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Happiness.

You wouldn't get it

Need further elaboration.
That could mean anything. Could mean any waifu = happiness, finding the right one = happiness or more waifus = more happiness. Who knows?

Most likely a combination of a lack of options plus a really good imagination. These people would probably also be very good candidates for future space colonization that requires long periods of isolation.

Happiness.

Nah bro. They're a threat to hygiene.

You know how sometimes people get into arguments over who's a bigger fan of some sports team or singer? Imagine that except with anime girls.

The strength to make it to the next day

Im glad you made this topic. What answers were you expecting? Why do people go to a social board on a video game website?

2D girls are loyal.

They would them as they would a real woman and love interest. Hell in the future you're probably be seeing many more anime style AIs for this purpose so they can actually talk to them.

That would only do so much.
Wouldn't an AI learn solely from interactions and prompts you give? The onus would be on you to introduce spontaneity and new ideas into your so called relationship.
It'd be like repeatedly playing a video game and having to make up your own spins. Or even worse, it'd be like dating the algorithm.

I think it would also be hollow knowing you can manually tell her how to respond or alter her personality. Who knows how much time you'd have to spend studying limited material featuring the character and trying to figure out how you want the AI to respond to every little thing.

I'd like to think the majority of us are doing it ironically.... I hope

The sex is incredible.

One of the reasons I asked was because I've met people who have this approach where they use the waifu as motivation for self-improvement. No hoarding overpriced merch or trying to one-up other fans.

They'd frequently ask themselves "What have I done today to be worthy of her?" and they'd make the focus of their dedication her characterisation and virtues rather than solely her appearance.
As a relationship it still looks pretty lonely, but the way it seems to have morphed into some kind of self-motivation mechanism is interesting.

I was hoping some people here would be like that so I could ask them if it's working.

A bandaid over the empty feeling of knowing I'm otherwise forever alone.

Waifus are laifu

Okay. Well how does this work?
How do you perpetrate the act of having a waifu? Do you have to make her your profile picture, go around telling other people that she's your waifu because she herself won't respond?
Do you have to buy merchandise? Find a way to involve her in as many things as possible?

At what point are you officially dedicated to the character instead of just saying you are?

Okay. Well how does this work?
How do you perpetrate the act of having a waifu? Do you have to make her your profile picture, go around telling other people that she's your waifu because she herself won't respond?
Do you have to buy merchandise? Find a way to involve her in as many things as possible?

At what point are you officially dedicated to the character instead of just saying you are?

Okay, let's actually thoroughly run it down. First off, as a disclaimer, I'm not one of the "one waifu only" people, and as such have multiple, even in the context of a single game/franchise. In that sense, a "waifu" is not truly an equivalent of a wife for me.

But with that out of the way, let me run down an example from Granblue Fantasy, the character Fraux. First of all: yes, she's my PFP over on Discord, and praise her when given the chance there (despite blowback from a couple people that don't like her at all).

Let's get into the material dedication though. As far as I know, there's no real merchandise specifically for her, and even if there was, Granblue merchandise goes almost exclusively through Japan, which makes things difficult. Even getting her is a matter of hours upon hours of grinding (but that's normal for Granblue), but I'm going a step beyond and preparing for her upcoming uncap (ie, raising her level cap). This is a multi-step grind, having to hit it from multiple sources and including shit like getting a drop that's got a 1/1000 chance of dropping that I need three of. Oh, and she'll also need an item that's timegated to one every couple months, and has a plethora of other uses. So again, literal dozens of hours put into specifically getting materials for her. And in the case of the uncap: there's no telling if it's even going to be good.

And that's just the grind. I've done everything I can to make her as strong as possible (again, using extremely limited in-game resources). And burned a good $30 on her swimsuit skin before I'd even actually recruited her. And the end result? She's just an okay unit, even with everything I put into her. But fuck the meta, I still took her into the game's competitive grindfest for the hardest fight just for the sake of getting to use her in the most important content in the game.

So basically, hours upon hours (possibly into the hundreds) of recruiting Fraux, working on the upcoming uncap, and giving her everything I possibly can just to force use of her in content for the sake of using my waifu. Also $30, about the only money I can actually spend. Also a lot of thinking about her future as a character, and the desire to write fanfic about her.

...God this probably sounds sad to outsiders to GBF lmao

Okay, let's actually thoroughly run it down. First off, as a disclaimer, I'm not one of the "one waifu only" people, and as such have multiple, even in the context of a single game/franchise. In that sense, a "waifu" is not truly an equivalent of a wife for me.

But with that out of the way, let me run down an example from Granblue Fantasy, the character Fraux. First of all: yes, she's my PFP over on Discord, and praise her when given the chance there (despite blowback from a couple people that don't like her at all).

