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  1. I assume that there’s some governing body setting that limit, as most betting sites have a £10 minimum withdrawal. Just means when you win smaller amounts you end up gambling them in the hope to turn them into something bigger, rather than letting them accumulate over time, because it turns out gamblers don't have great long-term planning ability or impulse control.
  2. Not the easiest thing in the world to follow, but Luchablog uploads clipped matches from most of AAA and CMLL's TV content around a week after it airs, as well as a lot of indie stuff: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1ebraR2AUOoo6hqmjXyrVEVs-oOFHJ_1P AAA upload some, but not all, shows on their YouTube channel, and their bigger shows (Triplemania, Rey de Reyes, Lucha World Cup) are on Fite/TrillerTV. If CMLL live stream, it's generally behind a paywall on their YouTube. It's worth following Luchablog on Twitter, as he tends to post about when and where and how to catch the bigger shows. I'd like to watch more CMLL, they're on a hot streak (especially compared to AAA), and have some incredible talent. I just don't have the time, and even as a bit of a Lucha nerd, I find some parts of their shows pretty difficult to get into/
  3. This is Roger. Not a single thought in his head. Complete idiot of an animal.
  4. 10 points - Final Fantasy VII 9 - The Secret Of Monkey Island 8 - Metal Gear Solid 7 - Red Dead Redemption 2 6 - Starcraft 5 - Dungeon Keeper 4 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 3 - Chrono Trigger 2 - Age of Empires 2 1 - Streets Of Rage 2
  5. On a regular basis, not counting stuff I go to live, mostly just AEW. I watch Dynamite every week, and dip in and out of Rampage and Collision when they look worth watching. I keep tabs on other things - will watch the bigger AAA shows, and GCW when they book something interesting, though I struggle to keep on top of anything else. Sometimes dip into NJPW or the bigger WWE PPVs, but I rarely come out of a WWE show feeling like I got my money's worth.
  6. That he followed it up with a "....BUT I DIDN'T" in the style of Athletico Mince's Lenny Biscuits made it even better.
  7. AJ vs. LA just feels a bit cobbled together, a real "and who have we got left?" affair in the style of Kurt Angle vs. Kane at 'Mania 18. Before that, I assumed the direction was going to be a US Title clusterfuck with everyone Logan Paul had cheated or screwed over getting a shot at him - LA Knight, Kevin Owens, Randy Orton, probably throw AJ in there too, just a more blatant "get everyone on the card" affair, but one that at least feels like a 'Mania match.
  8. There's usually decent stuff on there, but the whole card drags. Suzuki vs. Barnett was my favourite match all year, whatever year it was they did that - Barnett has carved out a niche for himself, where he's much better and has more of an aura than he ever did when he was more of a regular wrestler. In terms of AEW talent making the show, I don't know if Moxley will be on there this year as AEW seem to have cut back on the number of indie dates he's permitted to work, but Barnett will be wrestling Johnny TV.
  9. there are people in WWE who I know for a fact were offered more money by AEW. That doesn't mean I think the figure getting floated around for Mercedes is correct - that puts her on Brock Lesnar money, and more than Cena's reported salary, which would be bonkers. Thing is, WWE sells wrestlers on opportunity - yes, you might get less base pay than WCW, but with all the royalties and other perks on there, and the possibility that one day you might break through to genuine mega-star status, is usually enough to get people to sign on the dotted line, especially if they've always grown up dreaming of working for WWE. What we're seeing with the big signings that AEW have made is Mercedes Moné, who has been there and done that in terms of WWE, Okada who seems far more concerned about how he's presented and how respectfully he's treated than about whether WWE can offer him a Wrestlemania main event and an action figure, and Ospreay who never really had that "always wanting to be a WWE superstar" childhood dream; his inspirations were in TNA, or in Japan, and while I can see him ending up in WWE one day, he was never going to sign a mark deal because a little kid inside him always imagined himself wrestling on Monday Night RAW. Obviously it doesn't hurt that they've all got seemingly great agents - Barry Bloom for Ospreay and Okada, and UTA for Mercedes.
