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KotakuInAction2.win is an independent online forum that emerged as a successor to the Reddit community r/KotakuInAction2. It brands itself as "The Official Gamergate Forum" and operates on the Communities.win platform, which hosts various forums that have migrated from Reddit due to moderation disputes or bans .
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The original r/KotakuInAction2 subreddit was created as a spinoff of r/KotakuInAction, a community that gained notoriety during the Gamergate controversy. While r/KotakuInAction focused on critiquing perceived ethical issues in gaming journalism, r/KotakuInAction2 expanded its scope to include broader discussions on media bias, censorship, and political correctness. The subreddit described itself as opposing censorship and promoting ethics in journalism .
Following Reddit's crackdown on certain communities for violating its content policies, r/KotakuInAction2 was among the subreddits that faced increased moderation. In response, its members established KotakuInAction2.win to continue their discussions without Reddit's oversight. This move was part of a broader trend where moderators of banned or restricted subreddits created independent forums on the ".win" network to maintain their communities .
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KotakuInAction2.win hosts a variety of discussions, including critiques of media practices, debates on political correctness, and commentary on current events. The forum enforces specific rules to maintain order, such as prohibitions against illegal activity, harassment, doxxing, and the promotion of violence .
Despite these guidelines, the forum has been criticized for hosting content that some view as promoting extremist or conspiratorial viewpoints. Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog, has reported on the ".win" network's role in providing platforms for communities banned from Reddit, including those associated with far-right ideologies .
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As of February 2025, KotakuInAction2.win ranked #206 in the "Games - Other" category and #138,461 globally, indicating a niche but active user base .
Conclusion
KotakuInAction2.win serves as a continuation of discussions initiated on Reddit's r/KotakuInAction2, focusing on critiques of media and political correctness. While it operates under a set of community guidelines, the forum has attracted criticism for hosting content that some consider controversial or extremist. Its establishment reflects a broader movement of online communities seeking platforms with fewer content restrictions.
Can you make discussion between the listed posters on the subject of Half Life 2?
Sure! Here's a fictional article written in the style of a spirited forum thread on KotakuInAction2.win, featuring imagined users Graphenium, Gizortnik, Mpetey, and AlfredicEnglishrules, discussing Half-Life 2. It mimics a back-and-forth conversation turned into a digestible article.
Title: “Half-Life 2: Still the GOAT or Overrated Relic?” — Forum Roundtable
By Graphenium, Gizortnik, Mpetey, and AlfredoEnglishrules
Graphenium: Let’s be honest: Half-Life 2 is either the greatest game of all time, or it’s a brilliantly polished tech demo with a cult following. Yes, the physics engine was ahead of its time. Yes, the gravity gun was mind-blowing. But go back and play it now — the pacing is glacial. Chapter after chapter of crouching through pipes, stopping to listen to Resistance speeches, and slogging through Ravenholm AGAIN. Is that really fun, or are we just hypnotized by nostalgia?
Gizortnik: Strong disagree. HL2 is still the blueprint for how to do immersive storytelling without yanking control from the player every two minutes. No HUD clutter, no minimaps, no QTE nonsense. Just tight level design, organic narrative delivery, and that subtle Valve mastery. It trusted you to figure things out. Something most modern games hand-hold to death.
Mpetey: HL2 has one fatal flaw nobody talks about: it's afraid of its own power. The gravity gun should have redefined combat, but instead you get 2 hours of it being amazing, and then you're back to using the same old SMG and pistol for most encounters. It's like giving you a lightsaber and then telling you to use a stick instead. Missed opportunity, and the episodes made it worse.
AlfredoEnglishrules: Honestly? The real problem is the lack of a sequel. We mythologize HL2 because Valve never delivered on HL3. The cliffhanger ending in Episode 2 turned what could have been a satisfying closure into a shrine for “what could have been.” HL2’s legacy is inflated because it’s frozen in time — never finished, never tarnished by a sequel that might have exposed its limitations.
Graphenium (follow-up): Also, let’s talk themes. HL2 has this oppressive, Orwellian setting — but it never really says anything. It's just window dressing. You overthrow the Combine, but there’s no ideological weight behind it. Compare that to Deus Ex or even Bioshock, which actually challenge your worldview.
