Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Your Midweek Links: Game of WHOA

Oh Tywin!
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It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Wrestling Links:

- The Wrestling Hipster: Five moments that justify your hatred of John Cena [With Leather]

- The Bourne Legacy [False Underdog]

- Sister Abigail [Turnbuckle Zine]

- The Best and Worst of RAW: Stardust Memories [With Leather]

- Rasslin' Story Time: Pro wrestling desperately needs an offseason [SB Nation]

- PWG Mystery Vortex II Review [Voices of Wrestling]

- Vintage Best and Worst: Halloween Havoc 1996 [With Leather]

- TNA Impact (June 12) Review [Voices of Wrestling]

- The Best and Worst of Impact Wrestling: The Three Count of Monte Cristo [With Leather]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- The Tywin Lannister Guide to Being a Good Father [Warming Glow]

- Game of Thrones has burnt down most of its structure, and that's a risky move [Polygon]

- No need to argue, the five best and worst moments from Game of Thrones season 4 [Pajiba]

- Ten questions about Game of Thrones season four, answered [Warming Glow]

- The secret to making sense of last night's Game of Thrones finale [io9]

- Game of Thrones Debunker: Are Syrio Forel and Jaqen H'ghar the same person? [Dorkly]

- The five worst ways to die from Game of Thrones season four [Warming Glow]

- Why Ned Stark deserved to die [TH's House of Random]

- A brief history of queer children's cartoon characters [Gawker]

- Everything you need to know about every World Cup team [Screamer]

- Jurgen Klinsmann states the obvious about US soccer [Sports on Earth]

- World Cup of Beer [Screamer]

- How to make pancakes, an marvel of labor and science [The Concourse]

- FDA abruptly reverses stance on wooden aging boards for cheese [Kitchenette]

- Why you get garlic breath and how you get rid of it [Lifehacker]

- An engineering approach that makes turkey frying a bit safer [io9]

- Why I'm speaking up about what Terry Richardson did to me [Jezebel]

- What do you do when your rapist is a varsity athlete? [Jezebel]

- The "Gamer Babe" problem [The Classical]

- Happy Fathers Day, mom! [Jezebel]

- Tony Gwynn, baseball scientist, has died [SB Nation]

- Which MLB fans are the biggest bandwagoners? [Deadspin]

- How baseball stats have changed in every era [Regressing]

- Toplist: The 25 best Pixar characters ever [Dorkly]

- If the box art to our favorite games were more honest [Gamma Squad]

- A grown-ass man's guide to super-hard old Nintendo games [The Concourse]

- Decades later, someone's found a new Super Mario Bros. glitch! [Kotaku]

- Ten scientific ideas scientists wish you would stop misusing [io9]

- An ocean on Pluto's moon? Scientists keep an eye out for cracks [io9]

- A day in the life of someone who sincerely retweets Darren Rovell [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- I think you would like Tom Cruise if you met him [Danger Guerrero]