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I can't tell you how much "the critics are outta touch" stuff I seen about just the Mario Movie and its box office numbers, like ignoring how trite this mentality is anyway wtf does opening weekend numbers say about a movie none of those people had seen yet outside of how good the marketing was
is it just the algorithms punching me in the balls again or have the "errmmmm your review is wrong cos the metacritic score and THE SALES says otherwise please fix it you hack" people got way worse lately
Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown.
I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up
my final position on the weekend is the Bulma Xenoverse 3 design rocks
Mega Diana - Pragmata
I totally understand why card games do rotation and it's probably best for most games to do it, but Dragon Ball Masters doesn't do it and the World Championship was just won by a leader from 2019 that has been meme tier ever since it came out and it warms my heart in a way controlled formats can't
ofc ofc
seeing them right next to each other is like when Majin Buu splits into two
Mr Beast got Dan Olson and Doug Walker in the same room??
I still haven't found My Deck* in One Piece but I've got like 20 tabs of decklists open so I know I'm locked in now either way
*let's be real it's Blackbeard but my girlfriend would never play the game again if I mained that
and tbh that's probs gonna be all I do in future when I go sicko curious mode cos there's no point watching of this, my firm prediction is Saudimania is the beginning of the end for wrestling as a pop culture entity and I'm fascinated to see some of that in motion but jfc this stuff is unwatchable
I also had some social media feeds open to watch the reaction in real time and even their fans were melting down over this, and the one thing I saw over and over again was "why isn't every match at least 20 minutes?" like that's ever been a thing, but nobody tries anything else!! we're cooked!!
the switch has finally been flipped where the actual show is a weird obligation to prop up the ads and all the city money from booking the stadium, it's the same mentality for why right wingers embrace AI as a way to have a "product" without doing any work
barely an hour of wrestling on a 4 hour show and out of 7 matches 4 involved tables, 4 had outside interference, 2 of them had that made up awful modern wrestling trope where you can't get DQed if you do it "before the bell", lazy dogshit booking and this makes it sound more exciting than it was
just weird vibes all round, a 3/4s full stadium with a crowd that paid probs the highest average ticket prices in history and know they're not getting anything for that money, matches were rushed, talent wasn't motivated, ads choked the life out of the show, even the goofy entrances were phoned in
okay I did have Mania on in the background last night while I was grinding Fusion World as I was curious to see the trainwreck in real time and it had to be the most half-hearted, low energy and barely watcable broadcast they have ever done
bruh I don't know how close to bell time they are but the pics of the empty seats at Mania are nuts, Pandemicmania is back baybbeeeeeee
anyway apparently a lot of the Brit gambling places aren't taking bets for most of Mania 42 because the results are either too obvious or too at risk of some insane TKO bullshit fiddling that they don't want to touch it so hopefully this problem will solve itself
there was some story going around that someone bet six figures for the easy return on Undertaker in the match where Brock beat him and the odds were like 1/50 and christ man, I struggle going to sleep when I buy a dead booster pack for retail price
I did this once at Uni (don't remember the match) and lost, all I lost was the "free bet" but it pissed me off so much it hardened me as a gambling hater for life so thanks whatever weirdo Vince decision that was
Doing important detective work in Hotel Dusk.
woke up to see people shocked that Stephanie McMahon's Hall of Fame speech went an hour whereas I'm more shocked it's not still happening now
I don't remember who gave me that but I guess that's what you have to resort to when buying a present in the early 00s for a kid who didn't have an N64
unlocked a random childhood memory that when I first started showing interest in wrestling as a kid the first wrestling-adjacent present I got was Basil DeVito's Wrestlemania book which examines their marketing strategies exclusively from an executive's perspective, I read that shit when I was 10
my current nostalgia comfort blanket is seeing Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories pop up on eBay all the time and remembering that game actually sold well and isn't particularly hard to find
these figures are so much cooler than a chrono trigger remake would be
my latest for @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social is out now!!
this is one of my favourite essays i've ever written.
piecing together these complex feelings on kiryu, kasuga, the like a dragon series and toxic nostalgia was a challenge, but i think it's come together wonderfully
please give it a read 💜
Youtube has a 12 hour limit for most channels but I read somewhere that you can cheese it if you interrupt your upload and continue it 24 hours later and I was like no way that works
uh, turns out it works!