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Every single time I see someone mention anal beads in this story I get more angry. For fucks sake. The anal beads suggestion was an anonymous shit-post on reddi
by SilverBirch 4y ago
Every single time I see someone mention anal beads in this story I get more angry. For fucks sake. The anal beads suggestion was an anonymous shit-post on reddit about how Magnus has been using anal beads his entire career to win. Now you've got The Atlantic dropping in stuff about anal beads.
Here's a message- you get to be a serious authoritative news source, or you get to post unsubstantiated jokes about anal beads. You don't get to do both. Every single word in this article is untrustworthy now, because I don't know if it's serious, or just a reddit shitpost that The Atlantic decided to repeat.
- inimino 4y agoIt's a pretty low-effort article, combining speculation with zero evidence, some boring old gripes about how chess has changed, and wrapping it all up with some crazy stretched analogy to poker and a conclusion that doesn't make sense for either poker or chess. An editor really should have canned this whole piece.