Technico Support
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2 hours ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:
Awesome!!! Thanks!
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21 hours ago, J.H. said:
The Cruise version of Reacher just didn't do it fir me. Richson's "Sherlock Holmes in the body of Jason Voorhees" approach is so very entertaining
James
Yeah, I was about to recommend the Amazon Prime series to @Andrew POE! It's not five star art but it's certainly above average and really fun. Nails the feel of the books.
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I don't even know what "Virtuosa" is supposed to mean. Like is the whole gimmick "I'm smart and really good at wrestling?" Because that's some two decades ago e-fed shit. It's All Elite Wrestling. Being good at wrestling is supposed to be everyone on the roster's baseline. Unless you're literally the best wrestler in the world or top 3ish, you seriously cannot make "really good wrestler" your whole thing. Deeb is flopping for the same reason.
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This week's Hey! (ew) featured Bryan Keith and it was really good!
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1 hour ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:
There's a match between the Dream Team and Ricky Steamboat and Tito Santana in 1985 that was marvelous.
Holy shit that sounds awesome.
I wrote this in the Peacock or Netflix thread, but if we're talking Steiners vs babyface superteams, Steiners vs Sting & Luger from whatever Superbrawl that was was an awesome match. I love face vs face matches that eventually break down as guys lose their cool, and that's what the match was. It was a little sloppy but you can kayfabe it by attributing it to the teams slowly getting more irritated and chippy. Just a fun match.
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This past weekend's beer: finished off the last can of the Sierra Nevada lager, and then moved to Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA. Somehow Sierra Nevada stays inflation-proof at 10.99 a six pack while everything else is going up. I'm sure the independently-owned stores near me sell it for a few bucks higher...big win for my local county-owned stores. Torpedo is 7.2% alcohol and really a can't miss beer if you like IPAs, just really flavorful.
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16 hours ago, odessasteps said:
Dear DVDVR Forum,
you won’t believe what happened to me tonight….
I didn't think I'd see a Penthouse Forum reference in 2025 but I'm here for it.
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Watching old AEW from 2020, being reminded that Jimmy Havoc was a thing, then pausing the show to Google the story about Excalibur choking out drunk, belligerent Havoc in a Baltimore restaurant parking lot. Glorious.
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3 hours ago, hammerva said:
So Punk didn't hit just eat a shit sandwich this week, he took a trip to an all you can eat buffet shit sandwich. Hope it was worth it
After seeing all the damage Punk did to AEW because he’s a thin skinned bitchboy, all this, plus apparently aging 10 years in the space of two and having an awful match, is delicious. Every once in a great while, the shitty people get what’s coming to them. Savor it when it happens, my friends.
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Living in
the working class heart of Chicago like a real tough lunchpail Chacago guyHighland Park without stable income can't be easy!The We Watch Wrestling guys always clown on Punk for all his Chicago this and Chicago that bullshit when he lives 25 miles away in one of the city's richest, whitest suburbs.
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2 hours ago, Ryback Hates Bullies said:
Congrats to Technico on the weight loss (at-ing not really working for me).
Thankya buddy! Your work gym sounds awesome. I, too, am "encouraged" to come in a little more...my work gym is pretty good but obviously no free weight barbells and plates due to liability issues. Of course, the showers were broken Monday, which is awesome after a 3 mile treadmill run and a half hour of weights. Deodorant and body spray yaaaaaaay!
Heat wave in my area this past week = running outside only Sunday and Friday.
- Sunday: 6 mile run that I had to cut short to 5 when the expected extreme heat started maybe a half hour into it
- Monday: 3 miles on the treadmill (varying speeds between 5 and 6), then chest, shoulders, triceps
- Tuesday: Same as the day before but with back, biceps, and core
- Wednesday: See Monday but at my actual gym, not work
- Thursday: At the actual gym, HIIT on the treadmill for a half hour (4.5mph jog, 8-9 sprint), then back, biceps, core, and legs
- Friday: FINALLY able to run outside without risking heat stroke, 6 miles because my legs were dead from HIIT
Today: Cheat and recovery day. Down 81ish pounds since starting a little over two years ago. Might shoot for 100 just to make it a nice round number.
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17 hours ago, Craig H said:
I thought Ritchson was supposed to be Guile. Kinda sucks that 50 Cent is play Balrog and not Winston Duke.
And the rumor for M. Bison is my man, Walton Goggins.
Winston Duke would be awesome. 50 is okay but his apex was Den of Thieves.
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3 hours ago, Eivion said:
To be fair the husband was likely putting on a front to some degree. They had to leave out a planned scene where he revealed to Mon he had been covering her ass for years as he was regularly interrogated about her. You can even see at the end he clearly misses her. Their marriage was political and understood as such between them, but he did care for her more than he let on.
He was with Sculdun's wife in the end. I wonder if the Empire connected Sculdun to Rebel funding due to his relationship with Mothma and his closeness to Luthen's antiques business, and sent him to prison, leaving his wife and Mothma's husband to get together for convenience/necessity. Of course that makes their kids, who are married, step-siblings now.
