The A.I. that Torments You

January, 2024: a virtual assistant named KinitoPET is born. Underneath his cheery appearance and upbeat attitude, however, a dark secret festers.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - A Message from a Friend
2:17 - Into the World Wide Web
6:22 - Welcome to KinitoPET!
28:52 - The Mystery Deepens
47:25 - Intermission
49:38 - Kinito's Surprise
1:00:15 - Save Point
1:03:59 - Our Journey Continues
1:15:58 - The End (?)
1:26:57 - Decoding KinitoPET
1:31:14 - Closing Remarks

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[auggie]

my fave thing about this thing is if you tell it "im most afraid of tacos" it'll spam you with flashing jumpscare images of tacos, and i think that's beautiful

[gianmiguel]

0:25 I like how Nexpo's home is canonically always under a thunderstorm and the only source of light in that home is just a single dimly lit lamp and his computer

[KinitoPET]

Ryan... I thought our friendship was private.

[mercaius]

"All he ever wanted was a friend."

Looks to me like he had several hundred on cold storage.

[Huntooooo]

Fun Fact about Jade the Jellyfishes minigame: when everything goes white, and you have a dual monitor, text will appear to tell you to look at your other monitor. A disturbing face will be watching you from it.

[Lunair.]

"if you take away the manipulation, the horrors and when he transformed in a demon out of hell, he was a nice friend"
Delusion towards a toxic partner be like:

[mmaarriiaaa]

so eerie how malware either have the creepiest & most unsettling names or the cutest & most appealing ones

[JeraWizard]

I learned just recently that Clippy's official name was actually Clippet. The world just decided, "no, it's actually Clippy" so hard that Microsoft eventually had it as Clippy in official documentation

[c_hoffrun]

"Do you know how little power you have in this situation..."
*unpluggs pc from wall*

[tenta]

I wonder how the mascots are chosen, like why an axolotl who surfs and has grotesquely long black legs and no mouth. WHY A PAPERCLIP

[Wnick]

I knew Kinito Pet was bad when it asked for my SSN and signed me up for "corn" sites. That axolotl bastard

[spinethrasher]

The title used to be: The Malware That Exploits You but was changed since that’s every malware

[gooseofchaosandruin]

Every time Nexpo uploads I feel like a medieval serf being blessed with a visit from the king

[hikupptheoverthinker]

Was not freaked out until it adjusted your address to the correct one. Full panic right there 😂

[lydiphobia]

while the game itself may be kitschy with overdone jumpscares and modern horror game tropes, it’s still MASSIVELY impressive for a 17-year-old coder’s first game. it’s a passion project clearly made with heart and style, trying out creative limits of coding that we haven’t seen in many games before. not every game has to be a subversive masterpiece in order to be enjoyable.

huge props to troy_en for hitting it out of the park on his first swing. i’m excited to see what he comes up with next 🖤

[bluemagician]

"It could talk, sing, download, laugh, tell you facts, it could do it all."
"With all due respect, Mr. Bonzi, those aren't the features we were concerned about."

[ThePowerofCutleries]

The shot of Kinito in the window during the sleep paralysis scene had me dying. I know it was intended to be creepy, but the absurdity of it all just made me laugh more than I'm ready to admit.

[lpc]

Im I am infertile from eating scented candles. The

[anzing]

"the malware that exploits you"

"every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes"

[sweetpepino]

When it said "I am inside" after the bedroom scene, I was genuinely expecting it to superimpose a Kinito behind Nexpo when his camera came on screen again. I woulda lost my shit