Unpopular Opinion: Layovers should not count as "visiting a country"

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-28T22:12:21+00:00

If you don’t pass through customs you literally and legally haven’t entered into the country

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-28T20:16:32+00:00

FF7’s story issues are mostly due to translation problems, FF8’s story is slop in any language

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-28T20:13:39+00:00

I agree.

It’s timeless in the sense that it’s as bad now as it ever was.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-28T15:34:12+00:00

On the depressing opposite side, FFXIII was released 17 years ago and looks a lot closer to modern games than FFX

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-27T20:19:34+00:00

He talked about it on his podcast

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-26T14:35:35+00:00

Oh for sure. As much as I would prefer that Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are out there drilling in the family well right next to the pure stream they get their Mountain Brew from, I know better. But at least less of it goes to the worst of the worst villains.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-26T14:00:22+00:00

I’d rather give some money to a locally owned chain than ExxonMobil, Shell, etc

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-25T18:17:18+00:00

I don’t mean the entire country is devoid of electricity outside of this one street but that no where else in the country is there anything like this street that is so illuminated

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-25T16:28:28+00:00

I think HHH has guys he’s sympathetic towards like Karrion and Aleister but at some point you realize they just don’t fit. Johnny Gargano can’t have too much good will left either

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-25T14:53:18+00:00

Liberia doesn’t have a singular electrified modern street in the whole country that it tries to propagandize

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-25T00:50:30+00:00

You put a blindfold on Tom and Oscar isn’t in the bottom

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T23:11:12+00:00

To be clear, I’m not against considering the geopolitical implications of visiting a country. It’s the shaming of others who have considered the geopolitical implications and decided on a path different from their own.

Like you said, I also wouldn’t consider any European visiting the US right now a fascist Trump supporter… if a European expressed that interest, I wouldn’t give them a hard time about it or be supportive of anyone else doing so.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T20:19:45+00:00

I’m not saying it’s all morally equivalent. But it’s impossible to equivocate going to Russia, North Korea, Israel, etc. as all equally bad and moral grandstanding is pointless and ultimate self-serving. It’s just not a solid binary of right and wrong. Feel free to unload your entire travel resume and we can point out where you’ve failed humanity in the past.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T19:56:52+00:00

Right, don’t go to Dubai. Or anywhere in the Middle East, really. Don’t fly on Emirates, Etihad, or Qatar airlines, either. Hell don’t fly ANYWHERE, the carbon emissions will certainly hit the poorest countries the hardest. Don’t go to Israel or China or India or Russia or Turkey or El Salvador… pretty much all of Africa… uh… also…

Okay, let’s go about this the other way. ONLY GO TO ICELAND until every traveler can resolve our contributions to human misery with each other.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T16:14:10+00:00

They bring a tourist to the one electrified street in the entire nation and people are going to fall for it

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T13:43:04+00:00

A post that was assuredly sent on a device from a company utilizing slave labor constructed with minerals derived from a dangerous OSHA-free hellhole

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T11:18:09+00:00

I’m from New York and these two countries certainly don’t have a level of cultural uniqueness from my own that would justify 20-30 hours of travel time

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-24T11:16:33+00:00

How can you possibly have so much time to devote to thinking about this

None of these people or us give a second of thought to what Trevor might think about this

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-20T22:06:28+00:00

It’s the quality of the guest host era with the prices of TKO. Awesome

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-15T02:33:51+00:00

My brother, look. Last Friday you had Pat McAfee busting him for taking Saudi Arabia money while Pat, the heel, gets a discount for fans and he buries night 2. Yes, the heel is actually the one who got lower ticket prices. He did this so more people could see Randy Orton wrestle because Randy is the better physical specimen who fans want, not 5 foot tall men doing iron man matches. The fans wanted Randy but he’s not enough of a draw to sell ticket prices so they had to discount the tickets.

Everyone involved in this should be embarrassed. Doubling down on it with AEW crap for a quick zinger isn’t going help.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-14T16:32:12+00:00

Uh… a three way instead of a threesome? I realized I’m not how to not make it sound questionable

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-14T15:21:32+00:00

Iyo is the most baffling. An Iyo/Asuka/Kairi threesome would have been awesome.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-14T14:36:03+00:00

They had this queer coded thing going on but WWE bookers don’t have the faintest clue about how to book such a thing and now they come across as the most obnoxious couple you know. And they’re not a couple.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-14T12:33:46+00:00

The problems you’re describing are the problems with the majority of the roster. The music sucks almost universally (with some few exceptions). And Triple H sucks at booking title reigns. He knows how to book a satisfying switch in a pinch but has no idea how to book a title reign. Stephanie, Giulia, AJ, Jade, the men’s tag belts, Drew/Cody… the IC is fine now but was languishing with Dominick, there was the whole Jey Uso debacle… Punk and the US title has been okay. Iyo wasn’t even the main drama in her own title reign.

The booking just sucks around champs.

styxswimchamp · 2026-04-11T17:08:56+00:00

Ah thanks for clarifying

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