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  1. They got the full card up on the English Language website. I’m going to be in attendance I’ve been toying with starting a thread for the show but fuck it here we are this kinda means I gotta write a road report but cool let’s do this! https://www.njpw1972.com/142769 Kickoff Show: Main Show:
    4 points
  2. Two very good matches and a lot of squashes for Elevation tonight. Highlight was Emi and Nyla vs. Skye Blue and Madison Rayne. Vickie was way over in El Paso, of course. Not a whole lot of the usual shenanigans in this one, it was more of the Emi who went blow for blow with Jayme Hayter, and now I really want to see Emi vs. Skye Blue getting some time on Dynamite or Rampage. If you only watch one match from tonight, it should be this one. Yuka Sakazaki vs. Vertvixen was the other good, semi-competitive match. Yuka has some surprising power for being so small, I guess she truly is a magical girl. Vertvixen has a lot of promise. The Big Bill squash is pretty fun, and there is a long, strange backstage segment with Ethan Page and Matt Hardy. Otherwise, nothing worth taking time to watch.
    4 points
  3. A couple years ago, when my son got into Star Wars, we watched everything. I was surprised that I actually liked the prequels more on re-watch than I remembered. I'd agree with your assessments of them, though. One thing that stuck out is the scene at the end of Ep. II where all of the Jedi show up. That scene should have been the big battle at the end of Endgame, but it comes off so rinky-dink. It's so anti-climatic. It just looks so cheap (which it definitely wasn't!). Initially, I was fine with Ep. 7 and 8. Rise of Skywalker might be the worst of all of the movies, IMO. The more I think about these three, the more I sour on them. I just don't like that they did such a reset. It's like the events of the original trilogy didn't matter at all. We just ended up with the exact same type of Empire running things.
    4 points
  4. I took a nap. The Dark Order are a total machine when it comes to hitting their finisher. Where is Matt Hardy headed with this? It's Gino Rodriguez! The new king of enhancement talent across all promotions. Big Bill tells a little story- "Gino is over because I tower over him. I will give him a few things and then chokeslam him from the stratosphere." It's that Delilah Doom gal that MJF is hanging around. Dulce Tormenta is good. Leila Grey showboats in front of Jade Cargill. Jade Cargill comes in and wins. I don't think I've seen Jastin Taylor before. Brian Cage would usually tell a little story. Instead he hits a thousand moves and wins. Emi Sakura and Nyla Rose take on Madison Rayne and Skye Blue. Nyla and Skye do a really cool wad of counters that ends up with Skye getting murderlized. EMI tags in! SPANKYBUTT! EMI hits a crossbody through the ropes! VICKIE WITH THE SPEAR! VICKIE IS OVER IN EL PASO! EMI works over Skye! EMI Crossbody Blocks on the floor! Nyla CRUSHES Rayne with a move! Yuka Sakazaki! We are in Texas so we have Vertvixen! They should go ahead and sign her. Vert gets a CLOSE nearfall! Wee Yuka with an Airplane Spin! Magical Girl Splash and that's that. ATHENA! BEATS ON YUKA! HEAT IT UP! ATHENA! ATHENA! ATHENA! It's Josh Woods! Sweet EVEREST GERMAN SUPLEX. This night is very much a Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals night of wrestling. Chuck Taylor and Trent Barretta take on Ayden Colt and Frank Stone. They get in a little and then they get destroyed by the DOUBLE FINISHERS of the Best Friends. That was a lot of squashes.
    3 points
  5. So Plane did well enough at the box office that it is getting a sequel. The sequel will be called - and I swear I am not making this up - Ship
    3 points
  6. Eagles fan checking in. disappointed with the result but it was a good game to cap off an overachieving season. was the holding call at the end bad? yeah. but that is hardly the reason the Eagles lost. it had a lot more to do with leaving receivers wide open multiple times, giving up an almost record length punt return, and not delivering on offense in the 2nd half.
    3 points
  7. His time on top in TNA did him no favors, but Jarrett has always been a fun and good worker. There were a few bright spots during that time in TNA, too. As far as character stuff goes, though, it’s always been more miss than hit, but his time in AEW so far is great. And he’s implementing house shows and gaining access to new markets, so that’s a plus as well. Net gain all around on AEW’s end when it comes to Jarrett.
    3 points
  8. BTW, between Georgia last month and KC tonight, I am officially sick and tired of teams that were in the top two or three pre-season favorites talking about nobody believing in them/"put some respect on our name."
