NOT GAMES

Jordan Mallory Aug 5, 2022. 47 minute read

Have You Ever Felt Like Someone Was Hypnotizing You?

On this week’s episode of Friends Reunion (a Podcast for Discerning Listeners™), John remains lost somewhere in the belly of an enormous cruise ship — almost certainly in the morgue, but not dead, crucially — just like, hangin’ out in there and looking through stuff. Meanwhile, LB and Niki decide…

mer Aug 4, 2022. 5 minute read

Worth the Wait: Bayley, Dakota, and Iyo Usher in a New Women’s Division

SummerSlam marked the first premium live event under the watchful eye of Triple H, with Vince McMahon kicked to the curb faster than you can say “multiple pending lawsuits.” With a whirlwind of company developments churning behind the scenes, the prospect of a HHH-lead WWE was already enticing. His tenure…

Danielle Riendeau Aug 4, 2022. 50 minute read

RoboCop Is An All-Time Great Satire

RoboCop is fantastic. It’s a classic piece of satire, a phenomenal 80s sci-fi-action masterpiece, and one of Fernanda’s all time favorite movies. So, you can probably guess where it might end up on You Love To See It store shelves! As always, you can listen to the show in the…

David Bixenspan Aug 3, 2022. 6 minute read

Vince McMahon Navigated Controversy for Decades. What Changed in 2022?

What took so long? Seriously, what took so long? There have been so many WWE scandals — whether specific to Vince McMahon or more broadly — that counting them all becomes a ghoulish exercise with a quickness. That’s doubly so because it’s way too easy just to rattle off scandals where…

Dylan Roth Aug 3, 2022. 5 minute read

‘Bullet Train’ Review: Hyperverbal and Hyperviolent

The best way to describe Bullet Train is that it’s extremely “from the director of Deadpool 2.” David Leitch is one of the founders of the 87North production company, itself an offshoot of 87Eleven Action Design, the collective of stunt performers and choreographers whose sensibilities have defined the past decade…

Joseph Anthony Montecillo Aug 2, 2022. 5 minute read

How Does One Write About Professional Wrestling?

It’s not easy to write about pro wrestling. Despite being the artform itself being around as a popular form of entertainment for over a century, it feels like the actual practice of writing criticism about pro wrestling is only in its infancy. A large factor in this is how pro…

mer Aug 1, 2022. 5 minute read

Dropping the Bar: An Ode to Sheamus and Cesaro

Claudio Castagnoli made his much anticipated AEW debut at Forbidden Door in June. The vaguely Doctor Who themed show suffered various setbacks, as multiple wrestlers were unable to compete. Bryan Danielson was injured and couldn’t participate in his scheduled bout with Zack Sabre Jr, meant to determine the best technical…

Trevor Dame Jul 30, 2022. 8 minute read

Here’s What Sucked About the Roast of Ric Flair, Besides Everything

I watched it, you shouldn’t. Here’s why. It Wasn’t Funny Seems like a big one for a roast, right? Over the course of well over two hours (that felt like ten), I laughed out loud one time for an anti-joke from Conrad Thompson’s sidekick Casio Kid about Torrie Wilson’s workout…

Joseph Anthony Montecillo Jul 29, 2022. 6 minute read

Wheeler YUTA and Daniel Garcia Take the ROH Pure Title Into the Future

ROH has had a love-hate relationship with the Pure division. The division made its debut in the early 2000s, introducing a new championship to the promotion which was contested under an entirely unique ruleset. Because of this, the belt could be conceivably presented as of equal importance to the World…

Natalie Weiner Jul 29, 2022. 4 minute read

LIV Golf and Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism

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. I should probably begin this column by acknowledging I know…

Jordan Mallory Jul 29, 2022. 52 minute read

Does Flashing Your Lights at a Stop Light Change It?

On this week’s episode of Friends Reunion (a Podcast for Discerning Listeners™), John is off enjoying a luxurious Alaskan cruise vacation aboard a ship that may or may not have room for dozens of dead bodies in its belly. This leaves LB Hunktears and Niki Grayson to celebrate the birthday…

Trevor Dame Jul 27, 2022. 11 minute read

In Order to Make Its Future, Professional Wrestling Needs to Forget Its Past

Everything good comes to an end. Actually, everything comes to an end, good and bad. The only constant is change. Yet in pro wrestling, there is a growing cottage industry devoted to fighting against that fact of life. More and more podcasts and Patreons are springing up, lead by disgruntled…

Colette Arrand Jul 26, 2022. 14 minute read

The Greatest Wrestler of All Time (The Fifth and Sixth Ten)

The Rock. Steve Austin. Ric Flair. Randy Savage. When I took up the task of naming The Greatest Wrestler of All Time, it was partially out of frustration with similar pieces (though, those being ranked lists, they weren’t similar at all) where the same names kept cropping up. If pieces…

Dylan Roth Jul 26, 2022. 6 minute read

Harley Quinn is the Best Batman Animated Series Since the 90s

Harley Quinn is the DC Universe’s greatest underdog story. Created for a throwaway gag in a 1992 episode of the groundbreaking Batman: The Animated Series, Harley has grown into one of DC’s most popular and marketable characters, the lead of multiple comics series, three live-action feature films, and a host…

Danielle Riendeau Jul 25, 2022. 1 hours read

Stranger Things Season 4: The Good, The Bad, The Vecna

This week on You Love To See It, we decided to ditch all the “traditional” business plans and scams and end “Nice Try July” by looking at Vecna’s business plan. That’s right, we spelunked into Stranger Things Season 4 with a deep, deep dive into Lover’s Lake (and the hell…

Colette Arrand Jul 22, 2022. Less than a minute

“Thank You Vince” Chants: A Review

Colette Arrand Jul 22, 2022. 4 minute read

Vince McMahon Has Retired

I don’t know how to begin covering what is possibly the biggest story in the history of professional wrestling. Vince McMahon is retiring from WWE. In his tweet and in WWE’s press release containing his statement on the matter, McMahon led with the fact that he is 77, intimating that…

Colette Arrand Jul 22, 2022. 6 minute read

I Hope Triple H Starts Pointing at People Again

WWE announced today that Paul “Triple H” Levesque has been installed as the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations. Given that John Laurinaitis is ensnared in an ongoing investigation into his (and Vince McMahon’s) alleged use of company funds to buy the silence of employees with whom he’s alleged to…

Jordan Mallory Jul 22, 2022. 44 minute read

How To Know if There’s a Morgue on Your Cruise Ship

On this week’s episode of Friends Reunion (a Podcast for Discerning Listeners™), the Fanbyte Thinktank has travel on the brain. LB, for their part, has taken a trip to the International Space Vacation Station, leaving Niki Grayson and John Warren behind to plan John’s rapidly approaching cruise to Alaska on…

Colette Arrand Jul 20, 2022. 4 minute read

Nobody Has a Lariat Like Stan Hansen’s Western Lariat

Before understanding Stan Hansen’s Western Lariat, it’s important to consider what a lariat/clothesline is. I don’t mean the mechanism — at its simplest, one wrestler sticks his arm out and takes off the head of another with it, one of the most no muss, no fuss moves in professional wrestling…