Robert S

The original Day of the Tentacle had Maniac Mansion as a full game-within-the-game east egg. According to a quick Google search, this is true for the remastered version as well.

Was he ever Japanese in gimmick? He was announced as being from "the Polynesian islands" (which includes Samoa). E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1Pm23-XMI

I also saw it in theatre and was not enamoured with it. I should mention that I have a degree in mathematics, have read scientific texts on general relativity and am pretty interested in astrophysics, so in theory this should have been my movie. But the story part was boring as fuck and not written very well (as mentioned above) and the science part was not much above Star Trek technobabble, much more fantasy than actual science.

Over here, participation usually is a big part of the grade in many subjects (the non-main subjects one, i.e. everything besides maths and languages), or at least it was when I was in school 20-30 years ago. We still had tests in geography, history, chemistry etc., but in the end teachers still gave grades that they deemed to be the right one. Some teachers had an open system, where they basically announced at the end of each lesson they announced who got a positive mark in their book for that hour, others probably made private notices and the more lazy ones probably twice a year went through that thought process you just mentioned. To be honest, even if the system seems arbitrary, I always felt that the grades I (and other students) got were pretty fair. Maybe you could argue for a grade up or down, but going by tests, there is always a decent amount of luck involved as well. But then again, these were the kind of subjects where teachers usually never let students fail (unless they really tried) and the question was, if you got and A, B or C (we have a five degree system over here, i.e. D is barely passed and E is failed - until a couple of years ago an E meant that you had to repeat the whole year, not just the single subject, so teachers usually only let students fail in "important" subjects).

Bixenspan and Zellner talked about it a bit on an episode of Between the Sheets. Basically someone called the arena on the afternoon of a PPV or Nitro (looking at the date, it might have been Great American Bash 98), pretended to be a Hart and said that Stu died. Somehow this call was taken serious. I think they were already starting with rebooking the show when Bret (or whoever) reached someone at home to realize that this was a bad, bad prank call.

A Grizzly Smith episode might make the Von Erich's episode look like a lighthearted comedy. And if the Korea episode does not have people talking about Sasaki and Hokuto, then they are not even trying.

They could give him a DDP spoof gimmick and call him "Positively Lars". As a bonus, they can always change it into a COVID gimmick and change the name to "Lars Positive".

Steve Carell was so awesome in The Big Short, him complete breaking when that CDO manager explained to him synthetic CDOs was one of the most unlikely great scenes I have seen. The film itself is also extremely creative ("we realize that financial talk is boring, so here you have Margot Robbie in a bubble bath doing so"). There were a lot of movies in the last ten years about current or semi-current big political, economical or social affairs or events, some Oscar-bait (e.g. The Post), some a bit more serious (e.g. Spotlight), but this one really stands out in that bunch.

Garak would work perfectly, though is Andrew Robinson still an active actor? IMBD lists him as having done (basically) no acting work in the last 15 years.

So UEFA decided it was a good idea to go ahead with the Champions League qualifier Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Red Bull Salzburg even though, besides the general state of the pandemic in Israel, 7 players of Maccabi tested positive for COVID-19 a day or two before the match (more players tested positive in the days following the match). Nine days after the match, three players from Salzburg tested positive for COVID-19 as well. There are obviously chances that the players got infected in Austria, and if they got infected in Israel, much more likely it happened outside the stadium.

Booger did commentary on a Raw a couple of weeks after this and did house show matches until early August (though not regularly after a European tour in March). Cagematch also lists him doing a couple of jobs on TV (twice to Earthquake and once to Koko).

That was a great miss-call by Striker.

Everytime I see a list like that I am just puzzled why Roberts is the one left standing. I suppose you could use the cockroaches and Keith Richards line and replace Richards with Roberts.

Jericho's tells a funny story about this: Apparently Rourke was not too happy with Jericho trying to build up a confrontation with Rourke in the media before Mania. Rourke brought a big entourage full of tough guys with him thinking we would need that. After they worked out the spot to do, Jericho told Vince "You know, Rourke hired those guys to kick my ass if I tried to double-cross him." and Vince's reaction was: "Are you kidding me? Those guys?!" He laughed. He motioned at Dean Malenko and Fit Finlay, who were talking at ringside. "You, me, Finlay, and Malenko would've beat the shit out of them. I mean look at that one guy. . . . He's a midget!". Jericho got Vince's promise that in case of a riot, Vince would take on the midget. The midget was Frank Shamrock, by the way. The full story: https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/10/17/6994427/wwe-chris-jericho-book-best-in-the-world-story-vince-mcmahon-fought-frank-shamrock-wrestling-news

The only way to have third parties enter parliaments in somewhat significant numbers in those extreme winner-takes-it-all / first-past-the-post voting systems is if you have districts where national minorities build up the majority, like in the UK, where of the 83 non-Tory and non-Labour members (of 650 members in total), 48 are representing the Scottish National Party, 8 DUP (representing the Protestant part for Northern Ireland), 7 Sinn Féin (the political arm of the IRA, to make it simple), 3 Plaid Cymru (apparently a Welsh nationalist party) and 1 another Northern Ireland party.

Fair enough, anything that happened this year might either be reality or a nightmare.

Don't you read the reviews on Segunda Caida done by other people? ? Eric R reviewed a couple of AJPW Battle Royals this year.

I had that same experience. I expected lots of squashes (as this is what I grew up on when I started watching WWF TV in 93) and PTW had almost none of those. What seems strange to 2020 eyes is that sometimes they put in 1-2 year old matches and pretend that they are new (I remember a Desiree Peterson vs. Judy Martin match from mid 1985 that they aired in 87, for example). One of the weirder shows had three straight matches with Sika, Sivi Afi and the Islanders.

12 was the first FF game I got that I did not finish. I tried to play it again a year ago and it did not get better in those 15 (or whatever) years. The gameplay (grinding) is very boring. You just run around with Gambit's active and do barely anything. It gets even worse when you try to chain enemy types to get better loot, as then you run in small circles. The story is all over the place. I could barely tell you what is going on and who of main party is there for what reasons. I am sure that the game tries to tell you, but I could not have been bothered to remember. On the positive side you could probably say that it looked nice. 13 was a fine but not exceptional game. I finished it once and don't feel to revisit it. I played 13-2 a bit and thought that it had quite some good, innovative, ideas and at the same time played much more like a traditional RPG (trying a bit to be like Chrono Trigger).

100 $ difference just for a Blu-ray drive?

Did they announce a date? I did not see anything besides the "console exclusive (*) ... (*) also available on PC" note.

Wasn't the story behind the double change between the Quebecers and Men on a Mission on the UK tour in 94 that Mabel fell on Pierre and Pierre could not kick out legitimately, or is that just an urban legend from the usenet days?

This got even into the headlines over here. The headline only said "Onset of Winter in Colorado" and I was puzzled why they considered this as headline worthy until I read the text and saw the predicted drop of 100° F (37° C) to 34° F (1° C) within a day, which to me seems crazy.

Didn't have the Great Antonio some serious mental health issues? I have seen clips of that "match" in the past and find it pretty disturbing, especially considering the issues the Great Antonio apparently had.

Cagematch has him work a Spectrum show in 1974, losing to Johnny Valiant in 6 minutes and participating in a battle royal.