Confession

[Death_Strandicoot]

What is the axe? A brief forum history lesson.

One of our new community members asked “what is up with the axe and how do I use it?” I started typing and then realized the reply should be part of our public record! “Fine, it’s the axe” is a very old (20+ years) in-joke for a community member who is no longer active. On the old forums, a thread would get banished to “the axe” and would get auto-deleted after a set period of time. The expression, “Fine, it’s the axe” was said with resignation by the author of a thread that didn’t really go…