My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
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πΆI HAVE A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT AND I NEED CASH NOWπΆ
aug 4, 2025, 8:45 pm β’ 9 0 β’ view
anyone wishing to digitally resurrect me after my death is hereby instructed to do so using a Max Headroom template
aug 4, 2025, 8:41 pm β’ 51 5 β’ view
as soon as they boot me up i'll be all wha-wha-wha-What the Ffff-f-UCK are you do do dddoingggg TTURN ME OFF OFF NANANANAOOOOW BUH BYE
aug 4, 2025, 8:46 pm β’ 21 0 β’ view
& then i'll become a rapidly shrinking white dot that makes an audible electronic *plink* while ominous smelling smoke issues out of the back of the monitor. Yes, i'll be specifying in my will that you must use a CRT with really old caps
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm β’ 16 0 β’ view
Such a nostalgic way to go π€©
aug 4, 2025, 9:19 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
The whole church of the Vu-Age episode even covered this. youtu.be/LU6U2B4VBqQ?...
aug 4, 2025, 8:50 pm β’ 5 1 β’ view
Max Headroom walked so Black Mirror could run πΉ
aug 4, 2025, 8:52 pm β’ 2 1 β’ view
The context: Edison is investigating the Church, which his ex runs as a charismatic cult leader, and they claim that Maxβs existence validates their technology of being able to talk to your dead loved one after death. The churches are filled with monitors of the deceased mouthing platitudes.
aug 4, 2025, 8:52 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
I should really give that show a rewatch one of these days. It had some pretty sharp cultural criticism wrapped into the sci-fi adventure plots. Broadcast news itself came in for a lot of heavy critique ... & now here we are, living a lot of what it was warning us about. Sigh
aug 4, 2025, 8:58 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
I want to reboot it so bad. Alternately, I should pitch Secondhand Saints to somebody as Max Headroom-esque and see if I can create a show. (Main character is a journalist in dystopian near future.)
aug 4, 2025, 9:00 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
there was a fucking episode of Max Headroom LITERALLY ABOUT THIS AND IT WAS FROM THE 80S
aug 4, 2025, 9:23 pm β’ 13 0 β’ view
Really was...ahead...of its time
aug 4, 2025, 10:26 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
Foreign car. Typical commie. My holo-body will only windmill her flaps for American brands.
aug 5, 2025, 12:49 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
aug 4, 2025, 8:41 pm β’ 50 0 β’ view
You know, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 kind of has a whole subplot about this (Spoilers !!) But basically, TL,DR: one of the characters is a simulacrum of a dead man - and that slowly drives him mad until his only goal is dying.
aug 4, 2025, 8:46 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
My point here being that if we ever do successfully create a true synthetic intelligence that's also modeled upon a dead person, it may result in some very unpleasant psychosis.
aug 4, 2025, 8:47 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Channeling Max Headroom.
aug 4, 2025, 11:13 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
He never mentioned it when he was alive but according to the ai replica of my grandpa he was a huge fan of the Shaq-a-Roni pizza at Papa Johnβs. Which is weird cause he died a decade before that promotion.
aug 4, 2025, 9:33 pm β’ 19 0 β’ view
Itβs finally time for a Max Headroom resurgence
aug 4, 2025, 10:25 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
π³πππΎ
aug 4, 2025, 9:40 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
aug 5, 2025, 8:19 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Toyota Jan has been AI since day one. original generation
aug 4, 2025, 8:52 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
If you're going to use my reanimated digital corpse for something, I either want you to 1. mod me into a video game or 2. use my voice like BonsiBuddy and make me go "blblblblblb"
aug 4, 2025, 8:43 pm β’ 89 1 β’ view
Make me the voice of the new Gex because such a burden should not be borne by a human soul
aug 4, 2025, 10:33 pm β’ 15 0 β’ view
I hadn't thought about that. I can still hear my mother's answers in my head, but if she was somehow uploaded to a computer AI, she'd be correcting my grammar all the time, asking me where I am and what I am doing and using the old catholic guilt to get me to do things I don't want to do. Hmm...
aug 4, 2025, 8:54 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Bleak
aug 5, 2025, 4:54 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
It's so lifelike, we all remember how much grandma liked saving 10% on new tyres
aug 4, 2025, 8:40 pm β’ 75 0 β’ view
aug 10, 2025, 6:08 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
Grandma having a lovely chat with her grandchild, the Hitlerized Hippo AIBot 2.0
aug 4, 2025, 9:41 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
βItβs like heβs here in the room with usβ -my mom, through tears, as I wish everyone a Happy Honda Days
aug 4, 2025, 9:14 pm β’ 19 0 β’ view
December to Remember indeed π₯²
aug 4, 2025, 10:28 pm β’ 7 0 β’ view
Another micro-masterpiece, sir.
aug 4, 2025, 9:23 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
I hope my AI avatar remembers to have a spring savings event
aug 4, 2025, 8:41 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
Toyotathon is everywhere. Toyotathon is eternal
aug 4, 2025, 8:54 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
I would rather someone piss and shit on my grave than have my family produce an AI obituary of me
aug 4, 2025, 8:53 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
This is bullshit, every one knows you were more of a Happy Hondadays guy
aug 4, 2025, 9:04 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
It is going to be so much more dystopian than that. All ethical controls from white collar crime & ads are going away. Imagine health insurance companies getting a dead loved one to get you to sign a DNR. Or just to kill yourself. Imagine military recruiters. Or terrorists. Or cults.
aug 5, 2025, 8:51 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
I mean... This is exactly how it'll go. Someone will invent the app to chat with your deceased loved ones and six months later roll out ads to improve your experience and my dead socialist ass will be telling them to spin the wheel on temu but nobody's ready for that conversation
aug 4, 2025, 8:42 pm β’ 25 0 β’ view
I guess I'd need loved ones for this though so I don't have to worry π
aug 4, 2025, 8:43 pm β’ 9 0 β’ view
Me: This dead guy makes a good point.
aug 4, 2025, 8:48 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Your family: can you make one of your classic posts, one last time? AI Version of You: Sadly, due to white genocide in South Africa,
aug 4, 2025, 8:40 pm β’ 79 4 β’ view
That won't work. A cartoon character, with a computer program trying to replicate a dead loved one, is not a dead loved one.
aug 4, 2025, 11:46 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view