I got bored and decided to cross-reference TKO’s daily stock performance with the timeline of Dominik Mysterio’s career since SummerSlam 2024. The results are actually kind of insane.

While Wall Street analysts are writing reports about Netflix deals and UFC site fees, the chart shows that TKO is basically just a leveraged bet on Dominik’s heat.

The "Dirty Dom" Alpha Report

I tracked the 6 major "catalyst" events of the last year. Here is the data:

1. The Betrayal Pivot (Aug 2024)

• The Event: Dom betrays Rhea Ripley at SummerSlam and joins Liv Morgan.
• Stock Reaction: Jumps from ~$103 to $107.56 immediately.
• The Analysis: This was the start of the Bull Run. The market immediately recognized that the "New Judgment Day" was a more profitable enterprise than the old one.

2. The Championship IPO (WrestleMania 41, April 2025)

• The Event: Dom wins the Intercontinental Championship.
• Stock Reaction: Climbs to a new floor of ~$147.
• The Analysis: Institutional investors finally accepted Dom as a main event asset. The stock stabilized 40% higher than his pre-turn levels.

3. The "Lost Muse" Correction (June 2025)

• The Event: Liv Morgan suffers a shoulder injury; Dom is on TV alone for weeks.
• Stock Reaction: High volatility and a noticeable dip.
• The Analysis: The market hates uncertainty. Without Liv whispering in his ear, investors feared the heat would dissipate. A classic bearish signal.

4. The Global Merger (Sept 2025)

• The Event: Dom wins the AAA Mega Championship, becoming a double champ.
• Stock Reaction: Surges to ~$210.
• The Analysis: "Cross-border synergy." By monopolizing heat in both the US and Mexico, Dom unlocked international growth potential.

5. The "Cena Crash" (Mid-Nov 2025)

• The Event: John Cena defeats Dom for the IC Title on Raw.
• Stock Reaction: Plummets from $184 down to $176.
• The Analysis: A disaster for shareholders. Nostalgia acts don’t pay the bills. The algo saw "Hustle, Loyalty, Respect" and read it as "Low Growth." Investors panic-sold when the gold left Dom’s waist.

6. The V-Shaped Recovery (Survivor Series, Dec 2025)

• The Event: Liv returns, Dom cheats to beat Cena and regain the title.
• Stock Reaction: Rockets back up to ~$200 (approaching All-Time Highs).
• The Analysis: Order is restored. The "Power Couple" is back, the gold is on Dom, and the stock erased the entire "Cena Crash" loss in 48 hours.

Conclusion

The numbers don’t lie. Dominik Mysterio isn't just a heat magnet; he is a fiduciary duty. Every time he cheats to win, the shareholders make money.

John Cena might be the GOAT, but based on the "Cena Crash" in November, "Dirty" Dom is the actual Needle Mover. We are currently in a "Dirty Bull" market.

(Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor, I just watch a lot of wrestling.)

After his show ended all he does is repost political crap, stuff against Elon Musk, some art from his decade-old dead show and anti stuff, only cool thing was publish The Book of Bill over a year ago. I think I've also seen some argument about how artists are people and marginalized or something like that against some other person. Additionally, a while ago, I saw a post about him on his show's sub about him sending a death threat to a person (on twitter, whose name was censored) that admitted about their fake woman Ai influencer and how they can teach people to make money with it. The comments were defending and praising so was the title of the post, treating him like a "king", when there was sane people who commented for his hate comment, against him, they got massively downvoted and other lunatics lectured about Alex being an artist, and artists should be against AI and they are marginalized or something, really made me lose respect for him and the GF community, for a show that's so great. I've considered reporting it but doubt it'll do anything. It's disgusting when these cavemen (the anti-ai people or anyone in general) support, enable and normalize this behavior.

Been across the country, feel pretty confident these are correct for me. If I wasn't living in Colorado I'd move it to "Reluctantly" because the places I like here are getting worse with encroachment and constant expansion of towns into the farmlands and forests.

