The Buccaneer

It certainly was an incredible experience. The pure joy of seeing opponents flung far into the stands, of weapons flung at my skull by referees. The absolute nihilistic lows of the futility of existence from the 10th hour onwards.

Is it one I'll seek out again again? Remains to be seen.

A screenshot from the game Wrestling Empire. Someone in a hat is sitting behind a desk with a speech bubble reading "You idiots may think you understand this business, but you'll feel differently when you're sat where I am!" The tag team Piracy have been added to the image from a real photo. Badly. There are inexplicably still ring ropes over them, even though there is no ring in the room.

That 12 hour stream? It's kicking off now. Head on over to twitch.tv/fireabroadside if you want to see me not understand how to play a wrestling game.

12 hours! Wrestling Empire! Let's go!

A image of wrestlers in a wrestling ring, in a screenshot from the game Wrestling Empire. The three in the centre are taken from the screenshot of the game, one wrestler is seated on the shoulders of another, while a third wrestler is jumping from the turnbuckle to deliver a dropkick to the seated wrestler. In the left, another wrestler dressed as a pirate is very poorly photoshopped from a real photo, delivering a chokeslam.

I promised. You delivered. Now I'm delivering.

Since my community were lovely enough to get me a video card, it's coming.

The MDickie masterpiece, Wrestling Empire.

12 hours.

Australia's most ok wrestler takes on the most ok wrestling game.

10am AEST tomorrow.

twitch.tv/fireabroadside

Hey, remember back when Microsoft put an AI chatbot on Twitter and it got goaded into saying nazi shit and they shut it down?

Amazing how far we've come since then.

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What's that? I'm about to go live with my eternal opponent The Misift at twitch.tv/fireabroadside and we're going to be talking about old matches and then maybe playing some Dinkum?

It wraps in a very Inscryption way.

Well, after a long weekend that felt more like a month, it was super lovely of the weather to deliver a much needed late night walk in the rain.

Well. You got me. I was fooled.

Or even just until the drive to work doesn't happen.

I hope all his excited customers are happy with their $15,000 salt lamp. Since he was so bang on.

The perfect pi day joke. No notes.

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People paid channel points to make it happen. Subscribers voted for it. It's finally here. It's Hades day. Will I be really too distracted to interact with chat? Probably, yes.

Let's go. It's a first playthrough of Hades, kicking off and going #live in about 30 at twitch.tv/fireabroadside

Oh hey, I haven't watched The Wrestler since before I started training. I wonder if it looks different now I'm a wrestler.

*Watches Randy pocket a fan's sharpie 4 minutes into the movie*

Yeah, that tracks.

Well, now you're at least going to need to get some gear and face paint together.

But I did get to hang out with @sonneveld.bsky.social and his crew after he raided, so that was a nice little unexpected softening of my failure to get things done.

Look, it's easy to blame yourself at times like this, but none of us could have expected that.

I did not.

I suppose I'd better do a stream. Will I finish My Time at Portia's main plot tonight? Maybe. Probably not. Either way, the stakes are overwhelmingly mid.

Come hang out anyway.

twitch.tv/fireabroadside

Two fine looking bearded gentlemen in headsets in front of a banner for a Newcastle Pro Wrestling show. Specifically The Buccaneer and Cam the Commentator.

Best looking commentary team in the business. Bar none.

Actual ability to speak? Undecided.

Anyway, we did the usual things. Like these.

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So the good news is that on this, the last day of Summer, I realised the fan in my library has been on Winter mode for at least 12 months.

So catch me live at twitch.tv/fireabroadside right now for the most comfortable stream I've done in months temperature-wise.

Me neither.... me neither.

Genuinely. But of course, we won't denounce a damn thing and our allegedly centre-left government will just fall in line with two right wing pricks advocating for ethnic cleansing because it's an easier route, and we're allied.

Sorry, did I say Australians? Meant Palestinians. Shit.

Australians are getting forcibly removed from their homes, which their families have lived in for years, so migrant settlers can just move in and take them? Because the migrants control the government, and their international allies say they're in the right? This is tyranny, and must be resisted.

Putin wants to establish Intervision as competitor to Eurovision Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to establish an international song contest in Russia to compete with the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). Russia was excluded from the much-watched Eurovision cont...

A cishet Eurovision? No thanks. Sounds boring as hell.

No need. It's already there.

It's honestly shocking that I'm not a promo guy.

Is the woke in the room with us right now?

Which I usually am anyway, so no changes there.