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There’s so much to be said about how AEW told the story of a reluctant, self-doubting hero and his hesitant friends coming together for the common good, compared to WWE’s simplistic, alpha male, lone wolf, I am a tough guy and very badass characters and storylines. I am so thankful for AEW, its staff, and wrestlers for doing what they do and telling stories designed to appeal to more than just 14 year old white kids.
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44 minutes ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
Duggan definitely looks like the distant relative who shows up at the family reunion with firecrackers (and a few m80s) and a six pack.
AKA the coolest distant relative
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6 hours ago, Ryback Hates Bullies said:
Yeah I feel bad for Adam Cole. My guess is that this one of those things where he's maybe not done done, but he's going to be an occasional performer at best.
I think, in all honesty, that he had been shuffled way down the card anyway - noone thought he wasn't dropping the belt tonight. So I think we were on a wind-down trajectory anyway.
I think he'll be ok, but yeah it sucks even if I've never been as high on him as some.
Yeah, it feels like maybe they were winding him down a bit. He’d been doing commentary on Collision to the point where it seemed like they could be preparing him for that role sooner rather than later.
I’ve seen Cole since his ROH days teaming with O’Reilly and always felt he was a real talent and he truly came across like the nicest guy. All the best to him in whatever is next.
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The Jazwares lazily drawn Orange Cassidy figure is pretty cool.
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2 hours ago, Casey said:
anyone wanna guess when NXT Heatwave is taking place in August?
Surely you mean NXT Prohibited Portal on August 24? That has nothing to do with anything!
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3 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:
Ironically enough, I got a chuckle out of the match graphic. "MJF #1 entrant, Briscoe #2 entrant, and for some reason here's Mistico!"
Another booking idea: Mistico milks the crowd singing his Mexican slow jam so long we get 10 more entrances and the match ends before he can get in the ring.
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35 minutes ago, Zimbra said:
The Casino Gauntlet doesn't have a 'last entrant' it theoretically could go on until they run out of wrestlers in the back. Having the 1st or 2nd pick is supposed to be an advantage because you have a chance to end the match before there are a million wrestlers in there and it's pure chaos.
I will stop before I get on my "The Casino Gauntlet is an inherently bad match" rant.
Exactly. 1 and 2 are the preferred spots because they’re (in kayfabe) the only spots actually guaranteed to participate in the match.
MJF KO’ing Briscoe with his diamond ring for the win just as #3 Mistico is coming to the ring would be awesome. Puts the heat on the heel for ruining an anticipated match and feeds the MJF/Mistico feud. It won’t happen, for the reason @Matt D mentioned, but I feel like they really do need to end a Casino Gauntlet really early at least once to make the stip believable.
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1 hour ago, Matt D said:
Man, no one asked for de facto face Blake Christian. That would have been way better as a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels type of match.
As the absolute whitest white meat babyface, Christian’s nickname was “all heart.” I’ll always remember Matt (former WWE writer) on the We Watch Wrestling pod struggling to remember his nickname and his best guess was “Fights Well from Underneath” Blake Christian.
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A fan had a “Brody is invited to the cookout” sign, in Spanish!
Thekla got bleeped at least twice. She got a potty mouth!
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I met IVP Videos once in college and later lived across the street from the video store where he worked. Super nice guy. Obviously I didn’t know it was him until I was randomly posting about some dumb changes the store had made and he messaged me about it like “yeah, I work there and it sucks.” Life is weird.
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When you game has awful tag team AI but also makes sure it gives the player the choice of being vegan or a meat eater, your priorities got fucked somewhere along the way.
I liked most of the player models, but Sammy Guevara just looked weird and Ricky Starks looked like Butt-Head.
And it goes without saying, but the creation suite was rough. Only one option for beards and one option for long hair means my Chris Hero CAW and the John Blud CAW that the devs created for the community creator DLC look exactly the same, and that's not right.
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27 minutes ago, Casey said:
https://x.com/WrestlePurists/status/1942920668779299266
Link won't embed but talks have "heated up" regarding another AEW video game. They know where they went wrong, and they won't announce anything until closer to a planned release date (if it happens).
I've been playing Fight Forever a little bit on my SteamDeck since it's on the Steam Summer Sale. I haven't touched this thing on PS5 since it came out, probably the Stadium Stampede update. It's not as terrible as I remember, gameplay wise I actually quite like it, but the customization and the career/season mode are both still real, real low points. So bad it actively brings down the rest of the game.
If they do a Fight Forever 2 and just build on top of what they already have and fix issues that fans had with it, I'll be fine. I don't need a community creations thing like WWE has (a return to CAW formulas would be fun actually). I don't need a battle royale mode, either - even if it was kinda fun the first few times just for the novelty of it.
Right! The actual matches were fine. I don't need half hour struggle sim style matches, or minigames to get a pin or sub. But god damn did everything else drag it down. Getting unlockables by replaying the same limited, repetitive, branching story was a chore. I shouldn't have to dig up an Google Docs spreadsheet on a subreddit to figure out what choices to make to unlock what.
