Strange Currencies

It's one part of a large thread detailing every change, as good reporting should do? I'm more concerned about somebody pulling that one post out as a quote to try and seem like that was the sole focus of the thread.

The gag was that he didn't know he was a physical adept, and just thought he was really good at fighting, and actually had an aggressive disdain for both cyberware and use of magic in combat, which he considered cheating. Personality wise he was basically a more smug Johnny Cage.

Thinking about my old Shadowrun character "Thunder" Jimmy Cox, who was a physical adept who didn't know he was a physical adept, and whose techniques were named using a pro wrestling move generator, including his big move "Dog Tornado of Inescapable Torment" which once killed 6 men in one round.

I know how it's come to be used. "I'm going to leverage this phrase like a magic spell that means I can continue to love and support things made by horrible people". I just don't think that's what it is MEANT to mean.

A series of Bluesky post responses back and forth between Jon Moxin and Emily Nussbaum John: 100% staged Emily: Word? John: Come on. Too prepared, too fast, feels like an improv exercise. Either that or I have no joy left in my soul, and that's horrifying. Emily: Have you watched the entire video, sir? John: Ok. Eating shit now. Yum.

Second most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available:

Wasn't "separate the art from the artist" actually meant to be a tool you could use in analysis and critique of art to try evaluating it absent any knowledge or assumption of knowledge of the creator's authorial intent, and not actually to justify consuming art by flawed creators in the first place?

Heaux, and portmanteau of ho and hoax. Since the Ai is a fake person.

I might be interested in listening to the audio, like a podcast. But I hate the pivot to video. I'm always doing five things, I'm not going to watch people just sitting and talking.

When you've confused 'homeowners' for 'landlords'.

"That bard—Not silly, not wild, but spoony!"

Jushin Thunder Liger YouTube video by chris cryptofa

Meanwhile, wrestling can also create incredible moments of comedic unreality, as in the match involving the Legendary Asshole of Jushin Liger.

(This match involves many of the currently biggest names in the world for this sport)

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The reason amateur wrestlers, or mixed martial artists, or boxers are "fighting" is "They entered a competition and/or they're being paid a large sum of money to do it."

That's not compelling to me as a reason for wanting to watch violence, whether real or simulated.

But you can always count on a pro wrestling main event to be 15-30 minutes of storytelling-through-action, and advance the ongoing story, even if it doesn't go the direction you'd hoped (the bad guy wins etc). It's a better STORY this way by far.

I'm there for the story, and the fight is one of the forms through which that story is told. I can't imagine paying 500 bucks to watch a UFC championship, and the main event ends in 3 seconds because somebody got a lucky KO shot through somebody's guard. That doesn't sound any kind of fun.

They quickly became "sports entertainers" in order to avoid having to actually treat them like professional athletes, despite their "sport" being harder on the body than many pro sports. But for me, the reason why I have zero interest in say, Mixed Martial-Arts is that the "fight" doesn't matter.

Pro Wrestling spent a lot of years trying to maintain that illusion for exactly that reason. Ironically the point at which they broke that illusion was the point at which, if actually athletes, they would have been entitled to company-provided health insurance.

It's also important to note, that while taking a bump is taking a bump, and you can only land on a hard surface from high up so many times, a lot of moves are created to -look- painful and highly impacting, but when done correctly, are pretty much painless. Good workers can do a lot without risk.

To add on, there's also elements of changing style to account for age as well. A lot of very technical and 'high-flying' wrestlers tend to turn to a more brawling 'stand and punch' style as they get older, since they can't do as much gymnastic or highly athletic stuff anymore.

Big feelings that can then culminate in a "fight" where you cheer for the hero, and boo the villain. The athletic spectacle is a way in which it's more unique than those other art forms. But so is the continuous storytelling. Swan Lake ends when it ends. But stories with wrestlers can go for years.

I'd liken it more to a soap opera than to ballet. A very large part of the appeal is the melodramatic storytelling. Watching a character struggle, and work to overcome challenges which are often ridiculous and over-the-top, has the same kind of appeal that soap opera, or telenovela does.

All of those, for the most part, are just the thing they are. There's not really anything like long-form storytelling, creation of factions, betrayals.

When you watch a movie, or tv show, do you think of that as "fake real life interactions" or is it storytelling, which you understand to be "fake"?

Virtually every tradpub genre fiction book I've ever read has been 3rd person. And the couple that weren't were all pretty recent. Feels more like an incuriosity than an illiteracy.

A perfectly nermal thing to have felt.

How dare the capitalist patriarchy steal an hour from international women's day!

Cutting it down to only 23 hours is a misogynistic crime!

I am having altogether too much fun with wikigacha.com just setting favourites when I come across truly excellent ones.

Flips Not Fists!

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I'm aware. It doesn't make what I said any less true.

Nobody should accept trans people as an act of defiance. You should accept trans people, because they're people, the same as every other person.

You should hate transphobes as an act of defiance.

Oh you said Canadian Indigenous bands specifically. Dead Pioneers are based in Colorado, but they're still great.