I used to have an entire blog, built for a class, that was just top five lists. The class, for anyone interested, was based on the Nick Hornby book High Fidelity and the idea of[…]
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Category: wrestling
Day 333: The 12 Days of Rusev
For those who aren’t tuned in to the WWE, one of my favorite wrestlers, Rusev, has been running wild with a gimmick of “Rusev Day” (based on the mayor of his hometown naming one day[…]
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Day 310: Penta
A few weeks back, I posted a few videos of how to make face graphics for WWE 2K18. Today, instead of posting an extensive discussion, I wanted to show a few of the PNGs I[…]
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Day 301: Wrestling Kayfabe, the suspension of disbelief, and breaking the 4th wall
Last night, I watched part of the Kevin Owens 365 documentary on WWE Network. About five minutes in, I said to Julie “I can’t tell if this is kayfabe or not.” Upon watching more, I[…]
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Day 294: What the WWE Network pay model can inform us about games and game pricing
I had a candid talk with my students about game pricing this last week. Some of my reflection on this appears in my post on arcades from a few days ago, but let me review[…]
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Day 272: Halloween face paint texture for WWE 2K18
I wanted to spend some time Photoshopping for the WWE game before bed, so instead of a written post, here’s a really, really lame how-to video of me making a halloween face paint using a[…]
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Day 254: DILFs and DUFFs
Apparently Shane McMahon, pictured above, is a DILF. He is currently feuding with Kevin Owens, who when he teamed with Chris Jericho (see below) was utilized as the DUFF. Body image issues aren’t usually explored[…]
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Day 241: the simulacra fissure
As a person who studies the rhetoric of identity, I find myself endlessly interested in how professional wrestlers handle their “kayfabe”– or in-character– identities and then their “regular” identities. For some, it blurs greatly. John[…]
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Day 237: In defense of Jinder Mahal
I wrote a bit about this earlier, but I want to hit on it again. The current WWE Champion is an Indian who was born in Canada, Yuvraj Singh Dhesi, known in the ring as Jinder[…]
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