    3 points
  9. Jeff Jarrett doing MMA to a group of kids was the highlight of his entire career.
    2 points
  10. Cherry RC is my favorite cherry flavored cola. not really relevant, but i rarely get an opportunity to mention it.
    2 points
  11. I've got to imagine we're going to transition to Yuta and Takeshita competing for Bryan's love (or, alternatively, a Takeshita/Danielson vs Yuta/Claudio tag program, with a conflicted Mox caught in the middle
    2 points
  12. right back to when you were kids and had an odd number of friends so one kid was assigned "Permanent QB"
    2 points
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  15. People have been using A.I. voice mimicking technology to make short, comedic videos, and two of the ones that have been popular are an argument between 'Roman' and 'Dave' about star ratings, and another series which imagines what a Gorilla Monsoon-hosted podcast would sound like. Warning: very NSFW language! Reigns v Meltzer: The Gorilla Pod (look up Joe Marotta's Twitter to see the rest, I think there's ~7-8 of them in total):
    2 points
  16. Okay, why don't we wait until day of to open the show thread unless there's something massive happening.
    2 points
  17. My favorite assumption here are that Rodgers is going to play for both the Jets and the Packers, apparently.
    2 points
  18. What a great call by the ref there! We all know why we watch the Super Bowl! To see the ref make the game winning call! Pure fucking garbage for the Chiefs to be the beneficiary of controversial last minute plays that essentially hand them the game AGAIN. Let them fucking play. You can’t make that call.
    2 points
  19. Looks more like beer, but with japan you never know whats in the can.
    2 points
  20. Tony gets booker of the year for turning me into a Jarrett fan.
    2 points
  21. It's the Street Profits versus Damien Priest and Finn Balor? Yes. Finn Balor. Once again Damien Priest is really good. He is our weekly RAW MVP. Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins whup up on the Judgement Day during picture in picture until they get back in the ring and Dominick CHEATS after they get Ford in a situation! Balor and Priest are a great tagteam! Ford counters the Toprope Lateral Suplex! Dawkins makes the hot tag! NEARFALLS! Giant Buff Blockbuster! FOR TWO! GIGANTIC TOPE CON HILO BY FORD! Dominick gets pulled into the match which allows Balor to get the win! That was good. It's Piper Niven! It's Michin Mia Yim! Niven looks like she is maybe shooting for the VADER spot on RAW since Rhea Ripley is going in another direction. That was fast. Cody assumes the role of Dustin! Baron Corbin assumes the role of Shane Strickland! Cody beats Corbin a lot more than Dustin will beat on Swerve. There you go. Is Raquel Rodriguez RAW or SMACKDOWN? She is the VADER of her brand. Ah she is Team Smackdown- that makes sense. Piper Niven is still eligible to the VADER of RAW women. Nikki Cross is all wacky during picture in picture. Asuka looks awesome in this. Asuke attacks EVERYBODY and taps out uncrazy Liv Morgan. Bronson Reed and Mustafa Ali have at it. Reed uses his pudge to beat on Ali. Ali uses his speed to get in a few things before Reed CRUSHES him off the apron. Ali bumps crazy into a chair! Ali gets in a Rolling DDT! For ONE! Reed smashes Ali with a Tsunami! Rick Boogs takes on the MIZ! Boogs is very strong. The Miz has been through may things that I fast forwarded through so he gets squashed. Bayley takes on Big Time Becks and Bianca Belair. Becky Lynch look awesome in this. Bayley is all evil and calculating and she and Belair look good in the ring together. So this is to showcase who the real contenders are instead of the Elimination Chamber contenders. Damage Control beats on Becks and Bianca! This is pretty good for a Triple Threat match. They OPT to book this nine ways to Sunday as everybody shows up on the outside! Belair throws IYO SKY onto everybody at ringside. Bianca throws Becks onto Bayley and pin Bayley! That was good. With the remote control, that was a fricking episode of RAMPAGE. That was some quality professional wrestling. HHH! HHH! HHH!