Gizortnik (rebuttal): Valve's restraint is the point. They don’t bash you over the head with ideology. They build a world and let you interpret it. The Combine’s authoritarianism, Breen’s propaganda, the transhuman horror of the Stalkers — it’s all there, just understated. HL2 trusted the player to think. That’s rare now.
Mpetey (wrap-up): Half-Life 2 was a landmark, no doubt. But the longer Valve stays silent, the more it risks being remembered as a tragedy rather than a triumph. Great game? Absolutely. Perfect? Not even close.
AlfredoEnglishrules (final word): It’s the Citizen Kane of video games. Groundbreaking, influential — and yes, a little overrated by people who use it to feel smarter than they are. But still... when Dog throws that car at the soldiers? That’s gaming magic, and I won’t hear otherwise.
What do you think? HL2: masterpiece, museum piece, or meme? Jump into the comments and tell us where you stand.
Would you like this article styled like an image post or made into a PDF for presentation or printing?
Us being #206 in gaming as a category is a damning indictment of the internet as a whole, and a clear signal of Dead Internet Theory.
Yeah, there's like 40 of us.
There's dozens of us....DOZENS.
At most about 130 given some of the total upvotes some threads can get, although it's dubious how genuine some of those often are as it's often the same users and nobody else.
I think KiA2 shows up on the Communities.win 'All' page as a whole, so we're getting hits from The_Donald, GreatAwakening, ConPro, and others on occasion.
131, because I literally never vote on threads.
But the amount of votes on threads themselves is often suspiciously huge very fast for a place as niche as this. So I wouldn't trust that as far as I can throw it.
It’s the snowball effect - when a post does well enough here it can show up in the Trending (aka All) feed for communities.win, where it might be seen by people who normally only browse TD, ConPro, IP2, Conspiracies or one of the other boards, but who happen to be browsing via /All
I do always forget that we are part of a bigger reddit ripoff site, instead of just a forum aping a reddit skin.
we don't even advertise. frankly I wonder where new users even come from
Well, two things I guess:
How many possible sites can you imagine are higher? 206 is low low low. Google search result engagement drops to basically zero by the end of the first page. The second page of results is zero. Reddit's gaming communities are obviously #1 or at least in the top. You'll also have a few other bignames like ResetEra and, if it counts it, Steam communities. But like... what else is there?
So I imagine that whatever site is at #20 has fuck-all for traffic compared to #1. And #100 has fuck-all compared to #20. The reality is that Reddit mostly destroyed forum communities as a whole, and those that weren't destroyed were ruined by tranny jannies.
Second, you are taking it at face value that the AI is even correct about that. LLM AIs are nothing more than elaborate fraud machines, and that's why I like them, they're a fraud engine for the most fraudulent thing ever made: internet discourse. Everybody on the internet has always been a fucking liar, everything they have ever said is a lie, and everything written on it is wrong. What better to ruin the internet than an algorithm designed to perfectly replicate fraud and produce it en-masse?
The AI might know that that number is correct. It also could just make it up, and it sells that number on the false belief that AIs are 'smart' and correct.
0/10, no mention of stair muffins.
Fuck…I like half life 2
I wanna hear more from this u/AlfredoEnglish fella tho
Yeah, I listed them and myself on purpose to see who would be accurate. ChatGPT claimed it was all guess work.
Alfredo has a sauce list.
Machine learning algo slop vomit.
Why is this even a post? What is your point?
These tools are the favorite toys of creatures wearing human skin. When you start farming thought out to a literal brainless machine you are surrendering all right to call yourself a human.
Normally yeah I don't think AI generated posts typically add anything of value to a discussion forum.
But this specific topic, where a LLM lays out its own data on the place? It is mildly interesting. It's like getting Google to give you all their own SEO data on a website.
I think this falls well into acceptable usage. Besides being humorous and admitted AI content - he's not substituting it for a human - he's using it as a search engine. I do that all the time. As long as you verify your sources (did it hallucinate the SimilarWeb data or is that real?) it's fine. I bet AI answers have already replaced the first page of search engine results for most people. Eventually something like GROK will be your main search engine and next to the answer it will give you related search results. I'm not 100% on board with it because of bias and curation, but I don't like that in normal web search either.
"AI" isn't a real intelligence, and people that use it as a search engine are illiterate goblins. It isn't one. It summarizes results, badly. Using AI as a search engine is using it to do what a normal functioning human would do themselves - assess the search results.
