A.M.B.
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3 hours ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
I've seen so many people complaining about the booking here and people don't understand the nuance. Gong over most people's heads. So let's break it down.
MJF got hurt in / immediately following a match. He didn't get jumped in the back. It wasn't some "out of bounds" in terms of kayfabe thing. There's no impetus to be allowed to run someone over with a car at an airport and become champion because of it. MJF doesn't have to work twice. He can forfeit the ROH tag belts to focus on the AEW world title but he does it because the titles mean a lot to their friendship. A sacrifice for their friendship. So the potential consequences of that are on him. Not AEW, in the kayfabe sense. Cole didn't work the match because he's hurt. Not that he wasn't allowed to work it by AEW. That he's hurt and chose not to. AEW let MJF use a replacement.
MJF gets hurt and can't wrestle. Not that he wasn't allowed to work by AEW. He couldn't because it was so bad he had to go to the hospital. AEW let MJF use a replacement (same thing they allowed for the tag title match). Adam Cole is hurt and didn't want to do it, but because the world title means so much to MJF and he made him that promise, he decided to try and work the match. A sacrifice for their friendship.
There's no logic inconsistencies with the story. People are projecting things into the story. AEW never said Adam Cole isn't allowed to work one match but is allowed to work the other match. From AEW's perspective he's allowed to wrestle, he just is hurt and letting MJF do it without him. MJF doesn't have to work twice. They both made the choices they did because the friendship means so much to them.Again, I said ignoring the medical clearance, because while it’s silly, it happens in wrestling, it’s a common trope, I get it and am willing to look past it. What I’m talking about is the fact that Tony Khan would watch Jay White’s buddies break the rules to injure his champion (I guess you’re saying a post match beatdown is fair play?) and then act like there’s no other option but to award Jay the title since his champion can’t compete. Also ignoring the fact that they didn’t vacate when Punk was injured and they didn’t even wait for a diagnosis for MJF. I have to accept that the main event is completely thrown out because apparently no one in the back is willing to fight Jay for a vacant title on a whim, or Tony just didn’t think of that as an alternative and was okay losing the main event for his big show even though he has all the power to fix things. This all might work if there was a cut throat heel booker who had no sympathy, but TK is constantly watching his booking plans get ruined by heels and is apparently fine with doing nothing about it.
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So I’m just starting this show and am absolutely amazed at how unbelievably insane this main event booking is. Completely ignoring that medical clearance means nothing apparently, why would any heel ever compete in an actual match for a belt when all you have to do is jump the champ beforehand and the title is just awarded to you for having done so.
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On 11/11/2023 at 11:21 AM, The Natural said:
Feels like UFC 300 will be a main event or co-main event with Conor McGregor as the other names listed are out unless those fights are rearranged through injuries. McGregor hasn't won a fight in years. Islam Makhachev defending the UFC Lightweight Championship vs. Charles Oliveira or Justin Gaethje? Hope UFC 300 is more UFC 100 than UFC 200. UFC 200 was a hot mess thanks to Jon Jones pissing hot.
Got to take things from Conor’s camp with a grain of salt, but it sounds like they want him to fight in the summer instead. Makes sense since he’s a draw on his own, and the UFC would have to put his fight above title fights on 300. Conor on the undercard won’t work, best to give him his own PPV to headline. -
37 minutes ago, Craig H said:
Fuck yeah mini G1. At least Alvarez can stop bitching about how they're only having matches for the sake of having matches.
I mean we still gotta see the brackets. If there’s guys like Takeshita missing after beating Omega, meanwhile Jeff Hardy is in the mix like their last world title tournament, it’s just more of the same.
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Still probably not betting on Benoit again next time since his defense has been lacking and France isn’t exactly known for wrestling. But damn. That was impressive.
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I got Lopez, Frevola, Dern, Sergei, and Alex. I can see a lot of finishes as well.
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I’m going Islam by submission.
