Managed to work a full day, meditate twice, write a short story, cook dinner, and enjoy some measure of contentment with the material conditions of my present life, which is pretty impressive considering parts of my life feel like a wayward Long Island trash barge fully in flames right now.

Rewatching the Full Gear Casino Gauntlet match, and I think it's one the best AEW has done. Gauntlets can at times feel like people waiting in line to do spots, but this one had a logical flow and multiple stories going on that effectively highlighted the depth of AEW's midcard.

maybe i am going insane

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Always remember when the worst storms come, be not like the great tall pines, for they break when faced with reality. Be like the sapling and bend as a reed does in the wind, and you will weather any storm. Adversity is not an obstacle to peace. It's the very soil from which wisdom emerges.

Backlog Blitz starts tonight at 630 pm EST on Twitch. Casual Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Sunday night stream. twitch.tv/eddie_akiba

Backlog Blitz is going to start a little later than normal today. Tending to some real life responsibilities. Shooting to stream around 630 pm EST.

I may have been a little caffeinated last night/this morning, so here's a clip of me calmly beating the Sirene boss fight from Clair Obscur Expedition 33 during my last stand from last night's stream to prove that I'm also capable of "Low Key Cringe" in addition to "High Strung Cringe."

Going to probably reach the end game of Shadowgate (2014) starting on stream on Twitch at about 10 am EST on the Sunday Retro Replay. Let's goooooo 🤘 twitch.tv/eddie_akiba

Now that Mox's excommunication is a given, the payoff to his baby face run should be defeating the Death Riders, only to realize he's still going to be offed by PAC and Claudio — the catch being Marina saves him in the end like Vader in Return of the Jedi. #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

Poor Jon Moxley has no idea what's coming 😭😭😭 #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

Where was Aubrey!!! Oh.... #AEW #AEWFullGear

I give that match 14 stars. Congrats Kris Statlander!!! Mercedes Moné Meltzer Multiplier. #AEWFullGear #AEW

That's great story telling. I legit thought Kris Statlander was injured and Aubrey was about to call it. #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

Yes! I much prefer Babyface Bucks. #AEWFullGear #AEW

The stipulation to win this match seems oddly specific. #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

The Passion of Mark Briscoe & Protostar Kyle Fletcher. #AEWFullGear #AEW

OK now we need the Jon Moxley Death Riders betrayal so we can have the Moxley rock bottom to top baby face run. #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

Jon Moxley this whole match: #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

Daddy Magic to Daniel Garcia: #AEWFullGear #AEW

Daniel Garcia: #AEWFullGear #AEW

Do you think if Orange Cassidy was a princess in a medieval church morality play, they'd call him Orange Chastity? #AEWFullGear #AEW

The typos and auto correct are strong with me tonight

Honestly, now that FTR has the tag titles again, it could be cool if they did an old school chase angle with Brodido where FTR just terrorizes anyone associated with Brodido. #AEWFullGear #AEW

Holy crap. Crowd was on their feet going nuclear for Bandido. #AEWFullGear #AEW

I see FTR has been training with Harley Cameron & Garrison. Dax Harwood was all about that Cash Wheeler Cake 🎂 #AEWFullGear #AEW

Brand new Megan Bayne using her tag partner as a projectile move 🤘 #AEWFullGear #wrestlesky

Timeless Love Bombs ♥️💣💥 #AEWFullGear #AEW

Leave Marina aloooooneeee!!!!! #AEWFullGear

Babes of Wraaaaaaaath!!!! — *cough* *cough* ouch, ow, ow, ow, ow #AEWFullGear #wrestlesky

AEW women's wrestling let's goooooo!!!!! 👏🤘📣🧨💥 #AEWFullGear

Wheeler Yuta - #AEWFullGear Colorized

Darby Allin with the deep cut reference to Darkman III: Die Darkman Die. #AEWFullGear #AEW #wrestlesky

Fighting a boss in Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and getting party wiped in the first round wondering how the hell you're going to surmount it and then slowly figuring out a perfect winning strategy inhabits the same dopamine super nova as beating a boss in Elden Ring and Dark Souls.

A half a can of olive juice just accidentally exploded in my face, so I will now be referring to myself as "The Anointed One" this evening. I'm just letting Tony Schiavone & Excalibur know about my mediocre delusions of grandeur now that my #AEWFullGear commentary is starting. #wrestlesky

The Rizzler's popularity inhabits that layer of fever dream pop culture that I no longer have access to. Like no shade at all — I just think it's kind of crazy kids are popping for the Costco Guys like Stone Cold's music just hit during a Monday Night Raw in 1997. #AEW

Juiceeeeeee — bringing the silly goose-ness already. Good way to set the tone for the evening. Free pass to act silly tonight. #AEWTailgateBrawl #AEW

Let's goooooo #AEWTailgateBrawl AEW Full Gear is soooooon. #AEW

Going to be playing some Golden Joystick Ultimate Game of the Year Award Winner Clair Expedition 33 on stream starting today at 4 pm EST on Twitch. twitch.tv/eddie_akiba

Chilling

This fuzzy doofus always brings a smile to my face.

To the two people who watch my Saturday Morning RPG show on Twitch, apologies but a little emergency has come up, so no stream this morning, but I'm going to try to stream some more Clair Expedition 33 during my regular afternoon slot at 4 pm before Full Gear starts.

Everytime I'm about to jump on the phones at the office I think about Volition from Disco Elysium. Man, I need to replay that game again. youtube.com/shorts/dzLOZ...

youtube.com/shorts/BQOW_... OMG 😂🤣😂, as someone who has winter coats for my dogs because it gets so cold here, this is hilarious

My takeaways from the Red Velvet vs. Mercedes Moné match: Red looked like a star out there and she had on the best boots I've ever seen in my life. That said, OMG Moné vs. Statlander has such Full Gear main event energy, and the lungblower is such a brutal finisher. #AEWDynamite

Nothing stops the Goddess & Problem hype train let's goooooo. F-yeah Megan Bayne & Marina Shafir 👏👏👏👏 #AEWDynamite #AEW #wrestlesky

God, I love them sooooo much 🤣😂😭 #AEWDynamite #AEW #wrestlesky

Mina Shirakawa and Alex Windsor could wrestle a ham sandwich, and it'd still be a five star star banger. #AEW #AEWDynamite

I f-ing love that the one dude who haunts Jon Moxley's nightmares is just a guy named Kyle, not like Hangman, not New Jack, not like Beelzebub Lord of Darkness — just one badass dude named Kyle 😂 #wrestlesky #AEW

Whatever happens in the women's tag team title tournament, I think we can all agree that AEW should legally be required to have at least one Babes of Wrath segment on TV per week. Like they're the best. THE BEST. #AEWDynamite #AEW