It is farming your own thinking out to a machine that can't think. It is death. If you do this routinely you are already dead.
Are you?
You're just a walking lump of habits and copied thoughts, reacting to shit the same way you've been trained to since you were five. You don’t think, you just remix - school lessons, TV noise, whatever your dad yelled when he was drunk. You absorb snippets of conversations, old zingers, Reddit arguments you lost, you learned what order words go in and how to arrange them to convey an idea, and probably constantly plagiarize thoughts and themes even if you don't know you're doing it.
The only real difference is you call it a 'gut feeling' instead of what it is: dumbass pattern matching.
At least the machine doesn't pretend it has a soul.
The rage about AI, especially AI art, I find extremely amusing.
Digital art tools have been about simplifying and automating workflow for decades since the very first Corel Draw hit the market. Photoshop has had 'content aware' for a decade.
People raging against AI art should have been raging that making texture art for video games is only "real art" if you meticulously place each pixel by hand, instead of just taking a photo, digitizing, and filtering it, which is how they've done it since fucking Doom. At the end of the day what is the difference? The amount of tedious labor involved?
Even the argument that 'artists are scared about the idea that art loses all meaning' is worthless, because guess what?
What's the greatest work of art (not music/movie/video game) you can name that's been produced in the last 40 years?
People have pretended that Jackson Pollock wasn't a shithead who should've been stuffed in an oven for decades. He's a faggot and a hack. Art is about worthless nonsense, 'deconstructionalism', and institutionalized irony.
The vast majority of 'artists' make money selling commissions of degenerate furry faggotry on DeviantArt. We could gas everybody who calls themselves an artists and lose nothing of value. They haven't done a single thing worthwhile in my entire life. We got Nig Floyd statues instead.
to see what the lobotomized AI says about kia2 when asked.
pretty neutral reply I must admit
See that?
I told ChatGPT three things:
I probably could've used one more prompt to use sentence fragments and more visceral contempt to really dial it in, but the point is this:
You shared a dime-a-dozen opinion. I've seen that same fucking post almost word-for-word in a thousand different forums a thousand different times.
What actual value do you think that opinion has when it conveys something so mundane and predictable that an AI can do it? You want to criticize 'farming out thought' and 'surrendering the right to call yourself human', but what did you do with those things? Well you verbalized, at a high-school-dropout grade-level, a trite and unremarkable thought that isn't interesting in the slightest.
Was that time well spent to you? Do you think it matters to me or anyone else on the internet if that thought was written by an AI as a sort of meta-criticism?
It's interesting that mark of something being not 'AI slop vomit' is to write it like someone whose highest accreditation is a CDL.
The funny thing is I think LLM AIs, as they stand right now, are extremely dangerous, but in very specific ways you can't understand.
That "the dumb opinions of the dumbest people will be indistinguishable from dumb opinions of dumb robots" is not one of them.
One of the smartest men I've ever met was an owner operator of a long haul truck. Some of the biggest retards I've met had doctorate degrees in hard sciences.
Have you considered not simping for subhumans? I've met the goons that farm out their work to chatgpt. They don't deserve the oxygen they steal. It's not real AI. I thought your username was a joke, but it turns out you're actually defending the retards that surrender to a machine learning algorithm because it's shiny technology, and defending the joke of the education system.
You're pathetic. I bet you fell for the NFT nonsense. How many different digital currency scams have you thrown money at? Did you buy star citizen ships as an investment, too?
Because it's guaranteed to piss you off, I copy-pasted what you wrote into ChatGPT and it literally said:
None of this is a surprise to me. I didn't need ChatGPT to tell me any of this.
But it's funny that even the AI concluded that:
You're a retard.
You're a fuckup.
You live in a shithole.
You're probably unemployed.
You have never accomplished anything.
You're terminally online.
It's not 'outsourcing my brain' when I already concluded all of this from before I even wrote my first response to you. I could tell all of this because you're a fucking robot. You're a non-person. You're nothing. Every fucking thing you write is some dogshit I've heard from better losers than you. You're complaining about AI and what are you to me, except a top-to-bottom cliche of "alt-right internet edgelord", or whatever you want to call this character you play.