Let's get into the material dedication though. As far as I know, there's no real merchandise specifically for her, and even if there was, Granblue merchandise goes almost exclusively through Japan, which makes things difficult. Even getting her is a matter of hours upon hours of grinding (but that's normal for Granblue), but I'm going a step beyond and preparing for her upcoming uncap (ie, raising her level cap). This is a multi-step grind, having to hit it from multiple sources and including shit like getting a drop that's got a 1/1000 chance of dropping that I need three of. Oh, and she'll also need an item that's timegated to one every couple months, and has a plethora of other uses. So again, literal dozens of hours put into specifically getting materials for her. And in the case of the uncap: there's no telling if it's even going to be good.

And that's just the grind. I've done everything I can to make her as strong as possible (again, using extremely limited in-game resources). And burned a good $30 on her swimsuit skin before I'd even actually recruited her. And the end result? She's just an okay unit, even with everything I put into her. But fuck the meta, I still took her into the game's competitive grindfest for the hardest fight just for the sake of getting to use her in the most important content in the game.

So basically, hours upon hours (possibly into the hundreds) of recruiting Fraux, working on the upcoming uncap, and giving her everything I possibly can just to force use of her in content for the sake of using my waifu. Also $30, about the only money I can actually spend. Also a lot of thinking about her future as a character, and the desire to write fanfic about her.

...God this probably sounds sad to outsiders to GBF lmao

My knowledge on the matter is only second hand. But from what I've heard while the AI would need some configuration after a while you can have full on conversations with in on a number of subject matter. And once it learns more about you would even start conversations on things you'd likely be interested in.

I mean, dating in and of itself can be a long, tiresome and tedious process. With AIs you you can passivily adjust them eventually to near perfect, anytime, anywhere and st your own pace.

To a degree, yes; Granblue is an extremely grind-heavy game in general (with a rewarding sense of progression to make up for it), so setting goals is very important to keep going. Most of those goals end up being meta-focused (especially where I'm at in the progression, where most of my primary focus is racing others on battles to do enough damage to guarantee a chance at certain rewards), but a character like Fraux offers a different kind of goal, where it's not about necessarily about getting stronger, but about the love of a character.

And beyond just the pure gameplay side of things, Granblue is fairly story heavy. Characters have their own individual stories (Fraux's group with lengthy ones), several holidays have seasonal bits with the characters, and Fraux in particular is next in line for a series of slice-of-life story bits that have been running for her group. So there's a lot of that to look forward to with her as well.

But sadly, there is a limit to how much I'll be able to do with her in these regards. Just due to how the game works, I can only use her in fire teams which are only good against wind or nonelemental fights, the story content is eventually coming to an end (there's a real chance that the uncap for her that I mentioned will include the last real story bits for her), and even the seasonal lines eventually stop having new ones. So until then, I'm using her as much as I can, exactly for the idea of spending time with her. And yes, she is one of the characters on my home screen for the game, so I do see her often when I log on.

As for how this all started, it was from the fighting game; I played the story, and wanted some insight from the original gacha game to understand it better. Went in planning to just do the story, am now still playing this game three years later. With Fraux, it started with being initially decently struck by her physical design and base personality when I started working on recruiting her general group. Her summer skin definitely drew even more attention for me and made her a recruitment priority, and finally seeing those seasonal lines I mentioned ended up being what really drew me heavily to her.

You wouldn't get it

The sex is incredible.

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That's kind of what I meant. You'd reach a point where you've been through all the things you're presently interested in, from that point it's transparently making guesses at other things you'd like. You're done talking about Payday 2 and the AI suddenly starts asking if you care about Payday 1 or 3, then L4D and it just keeps trying different FPS games.

She can guess based on your interests but it's going to be much harder for her to surprise you with something new that you'll probably like.
An ad. You're dating an advertisement by that point.

Doesn't that highlight that it's less a partnership and more you simulating different aspects of one with no real continuity? "I think I'll set her to angry today and try and talk her out of her bad mood." "Oh, you know what couples do? They tease each other for fun sometimes! I'll tell her how to make fun of me and then pretend to react how I think I would!"

It must also hurt a little if you were getting immersed in a conversation and then she suddenly said something really jarring and out of place that only a bot would say.

At that point I don't see why you couldn't just change the subject matter to anything else. Just like you would with real people when you're tired of something. And it being a AI means they aren't really limited to anything technically.

And I haven't heard of them promoting products yet but I imagine that can be either tweeked or disabled entirely.

I'd imagine that all would depend on the individual. Some guys believe they have genuine relationships with Twitch thots. Who aren't that different from the AIs you've described. Only you have to pay them for everything a AI would do for free. And you can't tell them not to promote ads either.

2D girls are loyal.

2D girls are loyal.