Maybe he should announce on April 1st next time, to keep up with the theme.
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Among other things, they do acknowledge a particular controversy as potentially driving interest
Here’s an article describing the first thing on their list
Hadn’t even heard of that one before
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Okay, so we need to find two go players volunteering to lawsuit eachother.
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Be careful what you wish for 
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Maybe it’s enough to tell everyone, one can win at go when using a buttplug
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Something tells me we will get a lot of use out of this gif…
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The Nanny had this delightfully self-referential skit, where the character Fran Fine-Sheffield meets the actress Fran Drescher (that portrays herself), and confirms that the TV show “The Nanny” exists within itself.
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I guess flovo is right, it was the buttplugs and not the lawsuit?
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Infrastructure of popular youtubers, recognizable to lay people figures, all harder for us to create because go is so boring, and so Asian. In some way it’s surprising it’s as popular as it is. I know, answering seriously to a joke. But it’s common to see similar conversations based on the idea that if you do things similar to a successful person then you should get a similar result. Or in general that similar actions cause similar results while ignoring difference in circumstances. What’s the word for that? It’s similar to survival bias but not quite that. You know, oh, this person worked hard and became a billionaire so why can’t you.
In politics all kinds of commentators cite examples of policies in other countries having good results suggesting to do the same policy. But you aren’t that other country, what works great there won’t necessarily work in yours.
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India continuing to fight their battle against China
So, knight’s moves can’t be actually cut in chess?
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Chess is not more fun. It just has more money and it is more recognisable in the markets of this part of the world, ergo they had chess in the commercial.
If they had used Go, more people would have noticed, but they wanted to sell more of their product, not promote Go. So, they chose chess. As a saying here goes “money goes to money” and to paraphrase that “fame goes to fame” meaning that if you have money and fame, it is easier to get more money and fame. If you lack those things, then it is not each to get (more/any of) them.
If Go had money and celebrities promoting it, there would have been comparable results to chess and its campaigns.
While there do seem to be frequent transgressions on the border between China and India, there’s some updated text there:
Important Update:
Please note: Indian Army has confirmed that this video is not of the incident that had happened on 09 December in Yangtze in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
So, maybe they should perhaps simply take that video down? 1D10T5 all around 
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Ahem,
Thing is, in Go there actually are no “moves”. There only are stones being played 
Therefore a “Knight’s Move” does not actually exist in Go, just the shape of two stones on a 1:2 diagonal (for lack of knowing how to better explain this).
It’s just that “we” who most probably have encountered Chess first are abusing Chess terms in Go because we don’t know the proper term for this shape, right? Right? R i g h t ?
The proper term for this shape—if we use Japanese terminology—is “Keima”.
But you knew all that, right? (and I don’t want to know it if you didn’t 
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But wait, this is supposed to be funny …
From the SL page linked to above:
Keima, a Japanese go term adopted into English, is often referred to as a ‘knight’s move’, as the pattern is the same as the way the chess piece moves. This matches the Japanese usage, where the term keima comes from the knight-equivalent piece in shogi, the keima (Japanese chess).
See also:
In case this is not funny to you then … I must be whacky.
Well, OK, maybe I’m whacky no matter whether or not. Hey, being whacky is FUN!
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Well, my hand moved to play the stone 
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Time to change this text?
Typical modern journalism.
The media’s job is not to report facts.
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I saw that update. Even if it’s not that specific incident the video still happened. And Indians must proud of repelling Chinese offensive since it’s on home page.
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Ah, yes, good role models.
Please tell me how it’s all about high standards and hard work again?..
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