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"Hi. Alex Steed joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about the protests in Los Angeles, the FBI manhandling Sen. Alex Padilla, and the return (and arrest) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Here is Wired.com's guide on how to protest safely: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-pr...."



Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and everyone who still, despite everything, thinks he's doing a good job, as usual.
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"A once-obscure psychological disorder threatens democracy and haunts the internet"

I kind of miss the days when the only thing I knew about narcissists and narcissism was that the WWF gave Lex Luger the weird gimmick of "The Narcissist."


(And, of course, mentioning the WWE brings things full circle again back to Trump.)
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First, I somehow missed the news that Trump had picked Linda McMahon (yes, that Linda McMahon) for fucking Secretary of so-called """""Education."""""

Second, it recently came to my attention that Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" abbreviates to DOGE. God damn, how I hate it even more now.

Seriously, just a colossal clownshoes clusterfuck of a farce/travesty/abomination of a supposed Presidential administration. Hollywood couldn't make horror-comedy movies with such a plot seem remotely believable. And yet, here we are. Real life.
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The best parts of this video were the parts where they weren't talking about Sparking Zero or Dragon Ball, which were significant portions of that 47 minute runtime.
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So yeah, I watched it all, like I said I would. It's kind of weird because even though I watched them all at 2x speed, which should have been three hours or so, instead of six, it still took far longer than six hours to get this post made, thanks to outside distractions.



All of this shit behind cut )
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None of this is surprising, really.

With all of the above said, it makes absolutely perfect sense that Vince McMahon and Donald Trump are essentially two peas in a pod (and are good friends in real life). If only that were the case as far as consequences for one's actions go, too.

Also, let me check, because it's been a while...

...yep, sure enough. Jim Cornette has done a full review of each episode of this thing, too. I haven't watched those yet (which I'll probably do... pretty much starting as soon as I finish this post, so I might edit this or make it its own post later).

Nor have I watched the actual documentary itself (nor do I really have any plans to do so), for what that's worth.
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"The answer may surprise you!"

I would've said either Makoto/Jupiter or Haruka/Uranus. Ami/Mercury would've been at the bottom of my list, or maybe tied with Hotaru/Saturn.

Though I guess it depends on if powers are allowed or not. In that case, maybe Mercury would be at the top, since she's about the only one of them who has non-lethal powers. As one of the comments mentioned, maybe the Shabon Spray could be used as a Great Muta poison mist kind of thing? *shrug* But even then, just from a personality standpoint, I don't see Mercury doing well as a professional wrestler, simply because it doesn't seem like the kind of thing she'd ever want to do.
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It seems like we're hearing about shit like this more and more frequently these days.

Glorious digital future, and all that. *weary sigh*

Fortunately for me, it has been almost seven years since the last time I was interested in trying to buy a WWE game, and since that point, I wasn't ever expecting my interest to go up again, especially given how shitty the WWE (and pro wrestling in general) has become lately. But, as always, this is still a fucked up situation, regardless, even if I personally may have never cared about buying these particular games, so here is me ranting about it.
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This is simultaneously one of the most asinine and most unsurprising things I've ever heard coming out of modern WWE.
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It's about an hour and twenty minutes long, split into three roughly equal length parts.



Youtube embeds behind cut )



Honestly, with the bit at the end, this almost feels like it could be a series finale, if Mr. Rolfe wanted to stop making these. I wouldn't blame him if he did want to move on from the Nerd, but I hope he makes more.
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"This week on the Experience, Jim pays tribute to the life and career of his friend, legendary Midnight Express member, 'Beautiful' Bobby Eaton."
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I don't care about the rules of legal tags or whatever, but I will never not find it really weird that I went to DigiPen with the girl who would one day become AEW referee Aubrey Edwards (she was in the year just behind me). It would be even more weird if I actually watched AEW at all, ever, but I don't, so it isn't.

I basically don't watch anything wrestling related anymore, aside from listening to some of the podcast snippets on the Official Jim Cornette Youtube channel, because current day professional wrestling"sports entertainment" is utterly asinine[1], whether it's WWE or AEW or Impact or whatever. I haven't even watched Botchamania since, like, 421 or so, which is around when the Botchamania website apparently died, even though new ones are still apparently being made. Should get back into that someday, maybe. *shrug*

[1] - And that's really saying something, when you consider the fact that there have been a lot of silly, stupid, disgusting, and/or offensive things in professional wrestling over the past several decades.
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Just check the tags on this post. That's all that needs to be said about this video segment, really. It was great.
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Okay, these are nothing that I'd ever pay for, nor would I ever want anyone to waste money on one for me, but they're pretty fucking funny all the same (though more for Jim's and Brian's reactions than for the things themselves), even just the audio as it is here.

For reference.




Yeah...

