Zero22xx

Ah yeah I assumed the good wrestling torrents were probably locked behind a registration somewhere. I barely ever see wrestling torrents on standard sites and when they do exist, the seeding is poor. My go to through the years has usually been the watchwrestling websites, but they seem to only ever deal in WWE, AEW, TNA, ROH and NJPW. I found a steam for this Stardom show in yandex search results (it's basically better than any other mainstream search engine for pirate shit) but still, not my preferred route.

God fuck AAA and fuck Konnan lmao

And fuck Vampiro too lol. Say what you will about Matt Striker, the guy had to do two commentators jobs when he was working with Vampiro because all you could get out of the guy was burps, farts and hot takes like "I dunno man, it's just pro wrestling". Lucha Underground was good in spite of him.

There are people like Merawrestling on Xitter who post translations of post-match/in-ring promos

Well that's not too bad, I guess. Better than nothing and that's the really important stuff that needs translating anyway. Pity they're on Twitter though. Subtitles are actually fine too, so the YouTube channel might be worth a look see.

I've been wanting to look into this promotion for a long while now but apart from NJPW itself, Japanese wrestling isn't nearly as easy to find online and start anywhere as American wrestling. Same goes for Mexican wrestling actually. Lucha can be as confusing as fuck without someone telling you what's going on in English, especially chaotic AAA.

Still in between wrestling promotions and just quickly checked out an illicit stream of this. Do these guys ever release shows with English commentary?

Just listened to a track. Pretty strange and cool. Think I'm gonna be investigating further.

While trying to figure out the discography of The Gathering, a band that has been on my radar for a long time but with a lot of albums and different sounds to go through, I've come across Agua de Annique / Anneke van Giersbergen, the solo career of the now ex Gathering vocalist, which is fairly easy listening (although still rock / alternative) and something to listen to slowly when I'm in the mood.

And then also the previous band of the current Gathering vocalist, Octavia Sperati, which is some sort of gothic flavoured metal I guess? I dunno, I don't really care to know subgenres of subgenres. But I'm really enjoying this one. Which kinda sucks because it looks like they haven't done anything since their vocalist joined the Gathering.

And then today I listened to some Chappell Roan and I liked it! Not music that I'm always in the mood for but I think it'll go nicely in my rotation of '80s and '90s stuff when I'm feeling so inclined.

Edit: also I think I'm gonna finally look up whoever it is that does the intro songs for Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex.

When I was younger, I believed that it was an ideal worth striving for. Now I don't have that much faith in people anymore and I think that the best you can ask for is to try to live life your way and stay true to your beliefs and morals as best you can, according to whatever circumstances that you've been given.

Just listened to "Good Luck, Babe!" and "Hot to Go!". Definitely poppier than my usual tastes, which I was expecting. But old school, as you say, and it gives me feelings of nostalgia. Her voice is awesome too.

I'm definitely sometimes in the mood for this kind of jam, so this might actually become a little guilty pleasure of mine. I think it would fit well with all the '90s (and some '80s) shit on my playlist anyway.

While I agree with the gist of what you're saying, rioting because your favourite sportsball team lost is also deranged shit that shouldn't exist in a civilized society. It might not be nationalism to a country but it sure as shit comes from the same place, maybe just with a little more gang mentality thrown in.

Kid that wants to take everyone else's toys, after being told no by a grown-up: "I hate you! You're not my friend anymore!"

I honestly haven't even listened to any of her music (and maybe I should give it a try at least) but so far I've liked almost everything I've seen and heard about her online. The mainstream music industry needs more punks and rebels to speak out and cause a ruckus. If anything, just to kill the manufactured, conformist slop it's all become.

Yeah, Zulu is a different beast to European languages. I suppose as different to English as certain Asian languages would be. It also borrows from English and Afrikaans though, for certain Western words and concepts that weren't in the vocabulary before. And there's still nouns and verbs and tenses and shit, so it follows the same basic rules / concepts as any language.

As for Afrikaans, funnily enough I'm actually living in a part of the country now where some fluency would've been useful. Luckily you seem to be able to get by with just English just about anywhere though.

As another outsider, grocery prices seemed to be the main excuse from all of the supposed fence sitters and centrists that cast their votes for him after their supposed careful consideration. I remember a few clips doing the rounds on Reddit of people being interviewed about who they voted for and why. Which seems like a flimsy excuse to me from people that claim to be impartial.

But yeah, honestly to me it looks like culture war bullshit mainly won this for Trump. There were certain portions of the population that outright said they would never vote for a woman. And from what I gathered, large amounts of gen z, particularly ~~men~~ boys, are so lost to this culture war shit and treat the words of people like Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and even Andrew Tate like gospel. That for the first time in history the younger generation swung further right than the next generation up.

These people can all act shocked and surprised at what they're getting now but when he wasn't blabbering about Hannibal Lecter and OJ Simpson, and shuffling around on stage to YMCA, the only coherent message he ever had was bigot nazi shit. So anyone claiming it was about grocery prices or who is acting shocked now, is a fucking liar.