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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • You’re right. Words like “I” are gender neutral.

    For that reason, speaking in the third person like Bot is doing doesn’t make sense to me (as a trans person myself). I can’t think of any motive for someone to want others to constantly refer to them in the third person… Except for one, but it’s controversial in some communities haha.

    Looking at Bot’s comment history, they only decided to speak in the third person today, while the rest of their account’s comments are written normally. Do with that information what you will.



  • Fextralife has always been the worst of the game wikis. One thing they all have in common is the formatting is garbage and nearly 100% of the articles have a ridiculous amount of redundant information.

    I can’t speak for all of the From Software games, but for Dark Souls 1 I can say for certain that the wiki had a lot of articles that were just straight up wrong. Whoever is in charge of moderating edits or writing articles is…not great.







  • Not really. The “funny” parts were all speculation and jokes from the public. The whole thing is actually kinda sad.

    After losing to Hans, Magnus suspected he was cheating so he withdrew from the tournament and released a statement implying Hans was cheating. (Which isn’t an unfounded claim, because Hans admitted to cheating in a tournament when he was 12, and again in a casual match when he was 16). That led people to ask how you cheat without a phone/computer… And that led to the vibrating anal beads meme.

    So now everyone knows Hans as the anal beads guy, and everyone wonders if he’s still a cheater. The accusation did irreparable damage to his reputation and mental health.

    Personally, I doubt he was cheating. I’m sure Magnus has a more analytical view of the match, but not even Chess.com can prove he cheated, so… IMO the case against him can’t be all that substantial. To me, it seems like he was probably being a sore loser and used his power in the chess world to leave permanent scars on his opponent’s career.

    Edit: I mixed up Magnus for Hikaru 😬 But iirc they were both making similar implicit accusations.