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9 hours ago, El Dragon said:
thanks i hate it
I usually don't mind a little arcade style wrestling but that was just too fucking much. As soon as Hiromu ducked a kick he could not have conceivably known was coming, I was done.
Like, fuck, I can understand "don't hate Ospreay based on a gif." But it's getting harder not to.
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On 12/4/2018 at 5:37 PM, Raziel said:
They're not wrong. Modern TV's are default to on at 60 FPS, meanwhile movies are filmed at 24 FPS, and the TV's codec has to make up the difference, which totally screws with the way it's presented.
Cruise just doesn't want you watching his weird plastic surgery face at a higher framerate
I got used to "motion smoothing" and now love it. I said it.
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3 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
I would really love to know what happened with the Bálor Club on RAW. For like a month, they were a thing. A couple more weeks they were kinda loosely associated. Then suddenly Bàlor is getting screwed by The Miztourage with no sign of his Good Brothers. Then they send them to Smackdown.
For the first couple weeks, it looked like Bàlor was turning heel with them, then they suddenly dropped that part before giving up on it. Just very strange. At least I got an OG BC t-shirt out of the deal.
Any time you wonder why this storyline got dropped with no explanation or that booking got changed on the fly, just remember Vince has the attention span of a goldfish on coke and the indecisiveness of my 3 year old.
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At the risk of turning this thread vaguely political...a Middle Eastern coworker just said to me, "if there are so many Muslims hiding in that immigrant caravan so they can sneak into America, how come the whole thing isn't stopping five times a day???"
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How have I only heard, today, "your mama so fat, Thanos had to snap twice"
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On 10/29/2018 at 5:47 PM, Curt McGirt said:
*raises hand* You're welcome!
His face gets me every time. This is the look you are going to get right before you lose teeth/some blood/your life. Service with a smile...
Hey, speaking of shows about "fixers", I see that Ray Donovan's on again and I can watch it (and kind of need something to replace Shameless during its break). I haven't seen it in a season or two so have I missed anything really significant? Is it worth starting back with again?
You missed a lot if you missed last season -- one major character is gone and the show is now in New York -- and this season started off really well! Can you catch up on demand or something or do you need the Cliff's Notes version?
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20 hours ago, Pete said:
Good to see even Human/Dragon hybrids follow OSHA regulations
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20 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Bold strategy to go with the "We have to go because we need the money" sympathy card
Well if it's good enough for their buddy Trump, who said cutting ties would cost us like 400+ billion and millions of jobs. Bunch of bullshit. The fucking unmitigated balls of these people. "We know it's absolutely unethical, but think about the money." Two peas in a fucking gold-plated pod, these two white trash millionaires. They'd be making gas for concentration camps during WWII and counting the dollars if they were alive then.
My decision to stop supporting WWE when I saw that pic of the McMahon and Trump in the oval office, grinning ear to ear like a bunch of dumb rubes who finally made it to the big city, is constantly proven to be a pretty fucking good one.
QuoteSimilar to other U.S.-based companies who plan to continue operations in Saudi Arabia,
Oh fuck you.
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13 hours ago, odessasteps said:
Thanks for that! All I could think of was Sheriff David Clarke, but I'd rather Leatherface/Jason/Michael win that fight.
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John Marsten in the new trailer definitely sounds like Rob Weithoff, so I guess he came out of retirement for this. Which is awesome. The guy has a cool story. Midwest dude who went to LA for a while, did a handful of small acting gigs, then took job with "untitled video game project." Then he figured that was enough Hollywood and went back to being a regular family guy in Indiana. There's a good short doc about him here:
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YOUR HONOR WE ARE REQUESTING FULL RESTITUTION AND FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT TO MEET IN A YAPAPI STRAP MATCH BROTHER
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18 hours ago, Raziel said:
You couldn't do it the whole movie, just for the opening. Like, Counsulars decide to make a video on their phones getting it on while little Jason drowns, and ends with them keeping the video running as they realize the kid just dies for that backstory. Or yeah, using "found footage" style for any of the kills would work. But yeah, can't do a found footage slasher flick. Hell, I'd argue that a found footage movie period doesn't work, as I haven't liked a one I've seen so far.
While uneven, I enjoyed V/H/S 1 & 2. The third one was mostly shit, though.
