• Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    If I’d be stuck doing this, I’d start writing personalities for the alts.

    This Xiaomi 10s is Greg, his wife Lauren (Pixel 3a) left him because he slapped her eleven years into their marriage. He begged her to come back, but Lauren is too afraid to end up like her friend Emy (Galaxy with flickering screen), to get caught up in the cycle of “leave-forgive”. The ladies are meeting on Friday, posting similar pictures of wine glasses into their feeds.

    Greg sees his son twice a month (an iphone, the small one they stopped making awhile ago). Lately he can’t seem to get rid of the thought that he’s not doing it because he wants to, but because “that’s what fathers do”. The next visit will be his last, he’ll switch to sending cards and racist tweets about Mamdani.

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      21 hours ago

      Greg is a Xiaomi, wife is a Pixel but his son is an iPhone? I think Lauren has been unfaithful and Greg should get a paternity test

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        20 hours ago

        How dare you, Greg would never abandon his child because he was adopted.

        No, he’s going to do it because he harbors deep resentment for what he became, what he could’ve been. Any time someone perceives him feels like a metaphorical slap across his face, not unlike the real physical one he in his wrathful impotence inflicted onto Laura.

        Greg needs therapy, but he’s only getting it later in his 50s because I enjoy imagining pathetic people. It’s very normal do not think into it.

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      20 hours ago

      This is not categorically too far off from what’s happening here. You can set up a whole social circle. I think that could even be beneficial in certain operations.