Call me old-fashioned, but I believe the word “lore” should be reserved for the truly mythological—blood oaths, miracles, golden fleeces, snakes for hair, that kind of thing. But then there’s Drain ...

In the first week of February, Bladee un-retired from X.com. We’d talked a bit about the site when I visited him in Stockholm in early January; he said he used to like it for its low-stakes ...