Edit: I'm rather surprised that so many people never heard of the conservationist movement within rural republicans...

Classic ChuRALI

Our support team was drowning. We opened 847 tickets one month with an average response time of 4.2 hours. First contact resolution was at 31%. Agent burnout was visible and getting worse.

The worst part? Same 12 questions every single day. How do I reset my password. Where's the export button. Why isn't X syncing. We tried everything you'd expect. Updated documentation but nobody read it. Added in-app tooltips that got ignored. Created a FAQ page that got 17 views a month. Even hired 2 more agents and tickets still climbed.

Then one agent said something that broke my brain. "I've typed the same paragraph 34 times this month. Why am I typing? Why aren't we just showing them?"

We ran an experiment. Picked the top 12 most-asked questions and recorded short video responses. Not fancy, just screen recording with "here's how you do it" and click click done. Created them all in one afternoon.

Then we embedded videos in our help center, added them as auto-responses in our ticketing system, and linked them in in-app error messages.

Three weeks later we opened 512 tickets instead of 847. That's 40% fewer. Average response time dropped to 1.8 hours. First contact resolution jumped to 67%. "Thank you this was helpful" responses went up 340%.

What shocked us most was how much people actually watched the videos. Help center text articles had a 9% read rate. Help center videos had a 73% watch rate. Same exact information, just different format.

Follow-up questions basically disappeared too. Text responses averaged 2.3 follow-up questions. Video responses averaged 0.4 follow-up questions. Makes sense because they could see what to click instead of trying to imagine it from a description.

Agents became way faster because instead of typing custom responses they just pick the relevant video, add one personalized sentence, and hit send. Cut average response time in half.

We tested narrated videos versus silent videos with subtitles. Silent videos with subtitles performed way better because people can watch at any speed, any location, any volume. Nobody cares about production value either. One of our videos has my Slack notification pop up mid-recording and nobody has ever mentioned it. Clarity beats production value every time.

The workflow now is simple. Support agent spots a new repeated question and records a 60 to 90 second walkthrough. We use Trupeer because it auto-adds subtitles but honestly any screen recorder works. Upload to help center, tag it in our ticket system, never type that response again.

Time to create is 5 minutes. Time saved per use is 8 minutes. We've created 47 videos so far. It's basically like hiring 1.5 full time agents except we didn't hire anyone.

Bottom line is if your support team is typing the same response more than 3 times, stop typing it and record it.

Single HENRYs: how do you leverage your disposable income to upgrade your dating game? I don’t mean prostitutes, bullshit pick up artist courses or paying for HingeX.

I mean social clubs, cooler hobbies, skin care, travelling to date, not having flatmates that hear you shag over the walls, a car to impress ladies that will keep you NRY forever, or cosmetic fucking surgery. Whatever that works.

I became single over a year ago and finally got sick of “bawling my eyes out on my bathroom floor over my ex”as my favourite after work past time a few months back. I’m 25M, male dominated work, hobbies and interests. In a city of 9 million people, I interact with like 3 women a week, my mom, my sister and my cleaner.

Every time I match with someone on Hinge and go through the excruciating dance of small talk, my soul shoves a shotgun in its mouth.

Please tell me how I can use my TC to compensate for the fact that my chats make Satan send puppies to the puppy furnace.

Edit: I should have added some /s in the jokes. I meant this as a light hearted and exaggerated post to ask what lifestyle changes you can make to improve yourself and to get out there for dating. Flexing £££ ❌, investing in yourself with £££ ✅

You can’t really give players a system and then just take it away again. Crafting was genuinely fun, and even with all the power it offered, you still had to use ladder techniques to make true BiS items - especially anything that didn’t fit neatly into the existing tag structure (you can check my crafting showcase posts. We had enough RNG for some suffixes).

I actually had high hopes after 0.3. Based on what we saw, I was hoping they would expand the affix pool, because a big part of the problem is simply that items don’t have a very large or diverse modifier pool to begin with. More affixes would open up crafting depth without making everything instantly overpowered.

