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Seems fake. Quoting a comment from the linked thread:
you can see unsoldered headphone or amp connectors in the background. Normal people don't keep those just lying around. So I don't think the soldering comment is too far off mark.
Also the whole post doesn't make sense. OP barely responds to anyone. In the stuff he does respond with it makes even less sense. And yeah you can see the melted plastic in the picture so it's pretty clear where the mouse was sitting when it melted. I'm guessing OP removed the mouse and then torched even more of the desk to make it look believable, but forgot about the bottom of the mouse.
Not to play devil's advocate but I have learnt to take even the most plausible Reddit comments with a grain of salt.
My first thought was that there's no way a motherboard should supply enough power to the USB port for something that dramatic. Maybe theoretically possible with a dedicated USB charger or some sort of USB-C Power Delivery port, but pretty much every standard Type-A Port on a PC will be limited to 5V and either 1 or 2.4 amps. Nowhere near enough for this. Even if something went wrong it would be a barely visible puff of smoke.
I do see that this is an optical mouse. So maaaaybe something with the lense and laser happened that could cause a bit of a scorch mark to the mousepad? But in the pictures you can see the area around the lense is completely untouched and most of the damage is actually on the top of the mouse.