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  1. I'm only 23 minutes into the show, right now, but nothing is going to top COLE: "This match is presented to you by Jolly Ranchers: Keep on Sucking!" USO: ...What?
    6 points
  2. Seriously, she actually was blackballed from almost every relevant music thing in the country. CBS, which is owned by Clear Channel, had to pay a huge fine from that incident and all of the blame went to her, while Justin Timberlake was treated like an innocent bystander. She was banned from The Grammys that year, while Justin was allowed to perform. All of her music was banned from all Clear Channel television and radio stations, which pretty much ended her career. Janet Jackson has hits on top of hits, but you can't hear them on MTV, BET, or the largest radio conglomerate in the country. Seriously, can you remember the last time you heard a Janet Jackson song on the radio? Her quality new music doesn't exist, because it hasn't been allowed to exist (by the way she has 2 platinum albums in the 21st century, including one after she was banned from radio and television). She received 100% of the backlash, while Justin Timberlake was able to walk away from the incident with no repercussions.
    5 points
  3. Next, we need Sami to dance like the guy in the One Step Beyond video.
    5 points
  4. Djarum Black is the perfect choice for late 90's smokers who want to smell like a baked Christmas ham all year long.
    4 points
  5. I can't be the only one reading into that line
    4 points
  6. JAEDMC'S LAURI MARKKANEN REPORT 19 Points on 7-12 shooting. 5-8 from three. Becomes the first rookie to hit 10 threes combined in his first three games, which is perhaps the most worthless ESPN style statistic. I like it just because we thought we'd be getting floor spacers in Doug McBuckets, and Nikola and that never happened. NBA thought we deserved a supercut of these 10 threes, and you gotta admit, that stroke is nice.
    3 points
  7. Not only that, her career is comparable to those artists, despite never getting that kind of credit. Does anyone look at any of the below artists and criticize them for not having any hits this decade? Janet Jackson is legitimately an all-time great pop artist. Janet Jackson She had seven #1 albums including five in a row and the two that didn't reach #1 in that span peaked at #2. She also had ten #1 singles. Tom Petty He had one #1 album and zero #1 singles. The Rolling Stones had ten #1 albums including four in a row and six that peaked at #2. The Stones had seven #1 singles. Paul McCartney (As a solo artist, because The Beatles aren't walking through that door) He had six #1 albums and 9 #1 singles. This is about to turn into a Janet Jackson appreciation thread in the Music Folder.
    3 points
  8. For the record, CBS was owned at the time by Viacom, not Clear Channel. It is now operated by the CBS Corporation. Also, Janet has done fine since her blackballing from the NFL, she has released 4 albums, two of which peaked at #2, the other two peaked at #1. She also has toured very successfully. Also, as for DFA's comment that she was blackballed because she hasn't put out good new music since 2004: Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Madonna, Usher, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Missy Elliott all say Hi.
    3 points
  9. So you don't want to read my fanfic about how KO and his wife are secret agents working for the Canadian government, and they were called in by the Prime Minister to infiltrate an illegal gambling operation that was taking bets on curling in the stock room of a Tim Hortons? I promise there aren't that many Alan Thicke jokes in it.
    3 points
  10. Alright guys, let's stop talking about Janet Jackson being banned from everything for 13 years and start talking about how it is a crime that we don't get to hear these songs on the radio any more. Janet Jackson is legendary. Control sold 10 million copies. Rhythm Nation sold 12 million copies. janet. sold 14 million copies and got me through puberty. Don't sleep on how many great songs Janet Jackson has produced over the years. If you have one of "those" playlists and this ain't on it...well you ain't living right
    2 points
  11. So Jarrett started two wrestling companies...only to get fired from both of them. Damn that's cold.
    2 points
  12. I asked a couple folks I know If they thought we would see Scully during the Series and was told no. Glad they were wrong.
