I couldn’t imagine that my second post here would be about this.

Kobe Bryan has been killed in a plane crash, and that’s just heartbreaking.

I’m not a Laker fan, not a Kobe fan, hell, I don’t even watch basketball that often because of the time differnce. Tough to get the games in Ukraine, so it’s all highlights for me.

But when I saw the news 8 in the morning, x hours after the tragedy happened, I felt it. It’s a sickening experience, and I can only imagine how Kobe’s fans feel right now.

When I first got a notification, I thought it was something different, it looked like this…

RIP Kobe Bryant what?

I thought it was a bad wording of LFC talking about LeBron James, club’s minority owner, passing Kobe in the all-time scorers. I thought it was weird, entertained the idea, and then just thought “nah, not possible”.

But at the back of my mind I thought that something tragic must of happened, because he’s only in his forties. What was the whole deal about?

I couldn’t check until I enterted the office, and sadly, it was the worst possible news.

Mamba, his daughter, and other passengers crashed in a helicopter. I immediately thought about Leicester’s owner, who also died in a plane crash. Not that long ago too…

Just reading the headlines was bad, but seeing other people react to this would be gut-wrenching and then some. I tore up a bit for colleagues to mention it, and one guy guessed what was happening. He is not a basketball fan at all, and he understood. Shows how big the name “Kobe Bryant” really is.

Kobe is a legend. A figure like no one, a guy who worked his ass off and pushed everyone to their limit. Never in years I will even come close to his work ethic.

I’ll get home and quite possibly cry for a man I never saw in person, and never seen live.

The last thing I remember about Kobe is when he trash talked Luka on Slovenian, and there was a family member near him too. I remember that smile, both smiles. Fuck, it’s too sad.

Rest in Peace, Mamba. You will be missed.

Hello guys! After questioning the odds of successful relationships through meddling in one of the posts here, I decided to clear things up about this interesting topic… By going in a completely different direction.

Inspired by brilliant series of posts called “I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world” on the Football Manager subreddit, I set up a new game on TEW 2016 for one ridicoulous yet entertaining goal – explore the world of manipulation, turn a once fine the locker room rotten, and do as much nasty crap as humanly possible to start a war from inside.

To achieve that, I will heavily use negative meddling I wouldn’t have the guts to try in any other save.

I want to know exactly how this form of shithousery is reflected in the game and how fast the mood can drop to 0. The company of my choice is not Hogan’s WCW or HBK’s WWF, not really.

That would be too easy!

To find a bit of challenge, I picked an era where everyone is getting along nicely and plays video games together. It’s February 2019 here, because I’m too lazy to grab a new mod for this project, and it is a company many love to hate.

Impact Wrestling! Yay.

I never had a problem with Impact myself, but what the hell, they’ve been through some dumb stuff.

Now located in Canada, this company refused to die when the lid of the proverbial coffin was closing down on them all these years. Corgan-Carter conflict, Jarrett shenenigans, “*uck That Owl” outrage and plenty more LOLTNA moments I can’t remember from the top of my head now make it a plausible candidate for such an important mission.

That, and Tessa Blanchard’s stuff. You just know she’s a good locker room influence!

Now then, who will embark on this grand mission of sinking the ship once and for all? He comes from 20000 leagues under the sea…

Wait, he seems like a nice guy. But have you seen him without a mask?

His face screams “bad news”, and he once sued Miramax for the rights on the Sharkboy name. He surely has some cojones, this Sharkboy. And now he becomes a ruthless head booker looking for bad blood. 0 user talent points go to leadership and diplomacy, we want more accidents and more chances of them going tits up!

Perhaps handidly, this mod lacks a lot of details, so the majority of the roster has “nothing to report” in the behaviour table. The stand outs are Tommy Dreamer and Grado, and by stand outs I mean they’re a couple of good fellas. Tag team it is then. I also found out that Johnny Impact and Eddie Edwards are not “saints”, and by far the worst dude in the locker room is Konnan. Now we’re talking! Scarlett Bordeaux and Moose have some potential, let’s see what they got.

Through some navigation I found out that main eventers cause much bigger rifts than midcarders, which makes sense of course.

The first couple of signings are counter-prodcutive, as I look to bring “Bad Influence” back. It would be good for the name alone, but… who else would exclaim “this is the worst locker room I’ve ever been in” if not Daniels and Kaz? What about giving The Fallen Angel his world title run?

I bring back spinal-impact moves because how the heck are you supposed to get over without hitting 6 Canadian Destroyers, am I right? We’re in Canada, and that means only one thing.

Petey is our top dog now. I tried to bring Scotty Steiner in, but “Big Poppa Pump” has no intention of going to Canada. I’m sad, not gonna lie.

Sharkboy walks in to find out that locker room atmosphere is exactly 76% and we didn’t do anything yet! Well, this might be too easy now, but I go full Bill Watts and enforce ridicolous rules to upset even the most staunch guys. Three hour pre-show arrival, nobody leaves until the show is over, a dress code is enforced. No catering and no help with hotels, those expenses will go to a ‘dirty doctor’… Boom, it’s 57 now, and that means we step into our first show with a penalty.

I also put in a late bid to get Vampiro. He had a bit of a spat with Taya for taking the title away from her in Mexico, and he’s a very negative influence. He and K-Dawg will get along just fine, I guarantee it.

Bobby Roode’s heel turn is apparently bigger news than Cena winning his 17th world title, but we’re not here to talk about that. Vamp signed the deal suspiciously quickly, he can’t wait to leave his mark on Impact! Xplosion taping is here, it’s time to make our first negative meddling. Vamp asked to be spared of B shows, so the first scripted act of backstage brutality concerns these two gentlemen…

Just what I wanted. We will use this tension for the angle between OGz and New LAX.

• Sharkboy debuts his wholesome old school shark gimmich that gets “Great”.
• Killer Kross not suited to his gimmich, he’s no Charly Manson.
• Sharkboy was slightly over-used. Is that even possible?

Impact kicks off our hottest storylines, and we increase our pop in 44 regions, GOOD GAWD! Look at this Car Crash TV. Russo would be proud.

Not a bad first week! Recreated the baseball bat angle in the main event, and when the moment is right, we will meddle them with pleasure.

Well, possibly this was the worst post you have ever seen, but… I don’t think I broke any rules. I’ll go to sleep now, and we will see what happens in the morning.

I’m very sorry

Hey there, stranger.

I’m amazed that you’ve stumbled down here. Even I don’t want to be here, but what can you do?

Such is life.

Believe it or not, I write for a living, and not in this fashion. Usually I’m asked to write serious blog posts and press releases (can’t stand them), and I don’t get enough time or energy to write something for myself, something that would feed my soul.

I don’t have a lot of hobbies, but they have a lot of me.

I like pro wrestling, and football aka soccer. I like to experiment in games such as Football Manager and Total Extreme Wrestling, and this blog will be about those types of games.

Text-based games are the best, amirite?

And writing about them may seem extremely nerdy, but what the fuck, I enjoy the immersion much more than anything else I’m asked to do during the working week.

That’s why I created this abyss, to shitpost here on topics I enjoy and without checking my writing in Grammarly…

Or checking in with the bosses to shoot some plain text into the web.

Here muah is free to do anything, and that feels preety damn good. I’m content with being here alone, as this is not a blog for the masses. Hope you enjoy your stay here, feel yourself at home.

Blodyxe