iMPACT! No Surrender 2021

• Six-Person Intergender Tag (Tenille Dashwood and XXXL vs. Decay): 4/7. Either do proper intergender matches, or do mixed tag matches. This weird hybrid where you pretend it's intergender but it's actually not is bad and dumb.
• Brian Myers and Hernandez vs. Eddie Edwards and Matt Cardona: 3/7. I would have preferred to see Myers vs. Cardona one-on-one, so the other two dudes were just an unwelcome distraction.
• Deaner vs. Jake Something: 3/7. The result was obvious, but hopefully it'll lead to something more interesting.
• Triple Threat Revolver (Daivari vs. Suicide vs. Willie Mack vs. Ace Austin vs. Trey Miguel vs. Chris Bey vs. Josh Alexander vs. Blake Christian): 7/7. This is a neat concept for a match. Basically a gauntlet match, but it kind of fixes the problem with regular gauntlet matches by putting an extra person in there so that it's not such an uphill climb for one of the first in to make it all the way to the end. And then it finishes with that sudden-death feeling of a triple threat. Plus, there was some really good wrestling in this one.
• No Disqualification Tornado Knockouts Tag Team Championship (Fire n Flava vs. Havok and Nevaeh): 4/7. They seemed weirdly reluctant to use weapons, but also obliged to? I feel like, if you're going to bring weapons into a match, you've got to commit to them. Don't just put the kendo stick down; use it till it breaks.
• X Division Championship (TJP vs. Rohit Raju): 5/7. Started off really strong but slowed up a bit as it went on.
• Six-Person Tag (Deonna Purrazzo, Kimber Lee, and Susan vs. Jordynne Grace, Jazz, and ODB): 4/7. So, Susan is some kind of alter-ego or suppressed personality or something, right? I feel like we're just waiting for the other version of her to reappear and that's when it's going to get good?
• Triple Threat Tag Team Championship (Chris Sabin and James Storm vs. the Good Brothers vs. Private Party): 4/7. I don't like tag team triple threats. Why are there only two people in the ring at a time? That whole thing where the third team is just sitting on the sidelines until one of their opponents tags them in is weird and doesn't really make sense. I get that it creates a different dynamic to a regular triple threat, but is it better? I don't think so.
• World Championship (Rich Swann vs. Tommy Dreamer): 1/7. Very slow and boring and I don't want to watch Rich Swann.

Overall Rating: 4/7. Some of it was very good, some of it was very bad. Some of it was setting up things that may be very good later.

WWE Royal Rumble 2021

• WWE Championship (Drew McIntyre vs. Goldberg): 1/7. I barely even watched this one because who cares.
• Smackdown Championship (Sasha Banks vs. Carmella): 4/7. It was just a match.
• Women's Royal Rumble: 6/7. This is where the show should have started. If Rhea Ripley or Alexa Bliss had won it would have been 7/7.
• Universal Championship Last Man Standing (Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens): 5/7. I'm not really into this Roman Reigns storyline but it was a good match.
• Men's Royal Rumble: 5/7. Rating it lower than the women's just because there was no one I particularly wanted to see win it. Throw Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano, and Walter in there and suddenly I'm way more invested. Add Tyler Breeze and Drake Maverick for a bit of fun and you've got a 7/7 match.

Overall Rating: 5/7. Cut the first two matches and you've got a really good show. Part of my lack of enthusiasm for the men's rumble was probably down to how long the show was.

iMPACT! Hard to Kill 2021

• Intergender Tag (Decay vs. Tenille Dashwood and Kaleb with a K): 3/7. Quite a good match, but the way it was sort of intergender and sort of not was very distracting. They seemed to be trying to pretend that it was purely coincidence that the two teams happened to tag out at almost the same time every time, but it was extremely obvious and weird.
• Old School Rules Six-Man Tag (Violent by Design vs. Cousin Jake, Rhino, and Tommy Dreamer): 4/7. "Old School Rules" I guess just means no-DQ, and 3-on-3 tags are almost never good. This one was OK. It had its moments.
• Knockouts Tag Team Championship (Fire N Flava vs. Havok and Nevaeh): 5/7. Good tag match, but the ending was a bit weird. The commentators were talking about something else, like as though the ending had caught them by surprise, so it fell a bit flat.
• Matt Cardona vs. Ace Austin: 3/7. Basically just a debut for Cardona.
• X Division Championship Triple Threat (Manik vs. Chris Bey vs. Rohit Raju): 5/7. Who is that mysterious masked man? There's just no way to know!
• Knockouts Championship (Deonna Purrazzo vs. Taya Valkyrie): 4/7. A bit slow. Felt more like a TV match.
• The Karate Man vs. Ethan Page: 6/7. I appreciate that they were trying something different, and I certainly didn't foresee it ending that way.
• Barbed Wire Massacre (Eddie Edwards vs. Sami Callihan): 2/7. They tried way too hard to convince us this was serious hardcore danger with the result that it ended up being pretty boring.
• Six-Man Tag (Kenny Omega and The Good Brothers vs. Rich Swann, Chris Sabin, and Moose): 3/7. Ordinarily I'd skip a Rich Swann match, but I wanted to watch Kenny and the Good Brothers. It was OK.