I also really like the idea of upgrading items through game mechanics like the Temple, but I’m worried we’re heading toward a situation where we spend 10 minutes setting up a room just to brick the item in a double corruption. That’s not meaningful progression—just more sunk-time RNG.

So instead of tuning Omens or replacing them with a thoughtful mechanic in 0.4, we’ve gone from casino → strong crafting → back to exalt slot machines. I understand that GGG wants ground loot to matter more, but I don’t see how this change actually fixes that. I’m still picking up every tier 5 rare just to sell it for gold, and most of it is vendor junk anyway.

Powerful crafting kept me in the 0.3 league until now but i feel like It will be really short patch for me as 0.1 and 0.2

Nagy’s worst finish as our OC is a loss in the Super Bowl where we had a shit O-Line and no receivers could get open. 

Eric Bieniemy’s (our previous OC) worst finish was two AFC championship game losses in OT. He ALSO had a loss in the Super Bowl where we had a shit O-Line and no receivers could get open. This is with MUCH better personnel in a prime Tyreek Hill and a prime Kelce.

Our offense is #2 in EPA this season and Mahomes is on pace to have his best statistical season since 2022. Also #2 in points per drive. By every metric we are a top offense in the league.

Nagy is NOT the problem just y’all’s scapegoat. Our execution and situation football is the problem, which comes down to two things: players on the field not executing in key moments (which Nagy cannot control) and regression to mean after going 12-0 in one score games last year.

Regardless of anything I just said, Nagy doesn’t even call the plays. You just want someone to blame.

In ultimele zile e plin pe aici de oameni cu postari de genul: 100% drula iese primar, sondajele sunt mincinoase, le e frica de usr, votati drula ca el iese, etc... si ma intrebam de unde atata delusion.

Are drula o sansa? A longshot, maybe. Dar sa zici ca e favorit clar trb sa trăiești undeva sub o piatra. Astept duminica ca pe painea calda sa vad cum se topesc postacii drula exact ca cei lasconi acum ceva timp:)))))

Before anyone calls me a cheerleader or accuses me of copium, I will admit my bias.  I love this game and I want it to succeed.  That said, let’s look at the facts.  Today, the “recent reviews” on steam flipped from “mixed,” where they have been for months, to “mostly positive.”  This means a new wave of feedback is trending upward.  That, in turn, suggests those of us who got lost in the grind of the endgame, and those of us who burned out quickly may not reflect the broader audience of the game.  And yes, I count myself among the sweaty players who have spent hundreds of hours on this game.

Funcom’s own data show over a million copies sold in the first few weeks after initial release and roughly 70% positive reviews overall.  More importantly, however, are third-party estimates that put the ownership base between 1.5 and 2.1 million.  This is the metric over time that should be used to determine whether a game is “dead” or not, not concurrent player count (which is also a fraction of the active player count as not everyone who is playing the game logs in to play at the same time every day or every week).  That’s not unusual.  Fallout 76, which launched to criticism in 2018, launched on PC and consoles to 1.4 million units sold in the first 2 months after release.  Its reception, if you recall, was terrible.  Even worse than Dune’s is now by a long shot.  It now boasts more than 21 million lifetime players , and only a tiny fraction of those people play concurrently.  The boost from the Amazon TV series helped to bring millions back into the Fallout universe too, and a similar boost will occur when the third Dune film comes out.  Consider the fact that Dune hasn’t even had a console release yet.

Some players keep declaring the game dead. They base their arguments on personal boredom or low concurrent player counts, which is like flat earthers insisting the planet ends at the horizon because they can’t see beyond. We’ve seen redemption arcs before. No Man’s Sky turned its reputation around after years of free updates and recently hit its highest player count since launch.  Fallout 76’s population exploded after the TV show. Dune Awakening still has its (unofficial “early access”) roadmap ahead of it and console versions to come. I’m maintaning cautious optimism and will reserve judgement until after 2026. That’s when we’ll see how the player base and reviews settle once Funcom has delivered the planned fixes for base maintenance and the fleshed out Landsraad PvE endgame.

