Craig H

With the exception of him being a Tampa Bay Lightning fan because fuck the Lightning, Drew rules. Please WWE, give this guy his bag and re-sign him. Let him take whatever time off he wants or needs.

I bought The Marvels before knowing when it would be on D+, but I tend to buy almost all of the MCU movies anyway with a few exceptions. I thought it was...ok. I think the swapping when using powers concept they were going for was a little bit of a mess and you could tell that reshoots and rewrites made at least the first half or 2/3 not that great, but again, ok for the most part. Again, just something of a mess that they managed to salvage into a fun movie that was largely carried by Kamala's undeniable charisma. The villain was like Malekith levels of who gives a fuck though. I honestly would have preferred just a straight up Carol Danvers movie instead of this team up stuff and Brie Larson was a lot better in this than in Captain Marvel. So yeah, I don't regret buying it, I just don't know how much I'll re-watch it. Probably not at all? Maybe once in a great while if I'm bored. I would definitely go to rewatch this than Multiverse of Madness. The people saying this is terrible are like the same people that think Thor 2 was terrible. Thor 2 is like the Mendoza Line for MCU movies. It's totally not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It's perfectly fine and even a little fun. I kinda felt the same about this, althought I've seen a lot of people say they really enjoyed the Marvels more than reviews made it out to be. This was also horribly marketed. Like, Zack and Miri levels of bad marketing. BTW, I take back what I said earlier about Dakota Johnson. I watched her on SNL and she's pretty fun, especially in the Please Don't Destroy sketch. I just think this Madame Web movie sounds like a complete and utter shit show. I don't give a fuck about young Madame Web, that doesn't even make sense to me. I give even less of a fuck about really young Ezekiel. I don't know what the response was towards Ezekiel, Morlun, and Madame Web back in the day, but I bought the shit out of that run and really liked it. All of this bullshit without any involvement with Spider-Man, but kinda getting what looks like Spider-Woman isn't going to salvage this thing. Sony, with the exception of Vemon, which is only good for the dialogue between Eddie and the Symbiote, please stop with this Spider-Man Villains Universe. It makes zero sense. I would almost be surprised if this made more than The Marvels did. In fact, you want a movie for Sam Raimi to direct? Have him direct a Venom movie that's just nothing but Eddie and the Symbiote bantering and talking shit for 90 to 120 minutes. Just make it goofy as fuck like Army of Darkness. Everything else though, like Madame Web, Kraven, and Morbius can fuck right off.

Helldivers 2 fucking RULES. Played solo yesterday morning and then in the evening, got together with 3 other friends and my god, it was some of the most fun we've had playing a co-op game. Just a lot of frantic yelling, laughing, accidental team kills, someone calling in an orbital strike in the same spot where two of us accidentally were respawning so we were immediately cleared. Making it the full 2 minutes waiting for our dropship to arrive, 3 of us go one side of the dropship, I go on the other side where there's a gigantic fucking bug spewing acid spray that kills me while me 3 buddies take off in their dropship. We were all cackling with laughter. If they can get quickly get cross platform saves figured out so my progress on the PC transfers to my PS5 then this might be my early GOTY. The wildest thing is that unlike D4, this game has live humans basically messing with folks and their campaigns on the fly like a real life DM. So if the community of Helldivers looks like they're having too easy of as time of retaking a planet or territory, someone on the game devs side can basically change something on the fly. It's wild. Maybe one of the wildest and coolest experiences I've had and this thing only cost $40. Plus, as anti-nuke as I am, there was something really almost awe inducing to firing off an ICBM to complete a mission, watching the rocket take off and thinking, well, that's it, and moments later there's a gigantic fucking flash on the screen from the explosion miles off in the distance and there is essentially a second sunrise for minutes afterwards. It's completely bananas. This game rules. Video games rule. RIP Dead Cells. You were in that category with Celeste, Outer Wilds, and maybe Hades for as perfect of a game as you can make. Each 4 basically just a love letter to video games in general with someone's heart and soul completely poured into what they were making. One of these days I will finish both Dead Cells and Hades.

It wasn't KO?

David Zaslav is fucking DUMB. Wow. What a stupid asshole. Just release it and make SOMETHING off of it.

If Cody wins at WM, there’s only one other thing missing to bring this story to a close. Cody is going to need help to overcome the odds and a Rock intent on keeping Roman as champ. So when all the chips are down, when the Bloodline have taken out everyone else to keep cheating for Roman, there’s only one guy left to take out the Rock and keep the match fair and let Cody win clean. This is WWE’s “portals” moment… Or in other words, just break some motherfucking glass. One more time where the Rock’s eyes bug out at Stone Cold, one last time Stone Cold can take out the Rock, and one last time where Stone Cold can take out a power hungry authority figure.

I could definitely see a scenario where Cody/Gunther is a lot like Brodie/Cody, basically Clubber vs Rocky 1.

