Robert S

Did you do an update in the last couple of days? Because switching between pages (without opening a new tab) is now working again for me.

There was also the angle where Hayabusa started to wrestle without a mask and using the name H while Gannosuke wrestled as Hayabusa (while being very obvious that it was Gannosuke under the mask).

Tim Wiese, German keeper who played six games for Germany, also was shortly under WWE contract. Though he only had one match in the end. In general, I would think that wrestling is not a very attractive option for (association) football players. For one, a typical career lasts much longer than a (gridiron) football career does. And I would think that there are much more options to play professionally than there are in (gridiron) football. (Association) football has something like 125.000 professional players worldwide. I would be shocked if the number is higher than 10.000 or 20.000 for (gridiron) football. This also means that there are probably more options for coaching positions in (association) football. The other thing is that athletically, (gridiron) football is much closer to pro wrestling than (association) football is.

FIFA (or EA Sports FC) is even bigger than NFL or Star Wars for EA, I think.

That year's edition was a double-round robin. One of the Kobashi/Patriot matches actually aired in full. Hansen & Omori aired twice in finish-only form. The rest did not air at all - at least they are not available in the "archive".

I just saw that Sabu teamed with Gary Albright in the 96 RWTL, that's certainly a ... team. AJPW sometimes gave you WAR-esque teams at the RWTL.

Not sure if an Austin Powers joke (even if it is a great one) could carry a whole movie.

They switched to WWFE (Inc.) when they went public in 99 (replacing Titan Sports Inc.) until the name change in 02.

That presentation sure had a lot of "Nintendo doing Nintendo" things like almost bookending the presentation with mascot racers. But my favorite has to be that camera. For one, has no one learned the lessons of the hundreds of camera-like accessories in the past? Also why does a camera have to be this big in the year 2025? So that they can put a bigger prize point on that? I really would like to know how that meeting where somebody pitched that camera went.

Please don't tell me that Josh Barnett is a bad dude as well. The worst thing I can think of are his PED issues.

I recently read The Mercy of Gods, the first part of a trilogy by the authors of The Expanse. I really liked the character-focused parts of the story. For example, it depicts a character suffering from depression really well (I am currently myself fighting with depression and could really identify with that character). I am not really sold on the built world and the greater story arch and the book was also really slow in that regards but as it focused more on the personal issues of the characters and did that really well, I did not mind that much. And I know that OSJ hated his writing, but I am reading some Brandon Sanderson stuff right now (Oathbringer, to be precise). I get the main criticism John had for Sanderson (that if you look close enough, you can see the seams of how he builds his worlds and stories) and I guess he was right, but I don't really mind. I mean if I read The Lord of the Rings, I could point out issues in the construction if I wanted to, but I am not reading stuff to criticize it, but to simply enjoy it (John was an editor, IIRC, so he had a different approach to reading, I suppose). Yes, you slightly need to switch off your brain selectively, I guess, but not on a "this writing insults my intelligence" level. In parallel, I am reading some textbooks on astrophysics and cosmology. I have got a background in mathematics (master's degree) and have learned some slightly advanced physics (special relativity and quantum mechanics; I've also read some introductory textbook on general relativity, so I have some basic understanding there, quantum field theory however just eludes me, I tried more than once to get into that subject and no bueno) over the last decade and can follow the basics at least quite well. It's quite shocking actually, how much you can learn about cosmology without a super-duper deep background (if you take a thing or two for granted, mostly reg. general relativity, which the books usually skip and just give the results).

Does Nintendo do any production or at least assembly in Redmond? From what I gather, production of the Switch 1 is mainly done in China and Vietnam. Depending on how the tariff stuff evolves, I am sure Nintendo (as basically anyone) will look into getting around tarrifs by doing local assembly or whatever, but this is nothing that will happen overnight (and with the daily policy shifts, I would assume most companies so far don't go much beyond checking feasibility). I guess India would be a good example to compare to as in recent years (I am not up-to-date as this is not really my daily business) they have been very aggressive re. tariffs that even small-ish companies like the one I am working for have started to look into sourcing and assembling the devices that we sell directly in India (not sure what the outcome was).

That's what Goodman would have looked like if he played the Dude in The Big Lebowski.

The first time I read that name I misread it as "Zamboni Express" and thought it was a Canadian gimmick.

I don't want to sound too grim, but two senior citizens (if you consider 63 senior) found dead? I would assume in 9 of 10 cases that's some form or double suicide or murder-suicide.