One thing that will forever baffle me about the meta here is that someone like Buckley can be told, Hey there’s an alliance of 4 here, you want in? And be like Nah I’m good. Who says no to joining a majority like that, and how did that actually work for him?!
Wow Margot's manipulation of Fox is honestly masterful.Absolutely.
Is this the power of being a "very empathetic person"?Chapter 5
I want to like Foxy, I really do. There is a lot to like there. But they are very frustrating to work with and I'm not sure how much longer I can do it for. They're constantly spewing ridiculous excuses at me and in my head I'm just....
STOPPPPPP!!!!!! JUST BE REAL WITH ME GOSH!!
even after I literally tell them to stop bullshitting
yeah it's getting to me
Reaction to TC 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46CLzI8lNE
[4:05 PM] Peter: because it feels like foxy and max are isolated and will play a game of who am i going to idol??? is it going to be me?? is it going to be max??? am i even going to play it this round?Wow nice, that does make sense. He probably survives the Ivanhoe vote I think…
[4:05 PM] Peter: therefore
[4:06 PM] Peter: im yeeting outta here
This was Peter to me privately if anyone wants any context. And honestly it does kinda make sense, because Foxy has the idol and was planning on targeting Peter.
Steve is good fun). Steve has just sent me a massive wall about wrestling - I think he's enjoying our conversation! It's a lot more off-topic than the one with Margot though.
I'm sorry about your toddler. That has to be the worst. Thankfully my lil one sleeps pretty well (for the most part).
So what do I like about wrestling? Well the main thing is that when wrestling is good it can really tell an awesome story. Like for example in AEW (the company who ran the show I watched) there are 2 wrestlers Hangman Adam Page and Kenny Omega. Here is a twitter thread that sort of loosely explains Hangman vs. Kenny story:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1411638991343042562.html
I am so invested in Hangman and Kenny finally coming to blows. I actually thought it was going to happen on Sunday but about 6 weeks ago they hardcore changed directions and just sort of stopped the story dead in the tracks which was weird, but whatever. But in addition to good story telling I'm fascinated by wrestling in general. It's so cool to me that the whole thing is like "hurt your opponent without actually hurting them." You watch and you see the great lengths that they go through to really protect each other from getting injured, but then sometimes you have matches where they just go fucking ham on each other and you are like "Oh my God!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJw7AH_1C20
The tall guy in briefs is WALTER and the shorter guy in trunks is Tomohiro Ishii "The Stone Pitbull". They just chop the fucking shit out of each other. One chop from Walter would probably make me cry and quit, but Ishii (pronounced E She E) just takes them and then is like "Give me more!" It's just fascinating.
There is also this guy Tetsuya Naito. So in Japan wrestlers come up through a dojo system. When they are in training they are basically just pieces of shit to be beaten at the whim of whatever "real" wrestler they are facing. Naito joined the dojo at the same time as another wrestler Kazuchika Okada. In any other time Naito would've been the stand out from his class, but instead he was over shadowed by Okada. So they both graduate, Okada goes to America to work with Impact Wrestling while training and Naito goes to Mexico to work with a company called CMLL. They both come back to Japan at roughly the same time, Okada gets a gimmick of a rich playboy, Naito gets a gimmick of the "Stardust Genius" and he's basically a high flying smiling totally fucking generic babyface (good guy). So for like years Naito, who would've been the top star in any other company is relegated to like the 4th or 5th top guy. So after some embarrassing attempts to push him as the #1 (which the fans rejected because they wanted Okada and another guy named Tanahashi) he goes back to Mexico. In Mexico he joins a group called Los Ingobernables. They are total bad guys and at first he's really annoyed at all the cheating and bullshit they pull, but he sees that it lets them win so he starts to incorporate that into his moves. He goes back to Japan a TOTALLY different guy. He's an asshole, he's lazy, he's a coward, he's everything he wasn't before...AND THE FANS FUCKING LOVE HIM. He represented to the fans that there was more to life than doing what you were told, getting a salary job, working until you die. So Naito FINALLY beats Okada, gets the title but then quickly loses it back. Naito enters this tournament called the G1, he wins! He gets ANOTHER shot at Okada at Wrestlekingdom. Naitos last 2 years have been about tranquillo, about being calm, not letting your emotions get the best of you. He hits his finishing move the Destino, but Okada kicks out! Naito hits another Destino....Okada kicks out. Naito goes to the top rope and hits the stardust press (a finishing move he has not done since his return), but instead of trying to pin Okada he lets his emotions get the best of him, he goes back to the top, goes for ANOTHER stardust press, but Okada rolls out of the way. Okada grabs Natio and then hits the Rainmaker (Okadas finishing move) and pins Naito. It was such an awesome story because it was like "This one time he gets emotional is when he loses. He forgets everything he's been doing and wants to be the champ." Sadly when Naito did FINALLY get his chance to be the face of the company COVID hit and he just did fuck all for like 5 months and then lost the first time he defended his titles. He won them back but I've never been as invested in him as I was during the lead up to his match with Okada.
If you ever have 30 minutes and want to watch a really good video about a woman wrestler named Maki Itoh, give this one a watch. I wish I had been watching when this storyline was happening.
https://youtu.be/ag7CTgdgy40
I'm sorry for the long message. My thoughts are I'm good with whoever. I don't really have any bonds one way or the other. As long as it's not me. Do you have any plans on who you are voting for? The names I've heard have been Royal and Madame.
I don't mutiny.
We all go along with it being Max as the vote.
Me, Margot, and Max all vote Madame.
I idol Max.
don't see it happening, but if richie were to vote with max and foxy, the others wouldn't be able to split the votesIt's possible, but I don't see him vibing with them at all.
Foxy has such a fun energy about him. He's a mile a minute and I'm all about that life
My goodness foxy has a lot of apology PM's written up. I think if I received all of those PM's back to back I would instantly medevac out of shame.
Well, Wes, it seems like Peter is working on getting Duke to vote with them as well for the numbers but it remains to be seen if he'd do that. I wonder if he can try to get Writer in on this too? Obviously he prefers Sam but we do know Writer doesn't trust Oracle at all so maybe there is an angle he can work here?wow this was very prescient
So now I have Anthony trying to organize a group of me, him, Sam, and Peter (with a double vote). I'm not really interested but I told them I would hear what they had to say or else they may try to pull in Duke instead. I'm going to remain loyal to Oracle/Suzy/Writer and I believe Gustave will vote with us also. Duke has stated that he will vote for Sam, but we'll see what actually happens.lmao what is herman doing
doesnt realize he's on the bottom because those people made a group chat alliance with him, so he wants to stick with them I guessSo now I have Anthony trying to organize a group of me, him, Sam, and Peter (with a double vote). I'm not really interested but I told them I would hear what they had to say or else they may try to pull in Duke instead. I'm going to remain loyal to Oracle/Suzy/Writer and I believe Gustave will vote with us also. Duke has stated that he will vote for Sam, but we'll see what actually happens.lmao what is herman doing
it currently looks like rushmore is about to send madame home by accident(?)I don't think so. Richie and Madame D. are on Max so it will be a 2-2 tie.
i really appreciate sam trying his best to shoot his shot and not just going down with a whimper. wish we saw that more often! it's too bad duke and herman aren't biting. at least one of them definitely should be!
look at this game right now and tell me with a straight face that every game doesn't need a foxy. it's so much more fun. he's actually a lot less crazy than players who have filled this role in recent memory, which makes it possible to root for him (which i am)