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Some weird incidents tonight. Feel for Victory Henry. Most of Tim Elliot’s knees seemed legal to me, we just saw a show where a ref allowed them because the guy was lifting his opponent. And the commentators said if they’re gaming the system they don’t get the benefit of the doubt. Also I kinda get how you have to stop a fight if a guy doesn’t know where he is, but there’s a big accent barrier there, as well as adrenaline and shock going through Walker’s system. Refs should probably be preventing the doctors from talking to a guy and making brash decisions before he’s taken a good chunk of his allotted time. Fighters need to see this and learn to refuse to talk.
Usman/Chimaev was slightly underwhelming, wish it was 5 rounds. Tired of the UFC strong arming fights and blaming fighters for not being ready, DDP deserves the title shot. Dana was glowing for Chimaev after the fight when he’d be deriding a guy like Belal Muhammad for putting on a similar performance.
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I liked 15 when I played it but it was also the first game I played when I got my PS4, the visuals alone were enough to keep me enthralled. Then I played RDR2, Assasins Creed games, GTA V, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, etc and the open world fatigue hit hard. Don’t think I’d like it at all nowadays.
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8 hours ago, odessasteps said:
I’m prob in the minority who has no desire to play the new FF VII.
I tried the first part and thought it was bad, downright terrible with what they did to the story. The real remake to me is just playing FFVII on Steam with fan made graphics, sound, and QOL patches. I think the series has lost their way after FFX and has been 1 step forward 2 steps back every iteration.
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I’m in the same boat of not caring about remakes yet here I am playing multiple. RE4 remake was something I had no interest in but I’m really loving it. That said playing it is just reminding me of how much I love the original and how I want to go back and play it as soon as I’m done with the remake. Link’s Awakening has been fun too and has some great QOL improvements but idk, the original (GBC at least) still holds up perfectly well to me. I would never have bought it for 60 bucks though, it seems much more suited to a $30 price tag. Thank god my brother gave me a huge stack of Switch games cause I would never pay full price for most of these.
I am pretty hyped for the Mario RPG remake since it’s my favorite RPG ever, but something tells me some of the magic will be missing from a lot of the remixed songs (best OST ever) and once again I’ll end up playing the original afterwards as somewhat of a reminder to what I fell in love with in the first place.
The one game I’d totally approve of a remake of though is a top 5 game of all time for me and that’s Dark Souls. That’s assuming they redo every level from the ground up while maintaining familiar parts of them, but making everything on the scale of an Elden Ring legacy dungeon.
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On 7/31/2023 at 8:57 AM, Craig H said:
For anyone playing XVI, does this game ever open up? I looked at the scores various sites gave the game and they're all pretty high so I suspect I'm missing something or I just haven't arrived to a point where things open up. It's just very, very repetitive at the moment. I described this previously, but it has been all you and Cid go down a very linear path, there's what is essentially an arena of enemies, you clear those out, there's dialogue between you and Cid, then you keep going down the same path until you hit another area of enemies, you kill all of them, dialogue, go down a path, fight a boss, then a long cut scene, then you might pick somewhere on a map to go to or you might go to a village, but literally every quest objective is highlighted so there's no mystery for who to talk to. This might be one of the most hand holdy games I've ever played. I'm not looking for the Witcher 3 or anything, but damn, I keep waiting for that moment that happens in a lot of games, the Witcher 3 included, where everything just opens up and it's not all very strict, linear paths to travel along, it's not repetitive like how I described earlier, etc.
It doesn't need to be an open world, but the way this game was designed feels like it's on rails and I can't imagine it would have received all of these high scores if it were purely 40 to 80 hours of being on rails. It's definitely one of the most fleshed out stories I've seen in a FF game even if some of the sex stuff feels very out of place.
Well this is exactly why I couldn’t finish FFVII Remake so it sounds like I’ll be skipping 16 too. 13 as well was a giant hallway simulator. I’ve just come to accept modern FF ain’t for me, luckily there’s some awesome graphics/QOL patches for some of the older games that gives them new life to me.
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11 minutes ago, Casey said:
For someone that didn’t want to sound like Jim Cornette, ohhhhh boy did you fail miserably with that entire post.
Yeah I’m sure he loved Mox/Cassidy as much as me.
