piranesi
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5 hours ago, Robert S said:
That reminds me of a guy asking me in 1999 if he should invest in Amazon stock (he was older than me and knew that I was relatively tech-savvy) and I was "no way, who would ever trust the internet enough to buy stuff there?" (well, besides 5th generation wrestling tapes, I guess). To be fair, the Amazon stock prize fell significantly when the dot-com bubble burst and only started to really pick up a decade later, but still.
Literally in 2001 at a party had a guy trying to convince me to buy apple stock the day the Ipod dropped by showing me a goddamned Ipod and I was so impressed with my new "MP3-CD player" that I had bought the week before that I told him he was an idiot and that this was the future.
This is it.
Man the more I remember these things the more miserable I get. But my SLimX is still working and hooked up and about 7 ipods of various sizes and types are stacked away somewhere...but that's what they call a "Pyrrhic" victory I think.
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On 4/26/2024 at 8:38 AM, Zakk_Sabbath said:
I thought HD-DVD was going to take off because it had Xbox support and Blu-ray players were prohibitively expensive (until PS3 came out) - we've all been there
I stayed out of the stock market after 2008 because “the big meltdown is coming.” Then I finally gave up and got back in, in early Feb 2020…
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I was going to celebrate Joey Pants being in the collection but now that I google it I think he's in there two or three times already. ACan anyone name them without looking?
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Is there something beyond earned runs? Like "fated runs"
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He's gonna be like $80 million short of affording the golden ticket to the rich assholes secret volcano witness protection hideout and then he'll remember Linda's Senate campaign and weep of exhaustion.
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On 4/12/2024 at 12:05 PM, TimLivingston said:
He somehow won $140M, which is how shit gets you in the end.
"Where is all that money from, Ippei?"
"I'M THE ONE WHO KNOCKS, MITSUKI!"
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He’s just a single ghost dad trying to connect with his daughter.
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17 hours ago, odessasteps said:
There are plenty of stories nowadays about fishy games in the lower levels of sports around the world, just not the major leagues. If Asian betting syndicates can make their money fixing third tier Canadian or Malaysian soccer, which goes almost everyone’s radar but Declan Hill and company, why try and fix the Premier League or nfl?
Grigor Sargysan sees some dark potential in you, steps.
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I don’t think there is a single industry that is still capable of functioning today without becoming a criminal enterprise on some level so we should probably get used to all this. There are no more boundaries.
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Gummo should have beaten Titanic for best picture and Elliot SMith should have beaten Celine Dion.
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On 3/20/2024 at 3:21 PM, Leonidas said:
I'm sorry no, not allowed. James Bond can't be younger than me, it will rip a hole in the fabric of spacetime or something.
Don't worry he will age quickly. By the third film he'll look 65.
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I mean Lebron James's face is all over DraftKings ads. Why shouldn't everybody be gambling. It's obviously an incredibly healthy thing for all of society to be basing our lives around. Kevin Hart wouldn't lie to us about how great gambling is would he?
Let me consult with the people at the "Oddsmakers.net presents the Baseball Hall of Fame" in Gamblegobble.com presents Cooperstown, NY and find out.
They say it's fine.
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I too have this weird Mandela effect memory of seeing a news story using the “motherscratcher” clip from Raising Arizona so,e time in the 2020s. I wonder if it was being referenced for some other reason like he….did something that none of us remember?
I guess if he was still working it could be for him getting cast in something and it wasn’t the “news” so much as like twitter. All that stuff blends together now.
while I’m typing this I remember that when Trey Wilson died the clip they all played was from Bull Durham not Raising Arizona an I kinda think one news source would have had the vision.
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3 hours ago, jaedmc said:
This is really a problem with the entertainment industry as a whole(not just a rasslin' problem.)
People talk about Love Bombing, and with entertainment the bombing comes from fans. There is nothing like performing and feeling even just a handful of people love what you're doing, let alone arenas full. And if you want it again you gotta go back to the person who gave you the opportunity to get on stage, in the ring, in front of a camera. That's a terrible amount of power to have over generally insecure people(as entertainers and artists are prone to be). And I don't think we'll ever be rid of people(male or female) who exploit it. I don't mean that cynically like the entertainment business is trash forever. I mean that people have to be more aware of their own self worth and when other people are taking advantage of it. You don't need Vince to feel valuable.
the love, laughter, and approval of a live audience is probably one of the most immediately addictive things in the world. I’ve heard otherwise really smart and level-headed people like comedian Andy Daly have to kind of admit that once it has you there is almost nothing too demeaning to keep you from going back.
pursuing fame must be terrible if you get it you spend your life in a never-ending panic over it running out and if you don’t you spend your life feeling like you’ve beeen denied the only thing that matters to you. Emily Dickinson was the sane one it turns out. Do what interests you not what might make you famous-
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somewhere out there he's saying to all his friends "See, I told you. I'm not healthy. You all thought I was joking! Well who's laughing now!"
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Apparently it is very very easy to reconcile.
The process is simple.
1) do what we all knew you were going to do anyway
2) every so often say "You know, it's hard to reconcile"
3) cash another check
4) repeat
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Alabama supreme court just ruled that all individual parts of any Frankenstein monster are each children with full constitutional rights.
In a related story, they also ruled that already living immigrant children are not children but are, in fact, Frankenstein monsters and can be shot on sight.
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11 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Meltzer made a great point the other day about how, generalizing here, real sports' athletes have such a different mentality than wrestlers. For the most part, athletes understand their worth to the team and expect to be paid accordingly. Wrestlers, on the other hand, mostly are just happy to be there and approach their job from a "this promoter took a chance on me" point of view. One recognizes their worth and demands things. The other feels like their success is all owed to someone else, instead of understanding that this someone saw value in their skills, something they could make money on. There's no doubt in my mind that Vince absolutely played this shit to the hilt his entire career and it's easy to see how Cena was absolutely Jedi mind tricked here. I'm sure he feels he owes his life to Vince and not his own talents.
I remember I think in Beyond the Mat someone mentioned that Vince’s greatest advice to him Was “never let the workers know how much they are worth.”
kind of a moral imperative at the boss level now.
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He's a lapdog. I hope he chokes on his millions.
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I'm jsut glad that there is one "sort of over the air" live channel that still has Dementia 13 in its rotation. that was a WTBS staple going back to before it was a superstation.
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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:
This is pretty wild; one of the new streaming Dish channels, The Film Detective, has a Wednesday post-9 PM lineup of selections from... Something Weird Video?! Cool! Coincidentally, they're still in business, and partners with other notables like Severin and Kino and AGFA. And of course you can see their stuff on Night Flight Plus.
The Night Flight Plus Something Weird streaming section has been there awhile but not a huge list of them. Maybe the Dish one is a bigger collection?
Nighrt Flight also has a few other sections just for boutique blu ray label titles. Highly recommend.
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UFC never should have gotten rid of the Sumo wrestler and the ninja from #1.
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There's not that many businesses where on your first day someone hands you a bunch of Soma and whispers "This will make it easier"
Pretty much just 1) "comfort women" 2) "Wife of Uday Hussein" and now 3) "Employee of publicly traded company TKO/WWE/UFC that is heavily marketed to children and young men."
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Some of us when we hit our 70s and 80s are going to be sat down and given a stern talking to, and possibly heavy medication, by our grandkids over the shit we used to watch.
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The Wall Street Journal Vince McMahon Thread.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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This industry and country is so sick that we are this far into all of this and even Vince is still in the game. Hell, he could be running CNN by next year.