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You have to use an LP and play it backwards for the portals to open or else it won't work.

Genz didn't even have these influences. They had Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.

Definitely agreed with this point and I haven't completely lost hope yet that these kids will wake up and see what's going on. I'm 10x more willing to forgive and give more chances to gen Z that have grown up being brainwashed by garbage than I am as far as my own peers and older are concerned.

I'm starting to firmly believe that the biggest cause of all of this is enshittification. And I'm not just talking about Facebook but also the music, movies and games industries. In fact I recently made a post ranting about how Sonic the Hedgehog has been reduced from an anti-authoritarian icon to a fluffy teddy bear that's all about 'family' and top 40 pop and McDonald's references.

The grifters like Joe Rogan that showed up aren't the cause but rather a symptom of an entertainment industry that stopped producing art and started chasing lines on graphs that go up and down and giving us nothing but safe, middle of the road, lowest common denominator slop. So there was an opening for anything other than that slop. While I grew up with NOFX shouting about how the idiots are taking over, these kids grew up with fucking Jay Z and Kanye and whatever other fucking assholes singing about dancing in the club and walking around like living billboards for Ray Ban and Nike.

IMO, when the revolution comes, the people currently running things in the entertainment industry need to be amongst the first to see rope.

Yup. This is what right wingers and Christians do. I've often seen people try to claim that right wingers in the USA are different from the rest of the world and I've regularly heard the "not all Christians" line too.

But as someone from a country that used to have a system called 'apartheid', I can tell you that this is exactly what fucking right wing conservative Christians do when given half the chance (and when they don't have the chance, they cry about being discriminated against). Plus every single Christian asshole teacher and authority figure I had to deal with in high school and boarding school were exactly the types that would embrace and love authoritarianism.

Personally I am not shocked at all that these people are doing this. What I am shocked about is that so many fucking idiots actually believed these little fascists when they claimed to be pro free speech and freedom in general. And I cannot put into words the disappointment I feel that so much of gen Z fell for this bullshit. The kids are supposed to be where the hope for the future is. But these kids turned into a bunch of fucking little bootlickers that support the kind of people I've fought against since I was a kid.

Yeah I was actually kinda thinking that while I was typing it. It's probably going to be difficult finding a wrestling promotion where pieces of shit haven't been involved in some way. It's just that the TNA thing is fresh and blatant and the timing of them hiring Tessa Blanchard, right when a bunch of companies were bending over and removing diversity and fairness, was fucking awful.

But I agree, I have felt a bit like a hypocrite saying that I'm gonna drop TNA for NXT. I'm just not sure where else to go for good women's wrestling from the USA. Maybe things have changed but I very much have the impression that it's an afterthought in both AEW and ROH. And I'm not prepared to put up with people like the Young Bucks just for one women's match in 3 hours lol.

But I'm hooked on Stardom right now anyway and haven't even been in the mood for TNA or NXT. And I found a website that also has TJPW and a bunch of Japanese stuff. So it might be keeping me busy enough in the next few months to not even miss American pro wrestling.

Interesting version of Brainiac. Seems to be a mashup of his original Silver Age history but twisted into something original. In the Silver Age he also came from Colu (at one point his origin was that he was created by the 'Computer Tyrants' of Colu, it's unclear if they are the creators of Brainiac's race in this origin story that we got though) and had a 'son' called Vril Dox / Brainiac 2, although this son was assigned to him by the Computer Tyrants in order to make him appear more like an organic lifeform than a robot.

In this version, it seems that Brainiac's original name was Vril and that he created his own son, Vril 2. I wonder if he also created his wife lol. Or if the Computer Tyrants were the ones running Colu and creating the robots.

I haven't actually read Silver Age Brainiac stuff, just going with info from Wikipedia.

Is this guy just a little ass fly hanging around Trump's crappy nappy or something?

I've been thinking about this lineup since last night and I think it might be why I never really got into Metallica or Slayer either. Risking controversy here but as much as I love the thrash sound, those early bands all kinda come across as macho meatheads a little bit to me. The kind of people that beat up kids that listened to heavy metal back in school. And a lot of the older fans of these bands that were around when I was just starting to go to metal clubs and shit gave me those vibes too.

So I'm not sure what Black Sabbath's excuse is but the rest here seem kinda like birds of a feather to me.

Any niche communities for TV shows and entertainment. Something nice about Reddit is that you can look up any random TV show, even obscure shit you watched as a kid that no one talks about anywhere else, and you'll probably find a community posting memes and fan theories and reviews about it.

It's probably gonna take a long time though because there's no exodus happening to here because Reddit banned all the TV show subs. It's just gonna probably get more political and angry here every time there's an exodus.

Thanks! I might skip through some of it, or else I feel like I'm probably only going to catch up to 2025 by 2026 lol. But I see now it is worth checking out, even not just for title matches. Coming up to a tag match with SLK & Tam Nakano in a team, which I guess advances that story I saw start in Queendom. And honestly I think I'm kinda liking the no commentary.

I need to ask just one more question if you don't mind lol. Just started watching 'GoldenWeek'. I don't think I saw this listed (amongst a couple of other things here) on that Wikipedia page. And on the steam I'm watching at least, there's no commentary or match graphics / stats. And the sound quality is pretty weird, like the ring is loud and you can even hear the vinyl of their ring gear squeaking. At least in this first match I'm watching so far.

Are these kinds of shows basically just house shows that they've recorded? Or should I expect any story and rivalry developments here?

Oh look, the kiddie fiddlers and book burners that accuse others of being pedos and anti free speech are accusing people of things again.

Nice, thanks for all the info. And I've actually just found another 'watch-wrestling' website (this one with a hyphen) that has Stardom and a lot more Japanese stuff on offer than the old watchwrestling website I've been using. And it seems to list everything here in a handy chronological list. So looks like I'm set.