A Very Ryckert Christmas 2015

Man, past that two hour mark really went deep, insane places. Props to Dan for doing a good job of keeping his cool, because as someone who has a giant passion for wrestling and who has a Dad fairly similar to Paul, I would be losing my shit on Paul.

Like, I kind of understood what Paul was trying to get at when he was talking about Springsteen and all that, because if I do understand what he was trying to say, then yes, you shouldn't just pretend to like something you really don't like just to impress others or whatever, but the whole thing where he assumes anyone who tries to like something they don't normally like is a bandwagon fan was fucking infuriating.

And oh my god, I almost had to just fast forward past the wrestling discussion. I can barely make it past the wrestling discussions anyone on GB besides Dan has, because it always ends up being incredibly inaccurate, but holy fuck, listening to Paul try to defend his active dislike for wrestling drove me insane. Like, I get he thinks wrestling is stupid and he doesn't like it. That's totally fine, but his reasoning for why he hated wrestling and the fact that he talked about wrestling as if it was some fucking terrible thing that needed to be avoided at all costs was just crazy. Like, he had no good reason other than "Well, it's just stupid, I don't need another reason".

Maybe I just felt extra infuriated because I'm a big wrestling fan and like I said, I have a Dad who extremely similar in that regard where when I told him I wanted to get involved with wrestling in some way, he flipped the fuck out and told me I was wasting my potential and he'd lie to people and all this shit, but I don't think I'm crazy when I say I think Paul really seems kind of dickish. Who knows, maybe (most likely, in fact) I'm just being way too butthurt and I shouldn't let what some dude I'm probably never going to meet get to me.

That all being said, I still like Paul and he still seems like a generally nice, funny dude. It's just absolutely crazy how genuinely angry he was about wrestling for no actual reason and how he seems to be with people with differing opinions as a whole. It was nice to hear Dan recognize how unnecessarily stubborn that way of thinking is and try to change that.

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