Dan / Odd_Bloke @Odd_Bloke@wrestle.town

Hello!

I'm Dan. Originally from the UK, I've been living in Kingston, ON since March 2017.

I love listening to music (I have an eclectic taste, but metal and classical are my true loves), reading, coding, and watching wrestling!

I work from home as a software engineer on the Ubuntu Server team. My focus in that team is on cloud-init and curtin.

#introductions

Politics-wise, I'm a lefty, and inclusion is very important to me. I'm currently trying to work out what that means for me, both in my online life and my offline life. (I deal with a lot of anxiety, which makes working that out much trickier!)

Related to politics, this Mastodon/hometown instance is my first foray in to the world of the decentralised web, which I think is going to be very important over the coming years.

#introductions

Another very important part of my life is my ginormo-dog, Colt! We rescued him earlier this year. He's a ~4yo Great Dane and very friendly!

(The rescue named him Colt because he snorts like a horse when he is annoyed about something. They were not wrong to do so!)

#introductions #petroductions

Well, that slapped!

We're back to the usual format now with Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero vs Soberano Jr/Atlantis Jr/El Audaz.

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Sanson: Black/white open chin mask
Cuatrero: White/black mustache-y mask
Forastero: Uh, the other one

Soberano Jr: Blue/white mask with feathers, blue/white long boys
Atlantis Jr: Lighter blue/white mask
El Audaz: Gold/red mask

#wrestling #cmll #lucha #roshfrans

Next up is Rey Cometa vs Stigma in a relampago (or lightning) match. This is only for a single fall and has a ten minute time limit, so expect a lot of action.

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Rey Cometa: white face paint
Stigma: red/black mask

#wrestling #cmll #lucha #roshfrans

This is the poster for the event btw!

Most of these matches will be under "Australian rules", which means two things:

(a) it's best 2 out of 3 falls,
(b) each team has a captain, and a fall is scored when you pin/submit either the captain or _both_ of the non-captains

This is confusing! Go with it! You'll work it out, and it doesn't matter too too much anyway in a lot of these early matches.

(Ooops, forgot the spoiler tag before.)

#wrestling #cmll #lucha #roshfrans

Match currently happening is Blue Panther Jr/Pegasso/Black Panther vs Misterioso/Okumura/El Sagrado

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Blue Panther Jr: blue himself
Pegasso: horny
Black Panther: black panther

Misterioso: sparkly green mask with neck tassels
Okumura (cpt): no mask, Japanese
Sagrado: skull shirt, black/white mask

CMLL (Mexican lucha libre wrestling) is happening!

Official Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bq3zclQu2E

Bootleg Youtube: https://t.co/YAxcrdTifa?amp=1 (courtesy of @luchablog@twitter.com)

I'll be posting a breakdown of who is who under here.

if you want to see kenny omega wrestle, he's doing so now

this week's AEW Dark premiering on YouTube rn if anyone wants to watch some wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_nxdftYks

vanity is editing the numbers in your ipython logs to make it look like it didn't take you 15 attempts to type out a simple expression

King of Trios Night 2 baybeeee

I'm about half way through last night's show and it's a banger, tbh

Incidentally, I think more wrestling matches should be 2-out-of-3 falls. I think it gives the wrestlers more stories they can tell, which is a great thing.

#wrestling #CMLL #lucha

Another interesting thing: Templario and Soberano Jr were in a no time limit single fall match. That's an unusual format for CMLL, who mostly run 2-out-of-3 falls matches. When they do single fall matches, they're generally relámpago (lightning) matches with a 10 minute time limit.

#wrestling #CMLL #lucha

I'm catching up on last night's CMLL show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mPew0s3wE). One interesting thing to note: Okumura was on the show. I don't know if that means anything for the NJPW/CMLL relationship, which he apparently is in charge of, but it's interesting to note nonetheless.

#wrestling #CMLL #lucha

And #CMLL is just a blast, IMO. The crowd always love it, and they generally put on a pretty good show. For me, it's low stakes fun that I can tune into for free at the same time every week, which is perfect.

(Incidentally, almost all of their shows go up on their YouTube almost immediately, here's last night's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mPew0s3wE which I'm catching up on as I pontificate.)

#wrestling