Didn’t you know? Taking hormones upgrades your brain, it’s a well-known medical fact!
Yeah the existence of women’s chess is a mixed bag - on the one hand, it’s dumb to segregate, on the other the boys club was(/is) so exclusionary that they kinda had to make it so women got the opportunity to compete at all.
Kinda related/similar thing happened with Olympic Skeet Shooting after Zhang Shan won the 1992 competition. Strangely after a woman won, they split it by gender for future years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Mixed_skeet
Skeet was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was the last Olympic skeet competition open to both men and women, and the only mixed shooting competition at the Olympics ever won by a woman: Zhang Shan.
It is wild to me that chess, the game about moving little meeples around a small square has gender segregation at all, but given it does have that for some stupid reason (sexism) it does not surprise me that chess excludes trans people for a similarly stupid reason (transphobia).
Outside of maybe League of Legends it’s hard to find a more petty collection of people than professional chess players.
Don’t forget competitive Warhammer players.
Toilet Dice will never be forgotten
At least that guy did actually cheat.
In chess it’s like “that guy is doing an opening move a real pro player would never do, he’s obviously cheating and I am resigning from the game in protest with 0 evidence”.
What’s the lore?
Peeve spawned off comments/thoughts in another thread.
I really, really wish they’d re-do the old world.
I also wish they’d up the scale of the landmasses to be more accurate. Or just, like, better.
Dynamic flight cuts travel time hugely (as it should), but I feel you could also work around things by giving every character a ‘sprint’ ability (toggle, turns off in combat, etc) that goes at… whatever speed it is that triggers (nearly) every races special ‘sprinting’ animation. The fact we even HAVE that animation means our characters should be able to book it by default, tbh.
And then up the speed of ground mounts. To me, in an ideal world, your travel speed should expand naturally as your questing range expands - running around local quests, mounting up as you progress to the next zone/s over and an increasing sphere of influence, and then flying once your range expands to the world.
Make the place feel more like a World again…
Google Photos app, please stop offering me backup every second time I launch you. I’m not interested. In general, stop offering me services I don’t care about, and if you do insist on showing me these annoying popups, at least give me the option to shut them up forever.
That’s the excuse I was aware of; how the Male cognition is faster and thus needs women to play against women or some tripe.
That one guy in open fash gear who kept technically “winning” each time a player walked away on principle after seeing his gear.
Gotta love good ol’ fashioned Sexism just being said out loud, now.
By so-called Feminists.
BEHOLD, MY SUPERIOR FAST-THINKING CHESS BRA-
what do you mean, “checkmate”? HUH??
Think smarter, not faster. 
Yeah, ridiculous people being ridiculous and some of these folk seem to believe there’s some intrinsic essence of maleness that can enhance/pollute a person.
I hold firm in my belief that some people got theirs and now consider further progress toward an egalitarian society to be a personal attack on their own efforts and sacrifices. Thus turning from fighting for a more free world to entrenched conservatism where history ended the second the cause hit a certain comfortable spot.
While not at all universal, I have heard more than once, several times in fact from some older generations of women that we today do not deserve what we have because we “didn’t earn it” like they did.
Despite that a big part of the feminist movements in history was for things to be better for future generations.
From googling the story, a player at a Warhammer competition was rolling nothing but max rolls so was accused of cheating. The judges asked to check his dice.
He then quickly excused himself to the bathroom and when he came back, his dice were missing. They found them at the bottom of the toilet where he had tried to flush them down. But since they were weighted, they wouldn’t flush.
I wanted to link someoen who made an earthen brann transmog but I saw that the image displays player’s name, so I had to refrain… but it -is- a pretty amazing mog
tbf, it’s not his appearance I despise. it’s his tendency to put healing potions in the middle of one-shot AoE areas.
also his smug stupid voice.
it’ll pass. probably until I do the Season 3 delve boss on ??
Makes sense, I struggled with the Underpin alot too as a melee.
Makes me wonder though, what happened to the original VA from Brann that we knew from Wotlk, Cataclysm etc? Because this voice is, whilst not bad, clearly different and a bit higher-pitched?
Heck, if you click on Brann he still has his -old- voice.
I don’t think the VA work is actually that bad, it’s more that he has slightly condescending lines which he has been programmed to say at the most annoying times.