    2 points
  13. When part of your taunting schtick is walking a straight line, don't wrestle while intoxicated. Can you imagine if his taunt was touching his nose with his index finger? Or his promo started, "Z, y, x, w ..."?
    2 points
  14. I didn't realize the CBS/Clear Channel merger was after the ban, but both companies banned her. Being banned by Clear Channel and Viacom is essentially blackballing someone from the music industry. She has done fine, because she's one of the most beloved singers of her time. The fact that those albums did so well with essentially no American radio play is amazing, but those albums did far worse than any of her other work. All of this is not really addressing my point which was her punishment for the incident was extreme, while Justin Timberlake's punishment was completely non-existent, when they committed the crime together. People are acting like Justin Timberlake being invited to the Super Bowl is a sign that all is forgiven, when he never paid a price for the original act. She was repeatedly publicly shamed and lost millions of dollars in royalties, and is never going to be invited back. I'm not OK with how she was treated. I'm not OK with the discrepancy between their punishments. I'm not OK with him not having her back while going through all of this. All of this rubs me the wrong way, and that is all before going into the racial/gender issues that allow a black woman to be discarded while a white man gets to continue on unscathed for the same exact incident.
    2 points
  15. I have never gotten fussed at for stealing kills, and the Avenger does it fairly frequently because I'm running around all over the map like a chicken with my head cut off. This is a team thing, I don't care if somebody steals all my kills as long as the enemies die. Never been a score guy. I just wanna finish the mission and get paid. I don't give a wet damn for guns anymore because the odds are basically really against me now. What I mean is that no matter which $100,000 pack you buy, you have the same chance of getting an ultra-rare. Problem with the guns is that I don't see any of the ultra-rares really being super-effective until I get them into high Bulwark and Siphon territory, and that means I'm gonna have to get every ultra-rare gun up to X before I start getting variants. My high UR gun right now is a V, but most are Is and IIs. I still don't have two or three ultra-rare guns. Getting all those guns up to X is gonna define "challenge," much less getting variants up to X, because the chances of getting ultra-rares doesn't increase as you finish up rares. You just get rare consumables instead. Always best to run anything you can on power cells, because it's crazy to be waiting on the recharge timer if you need to do something immediately. If you're big on power cell use, try running the Grenade Capacity (I think it's called) vest. Gives you three more power cell capacity on everything you use them for. It's an absolute must on the Avenger since sticky bombs and cloaks run on power cells. The extra power cell consumables are still my favorite, because I burn just a ton of stickies playing Platinum. I played some with the No. 2 guy recently, but I don't think we talked. I had a huge four- or five-game Platinum run late last night with a couple of guys who were around 45,000 and a guy who was at 31,000. The high-level guys were playing tanky shooters and me and the other guy were Avengers playing freestyle on Firebase Zero. I wouldn't say it was easy, but it was the easiest time I've had so far playing Platinum. It took a game, but me and the other Avenger was meshing perfectly on the objective waves - I was where he wasn't, he was where I wasn't. I screwed up first game trying to help him with a hack, and even though I was cloaked, I was still somehow drawing heat. I abandoned the hack and it went super smoothly from there. Lesson learned. I had a bad run in the afternoon playing Platinums with Melraz because somebody else wanted to be the cloaker and they couldn't get the objectives done. We came to the conclusion that even though there are other characters who can cloak, the Avenger's the one for Platinum because you can throw stickies at stuff without breaking cloak. That's huge in a Hack or Upload when someone wanders in. I think I enjoy playing "freestyle" more than the Nova method, because you're not as dependent on randoms. Doing the Nova thing, you need someone who can really cloak well and do objectives and someone who can always remember to spam that damn shield boost constantly so the Krogan can Nova. I think the shield boost guys get carried away with shooting shit and forget to do the shield boost, but that character is basically there to support the Krogan first and do whatever afterward. I swear, I think I had my first guy bail on a Platinum match because he thought we were gonna fail (so did I) and bailed out to protect his APEX rating. He could've dropped, but I definitely think him quitting on purpose like that is what happened. We wound up finishing it, barely. I was a Krogan, but my shield guy abandoned me in the room we were in when things got too hot while I stood around and tried to take out 800 Ascendants with no one to boost my shields. That didn't exactly go well.