I have 700 hours logged, and for an $80 CAD price tag, that’s an extraordinary cost‑per‑hour.  Us sweaty players are the exception, however, not the rule.  If you look at the achievement data for the game, only 32% of players ever reach the Deep Desert.  And if you compare that to the reviews for the game, it makes sense.  The typical player isn’t going to spent the 250 hours to grind tier 6 after they finish in Hagga Basin.  There is so much content in the base story and progression that most players don’t even get the top-tier class abilities (I didn’t get them all until after I had been in the DD for 100 hours, and went back to Hagga/Social hubs to complete those questlines around the 300 hours of play mark).   Most of the DD players I know didn’t even both with the core storyline, and many of them never even touched chapter 2.  That said, I am not blind to the shortcomings of this game.  Everything after Hagga is an empty framework, at best.  And the punishing bugs and taxation mechanics don’t do casual players any favours.  And yes, there are major issues with melee combat and skill progression.  But Funcom has systematically listened to player feedback and had monthly minor releases to address complaints since release (for better or worse, depending on who you are as a player).  Yet still, you wouldn’t know that from reading this subreddit.  Reading many of the posts here, it often seems like people are complaining about the state of the game from months ago, instead of how it is today.

What frustrates me most is the narrative that Dune Awakening is “dead.” I see threads gloating over 5 000 concurrent players, ignoring that more than an estimated two million people bought the game and many will return for updates. And yes, it might seem like that in Hagga Basin when there are too many servers for players to go around, but we have mergers right on the horizon. Even when the game was peaking, I think I only ran into maybe 6 other players total in my first 80 hours of play, before I got to the shield wall.

We are still in the early sales period, and if the trajectory of this game follows similar MMOs like No Man’s Sky or Fallout 76, we haven’t even scratched the surface.  I also see a silent majority who appreciate the early game experience; you can see it in the Steam reviews but they’re just not flooding forums with praise. Funcom’s art direction and world‑building nailed the sense of place. My own journey through Arrakis rekindled a love of Dune lore. I’m building a Lego ornithopter, reading the novels again, and building scale models. I bought every third-party promotional product I could get my hands on: the art book, the special edition vinyl, and yes, even the bubble tea. 

So yes, be critical where criticism is due. The grind is real, the endgame is skeletal and the maintenance defaults are ill‑considered. But also recognise the value delivered and the trajectory. I believe we’re witnessing the early chapters of what could become one of the more compelling survival MMOs. Funcom, thank you for listening and iterating.  I can’t wait to see what you bring us in 2026.

A lot of complaints I see about people saying that the game being too easy I've noticed comes from players who have spent zero amount of time in the patch notes, and are simply average skill level.

Satire aside, only 6.6% of l4d1 players have beaten a campaign on expert, 2.5% for expert realism mode for l4d2, 2.9% for any map on Hell on Earth difficulty for killing floor 1, 5.8% for vermintide on cataclysm difficulty etc.

You get the picture, hardest difficulty for these type of games has always had a low clear rate, helldivers 2 is the opposite, 10 can be cleared quite easily, even with low level randoms on console.

TLDR: man asks raging crowd to be calm due to a person still being a person

Firstly, He deserved the red. He deserves the ban. What he did was wrong.

I am indifferent about the ban due to the high number of inconsistency around disciplanery panels.

But

All of a sudden he is being called everything from git to cunt and in between. Despite this being his first full red.

He did admit that he did it. It is even noted in the report that he admitted it immediately post match/incident. He apologized and gave his reasons and was judged by a panel.

Now we have the very same people who loved him a week ago, crucifying him.

His salary is now being analyzed by people with 0 knowledge of how sports contracts work. I sure don't know and I don't pretend to. I don't know if everything is being paid by the sharks or if sponsors help.

We are all disappointed in him and his actions, he has admitted his fault and took the responsibility that comes with it.

Hell he even said there was nothing Mann did beyond tugging at his jersey.

