Thursday, June 25, 2020

Day 106

  • Disneyland has scrapped a proposed July 17 reopening.
  • Latest coronavirus retail bankruptcy:  GNC.
  • Add Chuck E. Cheese to the bankruptcy list.
  • CNET (through SFGate) is now reporting that the gaming industry is bursting forth with sexual abuse allegations.  Oh what a fucking shock...  I told you the only way to deal with it is to blow it up and reconstruct.     
You're not making gaming safer, Twitch or otherwise, until you blow up the entire concept of being a "gamer" in this culture.  Shut down e-sports in this country, blow up the entire YouTube/Twitch celebrity culture.  Most importantly, ENFORCE "NO!"

A lot of the things I have said for years are coming to pass.  Now it looks like we are seeing sexual abuse at Twitch itself...
  • One report on the WWE/NXT/PC positives is now saying the number is upwards of "two dozen". 
  • Kayla Braxton (whom, if true, this would be the SECOND TIME she's tested positive, she reports -- she stated a positive test back in March, perhaps this is the one previously reported) and agent and former NWA World Champion Adam Pearce are two names circulating as positive.  But every time a report seems to come up about this on one or more wrestling "sheets", the scope and number of positives seems to increase!
  • The Tokyo Game Show has joined the growing list of events moving online.  September 23-27. 
  • Latest college sports casualties:  UConn men's swimming/diving, cross-country, women's rowing, and one other sport.
  • The Tigers, Dodgers, Mariners, and Red Sox have reported coronavirus positives.  Some have involved players, others are more unclear.
  • Major incident in the Brixton District of London Thursday morning.  House party turned into a riot, the police were attacked and 22 were injured. 
  • And in the first step to the cancellation of the NFL season, the 2020 Hall of Fame Game has been cancelled.  This had some importance -- this was to celebrate the large Centennial Class. 
  • The enshrinement ceremony has also been scrapped.  The Centennial Class (and the matchup) now goes in in 2021.
  • Ezekiel Elliott has not yet been cleared for workouts from his positive status for the coronavirus. 
  • Provided world sport survives two more years, Australia and New Zealand will co-host the 2023 soccer Women's World Cup. 
  • For reasons yet undetermined (but appears NOT to be because of her controversies, but because she has not worked with the company), Impact Wrestling has fired the first major female world champion of one of the higher-level companies, Tessa Blanchard.

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