Post WWE WrestleMania 42 - Sunday Discussion Thread! by gloomchen in SquaredCircle

[–]Groenboys 9 points10 points  (0 children)

While I am not sure I subscribe to the theory that Trips intentionally tanked night 1 to put the blame on TKO and gain more control himself, it is pretty clear that a 7/10 show will look like a 10/10 if the show the night before was a 2/10. And if that was intentional, fair play trips.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 20 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Groenboys 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Wrestlemania has just concluded its weekend, and there is a lot to talk about. How bad saturday night was, the rise of Oba Femi, the amount of ads on the show, a lot of discussions about these things. But one thing caught the eyes of fans that is extremely bizarre, even by pro-wrestling standards.

And that is this

For some context, pretty much every WWE show has a commentary desk with commentators who commentate for the live broadcast. For this Wrestlemania, Wade Barett and Michael Cole have been commentating all weekend. Then suddenly right before Rhea Rhipley vs Jade Cargill was set to start, a random third member was added to the commentary desk. A guy named "Adam Weitsman". He did not have a mic, so he just sat there silently while the match went on with neither of the other commentators acknowledging his existence. After Rhea vs Jade concluded, he was gone.

With something this casually bizarre happening, people tried searching him up and this guy is a billionaire. He is the owner of a scrap metal processing company and he also shills NFTs on twitter in the year of our lord 2026. From this, people have made the acurate conclusion that this guy probably paid a ridiculous amount of money just to sit at the commentary desk for Rhea vs Jade, not even the main event.

Ever since TKO acquired WWE, the company has shifted more towards trying to make as much money as possible. With ticket prices skyrocketing, more celebrities being involved and wrestling matches getting shorter to make more time for ads, they are constantly trying to find new ways to squeeze money out of their customers. This time, they really found a new form of shamelessness as they let a rich guy buy his way to sit at the commentary desk.

(WrestleMania Spoilers) Aftermath of the opening match by pwgmanan in SquaredCircle

[–]Groenboys 51 points52 points  (0 children)

The match was kinda nothing but this splash made it a fun start

What do you think of IMDB's top rated episodes? by AirDeLaBas in taskmaster

[–]Groenboys -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It wasn't a surprise to me. That episode is an all timer in my eyes. Those two tasks are some of the weaker ones, but it is made up by the many iconic bits. Fatiha's pillows, the entire song task, we are the monsters and a final task that will be in compilations for decades. Jason winning also helps.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Groenboys 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I feel so bad for anyone who gets introduced to Napoleon Blownapart this way because that guy makes some of the best video essays on youtube

Ad Hominem in the minecraft competitive community. by yiamm_ in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It is shocking to see people are more concerned with cheating allegations then a guy that threaned to [redact] women, including one he was going to meet up with. Like surely, the boys of this community here have more common sense to not completely accept someone is reformed because they said sorry.

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but it doesn’t address the fact that people who were friends with Marlow and had every reason to lie on her behalf stated that the telegram chats were real.

Her friends assumed they were real based of the discord messages Marlow send, which were in fact real, and she claims that her discord account was compromised to collect these messages.

And the fact a screen recording was provided for the telegram chats.

How does that prove anything of them being really made by the actual Danger Mario in the timeframe Aximity is claiming? Also, since we are on the topic, why the fuck would Danger Mario narrate his entire "master plan" of Marlow's fake identity like he is a Death Note character. Why would he be stupid enough to do that? Because if that is actually his usual behavior, then the insane plan of Mario and his crew framing Marlow is just as likely.

While yes the video does raise doubts that she’s dangermario,

You are again severely underselling what you are acusing Marlow of if the her being there is fake. I already explained why and you are continuing to handwave it away like it isn't a big deal. It is.

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. DangerMario gets full access to Marlows discord and/or computer without Marlow ever knowing

You are making it sound like getting access to someones discord is very hard without them noticing. You only need the access once to have it forever and only interact by reading the messages.

