Neat. I just got this cheap off of Amazon. It's moving up my backlog pile.

My Secret Identity got robbed.

In the end, affirmation is only one of the tools an AI chatbot can use to harm a human user, advertently or inadvertently, but it is what is focused on when such cases are reported on.

Like, "If only the chatbot had been appropriately negative to the user, this could have been avoided." It is a weird shift of onus to the user. As if their seeking affirmation was wrongheaded from the start, and it was inevitable that it would lead to ruin for the user.

Comcast OnDemand was a treasure trove of anime in those days. Anime was still expensive to watch legitimately and very time consuming to download illicitly in those days. I watched a lot of classics over that summer, and I was grateful for it.

A list of beat 'em ups I should play more:

The King of Dragons

Dragon's Crown

Golden Axe 3

Way of the Passive Fist

Final Vendetta