Something about this made me faintly nauseated. Great job!
Also the character being Sarah had me in mind of Labyrinth as in the 80s film, but there was in the end no rescue forthcoming from Ludo or Hoggle or Sir Didymus.
Reminds me of CGP Grey's "mostest closest" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU
Which doesn't show the working, but does present a similar answer.
if I win, you have to give me your name. If you win, I will tell you mine
The distinction here between "give" and "tell" had me in mind of fey deals, where you accidentally lose your name - you've given it away, so now it's their name.
If the number is larger than 2, subtract 2 until it’s in the range 0-2
Think there might be an off by one error in here; I'm not seeing a way for it to ever return 0 as the answer
You sometimes see multi-colored Jack-o’-lanterns, even though pumpkins only come in one color.
Naturally occurring pumpkins might not come in garish neon primary colours, but they do come in more than just orange
1I tried freezing some, but unfreezing frozen lentils turned out to be way too annoying
I make what sounds like a similar lentil/tomato sauce, and freeze it as individual portions in small foil trays (they measure about 15cm by 12cm and hold about 400g or so of food). Those trays can go directly from the freezer to the oven, and 30mins at 180°C will generally suffice to defrost whatever.
Can of course defrost in the fridge overnight then heat the sauce through in a pan, but that requires forethought so I mostly don't. Have at times defrosted a frozen brick of lentils in a pan (adding a splash of water to help moderate/circulate the heat) but it is indeed quite annoying that way.
I have several other meals that similarly go from batch-cook to freezer to oven in the same foil trays, including a vegetarian lentil+mushroom shepherd's pie and a roast vegetable tagine (and also meat-eater options). Can supply recipes if interested.
For "Springfield", is this just based on the Simpsons or is there some other context that I'm missing (coming from Norway)?
If memory serves, they chose that name in the Simpsons because it's an oddly common name, with a small town by that name in 30+ different states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_(toponym)
As it mentions there, "Fairview" and "Midway" are even more common, but I guess there's more of a meme about "Springfield" being very common (sometimes inaccurately said that there's one in every state)
We make efforts with the automod, but it's a fairly rudimentary tool. Mostly a keyword/regex matcher.
So we can have it automatically look for some of the common repeated phrases (relatively few of our human users say "That's a great question"). If it's a weak signal maybe it only highlights them for mod review rather than fully automatically removing them.
But otherwise it relies on the human eye to spot them being weird. Especially when the comments are too short for AI detectors to get a good read on it (deciding what's suspicious enough to run through a detector is itself done by eye).
NB: suspishously good grammer is now becuming an AI sign in itself
I moderate for a subreddit where, despite our best efforts to purge them with holy fire, AI spambots are rife (trying to act inconspicuous and get some karma). In addition to the "suspiciously good grammar and bullet points and em dashes" type, there's conversely also a strain of them that use a gimmicky level of slang.
Where most of the tone of the subreddit is explanatory/informative, and most people are using standard spelling/grammar, they drop in with "ngl bro honestly the vibes are wild fr"
No apology required. Honestly just intended as a compliment, to illustrate that you must be doing something right, to provoke a visceral reaction. Akin to how a particularly tense action scene might raise the reader's heart rate - but located in a different organ.