BTW, I may think Seth’s gimmick is shit, but man, that dude has been done so incredibly dirty and been buried so hard over the last week. It’s crazy. Like, they kinda threaded the needle with Cody, but no one is even talking much about how Seth is being buried. Maybe it’s because he’s had his big WM moments and has been a top guy. Still, they’ve buried him and the title to the point where if you’re a casual fan how could you not wonder the same thing Roman and even Rock is saying about him. He looks like a total geek.

They did cover it pretty well on Monday. Seth got in Cody’s head and fucked up his decision making as Drew pointed out, so much so that he wound up talking to the Rock and Cody gave his spot at WM to him. Then it became clear during the press conference that this was a power play by the Rock, it’s easy to fill in the blanks that Cody was vulnerable and even Roman called him indecisive which lead to Roman vs Rock, and Cody finally came to his senses seeing that this was all about Rock and Roman thinking their family is bigger than wrestling and saying fuck all of that.

If Cody loses or gets pinned at WM, again, I'm convinced that nothing will ever get better. Trying not to be cynical.

Haku is Tongan.

As for Starks, I’m kinda over him. He can go in the ring, but he does lean into being mini Rock a little too much. The guy to hold onto is Big Bill. By God he’s figured it all out. He fucking rules. That Boss Man Slam is a million times better than Baron Corbin’s. More and more I get some legit Sid vibes from Big Bill.

There were a couple moments during Swerve and Hangman where I thought, Jesus, this guy was a hair away from never walking again. One of those was on Swerve flipping out of the powerbomb and the other was Swerve giving Hangman a Dead Eye off the ring through a table. Like, Hangman came so close to getting spiked. Aside from that, I could watch these two feud forever and they already had maybe the damnedest death match I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how you further raise the stakes with these two. Hair vs hair? Loser gets 10 shots with a cane or rope just to repeat Dreamer’s “thank you sir I’ll have ANOTHA!” A proper barbed wire exploding ring death match?

Heel Hangman driven crazy and being a heel by Swerve fucking rules. Can you imagine if Sting’s one son, the taller and more muscular of the two, the one who looks the most like Sting, were also a wrestler with his dad’s same charisma and ability? He’d be the biggest draw in the country. Dude is an absolute unit. It’s crazy. He’s like a fucking action figure.

Their frontman is a Covid denier or at least Covid vaccine denier, RFK Jr. supporting dork. So nah. I’ll pass on that idea.

Mercedes AND Okada

Time to muddy the streaming waters. Again. ESPN, Fox, and WBD announced a joint streaming venture today for all of their sports broadcasts across all of their channels. No word yet on if that will include AEW.

My hypothesis is that Dave is a lot like one of my close friends where his bit was to always be extremely literal as a goof. That was back in high school. We’re both 43 now. He’s done it for so long that now that’s just how he is. It’s like a bad habit he can’t break and we just go along with it.

The Switch Pro controller is…alright. At the very least it’s their best normal controller ever simply because it just copies the other two companies. Even still, the d pad stinks and the buttons are too squishy, but I’ll take that any day over using Joycons. My daughter likes the Joycons if they’re in the little handle for them, but even she is using the Pro controller more and more.

Meltzer first said it happened on Seinfeld 100 years ago, but because he is nearly Drax levels of not understanding or using sarcasm, he had to immediately correct himself by saying, “well, not 100 years ago, probably more like 10 or 15.” It’s too bad for Bryan that they’re on video now and can’t mute himself before banging his head against his desk. Oh Dave.

There is part of me that feels like WWE co-opting a fan movement to make it artificial is pretty cynical. The other part of me says, fuck it, whatever delivers us Cody vs Roman at WM is fine as long as that happens and Roman vs Rock happens. But it looks like Cody vs Drew vs Seth? Or not because there was that Sami promo?

Well, to be fair, Sega got out of the hardware business so it was publish their games elsewhere or die. And a lot of us near the end of the Dreamcast were saying the same when 3rd party support for the Dreamcast sucked. Hell, it wasn’t that long ago that it looked like Nintendo could have headed down the same path until the Switch changed everything.

I don’t see stuff like Halo being multiplatform, but it’s still kind of bananas that Bethesda would be tied to only Xbox and PC. Timed exclusives seems more likely than anything.

What? You need to stop taking such huge leaps in logic. Cody feuding with Brock for a part of last year has literally no bearing on anything happening right now. Also, why wouldn’t Cody beat Roman for the title?

I still don't get why it's such a mountain of a problem to do Cody vs Roman on one night and Roman vs Rock on another night. It's two fucking nights of WM. So who the fuck is blocking this simplest of ideas and solutions? Rock? Roman? There's no reason to do a triple threat unless, of course, it's the only thing Roman and Rock would agree to. Roman doesn't strike me as someone with that big of an ego to not work both nights of WM and take an even bigger payday. Hell, I don't even see why the Rock would give a shit, unless of course the Rock is trying to weasel his way into winning the title. Or creative is really that braindead. This shit isn't hard to figure out.