Matt Roberts

Leafs and Pro Wrestling

[Drainmaker @TheDrainmaker]

Jon Moxley on what PAC used to tell him, a very strong life advice:

“Not everybody's a pro wrestler. Maybe you do something else. But whatever you do with your time while you're here, every single day, give a SHIT. If you're gonna do something, do it well.

If you're gonna cook an omelette, if you're gonna go to your job, if you're gonna pick your kids up from school and take them to the park, whatever it is you do, do it with PURPOSE... and give a shit. Do it with purpose and gratitude, and surround yourself with people that you love, that also give a shit about the same things that you do. That might be the key to life.” ❤️

(Post Dynamite promo in Pittsburgh)

[Matt Roberts @MRoberts85]

@Ace109610 I’m a fuckin horse

[Jai Michelle Thunder 🌩️ @DreadedJai]

Absolutely

[Tranq @ClubTranq]

This is beyond a wrestling promo. This is an incredibly heartfelt human monologue that’s borderline eerie considering the unfortunate circumstances that transpired shortly after this was filmed.

This show couldn’t have opened in a more powerful way.

[Matt Roberts @MRoberts85]

@internetvin In Rainbows by the lighthouse wishing I had a boat too

[Matt Roberts @MRoberts85]

@RealPaulRoss #53

[BASTARD @BASTARDPAC]

Be true (to yourself).

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly.

In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints.

But that is not really what happened.

These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure.

The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms.

And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.”

Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing.

What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward.

That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse.

And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses.

Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated.

Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry.

The result was progressive collapse.

No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions.

But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful.

They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints.

A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.

[Real legend @uplegend1]

@_Succeeder Sometimes walking away isn’t about losing love. It’s about finally accepting that you can’t keep carrying a relationship alone. Loving someone deeply doesn’t mean you have to keep accepting the same hurt.

[𝚇𝚃𝚁𝙾 😶‍🌫️ @Billxtrobite]

@_Succeeder Sometimes she doesn’t want someone new, she just wanted the one she chose to finally get it right

[🎀 @_Succeeder]

Dudes will NEVER understand how hard it is for a REAL female to walk away from them, even after all the bullshit he's put her thru. She'll still look for the one reason to try and make shit work cause she can't see herself making it work with somebody else. You think she wanna start over with ANOTHER man? MEET another man's FAMILY? Invest MONEY, TIME & EMOTIONS with another man & give her BODY to another man? NOT EVEN!!! She want the man she stood by thru EVERYTHING to get his shit together & make things RIGHT 💯

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Most men have already met the woman who could have been the love of their life.

The woman who loved them with patience instead of games. The one who supported their dreams, stood beside them during difficult seasons, and genuinely wanted to build something real.

She was nurturing without being weak.
Independent without being distant.
Beautiful without needing constant validation.
Smart enough to challenge him and loyal enough to stay when things got hard.

And yet, many men still lose her.

Not because she was impossible to keep.
Not because she expected perfection.
Not because she stopped loving him.

They lose her because they mistake her patience for permanence.

Because they think she'll tolerate endless excuses, emotional immaturity, broken promises, lack of effort, and an unwillingness to grow.

She stays longer than most people would.
She communicates.
She forgives.
She gives second chances.

Then one day she realizes she's carrying the relationship alone.

And when she finally leaves, it's rarely out of anger.

It's exhaustion.

By the time she's gone, she's already spent months or years mourning the relationship while still inside it.

That's the part many men never understand.

They think they lost her the day she walked away.

In reality, they lost her long before that.

And years later, they'll search for pieces of her in every woman they meet.

The way she listened.
The way she believed in them.
The way she made them feel understood.
The way she loved them before the world gave them reasons to doubt themselves.

Some losses don't hurt because you were abandoned.

They hurt because you were given something rare, and you didn't recognize its value until it was gone.

[Matt Roberts @MRoberts85]

@tinylittletrees Stigma is real

[Drainmaker @TheDrainmaker]

AEW uploaded COMMENTARY FREE highlights of Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay IV from All In: London. 🔥

A PRO WRESTLING CLASSIC IN WEMBLEY.

[paul 💍 @TheSmalIHumph]

What a fucking year

[Matt Roberts @MRoberts85]

@DudespostingWs Oh shit I work here

[Joe Marotta @the_joe_marotta]

one of the best Coliseum exclusives, at Royal Rumble '90

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Somebody put Goodfellas audio over Skeletor and Trap Jaw and it's so perfect
(credit Mylothecat)