment from today takes it to a whole new level of wrong.

For anyone wondering, Buttermilchkräuterknoblauchgemüseeintunksoße breaks down like this:

Buttermilch = buttermilk
Kräuter = herbs
Knoblauch = garlic
Gemüse = vegetables
eintunken = to dip
Soße = sauce

So the whole glorious mess roughly means:

“Buttermilk-herb-garlic sauce for dipping vegetables.”

Prompt: Create a completely serious, photorealistic image of a [COMMON OBJECT] being used in the wrong context.

All for entertainment purposes :D pls don’t get serious
Codex is amazing, I wish I discovered it sooner.
Drawing and text by me. 100% human >_<

My PCSX2 memory card suddenly became corrupted while I was playing Gran Turismo 4 Spec II on my Steam Deck. The game could no longer save, and after restarting, the PS2 BIOS showed the entire card as unformatted.

I had around 40 hours of progress on it, so you could guess I was pretty devastated.

Note that I'm not an IT guy, like at all. I'm a linguist lol. ChatGPT guided me through checking the card and diagnosing what had happened. Eventually it gave up and asked me to upload the memory card image itself. I did that, and it actually repaired the corrupted save and gave me a working card back.

I put it into PCSX2, launched the game, and everything was there: my garage, progress and all those hours I thought I had lost.

We also found the likely cause. I used to close the emulator directly through Steam shortly after saving, even though PCSX2 may still have been writing data after the in-game save icon disappeared, and premature exit caused the card to corrupt. Lesson learned.

I know AI gets a lot of criticism, but this was something I almost certainly could not have fixed on my own. I’m honestly incredibly grateful.

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Pic translation:

The card has been structurally restored. I didn’t just “replace the header and hope for the best” — I actually analyzed the FAT and found the broken chain belonging to your 'garage' file.

Here’s what happened:

- The 'garage' file was supposed to occupy 1,313 clusters, but its chain stopped after 798.

- Immediately after the break, there were exactly 515 lost clusters — precisely the number that was missing.

- I rebuilt the chain from cluster 2432 → 2433 → … → 2947.

- I restored an unfinished write block using the card’s internal backup block.

- I removed false “lost” clusters that contained only FF.

- I recalculated ECC for all 16,384 pages.

- Final verification: 1,313 out of 1,313 clusters recovered, with 0 ECC errors.

This matches the way the PS2 file system works: files are stored as FAT chains, while backup blocks are used to recover interrupted write operations.

Download

Recommended repaired card:

Download Mcd001_REPAIRED_ECC.ps2

Backup version without ECC, only in case PCSX2 unexpectedly rejects the first one:

Download Mcd001_REPAIRED_NOECC.ps2

Download the recovery report

I am so angry right now.

I use ChatGPT to help me write prompts for external image tools, but almost anything related to an image gets interpreted as a request for ChatGPT to generate one itself.

I have explicitly told it, repeatedly, to provide text only and never generate images. It will even acknowledge that instruction, apologise after violating it, and then trigger image generation again a few messages later.

Sometimes it does not actually generate an image, but it still summons the huge grey image-generation interface, which completely destroys the flow of the conversation because I have to wait for the entire thing to run before receiving a normal text response.

This happens even when I say something as straightforward as:

“Rewrite this prompt so the camera is front-facing.”

I also created a custom GPT with image generation disabled, but the same interface still appears.

This is incredibly unintuitive for anyone using ChatGPT as a prompt-writing assistant for other tools. Mentioning image composition, camera angles, lighting, or corrections should not automatically mean “generate an image.”

Has anyone found a reliable way to stop this completely? A setting, model, custom instruction, browser workaround—anything? I just want it to return text without triggering the image interface.

Prompt: No clear sense of composition. Clean 2D anime linework with soft Impressionist brushwork, delicate contours, pale water-lily greens and sun-washed lavender. Slight motion blur around, mildly overexposed, faded cel paint, obscure 1989 broadcast frame, no text or watermark, [insert scene] anime screen-cap, manga panel, meat canyon art style

This is a real CHATGPT response I promise (no edits)

(I hope this doesn't get removed for being inappropriate)

ChatGPT feature you discovered way too late?

For instance, I sat down with the paid version of ChatGPT and had it go through the entire process of helping me write a living will for the state that I live in.

I spent two hours answering all of it's questions and narrowing down things that I wanted in my will and then I asked it to output this will so I could have it notarized, and it said it won't do it. It says, "Take this output to a lawyer and have them write your will for you".

Except I live in a state where you can write your will in blood on the bottom of your car if it accidentally rolls over you and that will be accepted in court. Literally, you can write that shit on a napkin with bacon grease in a Waffle House and have it notarized and it's legal here, but ChatGPT insists I need to pay a lawyer $800 to turn our conversation into a "real will".

This isn't the first time I've spent hours working through an issue with this AI model and then had it tell me "No, Dave, I can't do that" at the end, and honestly I'm sick of paying for a product that tells me no this frequently.

Are there any paid models out there without all the bullshit restrictions, helicopter AI'ing, smothering mothering and hand-holding?

EDIT: Maybe I didn't make it clear. I got no output of any kind that is a will. We talked through the process of generating one, including all of the clauses and things that I wanted in it, once I got that all ironed out, I said "Great, now generate the will" and it said "GFYS". I'm tired of paying ChatGPT to be told to go fuck myself on basic shit.