Nobody Cares if it's Off Topic

[Free]

What’s the thimble’s name?

Samantha Palmeri.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I asked ChatGPT to do what it does best and make up something plausible but wrong:

The Thimble – Prudence "Prue" Threadgold

A no-nonsense seamstress turned haute couture mogul, Prue started by mending gloves for boardroom bigwigs. Her thimble was a family heirloom from Victorian London, said to bring luck with property investments. Now she tailors suits for tycoons—and always stitches her name into their real estate contracts.


The Shoe – Archibald "Archie" Soleworthy III

A down-on-his-luck cobbler who walked the entire Monopoly board in search of fortune. Every property deal he made was one step ahead of the bank. His beat-up brogue, once mocked, became a symbol of tenacity—so much so that Pennybags kept it as a lucky charm.


The Battleship – Commodore Horatio Steelwake

A retired naval officer turned shipping magnate. His battleship, The Collateral Queen, now ferries deeds and mortgages from coast to coast. Rumor has it he once bombarded Baltic Avenue in a hostile takeover—metaphorically, of course.


Penelope "Penny" Roadster

A flapper-turned-femme-fatale racecar driver. Penny zoomed into wealth during the roaring ’20s, flipping properties as quickly as corners. She claims the car never loses at Free Parking—and somehow, no one can prove her wrong.

 

[Free]

The "shoe" is actually a boot.

There is no "roadster." There is a race car. (And yes, I know "roadster" is a style of race car. So what!?)

How do I know more about Monopoly tokens then ChatGPT? Oh, right...

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The "shoe" is actually a boot.

There is no "roadster." There is a race car. (And yes, I know "roadster" is a style of race car. So what!?)

How do I know more about Monopoly tokens then ChatGPT? Oh, right...

It is a single seat racecar. A roadster is an open 2 seat vehicle.

 

[Isabeau]

I had no recollection of the battleship. Maybe that one was lost before I got to play.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Wasn't there also an iron?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Which tokens the set had depended on when the set was released...and I think where as well.

The set we used as a child was from the mid 60's and was a red box that looked exactly like this:

Complete Monopoly Deluxe Red Box Edition 1964 from Parker Brothers | eBay

Monopoly Deluxe Red Box Edition 1964 from Parker Brothers Complete With Improved Tray to hold Properties. -16 Community Chest Cards. Complete with 4 small masking tape marks on side edges, one split corner, scuffs and scratches on bottom box, minor smudges on directions and a few of the properties.

www.ebay.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

More plausible but inaccurate profiles:

The Iron – Mildred "Millie" Forgewright

An iron magnate from Pittsburgh, Millie found her fortune in flatware before cornering the utilities market. Her token, an antique pressing iron, symbolizes her belief in flattening the competition—both literally and financially.


Milburn "Rich Uncle" Pennybags

The top-hatted titan of trade, founder of the Monopoly League, and host of the cutthroat property game we all play. Known for his vast empire and impossible mustache, he claims to have once won Park Place in a poker game with Carnegie and Vanderbilt.

And to incorrectly correct the car token it gave me this extended profile:

Persephone "Penny" Von Clutch

A daring aristocrat-turned-racer from the pre-war European circuit, Penny Von Clutch lives life in the fast lane—literally. Born into wealth but allergic to boredom, she fled finishing school for the Nürburgring and never looked back.

Her car, the Monopól 1, is a hand-built, single-seat racing machine that once outran a foreclosure on Illinois Avenue. Sleek, chrome-plated, and always parked aggressively across three spaces, it’s as much a statement as it is a vehicle.

Penny is notorious for making high-speed deals while drifting through turns, and she’s the only Monopoly mogul who’s ever signed a property deed at 160 miles per hour.

I don't know why it chaged her name from Pennelope to Persephone.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Watch: Moment child gets stuck inside a claw machine

The child was rescued unharmed from the toy crane game in the US state of Ohio by first responders.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Free]

Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald's Job Applicants' Info by Using the Password '123456'

Tens of millions of job applicants' information could be accessed via a very flimsy login credential.

gizmodo.com

A recruitment platform used by McDonald’s is alleged to have had such poor cybersecurity that researchers were able to log into it using a non-password and thus gain access to information on tens of millions of job applicants, including contact details and chat logs between the user and the restaurant’s AI bot.

Security researchers Sam Curry and Ian Carroll found that, using the username/password combination 123456/123456, they were able to log into the application, where they were given access to a treasure trove of information on job applicants. Indeed, Curry and Carroll were able to “retrieve the personal data of more than 64 million applicants,” the researchers write.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Dammit! That's the combination on my matched luggage!

 

[Free]

Dammit! That's the combination on my matched luggage!

/me stops by Katheryne's

Oh, you mean MY matched luggage?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Dammit! That's the combination on my matched luggage!

First thing I thought of!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Hyatt appears to be using an extremely dodgy smoking-detection system (promoted by its manufacturer as an "ancillary revenue stream") to essentially scam hundreds of dollars out of guests by adding spurious charges to their hotel bills:

Unroll

 

[Innula Zenovka]

BBC News - Purple Lamborghini seized in Luton over anti-social driving - BBC News

Purple Lamborghini seized in Luton over anti-social driving

Police say the vehicle failed to stop for officers but was spotted the next day.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Knutz Scorpio]

Had to look up "anti-social driving". Really prefer to ignore the drivers motioning for me to roll down my window for a chat at a stop light.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

BBC News - Purple Lamborghini seized in Luton over anti-social driving - BBC News

Purple Lamborghini seized in Luton over anti-social driving

Police say the vehicle failed to stop for officers but was spotted the next day.

www.bbc.co.uk

What on earth is anti-social driving???

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Aiming for pedestrians?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What on earth is anti-social driving???

It's also known as vehicle nuisance. Anti-social behaviour is a low-level public order offence, defined as "conduct that has caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person."

When vehicles are involved that generally means street racing, street cruising (i.e. groups of cars or motorbikes traveling together, often at speed and ignoring road signs and signals), excessive noise caused by persistent revving or speakers and so on. It also covers stunts like wheelies and donuts.

 

[Casey Pelous]

What on earth is anti-social driving???

As opposed to social driving, where you drive down the road, waving at everyone.