Random midnight anime musings

Just so we're clear, if the Jaguars beat the Bills, Josh Hines-Allen gets to become Josh Allen, and Josh Allen has to become Josh Patrick Allen

Vacating titles to me is always the lamest way for a title reign to end Especially when it's not injury based, because you're basically burying the division on your way out "none of you are good enough to take it and I don't want it anymore" Yes I AM still bitter about Asuka 🤼‍♂️

Way too many people in Pro Wrestling, fans, wrestlers, management, and media alike, dismiss almost all criticisms as "they're just mad they didn't get what they wanted" Which is only the case if "what they wanted" is "something good" 🤼‍♂️

It's just a huge pet peeve of mine, promoting a title match but then not giving fans that title match is not the purpose of "card subject to change" 🤼‍♂️

Whenever I see an anime sub/manga purist who *insists* that translations be direct and are staunchly anti-localization, this scene always plays in my head

And with that, farewell to what I dubbed 5 years ago as: 🤼‍♂️

I don't usually let my non-wrestling sports related bitterness out but.... If Drake Maye doesn't win the MVP, then the name of the LA Rams' QB will officially be changed to Statt Padford

It's not even that 🤼‍♂️ I say this all the time, and people call me a liar and I just respond "you....weren't....there" But...people legitimately were pushing that someone like *shudders* Ted DiBiase Jr be the one to end the streak

I guess it's because I hang out in different circles, but I see everyone on here post WK going "What's with the sudden Jake Lee hate?" and I'm just like "....sudden?" 🤼‍♂️ To quote one person from that circle: "Fuck Jake Lee. He been ass since AJPW"

So, just so I'm following, Drew's big plot is to challenge Cody to a 3 stages of hell match, where he has to win 2 falls to become champion, despite failing all this time to even beat him once? 🤼‍♂️

Assassin's Creed Mirage kind of got slept on but it's geuinely like the best Assassin's Creed game in years, mainly because it FEELS like an Assassin's Creed game from before when they kept trying to "recapture the feeling"

I don't know who needs to hear this, but married people on here: It's time to cancel your spouse's Hallmark Movies Now subscription

Alright, since the year is over time to start the new year with the first annual 🤼‍♂️ RYAN SCHRAMM PRO WRESTLING AWARDS SHOW 🤼‍♂️ Let's begin: "Hangman" Adam Page This concluded the Ryan Schramm Pro Wrestling Awards Show

Welp, it's been a year and a half, but I admit I was wrong in spring of 2024 when I said Willow wasn't getting her title back 🤼‍♂️

Fittingly that is one of the key characteristics of being a main character 🤼‍♂️

I get unreasonably annoyed at Amazon's "based on your recent purchase" notifications "You recently bought an HDMI splitter, here are others!" I already bought it.....do you think I'm just constantly in need of one HDMI port to connect to 2 or more?

AEW at its creative peak was the place that had stories fans would argue about 5 different ways a story could go, then AEW comes up with a 6th that's equally brilliant I felt a little of that here, I'm actually intrigued to see where it goes 🤼‍♂️ ...plus a title being taken off Okada is always good

My goal for wealth used to be "make enough where I don't get concerned over the price of jerky" I think I'll amend it to "make enough where I can casually go to paid DnD sessions every week" I just checked out startplaying and while some are reasonable, $35 a week? Really?

I'm not saying everyone needs to be happy or like MJF or anything but....I'm going to bang this drum again We need to have a conversation about people with revisionist history acting like MJF's whole reign was bad as opposed to like, the last couple months, really only once Adam Cole got injured 🤼‍♂️

This one's on me, everyone I said I'd be happy with any result in the main event outside of Joe retaining My bad 🤼‍♂️

I had a lot of ideas for who could win the finals of the C2, but they all rested on the assumption Takeshita was beating Okada Because I can't see Fletcher beating Okada in the finals for meta reasons and I can't see Mox beating Okada in the finals for story reasons Fuuuuuuuck 🤼‍♂️

In regards to the main event tonight I had to rack my brain trying to figure out if there's any precedent for a men's world title changing hands in a (one fall) 4 way match Had to go all the way back to this 🤼‍♂️

I can't quite articulate why, but Swen saying the true reason Larian isn't making another Baldur's Gate being because they just aren't that excited about DnD somehow hurts more than any other explanation they could have

I tend to avoid the deep AEW/WWE tribalism, but can we not "both sides" the Andrade situation? Miro, Fenix, Starks, etc were all getting paid. Andrade was not and was told he couldn't get paid anywhere else Not condoning AEW's stuff, but one is OBJECTIVELY worse here

