See gosu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Alternatively you can hold down F4 for the entire game with your vestigial human tailbone and the same thing will occur. This is much harder to do because the vestigial human tailbone isn't very long and humans haven't needed it in, oh, seven million years. The most gosu players can do this while playing a 1v7c game, having cybersex with six girls on AIM, *and* getting it on with their two girlfriends in realtime while playing pingpong against the entire Chinese pingpong team.",
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},
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Download raw JSONL data for gosu meaning in English (6.0kB)
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