1 hour ago, J.T. said:Well, if Prometheus is right and the Engineers created the Xenomorphs to clear planets of all organic life so that the Engineers could come behind and terraform / populate those worlds. then they kinda are more important than the Xenomorphs.
Sure, but i needed to know the origin of the xenomorphs as much as I needed the know the origin of Darth Vader or the Joker.
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1 hour ago, supremebve said:
I have so many questions about anyone who roots for Walter White and/or Stringer Bell. I love both shows, but those two characters are as reprehensible as human beings get. I can't think of a single redeeming quality either of them have by the end. They are pretty much what happens when a person puts their own selfish interests before everything else in life in a way that does irreparable harm to everyone around them.
I never watched The Wire but in Breaking Bad's case, I chalk it up to people who watch a show and immediately think "main character = protagonist, who I am supposed to root for and identify with, always!" They just didn't get it. So, for example, instead of seeing "I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS" as the pathetic cry of a man desperately trying to act like he's in control when he's obviously not, they saw White as this absolute badass and Skylar as a horrible harpy out to ruin his fun. It's amazing.
Christ, dudes. It wasn't even Walter who "knocked." He wasn't "THE DANGER." Jesse killed Gale. The show went out of its way to underline Walter's bullshit and contrast what he said with reality, but some people still didn't get it. You're supposed to see right through his bluster and it's crazy how many people didn't.
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Part of me wants to say that NXT callups are still getting ruined. But then I realize that everybody, except for a select handful, is pushed to the middle, on a treadmill to nowhere.
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On 10/18/2018 at 5:33 PM, supremebve said:
Dude, are you Michael Scott? Michael Scott is funny because he doesn't understand why it's not OK to be Michael Scott. The reason that it works is because the entire rest of the cast acknowledges that nothing he is doing is OK. The only reason any of his shit is funny is because he has no idea that what he is doing isn't funny, but everyone else is hyper-aware that it's not funny. That is the joke that his entire character is based on. If the rest of the office was laughing with him the show wouldn't work, the reason it works is because everyone else on the show recognizes how offensive his behavior his. The only reason it is funny is that we all recognize that it's not funny. If the show asked us to laugh with Michael Scott, and not at Michael Scott, the show wouldn't work. It is why the dinner party episode is so brilliant. We spent the entire run of the show laughing at this dude, and then we see a glimpse into his home life. We see that he treats people the way people treat him. He see that he actually doesn't know any better.
This is the same with Larry David's character on Curb, so it's funny that @Edwin mentioned this show specifically as an example of comedians being allowed to not be "PC." He's not some hero; everything is does is wrong and awkward and he IS the joke. We're meant to laugh at him, not with him. The one time his behavior is perceived by other characters as a positive to be used to their advantage ("The Social Assassin"), it backfires. People who think Larry is some hero and his boorish behavior is "comedians being allowed to be comedians" are the same type of simple minded viewers who didn't understand that we were supposed to stop rooting for Walter White somewhere along the line.
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On 10/19/2018 at 9:17 AM, AxB said:
Patrick Lennon (the guy who had the Pro-Wrestling column in the Daily Star for like 12 years) said that when Angle left/ was fired from WWE he (Lennon) phoned Angle up to try and do a five minute interview, just to see how he was taking it. And Angle went off a furious angry rant... for about six hours. Which Lennon wouldn't have minded, but he said if he'd have put anything Angle said in those six hours in his column and printed it, neither one of them would have ever worked in Wrestling again. So I think there was a legit concern that Angle was not only breaking down physically at that time, but mentally/ emotionally/ psychically as well.
I remember hearing Angle doing a local radio interview very shortly after he left WWE and he sounded like he was definitely on something. I remember calling a friend of mine to tell him to turn on the radio, telling him, "this guy is super fucked up right now."
On 10/19/2018 at 11:52 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:Brent Albright was awesome. Albright getting heat for being a "Benoit clone" when he was brought in as Benoit's protégé is a typical WWE move where there is no logical explanation, so you just shrug your shoulders like Yano and say "because WWE?". Gunner Scott was also a piss poor ring name. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Brent Albright.
I was about to post "Gunner Scott" sounds like something from the Country Musician Name Generator. Then I Iooked it up and remembered that's the name of a character on the show Nashville.
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1 hour ago, The Natural said:
The gloves Ronda Rousey wears.
That would have been my second guess, behind "Roddy Piper branded bondage gear."
Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the safeword.