    2 points
  16. I always assumed American Balloon was high on helium before shows.... Edit: God, that was a bad joke. Upon further reflection, I feel obliged to boo myself.
    2 points
  17. Candyman is 10000000000% better than the short story it was based on and I love Clive Barker like family.
    2 points
  18. I vaguely remember seeing him win the PCW Heavyweight Championship down here in Arlington about a dozen years ago. Other notables on that card, now that I went back and looked it up, were Robert Evans, Mr. Texas (Hernandez) and Shadow (Lance Vance Archer-Hoyt).
    2 points
  19. I love Sami obnoxiously skanking in Shane's face. The only way it could have been better is Sami taking a drag from a clove cigarette and blowing it in Shane's face.
    2 points
  20. Early reminder: Sunday late night is Haxan followed by Onibaba and Ugetsu.
    2 points
  21. The problem with this kind of angle is that they can't sustain it over a whole show (certainly not over the next month) Tonight, for instance, sure there'll be some kind of Raw invasion, but for the remaining 90 mins, they've actually got to put on matches. And those matches will be Smackdown guys going against each other, so any semblance of unity is already out the window.
    2 points
  22. Battleborn received its final update and will now shuffle off its mortal coil. But Bioware wouldn't give Andromeda one. No I will not let this fucking go
    2 points
  23. The fact that she was blackballed and he was not still amazes me. Seriously, if you would rather listen to Justin Timberlake than Janet Jackson we are not friends and never will be.
    2 points
  24. The end of this video when she says, "What's my name, boy?" my chest went from completely bare to completely covered in hair. (For the record, I'd call her Miss Jackson, because I'm nasty.)
    1 point
  25. DEN OF THIEVES Starring Gerard Butler and Curtis Jackson This looks like entertaining trash, and they're literally lifting the final heist from GTA V and making it into a movie.
    1 point
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  27. Still pretty sure Suwama has won two RWTL, 2013 with Doering and 2015 with Miyahara. He also has the most Triple Crown reigns out of anybody, ever, and is only beat by Misawa in combined reign length. Still doesn't excuse booking his last three reigns a combined 50 days with zero defenses, even if one (potentially long) reign was cut due to injury.
    1 point
  28. In an interview with Game Informer - Rockstar said that the reasons there was never single player DLC was 1) First they had to fix multiplayer 2) Then they had to port to the next generation 3) Then they had to work on Red Dead Redemption 2 The part that really made me slap my knee was they threw out "WE WOULD STILL LIKE TO DO IT EVENTUALLY!!!!"