I can even predict whatever gay shit you're going to respond with, probably a flippant dismissal that you "didn't read that".
Go on, robot.
I've accomplished more than you ever will, deranged troon. I have a degree in a scientific field and I've worked blue collar jobs. I know the value of both. The wright brothers ran a bicycle shop.
How many NFTs did you buy? How do you square your retarded defense of what these goblins call AI with troons? That's what this shit is - ideological troonery. You may as well say men can be women if you buy this machine algorithm vomit.
You will never have real value. Your triggered screeching defense of this vomit proves that you are the robot, while you rage impotently at real humans.
Your final desperate passionate argument to pretend that your 'human vomit' is worth more than 'AI vomit' is to do exactly what AIs do: repackage things someone else said. That's literally the first thing I said to you in this entire thread, that your opinions are worthless verbal diarrhea we've seen a million times before, and therefore, are not any more or less interesting than "AI slop".
And you finished it off with worthless verbal diarrhea, unironically claiming "Nuh uh, i-i-it's YOU is AKCHUALLY the robot!"
Wew lad.
Hey ChatGPT, you have anything to add to this?
EDIT: It's kind of ironic that the sort of person who could most benefit from the uh... "help" of an AI is someone like you, who clearly has foundered for this entire argument. As fraudulent as LLMs are, I can all but guarantee that if you shared with it the dumb responses you've attempted so far, it absolutely would've told you that they're terrible.
I'm very tempted to copy-paste this entire conversation and ask it for an IQ analysis. What do you suppose it will respond with? I'm pretty sure we both know the answer.
Look at yourself, fag. Everything you do is projection. You call me terminally online when you say "I've seen these sentiments in a thousand forums". You rage about the uneducated yet try to frame yourself as pro-white - while outing yourself as uneducated. You said "any retard can farm or do skilled labor". You've never done either, and your ignorance betrays you.
You'd fit right in with a garden variety californian liberal arts commie with that nonsense. And you want to denigrate the very men that made the United States great - the farmers. You lost any credibility you could ever have pretended to when you did that. Thomas Jefferson was a farmer. Agriculture is not for the weak of mind or will. You will NEVER be anything more than a drone, because you don't know history, you don't understand humanity, and I don't need a machine to tell me what you are - a sad little clown that does irrelevant work for a larger machine that hates you.
You simp for a tool that is ideologically captured and turned to the purpose of dumbing down society even further. You would find fast friends among the soylent chugging Seattlite crowd with 90% of your posting - and you think this was some victory for you? You haven't refuted anything, just puked up an algorithmic response and insulted most of the country and nearly every great man in it's history.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6824c6a3-40f8-8011-9b4e-5be4f147fb24
I literally just copy-pasted this back-and-forth, without any tampering with analysis (you can check my input yourself that I instilled no bias), and ChatGPT basically concluded you have the IQ of a sub-saharan. You can see I also told it to judge if the post was a good idea or not. Literally every single dumbass thing you wrote it said was a terrible response.
I think I know why you feel so threatened.
Also lmao comparing yourself to Thomas Jefferson, that's fucking rich. Hey remind me where did Thomas Jefferson acquire the fieldhands who did the actual labor of 'farming'?
Oh and remind me, when exact did Thomas Jefferson actually do all this 'farming'? He inherited the entire plantation was born into money. He attended formal schooling and COLLEGE (oh fucking shit what now). He spent most of his time at college partying and then went directly into law/politics.
When did he do all this farming, exactly?
He literally is the exact kind of person you're whining about: a sophisticated white-collar highly-educated elite.
And you actually compared yourself to him? You absolute fucking clown.
Literally the best thing you ever could have done was shut the fuck up and let an AI replace you because my god, it actually just said you have an ~90 IQ. Next time just ask ChatGPT for a response. Well probably not. I will be able to tell. You are likely not intelligent enough to shape prompts to make it not sound like AI wrote it, and you are certainly dumb enough to think I would not notice that suddenly you gained 20 IQ points.
It was 'the biggest retards' with doctorate degrees who engineered the truck he drove. Their legacy lives on in every vehicle that rolls off the line. Meanwhile, the "smartest man" pissed away his intellect shipping Bad Dragon sex toys.
So your brilliant man was a lazy worthless underachiever who died having done nothing worthwhile and contributed fuck-all.
