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    JULY 2016 WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    10 hours ago, SorceressKnight said:

    To the fans, on the other hand? He was never "Antonio Cesaro", all of these things were jokes (to the fact the crowd actually bought into doing the "WE THE PEOPLE!" claim done by the guys who were sold as racist assholes who hate everyone who wasn't a straight white male)- all of that was nothing. To them, he was Claudio Castagnoli, the same guy he was in ROH or CHIKARA all along, and he needed to be treated as EXACTLY as big a deal as Claudio Castagnoli was in ROH or CHIKARA, no matter that either promotion are far smaller than WWE- and if he wasn't instantly as huge a deal as he was there it's was BERRIEDED and proof WWE hates them (even if they changed the story to make Daniel Bryan win at Mania 30...what've you done for us LATELY? We want Cesaro now!)

    I think, in your irrational hatred for indy fans and your overzealous rush to demonize them as wrestling hipsters at every opportunity, you overestimate the size of that fanbase vs the size of the part of WWE's fanbase that only follow WWE.  I guarantee the majority of people watching WWE had no idea who Claudio Castagnoli was when he was brought up.

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    SON OF A~!

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

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    9 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

    Hey guys, did you know that most black people are killed by other black people?  Well that's what some dopes like to bring up in these discussions but my counter to that is ALL races are more likely to be killed by someone of their own race. No fucking shit. People are going to kill people who live closest to them. Whites mostly kill other whites.

    Such a dumb argument.

    That argument right there with "but...but...something something Chicago!" on the Dogwhistle Racist Bingo Card.

    24 minutes ago, Ryan said:

    Why use math when you can just make up figure on live TV and not be question on them and then lecture an entire race on how to raise their children before you go off and cheat on your 94th wife on a pile of rubble you probably bought on eBay.

    I was scanning around talk radio yesterday (because I'm an idiot) and hear this kind of thing and it just drove me nuts.  Is there anything as tone deaf and clueless beyond the pale as older, well-off white guys telling all black people how they should feel and act? 

    WWE BRAND SPLIT 2.0

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Wait wait what?  I haven't watched Raw yet, just read a recap.  So Stephanie and Shane will be COO's of their respective shows and then each will name a figurehead commissioner, too?  Holy fuck.  So the only thing better than an authority figure is FOUR authority figures?  Well I guess the trend of FFWDing through their shows and watching two segments will continue unabated.

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    SON OF A~!

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

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    What the "All LIves Matter" morons don't get (or simply refuse to acknowledge) is that the "too" is implied.  Holy shit, it's not hard to understand.  When I say, "I really like Five Guys hamburgers," nobody pipes up and yells, "fuck you what about BGR?  All burgers are delicious!" 

    It's sad that we have to be reminded that black lives matter too, but a normal, law-abiding dude just got gunned down in his car by a scared-ass cop for nothing and nobody seems to really give a shit outside of the requisite two-day period of virtue signaling, so here we are.

     

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    July 2016 ANIMATED GIF THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Rev Ray said:

    oh wow, Rude and Bull were sort of doing the Problem Solver/Snap Shot?

    Seriously, I've never seen that.  I remember Rude finishing guys with the DDT back then (the original "Rude Awakening") but I can't recall ever seeing this double team.  Awesome.

    Has there ever been another team where both guys have such amazing, sweet mustaches?  Instead of "R n R," they should have been called "The Flavor Savers."

    Wrestling moves that pretty much no longer exist

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    13 hours ago, Go2Sleep said:

    Yeah, I wouldn't wanna see that spot all the time or anything, but it would be cool if someone like Miz pulled it out on occasion. It's an easy way to get the crowd involved in an otherwise forgettable match, just like the good old 10-count punch in the corner.

    Exactly.  It's a good tool to have in the drawer as long as you don't overdo it, just like anything else in wrestling. You don't cheat in front of the ref's face 6 times in a match (I just saw that in a PWG match and it really killed it for me) but you can sneak in some chicanery behind his back occasionally.  That's what a heel is supposed to do.

    It's funny that Vince doesn't want the refs "depowered" but seemingly doesn't give two shits about Big Steph cutting every wrestler's dick off in every interaction.