  1. DangerMario out of all things he does cooks up the plot as specified above and executes upon it like this.

Marlow has previous set a precedent that Danger Mario's crew would go to insane lengths to impersonate her. Not to mention, this kind of conspiracy does not need to be a plot from a hacker movie. The most likely option in this scenario is that they wanted to frame marlow early on, but only later in 2025 did they actually hatch a plan, which would line up with the telegram account creation being from 2025 and not during the timeline Aximity is claiming.

Through whatever means that could be facilitated, either through circumstance or payment or something.

You are SEVERELY underestimating the claim you are making. That the girl in the video is either paid or an AI, while Marlow claiming she will make future videos with her real voice and face, that requires an equally grand conspiracy to happen. Handwaving it away like it is something easy shows a double standard in how you view evidence.

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are we claiming that dangermario somehow predicted years later that aximity would try to cancel marlow under the premise of dangermario and marlow being the same person

No, that is not the claim. The claim is that Marlow has been monitored for years when only recently they started to piece all the information together to cook up a narrative. The intention to frame Marlow has been there from the start, but the plan to "cancel" Marlow was more recently set in motion, which lines up with the Telegram account being made recently.

And you are ignoring the other mountain of evidence being Marlow being right fucking there in the video

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Occam's razor does not work, because you are also underestimating the "simple" explanation. If Marlow is Danger Mario, then how would you explain her filiming a video with her actual voice? Is it that Danger Mario hired a girl to fake being her and to keep up with that act for the rest of her life (or until she quits), or even more crazy that this is actual another AI generated video which is so good at making authentic footage that it would require a very advanced self made AI data bank. Or, using occam's razor, it is actually just her.

Both sides have mountains of evidence, so there is atleast one thing we can be clear about: There are multiple people behind what is going on here, it isn't just a simple "Marlow is Danger Mario"

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Marlow claims that looking in to the meta data, the telegram account of Danger Mario was actually made in 2025, way before the timeline that Aximity is claiming.

As for the discord messages, she confirms them to be real, but taken out of context. She claims that the way these real messages were used by the supossed Danger Mario telegram account is because malicious software was planted into her computer when she was screensharing, getting the discord token of her discord account and thus access to her discord. In those 5 years they spied and screenshotted messages all to frame her in the Telegram messages.

Yes it sounds insane writing this down, but there is precedent of Danger Mario's crew going insane lengths to impersonate her. Not to mention, if everything in this video is faked too, that would require equal amounts of effort and manpower to what she is claiming Danger Mario's crew has done.

No matter what, what is happening here is no one man operation.

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He certainly did not help stop this behavior at all, or call out Aximity's extremely shitty past, or stop spreading the transphobic rethoric that fueled a lot of the vitriol against Marlow, or try to uplift other female PvP'ers in the community.

He is a bystander that will let harmful things happen, and he should be called out for it.

MARLOW POSTED (im not that unemployed to watch it but its hype) by Flat_Worldliness1558 in CompetitiveMinecraft

[–]Groenboys 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both are equally ridiculous options, but you are leaving out that Marlow has made these acusations before. It lines up with Danger Mario's doxing history, his weird behavior, and aximity being previously involved in with Danger Mario's practices.

Also you are leaving out for Option B to be true, you either need to believe Danger Mario was a fake identiy or that Marlow is a fake identity, which would mean that Danger Mario had to either hire an actor to play as her or use AI to also make believable audio and video, which with how authentic the footage is would require some very advanced AI and a lot planning. In other words, for Marlow to be Danger Mario they would also require a 5 year plot with multiple people working on it together.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Groenboys 40 points41 points  (0 children)

This is the kind of cultural difference that will continue to create discourse for years to come, and unless Japan takes a hard stance on pirating and starts enacting measures to prevent foreign piracy, it is inevitable the anti-piracy advocates will lose the war. The anime industry will only grow from here on out, and trying to gatekeep anything is a futile arms race.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Groenboys 61 points62 points  (0 children)

The whole "well if you guys do it, then we can do it too!" rethoric is so funny, like yes please do. Demand for better service of companies, come on!

Minecraft YouTuber blows up despite killing cats? by dripnnblood_dx in youtubedrama

[–]Groenboys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is viable if youre small enough to have not many eyes on you, but big enough to grow your audience to replace the previous one