my dad got chatgpt for dummies & has been practicing daily sending my family AI generated texts (side note- English is not his first language so the right prompts are more difficult for him to come up with). seeing this just truly made me melt. he’s observing the world change and making a concerted effort to keep up. just pure
he doesn’t text often, but when he does i’m giddy. he pays attention to the little things, sends me texts related to things i'm passionate about, and loves a good outdated meme.
(or anything your dad’s really into). Not gonna stop talking about it! learning chess has really opened up insight into my dad‘s life that i didnt even know I was missing. He messaged me today when I’d just played a game on chess.com saying “ahhhh a draw” cause he’s been watching it 😭
When he added me I discovered that in 2016 he wrote little summary blogs for his games and I don’t know why but it’s making me want to actually cry. We played a game at my dining table the other day and he taught me some stuff and then he called me after watching me play a game online to say that the way I doubled my rooks was almost exactly the same as the way he’d shown me in our game.
This has strengthened our relationship so much and his lore is always insane. Dads always be doing the most random shit, but no one ever asks them about it. Since i've been asking my dad more about his day to day he gets so excited to tell me about all of the random things he's trying and learning. It's precious.
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