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    MR. ROBOT

    in MOVIES & TV

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    15 hours ago, J.T. said:

    Eh, the entire premise of the show is that we experience everything through Eliot and he is an unreliable narrator.  There is no surprise that the thing with Shayla feels like it comes out of left field given that everything is filtered through Eliot's emotional wall. 

    I can't LOL hard enough at this.  So we can handwave every lame shortcut, narrative mistake and piece of bad storytelling this show makes by chalking it up to "unreliable narrator?"  Come on man.  This is turning into an "emperor's new clothes" thing.

    The Shayla relationship was so hamfisted and clumsily executed that I bet it was another thing stapled onto the show with the deftness of a kindergartner once they decided to stretch it into a series.

    Keep in mind I like the show, I just don't think it's beyond reproach and there's more wrong with it that doesn't include your issue with gay/pregnant sex acts.  I can forgive an inexperienced showrunner trying too hard to be transgressive more than I can forgive narrative dishonesty and other such bullshit.

    MR. ROBOT

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    Counterpoint: Vera was much more interesting than Shayla, who was a one-dimensional wish fulfillment character with no existence outside her utility to Elliott.

    RED DEAD REDEMPTION is backwards compatible

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    So what's the consensus on where Undead Nightmare falls in the storyline?  Some say it happens between the "Marsden is home with his family" segment of the main story and the mission where he dies.  But that can't be correct because I remember that Uncle dies in both stories in different ways.  There's something similar with Nastas as well, right?

    I was always of the opinion that it's all a dream, hence the "nightmare" in the name.

    Apologizes for posting spoilers for a 5+ year old game.

    MR. ROBOT

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted

    On 7/9/2016 at 11:48 PM, EVA said:

    Basically everyting with Shayla and Vera could've been cut from the show, and it wouldn't have made a difference in the endgame.

    This.  Eliott being broken up over Shayla's death felt so unearned.  They didn't do much at all to establish that kind of closeness before she got fridged.  I mean trunked.

    Great point about the padding in the series.  Things like the Angela and her boyfriend subplot dragged forever for very little payoff.  There was zero payoff at all to the bit with his psychologist's boyfriend.  Or to the whole psychologist subplot, really.  And I guarantee you that in the original version, the Dark Army didn't back out of the hack, because that whole thing added like two episodes' worth of content.

    I'm right there with you.  I thought it was decent but not amazing.  I'll watch season two hoping for better.  But if season two is just act two of the original screenplay stretched out to build 12 TV episodes, fuuuuuuck.

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    BOLA 2016

    in FEDS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK

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    22 hours ago, hammerva said:

     

    By the way, anyone who looks at Drew Galloway since his release and thinks "boring WWE castoff" just isn't paying attention

    I've seen some of his Evolve stuff and all his PWG matches and he bores the shit out of me.  All power spots, and not because he's impressive looking, but because he just happens to be bigger than indy guys.  It's lame and stands out like a sore thumb.  Oh look everybody, "The Chosen One" is going to throw some small dudes around for 15 minutes, then win or slip on a banana peel.  No thanks.

    Wrestling moves that pretty much no longer exist

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    On 7/9/2016 at 2:54 PM, Go2Sleep said:

    Does anyone use the ropes for leverage in submissions anymore (even if it doesn't make sense most of the time)? That was a great old-school heat spot where the heel would would have his hands/feet on the ropes while the ref was checking the babyface, then let go as soon as the ref went around to look. The ropes would still be shaking, but the heel vehemently denied it and the ref had no proof so he would sternly warn the heel, who would of course do it again as soon as the ref couldn't see. Then it got it a pop when the ref would catch him and kick the heel to break the hold.

    You don't see stuff like this in WWE anymore due to Vince's edict that the ref shouldn't be made to look foolish.  Which is dumb because "blind ref" is a fucking staple of pro wrestling.  Can it be abused to the point of absurdity?  Of course but so can anything else.

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    SON OF A~!

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

    Former Congressmen.

     

    Yeah, this shooting isn't helping things.  All it's going to do is bolster the "blue lives matter" numbskulls and embolden cops' martyr complexes and their "us against the world, shoot them before they can shoot us" mentality.

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