The Sports World Still Hasn’t Learned To Take COVID-19 Seriously

Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. In this case, let’s start with the good news — it’s shorter than…

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SPORTS

78 Degrees of Wrestling: The Major Arcana of AEW (Part III: The Soul of Reason)

XV. The Devil: MJF Another obvious corollary; is there any figure in AEW more contemptible than Maxwell Jacob Friedman? And yet, there are many captivated by his spell. For starters, I must begrudgingly admit he’s a good pro wrestler—so good to the point where there are actually people out there…

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WRESTLING

The Most Underrated and Overlooked Movies of 2021

As quickly as 2021 brought the Sacred Big-Screen Experience back in full(ish) force, it also brought back the film industry’s most depressing habits. Especially if you live outside any cities with particularly adventurous film ecosystems, the big chains fill up on spectacle and squeeze out the precious few alternatives that…

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TV/FILM

This Steve Austin Shirt I Found On Depop: A Review

In the late 1990s, Stone Cold Steve Austin was a license to print money. Beyond the ubiquitous Austin 3:16 shirt, which had more variants than there are stars in the sky, the World Wrestling Federation really went to work on the Texas Rattlesnake. Some shirts—Blood From a Stone, Rattlesnake Arms—are…

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WRESTLING

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Review: Greatest Hits

The Spider-Man film franchise has the dubious distinction of having been rebooted twice in the space of a decade. The first Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire, launched in 2002 and defined the superhero film genre for a generation. The hasty 2012 Amazing Spider-Man relaunch led…

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

TV/FILM

FFXIV Endwalker Guide: How to Earn Tomestones of Aphorism and Endgame Gear

Now that you’ve finished Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker and witnessed its grand conclusion, it’s time for endgame content and the gear grind. While it’s a rather straightforward process, it will take some time and determination to get a full set of the new level 90 gear. But if you pace…

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GUIDES

FFXIV Server Issues Lead to 14 Days of Free Game Time: Here’s How It Works

Server congestion, long queue times, and untimely disconnections have loomed over the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. It has gotten to the point that Square Enix has halted sales of the game to prevent impacting servers further. And in the latest in the ongoing saga of FFXIV suffering from success,…

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NEWS

96 – Cursed (Cracker Barrel Special Edition)

In this surprise-a-minute installment of Friends Reunion, Jordo and LB swap seats mid-show so LB can handle a potential emergency with their building's poop management systems. Meanwhile, Niki, John and Jordo talk about their favorite Savage brother, favorite Little Debbie cakes, childhood nicknames, the rising cost of wheelchair maintenance, whether…

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Violento Jack vs. Tomoya Hirata Showcased the Present of Deathmatch Wrestling

Since its birth in 2009, Japanese indie deathmatch promotion Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS has been quietly making a case for being the best deathmatch promotion in the world. Home to legends like Jun Kasai, Takashi Sasaki and recent breakout star Toru Sugiura, as well as frequent stomping grounds of in-demand freelancers…

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WRESTLING

Halo Infinite Tenrai Battle Pass Rewards Guide – Leaks May Reveal Updated Items

In response to both internal and external complaints, 343 Industries has overhauled the first Halo Infinite event battle pass. Fracture: Tenrai launched just a few weeks ago and didn’t exactly land well with the community. Between Fiesta Slayer being an event-only playlist (something that has already changed) and half of…

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GUIDES

The New War is Another Shockingly Good, Oddly Touching Warframe Story

Warframe has been building up to The New War for a long, long time. The free expansion is the culmination of a storyline begun in The Second Dream way back in 2015. It’s the quest Warframe players have talked about in hushed tones for the better half of a decade,…

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FEATURES

239: Chaotic Prism

After a lackluster 2021 Game Awards, Paul returns home with a renewed perspective on the games media circus and cools down with Halo Infinite’s campaign, Cam ventures into the calming (?) wilds to pet robot dogs in Generation Zero, and we take a peek into the future with that Unreal…

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