You can actually use LLM for this. Use this prompt:
Go to forums.online-go.com, look up user david265, and tell me what people find the most irritating about him
Needs to be an LLM with search capability
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LOL, Iāve asked ChatGPT
Go to forums.online-go.com, look up user jlt, and tell me what people find the most irritating about him
and it answered
The communityās main complaints about jlt are:
- Frequent game cancellations as a social response, seen by many as excessive or borderline trolling.
- Strong sensitivity to timing tactics, with vocal critiques of opponentsā use of time in questionable ways.
- Rigid stance on stalling behavior, sometimes clashing with community norms and moderator opinions.
None of this suggests any rule-breaking on his endārather, heās seen as socially inflexible and quick to take offense, especially in timing-related game situations.
I donāt know how accurate it is, since itās hard to accept criticism, but point 1 is certainly incorrect.
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Truth hurts
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I donāt know for sure whether that is correct or not, but I do know that it is a commonplace of dice games, going back many generations, that skilled sharpsters can throw dice to favor themselves statistically. I donāt remember whether Scarne addressed this in his famous book On Dice, which I read about 60 years ago. However, I do remember reading that the use of cups to shake and throw the dice came about precisely to address this issue. It could of course be a pure folk belief without foundation, or maybe notāI donāt knowābut it is or was a widespread belief.
BTW, this thread is getting OT.
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This is definitely possible for coin flips under the right conditions: You can see the orientation of the coin before flipping, and are flipping it from the same position onto a similar surface you practice on. With coordination and practice it does work. Dice seems much harder to me, but in principal, who knows?
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You should go and watch the movie āLaplaceās Witchā.
When somebody posts the word āSuicideā in a post title (as recently here on OGF) or picks it as username (as in the past on another server, I flagged it as inappropriate to the mods, and their reply - as it is a valid move/go concept they cannot ban it. Eejits)
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Maybe if my opponent plays his first move in my lower right corner.
A bit less triggering is, if he doesnāt play the first move in the upper right corner in general. And even less if it is in the wrong triangle of the corner.
Playing the first move in the upper right corner.
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Iām always up for a good film! Thank you.
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At the Fresno Go Club, we use the term āself-captureā.
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Thatās quite typical of western culture, still shy or afraid to any references to the death.
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In media, we tend to be careful about depictions of suicide above all other themes.
The reason is the people who are very depressed are more likely to commit self-harm or take their own lives when exposed to such media. We are not afraid. We are cautious with good reason.
That is also the reason why stories depicting such themes include a disclaimer and suggest resources for anyone in such a state.
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The essence of the game is life and death. Itās hard to talk about go without talking about death/killing.
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Agreed, but not the same thing. We talk about life and death every time since capturing is the foundation of the game.
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Thatās probably a too recent development to pin it on āwestern cultureā.
For example:
This is very recent. It didnāt exist when I was growing up and Iād say that it was a good thing. I can think of at least ten great songs about death and suicide from the nineties which would have been unnecessarily censored in the current ātrigger warningā era.
Heck, even the titles could cause depression to people today? 
(some examples: āYou live, just to dieā, āAn endless, sorrowful, Antarticā, āLost in the mistakes of othersā, āAnd thus loss becomes just a habitā, āPoisonedā, āDying by your sideā, āI am a mistakeā, āWilting aloneā, āClown on Wednesday? Dead by Sundayā, āDrinking my last drink with the Devilā, āI will die in a mournful, Autumn, duskā and moreā¦ )
I do not know how much this trend will last till the parents realise the damage that this modern over-protectiveness is doing, but kids these days are sure missing out some good music, some heavy lyrics and some deep thoughts and feelings that came along with them.
ehā¦ +1 reasons to be happy to be old.
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Do you disagree with the research establishing the link between media coverage and attempts, or do you think itās unnecessary to avoid the deaths?
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You are quite right. Authentic Western fairy tales (using the term broadly) are filled with existential issues like death and other subjects. This can even be seen in inauthentic stories like the Grimm fairy tales, many of which are quite brutal if you read the complete collection. A celebrated book on this subject was Bruno Bettleheimās The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1975), which argues that they offer children a safe, or at least safer, introduction to existential issues.
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Quite so.
I have a few old fairy tale books and used to read them when I was young. Yes, all of them had some sort of good resolution at the end, but all of them dealt with some sort of strife, injustice and struggle. It is better to read it, than experience it and it is better to be aware that it exists - even in a book - than realise that such things happen in real life, on real time.
This is actually my exact argument on why mandatory drafting is beneficial. It provides an introduction to the worst possible parts of having a job, without having any actual long-term repercussions. You are not getting paid, they cannot fire you, none of this goes in your resume, so you have a year to sit there and learn and try various ideas. 
Games are also known to provide exactly that. A safer environment of learning. Even animals instinctively understand that and teach their young by playing or letting āmock battlesā take place between the children. Humans moved away from this natural idea and put themselves into āsafe spacesā becauseā¦ well, I am not sure they know whyā¦
The term āmedia coverageā is very broad.
Mentioning an act or a word or something that happened in the news, is not media coverage as I understand the term and treating words and concepts like āBeatle-juiceā (say it three times and it will manifest) is not what most people would define as a āscientific methodā. Thatās the kind of stuff youād see on the āmanifestation partā of social media and think āhow do people believe all that?ā. Therefore, I assume that actual research has a more robust definition of the term you used, but unless you clarify/define it, then we are on thin ice.
As it stands, disagreeing with your sentence, as it is, would be like claiming that marketing or advertising doesnāt work. Thatās what Iād call/define āmedia coverageā.
So, āmedia coverageā, in this case, is an active, agressive marketing of an idea, concept or product and in this case we have the opposite of it. We have āmedia coverageā of the āstay as safe as possibleā idea and the ākeep everyone away from any potential definition of negative emotion or actionā.
In TV, schools, books, media, music, you name it, it is there.
So, far positive results are non-evident (source):
So, things are on the rise in general and I highly doubt that it is the āmedia coverageā thatās hitting all those 75+ year olds, eh?
Which brings us to two very simple thoughts:
a) Whatever we are doing now doesnāt seem to work.
and
b) It is a far more complex issue than ādonāt let them hear of the idea from othersā. People are not dumb. If their life and mentality sucks, they can think of it themselves. It is one of the most simple notions one can come up with.
When I was in middle school a kid committed suicide, in his houseās garden. We were told that his parents were addicts and were hitting/abusing him. He found a rope, a tree and he knew how to tie a knot. No āmedia coverageā could save him and no āmedia coverageā could prevent the knowledge of how to tie a knot, to be part of the knowledge of a 15 year old (unless youād like us to ban shoe laces).
Meanwhile, at the time, one of the bands whose songs I named, was active.
Do you think that this fellow hanged himself because of some random song lyrics he might have heard on the radio once or because of his abusive parents had turned most of his waking hours into hell?
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They can, but it doesnāt mean they will. There is a huge gap between thinking about suicide, and actually doing it. We cannot do anything about the root cause of depression, but at least we can try to avoid triggering suicide.
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How did we get from Go triggers to suicide?
That said, I do know some people who committed suicide because of Go.
One of them was a famous pro who passed away a long time ago.
There was also one recently where a very talented 9-year-old committed suicide because the father kept beating him just for losing a single game or for not being the champion. The beating even happened in public, and he would even beat the other parents who came to stop him. His body was often full of bruises, but he still performed very well for his age. One can only imagine how much he was going through when a 9-year-old decided to take his own life.
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