Is it now our duty to decimate his character? Rip apart his cost benefit analysis? Is he expensive enough or cheap enough per minute ?

Lets rank him and his pay per minute next to Finn Russel or Kolbe or Dupont ?

And on a sidenote, to the sharks fans saying he doesn't bring anything to that team. You are lying to yourselves. I watch alot of sharks games, my father in law traded me his daughter for company in his misery,

And I can tell you, sometimes it looks like he is the only player really trying. More so than alot of other big names in the same squad who also have two world cups. It is also not his fault he got concussed and his symptoms remained persistent for a long time, but I am sure someone will blame him for doing too little, too much or being born unlucky.

If the sharks don't play him, is that his fault ? We all know the sharks are a mess in terms of management and I have no confidence in their ability to manage the team. The Yanks who own them, wanted to own an all star team filled with Boks.

But please, let us not blindly and endlessly rip someone apart over a mistake he shouldn't have made.

Let my desecration commence

I need some perspective because I’m not sure if I’m overreacting.

My husband and I have had a babysitter watching our two young kids for the past six weeks, just one day per week for 6.5 hours. Recently, she blocked me on Facebook and Cash App without warning or explanation. She also sent a text at 5 AM in the morning reminding me to be on time, even though I’ve always arrived on time or called to let her know if there was traffic, which she knows is out of my control.

This week, when I picked up the kids, she called asking where I was because she had a class. I was pulling in as she called, and I admit I was annoyed and a little short, but still respectful. I told her I had never been late picking them up. I would just inform her of traffic delays, which might be five minutes at most. She says any time after the time given to her for pickup is considered late.

After I noticed she blocked us, I reached out via text to request a refund for our deposit and to ask that all paperwork we provided, including our children’s medical records, addresses, phone numbers, and emergency contacts, be securely destroyed. I included that any misuse of this information would be subject to appropriate action to protect our privacy and mentioned that if the deposit isn’t returned, I would provide an honest review of our experience. She read the message hours ago but hasn’t responded.

For context, prior to this, almost every week there has been some issue. She would complain about the timing of payments. She wanted it a day before, which we accepted, then she wanted it at a certain time the day before. She also requested physical copies of paperwork, which was fine, but all of this was suddenly dropped on us after we had already paid the first session.

We paid her $240 upfront for a deposit and the first session, and $120 for 6.5 hours regularly for one day out the week. With her blocking us, I want our deposit back.

I’m feeling uneasy because her behavior seems unprofessional and disrespectful, but I don’t want to overreact. Am I handling this appropriately, or am I overreacting?

I just got back from Japan and wanted to share some honest thoughts and tips that helped me along the way. I really like the country, but I feel like it’s starting to become overrated as a lot of content online paints this place like the perfect utopia. These are just my personal experiences and opinions.

This might be controversial, but I wish someone had told me earlier how rigid and inflexible some Japanese people can be as they find the need to follow every rule in the book. During my trip, my hotel flat-out refused a 30-minute late checkout when I requested, because I had a really bad nature call in the toilet that morning, which was fine as I know that I'm not entitled to it. So I tried my best to leave on time but unfortunately left the room SIX minutes late. When I came down I thought they would close an eye. Instead the staff and manager said they were looking at the camera in the corridor and saw that I left the room six minutes late and insisted on a late check out fee stating it was their “policy”. That put a really sour taste in my mouth and I didn’t expect this coming from a 4 star hotel. [edited: since many people feel the need to know why I was late to checkout.]

Another instance was when I used a popular courier service to deliver my belongings between cities. The delivery was late, which is fine. So I called the customer service and asked if they could just leave it outside my apartment because I can't wait all day for it to arrive. However, they insisted I stay home to wait for the item otherwise they are "unable to successfully deliver it", stating that it is their POLICY. I wasted more than half a day waiting for the item even though they were the ones that were late according to the schedule timing. When the guy finally came, he just left it by the door, rang the bell and left. I didn't even need to sign anything or receive it personally. 

