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3 hours ago, hammerva said:
Unless Kingston and Jericho come to the ring in a raft and there are explosions in the water, don't tease us smart marks like that. Onita would never do that
FMW really was the best to ever do it.
Just watched a fun Onita/Pogo exploding deathmatch from outside and it looked like it was in an amusement park.
That Kingston/Jericho shark week ad is the best promotional material AEW has created to date. Easy.
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Are they going to do hella angles to fill up time for the rope to barbed wire switch before the main event?
I could see Yuta showing no remorse for Chuck, though I do look forward to Taylor trying to go Leatherface on Moxley and the first exchanges between Yuta and Trent.
OR... Does Chuck go big dog style?:
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3 hours ago, Tarheel Moneghetti said:
?? Stray”s been out for less than 24 hours and you already spent 5 hours with it?
I am a teacher and have the summer off. I spent the afternoon and evening playing the game.
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Stray is GOATed. I love that cat so dang much and same with B-12. It's more an experience than a challenge. The mechanics of controlling the cat and the verticality are excellent. The cat, robits, and world have so much character and charm yet they avoid creeping into overwrought sentimentality thankfully, something most media fails to do.
Maybe I'm meticulous, maybe I'm just slow, but it took me well over five hours. I don't know how you'd pull off the 2 hour speed run. Maybe one day but it's not a game I want to jump back into right away. Regardless, even if I never play it again (which I don't think will happen), I would've got my money's worth even if it were a full priced game. Love it to bits.
A couple of issues, one of which isn't as bad as I thought:
1) The fixation on cyberpunk = dystopian future + technology + Orientalism has gotta stop. Lots of articles written up on the subject and this game is guilty of it big time.
2) For a game that has clear, in-the-open anti-capitalist sentiments, I did laugh when I saw it was published by a company headed by Megan Ellison, daughter of 10th richest person on the planet and who practically owns one of Hawaii's islands. I originally thought it was developed by Ellison's studio, but they only published it.
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Pre-ordered Stray for my ultra PC. Can't wait.
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1 minute ago, AxB said:
Let Tony Schiavone do it. He’s very good at conveying excitement through short sentences that start with the word “It’s”.
Would Tony Schiavone spontaneously combust if he couldn't use "buddy" while commentating? Feel like he's coasting a little bit too much the last few months but he's still pleasant to have around.
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AEW Dark taping spoiler:
SpoilerBaby Brock aka Parker Boudreaux debuted alongside Ariya Daivari and the most important of them all... DA GOD OF THIS SHIT, SLIM J!
Tony no longer in his flop era.
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A timely article on AEW's roster size looking at both the strengths and weaknesses.
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56 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
voices of reason who blame Kingston for the shit stirring
Finally get to the end game of this angle?
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Just now, zendragon said:
This could work possibly. Stu, Alan Angels, Jelly Nuttella..
Feel like MJF should associate himself with winners and not those guys, but it's a neat idea in theory.
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Larry Z gets slept on too often. Zbyszko vs. Masa Saito in the Tokyo Dome from 1990 for the AWA title is one of the outta nowhere great matches. Had no expectations and they had the crowd eating that shit up by the end. Smart wrestler. I'm excited to watch his Dangerous Alliance run.
He had some great TV title matches with Regal in '94 I want to say, too, right? I remember watching them after somebody here posted them and put them over strong, rightfully so.
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2 hours ago, zendragon said:
Or as he would call it "The Dark Odor" He was a clever man that Larry
What do you mean by "was"? Buy Morphoplex now!
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One of the rare Dynamites where everything either met or exceeded the hype. It's usually the sneaky episodes that rock lately but this was a big one and it delivered. Great stuff and that Mox/Takeshita match smoked the Kingston match from last week. Fantastic stuff and I think I liked it damn near as much as I did the tag. Wardlow doing the cartwheel was mindboggling. He had a few moments where he looked a little awkward bumping because of the size disparity but that was really fun. Bless Chuck for cheating with a chainsaw.
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James Darnell, aka cmpuls3, putting all that Deadlock Patreon money to good use I see. I should check out the Yamashita/Takase match from last month.
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12 minutes ago, DEAN said:
Tay Conti versus Stephanie Vaquer in Ice Ribbon would be weird and great.
But could they do it in Chocopro Square on a Wednesday morning?
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Moxley/Takeshita and Wardlow/Orange two juicy matches. They've been rehabbing Cassidy lately so I'm surprised he's being thrown to the wardog without any build, but I guess that's the nature of most TNT tv bouts.
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34 minutes ago, JLowe said:
It does seem like the only way to bring him back is by having Tony Khan as an on-screen character feuding with MJF and I really really really really really really don’t want that.
What? Why?!
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I was wondering what the end goal is here. Logically, MJF will probably come through the crowd and jump somebody or steal a mic or something. But then what? How do you reintegrate him back into the fold in a way that makes sense, doesn't abandon his complaints, and would make sense from the fans' perceptions of Khan's point of view? I would hope that they'd have that stuff planned out in advance, but it's definitely a tough one. His main targets in the shoot were Tony Khan being a mark and not paying him and the influx of former WWE wrestlers. Does he target them? Why would Tony Khan the character pay him more money?
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16 minutes ago, For Great Justice said:
So they’ve pretty well botched this MJF thing, right? Instead of the desired reaction of “will this be the week he shows up? What’s he going to do next?” It’s “welp, don’t really miss that guy”
He has the talent to get his heat back as soon as he returns, whenever that is, but there’s just zero anticipation. He’s forgotten.
Isn't this the mentality that led to Punk returning a week after leaving with the title at MitB? The whole point of the worked shoot is that they are making it seem like he's gone gone so it'll be a big shock when he returns. If they were building him up in any official way, would that not defeat the whole purpose of him being seemingly let go?
There's no perfect way of doing this stuff and the risks are almost always higher than the rewards but I'd rather them show restraint and patience than to rush it or build it up in a way that doesn't make sense.
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Other than being handsome, nothing about Kaito's presence screams ace or star to me. He comes off like a nerd. Japanese promotions are down bad right now. Best guy outside of NJPW is a JTTS in AEW for the time being.
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They gotta get these prospects away from Matt Sydal. Dude is one of the worst promos ever to make it onto national TV. Stop it, please! Man peaked when he broke through the door to find his girlfriend with Syxx in WSX. Syxx left Sydal laying lmao.
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4 hours ago, Matt D said:
Worst AEW Kingston match I've ever seen. I thought it was terrible.
Sometimes I feel like you can overstate your opinion to make a point and while I don't hate quite this much, this wasn't good and a huge disappointment. I think it's safe to say that when Kingston gets to work a Japanese opponent, his pew-roh-ree-sue fandom comes out way too much and it's hideous to watch. I'm fine with the odd delayed selling but none of it was earned, none of it was even really sold that well, and it didn't make sense. It was the wrong idea to fit that much stuff into such a short match. Like others have suggested, with more time to breathe, it would help a lot but I still don't like Kingston's "Japanese" tendencies. Felt even more disappointed by the Ishii match tbh.
Maybe I don't want to see Kingston vs. Akiyama after all.
Edit: Kaun and Toa are wonderful.
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11 minutes ago, Matt D said:
I half wonder if it was meant to be Sterling putting the foot on the rope but he just landed too far away.
OC's used it as a falsie throughout his AEW run, just not in every match thankfully.
ROH Death Before Dishonor 2022 - 23 July 2022
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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God damn. AEW will make a lot of money over the next 15+ years with Garcia and HOOK. Yuta is very good and still improving but he doesn't have That Presence that Garcia and HOOK have. Maybe one day but not yet. That was a great hard sell.