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@ spittingimage @lemmy.world

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  • What's the worst game you've ever had the misfortune of playing?

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  • Master of Orion III, a 4X game from around the turn of the century. The two previous instalments were fun strategy games. This one was like playing the world's prettiest spreadsheet.

  • What do computer scientists actually do?

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  • I have a friend with a doctorate in computer science. He writes accountancy software for a living.

    🤷‍♂️

    Although his thesis was on designing hardware to function under a different set of physical laws.

  • TIL you can fry food in a microwave

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  • How do you heat water for pasta? Do you just fill a saucepan and wait?

  • TIL you can fry food in a microwave

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  • Most people never learn how to use the power setting to more evenly heat food when needed. Or to add some moisture to keep things from drying out.

    Teach me? I need this skill.

  • "Before you begin, I must ask that you pay in advance."

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  • Better clear your schedule, Deanna.

  • There is a viewing platform by the edge of void, but more importantly there is a gift shop

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  • Snow globes with no snow.

    Postcards that say "wish you were here!"

  • Maybe the anticipation was torturous enough.

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  • Sometimes I think all of DS9 is a holodeck program that Next Generation-era O'Brien puts a buffer clone of himself through occasionally, in a fit of self-loathing.

  • Why do goths only come in monochrome?

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  • What does 'goth' mean these days? Would Robert Smith recognise his own?

  • Would you take pills that stop you from caring about the state of the world?

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  • I don't want to stop caring. I just want them to turn off the torment nexus, even if it's only for a little while.

  • Can you draw us a beautiful picture?

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  • And I'm terrible at looking at drawings. But if you draw it, I'll look at it.

  • What are some non-mainstream foods or drinks from your culture that social media isn't aware of and hasn't ruined?

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  • That's when the only recipes you can find for it are ones that have been jazzed up to be more 'original' so someone could make a blog post to attract jaded gourmet clicks.

    Then you get travesties like the fad for beetroot-based hummus.

  • It's dinner time, and you have to put together a meal with only ingredients already in your house, no going out for anything. What are you making?

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  • Tacos, probably. I could stretch to other dishes, but tacos are where my mind is.

  • Can you draw us a beautiful picture?

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  • I can draw you a beautiful picture. Maybe I'll just appreciate what others have posted.

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • Yes, I'm a Reddit refugee.

    The site changed so much over the ten years I used it. When I started, there was plenty of good discussion and the most informative comments got voted up. Then power users started playing the same games with karma that rich people play with money. Near the end the negativity and superficiality were overwhelming. Then the API business happened and I realised Reddit was in the last few stages of circling the drain. I learned about Lemmy from a comment by someone who announced they were leaving for good, and I followed them.

    If you look at Reddit today... the posts and comments share the same quality regardless of whether they're human or AI slop.

  • Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?

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  • I'd rather be one of those lizards that flares its rills. Like a living warning flag.

  • Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?

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  • I wouldn't want to be one of those reptiles that shoots blood from its eyes.

    Other than that... I'm interested.

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    How do you check if a story is written by a human or an AI?

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  • unless I can drive to a place an punch you without breaking my hand…

    I feel like there's steps you could take before that one. Maybe jiggle my squishy belly for a second or two.

  • You can choose any celebrity's facial hair and make it yours. Who do you choose?

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  • Brian Blessed, from his Flash Gordon days. That was a beard that made a statement.

  • Are you currently lying about something on the internet?

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  • Fine, thanks. And you?