  10. True, but I think it's also an accepted part of the job that Witchell or whoever the Royal Correspondent may be is a given, whether you like it or not. I get the impression Charles finds a lot of the actual business of being King quite tedious, but it's what he's been prepared for his entire life and he has to do it. Whereas there's a sea-change with Harry choosing to opt out of "Royal" life, and the relationship between William and the press isn't one of utilising soft power, but the fairly heavy-handed application of super-injunctions - as @Keith Houchen said, I think there's something to the timing of suddenly getting all these press profiles of the Marchioness of Chomondeley, but rather than seeing it as a "soft launch" as a potential new partner, I think it's more the press warning William & Kate of what's waiting for them if they don't play ball. Aside from all that, I wouldn't be surprised if William, Kate, or any of the younger Royals have burner accounts and sock puppets on social media through which they are able to navigate the world relatively free from the trappings and conventions of their role. That takes a lot of control and power away from the press. All of this is me just having a reckon, I neither know nor particularly care about any of this!
  11. it looks to me like Sami getting slotted in here is similar to Daniel Bryan being added to Edge vs. Roman Reigns when that story wasn't going well - WWE thought "well, people love this guy" and saw crowbarring him into the story as a quick fix, but a decent sized chunk of the audience almost turned on him over it because they saw "getting added to Triple Threat matches" as becoming Daniel Bryan's schtick, at the expense of the person they felt "earned it". You can't be the babyface underdog if you're getting handed opportunities. From WWE's perspective, I'm guessing they saw Chad Gable as a dependable sympathetic babyface to get heat on, for Sami to step up in time for the actual match. It's a shame, because while I think Sami and Gunther will have a phenomenal match, I think the great Wrestlemania visual in that match would have been Chad Gable hitting the Chaos Theory on Gunther.
  12. I think this isn't far from the truth - the media don't have the access to the Royals that they want/expect, and they're banging the drum about Kate here while it's a non-story to give them a taste of how hard they could go if there's something worth reporting, all in the hope that it forces them to play ball. It's a younger generation of Royals who don't solely interact with the outside world through press releases and Nicholas Witchell. I doubt there's any real story behind the Kate photo, and some of the ways it has been "Photoshopped" could easily have been an automatic compositing and tidying up of multiple shots, rather than any active manipulation, but making the photo the centrepiece of all of this fuss is a good way for the media to fire a warning shot about not trying to sneak anything past them. What's funny is that the Twitter detectives and conspiracy sleuths aren't satisfied that the photo has been edited weirdly around one of the kids' wrists, or the obvious little things like that, and are trying to argue that Kate's face has been shopped in from a Vogue cover, and making it a much bigger deal. The longer it goes on, the more deranged the explanations will become, when if they had just released the original, unedited photo when asked, at least some of that would be nipped in the bud.
  13. He sounds like he’s been smoking twenty a day since I last spoke to him then, it's the weird gruffness he puts on when he's trying to be serious that stands out as forced.
  14. I think Wardlow vs. Joe was a perfectly fine TV match for the spot it had on the card, and equally that there's a reason why it was booked in that slot and on this show, and that's because Wardlow just isn't good enough to perform at a main event level yet, when you compare that match to pretty much every other AEW World Title match. I was surprised they had him lose clean, though, because the Undisputed Kingdom's momentum is just absolutely in the toilet now with MJF out, Cole injured, the Bang Bang Scissor Gang feud getting abandoned, no follow-up on Roderick Strong as International Champion, Taven and Bennett being Taven and Bennett, and now going to the all-too familiar well of inter-faction intrigue with Kyle O'Reilly. I'm still not completely sold on Ospreay as a promo, because I can't help notice the extent to which he's putting on a voice and playing up the bruvs and Essex-isms (claiming that the Tiger Driver '91 dropped Kenny Omega "on his knockers" being a particularly egregious bit of bollocks), but that was the most I've genuinely believed what he's saying in a promo so far.
