Why do people think it’s okay to intrude on someone’s personal life? The unhealthy fixation these people have on Adam’s relationship with his wife is extremely creepy.
Pretty much, except this doesn’t have a hilarious lawsuit.
Making matters worse for Carlsen, Niemann embarrassed Carlsen by playfully taunting him during his post-match interview. Notorious for his inability to cope with defeat, Carlsen snapped. Enraged that the young Niemann, fully 12 years his junior, dared to disrespect the “King of Chess,” and fearful that the young prodigy would further blemish his multi-million dollar brand by beating him again, Carlsen viciously and maliciously retaliated against Niemann by falsely accusing Niemann, without any evidence, of somehow cheating during their in-person game and demanding that the organizers of the Sinquefield Cup immediately disqualify Niemann from the tournament.
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Niemann’s a native English speaker so there’s no funny, overly aggressive fail at English to laugh at like with Tigran Petrosyan, but this is really self-aggrandizing in the most entertaining way.
Except the opposite, where people showed that Niemann’s moves did line up very well with computer chess engine moves, and the strategy he used to defeat Carlsen was not something he could have prepared for in advance.
In the MUDding world, specifically the Iron Realms brand of MUD, two games (Imperian, Starmourn) have been put into “legacy mode” by the company, which means that a lot of the more useful, grabby, and/or addictive features typically found in IRE games will be unsupported going forward, as well as disabling the ability for characters to retire INTO Starmourn or Imperian, while retiring OUT of them is still doable. Everyone’s expecting mass exodus. Vitally, entering legacy mode means that the administration of these games will no longer be paid by IRE, so if they intend to stay and keep the games going they’ll be doing so out of the goodness of their hearts - it can’t be their job anymore, so their time will by necessity be focused elsewhere, at least a fair amount of the time.
Starmourn’s population in particular is panicky, as it’s very new in comparison to other IRE games and has a dedicated playerbase. Among other things like the literal end of the world looming on the Starmourn horizon, rumors abound that entering legacy mode will mean Starmourn, which already has a problem with over-indulgence in PK, to become fully “open PK,” because if the administration isn’t present then there will be no one to enforce the rules. The administration has countered this claim, but the panic continues.
Meanwhile, on more popular IRE games with ostensibly less tOxIc playerbases, people are dreading an influx of undesirables from Imperian. I guess people don’t like those guys.
I cannot begin to tell you how fucking vindicated my twelve year old, Warrior Cats obsessed, Ashfur-hating self is after reading this write up, lol. The first internet argument I ever had was over this incel kitty. Got my first ever ban, from the Official Warrior Cats Forums^TM, over him, too. I never understood how anyone could find him sympathetic, let alone hot (yes, tween girls unironically found a cat hot, and no, I'm pretty sure most of them weren't furries). Over fifteen years later, and... yeah I still don't get it, lol.
Also, for anyone who's wondering WTF a kid's series about cats is doing having such a dark plot line: this is pretty much par the course for Warriors. I've heard it described as "Game of Thrones for tween girls", which is pretty bang-on. War crimes, child murder, torture, graphic depicitions of childbirth (err, kittenbirth) and gruesome battle wounds, adult themes like infidelity and emotional abuse discussed at length, and that's just the stuff I remember from the first arc off the top of my head, fifteen years later!
Super interesting. I know about this series secondhand from my partner, crazy how invested folks get in these characters. Just speaks to the strength of the worldbuilding imo, Shakey plots aside.
This, the hair drama, all the other animal crossing economy issues, and the time travel drama. It’s crazy to me that such a chill game had so much drama.
Animal Crossing released a hairstyle that is most likely afro puffs but some people say they could be space buns. Someone on Twitter posted a screnshot of their game and their character had this hairstyle. The problem started because their character was white and afro puffs are a black hairstyle. This lead to the whole cultural appropriation argument and such. With Twitter being well, Twitter, it spiraled put of control. I’ve added a couple links where you can read about it.
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