Examples with tricking the player: Stardew Valley asking your favourite food at the start of the game and then using that information much later in the game by the time you already forgot you told them that,
MGS1 reading your memory card to make fun of you for playing other Konami games

e.g. to a good player a good chess computer feels like it knows your next move before you play it
Akinator (website) uses minimal information to triangulate a specific character you're thinking of

begrudgingly firing up the laminator again after a t4t polycule shows up

I invented the iraq war over a couple of beers with Dick at a college party in 1966, only to discover years later he took my idea and made a killing off of it, but you won't read that in the papers!

congrats 🙏🙏🙏

we call that a stroopfaling, not really but it would be a passable pun if you spoke Dutch

The School of Hard Knocks (unaccredited)

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I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to but that doesn't sound right to me, surely whatever scenario you're in where "finite" could mean something else can be properly clarified via context so that there's no ambiguities?

the last t-rex lived closer to our time than to when the pyramids were built

technical fields excluding math, of course

Trump I: President Deals
Trump II: President Balls

I never got an answer to this; I genuinely don't know

maybe we've gotten to good at sitting down, maybe chairs were never meant to handle this much sitting down

sighing as the libertarian crank two stalls down with the kissing anime boy prints draws a bigger crowd

Steven: