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Look, guys, it's possible that maybe Mick didn't protect himself physically as much as he probably should've in his career...

Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars

Today's the day that marks me getting a 100th Platinum! My 100th Platinum is Sly Cooper & The Thievius Racconnus for Vita. Which turns out to be my 1st Platinum six years ago. I have to say trophy hunting and Platinum hunting has changed my life for the better. When I started doing this six years ago, I couldn't find work and I didn't have enough self-confidence to feel like I would be able to find a decent job again. I started Platinum hunting as an outlet and it taught me a lot of things. It taught me patience, perservance, and helped me realize my strengths as a person to become a better person. Six years later, I have a full-time job that I've been working since 2014 and I'm excited to take that same kind of mentality to where I work. Although where I work will not be the final destination for me in my career, I have used trophy hunting and Platinum hunting on PSN during job interviews. I'm very grateful to share this with you and here's to 1000 more!

You were all beaten to the joke by many years.

I'm gonna go to med school and get my MD, just so I can open up a combination Taco Bell/urgent care clinic called Dr. Taco Bell.

He was always a heel to me.

1977

I'd rather have the Thorn in Your Eye version.

English needs to win this. After all it's on Rusev Day.

Harden getting got by flops is just

Being worse than Terry Gordy puts him in great company.

Watching a little Lupin III Part 4 on VRV tonight; I had it dubbed because I'm moving around the apartment a lot and can't really watch something subbed. I'm honestly surprised that Funimation were willing to shell out for the Pioneer/Adult Swim cast; I remember hating Tony Oliver as Lupin in the first several episodes but feeling like he grew into the role pretty well by the end. And Richard Epcar and Michelle Ruff were pretty great as Jigen and Fujiko from even earlier on.

Whoa calm down, reverse Ace Cibernettico.

The gif in your signature must be Randy watching a Chavo frog splash.

That's what a seizure looks like in typed form, I suppose. Is he okay?

What the hell?

It seems like they didn't know how to capitalize on her insane bumping. It should have been easy enough as her character was a pre-Bayley enthusiastic nerd who would never give up. But they don't quite get how to make those characters likable anymore without making them grating. And then as a heel, she wasn't credible size-wise so they just went with their laziest idea for women: "She crae!" She even got that over enough though. I mean the shallowness of WWE creative can be summarized by the fact that she debuted basically as "SHE LIKES VIDEO GAMES, GUYS!!!! REALLY!!!! FOR REAL!!!!" and honestly any woman who gets over even a little bit with that has got something. Also some day her commentary with Lawler is going to be like Seth McFarlane's Harvey Weinstein joke.

FTFY

You know how to follow up all these disturbing Mick Foley bumps?

Can we just make this a Mick Foley Stupid Bump GIF compilation? Cause id be very down with that.

Captain America 4 featuring Paste-Pot Pete confirmed.

Hot take!

WHEN I do this exact call at the next CWF show.

Well to be fair - as mentioned in the clip with Foley and Austin - the point of the Rock match was to get over that Rock had a vicious side so it was booked to be nasty. (Kinda how Foley then had the same "job" in the matches with HHH, Edge and Orton)

Underwear, socks, and work clothes are all top-tier gifts when you're an adult.

Somebody who died two years ago today nailed this whole goddamn thread with one song

Just gonna leave this here Full No Remorse comp Two years... fuck.

Of course, no election cycle is complete without an appearance by Deez Nuts.

If this actually happens, know that the entire internet will hold you responsible.

Eh, Vince knows what to do with acts that get over organically - punish them and break their spirit. It's funny that Breezango seem to be super-over and still can't get on the show consistently unless they're jobbing to the Bludgeon Brothers.

My brother got me a copy of Persona 5 for PS4 this Christmas. The girlfriend told him to - I've only recently got into the series, don't have a lot of PS4 games, and it seems to be the #2 Game of the Year 2017 (between Zelda and Mario). Alas, it was the wrong call and I had to return it. So I'd like to thank the employees and customers of the Gamestop on Sinclair Lane in East Baltimore for absolutely ROASTING me for doing so. Never mind that I'm currently halfway in to Persona 3: FES and plan on beating 4 before starting 5, or that I fully expect a deluxe edition in the vein of FES or Golden to be out by the time I'm ready to play it; Persona 5 is clearly the best game of this year or any other and I am the most pitiable sort of fool for denying it. To be fair, the light-hearted scorn of every dreadlocked dude in a Dragon Ball Z t-shirt DOES make me look forward to it more.

Please let there be a cobra popping out of a box Nikki is opening.

Because when you pin someone and they use the rope to break the count there's no disqualifying action there. The rules state that if a person grabs the rope the pin count must stop. If a person is in a submission and they get a rope break if the person does not let go of the submission they will be disqualified.

WWE Hell in a Cell 2013. Cody Rhodes and Goldust Vs The Usos Vs Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns: The Rhodes boys are the tag champs now after winning the belts on Raw. This is as good a multi-team match as I've ever seen. One simple rules makes all the difference, and that's that it's only two men in the ring at a time. That allows for proper heat segments and proper selling, the latter of which Goldust does so well. This is, for the most part, a Shield/Rhodes match, with those two teams legal for the lion's share. The Shield are very good at isolating Dustin who, as mentioned, is a great fip. Great to see old school tag wrestling with the crowd super into it. Great moment when Goldust finally gets a chance to tag out, but Rollins pulls Cody off the apron. So, Goldust is in the corner with no-one to tag and the fans start screaming at him to go and tag one of the Usos. He finally realises and starts to make his way over there, only for the Shield to pull both of the Usos off the apron too. Quality working of the crowd there. Then it breaks down and we get a super modern-style finishing stretch, including an insane spot where Cody superplexes Rollins off the top to the outside on top of the other four guys. Match ends with a Cross Rhodes to Rollins, and the Rhodes brothers retain. Fandango and Summer Rae Vs The Great Khali and Natalya: Why is the Great Khali back on my screen? This is what it is. Mercifully short with Summer Rae pinning Nattie in her debut. The announce team amused themselves by calling JBL John the Geek (instead of Jimmy the Greek) for calling Summer Rae's win. Dean Ambrose Vs Big E Langston: US title on the line. E has some great power offence, but otherwise this match is unremarkable. Ambrose takes a deliberate countout to retain his belt. Big E lays him out after the match with the Big Ending. CM Punk Vs Paul Heyman and Ryback: This is the first cell match of the night. Heyman comes out on a scissor lift and ascends to the top of the cell, where he will stay for the duration of the match. Ryback and Punk have another decent match inside the cell, with Punk playing scrappy underdog and pulling out a win with the GTS. Punk then climbs the cell and lays Heyman to waste with a kendo stick, before hitting him with a GTS too. Hopefully that puts an end to the Punk/Heyman feud, as it really didn't do a lot for anyone outside of the Punk/Lesnar match. Los Matadores Vs The Real Americans: Other than Cesaro swinging one of the Matadors for like a minute, there's nothing really memorable about this match. The Matadors win. Alberto Del Rio Vs John Cena: This is Cena's comeback match like 2 and a half months after a tricep tear. What a freak. Really disappointed with this match. Didn't see any of the aggression from Del Rio I was expecting. The story wrote itself with Cena just having arm surgery and Del Rio's signature move being an armbreaker, but there was a surprising lack of focus on the arm. Maybe Del Rio wasn't into it because he was doing a job. Can't blame him in a sense- Cena's first match back from injury and they put the belt on him. But yeah, not feeling this. AJ Lee Vs Brie Bella: Standard match between these two. I'm a bit surprised they didn't put the belt on Brie given the success of Total Divas at the time. I don't know if that's because they already had Steph/Brie planned out, or they just liked AJ as champ. AJ is really boring on offence and has terrible mannerisms. Brie taps out to the Black Widow. Randy Orton Vs Daniel Bryan: Hell in a Cell match for the still in abeyance WWE title, and for the distinction of being the Face of the WWE, with, in a move that can only be considered Best For Business, Shawn Michaels as special guest referee. This is Shawn's best ever refereeing performance. One, he's wearing trousers; two, he's not hamming it up at every opportunity. This is, for the meat of the match, at least, all about the action between Bryan and Orton. Which is to say, it's all about Bryan. I don't even say that to denigrate Orton, who has been fine in these matches. Just that Bryan is on such a roll right now, and is such a magnetic performer, and is being booked so strong in these matches (which helps) that really his opponent is incidental. They do some stuff to play off the previous matches, a little learned psychology, and bring the cell into play a fair amount too. Of course, there's a bunch of shenanigans with the finish. Hunter comes out to argue with Shawn over why he hasn't counted Bryan down yet. "He keeps kicking out" is Shawn's reasonable response. Shawn gets a bump and Hunter gets into the cell to check on him. Bryan hits the knee on Orton but Shawn can't count. Funny how you practically had to murder Shawn to keep him down in a match, but when he's a ref a strong wind puts him out of commission. So Bryan gets in Shawn's face, Hunter shoves Bryan on his ass, Bryan gives Hunter the knee and Shawn retaliates by superkicking Bryan. Shawn then has no choice but to count 3 when Orton covers Bryan. I guess that was meant to be it, for now, for Bryan as a genuine main eventer, and now the stage was set for Batista to swoop in and slay Orton. Of course we know that's not how it went down. There's still so much about the booking of this whole angle that beggars belief. Namely, why did they tease the fans for so long with Bryan beating the odds and becoming champ if this was how they were going to end it? It's almost like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too. Match of the night: I just favour the opening tag over the main event. Both 3 1/2 stars. Punk/Ryback/Heyman gets 3 stars. Show rating: Not as good as 'worst show of the year' Battleground, but still decent. 2 3/4 stars.

Likewise. Classic match and Luke Harper was the man of the match. Fucking love that match. Fuck Chavoid Guerrero Jr as well.

That's some Scott Steiner level math right there.

Salvador Guerrero IV was 47 years old

WWE Night of Champions 2013. The show starts just like you hope all ppvs would start, with a long Triple H promo. Terrible segment which sees Hunter acting like a babyface by banning any interference in the Orton/Bryan main event, and then sticking it to Paul Heyman who comes out begging to be taken out of his handicap match against CM Punk. The Authority really were the worst. Axel stands up for Heyman, but also gets punked out by Trips, and put into an impromptu IC title match with "the first person I see backstage". Curtis Axel Vs Kofi Kingston: And here's Kofi, the WWE's answer to a question nobody wanted asking. When does New Day start again? Very dull match. Axel is fundamentally sound, but pretty uninteresting. They go back and forth before Axel picks up the clean win with his awkward facebuster type move. AJ Lee Vs Brie Bella Vs Natalya Vs Naomi: AJ running down the whole women's division as being talentless reality stars, and then beating them all clean by submission was really shitty. Really nothing to this match. Nattie gets to do the honours. Alberto Del Rio Vs Rob van Dam: These polls they're running about best champions are making for some pretty hilarious results. Booker T as the greatest world heavyweight champion ever? I like Book, but come on. DX as best tag champs ever is just gross. Hogan taking more than half the vote as best WWE champ ever was eye-opening. RVD just feels out of place in this era of WWE. The partnership with Ricardo Rodriguez is kinda odd too. The match is pretty dismal. I don't know who RVD has chemistry with, but it ain't ADR based on this. RVD wins by DQ when Del Rio refuses to break the armbreaker. Ricardo gets involved after the match, and RVD ends up hitting the van Terminator on Del Rio, and it looks as good as it ever has. The Miz Vs Fandango: Oh jeez. Just what this card needs. I don't blame the crowd for chanting for Summer Rae during this one, as she's a lot more interesting than what's going on in the ring. Fandango taps to the figure four. Curtis Axel and Paul Heyman Vs CM Punk: This is a no DQ handicap match, ostensibly wrestled as a straight one-on-one between Axel and Punk. One wonders why Heyman doesn't at least try to run interference, although I do appreciate him not shaving to get over how worried he has been about this match. Punk can't get anything interesting out of Axel, and ends up putting him away with the GTS, before turning his attention to Heyman. Now it's torture time, as Punk goes to town on Heyman with some pretty stiff kendo stick shots, and handcuffs his hands behind his back. Before he can deliver the coup de grace, Ryback runs in and puts him through a table, then drags Heyman on top for the win. Not a fan of how this all played out at all. Dean Ambrose Vs Dolph Ziggler: Ambrose looked much bigger in his Shield days. More badass too. Dolph has already been demoted back to the midcard. This is a spirited affair, by far the best match of the show so far, and the best Ambrose singles match of this project to date. Neither guy has much in the way of good offence, but they both know how to make subpar offence look good. Ambrose surprisingly goes over clean as a whistle. Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins Vs The Prime Time Players: PTP won a tag team turmoil match on the pre-show to get this shot. It's weird seeing Roman stooging in these tag matches for the likes of Darren Young. Titus has awesome reckless hoss offence, and was great off the hot tag. Crowd was really into his stuff too. PTP had so much potential as a team. This is a fun match, with the heel champs on the run until Roman hits a spear on Titus and they retain. The Shield have saved this pay-per-view. Randy Orton Vs Daniel Bryan: Another fantastic performance by Bryan here makes this a fun main event. Obviously we're entrenched in the Authority storyline here. Triple H told Orton he banned interference so that he can see whether he picked the right guy or not. Teasing dissension a month in. Bryan and the crowds carried this storyline, because the booking and the heel side for the most part was awful. So Bryan does what Bryan does by bringing all the intensity and fire to the match, and Orton contributes what you'd expect him to contribute. The booking on the finish, I have to assume even in real time people knew something was up. Bryan hits the running knee, but Scott Armstrong delivers a fast count to count Orton down, and awards the match and belt to Bryan. Bryan celebrates as we go off the air. It was so obviously a fast count that everyone knew that was the out, right? If I remember correctly, didn't Armstrong claim that Bryan had asked him for the fast count? Such an unnecessary development. Just stack the deck against Bryan and have Orton get a cheap win, if that's the way you're going to go. This just strikes me as trying to be too clever. Match of the night: Despite my issues with the finish, the main event was the best match on the show. Not a high end Bryan match, but enjoyable. 3 1/4 stars. Ambrose/Ziggler and Shield/PTP both earn 3 stars. Show rating: A pretty horrible show saved by Bryan and the Shield. Which is funny because when you think of this era of WWE you probably think about Bryan and the Shield being awesome. I really wouldn't recommend this show though. 2 stars.

Dammit, quit talking about ICP. You're making me want to go dig out my Stranglemania 2 VHS (bought for one whole dollar) to see them rewind Combat Toyota getting dumped on her head thirty times in a row.

Sodamn Insane, an Iraqi military gimmick in the second Stampede incarnation in the early 2000's.

I own this show on VHS and for some reason cannot throw it away. I keep things. Even bad things, really terrible things.

Yugi Nagata vs Orlando Jordan

Yeah, the Rito one is great to unlock early as it makes exploration so much easier. The Zora beast is good if you're putting a lot of the shrine orbs (SPIRIT FUN BUX) into stamina, which is probably the way to go about it, as it will help bail you out when you get low on hearts but takes forever to recharge. I beat the game after getting frustrated with upgrading the armor I wanted to use... Finding those star fragments are a pain in the ass. I spent at least an hour trying the trick that's on youtube but it didn't work for me. Anyway, the ending was so satisfactory. Just felt like a classic Zelda game, a classic game period. Ganon wasn't quite as tough as I was thinking but getting to him isn't easy and there are some fantastic visuals on the way there. One of the best games I've ever played and I can't recommend it enough. It's a shame there aren't a bunch of cheap Wii Us available for people to experience this without having to drop all that money on a new Switch to play this game. On the Wii U, I definitely noticed some big frame rate drops but they were so few and far between it didn't really matter. The graphics are a bit nicer on Switch and I'd imagine the draw distance is better but for a Wii U game this looks fantastic.