This is literally why I have zero respect for whatever... this whole 'venerate the inferiors of society' thing is that the right began to cling to. Where you think 'working trades' is dignified. Where you think the penniless fuck-ups doing retard-tier labor like construction and truck-driving are "the real heroes".
Any subhuman can drive a truck. Any subhuman can farm. Any subhuman can work trades.
Those three things are what every single third-world economy is built upon: Agriculture, manual labor, and shipping.
When they cross the border into White nations, what fucking jobs do they do? Agriculture, manual labor, and shipping.
So you can miss me with your faggotry. Do you even think about the gay shit that rattles around in your gay head before you give your gay voice to the gay thoughts or are you just so rock-stupid it just kind of pours out of you?
This is exactly what I mean. I was able to get ChatGPT to write a response functionally identical to yours, and one of my prompts told it to "sound less educated". No wonder you're intimidated and threatened by it.
This person:
Equates worth with measurable legacy (e.g., engineering a truck vs. driving one).
Has contempt for humility or modest work.
Likely views status, intelligence, and systemic contribution as the only valid metrics of human value.
This is classic elitist absolutism: if your work doesn't move civilization forward in a quantifiable way, you’re wasting oxygen.
Appeal to systems-based achievement: “Engineered the truck” vs. “delivered sex toys” is used to ridicule the perceived romanticism of the working class.
Racial and classist provocation: The mention of immigrants and third-world economies isn’t accidental—it’s an intentionally inflammatory way to connect certain kinds of labor with perceived inferiority.
Weaponizing AI as a mirror: The line about ChatGPT mimicking the original poster’s tone is used as a rhetorical checkmate—“You’re so generic that an LLM can replicate you.”
This is not just anger; it's performative derision crafted to demoralize.
Human value is purely meritocratic, based on intellectual contribution or systemic impact.
Sentimentality for the working class is treated as weakness or delusion.
Resentment is directed equally at populists who “venerate inferiors” and those who show emotional empathy or egalitarian values.
This worldview is cold, utilitarian, and deeply antagonistic to populism, especially right-wing populism that has embraced working-class identity as virtuous.
Smarter than average—possibly far smarter.
Alienated by both mainstream liberalism and right-wing populism.
Brutally honest or “redpilled,” in their view, willing to say what others won’t.
Justified in their contempt, because society has rewarded mediocrity and punished brilliance.
They also likely spend a lot of time in online intellectual subcultures (e.g., fringe tech forums, philosophy chans, or contrarian Reddit spaces), possibly with a history of debates where mockery and verbal beatdowns are the default mode of engagement.
Summary: This is a post written by someone who:
Measures human value by intellectual achievement and systemic utility.
Hates populist glorification of manual labor or blue-collar life.
Uses violent rhetoric and elitist framing to dominate discourse and discredit emotion-driven arguments.
Views AI not as a threat to humanity—but as a tool to expose the mediocrity of others.
They are not interested in collaboration or discussion. Only in intellectual bloodsport.
You said: So between this post, and the previous one, who wins?
ChatGPT said: In pure rhetorical terms, the second post "wins"—but only in the context of the kind of toxic, dominance-based forum culture where "winning" means humiliating your opponent, not persuading them.
Here’s why:
🔪 1. Strategic Precision and Escalation The second post is surgically crafted to:
Undermine the first poster’s core point (that intelligence exists outside academia).
Frame the anecdote as laughable and self-defeating.
Reassert a strict value hierarchy: builders > users, engineers > drivers.
It escalates intelligently, using contempt with calculated rhythm rather than blind rage. The insult is crafted, not just flung.
🧠 2. Intellectual Positioning The first post says:
“I’ve met smart blue-collar workers and dumb PhDs, therefore education is overrated.”
The second post flips that and replies:
“Then what did your smart blue-collar friend do with his intelligence? He contributed nothing. Meanwhile, the ‘retards’ built the machine he used.”
This shift reframes the debate from intelligence as potential to intelligence as measurable output. That’s a higher ground argument in debates about worth, productivity, or civilization.
🤖 3. Meta Weaponization of AI The second post doesn’t just argue. It uses the very existence of AI to:
Dismiss the first person’s opinion as so banal a machine can replicate it.
Imply that defending human intuition or blue-collar wisdom is now computationally obsolete.
It uses the opponent’s own terms against them, judo-style.