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I’ve been having a big issue with the comedic undertones of seemingly every heel in the company lately. It’s not to say comedy and a top acts can’t mix as I think Sami and Roman did that perfectly, but it sometimes feels like the wrestlers are trying to pop each other instead of really delving into the mind of a bad guy and coming off as believable.
I think this Roderick Strong stuff is hilarious and some of his best character work, but it makes a badass like Darby look like a total loser to me to be going tit for tat and then ultimately losing to a whiny baby with a bad neck. It’s a perfect gimmick for enhancement talent, not someone tethered to your biggest feud. Cole vs. MJF is way too goofy for me to view it as two of the best in the world doing whatever it takes to be the best. I thought that dance off a few months back was embarrassing. Basic comedic timing should be that the one bad dancer goes last so we can laugh at him in comparison, instead we have Sammy who can’t dance at all and looks like a dork, Garcia can’t dance and looks like a dork, and Adam Cole can’t dance and is a dork. Somehow the Jewish guy was the only one with rhythm. I really don’t want to sound like Jim Cornette but very few guys come off as legitimately “cool” or “alpha” to me. And yes I hate that I actually used the word alpha but the point stands. I feel like this stuff entertains the adult fan but it terms of bringing in a new, younger generation of fans, kids are more inclined to like a John Cena or Cody Rhodes type of no nonsense ass kicker.
Same thing with Takeshita, who’s supposed to be their next big bad villain, but comes out with this absurd painting in his entrance video of him and Callis jacked to all hell. It would be funnier if they hadn’t already done the same bit with the Elite. But aren’t we supposed to be taking this guy seriously? Why is he embarrassing himself like this?
It always took me out of Adam Page’s stuff too when he’s supposed to be storming the ring like a badass and his header will read some bizarre bit like “Feeling a wittle bit sad after rewatching Disney’s Up” or some nonsense. Same when Kenny Omega is in some grudge match and they do the North Carolina thing.
For a company that is all about giving every kind of fan something in their wheelhouse, I sometimes feel left out as a fan of intense, no frills, competitive, high stakes wrestling. The kind of stuff I get on a regular basis from guys like Seamus, Gunther and Dragunov. Tho the last PPV thankfully bucked that trend, and I will say OC vs. Mox is probably a top 5 match for me in AEW history and it has everything I’ve been feeling starved for. No interference, no gratuitous storyline and unnecessary backstory, no post match beatdown, just two guys struggling to be the best. OC did a perfect job adapting his style to a serious match and him kicking the shit out of Moxley instead of the usual lazy kicks was the perfect way to show range from a comedy act to a top guy.
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God damn I love this sport. Guess they’re looking to do the rematch but I’d actually really like to see them go for Izzy/DDP and Chimaev/Costa vs. Sean next.
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Haven’t seen any spoilers yet, any matches worth seeking out on this show?
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Mod a 2DS/3DS if you have one and it’s a total game changer, old Nintendo games are so ridiculously overpriced that IMO that’s the only option worth it. Very easy nowadays with a proper video walkthrough. Then you have every DS and 3DS game on its native console plus GBA, SNES, and lots of other stuff. DeSmuME on the CPU is great for DS but idk about 3DS. Sorry if this kind of talk is forbidden here.
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Threw this together in 2 minutes, think it looks better than what they’re giving us in just about every way.
MJF vs. Adam Page - first ever world title angle they ran at the first show and it hasn’t been properly acknowledged or paid off. Do it on the biggest show of the year
CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe or Eddie Kingston. Samoa Joe match would be good if they didn’t give it away a few weeks ago as a nothing match and they really emphasized the magnitude of it. Eddie/Punk was the best Punk feud/match I’ve seen in AEW yet and it had zero follow up and could use a bigger stage. Up the stakes, let fans want to see the ultimate upset, and Punk would be even more hated to beat Kingston again here.
Will Ospreay vs. Darby Allin. My two favorite wrestlers right now. Just let them go crazy and highlight the next generation.
Orange Cassidy vs. Trent Berretta. Friendly competition match, maybe start pushing Trent towards a more serious singles run.