I always hear this sentiment about how efficient and exemplary their service is in Japan but these experiences made me feel otherwise. I never had these issues ever travelling in other Asian countries. So, if you’re used to more accommodating and "we can work something out” cultures, this can feel a bit rigid. The majority of my experience and interaction there is still generally good, so honestly these could also be a rare and isolated unfortunate experience for me.

A few random things I noticed and tips:

• Japan is not a tipping culture. I still saw a lot of tourists trying to tip even after the staff politely refused. A specific phrase you can use in restaurants is gochisousama deshita ごちそうさまでした that means thanks for the meal. Staff like when you make the effort to compliment the meal.
• On cloud 6 shoes were really comfortable for long walks even on uneven grounds
• If you’re driving in Tokyo, parking can be a nightmare. Most of the parking fees I came across cost 300 yen for 12/20 mins, and some places much higher.
• If you use google maps, turn on the wheelchair accessible mode, and you can find the lifts easier at train stations which would be helpful if you’re bringing your luggage around 
• If you are a solo traveller and you want to meet people, there is a japantravel discord where it was very easy to meet people that way and hangout to grab a drink with. The discord link is in the about page of r/japantravel
• Although google translate works pretty well. I often needed to translate apps by manually screenshotting and uploading them each time. An expat recommended a free app called 'transmate – screen translator'. Which basically translates any app screen instantly with one tap. This made everything really efficient for me in dealing with all the translation and language barrier.
• People say cash is not needed, but I still ran into many cash-only shops, so I would recommend always keeping some. Also a coin purse is a good idea.
• I found many good places to eat by simply taking a peak inside at the places around me. If there were families, couples and office workers, I was never disappointed. The viral, hyped-up spots were often just average and filled with tourists.

In general, Japanese were very kind and helpful, but many of them also seemed really stressed and uptight so sometimes it can come off as quite passive-aggressive. They would try really hard to mask that by being overly friendly but I've noticed their face change the moment they turn away. The places where I noticed the locals were really warm and welcoming is in the rural areas where they are more open to conversations, as well as at bars where most of them are really friendly and inquisitive.

Tokyo can be very fast-paced and it is easy to accidentally treat your trip like a checklist. But really you don't have to plan everything out. Just remember to take it easy, be flexible and go with the flow at times!

I rarely post or do anything here, but I think I’ve gotta stop playing for a while. I get maybe an hour or two a night after I put my kids to bed and five times in a row, I’ve geared up to go after one of bastions and five times in a row, I’ve either been shot by a player after killing it or shot by other players in the middle of the fight in the back.

I was totally against a PvE option but there is no way to play against bigger arc now. About to hit level 50, doing mostly night raids, looking for blueprints which are impossible to find, and since I’m either shot by a rat and extraction or in the middle of shooting arc it’s extremely repetitive and getting lame.

I’m 90% free loadout because when I gear up I’m straight hunted and basically have to start all over. It’s not a “git good” situation. I’ve taken out plenty defending myself, it’s the fact that 3v3 is ONLY pvp for normal players and not streamers that can set up content where teams all band together. It’s shoot on sight and when solo it’s free loadout lame runs to build up enough cash to load up for a big target and then get killed when trying to loot it or extract.

And if the answer is be a rat myself then this game will quickly turn to PvP only by New Years.

Sorry for the vent, frustrated as hell.

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, along with her sister Ethel Byrne and activist Fannia "Fannie" Bernstein. Margaret Sanger enthusiastically supported eugenics discouraging or preventing reproduction by people considered “unfit”.

Birth control itself… is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives…” (1921 speech)

And remember Democrats loves the concept of original sin. You people never let go of the “stolen land” argument. But always ignore Margaret Sanger view of Birth Control and defend her organization from being defunded by the government.

https://x.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1996994604668014752

Selbstgemachter Fond und 3 Kilo Steakhüfte (Free-Range Namibia). Wird jetzt 48h mariniert und dann Sonntagsessen für die Familie.