Chaos

I definitely agree with this sentiment and said it in a group text yesterday. I thought both guys did a good job of being older and slowing things down to let moments breathe, and the sports entertainment aspects of it enhanced things a good deal. I'm not the biggest Omega fan, but I enjoyed the match.

The first new Swell Season album in 16 years dropped today. Between this and a couple of single releases they've made in the last couple of years, Marketa has grown into just a powerhouse of a singer when she lets it go. The end of "Pretty Stories" on this album is really good stuff. This will be a regular listen over the weekend. Speaking of powerful vocals and harmonies, I have the Remaster/Reissue of Civil Wars's "Barton Hollow" coming through Magnolia Records early next month. I'm excited to hear that on vinyl.

Astro Bot did the thing! In other news, I need to get back to finishing Astro Bot. https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/07/astro-bot-has-added-its-most-wanted-cameo-in-huge-ps5-update

Yeah, after saying i was not falling pray to it again this year. I bought the MVP Bundle for Madden/CFB. I'm excited to plop into CFB for another year. Sports Games are my ultimate money/time suck and why I need to quit paying money for games for like 3-5 years (outside of GTA VI).

This has been kind of my turn brain off and play game instead of touching my endless backlog. I mess with MyFaction a lot, but I wouldn't say I have unlocked everything. In the weeklys, I've gotten slightly stuck on the 4 man HIAC match. I did have one of my most rewarding wins ever in one of these 2Kgames with the Cody/Kevin Owens Myfaction ladder match. The ladder mechanics are so bad this year that I was able to withstand multiple should-lose moments and pull down the briefcase. I did login at lunch today and looked at the live events. I decided to open a Legends II pack and got the Mr. Perfect card needed for the HBK 94 card (first time I've ever had that kind of Pack luck).

I am not sure when I'm getting a Switch 2. Life is filled with financial hurdles at the moment, but the hype made me take my Switch to the beach with my pro controller, a dock, and a couple extra joy cons for the kids for the post-wedding beach trip for my wife and I. My Pro Controller got left in the condo or i can't find it since getting back, and the cleaning crew claims they couldn't find it. My friend code is SW-3812-1439-8988. I have two friends on my Nintendo account. I could not tell you who either is.

I'm aware, but I think Punk in an interview recently oddly mentioned wanting to get one with him while they could.

Tonight could be the last time we get Punk and AJ together in a wrestling match. I hope not. I'd like to see them have a 20+ minute fun 1v1 together one last time.

GUNTHER removed anything not related to his wife, which was interesting.

Looks like he's somewhat quietly letting that happen. He removed most WWE references from his X account yesterday. That's one that is a bit shocking to me because Miz for so long was the definition of Mr. WWE PR.

Vegas for the second straight year is certainly a choice. Not a fan of that one.

I really cannot stand wrestling influencer Twitter. The "this is cinema" or "this is art" or faux God-like worship from many of these accounts (and I only really follow the bigger ones) makes me queasy. I occasionally debate unfollowing most wrestling accounts for that reason, but I still wouldn't avoid them because of a group text I'm in. The complete lack of sincerity and dignity is why we are where we are as a society in many ways, which is agnostic to all political persuasions. I only saw an image of Stark's injury, and I hope she comes back and can get a decent run. It feels like she's been pretty snake-bitten throughout her WWE tenure. I only caught the end of RAW last night, and I agree with the sentiments of Jey/Bron working well together.

This is going to be the first 500GB install on consoles, isn't it?

He was part of the Jey/Gunther build with a few weeks ago. He and Waller were also in Vengeance Day against Oba Femi a couple months ago.

It does show you that things don't have the reach that they used to because this did not hit my algorithms at all until I saw this. That's a really weird move after they just started powerblock, also different vibe than them celebrating Minotti for Gamesbeat being independent last week.

I guess viewing Cloud/Sephiroth as a Neo/Mr. Smith pairing or even that canonically the MKverse keeps rebooting itself over and over again, then it might actually reframe this new trilogy for me, which I haven't started Rebrith yet past the NIbelheim prologue (I went back to being 10-11 years old playing through that sequence) and still need to finish Integrade.

If McBride/Hill make another one of these series, we probably should create McBride/Hillverse thread. I'm going to be really sad when this one ends. Our enjoyment of Gemstones finally made me go back and watch Vice Principals all the way through as well.

I got my 360 around mid-console lifecycle and never made time for it. I'm excited to give it a whirl tonight.

I'm sure it was tame compared to whatever energy Heyman was bringing on McAfee today.

I said this in a chat to a friend that his match with AJ last week was probably the best match he's had in his entire WWE and NXT run, and it was just a "solid tv match." I think his usage as some agent of chaos has been smart the last year or so. It just needs to be leveraged a tad bit more.

Just seems to be the continued curse of Onana. He seems to falter down the final stretches of a match after playing well to start. It's inexcusable to concede a 2-0 lead on this stage.

Rumor is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake might be getting announced and released next week.

The DLC option to unlock everything used to be something you had to prompt the game to do for you. I believe it was labeled "accelerator" a few years ago.

Teasers for trailers are dumb, but we make exceptions when they involve Paul Thomas Anderson working with LEO! https://youtu.be/9u-2yB8GJ-Q

Bonds would have to be a deal directly with him, right? He famously left the Players Association around his peak homerun season and the peak of his accusations.