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same with VCs
I sense a business model here.
What have I done
“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”
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Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”
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It's good for long messages. However, I could see someone go through the 100 SMS very quickly in a "conversation" where the imaginary person has to answer a bunch of short texts like "yes", "and you", etc. I've tried the free trial, which is 10 SMS and went through them in half an hour or so (and that's because they don't reply very quickly). Haven't even got to the parts that I customized, I was still at "Hello ther…
I could see someone go through the 100 SMS very quickly in a "conversation" where the imaginary person has to answer a bunch of short texts like "yes", "and you" It's not meant to be a discussion service, but fake evidence that you've got a significant other.
Yes, of course. But the best way to fake evidence that you have a significant other is to build a SMS history. I send my (real) girlfriend 15 to 50 messages a day. I don't think I would fool anyone with an history of 100 messages a month.
Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”
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In my mind there are two major ways you could keep a queer person in danger safe: 1. educate the would-be aggressors so their bigotry goes away, or 2. keep them physically safe from harm (guards, locks, etc.). This service does neither of those things. In fact, maybe in some ways it's worse; some people may _never_ get to a point in their life where it is safe to come out. This is sort of like saying to them "you can…
"Your mind" completely ignores non US-cultures, so "your mind" needs to expand a bit. Pretending like a man in Iran or Russia can come out as gay and be safe isn't going to change the immutable fact that a gay man in either of those two countries is in serious danger simply by being a gay man.
I think that falls under the first category of "educate the would-be aggressors", does it not?
Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”
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If you actually know someone with supernatural powers do them a huge favor and tell them about this so they can get their million dollars. http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html
Anyone with supernatural powers that takes that offer is a fool - their life would be effectively over. A person that could, say, see the future, is better off predicting the winning lottery numbers and sidestepping the almost certain involvement with government agents, or worse. (Not that winning the lottery is statistically a good thing for one's quality of life either, which is a plausible reason that "psychic win…
I suspect that being able to reliably win the lottery would be pretty good for your quality of life.