  15. BomberPat

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    Very much so. You can have legitimate discussions or debates on trans athletes in sport, but I'm not inclined to take it very seriously when you never express any other interest in women's sports that isn't an excuse to further attack trans people, particularly when every other Tweet on your timeline is about attacking trans women too. Similar to how JK Rowling as a supposed champion of "women's rights" never finds the time to publicly express a statement on, for example, abortion rights being under threat in America, but Tweets multiple times a week on transphobia, which makes you think that her priorities are probably more about attacking trans people than they are about defending women in general. If you are setting yourself up as someone who cares about the sanctity of women's sports but have nothing to say about, for example, Gymnasts for Change, the abuse of young women in Indian wrestling by men at the highest levels of government, and never showing any interest in any individual games or matches, but losing your shit every time a trans women comes 138th in a marathon, I'm going to come to the quite reasonable conclusion that it's not about women's sports. On top of that, there was a Canadian meta-study last year looking at data from between 2011 and 2021 that showed that either trans athletes on average have no biomedical advantage over cisgender athletes, or that the data isn't conclusive enough to show that they do, that many of the justifications for excluding trans athletes are unscientific and inconsistent, and that trans athletes are sufficiently under-represented in the higher echelons of sport that the idea that people are "pretending" to transition just in order to win at women's sports is a complete fallacy. One of the big talking points from people opposed to trans women in sport was Laurel Hubbard, the weightlifter who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - she finished last in her category, with 13 (presumably) cisgender women outscoring her, but she's still held up as a scare story robbing a spot from other women. She's not used as an example because she's winning, but because as a weightlifter she has a physique and look that can be easily shared on social media as "mannish" and "unfeminine" and get people riled up about "men in women's sports" - the victims of that aren't just trans women, but any woman who doesn't fit a narrow category of what a woman "should" look like, and long predates the present moral panic about trans women in sports; Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand most recently for how intersex athletes have been caught up in all this, but there were female sprinters in the 1936 Olympics accused of being secretly men, and jokes about young female Soviet gymnasts actually being older men were everywhere in the '80s and '90s, to a far greater degree than anyone expressing concerns over those gymnasts being subjected to physical and sexual abuse. We're wrestling fans, we all saw how much Chyna was ridiculed as a "man" when she debuted in the WWF, or how Joey Styles called a low blow on Nicole Bass as being hit "in the balls". If a female athlete reaches any prominence at all, while not looking like a narrow, stereotypical ideal of what a female athlete should look like, or if they achieve at a higher level than their male counterparts are comfortable with, they're attacked as men, and there's a long and horrible history of them being subject to invasive and insulting tests to "prove" that they're women, and being abused and insulted in the press too. Outside of sports, it's the bathroom policing thing - I know of at least two cis women who have mentioned to me that a woman in the bathroom had complimented them on how well they were "passing", because they were over six feet tall, so had been read as a trans woman. But they weren't trans, and being over six feet tall might be unusual for a woman but still falls well within normal cis female biology, so it was just a judgement based on policing what a woman is supposed to look like - and it's just a matter of luck that, having been read as trans, that interaction was a positive one and not something worse. It's the flip side of the coin to policing trans women based on unclear data, prejudice and incomplete and inconclusive ideals of what constitutes a biomedical signifier of "sex" - to use one simple example, the primary method of deciding in which gender category someone should compete at the Olympics is checking testosterone levels, but that's not a cut and dry deciding factor - there's not insignificant crossover between a woman with high testosterone and a man with low testosterone, yet high testosterone doesn't make that woman a man any more than low testosterone makes that man a woman; especially when you would expect a peak athlete to have different levels of testosterone than an average woman. And, of course, men are never tested for their testosterone levels as a matter of interrogating gender, and there's no restrictions on allowing trans men to compete as men in the Olympics, it's only trans women who are policed on those grounds. So apparently the integrity of sex-based competition only matters in one direction, and that direction just happens to be in correlation with the direction that most anti-trans policy in all other walks of life is pointing. I'm also just generally uncomfortable with the idea of policing this vague category of "biological" or "genetic" advantages in sport. If a male athlete naturally produces more testosterone than his opponents, we're not policing that, but by the logic used against trans athletes, is that not a biological advantage? If a basketball player stands over 7' tall, should they be restricted from playing the sport because their height is a "biological advantage" that might give them an advantage over shorter players? There are athletes like Michael Phelps, whose body produces less lactic acid than the average person, which is by definition a biological advantage, yet no one tried to police him out of the sport for it. Almost every peak athlete has a "biological advantage" of some kind or another, because that's how you end up being a peak athlete, yet it's a phrase we only use when wanting to restrict trans women's access to sports. The real disadvantages women face in sports are economic, social and cultural, not biological, yet I don't recall seeing JK Rowling or any of her followers express concern over the comparative lack of funding received by women's sports, lack of coverage in women's sports in the media, socio-cultural barriers to entry, nor about any of the abuse that happens to girls and young women in sports at the hands of cisgender men and women, which can't be blamed on those dastardly transes.
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