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...

https://twitter.com/Himanshu_Doi/status/1588221439529734144 Post Match Interview with Mina Shirakawa, after her teeth and jaw got injured during a Stardom show. Content Warning for Blood and Dental stuff

Wrestling is dangerous. Recently two of my favorite wrestlers had a match in with Saya Kamitani messed up her finisher, the Phoenix Splash, and kneed Mina Shirakawa right in the face. This is not the first time something like this has happened, and won't be the last. Supremely talented wrest...

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...