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Triple H wastes no time tempering expectations after the Wrestlemania-style Netflix premiere of RAW

  This episode of RAW went on for a bit over 3 hours though there were only four matches on the card. All four matches averaged 30 minutes and it was obvious WWE was loving no longer being constrained by fixed commercial breaks or having to wrap up RAW by 10PM or 11PM. It’s probably more than fair to say Smackdown and NXT will both eventually make their way to Netflix too. Here are the match…

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States passes away at the age of 100 (1924-2024)

It was the announcement the country has been bracing to hear for almost three years. Carter’s health has been in decline in recent years and more so after the death of his wife two years ago. At the time, both of them entered hospice care together. Last year, Carter announced the same cancer he beat twice before came back only this time he knew his age meant he would have to things take their…

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Likely Imminent WWE Returns, Injury News and other end of the year Updates

  Two big returns to watch out for by the beginning of January are former Womens Champions Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair. Charlotte suffered a devastating knee injury on an episode of Smackdown last year and has been out ever since but she has been working her way back as soon as she was medically cleared to train. The latest news is WWE is working on storyline plans to bring her back as we…

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My replacement Desktop PC is now up and running but now I'm running low on disk space!

    It’s a problem but at the same time isn���t. It does mean I’m now going to need to do what I held off doing for three years and reformat the 750GB Hard Drive I pulled from a desktop PC I scrapped three years ago. When I bought the first version of my current desktop, I separately bought a 3.5″ 4TB Internal Hard Drive to replace the 500GB system drive it came with. After installing Windows 10…

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A New California State Law on the digital distribution of Video Games highlights the need for Loss Protection for Consumers; Breaking News from the Video Game History Foundation

  California governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill that forces the entire video game industry to say what we’ve all known for about almost 20 years in regards to buying video games digitally: You are not actually buying the game. You are buying a license to play the game. Further, there is no guarantee or an expectation that game is guaranteed to be available for redownload in the future.…

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Having now seen Godzilla Minus One, I get why it's considered the best modern version of the iconic Kaiju

  For those who might not know, this movie actually dropped in Japan three months before Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire dropped worldwide. The funny thing is this movie actually overshadowed the other movie internationally. It’s not a knock on GxK but the nostalgia factor in GMO is impossible to ignore. GMO is set in postwar Japan. The way the time period is portrayed is just chef’s kiss and…

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Ok so my Desktop PC just died after 3 years and I'm now down to one computer

  Unsurprisingly, I might add. I knew when I got three years ago that it wouldn’t last for very long. Mostly because of how I used it. I figured that out when I realized I’ve had my laptop for almost as long but I didn’t use it as much in the same amount of time. I used the Desktop as my “main” or primary computer at home mostly because I didn’t want to put the heavy load on my laptop which I…

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Today's shooting incident at the Abundant Life K-12 Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin is an unfortunate reminder nowhere is safe from sudden tragedy

  I’ll just put it like that. The Bible makes it clear: Bad things like this happen to innocent people because of sin. Even since school shooting incidents started making the news in the mid-90s, there have been efforts by many well-meaning Christian schools saw them as recruitment opportunities. “You won’t have to worry about your kids getting shot here”, they said. “We don’t do lockdown drills…

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Civilization VII's Opening Movie and Main Theme Unveiled at the 2024 Video Game Awards

  The game drops on February 11 on all current platforms + PC. Here is the (base) game’s opening Cinematic:     …Mindblowing, yes? We actually know more about Civ VII before its release than any of the other main series games released to now. This is also the first time a Civ game will be released on all current platforms simultaneously. The console-only Civilization Revolutions (Nintendo DS,…

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I know it's four months away but here's some potential Wrestlemania 41 matches we may see and why they'd make sense

During the YouTube Documentary which gave a behind the scenes look on what led to Wrestlemania 40’s main event being changed, Triple H revealed he started penciling and planning the card for WM40 In October 2023. That was 6 months before the event actually happened. Based on that, it’s probably fair to assume WWE has started to slowly put WM41’s card together this past October as well. As of this…

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Here's some brief explainations of who the American Oligarchs--the REAL Deep State--are and how they gradually bought the Federal Government

  Welcome to Part 2. In Part 1–the previous blog post–I ended up giving a longer than expected but necessary deep dive into what Controlled Opposition is and looks like. This time you get a bit of a recent history lesson on the rise of our new overlords: The American Oligarchs. I want to take you back in time to 2007. Wall Street was crashing, Shares with big banks were falling and with it the…

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Here's some brief explainations of what Controlled Opposition is and looks like

There’s been so much cloak and dagger out in the open in not just American politics but in other parts of the world since the turn of the century, it really is something else. Like my previous blog post, this one is largely for the benefit of some of my college classmates so it will be shorter than what I’ve consistently written over the years on this blog. As noted by the above picture, I’ll…

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Ok so I beat Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake's main story within 10 days

  All things considered, I could have and should have finished it a few days earlier. For context, the game was released on November 14. I beat Zoma for the first time 9 days later. In comparison, I have the 2D version–which I’ve owned it for almost years along with DQ1 and DQ2–and haven’t yet collected all of the Orbs in comparison. Yet I beat this version of the game in 9 days. While I was…

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Here's a brief recap of some events from just 2000 to 2024 that paved the way for the rise of the new political reality to come

  I’m writing this largely for the benefit of some new subscribers who are also classmates in one of my college courses this Fall semester. The timeline of events I’m about to cover that lead to the current political reality in America can actually be traced back about 110 years ago when the Democratic Party and the Republican Party switched political ideologies with each other. Everyone knows…

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I know I haven't written in a while but I've been watching anime on Crunchyroll all year...and listening to Anime-related podcasts

  The last few years have made Anime fans feel spoiled to say the least. There’s something for everyone out there these days and that’s always good.   For those who might not know, Crunchyroll launched an official podcast called The Anime Effect in January. They actually release two podcast episodes a week though only one a week is made available fore viewing via the Crunchyroll platform. You can…

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It's now safe to say Persona 4 and Persona 5 foreshadowed current events in the U.S.

  I said “foreshadowed”, not “predicted”. For context, both games were developed a few years before Donald Trump’s first term as president. Persona 4 was originally released on the PS2 in 2008 (P4G was first released 4 years later) while Persona 5, which was announced in 2012 was released in 2016 on the PS3, and PS4 and Xbox One (Royal was first released two years later first on the PS4 and Xbox…

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Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of The Seven has no business being as good as it is

  Like the Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Unicorn Overlord and the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, we have a Game of the Year 2024 candidate here. I played the Demo and bought the 2D port a few months back but when I got the full game on the Switch (bought physical), I was floored…and VERY excited at the idea of Romancing Saga 3 getting the full 3D Remake treatment too! For those who might not…