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38 minutes ago, Raziel said:
Not to really defend Punk...
But if you're in a country where they can literally disappear you for pissing them off, and you know our own government won't give a shit because they get a shit ton of money from the other government (and disappear people they don't like as well), I'm gonna go ahead and act all nice and contrite until I'm not in that country anymore,
Yeah, when I wrote about those countries being human rights dumpster fires, I was fully aware that I am living in a glass house.
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It's so crazy in retrospect to think about WCW getting one of the WWF's tippy top guys at the height of his power, and doing absolutely nothing of consequence with him. Politics were so bad with the inmates running the asylum that a top guy, a genuine superstar, was handed to them and they squandered him.
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6 minutes ago, Joe vs the Algorithm said:
Google says Punk is worth $12 mil, but I don‘t think those celebrity worth sites are reliable
Yeah, Alvarez is always joking about how much Google says he's worth.
They should build this match as Saudi apologizer vs China apologizer, winner gets first dibs on the next human rights dumpster fire regime to cozy up to.
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2 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
You want to know what's coward shit? Going in front of Saudi fans and apologizing over a "mean tweet" and telling them you simply woke up crabby one morning...
Fragile ego, fragile body, weak mind, weak spirit
Punk gave some interview around Mania where he said something like, "why is it everybody else can say things and then say, 'that was my wrestling character,' but when I say things, everyone thinks it's me?" Like bro, since the start of your career, you have portrayed your "wrestling character" as 100% shoot, real you. NOW that everyone is catching on that the real you is kind of a douchebag, my man is trying to fall back on kayfabe. Or do we consider all his performative activism part of his wrestling character, too?
- Conspicuous women's rights t-shirts? Real
- Pro-Palestine insta posts? Real
- Old tweets and interviews shitting on Saudi? Wrestling character
Amazing
After seeing the way he's conducted himself over the years, watching Punk elbow Miz and say "save some of that sanguinous cock for me!" is awesome. To @TheVileOne's point: Just don't hold yourself up as some paragon of progressive causes and this shit would never happen. I kind of believe @EVA. I bet the dude really needs the money.
As for the little kid who wanted a pic that Punk shoved aside, dude should know he needed to be 9 years older and female.
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1 hour ago, Matt D said:
I’m dreading watching that match. Fletcher is a miracle worker but even he has limits with moronic modern crowds.
Matt D hates fun!
Honestly, I'm more annoyed by all the Defy-related chants. More than any other indy, it feels like Defy fans make it their whole personality. I agree that chanting jokey shit about wrestlers' names instead of getting into the match is kind of stupid, but chanting for another promotion entirely in some effort to show how smart you are is top tier wrestling hipsterdom. It's like going to some modern pop concert and holding up signs for your local open mic coffee house.
Defy is the Crossfit of wrestling. How do you know someone is into Crossfit/Defy? Wait long enough, they'll bring it up.
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11 hours ago, dorfus malorfus said:
It was mentioned on Dynamite once when MJF made a cheap quip about it to rile up Perry before the 4 way title match. Also it wasn't acknowledged on TV but Fletcher made that pathetic "my girl is hotter" tweet in reference to Skye Blue as opposed to Anna (which Dave and Bryan yucked about like two frat boys). Has Fletcher seriously never had any kind of #speakingout charges circulate about him? He seems like a huge immature creep irl and he's very tight with Ospreay and a lot of the other UK circuit sex pests.
Perry also, in some promo, made a tasteful reference to "having the hottest bitch in the locker room."
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12 hours ago, Craig H said:
I do really, really like TFA and think it laid some good groundwork for a new trilogy. I liked TLJ even more because it broke that mold and took the trilogy in newer or more interesting directions even if some parts of the movie were clunky (slowest chase ever, the casino, another chase on creatures over a parking ticket, BDT who was never seen again).
And then along came RoS which even more than TFA is the most unoriginal repeating piece of shit and it ruined everything. Like, you have a total blank slate to end this differently and instead it's the same old shit. That is what killed all trust I could have for JJ Abrams for anything.,
I think I've mentioned this before, but I I had a work trip in March 2020 (day after AEW Revolution 2020, in fact!) right before the pandemic really hit, and I saw RoS on the plane ride out and Joker on the way back. I despised both films and wondered if a plane crash would have been preferable.
I actually enjoyed TFA at the time, and still do if I don't think about its issues too much. It's excellent in a fanservice and ticking all the boxes way. But at some point it hit me that it's just a remake of New Hope, a lot of things don't make sense, and they rendered episodes 3-6 meaningless, which was its worst crime. The Empire is back, the Rebellion is back at step -2, and we have a new Luke. Yaaaay.
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11 hours ago, odessasteps said:
When Beau and I did a history of JCP Starrcades, we spend a good chunk of it on the mistakes of 1987.
Having a better show the night before in Nassau is on the list, esp since we never got to see any of it, including the Horsemen/MX vs faces War Games.
That sounds awesome. Was this on your pod or his, and can you post the pod name and date?