Omega vs. Takeshita. Ibushi doesn’t seem to be in the best ring shape, I’d say just get some traction going with this match they’re clearly trying to work towards and let this be the first of a few.
A women’s title match involving Willow. Like her a lot and loved some of her showings in Japan but I skip 99% of the women’s stuff in AEW. I guess you gotta put Saraya there.
London Street Fight: FTR vs. Jay and Juice. Such a fucking good match just run it back 5 more times.
Young Bucks vs. AR Fox/Swerve. Match that works to everyone’s advantages, PWG tag match.
Mox/Wheeler/Claudio vs. Hook/Acclaimed. Start getting Acclaimed into a more serious feud to give them more of an edge.
Adam Cole vs. Chris Jericho 60 minute iron man match.
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Saw a little 60 second short on how to mod a Vita and since I’ve had one sitting around collecting dust for a few years I gave it a shot. Ended up taking me like 4 hours to get every program installed and everything up and running smoothly but it’s a pretty cool feeling to have every Vita and PSP game freely available to me. Unfortunately the main draw for me, GBA emulation, doesn’t seem to run to well. Tried an alternative method in setting up RetroArch and running GBA emulators through it which was also many hours of troubleshooting. Finally got a smooth GBA emulator running but now of course a few hours into my game it’s always crashing after a few minutes of play time. Pretty hard to get excited about taking on a GBA game like FFVI knowing the game could crap out on me 30 hours in. Luckily all the native emulation plays smooth which seems to be the case with every jailbreak I’ve done. Starting to think I should just get a Miyoo Mini Plus or something for all my GBA needs.
I’ve been wanting to jailbreak my 3DS since I really want to get back into a bunch of DS games and they just feel wrong playing on a CPU or non Nintendo devise, but Nintendo systems always seem the most challenging and risky to mod. My Wii was never the same after modding and we’d get crashes all the time.
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16 hours ago, Contentious C said:
I spent $15 to avoid wasting $40 today.
Signed up for PS Plus and decided I was going to give Demon's Souls another try because MaYbE i'M mIsSiNg SoMeThInG but no, I'm not. I spent the last couple of months getting muscle-trained back on TOTK and switching was a bit much. Found myself hammering items I didn't want to use when I was supposed to be spamming attack, and it was just too frustrating to get out of that mode. So I looked in the settings, and fuck no, why would you be able to change the controller layout of a game in 2023?
At least that saves me ever, ever bothering with Elden Ring, either. Fuck they’re bullshit.
So your primary complaint for the game is you can’t tell R1 from Square?
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The amount of people thinking Hafez won is insane to me. Did he look way better than expected? Sure. Did Jack make some mistakes? More than he should have. But it all comes down to round 2 where Hafez had 1:40 of control time, doing nothing and essentially laying on top, while Madellena did alllll the damage in that round, I believe 85-32 strikes in the entire fight. We have been constantly having this discussion since O’Malley/Yan how damage is much more important in the judges eyes than control is, yet I’m seeing fighters all over Twitter crying robbery. I’d say it’s crazy that these pro fighters don’t understand the judging criteria except that judges don’t seem to understand it too since one gave Hafez round 2. I’ve probably had a few too many beers and should just get off MMA Twitter but I really don’t get what I’m missing.
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Thought last night was one of the best episodes in a long time, maybe one of their best ever. But yeah the Jericho segment was not great and once again cut in to the main event event time, which continue to feel rushed with no breathing room outside of the bell to bell action. I actually really liked the sprint style of the match but for a 7 match series I think they should have treated it as a bigger deal with the entrances and post match celebration. At least there was no shoehorned angle, just a celebration culminating months in the making. This has always been one of Dynamite’s biggest issues for me.
