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Projection reply RazerRuler #BlacklivesMatter @rabbidsfanboy Replying to @GurvirShinda and @stone_toss I have created my new character named StoneAss based on StoneToss making fun of him, A Short Soy-boy loser who lives under a stone isolated from Humanity, who has a flickering radio...

ST fanart (sorry for mobile posting) https://mobile.twitter.com/GurvirShinda/status/1410380475688947712 https://web.archive.org/web/20210703111738/https://mobile.twitter.com/GurvirShinda/status/1410380475688947712 "But Stonetoss is based what're you talking about bro"...

btw, if you guys have time, you should try to save some pages at https://archive.org/web/ most are already saved at archive.md but it won't hurt to have backups btw: selecting "save outgoing links" saves every linked page, including the previous and next two pages

Has anyone pointed out yet that asking someone to hold onto a large amount of money or else they'll do is similar to money laundering schemes

I don't play many video games these days but I feel no guilt over pirating 2005 era Windows XP games because the original companies aren't making money from the game any more

You should support sites like GOG.com then. They deliver DRM-free media as an alternative to Steam (as you can probably guess by their copycat UI). Incidentally, many games are stolen from GOG, but I've also seen comments of pirates claiming they bought the game because they wanted to show...

It's not about the money It's about sending a message

I pirated the game a few days ago, now I might just buy it because based dev

This is now a fanclub discussion thread for David "Open Carry" Murray haters will be shot

There was a round of bad press in the Indian media, more because Vishy is a national icon and it's very disrespectful to him rather than people caring about chess. So the billionaire guy now has a worse reputation and he probably had his ego hurt over it.

I think it was the second. Maybe the computer was a backup plan but it was planned.

I mostly know Indians from my university which specializes in CS with many people getting jobs in big tech companies and finance so my perception is very skewed. Anyway, the story gets deeper. Apparently, other players were cheating, but why was Kamath cheating...

I don't want to get too off topic but from what I've heard, India's JEE and China's entrance exam is cutthroat competition, with schools like IIT being way harder to get into than MIT. Also I think China only does an exam day once a year so it's a huge event to millions of families.

What I think is that he was running low on time, having only 30 seconds left while Anand had 9.5 min, so he would run out of time and say "I played a strong game but ran out of time :( I did my best" and he thought no one would investigate. But Anand made the brilliant move 0-1! of resigning...

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/billionaire-admits-cheating-against-anand-in-charity-simul Billionaire admits cheating against Anand in charity simul India’s youngest billionaire Nikhil Kamath blundered a pawn on move 1 but then went on to crush 5-time World Chess Champion...