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I normally don’t like mash ups, but I guess this is more like a remix and I think I like it more than the original which I already and still love. https://youtu.be/pwa3PDoOjYc?si=9OjPOQ0pcjmgxelp FUCKING EMBED HORSESHIT. Anyway, it’s the Ghosts over Baghdad remix. EDIT: This is also the only song I can dance to with some kind of rhythm and not look like your average white dude trying to dance looking like I’m Fandangoing.

The fuck are you talking about? This is one of the most brain dead takes I've seen in awhile on here and that's accounting for all of mentally ill horseshit that Vile One types out. Look at what their gate is going to be. Look at what all of their houses in the US have been so far. Compare this to those. And this isn't stanning or whatever the fuck people say for the company. This is just being annoyed with dumb as fuck logic. Damn.

I’ll continue beating this drum, but this booking and these shows aren’t close to being Vince McMahon bad, but this is the most uninspired, lackluster, and almost aimless booking, which might be just as bad. It’s all boring and it’s hard to care about anyone. Even Sami Zayn. He’s back to just looking like a geek all the time. And Cena keeps talking about ruining pro wrestling? Like this pro wrestling? What a laughable feat. That’s like bragging about knocking over a Jenga tower when a bunch of pieces were already removed. Go ahead and leave and ruin it because I’d rather see what comes up from the ashes.

Ron Santo.

I guess Andor could only be so heartbreaking.

I thought Ritchson was supposed to be Guile. Kinda sucks that 50 Cent is play Balrog and not Winston Duke. And the rumor for M. Bison is my man, Walton Goggins.

I do really, really like TFA and think it laid some good groundwork for a new trilogy. I liked TLJ even more because it broke that mold and took the trilogy in newer or more interesting directions even if some parts of the movie were clunky (slowest chase ever, the casino, another chase on creatures over a parking ticket, BDT who was never seen again). And then along came RoS which even more than TFA is the most unoriginal repeating piece of shit and it ruined everything. Like, you have a total blank slate to end this differently and instead it's the same old shit. That is what killed all trust I could have for JJ Abrams for anything.,

So...Mark Hamill finally cleared the air about his supposed disdain for Rian Johnson and the Last Jedi. He said Rian's a great director and he's a big fan and thinks the Last Jedi is a great movie. Where they had a disagreement was why Luke goes into exile. Rian's idea was for Ben Solo to basically kill Luke's new Jedi academy and destroy the Jedi temple. Hamill said that wouldn't make Luke go into exile, it would only steel his resolve to stop Kylo. So Hamill asked if he could come up with the backstory and Rian said sure. Hamill's idea was...I can't make this up...to go way fucking darker. Luke gives up being a Jedi like someone gives up a religion, falls in love, he and his wife have a kid, and when the kid is presumably a toddler he finds Luke's lightsaber, pushes a button to turn it on, and accidentally kills himself. Luke's wife is so full of grief that she kills herself too. That's what drives Luke into exile. In the end they met somewhere halfway, and by somewhere I mean nowhere near Hamill's insane idea. I can only imagine the reaction from a bunch of kids seeing the Last Jedi and seeing a little kid kill himself followed by his mom killing herself. One day I'll go back and rewatch TFA and TLJ, but not TRoS. Fuck that movie.

He's the biggest shook bitch I've ever seen on Hot Ones. And so many people have clowned on him since. Khaled is like Master P or Mace or Drake in that he somehow convinced way too many fucking people who were probably bored because there wasn't anything else better around that he has talent. That Hot Ones appearance is almost as embarrassing as his music catalog.

I’m far too lazy to dig up the Challenge thread. I decided to get caught up on the Challenge starting with season 35. I’m now on season 40. I didn’t care for season 39 that much, but otherwise, I fucking love it and I realized why. I have a decent sized group of friends and we’ve played a lot of Resistance/Secret Hitler/Werewolf/Avalon. The Challenge is basically those games, but with physical competitions and a handful of personalities I like and some I dislike so much that I like to see them lose. The social game aspect of the Challenge being so similar to the deception games my friends and I play is what makes this shit so good. It almost makes me want to give the Traitors and Villains shows a try because from what I understand those are even more like those deception board games. BTW, fuck Laurel forever. She’s still the absolute dirt worst. Amanda is a close second. I can’t believe Aneesa is still around aiming to get a futility award. Bananas and CT still rule. Brad has the most epic beard ever. It’s approaching Ice King from Adventure Time levels. It’s also great and awesome that it’s finally uncensored.

He directed the Thunderbolts. I think he has the Kevin Feige confidence vote that dudes like the Russo brothers, Peyton Reed, and Jon Watts have had.

Holy shit, there was a second season of Iron Fist?

Jack Perry wasn’t a scapegoat, he was disciplined. Hangman cut a promo with an innocuous line in it that went over everyone’s head and it became the impetus for Brawl Out. TK kept Punk on the roster, hell, even gave him his own show practically, still received world title shots, and meanwhile Adam Page was involved in trios matches where his team would lose all the while his name gets dragged through the mud for stupid bullshit. Or put better, Adam Page became the face of, all because Punk said it, potentially being the reason they could have missed out on a million dollar house for saying workers rights. I like Punk a lot, but I’m rational enough to say Punk acted like a complete shook bitch.

There are entrance themes/tracks/songs I really like or love and then there are some that while it doesn’t make me love them any more than Hangman’s Black Hat or his original entrance themes, they are absolute fucking bangers, like Io’s music. Hechicero has music that is a fucking banger. That is music to fucking destroy and murder shit to in Cyberpunk or Doom. Add in that he’s like Dean Malenko, except somehow better, and man, that dude rocks.

I had no idea until your comment so I checked out the trailer. It looks…fun? Yeah, I’ll watch it.