Nov. 9th, 2020 03:21 am
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(EDIT) Video replaced with a slightly better one that didn't have shitty music playing in the background. (/EDIT) (EDIT 2) And replaced with another one, because the second one got set to private. *weary sigh* (/EDIT 2)


(Yes yes, I know, Vince McMahon is a Trump lickspittle in real life, and this was all just kayfabe bullshit, but still.)
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I'm way more into the Internet and technology than Mr. Cornette is, and I'm not as computer illiterate as he claims to be, but he's still not wrong. And I fucking loathe the telephone, too.
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I don't personally give a shit about Twitch myself (aside from the one time I watched Starla Huchton play Skyrim for a bit), but more power to the ones who do. That said, I think that the WWE is full of some Jurassic Park levels of shit here and they have my full permission to eat an entire bag full of dicks.

(EDIT) Also, I don't really agree with Jim Cornette's strict adherence to kayfabe so much, either, especially given that Vince McMahon himself destroyed kayfabe decades ago. So I'm glad that Jim and Brian agree, for the most part, that WWE is in the wrong here. (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2)

Here is where they talked about it before, where Jim was bitching way more about kayfabe or whatever and was way more on WWE's side than he was above:


(/EDIT 2)
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"With conspiracy theories about coronavirus proliferating, John Oliver discusses why we’re prone to believe, how to distinguish fact from fiction, and what you can do to help others."

https://thetruetruetruth.com/



Yeah, people out there believe some of the stupidest fucking horseshit, that's true.

Alternative links, as always, because shit on region-locking.
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I had a couple of separate but related dreams last night. The first one was simple enough. I heard news that Nintendo had hired pro wrestler Ric Flair to replace Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario, for some strange reason (sort of like how, in real life, Konami had replaced David Hayter with Kiefer Sutherland as the voice of Snake in the most recent Metal Gear games). But then, later, in a seemingly unrelated dream, I was talking to someone about video games in general, and they said something like "Oh, did you hear? Nintendo has decided to stop making Mario games." I was like what that's bullshit. They were like "Look for yourself. It's all over the Internet." So I checked, and every single headline I saw was something like "Nintendo Stops Making Mario Games" or "Nintendo to Retire the Mario Character" and so on. However, when I actually read the articles, all they were talking about was that Ric Flair had decided to not do the voice anymore, after only two games.

So, yeah, even in my dreams, video game so-called "journalists" like to use horseshit, clickbait headlines.

(EDIT, 2 years later) Man... imagine if in this dream it had been Chris Pratt, rather than Ric Flair. >_>; (/EDIT)
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"On this Special Edition of the Drive Thru, Jim responds!"



By "responds," it means responding to the sexual abuse allegations against Jim Cornette and his wife, Stacey. He basically rants for an hour about the whole thing in the above video, and lays out what are, to me at least, convincing reasons as to why it is not true.

If Jim Cornette is full of shit and actually did the things he's being accused of doing, then he's a very good actor via his denial of it here. And if it's true, which I doubted before and definitely doubt now, then he can simply fuck off forever. If more actual evidence comes out later that further verifies the allegations, then, once again, fuck Jim Cornette forever. But based on what I've seen and heard so far, it's all horseshit. (EDIT) And by that, I mean the aspect of it where he's accused of abusing power and wrecking careers. If that part is true, then to hell with Cornette. On the other hand, I could not care less if the "has freaky, swinging sex" part of it is true, absent the other stuff. Jim himself in the above embedded video hinted that that part of it is probably at least partly true. What he and his wife do in private, and with whom, is none of my concern, as long as it is consensual between all parties involved, and they're not doing it abusively and in conjunction with their business relationships with other people. (/EDIT)

If, on the other hand, Jim Cornette did not do what he has been accused of doing, then this is either just another example of the so-called "good guys" crossing the line yet again (as I've discussed before), or it is another example of a bunch of Internet asshats jumping on and trying to subvert yet another otherwise ostensibly "good" thing[1].

Sexual harassment sucks and should be stamped out, and those who engage in it indeed need to be outed and ostracized, but it's almost (for a loose value of "almost") as bad to accuse someone else of it when they didn't do it as it is to have done it in the first place. And also, if the accusations against Cornette are bullshit, which seems to be the case, then who is to say that any of the other accusations are legitimate, either? That's the danger of false accusations: it makes the potentially true ones less likely to be taken seriously. Hell, for that matter, when are there going to start being consequences against those who make false accusations, for whatever reasons?

[1] - It's sort of like Irredeemably Toxic Shithole, aka GamerGate, except in that case, the whole "actually it's about ethics in video game journalism" movement was a campaign to try to destroy a single woman from the get go, and then it went on to become a campaign to destroy as many women in the games/game journalism industry as possible, all in the name of stamping out "corruption." I.e. a few (possible) outliers who (maybe) actually cared about the whole "anti-corruption" bit, with the rest of them being 8chan incel types who merely wanted yet another excuse to dox and harass and threaten women.

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