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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

old response just dropped

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh I was just thinking chess, but not a specific move within chess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You've strangely misspelled holy hell

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, can someone catch me up on the holy hell thing?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

En passant has always been the most obscure chess rule, in online chess it's often reported as cheating. Which resulted in a lot of people saying "google en passant", on an unkown lemmy clone someone realising it's an actual chess move replied, holy hell, and a meme was born.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

new response just dropped

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're not Sprog. :(

I miss Sprog and Portarossa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're not commie Kender. :(

I miss spinach and testarossa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I am the same guy that had/has this username on Reddit.