The Wire is the most OK tv show I’ve ever seen that too many people fawn over. I’ll never understand how people could say it’s better than the Shield.

MJF already looks like a CHUD. I can’t imagine being bald will solve his grotesque appearance.

lol only 7 matches? On their biggest show of the year? You’re about 7 matches light.

I swear to whoever, if Hangman doesn’t beat Moxley for the title at All In, I might actually be done. That seems so petty because the rest of the company is good, but this guy has been through hell and back, was an actual scapegoat more than Jack Perry, and he’s the lifeblood and soul of the company. There was something about that promo tonight that stood out more than a lot of things he’s done. I had no idea at the time what he was saying, but it felt special. Then I read the transcript and man, this is the guy. Fucking strap him up, extend his contract, and give him his bag. He has more than earned it. The only reason I have this doubt is that it feels so obvious. Kind of like Cody winning the title. It feels so obvious and they’re going to subvert expectations and swerve people. I hope it doesn’t happen. I guess that’s why we watch though, huh?

Wait, wtf? All In is at 3 pm est?

I just hate this whole situation because it makes it more likely the Red Sox sign Tucker because there's no way cheap shit fuckhead Ricketts is going to pony up the money for Tucker or PCA nevermind that having each guy long term would give the Cubs a long window of contention. I'm just going to enjoy the wins while they last and hate the day I see Tucker with the Red Sox and PCA with, flip a coin, the Yankees or Dodgers.

If Tony got November Rain for OC vs Moxley and the other matches then I’d hope he gets something else other than Machinehead to go through all of the matches. I know Machinehead is like the official song of All In, but this needs an epic video package. I’m also predicting Hangman comes out to his old music again.

Again, if your biggest show of the year, your Wrestlemania, for a company that is still young, ends with the same horseshit that we've seen over and over again where the babyface slips on a banana peel or falls for the same interference again against Moxley and Hangman loses, that is a horrific, awful sign for AEW. Hangman is your man. You want to overbook the finish and come out of All In racing ahead towards the future, you do whatever overbooking that is bound to happen, but Will nor Swerve causes Hangman to lose. No. You have a moment where it looks like Swerve may attack Hangman and instead he grabs Hanger by the back of the neck, goes forehead to forehead with the guy, and tells him, "YOU'RE LOSING THIS MATCH! IS THIS HOW YOU WANT IT TO END? GO BEAT THIS MOTHERFUCKER! RIGHT NOW, THIS ISN'T SWERVE'S HOUSE, THIS IS YOUR FUCKIN HOUSE! NOW GET UP AND FINISH THE JOB! COWBOY. SHIT." I've mostly been mulling over why we never get the motivational speech to the face that's losing to propel him to win in wrestling, the "NOW GET UP YOU SON OF A BITCH, BECAUSE MICKEY LOVES YA" or the "Listen to em. That's what you've done. We've come from behind in every game this tournament so far and we can do it again. WE CAN BEAT THESE GUYS" or "This is your time. Their time, is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. SCREW EM. This is your time, now go out there and take it!" I got my Avengers Endgame moment with Cody. I want my sports movie motivational speech moment with Hangman. It doesn't have to mean those guys are friends or even frenemies, it just means Swerve knows Hangman needs to beat Moxley if AEW is ever going to be right again.

They had Ethan Hawke, for a TV series of all things, and completely wasted him. I suppose that's more egregious than wasting a guest star like Emilia Clarke, but I don't know, Secret Invasion was massively stupid on a number of levels where it had implications for the larger MCU storyline and they've essentially disowned the entire thing. For as dumb and as bad as Moon Knight was, they didn't have anything quite as dumb as pointlessly killing Maria Hill, having a plot point where DNA from all heroes of the battle of NY was collected, except that also happened to contain powers for characters that weren't even seen or heard of yet. So somewhere out there is an Emilia Clarke character, whatever her name was, that is nearly as powerful as, like, the Sentry. Actually, she would be more powerful. Plus it setup an entire thing where no aliens are allowed to exist on Earth, which obviously isn't happening. Actually, now that I think of it, if I'm remembering correctly, which I'm probably not, Secret Invasion was actually retconned and snapped out of existence just based off of Brave New World. It would be moderately entertaining if in Doomsday they show that Secret Invasion took place in an entirely different universe and Doom was like, nah, I'm just going to let this one incursion happen.

Surprisingly, there have been quite a few MCU movies I didn't see in the theater for one reason or another. Off the top of my head I didn't see Captain America (not that interested but my ex-wife guilt tripped me), Thor and Thor 2 (barely any interest), Avengers (came out on my daughter's 2nd birthday and just no time to see it and no one to see it with since my ex thought that stuff was stupid), Iron Man 2 (came out right after my daughter was born so just no time to see it)... Then I got divorced, met my current wife, she was into the MCU as much as me, and one of the first movies we saw together was the Winter Soldier. From then on the two of us and then eventually my older daughter saw everything in the theater until Covid hit. Watched Shang-Chi and Eternals at home. Eternals was a reluctant watch. But then we've seen everything in the theater after that. There has been a bunch of TV I skipped because it either looked like it sucked (Inhumans. Agents of Shield, Iron Fist) or I started and stopped because it sucked (Jessica Jones S2, Punisher S2, Moon Knight). I can't believe I watched all of Secret Invasion, which was probably one of the worst MCU things made. Christ that was bad. And regarding Anson Mount, that man has the greatest head of hair in the world. How you gonna put that man in a mask? I was pretty tickled when Anson Mount and Oded Fehr were both in a Star Trek show and I was thinking never in the history of anything will hair as good as this appear on screen again. Sucks that SNW is ending with S5. It's by far the best new Star Trek property and one of the best Star Trek properties period, but that's a discussion for another thread.