I hate steam trading cards.

I hate them so so much. With every fiber of my being. It's not healthy to hate a minor UI inconvenience as much as I do but I do. I loathe these wretched things. I hate the implied insult that I should be excited to receive one. To collect a set. To cash them in for gems!!!?? I hate that I can't turn them off. I hate that I can't even turn the notification off. I hate that, if I google "how to turn off Steam Trading Cards" real, living, breathing motherfuck...

Waka Tsukiyama, being loomed over by a disappointed Tam Nakano. The tag team champions had just lost a 3 v 2 handicap match, because Waka Tsukiyama has never won a match. The handicap was practically for the 2 person team. She has never been on the winning side of a tag, 6 woman, 8 woman, whatever. She has never been involved a draw. In fact, I'm not sure there is a match that Waka has been in since joining Stardom where she was not the one to be pinned or submitted. In her 114 matches in Stard...

That difficulty post got me thinking about other things and how I generally kinda strongly dislike videogame advice that attempts to 'flatten' the medium. "You have to do this, you never should do this, use this trick all the time" blahblah you heard me talk about Coyote Time.

So here is one I loathe. "Players shouldn't think about the controls! They should be invisible! It's your job to put the player's intentions on screen. If the player isn't getting what they want, it's a failure of the...

I shared this image of Kairi and Utami on Cohost and got asked to share more, so...

Okay so we have Kairi Hojo _Sane, One of the so called "Three Daughters of Stardom", or one of the three wrestlers who carried the company during its early years. A quick rundown.

• The Pirate Princess
• Really good at crying
• like SO good at crying
• Big Mom Energy. Loved by al.
• Went to WWE for like 5 years
• Small girl with Big Fight
• Incredible elbow drop
• Wrestling style best described as...

lol which one?? All of them?? There are so many! But I can talk about some of the ones I posted.

But first, an important detail. In general, it's really weird to talk about real people, their possible orientation real life ships or w/e... But wrestling is WEIRD and is a strange blend of reality and character by design. Like Turbo Reality TV. Atop that, Joshi wrestling is, by many accounts, a kinda hiding...