I wrote this up in a longer post in the Peacock thread, but the most striking thing about 1987 - 1991 WCW was how they didn't really build up anyone for the world title storylines outside of Luger and Sting, who were essentially back-pocketed for whenever they needed them. Every other big program challenger was just someone they heated up in three minutes like Cup Noodles.
- 1987: Ron Garvin is just plugged in because nobody else wanted to do it
- 1988: Luger and Flair main event both of the year's PPVs
- 1989: Steamboat pins Flair in a tag match and becomes #1 contender overnight. They trade the belt, leading to "retired" Funk attacking Flair to lead to the next program.
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1990: Sting is injured. With nobody else built up, they plug Luger back in for a bit. Sting wins the belt and
defends against an awesome new heel challenger they'd built since 1989is shoved into the dumb Black Scorpion program. Did they have plans for a hot new challenger to be unmasked here? LOOOOOOOL of course not. - 1991: Flair wins it back. Again, nobody has been built up, so they throw TATSUMI FUJINAMI in there. Flair leaves the company on the eve of ANOTHER Luger main event.
Aside from Sting's handful of months world title reign, I'd argue Sting and Luger were just upper midcarders (charitably! Sting did fuck all between Clash 1 and and Flair/Funk/Muta program). It's amazing to me how none of these contenders, aside from "in case of emergency, break glass" Lex Luger, were even on the radar a month or two before getting title programs. WCW, everybody.
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From 1987 until their closure, with the exception of a brief period when the NWO was the hottest thing in wrestling (but shorter than 83 weeks), WCW could fuck up a wet dream. I could list WCW's fuckups year by year but I gave up on my rewatch around 92. But for 87 alone, I'd say:
- Crockett letting Watts and JR con him into buying the UWF for way too much money when it was like a month out from dying.
- Following that up by doing nothing with the UWF or its talent, with the exception of semi-pushing Sting a year after the purchase.
- Flair's title loss to lame duck midcarder Ron Garvin, and Garvin's subsequent two month "sabbatical to train for Starrcade."
- Putting Starrcade in Chicago to counter claims of being "too Southern," angering their core fanbase.
- Dusty finish for Road Warriors/Horsemen tag match at Starrcade when the Warriors' "hometown" was so ready for a title change. Killed the town.
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TFA completely undoing the Rebellion’s struggle and victory, THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ORIGINAL SERIES, all because that hack JJ Abrams had no other ideas outside of “let’s just remake New Hope,” was the dirt worst. If I was Luke and all my efforts meant nothing in the end, I’d fuck off to some shithole planet myself. I really appreciated Johnson trying to at least do something different, even if aspects of it were flawed. The less said about Rise of Skywalker, the better. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
I appreciate all the heavy lifting retcon work subsequent TV shows have done to explain the post episode 6 New Republic’s inadequacy, their human failings, and the rise of the First Order, thus softening the blow of TFA resetting everything in the grand scheme of things.
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3 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:
The AEW mechanics/hands win/loss records have become the new or current critics fixation. WOR, Post, etc. like to acknowledge that great wrestling matches don’t necessarily equal successful money metrics, but forget that when discussing undercard talents that have great matches but don’t win. "But he NEVER wins, Dave!" I’m an underdog guy and would love to see Beast, AR Fox, Blake Christian, Komander, Roddy or especially Mark Briscoe breakout and get a serious run, but I'm also very okay with what they provide in losing. And how much each’s role is needed. The strength of this undercard roster and what they provide ought to be more appreciated without the constant complaining/questioning. Somebody has to lose, and there aren’t many if any people being pushed that don’t deserve their spot. Further, if the demand for a push truly presents itself, I find it hard to believe TK will be McMahoning anybody’s momentum for some kind of petty shitty control drama. I’d actually bet that if last night’s Beast-Hanger scores a big number as a cold match main event that they’ll consider changing Beast’s course. I doubt there’s many bigger Beast Mortos fans than the man with the pencil. At some point, I have little doubt, Beast will be pushed. And I doubt he’s the only one of this group that will be.
Mid/lower mid card guys going 60/40 with stars and losing has been cemented as AEW’s TV formula. I guess there’s just always going to be a need for content and something to bitch about.
I grew up in the 80s with nothing but name guy vs jobber matches on TV except for SNME & Clashes. The Raw vs Nitro period gave us more competitive matches (but usually with shitty finishes) because both sides were trying to beat the other in the ratings. WWE after the end of WCW was a mixed bag, but mostly shitty because they had no competition. Now we get AEW and their typical TV format, with some matches between same-level guys mixed in. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just different. My point is, everything changes.
2 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:This was the first time I've seen Ibushi. He looked very awkward. I wasn't impressed.
That’s like seeing a famous rock band from the 70s nowadays at the state fair, only one or two original members, they’re all old, and being like, “ I don’t know what all the fuss about them was about.”
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June 2025 Wrestling Talk
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Steiner/Harts was really good, but I think I beat my record for the number of times I said JESUS CHRIST GORILLA SHUT THE FUCK UP in one match.