    1 point
  29. It's still alive!!!! Film: Candyman Candyman Candy.... Chosen by: Lacelle Reviewed by: Ultimo Necro Candyman by Ultimo Necro Everyone knows the Candyman legend right? Stand in front of a mirror, repeat his name five times, Candyman appears, gore ensues? It has been probably 20 years since I last watched it, I've never really went back to it, despite it being one of my wife's top five films of all time. So I bust out her DVD over the weekend and gave it a watch. I thought I knew this film. I don't think I really did. In my memory the film was a total slasher flick, lots of blood and violence, however, upon rewatch, the violence is limited to a few scenes which increase in frequency as the film gathers pace. There is a lot of tense foreshadowing and the film is well built from the ground up, gradually introducing the legend of the Candyman as the main character, Helen, investigates deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. Set in 1992 , mainly in the Chicago projects, the film seemingly dealt with a lot of white America's fear of black culture. The well educated college kids discussing urban legends before finally heading to the projects to find out the truth for themselves. The film is really well shot and in many ways reminded me of the Wire with respect to showing poor areas and the desolation that comes with living in a place like that. The flick opens with an overhead shot of cars driving along the highway. I almost thought I had put the original Grand Theft Auto game on, it mirrors the viewpoint of that game perfectly. I also wondered if it was an homage to the other “call his name 3 times” movie, Beetlejuice (naturally), which also opens with the overhead shot of the car travelling through the village. Unlike Beetlejuice, there is little humour to be found in this grimly dark tale. As mentioned previously there is little in the way of jump scares, the gore is kept gritty, realistic and for when the film requires it. The main character, Helen, discovers that back in the day, Candyman, the son of slave who was a brilliant artist, was brutally murdered by a baying mob after falling in love and having a child with a local white girl. His ashes scattered on the area where the projects stand. Helen, visits the area to interview some locals, including a single mom and a little kid who further flesh out the Candyman legend. Here she has an encounter with some local ass-holes in possibly the grimmest toilet this side of Desperado. She is assaulted by the leader, a fake Candyman who has been using the name to further his rep. At this point I must say the violence in the film is very well done and is no more gratuitous than necessary. The one punch from the gang leader is shockingly brutal, especially in a modern context. Helen is picked up the police and asked to identify her assailant. At the police station, Helen explains to the little kid who witnessed the assault that Candyman is fictional like Dracula. Bad move! Following this, the film really picks up. The real Candyman appears to Helen and considers that she has insulted his legacy, presumably he has seen some horrible Dracula flicks. Tony Todd plays the part with a real menace and is great to watch in the role. The most horrific scene in the film then follows. Helen wakes up in the apartment of the single mom she interviewed earlier in the movie. The lady in question lived with her child and a large dog for protection. The screaming is barbaric from the mother as Helen wakes up. The camera pulls back and Helen is covered in blood, as the camera pans across we see the dogs severed head. Gross right? Well not gross enough as Helen follows the trail of blood into the bedroom the mother is standing over the crib distraught as it appears her child has been abducted, presumably by Candyman. I swear to god, Vanessa Williams screaming is insane, the howling of a hurting woman is something that will haunt me for a bit! A fight ensues between Helen and the mother, assuming Helen to be the attacker, which ends when the cops burst in and arrest Helen. Helen is arrested then bailed out by her college professor husband. The husband was noted earlier in the film to have had “lustful interest” from one of his students, this pays off brilliantly at the end of the movie. Helen's husband takes her home only for Candyman to appear again. Candyman then murders Helen's best friend when she arrives at the apartment. Helen, alone in the apartment with a dead body and a bloody knife is swiftly re-arrested and placed into a psychiatric unit. At this point it would appear there is no way out for Helen. I also noticed a slight parallel with American Psycho at this point, there is an argument to be had that Candyman was literally in her head the whole time and Helen could have been committing the murders on her own? It would certainly have been a unique twist, especially in 1992. However, not content with the destruction caused to Helen so far, Candyman continues his mind-games and asks Helen to submit to his will and become immortal. Then, amongst the graffiti, Helen notices that she looks a hell of a lot like Candyman's old girl from back in the day. It is also revealed that Candyman has taken the child. From here, we head to the conclusion of the movie and the set-piece at a large bonfire. Candyman has placed the child in the bonfire and Helen attempts to save the child. Candyman grabs them attempting to burn them all alive. Naturally our hero makes the save and manages to escape Candyman's grasp and deliver the child from the bonfire safely to the clutches of her aforementioned mother. Helen, who had caught on fire sadly passes. We get a great scene where the community turn up to Helens funeral to thank her for returning the child. Not to fear though, Helen's legend lives on as she vengefully returns from beyond the grave to murder her distraught ex-husband who is now living with the bratty college girl from earlier in the movie. It's a great scene really well played by all involved. This film is really excellent. Way ahead of its time in many respects. Almost exclusively female and African American leads, Virginia Madsen is fantastic in the main role, co-stars Vanessa Williams and Kasi Lemmons support really well. Tony Todd's prescene in his on screen time is a sight to behold and Gilbert Lewis as Detective Valento delivers a fine performance. As said above, my memory of the movie differs from watching it now. As a kid my eyes were closed to the themes and I just remember the gory scenes and being scared of the Candyman. Its a more enjoyable film now and one I would wholly recommend that everyone go back and re-watch. It's gritty, disturbing and really well told. I will definitely re-watch with the wife as she always complains we never watch enough movies together. Instead of a reboot I would really dig a “Helen” sequel set in 2017.
