LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 @LukeAlmighty@gameliberty.club

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Up until now, I haven't really been talking about cheating, and indeed, I wasn’t talking about it during the tournament until this very match. It’s not like you can actually prevent alt-voting on Fedi (or that I myself and some of my DRC oomfies never engaged in it), it’s effectively just one more factor that will benefit girls people are truly passionate about, and I generally figure that the more you talk about it and try to combat it, the more of an issue it will become, just another example of the Streisand Effect.

That said, when one of the Fediverse’s most well-known and respected admins, P from Free Speech Extremist, pops into the match thread to inform us that Patchouli ought to have 2 votes removed because some nigger just set up two FSE accounts to vote for her, that’s something of a gamechanger. This happening right in the middle of Patchouli (who had actually bled a lot of percentage points against Midna as that match dragged on) bringing all of May’s momentum to a screeching halt didn’t help matters. Sure, it’s not like 2 votes looked to be decisive at this point, but confirmed, blatant Patchouli cheating on one instance made it easy to believe that this was happening other places as well.

With the Touhou girl's whole tournament run suddenly mired in controversy, May saw her chance to strike. After 237 votes, Parchouli’s lead had gone from 14 to 9, and May was rapidly closing the gap further - 7 votes, then 6, 5, then 2, before Patchouli tried to shake her off again, jumping into a 4 vote lead, but May then brought it within 1 vote, then a perfect tie after 254 votes, and after 259 votes it was MAY who had the slimmest of leads! Was the Pokemon prodigy actually going to pull this off, despite everything?

Nope - again Patchouli instantly struck back, surging into a clear lead which she kept extending until she stabilized around at around a 10-12 vote lead, before another late Pache push saw her win the match by 16 votes. Note that this latest surge in Patchouli votes didn’t even seem to really line up with the activity in the match thread, where May was holding her own at that point. I can’t for sure say there was Rigging going on, but it was certainly no less suspicious than some of the shit Ryza would pull in the quarterfinals.

And indeed, what happened in that match was almost certainly a direct consequence of what happened during May VS Patchouli – whether you considered the cheating accusations overblown, or indeed, even if you think Pache was set up (the FSE cheating was EXTREMELY obvious and low-effort), you can’t deny that in the eyes of a lot of people, Patchouli had become Patcheaty. Suddenly doubt could be cast on a lot of things, like the absolutely crazy avalanche of early votes during the Midna match, as well as the frail magician consistently boasting extremely (suspiciously?) high vote counts. And if you believe, or even simply suspect that Patchouli fans cheat, it becomes that much easier to justify activating your own alts when the Touhou witch goes up against a girl you like.

I doubt P will be getting a lot of Christmas cards from Patchouli fans these next couple of days, because without him exposing the 2 cheater accounts, she probably would have beat Ryza, though I don’t really think she would have stood a chance against Tamamo. It’s ironic that every Touhou girl appeared to have powered up significantly in round 2 – EXCEPT for Patchouli, the girl whose plapping of Midna basically signaled a tournament-wide Touhou buff. Maybe she just peaked too early. Maybe a good bit of her strength was illegitimate. Or maybe she became the biggest victim of anti-Touhou voting. Regardless of your POV, if you thought her match with May got ugly, just wait until you see how the Ryza match turned out!

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@SuperSnekFriend My new headcanon is that Anya is Lucy reincarnated, actually being adopted by a loving family instead of languishing in an orphanage and tormented by miniature monsters. Bond being the reincarnation of Lucy's poor puppy would make this even better

Normies talk about "this is what no pussy does to a mf" and meanwhile I've seen what pussy does to some guys and it's worse.

what if.... human is hiding a whole bag of treats