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The more i see of No Man's Sky, the more it feels like it'll be either the most ambitious indie failure of 2015, or the game that causes me to starve to death in front of the television, with no real room for middle ground.

Suits me fine, since I never read them.

Does this mean we can relagate all Punk talk to the mma threads?

Meanwhile, in Montreal:

And they'll think you have a really creepy fetish

Am I supposed to be laughing or something?

A quick search shows me that there was a Finlay/Meng match on the 1/10/98 episode of Saturday Night. I'm still trying to find video though. All that's coming up for me is a Faces of Fear/Blue Bloods match on Nitro and a bunch of WCW hardcore title stuff from 2000 that they were both involved in. i'm downloading the entire episode of Saturday Night. if the match hasn't turned up tomorrow i'll upload the match to youtube probably on sunday.

I find Jericho's pre interview stuff VERY annoying, but it seems odd to me that people use it to assume that he's an ass, a dick, etc in real life. I mean, at the end of the day, his opening to his podcasts are still him in an entertainment forum and putting on a show. Once he's interviewing people, he seems perfectly fine. In fact I really like the conversational tone of his interviews and he comes across as a smart and likable guy with a lot of similar interests as me, and he seems legit interested in what his guests are talking about. And I love the interviews with his son, not only because Ash seems awesome, but you can also tell just how proud and happy Jericho is to be hearing his kid talk about a subject he loves. It's kind of touching. If I'm basing someone's personality on hearing them in an interview or podcast forum, then Jericho seems OK and Punk is the one that seems like an incredible douche-nozzle.

I grew up listening to Minor Threat and bands of that ilk and went to a lot of awful sXe hardcore shows as a kid. Then there was the next extreme, which was the vegan animal rights stuff like Earth Crisis. That's when it got really ridiculous. And what was really always odd to me was that the most violent, insane shows I went to were filled with vegans. And then there's an even FURTHER extreme of hardcore bands who are also Hare Krishnas -- Youth of Today, Sheltered, etc. That was nuts. I had a bunch of friends who were super into sXe stuff in high school and early college. They usually went vegan, too. A few even got sXe tattoos. They all ended up breaking the edge at some point and became the craziest binge drinkers out of everyone. Some stuck with veganism. I stopped drinking pretty much 10 years ago, but have never been dogmatic about it. I was also never into drugs. I think anyone who calls themselves straightedge after a certain age is really lame -- I'm an adult now, and I'm not into labels anymore. HOWEVER, I think it's great Punk does talk about being straightedge and what it means to him. I believe he comes from a family with a bad history of alcoholism and drug abuse? I also have a few friends who have those familial issues and need some sort of "greater purpose" to get through not drinking. If labeling yourself straightedge gives you the ability to stay sober, who am I to judge? I also think Punk might be the most visible public figure to come from the straightedge hardcore scene. Wrestling has a lot of younger fans, obviously. Seeing an edgy dude who says whatever the hell he wants but doesn't drink or do drugs can make for a really good role model. That said, heel Straight Edge Society Punk is my favorite version of the character. I loved him name dropping bands slyly in his promos. Also, every town/city with a punk scene has the really charismatic figure who it more or less revolves around, and a lot of times those people do have this weird sense of power and control over others. Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening/K Records essentially banned onions in Olympia for a few years. Punk's extension of that dude was awesome.

This is the carniest, most ridiculous thing I've seen in forever. UFC is abandoning any pretense they had of being a legitimate major league sporting competition. On the other hand, as a die hard PRIDE fan this amuses the fuck out of me but I don't think seeing Punk will be as entertaining as seeing Fujita take inhumane beatings.

RIP CM Punk

Two wins for the Sixers in one week

If I was a songwriter, that's exactly what I would have in mind for every song I wrote.

If it's anything like the time I took my wife to an ROH show (oh man) years ago, have her put some Vapo-rub under her nose like an autopsy technician. She'll thank you later.

Plus at one point he was at least good enough to be carried by Cena, so that's something. That's actually the match I always point to for people who want to bash Cena as a worker to make them look dumb.

