Technico Support

#7: his spine #4: his mom’s bank account

Loooool I’m the opposite in that I don’t mind Alvarez at all, and I find Dave and Garrett incredibly dry. Also, they don’t give timestamps. Finally, I can’t stand the FM radio DJ way Garrett pronounces “both” as “bowl-th.”

You’re exactly right, and I’m aware enough to know it feels like a Bix take, making “PC” mountains out of boneheaded booking molehills, but god damn. Maybe using women as a payoff for a wrestler shouldn’t be angle fodder after Vince legit tried that IRL.

Gah! You’re right. My bad.

It’s WWE. There’s always room for another blonde woman. You laid out the whole top of women’s division and the prospects, and no mention of Jade Cargill. That’s sad and hilarious.

What a fucking show! I need to rewatch Ospreay/Takeshita. I’d rather Hangman win the tournament and then the title, but Ospreay is at the same level of overness and it seems that’s where we’re going. The only bad part of the show for me was MJF/Hurt Syndicate. Their segments feel like the worst McMahon/Russo shit. “Ply the big strong black guys with women and gold” is pretty offensive. Everyone involved in this is a classless buffoon. Any word on what happened to Hook?

I want to know his thoughts on being beaten by Kim Jong Il in the 95 Observer awards

PHM was amazing to angsty me at 16. Looking back, it’s uneven and Trent sounds whiny when he actually tries to sing. “Well you got me working so hard lateleeeeeeeeee” he just sounds like a nasal little weenie. Yet the 1 2 3 punch of Head Like a Hold, Terrible Lie, and Down In It (throw Sin in there, too!) are just unfuckwithable. Broken, OTOH, just goes hard as fuck start to finish, including the bonus tracks.

She did have a bunch of matches while Toni was out and never showed any personality or charisma outside of “I’m mean!” EDIT: I replied before I read @RazorbladeKiss87’s reply saying essentially the same thing 🫩

And then regret it two weeks later and establish a new new world title.

Iron Man, but he has PTSD and spends 90% of the movie not as Iron Man, is awful despite the kid from Insidious doing his best. I fully agree that Thor 2 is better. Iron Man 3 and Eternals are the bottom of the Marvel films for me.

Yeah, outside of the Toni angle, I have no idea what Mariah was supposed to be. “I am the woman from hell” is so edgelord (edgelass?) and r/iamverybadass. Lame.

It is!

It’s a tough call, but Cody (like fascism! Shouts to Sinclair Lewis) drapes himself in the flag, so I think he’d know who the good guy is supposed to be. Maybe Cena could cut a promo in Mandarin, just to be sure.

I enjoyed harder Pumpkins stuff like Zero and Bullet with Butterfly Wings more than morose songs like Today and Disarm. Then again, I thought Broken was worlds better than Pretty Hate Machine, if we’re talking 90s alternative hot takes.

Oh sure. But at the same time, aside from the McMahon family/Trump pic taken in the Oval Office, WWE was conspicuously politically agnostic for the first term despite Orange Julius Caesar being a WWE hall of famer. Contrast that with TKO’s behavior. On the other hand, you can definitely see far-right coding in Vince’s booking, and I’m not even talking about Apollo Crews being reborn as modern Saba Simba.

I’m probably not alone here as a person who has only seen the last 5 minutes of The Accountant countless times, as it was seemingly always on before Dynamite on TNT.

Tony should just keep one “banal in her oh so conventional attractiveness” blonde woman on the roster at all times to distract WWE from the people he really doesn’t want to lose. It’s like showing a cat a laser pointer.

Bill & Keith squashed two locals on Dynamite two weeks ago. Yes, Dynamite is the A show and they have fewer squashes than you’d get on Collision. I grew up on 80s WWF. Things change. Multiple squash matches per show hasn’t been a thing in, charitably, a quarter century. We might as well be arguing that AEW needs more ethnic babyfaces. I understand the point of squashes but if that’s just not really a thing AEW does, I don’t care.

They’re not pushed as equals, though. It’s just that the “JTTS” level guys are still good enough to at least hang. This is the same pearl clutching that happened five years ago when Omega dared to give Alan Angels part of their match. I’d rather see a good match, even if I know who’s winning, than a squash. I fast forward squashes. I’d hate to +10 the whole show because “2 minute squashes make more sense than 10 minute really good JTTS matches.”

Unless you’re a no-name local explicitly brought in for a squash, most of the time you’re going to hang with the more pushed guy before losing. It’s like the company is designed with the idea that you must still be pretty good just to be there. It’s as if they’re all elite or something.

I just mentioned that Vince’s strange and naive assertion that WWE was the best possible entertainment was weirdly charming. How far off are we from missing Vince’s subtle right wing booking and refusal to publicly pick sides politically, as opposed to TKO’s out and proud MAGA bullshit?

I’d love to see those early, non broadcast King of the Ring tournaments from Foxboro.

Carny can’t fathom that someone might not be just fleecing a money mark and biding their time until New York calls them for another run: film at 11. Funny timing, there was a thread in r/squaredcircle just a day or so ago about how much Stevie’s show has changed, especially since James joined, leaning into the profitable land of negativity.

“VEGAS JUST NEEDS THAT WWF MAGIC PAL” is some real “we have Santino” shit. You can say a lot of bad things about Vince and be right about all of it, but his naive delusion about his promotion being the absolute apex of the entire sports and entertainment space was bizarrely charming.