Matt Leslie, HOPE IS BORN!

Lunch

didn't get what this meant at first because I 100% believed there could be a guy in NXT called Raheem Zinger

honestly I would take that ring name over Dolph Ziggler

a lot of people yell at Bandai when shortages get bad but they do print plenty of product (albeit they are cautious about not overprinting)...the problem is most of what they print doesn't even make it to legitimate stores! they need to hold distros to higher standards

considering the shady stuff that happens at the distributor level anyway this was only like...one extra step compared to what usually happens, just cut out the aesthetics of backroom deals and go with For Realsies Crime

okay I just saw the spoilers for the Kiwami 3 spoilers No Thanks, Buddy, I wasn't that clear on what Nagoshi did in his final years at Sega but now I'm guessing his main job was beating the shit out of people when they pitched ideas like that

I'm struggling at the moment cos I work all the time which is Fine For Me but I've lost the counter balance of losing the joy from everything I would have described as my "fav things" 5 years ago, and I'm navigating how much of that is everything getting worse and how much of it is Mental Illness

realising how cooked my brain is that I'm miserable that Kiwami 3 looks bad and everything in general is so bad now you can't even rely on RGG anymore in these dark times but also I'm semi-relieved that I can skip it because I don't really have time to play it anyway

you gotta watch yourself getting parasocial with any politican but like...imagine how instantly better this planet would be if every political office was held by someone who had the capcity to come off like a real human being in public

or y'know...don't bother with any of that and just leave it be!

people fixate on hating the big time scalpers but I don't see many people talk about how sick the cultural impact is, if you're buying retail products at full RRP to "flip" them you're a mark and tons of people lose money trying it

the official Bandai stores sell these boxes £110-120 each, one per customer per day (so this guy went back!), eBay fees clock in at about 11%ish and he has to post it out as well, so if everything goes well he's looking at like a £5 profit max with the risk of losing hundreds if anything goes wrong

this guy has two of these OP07 boxes for sale on eBay for £140 and I am fighting every cell in my body to not message him to ask "what is even the fucking point what is actually wrong with you"

I try not to give people too much grief for this kind of thing since basically all corporate media is poisoned at this point but if you just can't shut the fuck up right now about loving your Xbox and Game Pass given the current state of them I have no choice but to brand you A Freak

"why do you have to post and repost messages about the BDS boycott every time there's a new game announcement or set of trailers"

because there's this weird phenomenon of active forgetting that Microsoft is a tech partner of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity happening on earth today

some people don't bother ordering within tiers, as far as I knew the lore has been Hsien-Ko hard last for a decade but maybe Nemesis lost too many aura points whiffing his Level 3 every single time

OP EB-03 is going to have the lowest allocations for any set ever in the UK and presales on eBay are already gassed up to £600, it's genuinely made me consider just selling out lol

OHH YEEEAAA CRUSH HOUR

I hope you're talking about Crush Hour anyway, don't want this to be the way I find out there's two wrestling car games

I'm not saying this is a better timeline than the one where Bandai just puts the fucking client on Steam but I gotta take what I can get

I hate scalpers and believe the cesspit the collectable second hand market has turned into is a symptom of how deeply sick western society is...but also the scalper plague coming for Dragon Ball Fusion World is unironically bringing attention to the game that it desperately needed so uh...fuk

also out of respect to the one Twitter mutual I haven't talked to in a decade who loved Scaler...I'll say Scaler (I haven't played Scaler)

I don't know what counts as lesser known but I'll try

the remake of Bonk's Adventure on the Japan only Hudson collection is probs the best Bonk game

not obscure but maybe off your radar...the Day of Reckoning games are in the Less Shit tier of wrestling games, WM19 also has a hilarious story mode

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

Everyone always talks about "Charmy Bee's friend in the comics who died from LSD glizzys" but never the fact that the fucking key art chosen for his character bio is his overdosed corpse

七海千秋
#danganronpa

idk if the thing with AJ Styles is a double bluff work or something but I hope if it's legitimate they let him out of his contract so he could have some final hurrahs elsewhere and they didn't retire him early on a Saudi show to feed Gunther...to feed him to Roman on the same night...are they okay

*looking at the Rumble results* okay maybe with the Saudi shows Trips just lets the prince have the book idk but what the fuck is going on over there

when the world is bad but the pulls are good

either they didn't recognise him and this is an unrelated incident that's pointless to bring up at all...or they did recognise him and this is evidence that it was premeditated murder

either way nice try you fkn ghouls

economy being bad is a double edge sword where there's less money going round but people double down on wanting to believe their stuff is worth more than it is, noone wants to screw up someone else's bag in case it screws up their bag when it's their turn...but it probably ain't gonna be your turn!!

right now we're still too infected by the poison that believes in "the market" as a force of nature and not something that is constantly manipulated by bad faith actors, there's no real reason a mass produced booster box should be 3 times the price a week after release, we keep letting people do it!

honestly given the state of the economy in general I wonder how many more shenanigans the collectibles market can take before the whole scene crashes and burns, feel like we're not far away from the layperson getting smart to this staff and all the bubbles start popping