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KageDay ‘98: Football Season 2025-2026

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It’s that time of year again. Days are going to start getting shorter, half naked woman cover up and the heat dwindles to a chill. Which means only one thing is relevant now. football season is here!!!!

Welcome to KageDay’98, cleverly named for the famous PlayStation one game, obviously! /sarcasm

Here’s my picks for the upcoming season and as always remember, I do this for myself to improve, there is NO such thing as an expert in sports betting, you place a bet on any of these, you do so of your own volition and I bare no culpability in your bad decisions.

Below, not necessarily in chronological order, is most the weeks of the season. It be nice to see Detroit hit the playoffs at min. Odds are SF and KC will be there too. Probably even the ravens again like last season. NE Pats are probably doomed until I’m close to my 50s. I love the Panthers and would love to see them hit the bowl and win it this time, but that might not be this season. These are all preliminary and card subject to change based on injuries. I picked a majority of teams are like likely to have the best odds going in and a few underdog matches as well. I predict that SF will probably be on the rise and end up humbled in one of their games by Nov-Dec season, happens every season to one of their games best teams.

Superbowl is open to most, but would not be shocked to see the chiefs back in the picture. Who there opposition is? Well, time will tell. Judging by the pic, if the people were right about the sports writers and NFL being written like the WWE, it predicted the SF 49ers. So…

Stay metal 🤘

(Will edit here in Jan to see how well I did. )

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Are You Smarter Than a Carney?

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If life had taught me one thing by the time I was 16, it was that I was smarter than 99% of adults. However, that would change one Autumn day.

Fryeburg Maine, 2002. I’m 16 years old and the annual fair was taken place across from my parents place. I’ve been to other fairs, but not this one. This one wasn’t anything like Topsfeild in Massachusetts, it looked more rural and hick-ish from the outside, however, when you got in an inspected it, it had a quaint Cham.

So Maine has a rule that states if a game is modified, even if it’s “gambling” you can play provided you’re at least 16 years of age. So me being me, I borrowed a dollar from my mom and played a pick the color game. That dollar became $20, which is 2002 was like $100 for a 16 year old. So I gave my mom her initial investment back, and pocketed $19 dollars in quarters and walked into the great unknown, while my parents stuck with my younger siblings. Like a hot chick in an ovulation cycle, a booth appeared. Not just any booth, but the golden goose of booths. It had the coveted WWF, then just turned WWE, reproduction belts. You know, the $300 dollar ones.

The belt of Austin, Rock, Hogan, HHH, The Undertaker and many more.

So I bite like a guppie on a hook. What’s the game? Easy, toss the ball and have it drop into the bucket.

It be like that

So I figured out quickly that I’m advantaged here, cause I love science and this is an easy physics concept. Naturally I’m smarter than a carney, right? Nope! $19 dollars later and I’m broke and pissed off. Why? Because hubris blinded me in that moment and it wasn’t as easy as I thought. Years later Mythbusters would do an episode on pretty much the exact same concept, they even shared my bias, and got the exact opposite I did. Well, at least people that are smarter got to waste Discovery channels money rather than their own to find that out, as I did.

I believe this is the episode

An all over a dumb cosplay title belt. I eventually one upped the carney, thanks to Gimp and created a picture of me with said belt in question.

Revenge is mine!!!!

And a few years after that, nature was kind and through a random chance occurrence, I got to actually hold one finally.

Too sweet!

And not just any belt, it was one that John Cena had personally gifted to a make a wish youth that lived in the city and they were kind enough to let me take a picture with it.

So like the black guy in Harold and Kumar pointed out “The Universe tends to unfold as it should, plus I got a pretty big penis ,so that keeps me happy”

Moral of the story? Just because you’re advantaged, doesn’t mean you’re going to win. Sometimes the universe, as my best friend always likes to remind me, has other plans. In this case, it was reminding me that I was not smarter than a carney.

In closing

That era of my life summed up

Stay metal! And always stay in school🤘

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Popeye:The Revenge Movie Review

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INTRODUCTION: So when Winnie the Pooh became public domain, some Indy producers decided to get cute and turn it into a horror movie. It worked, albeit it was a poor movie. However, it started a trend that didn’t need to happen. Now we have the famous sailor hero killing people. Groan!

PLOT: Jason Vorhees returns again…wait, I mean popeye.

CHARACTERS: Sparse as fuck.

ACTING: Almost 1980s bad, which to be honest is actually the best part of this cringe fest, because Hollywood has been so sterilized with acting that finding a horrible performance is actually a nice change of pace. Look, it’s rare for me to dogg on someone for their looks, normally you got to be a real asshole for me to do that, but these actresses aren’t even ready to be on public access, never mind a movie. The point of casting pretty people is because they make good propaganda. Why? Think of a murder. Grizzly and ugly. Think of something like a hamburger, juicy and beautiful. Beauty is tied to human psychology with aesthetics and seems to always positively associate with good vs bad. So if you cast mid card actors with terrible development, it makes the movie even less effective. Well, at least one of them had nice tits, so there’s that, I guess.

STYLE: Low budget. It looks 2007 and that might as well be the 80s style wise now.

FX: Tom Savani called, he wants his retro fx back.

MUSIC: horribly mid as per the usual. You know the internet has plenty of musicians than can score well and much like Hollywood ignores the music industry in favor of horrible wanna be John Williams, we get garbage.

CONCLUSION: a movie no one needs, no one wants and managed to turn an icon into a knock off jason Vorhees. It’s no easy task to be this big of a fuck up, but boy did these assholes say “hold my beer.” Which I guess is ironically a success, because hey, here they are getting attention for it, which at the end of the day, most people are all about. Too bad this pitiful pos won’t recoup the most important part of doing this, the money.

