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  1. 16 hours ago, John E. Dynamite said:

    the older i get, the more i think about gear. not in terms of if it looks good, but if it fits the character

    and i'm thinking, based on that criteria, that Yoshinari Ogawa might wear one of my ten favorite paunts

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_grass_mouse

    Hmm... the stripes on that mouse are vertical so it looks more like wrestling superstar Virgil. Rat boy's pants look more like a zebra.

  2. 4 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Damn, you beat me to it by seconds. Here's what I was writing:

    Also, they steal away Morishima and let's say... Go? Maybe just Morishima as their Adjucated Token Japanese Wrestler. Or if Vince says "HE'S FAT!" then Go.

    Morishima had a tryout with WWE in 2008. From what I can remember - or at least what I read between the lines - especially Hayes was very negative on him because Morishima was sold to the WWE office as Terry Gordy-like and Hayes saw it as an insult that people compared that fat Japanese guy to his "brother".

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  3. 18 hours ago, Octopus said:

    I think Ricochet in AEW could be a lot like Claudio. A great athlete and well respected worker who was looked at as uncharismatic and then in AEW finding a personality that fits them as they wrestle. 
    Oh, and THE FLOOR IS OPEN FOR QUESTIONS

    Serious question: is Claudio doing any better now than he did in WWE? To me it seems that he is about on the same level of push and overness as he was in WWE.

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  4. 43 minutes ago, Cliff Hanger said:

    With Melanie finally signing a legends deal a couple months back I'd say it's guaranteed. Not next year, but he'd have to be close to the top of the posthumous list

    Melanie died two years ago, it was a daughter of Brian that did sign the deal.

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  5. I finished Pentiment today. While that game definitely is not for everyone, it was undoubtedly for me. One thing that helped was that that game basically takes place where I am from. The town Tassing itself is fictitious, but the game puts it in Upper Bavaria, closest market being Mittenwald and lying along the Via Claudia Augusta (the last two things are a bit contradictory as Mittenwald lies about 30 km east of where the Via Claudia Augusta went), which puts it maybe 100 miles away from my hometown. Also my homeregion used to be very rural until maybe 150 years ago and even in the generation of my grandparents basically everybody had some farmland they tended to, even if it only was some potatoes, beans and goats. Ergo even if the game takes place 500 years ago, there is a lot of things I can directly reference. It's really wild that a game like this was made by a major US studio, basically because Josh Sawyer majored in history with his interest being 16th century "Germany" (Holy Roman Empire, I guess).

    There is a lot of things the game does right like the art-style and characters that feel real so even if there are dozens of them, they are easily distinguishable. The writing and the storytelling is great, putting constant moral problems for you to deal with, makes every part of the game feel important. The resolution of the mystery feels right as well, which is not always the easiest thing to do in stories like this. I shed quite some tears in the final act, especially

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    at the death of Claus as his end reminded me of the death of my father a couple of months ago. He was also bedridden, eating less and less and slowly drifting and dying at home (though he did not pass during a conversation, he was not able to speak for his last day or two).

    If there is one thing to criticize it would be the navigation. Especially in the first act, you spend a lot of time running between Tassing and the abbey, running through the same 10 screens over and over again. A fast-travel system would have helped.

    Anyway, if you like point and click games and/or are interested in the early modern era, a game that contains a multi page bibliography for historical sources in the credits sounds appealing to you, don't miss out on this.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

    The way Iizuka got injured in that match was totally an accident. Rick looked totally spooked when it happened. And honestly, the rest of that match was standard Steiner brothers fare for a lot of their work in Japan. Fujinami ain't no punk. He went toe to toe with those guys.

    Iizuka was not lucky that way considering how Nagai rearranged his face.

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  7. That's already the third one of that generation of wXw wrestlers to die way too young (after Karsten Beck in 2020 (cancer) and Absolute Andy just a couple of months ago (I don't think his cause-of-death was ever announced)). I stopped following the scene when those guys got their break but yes, Bad Bones was definitely one of the centerpieces of wXw for a decade or so.

  8. I have been watching Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (Netflix) recently. I am not completely finished but must say it's shocking of the amount of obvious factual errors that even a non-historian like me can detect. For example, yesterday I was watching the episode on the fall of the Berlin Wall. When they talk about the press conference where Günter Schabowski accidentally announces the opening of the borders, they make two glaring mistakes:

    1. They claim that Schabowki was fully informed about the changes in the emigration policy, whatever Schabowski said afterwards was just him not being used to deal with media. Actually, Schabowski was handed a note containing the purposely confusing text before the press conference without any further instructions.
    2. They claim that a British journalist asked the question that lead to Schabowki's famous stutter answer that as far as he knows the policy change taking effect immediately. They also cut the question and answer together. Actually, the British journalist was asking what that meant for the Berlin Wall and what they cut together made no sense at all. It was a western German journalist posing the question that triggered the answer.

    The first is something that most Germans with some knowledge of history will recognize as an error, the second is just obvious because the cut makes no sense. Obviously, both are just details without any bigger meaning, but if they screw up those things you ask yourself what else (of stuff you may not know about) is wrong.

     

  9. 49 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

    I'm sure that exacerbated it, but in my Sydney M. Basil armchair therapist opinion, Ric was a fucked-up person long before that.

