You're cutting me slack because I like you. I'm cutting you slack because I was impressed by some of the things you said in that fandom thread. Of course it helped that the only other poster on the thread was a fanatical fan of Harsh Realm. Hoist by my own petard. I pulled the same trick on somebody else recently.
Online dictionaries can be deadly weapons.
I don't know. I actively resisted that conclusion for a long time. Until I'd seen too much to conclude otherwise. Because I did. If he just plagiarized, I think that's pretty normal.