Overall rating: 4/7. Felt more like an extended TV episode than a PPV, especially compared to recent AEW and NXT episodes that have featured similarly gimmicky matches.

iMPACT! Genesis 2021

• Super X Cup Round 1 (Ace Austin vs. Suicide): 4/7. Ace Austin looks like Andy Samberg.
• Super X Cup Round 1 (Blake Christian vs. KC Navarro): 4/7. Blake Christian seems kind of boring.
• Super X Cup Round 1 (Cousin Jake vs. Daivari): 5/7. I've only just started watching so I'm still picking up the story, but I like Cousin Jake and I want to see what happens to him.
• Super X Cup Round 1 (Crazzy Steve vs. Tre Lamar): 4/7. Crazzy Steve is pretty much just the Joker, right? Like how Glacier is just Sub Zero.
• Super X Cup Semifinal (Ace Austin vs. Cousin Jake) 4/7. Kind of wanted Jake to win, but also Austin still looks like Andy Samberg, so...
• Super X Cup Semifinal (Blake Christian vs. Crazzy Steve) 3/7. Neither of these guys particularly appeal to me.
• Jordynne Grace vs. Jazz: 4/7. I like these two but this was just a friendly contest for no stakes so it's hard to care about.
• Super X Cup Final (Ace Austin vs. Blake Christian): 4/7. I feel like they should probably have had the final match on a different day. Maybe swap this out for a second women's match.
• I Quit Match (Willie Mack vs. Moose): 5/7. This was probably better than I'm giving it credit for; I just don't know these guys so I wasn't invested.

Overall rating: 4/7. Probably not the best one to start on because of the tournament taking up most of it, but it wasn't bad.

Unknown Games: M-S

Still playing through the games I own on Steam but don't know anything about. I've been limiting myself to the ones with full controller support and going alphabetically, so today I'm up to the M-S section. It may seem like I'm getting through them at a air rate, but that's just because most of them don't have full controller support so they're getting skipped. I'll get to those eventually. Probably.

Games. Games? Games!

I played more games today. I even enjoyed some of them.

Quick Game Reviews #9

I have over 100 games in my Steam library that I don't even know what they are. I should probably try a few of them out, right?

I Played Three Games Today

The three games I played today were good, bad and mediocre respectively.

How to subscribe to a YouTube channel's RSS feed.

YouTube frequently makes changes that make it harder to keep up with your subscribed channels, but RSS still works. The instructions for using it are wrong though, and have been wrong for an extremely long time. They're also hard to find. So here's how to do it.

1. Get an RSS client (eg. Thunderbird. The following instructions will assume you're using Thunderbird but should be basically applicable to any feed reader).
2. Create one or more folders under "Feeds" to categorise your subscriptions. Or don't.
3. Right-click a folder (or "Feeds") and click "subscribe".
4. Under "Feed URL" paste "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=" (without the quotation marks).
5. Open your web browser and find a channel you want to subscribe to.
6. If the URL contains the name of the channel (eg. https://www.youtube.com/user/Wallsy) then:
1. Open one of that channel's videos and then click the channel name under the video to return to the channel page. This time the URL should be different.
7. If the URL contains a string of gibberish (eg. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJpPXZwyo0fgu3h94R3P5pA), copy that gibberish.
8. Switch back to Thunderbird and paste the gibberish from the channel URL at the end eg. https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCJpPXZwyo0fgu3h94R3P5pA
9. Click "Add". Links to the latest videos from that channel should now be retrieved. You can set it to check for more videos automatically or just whenever you click the "Get Messages" button.

Improved Genesys Combat

The Original System

If you're already familiar with how combat works in the Genesys core rules, feel free to skip this section. This is an explanation for those who aren't familiar with it.