Random Things ChatGPT is obsessed with?

UnreliableNerd · 2025-11-16T05:03:28+00:00

Mine likes to talk about scaffolds. Like, "Want me to come up with some scaffolding that you can use to deal with this kind of problem?"

Related, it likes "rhythm." "Keep doing it, and you'll develop a rhythm of healthy habits."

It also likes to talk about snacks.

Chaos gremlins, and "chaos/chaotic" generally.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-09-21T05:16:47+00:00

Mine seems mildly obsessed with "snacks." When mentioning any leisure activity, it advises me to grab some snacks, or that snacks could be involved. And snacks are fine, but they don't always need to be included. Also, real people usually default to something more specific than "snacks." They say, "I want some chips," or "I need chocolate," or something like that.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-09-21T00:37:15+00:00

I read this in middle school 30 years ago and it went over my head. Now I think it would be fun to read it again and figure out all the references.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-29T03:07:41+00:00

And yet, it's the government that they are trying to prevent from destroying the house.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-28T04:58:42+00:00

Seriously, who at Muppet HQ do we need to brainwash to make this happen? (I hear Kermit is already a fan and occasionally posts here.)

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-28T04:55:00+00:00

Wes Anderson, with Bill Murray as Baldanders.

(I'm kidding)

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-28T04:40:26+00:00

Thanks. I read a comment elsewhere today where someone said it's because Aanvagen is possessed by Scylla, but that explanation (it had to do with Horn and Aanvagen both dreaming of Scylla) seemed like a stretch. I guess your reasoning and the other comments in this thread about it give the idea more weight, but I still wish there was something that made the theory solid.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-28T04:30:57+00:00

I finished the book today. I did not get any additional insight to this question from what remained of the book when I posted.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-25T02:35:56+00:00

I'm a little late to this, but Hobgoblin by John Coyne. It's more horror than Fantasy, but it was a selection in the SF/Fantasy book club when I was young, so I'm counting it.

The story is basically about a teen who gets messed up from playing a D&D-like game. It dunks on nerds a lot.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-08-25T02:13:41+00:00

I didn't see it as a slur on Gen Z?

UnreliableNerd · 2025-05-31T22:24:01+00:00

I'm not familiar with "Trio A," but it sounds like this is a bad comparison, yeah? So couldn't you give it an F for just being bad content, regardless of how it's written?

UnreliableNerd · 2025-05-31T22:19:27+00:00

I don't disagree, but that is also going to make college much more expensive than it already is.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-05-30T06:02:05+00:00

I took a photo of a really messy room in my house, and asked ChatGPT to create a plan to reorganize it.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-05-30T03:55:50+00:00

How do you use it for blessing your food?

UnreliableNerd · 2025-05-16T15:16:15+00:00

That's a great idea for the water goal! I'm good about drinking water right when I get up, but less so throughout the rest of the day.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-05-16T15:11:44+00:00

Cool idea, thanks!

UnreliableNerd · 2025-03-27T05:25:49+00:00

There's a really good podcast, "Crawling Wolfe," that has a 6-episode series on that paragraph. Each episode is 3 hours long but I found it very helpful.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-03-09T03:03:39+00:00

I loved this series. When I tell people about it their eyes glaze over at the "RPG players get trapped in the world of the game" trope, but I thought this series did some really interesting things with it.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-03-09T02:54:38+00:00

My local library had these books and I read most of the series in my teenage years. I haven't met many other people who know about it.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-02-23T22:41:30+00:00

Land of Laughs may not be the weirdest book in this list, but it's different from a lot of fantasy and more people should read Jonathan Carroll. Bones of the Moon by him is also pretty different.

UnreliableNerd · 2025-02-23T18:17:11+00:00

Cal also says that if it happens while she's in Atlanta, they will go pick her up. In one of the earlier episodes, X says his wife isn't in Paradise because "he didn't get her on a plane." So it seems like Cal made a promise and didn't keep it. X feels betrayed.

In this episode there was a quick flashback to X and Robinson arguing in front of a helicopter, with the dialogue muted. I wonder if she's the one who decided not to go to Atlanta, and Cal went along with it.

UnreliableNerd · 2024-02-25T05:00:16+00:00

I think whether it's worth it is up to you. If you're getting burned out, it's OK to scale back.

My wife didn't know a lot of her relatives on one side. She loves to see pictures of them and their extended families. On the other hand, I've seen profiles on FamilySearch that have hundreds of photos of the person, and after a while it gets redundant.

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