Everyone talks shit about Khali but he got over doing one move, made a shit ton of money and doesn't have functioning knees anymore. Very successful PRO wrestler.

One thing Ambrose cannot stand is a champion who never defends his title.

Colt says he doesn't read. Whether or not he actually can is something I'm unsure of. In every shoot I've seen him in he's always come across as a real meathead idiot. There would've been something in booking Punk and him as George and Lennie in WWE. Would've been different at the very least.

Brief weigh in notes: - Pennington and Evans-Smith showed why the male fighters need to step up their gaudy, garish tattoo game. - Faber's response at the weigh-in illustrates that while he isn't a legit, concrete PPV draw, he is still the biggest star in terms of crowd support below 155. I can see why he is the PPV lead-in. - Duffee looks a little smaller in his comeback, but still built like a college inside linebacker from the 80s. Just a physical freak of nature appearance wise. - Browne looked impressive and Schaub looked soft. - Pettis and Melendez were in great shape. - Hendricks looked sucked down, but that's going to happen when you start camp in the 210-220 range. Lawler looked like he was ready to fuck shit up.

No one was sure it was Bing behind the mask until he turned on his son and beat the shit out of him with a golf club.

Dr. Chris Amann says!: "Here, Rey, swallow this jar of cartilage! It's sure to find a hole in some part of you and settle in!!"

Well wrestling fans have always been clamoring for a game like No Mercy.

I sincerely hope Punk wins the UFC Light Heavyweight championship just to see this boards reaction.

Looks like the old Thesz belt was decorated for Christmas. I approve.

Nor was he a fish. Nor an avalanche. He was a man. John Tenta. Never forget.

I never get tired of boob jokes about The Rock. emmis, RAF

I don't have anything to add about this boring ass show except FFS, ebbie, it's "Naomi."

Kayfabe News (the website the Khali text is from) works best if you just read the headlines. The text pieces are always disappointing.

The ending doesn't seem very PG though. Maybe if done off camera...

Going to chikara tomorrow night. Anyone else heading to philadelphia? Will be my wife's first non-WWE PPV card. Expect her to be thoroughly confused and my explanation regarding the Ants and the Eye of Tyr to make me question my fandom again.

This is gonna be my legacy forever, isn't it?

That sounds like a horrible conversation

Tommy Dreamers Bob Backlund story

Just put a cowboy hat on Dempsey and you got your new Black Bart.

Those Kevin Owens videos are amazing. Maybe 4 minutes of total running time and we know everything we need to know about him coming in. He does this for his family. He does this because it's all he's good at. He came up with this current crop of stars and is finally getting his shot. He has no back up plan. I'm on board and it didn't like 35 minutes of Raw promo time.

Bigfresh you need to stop hanging out at gamefaqs or wherever you're hearing that shit

Walmart has an online deal where you can get a PS4, two controllers, and 4 games (Lego Batman, Little Bigplanet 3 and 2 of your choice from a list) for $540. So I own a PS4 now.

Street Fighter V has been announced. Exclusive to PC & PS4. Fucking Capcom. http://youtu.be/DFTPNm12MwA

They took out tons of little shit I didn't really notice at first. You can't just throw fuckers through the announce table - now you can only break it with the OMG stuff. Getting into position for OMG cell shit is needlessly difficult, and they took out the perfect top rope fistdrop and left in the shitty ones.

Tokyo Vice. Highly recommended. His accomplishment is kind of insane. Then, when I looked shit up on the internet afterwards I got bombarded with Harry Potter shit because they're making a movie with him as Adelstein.

Yup this ^^^^^ It's a solid enough base to build future games from. If the pure gameplay is your main thing it plays better than any game they've made in years.

Okay - we are going to stop this right now. This isn't the Survivor Series thread

Being buddies with Jericho has to be tiresome. "Hey bayyyybay, are you ready to play some pickup hoops with the Ayatollah of a Rock and Rolla??? Yeahhhhh!" *turns on light up jacket