    1 point
  22. 8/31/90: Fantastics vs SCOTTY THE BODY/Kroffat: Scotty coming out and dancing about to his music in his 1990 jacket was both funny and over. This was a total spotfest, probably the biggest spotfest I've seen in a year and 2/3rds of AJPW. It starts with them going right at each other and a Rogers plancha and it never really looks back. Levy's totally over the top including one insane "jump over the rail" bump. Lots of guys flying around especially whenever he's in there. Kroffat grounds things a little more. Fantastics (who threw the discs before the match but still worked de facto heel) would have eaten Levy up even more but Rogers wiped out on a springboard clothesline. Finish was a DOUBLE SUPERPLEX on Scotty followed by the big flip off the top. Scotty was clumsy but got an A for effort and hey, you can't say it wasn't entertaining. 8/31/90: Taue/Fuchi/Inoue vs Misawa/Kawada/Kikuchi: So this was cool. We had the last 8-9 minutes pro shot but this was a handheld from the opposite angle. I stuck with it and then watched some select moments from the pro shot later. What I really liked about this is that it's our first trios with these guys without Jumbo anchoring things. Taue got announced last actually. Inoue and Kikuchi match up well, by the way. And I got a sense Kawada saw the previous match and wanted to out do it as he hit an early dive and then let himself get reversed on a suplex on the floor. The kids mostly dominated until it became Taue vs Kikuchi and he got jammed. There was a great moment where Inoue was battering Kikuchi on the outside with a chair and he made it back in and started shouting at him only to get beaten down by Fuchi and Taue (and because pro wrestling is awesome; this drew a Kikuchi chant). There was the usual long beatdown on Kikuchi that works so well. Eventually Kikuchi reversed a suplex of his own and Misawa made it in. There's still a buzz when Taue's in there against his former friends, and especially when it's Misawa. There was a good finishing stretch where they kept cycling. You could feel the groans when Inoue got up when Kikuchi was on the top and just lawn darted him across the ring, but he kept on surviving things he shouldn't have survived and it eventually ended up Fuchi and Kawada which made things a bit more unpredictable. There was actually an earlier moment where Fuchi had broken up a huge Kawada moonsault press into a pin and kept on stomping him. These fans were ok with a save but not with the extracurriculars that followed and he actually got huge heat for it. Anyway, Kawada finally got Misawa in and nailed Fuchi with a clothesline. The finish was Misawa knocking Fuchi out (legit? It felt like legit but sometimes that's working for you!) with a forearm off the top rope. He kicked at him a couple of times and tried to move him after but couldn't budge him so just shrugged and pinned him. A bunch of friendly slaps to the face later, they got Fuchi up and he left to a chant of his own. I'm isolating the trios match now (I never did that back when we got these apparently). It was a very cool experience to watch the same moves proshot from a different direction after the match and I suggest that. Let me get you the Scotty match now since you guys might enjoy super workrate Young Buck Raven.
    1 point
  23. Scarlet Centurion is a lot of letters to use in a tweet. Here's the longer blurb: After an eleventh-hour topic change* in honor of the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania movie, we look at the convoluted continuity of Kang the Conqueror, which sort of starts before his first appearance. Or does it? Let's discuss Kang, Rama Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, Immortus, Doctor Doom, Nathaniel Richards, Ravonna, the Council of Cross Time Kangs, the TIme Variance Authority, Mobius M. Mobius and ... Merlin the Magician? Is this one character biography or four? Or is it five? Let's try and figure this one out without once using the word multiverse. * - the last minute change was realizing the wedding of Hank and Jan is even too hot in 2023 for me to discuss on a pod.
    1 point
  24. Okay some of the big things Next two seasons: Season of Defiance and Season of the Deep No more seasonal currencies. There will now be "keys" that drop that sound like they will carry from season to season When Season of the Deep hits - there will be no vendor upgrades that season AND they will not be raising the power/pinnacle cap Instead of season rank you will now get Guardian Ranks The overhaul of weapon crafting which you will have to read TL:DR section - Abilities going down some. Enemy damage going up some New Crucible map with Season of the Deep: Meltdown. (It appears it will be a different map with the same name as an older map). And then in the season before Final Shape - Citadel will return They will start using an Exotic Mission Rotator - weekly rotation. Will start with Presage, Vox Obscura and Seraph Station. Will provide some sort of updated rewards. Lake of Shadows and Arms Dealer have been reworked so (theoretically) folks can't nuke them anymore. Exodus Crash and The Inverted Spire will all but vanish until they are updated too. (You can play them directly but they wont be Nightfalls and will barely showup in the playlist). The various battlegrounds will be added to the Nightfall play list starting with the Mars Heist Battleground for Season of Defiance Exotic armor will no longer be tied to Lost Sectors and will go back to "core ritual activities" Getting all 3 ritual ornaments will no longer be seasonal quests The in-game Fireteam Finder won't show up now until The Final Shape
    1 point
  25. Do your Kang homework before seeing the movie
    1 point
  26. I posted my feelings about Skinamarink a few pages back. I found it to be somewhat unsettling, but I wasn't traumatized to the point that some people are saying on social media. It Is a film rife with interpretations that are equally blended by the movie's masterful use of liminal space. Are the events in the movie literal, allegorical, or perhaps both? It is up to each individual audience member to decide.