2 out of 5 stars

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“Scuse me while I kiss the sky“ a Jimi Hendrix Biography by David Henderson

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INTRODUCTION: So I’m not a fan of the biography genre. I’ve read very few of them. Probably about 10 in my 39 years on this planet. Most people don’t intrigue me enough to want to know about their background. Normally it’s trite experience anyways, regardless of skin color. It’s normally birth, shit happens, some people you meet are good, some are bad, other adversaries apply, maybe a lover or two and then the person is famous or dead, one of the two. I went wanting to know more of the psychology of Jimi Hendrix, since I’m learning his music, it only makes sense to get deeper into a man, whose music I’ve heard my whole life, but never thought to learn more about. So this is my first real biography review. Not really sure how to do one, but we will try.

WRITING STYLE: Fair. From my understanding the author isn’t a non fiction writer, he was a creative writer and did this as a favor to Jimi. However, I’m reading the kindle version and the slightly wonky style could be from a bad transfer. It’s not unreadable though. There is a small bias on the authors part, as they were friends. So keep that in mind as well.

lIFESTYLE: So this biography is different than no others, as it’s basic structure as above. To be fair, Jimmy was so unique that the basic structure works here. That’s not what I’m here for though. There’s going to moments you sympathize with him and the occasional WTF moments. If you like that, this is for you.

HISTORY:This book was written in 1978, and it shows. However, the author takes great detail in explaining to you the events of the era, so people like myself get an idea of the world around him. Not necessarily a unique trope for such, but necessary for future generations who will need this context to understand Jimmy or anyone really.

MUSIC: Now this is what I’m here for! Oh god did Jimmy and his family have amazing taste in music. Songs and people I’ve never heard of. Bad bad Wiskey, live, being my favorite of all the songs I’ve listened too.

Amazing!

CONCLUSION: if you’re coming here for something salacious, you’re going to be disappointed. Sure it has its moments of “very 60s” bullshit, however it’s a very conservative portrayal of such. If you’re interested in a man and how he developed his style, you won’t be disappointed. It also offers up and otherwise interesting perspective on Jimi’s death that should not be discounted as being accurate. That’s an article for a different time, though.

5 out of 5 for Jimi fans and 4 out of 5 for a person who may just want a biography of an otherwise, interesting person.

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Why Father’s and Mother’s Day need to be Abolished.

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These two “holidays” should be abolished from history books because they narcissistic as fuck and falls under the category of Valentine’s Day, aka all commercials day, a day when candy and card places get together to make you buy unnecessary crap, because you were too self absorbed the rest of the year to appreciate your lover.

There’s nothing wrong with loving your parents or even appreciating them, however, just because you forgot to pull out isn’t a good enough excuse to party. Nor should your kids be forced to worship you. If you’re a good parent, you kids will, at minimum, mostly appreciate you during the year.

Can kids be moderately ungrateful? Sure! I know there were times I might not had been the most grateful, but that doesn’t make the kid bad. Any level of appreciation for what you do for them is better than none, but it still doesn’t deserve a day to itself.

If the day was for the government to appreciate the family unit, you would not have woman fighting for paternity leave and you would make it a bank holiday and make allowance for it, whilst giving people the day off. We do it for Veterans Day and for Memorial Day and isn’t family equally as important?

Speaking of which, ever notice it’s called paternity? It comes from the Latin, pater, or father. It’s all about us men, which is interesting, because some people consider kids a legacy, and well, wouldn’t a woman potentially desire that too? I doubt they wanted to be over glorified incubators for nine months out of the sheer pleasure. Although, I’m sure they enjoyed the nine months of judgement free eating that comes with it. Much like weddings are all about the woman, because it’s called holy matrimony. Which, as you guessed, comes from the Latin “mater” or mother. Because historically, within our nation, it was socially acceptable to parade your future gendered slave in front of each other’s families before you chained them to the house to basically be an over glorified surrogate mother for the boomer man-child.

Instead of caring about just the mother or father’s, I think we should consider combining them into family day. It’s like Thanksgiving, but without the historical bugaboo of slaughtering an entire race of people, like the fuckin Nazi’s, to celebrate it.

I know some of you will say “What about people who are family displaced?” To those unfortunate few, appreciate your friendships more, because that’s your family.

Happy Families Day!

-Kage

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Top 5 songs that would have been better for Heavy Metal.

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5.) Heart, Barracuda

A riff that goes heavy. Iron Maiden were probably the ones that popularized the metal gallop in guitar, however, Heart used it, in this 70s hit, combining that with high strings, you got something iconic. Apparently it’s based around a Nazareth song. There is slightly a bit of truth that they sound the same, but legally they’re vastly different. This one definitely gets the nod for giving you a dank riff to satisfy that metal craving.

4.) Neil Young, Hey Hey, My My

Moody, atmospheric and dark, this song is a key change away, or a distortion pedal away, from being one hell of a metal song.

3.) One more time, Brittney Spears

Ok hear me out before you scoff. New Found Glory already showed this song could fit into the rock category, but could you imagine the chugging with distortion on the opening beat? It would have made nu-metal dudes creaming their pants.

2.) Taylor Swift-Look what you made me do

Leap Frog Studios already proven this song could go hard as fuck! That how I even found out this song existed. The dark lyrics with straight up gansta vibes, would be having people starting mosh pits in the streets. definitely should have been in the genre from the start.

1.) Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this song was never rap and always in line with the metal genre. Gritty realism, deaths, loss and more and you got a song that sounds like it could have been part of the Melodic Swedish death metal music. plenty of YouTube guitarist have proven this correctly.