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They made good use of the VARs during the first two rounds of the prelims, today they did not, at all. Very long interruptions to the game flow and bad decisions all over the place.

As someone who last lived for 9 months in Finland: that was the most Finnish guy ever.

No matter e-sports how big are going to get, I well never be able to take this seriously, and I am playing video games for 30 years since I was 8 years old. And don't know how silly e-sports must look to older generations.

That presentation was really rushed. Was there any live stuff in the auditorium? Not that I want to complain, but it still seems weird.

So Cody (Rhodes) is now a character in a video game?

Somehow Omega looks to be the older of the two.

And by short you mean 15 s.

Maybe they want to be on prime time in Europe, at least for French company Ubisoft this makes sense.

I am currently going through the fifth season of Arrested Development. Some folks in the May thread did not seem to be big fans of this, however, apart from the clip-show first episode, so far (4 episodes in) this is a huge improvement over season 4. Maeby's schemes ingenious and Tobias for once is actually funny instead of annoying. It's also a good thing that Tony Hale is not much in this so far as the they went so far with the Buster character that he seems to be beyond repair.

Klopp did not care, he still celebrated all night:

I am currently catching up a bit on the Netflix TV stuff. The last week or so I was binging through Iron Fist and was surprised that it was hated that much (37 on Metacritic, 18% at RT). Sure it's cheesy (I am not sure if this is 100% the word I am looking for) and there are some huge plotholes (for example why would the DEA believe Danny using Rand to build up a criminal empire when he was with the company for two seconds or why would Joy want to kill Danny), but at least it was never boring, something I cannot say about the second season of Daredevil that bored me to tears.

Young Elrond would only be around for the very end of the Silmarillion. The better material for a TV series might be the second age. First you would get some decent creative freedom without interfering with the core story, second you could either concentrate on the end of the second age and have a steady cast of humans (Amandil, Elendil, Isildur and Anarion) and elves (Elrond, Gil-galad, Galadriel and Cirdan) or go full spectrum and use the elves as center point of the story (maybe do it in an anthology way, first season concentrate on the end of the first age and Elros' reign, second season you could do about Eregion, the creation of the rings and the capture of Sauron and the third season about the fall of Numenor and the last season about the end of the second age).

Sorry to pull this thread up, but apparently Spectre and Meltdown were just the beginning: https://thehackernews.com/2018/05/intel-spectre-vulnerability.html This basically means that for the time being cloud computing in theory should be toast. When I read about this last Thursday my first thought was that I could make some money out of this by shorting shares of the biggest cloud computing providers (Amazon, Microsoft and Google) but then I realized that (a) 99.99% (or more) of investors won't realize what Spectre NG could mean and (b) no companies using said cloud services have an interest in this getting a huge topic as it would also fuck their business.

Sorry, I know nothing about Nickelodeon except that it's a TV channel for children. Apparently there is a German version nowadays, but there was none when I was a kid (disregarding the fact that we did not have a dish (or cable) until I was 14 or so anway).

He was literally slimed? Damn, now the line suddenly becomes really lame.

No love for Mauro using the line "Cole may be slimier than John Cena at the Kids' Choice Awards, but..."? I hope Cena does not watch NXT or otherwise Mauro will be a goner for good.

That was 99% pre-recorded. You can usually make out the stuff they add in studio later on quite easily.

I doubt that hunting camels is legal in Saudi Arabia, the sharia is not high on hunting for sport.

Actually I thought it might be Izzy until the boy said his name.

12:11 AM ET At one point they should realize that 7 h shows are doomed to die are horrible death the last 90 - 120 minutes, even under the best of circumstances. If they really want to have that much at Mania they should start considering splitting the thing into two shows. The way everything is setup now this should work. They will be able to fill the domes both nights, the domes are booked for the whole week anyway, so this should not add (much) cost and with PPV being a neglible thing for them this should also not be a problem. Just do the Hall of Fame on Thursday, Takeover on Friday and Mania on Saturday and Sunday at keep those shows to 4 h (incl. the pre-show).

My summary after the pre-show: Men's Battle Royal: 4 points (I got Matt Hardy as one of the final four and correctly guessed that there are not more than three non-main roster guys in the match; I though Elias would win, had Aiden and Ziggler as additional final four guys and thought Corbin would be gone first) CW Championship: 4 points (I got both extra questions - easy points - but though Ali would win) Women's Battle Royal: 10 points (I had Sasha, Bailey and Naomi correctly as final four women; I though Ruby would be the fourth and win the match; I also had Carmella correctly as first being eliminated and had 6 or more non-main roster women)

I made pizza earlier today with the hope that a full stomach will help get a couple of hours of sleep before Mania. I got three hours of sleep, which should help me staying awake until 6 AM local time.

Not sure if your comment is serious, but Johnny Ace did sign him in 2007 and EC3 was part of the development program until 2013. He even was part of the pre-Florida NXT shows.

What the hell is Steph trying to say here? "Thank you for informing us about Moolah's past. We were not aware of that."? "Thank you for telling us that you think real-life pimpin' ain't eas... cool. We did not think you would feel that way."?

Social media might be the greatest invention for police and intelligence work in the last 50 years.