    1 point
  27. At least in college/high school (and I think it's the same in the NFL), 'catchable' only matters if you're making it a PI call. Otherwise, Holding/Illegal Contact is the right call to make. Replaying it, I see what the ref called. At the time, my thought was it was a ticky tack and with everything that's on the line there... me personally... I'd have kept my flag in my pocket. The counterargument to that though, and this is with the benefit of 12+ hours of hindsight... KC threw to the guy who'd been fouled. And I think that's the difference. Had he gone anywhere else, it's probably a no call, mainly because it wasn't super egregious. Like has been said many times before, you could literally call Defensive Holding/Illegal Contact/Pass Interference on almost every play. God, I think I'm talking myself into 'good call, ref.' But I'm not there yet.
    1 point
  28. This reminds me of another time at the Art, when they played the '68 Night of the Living Dead. This is a college town so we had students showing up for the late night stuff and you'd get mixed reactions -- Dead Alive was a roaring success, The Exorcist was hated. NOTLD was laughed at at first and then you could hear the crowd go silent. One sorority member moaned to her boyfriend "that was actually scaaaaary" after the credits started rolling and that might've been the best reaction I heard at a movie besides the guy at Jackass 2 who said "don't puke on me, man!" to his friend who was, indeed, puking on him.
    1 point
  29. Nekromantik is one of those movies that you watch just so you can say you've watched it and not have to lie about it. I don't mind watching horror films specifically designed to trigger an audience, but Nekromantik definitely pushes far past the envelope of good taste. It rivals Cannibal Holocaust. Joe has delved into the dank recesses of the exploitation vault before, but I don't think he's ever shown a film as dark as Nekromantik and I was there for the Ilsa the She Wolf double feature tribute to Dyanne Thorne after she passed away in 2020.
    1 point
  30. Hey, sometimes you gotta goose 'em One of the all-night horror fests we used to have at the Art played it one time, but that was a pretty hardcore audience. The fact that he bummed people out with that one gives me hope that sometimes horror can still shock.
    1 point
  31. So it was a hold, it was just... the thing is if they had been calling that type of thing all game, I'd roll my eyes but think 'well at least they are consistent.' The referees waited 58 minutes of game time to call the first Hold and you can't convince me there wasn't a single hold up to that point. So if they are 'letting them play' unless they do something terrible, I'm ok with that, but I want the referees to call the same way for both teams from start to finish. I think that is the base of everyone's frustration, it had been such a penalty-free game for subjective calls (I want to say there were two such calls without looking it up, the PI and the Hands to the Face) that it felt out of place to wait until the last drive to make such a major call.
    1 point
  32. I didn't watch the dumb Super Bowl anyway. Stupid Eagles and Chiefs. I went to see Infinity Pool last night and whoa.... So is it the most caustic fable ever about the excesses of the wealthy and the justice they are able to buy or is Brandon Cronenberg simply bugfuck crazy? Probably a little of A and a little of B.
    1 point
  33. There's no good way to make holding calls consistent. Holding pretty much happens on every play. It's like the fouls in basketball where more consistency probably makes the product worse.
    1 point
  34. to be honest, as a hater, a clear case of an official's call "deciding the game" in either direction is pretty much my ideal outcome for this
    1 point
  35. I've never seen Dante Leon, I don't think. He's really good. Everyone knows how good Bryan Keith is. ====================== Oh man! Los Traumas and the Cerebros have a really old school lucha libre match- with Cerebros and Traumas taking it to the mat for the first fall, beating on each other for the second fall, and knocking each other out for the third fall. So good. ================= Kodai Nozaki and Genkai battle it out for a shot at Tajiri's Kyushu Pro title.