There's gatekeeping, and then there's dragon ball fans on reddit who say you can't even take part in the conversation unless you've read the entire manga

Going to be golden tv when Mercedes is down to just her Owen Hart belt and Tony Schiavone comes on screen to inform her that since the next tournament is coming up, she'll have to relinquish it

I'm not thrilled about a 4 way match, but I want to talk about the MJF promo itself I think people are being too quick to dismiss it as "same shtick" I saw it as "I'm still an asshole, but I'm making a step forward, and I'm ready to carry this company again" 🤼‍♂️

Sometimes I wish I was part of a wrestling podcast, just because a) I love talking about wrestling but more importantly b) it'd actually motivate me to keep up to date with wrestling instead of falling off for a month then binging in a day

I actually like MJF, am happy to see him back, and am intrigued by his inclusion in this program But man....I feel like people don't talk enough about how 4 way just....isn't a good match type, and almost every good 4 way match is good in spite of the format, not because of it 🤼‍♂️

We here at the Schramm household do not condone animal cruelty .....however

Arguing work/shoot for the Thea/Monroe match seems ridiculous, it's a simple test 🤼‍♂️ Did the match give the crowd what they wanted? Shoot

I'm not saying the Don Callis Family is too big But I AM saying I would unironically watch an entire Continental Classic that was exclusively Don Callis Family members 🤼‍♂️

I am a firm believer in suspension of disbelief and how real like (notably MMA) shouldn't affect how you buy things in wrestling🤼‍♂️ But One thing I stand by is passing out from a hold instead of tapping out doesn't make you look 'tough,' it makes you look stupid

Finally caught up to Winter is Coming and. . . . 👀 🤼‍♂️

Look, ALL I'm saying is every time I see a post saying "So they had Je'Von win Iron Survivor just to lose?" I feel just a little more vindicated with my "Continental Classic being for a title is way better than a title shot" take 🤼‍♂️

PSA for Playstation players This is a God-Tier Deal

I went out of my way today to install WWE2K25 just to confirm that in "Create-A-Show," of the dozens if not hundreds of available locations you can set your show to be at, Jacksonville Florida is one of, like, 6 that are disabled by default 😅

OH, I forgot my other reason for not always considering AEW criticism Because often times the criticism ends up being "you don't do it like WWE, and you should" and it turns out what they're criticizing is actually a feature instead of a bug

Andy hit the nail on the head, it always gets me when people present their subjective opinions as objective fact...when often they end up being false anyway "AEW doesn't tell stories" "The matches are happening for no reason" "They don't sell" "Don Callis gets zero reaction" (I JUST SAW this one)

The whole thing is a waste of time. As a fan, I don’t have to agree with your criticism. Saying it can’t be accepted is just a roundabout way of saying your opinion is fact, and I must adopt it or I’m ignoring facts. I have my own criticisms. I make them all the time. They don’t adopt mine either

I was just thinking about how a massive clue to the protag figuring out the twist of the first arc of Sword Art Online was the revelation "there's nothing more boring than watching someone else play an RPG" ....I know the manga was written in 02, but the episode aired a year after Twitch launched 😂

Sitting down to watch that Tony Khan/Ariel Helwani interview .....54 minutes into an 80 minute interview, when asked what's the status of Adam Cole, the first time that Tony actually takes a second to collect his thoughts 😔 That said more than anything he actually said 🤼‍♂️

The most Sportskeeda headline ever🤼‍♂️

Pretty sure the men's B&G was the first blood and guts where someone didn't surrender to save someone else 🤔 Sammy surrendered to save jericho Daddy Magic tapped to save Jericho Mox surrendered to save Yuta The Bucks surrendered to save Perry Toni surrendered to save Mina

*Someone says something objectively wrong about Tony Khan* *you correct them* "Wow, you just love to bend over backwards defending billionaires, huh?" 🤼‍♂️

My Dungeons and Dragons hot take of the month "Battlefield Control" bores me. Hell I rarely play a full caster anyway, but I just hate the idea of casting hypnotic pattern over fireball (though I prefer lightning bolt over both) 🏰🐉🎲

You can tell a lot about a person by how long into season 4 of Attack on Titan it took for them to realize so-and-so was the bad guy

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

I'm not saying Rusev is lying about not refusing to do jobs What I am saying is it's funny his argument was "look at when I lost to Sammy, or Bryan, or whoever!" When there is no 'whoever,' it was literally just Sammy and Bryan 😅 🤼‍♂️