    1 point
  30. Okay, gear up. Starting 7 PM Central tonight: The Innocents Diary of a Madman Curse of the Demon Carnival of Souls From Beyond the Grave (Amicus horror anthology w/Peter Cushing) or you can watch the Chucky marathon on AMC if you feel like slumming it. If you haven't seen any of those, well, get to it. And don't be like me and think Curse of the Demon is Night of the Demon without realizing it's the sequel
    1 point
  31. Every time a villain is defeated, another pops up in its place. And so it'll likely go for years and years until this series limps its way to an overdue finale. Lather, rinse, repeat. I hope I can kick the bad habit of watching this show before then. What an incredible waste of ammo in this episode. Remember when it was a big deal that Eugene could make bullets because ammo was scarce? Now they've got so much, they can afford to blow a bunch of it on shooting out windows. It was colossally dumb of Simon and Negan to believe Gregory had that much sway over the Hilltop people and to rely on him as the ace up their sleeve. The Hilltoppers obviously bought into Rick's bullshit if they were willing to bring the fight to the Saviors. Any idiot can see that Gregory is not the sort of leader people would believe in. Weird Al's Another One Rides the Bus was certainly an odd choice for the flash forward music. With them also having a They Might Be Giants montage last season, it's like this show's music is being chosen by an eight-year-old me.
    1 point
  32. Oh, small quibble but they should have hidden Seth and Dean from that beat down the way they did stars that matter. You're just in the process of rehabbing them as tough and they get taken out by the SD B squad. I mean, isn't the corollary that a top babyface can take out four midcarders by himself (SCSA being the exception, of course, as he can take out literally every single person). Roman and Cena could have taken out that whole gang by themselves.
    1 point
  33. Let's not overlook that Booker T is on literal fire lately. He was so awesome in his Dusty-level batshit comentary. "Elias was just defending himself. Jason Jordan out there runnin' all around doin' all illegal shit. All Sniffing around and jumping up and down, knocking shit over. Good on Elias! Shut up Cole! Damn."
    1 point
  34. Am I the only one that sees there is a new post in this thread and just assumes it's probably something dumb Curt Schilling said or did?
    1 point
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  36. Kind of a quick summary on factions: CHAOS are basically The Establishment. They're all about tradition and doing things the honorable way, for the most part (a notable exception is notorious cheater Toru Yano, but he's largely considered a harmless court jester type). Although, as is often the case with Establishment types, they (specially Okada) can be arrogant and somewhat unlikeable at times. Los Ingobernables are their polar opposite, essentially wrestling nihilists who get their kicks undermining whatever fans and other wrestlers hold dear. That said, they've been softened considerably over the last half year, and I'm not sure there's a chapter in the anarchist's cookbook about marrying stuffed animals. Bullet Club's driving principle these days seems to be that NJPW's global expansion would be better served by having gaijin like them on top, but there's considerable division within the group as to what their methods should be and who should be leading them. Suzuki-gun are the purest heels in the company. It's largely comprised of NJPW expatriates and NOAH guys who returned to the company as invaders this year to cause havoc. There's also Taguchi Japan, which is a loose affiliation of otherwise unaligned babyfaces who don't really have much of a uniting principle besides wearing matching jerseys on Taguchi's insistence.
    1 point
  37. In my own uniform news, got a new hat in the mail today: Hell yeah Frisco Rough Riders! This takes over for my hat from last summer, the Montgomery Biscuits.
    1 point
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