Identity Reboot [post-Round 10]

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/in stranger

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Duolingo is kind of fun and a suitable outlet for boredom or killing some time but it doesn't mesh very well with my learning style; I completed the German tree but if I were to visit Germany I would not be able to hold a conversation. I don't get bored very often but if I got really sick again I might reinstall it.

Tbf i don’t view duolingo so much as a tool for being able to speak a language as much as one to allow you to accelerate the pace at which you become conversational once you start working on that

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I'll make this easy for myself

@all where were you going when you had to explain mafia

I was going home from Colombia to the UK, but my flight stopped in Miami and because of stupid airport rules you can't transfer through, you have to leave and then go back in passing through security a second time

got "randomly" selected for further screening and I had a copy of Avalon in my luggage that the agent asked me about. I tried to explain but she didn't really get it so I went into greater length about mafia and informed minority/uninformed majority games as a genre

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Congrats on 8 correct matches without using Double Dip!! Do you want to guess at the rest for funsies, or do you just want the answers?

Strangers	Identities
Equinox	Broke into a beach bar as a teenager only to discover that the family who owned it slept there at night
Fluminator	Drank a bottle of Jagermeister while complaining that it tasted like toothpaste
Menalque	Had to explain Mafia to a customs agent
SleepyKrew	Knows pi to 100 digits
StrangerCoug	Their first human shogi opponent was another scummer

I guess scoug played shogi because idk what that is
skrew drank alcohol
flum knows pi

and whoever's left is the last thing

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idk who Manalque is except their profile says they're french/ are beach bars a french thing?

I'm still wondering if beach bars are a French thing

I’m not french, so irrelevant

I’ve actually also never been to southern (Mediterranean coast) France and so have no idea

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idk who Manalque is except their profile says they're french/ are beach bars a french thing?

I'm still wondering if beach bars are a French thing

It wouldn't surprise me; I've heard French beaches are rather Nice

I think they Cannes be

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do UK universities not have meal plans or something? imagine, not having your access to food tightly regulated by a system of swipes and points granted from your learning insitution.

not really. often when you're in residential halls then you can buy your meals there from the cafeteria, but it's pay-as-you-go. they're discounted but whether you would consider them 'good value' depends a lot.

most students aren't in residential halls though, but in shared student flats instead, and normally in the second and third year of uni students move out to live with friends they met in those flats or on their course.

HOWEVER, with covid forcing some students to isolate in halls and making them unable to all go down to the cafeteria, some universities have been giving them "food parcels" that they're required to pay for which by all accounts have been extortionate for what they are.