    1 point
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  37. [Facendavoice] held in check all afternoon and in serious danger of being shut out, but the referees, like all great players, save their best efforts for the biggest moments [/Facendavoice]
    1 point
  38. RoF is incredibly expensive but the quality of the stuff I've got has lasted very well two years later. Can't fault them there
    1 point
  39. i spent some time yesterday reading opinions on the Star Wars trilogies, and how different age groups rank the trilogies against each other. How do you rank them? are there major factors that significantly contribute to your order? For me, best to worst: Original Trilogy (IV-VI) - grew up watching VHS copies of these endlessly. nostalgia rules every time. Sequel Trilogy (VII-IX) - not a fan of 7, but thought 8 was a crazy fun take on the mythos, and 9 reeled everything back in to a satisfactory conclusion Prequel Trilogy (I-III) - 1 is terrible. 2 is OK and 3 was honestly pretty good, but overall 1 is just SO uninteresting that it drags the whole set down
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  41. That Dustin/Moguls promo was something else. Maybe I missed the set-up but was there any reason why Dustin, wearing half face-paint, was hanging around a commercial property development construction site? I thought “I like Doritos!” would be the quote of the night but… Then Moguls affiliates comes out are there. I love the wrestling ridiculousness behind it. Did they just follow Dustin around all day and then saw he was doing an interview in the future basement of a mixed use property and decide it was time to strike? Or were they already at the site because Swerve, as a mogul, has invested in future workspace opportunities, and saw Dustin and an AEW announcer wandering in and decided to lay The Natural out? Treach or whatever his name is also has a very steady hand holding a camera. Either way, Swerve wishing Dustin a “Happy Black History Month” was a great line. This was a great “let’s analyze wrestling logic” segment and man we are getting a Swerve versus Dustin Rhodes match, which is something I did not know I needed but man we need this more than anything in our troubled time.
    1 point
  42. Hey do you think Wheeler's emerald green and white/silver gear is meant as a tip of the hat to someone or something from pro wrestling's past? Like how Eddie Kingston's black and yellow gear is a nod to Toshiaki Kawada? I think It might be. Not sure who, though. Ooooo. Darby & Ortiz vs Mad King & ? YEAH! LET'S GO! I think the Impractical Jokers were actually talking about Jericho's penis. You might have missed that because it was so subt!e and clever. Swerve vs Dustin should be great. I think if I HAD TO choose one, I'd rather watch Dana White Presents Slapfighting over Impractical Jokers. Fortunately, I do not have to watch either. I CHOOSE PRO WRESTLING! I enjoyed Ruby's confused/conflicted facial expressions. Josh Woods vs Mark Briscoe should be great. "Swoleverine" is pretty funny, in my opinion. But so is "Gordlow" in my opinion. So, my opinion about what's funny might not count for much. Speaking of: "I ate his ass..." - Hangman Page. Nice pop for The AEW All Atlantic Champion. VERY fun main event with a couple of ROUGH-looking bumps. As always, hats off to Satnam's tailor.
    1 point
  43. At least 2 wrestling references during tonight’s Joe Bob special. no spoilers
    1 point
  44. Amitriptyline and Trazodone are the anti-depressants. Trazodone works great the first two weeks, shame you can't bottle that up for the rest. Amitriptyline been decreased giving me headaches. Thank you for opening up about your mental health, I so can identify with what you said. Further thanks for the much love and well-deserved peace, I hope to find that. Thanks to JL Sigman, gatling, you, twiztor, NikoBaltimore and Shartnado liking my post. Conscious too that I don't sound like on repeat detailing my mental/physical difficulties with the Cerebral Palsy when everyone here has their own things going on, not needing mine alongside. It's been difficult this week which is why I haven't replied sooner sorting out Mum's belongings properly since losing her nine years this June giving some of her clothes to charity. Really emotional. Years ago I got rid of some jumpers Mum knit as they were too big for me having lost all the weight I had. I wasn't to know what was to happen to Mum. Hindsight is so not a wonderful thing. It's a right bitch. Regretted it ever since and always will. I've found two cardigans my Mum knit her Dad, my Grandad today. My Grandad was like a second Dad to me which fit me so that was a most moving moment. Been talking to a new counselor called Deborah the last few weeks. Hope it doesn't go tits up like the last who really upset and let me down. Mental illness is really difficult, depression and fighting your mind, your thoughts daily. The self-harme and suicidal thoughts. Just have to cancel out the downers and carry on fighting the good fight. We can be our own harshest critic. I can identify with Robin Williams: "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that". There's two quotes I go by, the first by far from my late great Mum who said: "As long as you try your best, that's all that counts." The second: "When there's love, there's hope but a little luck wouldn't hurt" from Batman: The Animated Series. Thanks for reading and the support. This community is the best. Paul xxx.
    1 point
  45. Ru Paul's Drag Race is back to 90 minute episodes starting March 10th and thank goodness for that because WAY too much is being left out of this current season.
    1 point
  46. Now you don't have to watch the Super Bowl
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  47. Honestly, I've never cared which way. I grab it and whichever way it happens to be facing that's the way I hang it.
    1 point
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