Hangman/Mox was fantastic, Jungle Hook match was perfect for what it was. When MJF came out and started doing his schtick I thought they were doing a perfect setup for Takeshita to completely lay him out but instead the dude just leaves the ring like a complete dork so MJF can speak, and basically needed Danielson to save him. I think when you’re doing more edgy, sorta racisty heel work there needs to be a more urgent comeuppance for the baby face, MJF running like a child wasn’t enough for me. I’m really far from the PC police but I find so much of the promo work in AEW to be based around calling someone a pussy, shoving something far up their ass, “Maxy-pad” (why is a super progressive guy like Bryan equating femininity with cowardice? Again I’m not the PC guy it just feels soooo off brand for him), or low hanging ableist/racist kinda stuff. I think there’s a time and place for heels to be cheap and then get the shit kicked out of them for it, but AEW seems unaware of how uninspired all their shit talking is and it feels like the baby faces never take the high road. None of the best promos in the company are based around that edgy stuff, they’re based around real life work/shooty bits like Adam Cole’s fantastic speech. If only I liked his in ring as much as his talking. Sammy and Jungle Boy are learning promos on the job and I can’t say I’m excited for their future promos when they all just boil down to “That’s why this Sunday I’m gonna make you my BITCH”.
Also what’s up with all the daddy names. MJF calling himself daddy. Daddy Ass. Daddy Magic. Stroke Daddy. It’s not funny or creative anymore. They need some kind of continuity director, like how the earlier episodes had biting in every match, where only a guy like Moxley should be biting so he can stand out as uniquely gritty.-
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Yeah not striking when the iron was hot was always one of their biggest problems. For me the real killer of my interest was Yoshihito retiring though. Dude made every undercard match he was on worth watching and motivated all the wrestlers around him. That Strong title run and his match with Sekimoto is some of the most intense wrestling I’ve ever seen and was just as violent as the deathmatches. Hard to put into words but the undercards went from scrappy to sloggy within a few years and their few new projects for the top of the card like Takahashi didn’t seem to catch on with the fans or me.
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On 12/13/2022 at 6:07 PM, matwarz said:
Very sad to see the state BJW is in right now. Their refusal to trust foreigners or look at the big picture has resulted in a stale company, overtaken by Freedoms and barely scraping 300 fans at korakuen. Can’t see how much longer they can cling on
Yeah watching their shows is pretty sad these days, even back in the pandemic when they were crowd funding I felt pretty apathetic, like if they die they die, always felt like they didn’t want to appeal much to a crowd outside of Japan. BJW Core seems like a very low effort attempt at a streaming service that just offers lifeless house shows shot with a single hard cam. Also I swear every Korakuen show I’ve seen in the last few years the deathmatches rarely go longer than like 12 minutes. They do so few epics compared to the 2005-2010 era and no action ever really happens, no creative weapon gimmicks, there’s just no fire anymore.
As a foreign fan it’s much easier and rewarding to support just about any other company in Japan. And pretty much every wrestler who’s been a favorite of mine left over feeling disrespected like Honma, Kasai, and Yoshihito. They dug their own grave by pushing Ito and Kobayashi over everyone for so long. Pretty much every new trainee they have go into deathmatches leaves within a year or two to go freelancer like Tsukamoto, Uto, Ueki, Drew, Sakuda, and maybe more I’m forgetting. They all seem happier in Freedoms. Drew being built up for a long time only to have him vacate the title was real shady, figured maybe it was Visa issues but he went to Freedoms immediately after.
A General Grand Theft Auto Discussion Thread
in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH
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Well it looks cool, but nothing there indicates the actual gameplay is good, it’s just a movie. Cyberpunk had great trailers and was a mess at release. Rockstar obviously has a great reputation (though Dan Hauser seems like a huge loss and their one project since his departure was a slap in the consumer’s face) so I’m not too worried, but even games that were complete upon release by modern standards like Elden Ring still greatly benefited from a few updates, so I’m gonna wait for some reviews from independent critics and won’t get this day one. Hopefully Rockstar resolves some of the issues RDR2 had where it was an open world on the surface with an extremely on rails, limited mission structure. The PS2 GTAs are still my favorite since they feel more like games than interactive Netflix series. Here’s a gun, figure out how to kill the mob boss. Punish me for not exploring the side content enough. Let me take risks. Let me fail. Let me git gud.