Other things to fix aside from what you mentioned:
- They need to figure out tag team matches. Either let me control my partner who I just tagged in, or make my partner AI work in a way that makes sense like in FirePro. I found myself just winning tag matches on my own without tagging out because the partner AI was so bad.
- Finalize the roster closer to release or do updates more frequently. The game came out in 2023 but I swear the roster, attire, belts, venues, etc. were mostly from 2020 when they first started working on it. The game felt stale on day 1.
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I don't watch WWE but I hear Meltzer and Alvarez summarize it...WWE creative is really missing out not having a heel cut a promo on Trish and say "I'm glad you're wrestling on the show...can't have evolution without some fossils! (evil cackle)."
Also, it's amusing they have a show called Evolution when their parent company is mostly concerned with catering to a fanbase whose majority doesn't believe in it. Maybe next year it can be "WWE Women's Creationism" or "WWE Women's Inteligent Design," presented by Hobby Lobby.
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Yeah, tribalism, racism, misogyny, and Mercedes getting to bring her writer onboard created this stupid perfect storm that culminated in this absolutely dumb rumor.
Tony Khan is not an idiot, and he's a student of wrestling. AND he already tried giving some limited creative control to Punk (by way of Collision) and we saw how that didn't work. I doubt he's just handing out creative control in any form ever again.
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17 hours ago, J.H. said:
Christ, the Robert Shaw "Going Out On Open Water Sucks" trilogy is diminishing returns with each film. Am I to assume you will complete the trifecta with Orca?
James
Completely unrelated, but your post reminded me of listening to The Rewatchables and hearing Van Lathan refer to Disclosure as “part 3 in the ‘Michael Douglas’ Dick Gets Him in Trouble’ trilogy.”
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44 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Books will someday be written about Chris Pratt and how whitebread and pablum a human being can possibly get:
This movie will make at least half a billion dollars and no one will ever speak of it again a month after its release.
You are 1000% correct on this. We saw Garfield in the theater (I blame my daughter) and I legit forgot it existed not long after. She mentioned the Garfield movie last month and I was just like “wuh?”
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It would seem the Big Damo Rule also applies to wrestlers' families.
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1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:
Interestingly, we found out via his WCW run that Roddy Piper was so interested in the art of drag as to be completely obsessed by it. That's...uh...something, I suppose.
3 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:Piper trying to do his open mic comic routine while being overtly homophobic and constantly talking about Viagra....not so much.
For an ostensibly straight dude, Piper talked about LGBTQ stuff in promos, completely out of nowhere, a whole lot. Sometimes I got the impression Piper was so far in the closet he could see Narnia.
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3 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Piper as a face was fine. Piper trying to do his open mic comic routine while being overtly homophobic and constantly talking about Viagra....not so much.
There are signs during the buildup to his match against Lawler for King of the Ring 1994 that he had lost a bit off the fastball. Those pretapes, which they had to clearly edit down, were horrendous. Then, it's full on cringe as the years pass. In small doses and (more importantly) shorter segments, he was tolerable. You can tell once Nitro is about 3-4 years in, his appearances become less and less special. That crazy pop he could garner in 96 and early 97 eventually becomes a very polite "hey, it's a guy from the glory days" pop. He also loses the crowd A LOT. If you want to build an argument about wrestling needing to be scripted, look no further than that era Roddy Piper.
Everything you wrote after the first sentence counteracts that statement. "Piper as a face was fine -- with about 30 exceptions I will list here."
I'll say Piper was a good face after his first turn in 86-87, but that only lasted a few months. Post comeback, the only thing he was good in was the Bret program, but that's because he was semi-heelish.
He was also horrible on commentary. Just like Savage, it was so off putting to hear him unabashedly cheering babyfaces, so against his established character. I blame Vince for that though, as that's how he liked his babyfaces.
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I know it couldn’t be avoided, because he was so over as a heel that he had to be turned, but Piper was just the dirt worst as a babyface.
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Adam Cole’s promos bug me in one very specific way. There’s this stammer that he does and I swear it’s not real, that it’s an affect he puts on in a misguided effort to sound real and natural. I swear he never did it before his NXT run, so I blame WWE’s acting coaches.
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On the plus side, the enshittification of, well, everything, and employees not being paid enough to give a shit, means I've been bringing my own shopping bag full of waters and snacks to the movies and nobody ever says anything. I know concessions are how theaters stay in business, but 3 waters, 1 candy, and a popcorn is like 50 bucks.
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This weekend's beer was Bell's Two Hearted IPA. I've seen people refer to it as the very best IPA they've ever had. I'm not good with top whatever lists or ranking anything as the best, but I'll say I guess this is up there as far as higher quality, tasty IPAs go.
I made the mistake of chilling some glasses for it since Saturday was a hot day. I'm learning that IPAs really aren't great with chilled glasses. Chilled glasses kill the taste and also make it burn going down. I left that glass of beer on the counter for a few minutes and it was much better. Save the chilled glasses for less full-flavored stuff like lagers or maybe even pilsners, which get more crisp from the chill.
AEW TV - 7/9 - 7/15/2025 - ALL My Exes Live IN Texas
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I watched it three times. So good.