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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.

There is zero chance Punk beats Cena for the title.

Hangman is fucking awesome. He is awesome at wrestling. He is awesome at arson.

I already have a ROG Ally X. The Xbox Ally X is marginally better. Not worth an upgrade since I just got the Ally X last year. The only upside is that it looks more ergonomic but if it’s still heavy as hell then it won’t matter. I was able to play stuff as high end as BG3 and Indiana Jones on it, but Indy looked rough. It will probably be a little better on the Xbox Ally X.

Oh god. I did it. You’re welcome.

Oh man, Clair Obscur continues to deliver and had me laughing pretty hard in act 2... This game really continues to surprise me every time I play it.

Y’all aren’t talking enough about how godly Kyle Fletcher was during the DCF promo. Dude had me dying. There has to be a gif or clip of it.

The sheer amount of characters or super powered folks in Superman is still the main thing that concerns me. I mean, I'm tickled we're getting Guy Gardner, goofy haircut and all, on the big screen, and I know that James Gunn is extremely talented with juggling lots of characters in a superhero movie, but this is Superman. I kinda just want to see Superman and not, hey, here's Superman but don't you also want to see all of these other super powered characters as well?! I'm sure it will be good because James Gunn has one of the best batting averages in movies, but I'll have reservations until I can finally see it.

I loosely followed a build guide for Elden Ring because I had no idea WTF was going on. I use build guides in PoE 2 and Last Epoch because there is just way too much shit happening to understand. Expedition 33 isn't as hardcore as those games so you can kind of figure out what build to make or honestly, you're really picking and choosing what abilities, Pictos, and Luminas to go with the weapon you assigned to that character so your options are very, very wide open. There is sometimes a clear path given, maybe, like in Act 1 it felt like Maelle should be my main DPS and crit person and the other female friend that joins your group, not Lune...anyway, it felt like she should be the outsider to go in and try to mop up if the party all gets killed during a fight so I assigned the Pictos and Luminas that gave her buffs to fighting alone. I had a healer for a little bit in Act 1 and it just didn't feel necessary. Now that I'm in Act 2, it seems like Lune has become my main DPS person, she has a weapon that just gives her those fire, earth, ice, or light things and then that feeds into some of the abilities she has that makes use of all of those or some specific ones. Another person in my party is the defacto healer but their heals are combined with doing damage or help them do increased damage. It's really fucking fun. I think the only time I looked something up was I had a Picto that was something like <Buff Name> I and <Buff Name> III and I wondered where I missed II.

Pay attention to the audio cues. Just about every enemy has one, they're all different, but it's like Fire Pro where like in Fire Pro you hear that "slap" sound and you know that's when you press your button for the move you want to do. So it's basically hear the audio cue and then right after that hit your parry button. Other cases it's easier to just see and know when to hit dodge or parry. And in some instances, like in a couple boss fights, I couldn't hit a parry or a dodge, but I set my party up so that we had heals going and we had enough revive and health pots to keep us going.

What milquetoast name will she get in WWE?