If this guy is headed for WWE and doesn't just get lumped into a tag team with Penta again, even more reason for me to consider the switch. It would be pretty appropriate, considering that Lucha Underground was my original jumping off point away from WWE.

Fine going out on your back but to Tessa Blanchard? Come on now, so they're replacing Grace with Blanchard basically. I don't know but this almost feels the same as certain companies dropping DEI programs and certain social media platforms allowing forms of verbal abuse. The timing of hiring a scorned bigot as their next big star makes it seem like it was an easy decision.

If Jordynne Grace is WWE bound, maybe I'll follow. At the very least I'm more interested in checking out NXT than I have been in a long time. Although watch Tessa Blanchard get regularly used in this crossover that they're doing anyway.

Feeling like jumping ship a little right now. AEW kinda comes across as a little smarky for me and as someone that hasn't watched much, doesn't sound like they give women's wrestling nearly as much focus as TNA does.

What an alpha.

Part 2:

• Apologies for bad formatting, working out how to mix bullet points and paragraphs
• The Mack mentioned
• Mike Santana vs. Josh Alexander: Both these guys! Both these guys! Also, I heard somewhere that Alexander was on his way out, guess this is it. I'd say that if TNA were a video game, he's clocked it now. And I hope that he makes a big splash in whichever bigger pond that he's headed to.
• If the Hardy's are here to pass the torch at all eventually, it's gonna have to be to some clear cut heels because no one is getting cheered against them.
• Rosemary vs. Masha Slamovich: the match that I've been really looking forward to. Rosemary is probably my favourite wrestler in TNA and overall for the better part of a decade now. Wish that I had caught the start of her career. Also, Taya Valkyrie (another favourite since Lucha Underground that I miss but didn't follow to WWE/AEW) was such a great pairing for her in Decay / Death Dolls.
• Holy shit Slamovich looked this close to hitting her head on the edge of that second table when she came off that ladder. Seemed like a pretty short match to me, although it was intense. Wasn't expecting Rosemary to win. It's Masha's time now anyway.
• Nic "Dolph Ziggler" Nemeth vs. Joe Hendry: gonna post now before finishing because I know the result
• Pretty neutral on this. Joe Hendry is not my personal favourite but I don't mind him as champion and it's definitely his time right now.

That was some funny shit. Pretty sure there were some loud "fuck you Tessa" chants too.

Makes me even more disappointed that she won because if TNA now backs out of this (or Tessa backs out of it) to avoid crowds shitting on her like this for live PPVs, this ends with her on top again. And at the expense of someone way more invaluable to TNA and women's wrestling as a whole.

Part 1:

• Love the look of the ring right now
• Jake Something could get over with that "what's my name" yell and enough consistent large crowds
• Fuck the System (honestly I've got a soft spot for team Ride or Die, they've been through some shit over the years)
• Ace Austin could've probably gone elsewhere many times by now (same as Bey) but opted to stick around here. The kid should've won and deserves gold every time he has it.
• Macklin and Young are turning out to be a pretty cool team up
• Fuck yeah, Spitfire. Thankful to not have to deal with the Elegance brand as champions. And I love it when the cool alternative ladies are running TNA (which seems to be most of the time).
• It's a real pity Tessa Blanchard is a piece of shit because she's really fucking good and honestly deserved that men's world title at the time (just to clear because that sounds icky, by "deserved" I mean that it was no marketing ploy, it felt pretty organic to me; deserved in the same way that Joe Hendry deserves it). I can't remember many on Reddit being too against it either. Either way, it's obviously time to get used to her, at least for the inevitable best of 3 with Jordynne Grace.

And now my earphones need charging, so I'm gonna take a breather, smoke a joint, drink some coffee and scroll a bit.

Sorry for going on here but just want to say, reading through all of the features for Piefed I already like what I'm seeing very much. Before I've even tried an account. The approach and philosophy towards moderation in particular makes me confident that I wouldn't be instance hopping much there based on those sorts of disagreements.

Edit: also something nice is the ability to use the same import/export from Lemmy.

Nice, thank you very much! I'll definitely be checking it out. As long as I can access these forums or something similar with decent activity and users, I'll be happy.

Yeah I chose the most populated instance there to create an account and check things out. But the app kind of stopped my exploration dead. It's a little barebones right now for my tastes right now, especially as far as customisation goes. And I'd be spending more time there than in front of my laptop.

Right now I think the only features that I'm really missing here on Lemmy itself are posting to your own profile and multicommunities.

And it would be great if instances like Blåhaj could enforce their own rules regarding things like downvotes properly, so that they could be disabled there for EVERYONE but enabled in places that still allow downvotes (this should go for individual communities too). The current implementation seems a little like an afterthought on the Lemmy devs' part.

Edit: the biggest problem that I can see so far with excluding Blåhaj users from even seeing downvotes is that it gives an incorrect perception of things. If a bigot gets 2 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I'll only see the 2 upvotes.

Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you've just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.

Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren't really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.

Doesn't have the same vibes though. To me 'normie' has always been a little bit of an insult on top of just describing the 'average person'. "Average person" is for when you're describing statistics. "Normie" is for when you're describing people that clutch their pearls and their bible when a goth walks past.

Haven't watched yet but just want to say fuck TNA emails. Ages ago I looked into whatever their streaming service was at the time and since then I've been getting emails that I'm too lazy to unsubscribe from. Well this morning, I didn't even have to open the email because it was the first two sentences that showed up in my notifications saying "New Champion: do you believe?" So I guess I don't have to watch the main event anymore, thanks TNA.

Even if I wanted to emails and excitedly read every one of them, it's a bit fucked to be sending out spoilers literally hours after the show, especially when half their viewers are spread out in different timezones across the world. If I was a TNA+ subscriber, I would want these emails. And then I'd be really fucking pissed for spending my money just to have these idiots emailing me the results before I've even watched.

Anyway, I'll probably be back here later to drop my thoughts. Thankfully I'm not that interested in the world title scene right now.