Tanner @ No More Bum Raps

If I am going to pay $200 just to register to go to a place where there's an award show begging more clouted up people to attend so they can post about it on social media and pose in front of advertisements for Riyadh, I'd say I'm not interested in the Esports awards.

Sadly that is now just Evo lol

"To make it as simple as possible, there are two major happenings that have been slowly sinking my enthusiasm to continually write about the broader fighting game communities and their foibles. They aren't new grievances and I've written about them before, but in this difficult year I've had a lot of time to reflect on what I want to keep doing with my time, and these keeping sticking in my craw. I will never have an answer that fully satisfies my problems and that's okay. I'm not looking for one either; I'm more than willing to let bygones be bygones and leave it at that. What I can't abide, however, is contininuing on as if they haven't fundamentally altered how I feel about FGC stuff as a whole and keep producing the same blog year after year. Change is inevitable, and I'm on a straight line - as a wise man once said, ain't no gettin' offa this train we're on.

New from me - It's not clickbait, it's not a gag, this is for real. The end of TFW!! has come. You can read about some of the reasons why here, including a growing disillusionment for keeping what I write strictly in the realm of FGC stuff. It's been real!

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"To make it as simple as possible, there are two major happenings that have been slowly sinking my enthusiasm to continually write about the broader fighting game communities and their foibles. They aren't new grievances and I've written about them before, but in this difficult year I've had a lot of time to reflect on what I want to keep doing with my time, and these keeping sticking in my craw. I will never have an answer that fully satisfies my problems and that's okay. I'm not looking for one either; I'm more than willing to let bygones be bygones and leave it at that. What I can't abide, however, is contininuing on as if they haven't fundamentally altered how I feel about FGC stuff as a whole and keep producing the same blog year after year. Change is inevitable, and I'm on a straight line - as a wise man once said, ain't no gettin' offa this train we're on.

New from me - It's not clickbait, it's not a gag, this is for real. The end of TFW!! has come. You can read about some of the reasons why here, including a growing disillusionment for keeping what I write strictly in the realm of FGC stuff. It's been real!

themsfightingwordsblog.com/2025/12/07/e...

Digital Eclipse 'remastered' Mortal Kombat and they've messed things up so during Johnny Cage's fatality you can now see the crew men with the blood hose on the right

It's like shrieking BAD FAITH or some goofy debate term at the start of an argument, a brass knuckles-loaded punch to try and settle a discomfiting topic. Youtubers and writers can rely on that since they're talking to themselves but it makes you sound childish when it's under any scrutiny

If somebody reviews something that lumps in a lot of personal/social topics or has a vastly different read on some part than what a majority thinks, it's still 'objective' if it meets what I said

Invoking 'objectivity' just pads over a personal disagreement/discomfort in what they're experiencing

To me, 'objective' can only mean that you're not getting something fundamentally wrong - a mechanic that doesn't actually exist, a fact about the development that isn't true, etc.

But as with 'journalism', 'objectivity' must now take on the baggage of whatever anxieties exist in the interlocutor

I had a writing idea simmering about why I've strayed away from the term 'journalist' in what I do, and the concept of 'objectivity' being very warped in most people's minds is a big thing to do with it.

A demand for 'objectivity' is, in most cases, a demand that you settle someone else's score

YouTube video by portaps33 Max Payne 3 (2012) - 9 Circulos (Soundtrack OST)

Maybe one of the all-time great OSTs

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Shang Tsung promised to unbalance the furies, a fact I saw when I rented Mortal Kombat II from Blockbuster bc we couldn't afford to buy it, and I think that the inability of him or Shao Kahn to articulate what that means exactly has been a disastrous policy failure for the Earthrealm working man

I disagree with the commander's endorsement punching of council members, but I do agree with the commander's endorsement of punching ambushing hack reporters

Bizarre hellscape with a gasping fiery hole that apparently sums up 80s pop group Dead or Alive

wh

why is this the chosen AI background for You Spin Me Round

Disgraced journalist Olivia Nuzzi, young, mediocre and blonde, open to unethical relationships with men who can advance her career

Imprisoned Pharmaceutical exec Elizabeth Holmes, young, mediocre and blonde, open to unethical relationships with men who can advance her career

Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures

Frost Walrus MMX4 - "He protects the secret weapon which lies inside the Snow Base"

"I picked up some heat"

Welp can't unhear that now lol

South of Midnight getting snubbed at The Game Awards is pretty wild

Someone actually published this and Olivia Nuzzi actually thinks she cooked.

Finish writing that fanfic or short story, don't let your imposter syndrome get you down. There are way worse things out there

I genuinely couldn't tell you the names of the main characters now lol

I had hoped that the rush into a fad with dubious real and spiritual value would eventually spawn a reckoning over how gullible people have become in search of "counter-culture", as well as how much these fads peck at latent gambling addiction in hobbyist spaces. Wrong on all counts!

It was obviously a pandy-induced psychosis that people pretend to just prefer didn't happen, but I hope those who told me "look NFTs are here and we just need to deal with it" are enjoying their weekly appointment with the wallet inspector

"Why would this young, ambitious person wanna do a thing like this?!" repeated ad nauseum in the right forums, at the right parties, and all of a sudden you're now the head of CBS, or you're writing for Vanity Fair.

Never mind that you've tap danced for genocide or sucked off RFK while "reporting"!

I think Olivia Nuzzi fills the same role as Bari Weiss - on paper this is the flattering example of an ambitious woman succeeding in a male-dominated profession with "journalism," and the "journalism" has the rigor and substance of internecine Youtube drama while the flattery is the real story

All i wanted was a top 8 instead of top 6 and all I got was elite pedophile conspirators!

Evo is co-owned by ppl with Epstein ties btw

A top seller at my store. Enjoy!

30 years ago today, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was originally released at arcades in NA. It was developed and published by Midway Games.