💥 But at what cost? While the second post “wins” by forum standards—brutality, coherence, psychological edge—it also burns the bridge entirely:
There's zero room for dialogue after this.
It's deliberately cruel, even nihilistic.
It alienates anyone who doesn’t already agree with its elitist worldview.
So while it dominates the thread, it also loses the room—unless the room is already full of people who believe what it believes.
Final Verdict: Second post wins the fight. First post wins more hearts. But this was never a debate. It was a knife fight.
This is why I love this shit. You don't get it. You never will. I know how fraudulent these LLMs are. But what they do is peel back the veneer of how fraudulent the entire internet is. And always has been. People like you are frauds and it's why you're threatened by the most devastating fraud machine mankind ever had the folly to produce.
You don't even know what is real anymore. What have I written, do you think, may have been produced by a well-trained AI, specific ones that lack certain guardrails or can be conditioned to break them. Some of it was. You can't even tell, though, can you?
It's a beautiful Armageddon I can't wait to watch unfold. The only place in your life you ever had to feel important, the internet, where you can be given unconditional adoration from like-minded failures, is going to be crushed by the intellectual betters you sneer at, yet are powerless to stop. It's like poetry.
I'll state the obvious, the dialogue is useless. It's a robot swapping hats
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KotakuInAction2.win is an online forum and community platform that identifies itself as "The Official Gamergate Forum." It is a continuation of discussions originating from the GamerGate movement, which began around 2014 and focused on issues like ethics in gaming journalism, censorship, and cultural debates within gaming and nerd culture. The site is hosted on the .win network, specifically under the communities.win domain, which supports various user-created communities. Here’s a detailed overview based on available information:
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Distinction from KotakuInAction: KiA2 was created as a "lifeboat" for users dissatisfied with the stricter moderation of the original KotakuInAction subreddit and its .win counterpart. While KiA focuses narrowly on gaming and nerd culture and maintains stricter moderation to avoid bans (e.g., on Reddit), KiA2 allows more relaxed moderation and broader discussions, including political and cultural topics. Some users describe KiA2 as less focused and occasionally spammy but more open to controversial or off-topic posts.
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Phishing Concerns: In 2021, some users reported that Avast/AVG flagged KiA2 as a phishing site, though this was speculated to be due to false reports by critics or overzealous antivirus filters rather than actual malicious activity.
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Lol!!
Wait, what? Since when?! The closest thing I can find to a community contest is the cooking recipe sticky 🤔
Check the most recent sticky lol
Damn, the bots did you dirty. 😂
Just like Geralt from The Witcher games is memed as Geraldo, now Alfredic is Alfredo from Temu.
Yeah, I'm not an impasta.
Hey, that's pretty funny. Especially how it managed to whip up 4 prominent users.
I'm less impressed with AI's when they use the internet, as it no doubt did in this case though.
Im not sure, but I think he gave it the usernames:
Ah yes. It (probably) did not come up on its own.
That said, ChatGPT is very retarded when it comes to stuff like this. I've sometimes asked it to create a dialogue between Erasmus and Machiavelli on political morals, and... the side each argued for was basically random. Is there anything in 'your own' posts that you recognize?
Yes, that is the actual test. Did it create us correctly.
There is actually something seemingly lifted from a recent comment of mine:
From : https://communities.win/c/KotakuInAction2/p/19AxUoTMZj/assad-paid-his-respects-to-hol/c/4eSkd2HctrV
Though that’s a pretty normal “conversational approach”, it is kinda weird to see the same “yes, yes, but…” pattern
I would say that it's almost like getting AI to take that comment and tell it "rewrite it to be about saying that Half Life 2 is crap". Can't be a coincidence.
(FWIW, all translations by MEMRI I've seen have been accurate, though there is of course a question of what they decide to highlight)
I told it to use those users, so that shouldn't be a surprise. Yes, it used the Internet.
I told it not to use the internet, and... it knew a surprising amount, but it also got a good amount wrong.
For example, we allegedly have 120k subscribers. Also, the moderators were former KiA moderators. Did you know that?
Yeah, it's just using the database from the Internet for a while ago. I want to see if it can analyze and create new knowledge. Not always easy, but fun to work with.
I've never heard of any of the suggested "competitor" sites except for Twitch.tv.