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9 hours ago, odessasteps said:
In hindsight, it seems people preferred Airwolf over Blue Thunder in the battle of super helicopter shows.
I was team Blue Thunder, since I was more familiar with it from watching the original movie on SuperTV. Why I was allowed to watch stuff like that, Carpenter's The Thing, etc on bobo Baltimore cable at like 10 years old is another issue.
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3 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
Yes, but i don't think they are getting nearly as much money from them as they are the KSA. Certainly not from any one or two alone. We still don't know the exact parameters of the deal, and might never, but it looks like bare minimum its $400 million over the decade.
Yeah, that was the point Meltzer made. How much is WWE going to get from, say, Checkers over 10 years vs the amount he's making on the Saudi deal? It's not even close.
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15 minutes ago, AxB said:
Also, if you can get them pregnant, why would it only happen once? Aren't most female replicants used as sexbots? Or was Sean Young especially designed to be the replicant Virgin Mary? I bet that was actually addressed in 2049 and I missed it because I was distracted by wondering why a blind person would have such interesting lighting designs in his office.
Exactly. It was hand waved in the film and was pretty ridiculous. If you didn't just accept the fact that a human fucked a robot and the robot got pregnant, and buy into that whole-heartedly, it made the movie a joke. They also never justified WHY the entire fate of the world depended on killing or saving this robot baby. It was a plodding film that relied on a ridiculous central conceit and never explained the stakes. But hey, it sure looked pretty.
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1 hour ago, Swiftian said:
Probably not a common feeling in the IWC, but I actually feel bad for WWE here. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Setting aside morals for a second here, most businesses would bite off the hand offering them millions of dollars to do what they already do but on a bigger scale. They would've been idiots to turn that deal down from a business standpoint. Likewise, they wouldn't be smart to renege on the deal now and potentially get sued for breach of contract. They have shareholders to answer to who would prefer not to lose their investments.
On the other hand, it would be bad PR to fly over there now and put on a show for a murderous regime when "the world is watching!" Not that the wider world is concerned about a wrestling company, but while other western companies and governments are doing deals with Saudi Arabia behind closed doors, WWE is doing theirs in full public view with pyrotechnics.
I'm actually really interesting to see how they handle this on Raw and Smackdown. I'd imagine they'll still build towards the matches but downplay the location of those matches. If the show does go ahead, I can imagine it being quite downbeat.
You'd have a point if nobody knew how awful the Saudi government was until they lured a journalist to their consulate and chopped him to bits, but that's just not the case. This country's record was well-documented long before WWE signed on with them.
"They would've been idiots to turn that deal down from a business standpoint." I disagree. Even setting morals aside, they should have anticipated a horrible regime doing a horrible thing and thought about how it would make them look, what the potential blowback on their business would be. Even your most cynical MBA would warn your company away from immoral shit because it can hit you in the wallet. Either they were greedy or just too dumb to have foresight into something that should have been obvious. Neither is very good and nobody should feel bad for them for either their greed or their stupidity.
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All that, plus a human had a baby with a robot. I guess you'd enjoy it if you can look past that key conceit, which I couldn't.
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21 hours ago, SorceressKnight said:
Hasn't it been found in demographic studies that in the modern era, pro wrestling fans are actually one of the most liberal fanbases out there?
That's probably why WWE is faltering right now. Vince's right-wing belief system really bleeds through into the storylines and booking, and what Vince believes is not what his fanbase believes. For example, the right wing has a real hardon for the laughable myth of American exceptionalism/individualism and it informs the booking of every babyface Vince has. Shit, the Shield JUST got back together and they're already teasing a breakup. Only heels have each other's backs. Babyfaces are all "self made" and act alone. A more liberal fanbase is not going to be down with this cynical bullshit over and over.
Here's a really good post I read a while back that contrasts New Japan's stable system with WWE's "everybody is out to get you so fuck them first" style.
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Well I already stopped watching Fear the Walking Dead after they did a rip n' replace of the whole cast and swapped out interesting plots for slow, ponderous bullshit. OG TWD might be next. This is how you start a season? Talky, dull, everyone is pissy at each other. I can already get that at my job. I don't need it in my entertainment, too.
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LOL @ a hunting channel called "pursuit." I guess "sit on your fat ass in a tree stand waiting for the dumbest deer to stroll by," while more accurate, probably didn't test well and is too long for a program guide.