curiosityLynx @ curiosityLynx @beehaw.org

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I've got an unhealthy amount of hours and money (games, DLC) invested in various Paradox games because I once pirated EU3 on a whim.

My Steam Library now contains CK2 with most gameplay DLC, CK3 with most gameplay DLC, EU4 with all gameplay and content DLC, Stellaris with most gameplay/content DLC, HoI4 with most gameplay DLC, Sengoku, and other Paradox games that aren't grand strategy like Magicka 1&2.

And both my hours in CK2 and EU4 are in the 4 digit realm, though admittedly that includes times where I played in bed, fell asleep and the respective game kept running.

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You're kidding yourself. A lot of that metal box is plastic instead.

I remember that in the days before I got a gmail invite, I very quickly learned to use Thunderbird for emails.

Is that website something like The Onion for games?

Just recently I got a job offer where I had clearly stated I'm willing to work a maximum of 80%. When I went there to take a look before committing to it, they mentioned that because of the high amount of orders they have, they need everyone to put in an extra hour of work every day for the foreseeable future and I'd be expected to do the same.

My thoughts: Hey asshole, I even told you I'd prefer 75% and that the maximum of 80% is for health reasons, and you're here trying to push it to 90% on the sly?

Obviously I rejected the offer. And then they had the gall to report to the unemployment office that I wasn't willing to work the 80% they advertised as their minimum.

Edit: Good news was that I was able to land an all around better job just two days later.

Careful: it doesn't work if there's a user account with the same name

Yes, but there's context about why I asked

In this regard, I'm probably part of the old folks. I'm older than the WWW at least. I just figured I'd try asking ChatGPT with context instead of Google because I didn't want something I suspected to be Nazi terminology in my search history.

I was just surprised by how differently it reacted compared to when I tested it with alt history scenario requests a few months ago.

At least in German, there's even a term that translates to grill vegetables. Meaning zucchini, eggplant, ...

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I quoted your comment to ChatGPT 3.5 and asked what you were referring to with "the 14 words". I've never seen it take so long to answer, and when it finally did, it was like watching someone else write in a shared Google doc, including watching words getting replaced. Maybe my question triggered a reply by an actual human?

I would be surprised if she came into this position without being either a psychopath or a sociopath. As such, all that truth distorting wouldn't damage her mental health. At worst she might feel overworked.

First time I see his name in written form. I always heard "Grand Chaps".

Sounds similar to something my family recounts. We were living in Lima, Perú at the time and had friends from Switzerland or Argentina come visit us. On the way to our home someone noticed a bakery advertising black forest cake and they decided to buy one to mark the occasion.

Well, apparently that bakery had failed to consider that while salted butter may be the default form of butter in Perú, the default form of butter where the recipe was from is unsalted butter.

My parents and their guests (I was probably around 3yo at the time) ended up playing Uno. Whoever lost a round had to eat a piece of this cursed black forest cake.

I did something similar helping out in a vineyard. Cut part of my index finger off with secateurs/pruning shears. Not completely, but it was dangling on a thin string. It could be reattached, but it got rotated in the process of reattaching, making it look weird. Similarly to you, I also have partial feeling in it.

Luckily it was rather small. It's an about 8x3 mm ellipse now at the the tip of my index on the middle finger side.

Flour isn't just flammable; if it's dispersed in the air like a cloud, like it probably would be if you hastily threw it into a grease fire, it can even explode.

For what dish?

3/10 would be my guess for that mix. Maybe 2.5/10.

You're telling me they'd turn down a mouthful of medium rare grilled beef if it was only lightly salted? (because really good grilled beef doesn't need to be seasoned much or at all)