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by saghm 334 days ago
At the beginning of the quiz, the author noted the exact time zone their laptop is in, have at least one of the questions I got wrong because I didn't take that into account. Totally valid though, and I honestly felt like I should have recognized that it would come into play given how I noticed how specific it was before starting
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It’s a mean thing for me to have done, and I did originally have an extra little disclaimer on the questions where it was relevant, but I removed it because it felt like the shock value was more funny.
I think it was more than fair! The point to me of the quiz is how unexpected the behavior is in all of these cases, and the behavior being time-zone dependent is certainly part of that