LB Hunktears

Fanbyte — I've learned a lot from Formula One. Mostly about iffy business practices and different European countries, but also about strategy. With the new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC out today, I thought I would pass on some of my strategy knowledge to all of you.

Fanbyte — Back in May, merritt k pointed out how much it sucks to buy a physical copy of a video game in this day and age. She's absolutely right, too. Which got me thinking: What do I like to buy physical copies of? And why?

Fanbyte — In 1977, Niki Lauda won the Monaco Grand Prix. Sorry, no, not the real Monaco Grand Prix. The real one was won by Jody Scheckter, with Lauda coming in second. (Though Lauda did go on to win the championship that year.)

Fanbyte — I can't say that the iPod was the single most important piece of technology in my lifetime. It's not true. Not even for me, personally. High speed Internet, increasingly tiny computer chips, the smartphone, Twitter, the CPAP machine - all of these have more hold over my daily life than the iPod did, for longer than I ever had an iPod.

Fanbyte — Yesterday, Formula 1 had the first ever Miami Grand Prix, sponsored by Crypto.com. Putting the extremely hyped and ultimately pretty boring actual race that was the Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix to one side, blockchain-based scams Ponzi schemes pyramid schemes Fan Engagement Experiences and Investment Opportunities have become a larger and larger presence in the sport over the last couple of years, which is a bummer for me personally, but also makes sense.

Fanbyte — The best kind of game is a dress-up game. Everyone knows this. Everyone agrees with this. Even if you think you disagree, you actually agree.

Fanbyte — Last week at Sony's PlayStation Showcase, Insomniac Games announced a new Marvel Universe building off the success of . In addition to Spider-Man 2, they teased a game about everyone's favorite fast-healing Canadian mutant: Wolverine.

Fanbyte — I'm old. I'm not like old old, but TikTok scares me and my back hurts a lot of the time. Born in 1989, I'm a solidly middle of the pack millennial, which, to a young person, makes me basically ancient. I've come to terms with this. I've made peace with it.

Fanbyte — Casual Encounters is a column by LB Hunktears, Fanbyte's resident casual gamer, about what they're playing - from mobile free-to-plays to console releases, always through a non-expert lens. I don't normally enjoy difficult games: especially not repetitive ones. I gave up on Dark Souls Remastered somewhere around the third or fourth bonfire.

Fanbyte — It feels odd to ask people to care about wrestling right now. This has been a theme in pretty much everything we've published in the last three months, but it's the truth. In April I asked why pro wrestling can't happen under ethical conditions.

Fanbyte — The thing about pro wrestling is that the bar is low. Like really low. Like really, really low. Like all a wrestling promoter needs to do to be a shining example of what a wrestling promoter should be is pay the talent fairly and on time.

Fanbyte — As New Japan reminds us on their Japanese language web presence, and absolutely refuses to address on their English accounts and sites, today is Valentine's Day. Last month, I reviewed their Pectoral Encyclopedia, so this month I thought I would pick something more romantic.

Fanbyte — The atmosphere is tense, the resentment is palpable. Two men face off in an enclosed space for a power struggle, a fight for dominance. They represent opposing ideologies, even as they are in turns adversaries, friends, partners, enemies, brothers.

Fanbyte — This is just the first of a new series of reviews in which I, hunktears, editor of Fanfyte, review wrestling photobooks. I'm going to keep doing them whether you like it or not, but I hope you like it. On a personal level. That's my wish from me to you.

Fanbyte — At first, I really wasn't sure what someone who isn't already a wrestling fan would get out of the 2018 family comedy My Dad Is A Heel Wrestler (or Papa wa Warumono Champion). But I am already a wrestling fan, and I pretty much immediately thought it was the cutest shit I've ever seen.

Fanbyte — A lot of people have a lot of opinions on Jim Cornette. This is not an article about that. I frankly don’t really care if he’s good or bad or what he has to say about wrestlers I love and wrestlers I don’t love. What I do care about is that this man dressed like Lupin III, who once stole Christ the Redeemer using a helicopter, from the 1980s through the 1990s.

Fanbyte — On August 30th, Chris Jericho became the first ever AEW World Champion. He cut an impromptu promo on the catering spread, and then promptly lost his championship belt at a steakhouse. Any remaining doubts about whether a 48 year old man with a podcast network and vanity butt rock band should be the first champ vanished. It was a perfect way to establish a new championship. And I had been a chief doubter. I had doubted all of it, from the song to the hat to the finisher to the choice to make him champion.

Fanbyte — Should we kill Dracula? CAN we kill Dracula? What are some obstacles and benefits if we choose to kill Dracula? These are the important questions the Fanbyte crew decides to tackle in this PowerPoint presentation (presented publicly in case Dracula tries to silence us).

Fanbyte — I made my friends compete to guess the real names of different Italo disco singers on stream in a game I invented (it's a Powerpoint presentation)

thespectacleofexcess.com — "Kenny Omega loses in a way that makes me accept the loss because if it’s beautiful and transcendent enough, it may be a loss, but it’s not a failure. I feel grateful not only for the work of the performance I’ve just watched, but for the entire existence of wrestling. He makes me feel proud that this is the guy I connect with."