Hello you beautiful people!
It was one year ago that the Reddit Apocalypse™ occurred. On June 9th 2023 gloomchen and AKittyCat (two of SQ’s long-time Reddit/Discord mods) set up a new home for us away from Spez and the rest of the flaming garbage dump. It wasn’t always smooth (given everything we had to deal with on kbin, which for the record doesn’t seem to have changed much if at all lol) but we’ve managed to flourish and keep growing bit by bit (and with a minimal amount of bans or deletions too!)
Thanks all for coming along for the ride. If I had a salmon jacket I’d do a fake retirement bit here but ya know~
Anyways, onto the normal festivities!
Hello SquaredCircle! Welcome to our Weekly Discussion Thread!
What have you watched lately? Seen any great matches? Have suggestions for things to watch? Anything not getting covered in other threads that ya wanna fill people in about? Questions about promotions, wrestlers, ‘the business’ or more?
Feel free to post below!
(Reminder, this thread can and will contain spoilers for possibly any show. Spoiler tags are not required in here, but if the show just happened try and keep spoiler talk it to its respective discussion thread for the first day).
Happy birthday guys!
I don’t follow wrestling that much, but happy to know there is a community here!
That feeling when you’re clipping an event and don’t notice till way too late that the audio is out of sync, ruining it.
🤦♂️ So anyway watch the Despe Invitacional from NJPW, real fun show, especially the hardcore matches.
It has been 0 days since the IWC embarrassed itself.
I wish Tellum would get his butt over here! That slacker!
He’s been inactive on kbin for a long enough time that I think he may just be done with everything =/
Well that sucks, but as long as he’s doing okay
I honestly think he only stuck it out with Kbin because he got made a mod. Neither of us volunteered. The reason AKittyCat picked us was we were the 2 most active users there, and he was nominated by other users because he was already posting the discussion threads. Still shocked to this day that I was chosen in the first place, but I wouldn’t change anything, tbh.
Happy birthday everyone, and thanks for everything you do here Geek. It would be very different, and quiet, without you.
I try <3
You very much succeed!
Holy cow, I guess it has been a year. Time flies.
Glad kbin decided to work this morning so I could double check the date cause I thought it was on the 12-13th XD
Happy Birthday, fellow filthy marks! 🎉
Just a general FYI, but using the new t.lemmy.zip interface breaks the spoiler tags if you put them in the body of a created topic. Specifically the little bit you can see before opening a topic, once you open the thread it works as intended.
Spoiler Title
Such as posting about Iyo or the local medical center being AEW.
🤦♂️ Son of a bitch lmao
Used to get the same thing on kbin’s mobile interface which is why I’d usually fluff the first line or two before I put in the spoiler, guess I’ll return to doing that! Thanks for letting me know.
For those who don’t wanna miss it: NJPW’s El Desperado is putting on his own show today from Korakuen Hall (The Despe Invitacional) - A (mostly) mystery card ala Mystery Wrestling. The pre-show is up on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhSSrVR9iI
The main show will be at 5pm EST on NJPW World ($22usd, English/Japanese commentary available).
(Will cover it asap as norm, gotta do Dominion first!)
A year since the Reddit incident. How the time flies.
Also watch DPW LimitBreak
Kbin is still a dumpster fire, it’s down 99% of the time when I try and go to the microblog, one of its top topics in the last couple of days was something along the lines of “Holy shit, I could log in.”
I saw talk of Tellum and I’m not sure what outside of Microblog and SquaredCircle Tellum was using, but most of that can be fulfilled elsewhere with much less hassle and without coming to Lemmy, which has a not so great rep thanks to some servers… I like you Zip, not so much World, not at all Beehaw.
The Microblog is what I miss most from Kbin, because I really never warmed to Mastodon or BlueSky.
Why is Beehaw catching strays… because it rhymes with all.
Good ol Beehaw, the first sign up I ever made on the Fediverse and the first Fediverse account I closed when they did nothing but make me feel unwelcome for daring to step foot in their instance which they purposely chose to make on a federated software open to everyone who wanted to sign up because I didn’t do so a month earlier and was thus a ‘dirty redditor’ lmao.
I’m not gonna give this the dignity of posting a thread for it and draw attention to the source -nor- the subject, but this happened https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wrestling-legend-hulk-hogan-reveals-stance-potential-run-office-i-know-right-from-wrong-brother
🤦♂️
Edit: Alt link - https://archive.ph/CkCcU
Same energyYup!
“I know right from wrong”
And wrong is whatever does not work for him, brother.
Happy birthday! Love this little slice of the IWC, especially how non-tribalistic it is.
Thanks everyone for making this a nice place to be.
the best part about this is having zero ratings discussions. :)
That shit is honestly cancerous, popularity is by far the worst metric for anything remotely approaching quality, and nielsen ratings are not even good proxies for that.
like probably 90% of the people watching wrestling probably don’t even watch tradition tv anyway
It’s such a nonsensical point too, some of the best wrestling I’ve seen is in Stardom and TJPW, which have crowds in the thousands and no tv deals in the US. If ratings meant anything other than “old people watch this” there would be a very different breakdown there.
Got rid of my own tv service November 2009, wouldnt be surprising.
