AI & Technology
19 min read•
Small talk is a ritual, not a talent
The hard part is starting, not talking, and the research says so. What the ritual is, why starter lists fail, and how to build a character to rehearse on.
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AI Stories, Guides & Insights
Discover expert roleplay guides, character creation tips, prompt techniques, and AI news.
AI & Technology
14 min read•
AI therapist: what the trials found and what regulators did
The US regulator has authorised over 1,200 AI-enabled medical devices and none for mental health use. What the trials found, what the law now says, and where a character still fits.
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AI & Technology
16 min read•
Character name generator: what it can do, and how to name a character properly
What a name does before a character speaks, what generators actually do to produce one, where they fail, and a six-step method with real lists by genre.
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AI & Technology
17 min read•
60 journaling prompts, grouped by what you need them for
Sixty specific prompts grouped into seven sets, plus an honest read of what the expressive writing research found and where the effect turned out smaller than advertised.
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AI & Technology
13 min read•
Talk to strangers in 2026: what replaced Omegle, and what the research says
Omegle closed in November 2023. Here is what replaced it, what regulators have found since, what the stranger-conversation research really measured, and where an AI character honestly sits.
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AI & Technology
13 min read•
How to make friends as an adult: hours, not chemistry
School supplied proximity and repetition for free. Here is what the research on hours to friendship actually found, and the moves that rebuild repetition by hand.
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AI & Technology
14 min read•
AI Dungeon review: unlimited actions, what credits really buy, and the 2021 filter
AI Dungeon is free to play with no cap on actions. What its own help center says about credits, context, the Memory Bank, Story Cards, multiplayer and the 2021 filter.
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AI & Technology
14 min read•
Choose your own adventure: how branching stories are really built
Branching fiction is a counting problem before it is a writing problem. Here is how the gamebooks, the parser games and the modern tools each solved it.
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AI & Technology
13 min read•
Parasocial relationship: what Horton and Wohl said, and what AI changes
The word parasocial comes from a 1956 psychiatry paper with a much narrower meaning than the internet gave it. Here is what the research found, and what AI changes.
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AI & Technology
13 min read•
AI friend: what a platonic AI companion is actually used for
The platonic use of AI companions is the common one and the least written about. Here is what the surveys and the trials found people do with it, and where it stops.
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AI & Technology
13 min read•
AI story generator: what it writes, and where the output falls apart
What free AI story generators actually produce, the ceilings three of them publish, and why continuity and character voice break down as a story gets longer.
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AI & Technology
14 min read•
AI fanfiction generator: what it produces and where canon breaks
These tools write clean prose and wrong canon. Here is what they produce, why relationships and timelines break, what AO3's own documents say, and who owns the text.
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