    I would agree with that from what was said in the 30 for 30 docu (and with what I remember from the Highspots shoot interview). I am not sure which effect the child trafficking had on Ric but one thing that is sure is that Ric had lots of issues with his adoptive father. I think Ric wanted nothing more than approval from him but their personalities were way too different. His adoptive father was a doctor and wanted Ric to have a "proper" job, Ric was into sports and dropped out of college. The other thing that stuck into my brain was what Ric's first wife Leslie (the mother of Megan and David) said in the 30 for 30 docu. I think the summary of what she said was that she married Richard Fliehr, at a certain point Richard Fliehr changed into Ric Flair and Ric did not like being Richard Fliehr so basically the Richard Fliehr part of his persona "died". But being Ric Flair only works when you are in the spotlight. Also you hurt your loved ones and (in the long term) yourself. I suppose Ric is struggling for the last, I don't know maybe even 25 years or more (when he got pushed away from a featured position in WCW), trying to come to terms with having to be Richard Fliehr again.

    Obviously, also just a cold reading, but I guess any psychologist worth his title would have a field day with Ric and could write at least a paper if not a book on him (like people did with Bobby Fischer).

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  10. I have been playing Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes for a couple of hours and so far I am not really liking it that much. I am really considering to not continue further. One the one hand, the games feels... bland maybe? Like the basic framework of the game is there but it misses a lot of polishing. Also some design decisions (like having save points that are 30 minutes apart, autosaving that is done so little that they might as well have not had that feature, party member changing can (apparently unless you have a specific member in your party) only be done in inns, the whole menus and equipment management seems barebone etc.) seem too antiquated to justify them with JRPG nostalgia.

    Before that, I was playing Ys 8 - my first Ys game and that was I game I really enjoyed. I like the setting, this Robinson Crusoe / Family Robinson / Lost inspired plot framework for the later heavy-JRPG story works quite well. The mechanic of instant-switching of characters takes some time to get used to (I don't know how often I accidentally hit square when spamming special moves and switched characters), but it's a necessary thing to have with the three different weaknesses you have to deal with.

  11. On 4/30/2024 at 4:27 PM, Dolfan in NYC said:

    Seulement cinq matches?  Ajoutez-en plus, s'il vous plaît, Tripler H!

    Damn, now I want someone on the show say (with a very thick French accent) 'unter 'earst 'elmsley, Triple 'ash. Also: are we going to do the Bash in Berlin thread in German?

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  12. The crucifixion angle was two decades after Life of Brian, which I assume was considered to be mainstream and accepted by the mid 90ies in the US as well (96 was about the time I first saw the movie, it was on an Austrian public television station and there were zero issues airing a movie like that at that point). So I would assume that of the things Heyman (ECW) did that was pretty low on the list of stuff that could have finished the company for good.

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  13. 16 hours ago, piranesi said:

    I stayed out of the stock market after 2008 because “the big meltdown is coming.”  Then I finally gave up and got back in, in early Feb 2020…

     

     

    That reminds me of a guy asking me in 1999 if he should invest in Amazon stock (he was older than me and knew that I was relatively tech-savvy) and I was "no way, who would ever trust the internet enough to buy stuff there?" (well, besides 5th generation wrestling tapes, I guess). To be fair, the Amazon stock prize fell significantly when the dot-com bubble burst and only started to really pick up a decade later, but still.

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  14. 10 hours ago, Matt D said:

    Tony looks like the dad in an 80s sitcom where a lovable Soviet soldier accidentally lands in America and befriends the kids of a suburban family and they have to hide him from the nosy neighbors.

    So are you trying to say that Tony looks like a crack addict on that picture?

  15. 13 hours ago, odessasteps said:

    I think some were better know than others. IIRC, the New Zealand ones were known about at the time or soon after, but the Caribbean ones not until later. I seem to recall the Apter mags discussing some of them. 

    Hisa's site (don't remember if that was an angelfire or geocities site) definitely had all double-changes (including the Colon double-change) besides the Veneno one listed in the late 90ies.

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  16. 39 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

    Alvarez & Meltzer were talking over the weekend about Vince starting a new promotion (they said nah to that one) and their key question was, "who would he be able to get?"

    Now come on.  That's the one problem he wouldn't have.  He could lean into the whole "people used to love me talking about my genetic jackhammer and grapefruits!  Woke wrestling cancelled me!" thing and hire every sexual predator, MAGA choad, and otherwise undesirable currently not working or not working much and looking for a payday.  Off the top of my head:

    • Marty Scurll
    • David Starr
    • Jack Gallagher
    • Joey Ryan
    • Jimmy Havoc
    • Michael Elgin
    • That one Crist brother
    • Tyrus
    • Tessa Blanchard
    • Alberto Del Rio
    • Flip Gordon
    • Tyrus
    • That one neo nazi/neo nazi-adjacent deathmatch guy whose name escapes me

    Shit, he could promote it on Truth Social

    Some other prominent wrestlers that come to mind:

    • Low Ki (he probably would not make it even to the first show)
    • Austin Aries (he would be gone within a couple of weeks)
    • Drake Younger
    • Jaxson Ryker
    • Velveteen Dream
    • El Ligero
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  17. 11 hours ago, odessasteps said:

    The company had 6/7 bad years (depending on how you classify 1989) and then had 2 red hot years. Easy to belive the bubble would burst (finger poked). 

    How many of those years were financially really bad or at least as bad as was reported back then? One of the biggest learnings from Nitro (the book) was that accounting at Turner & Timer Warner was a mess and the real numbers WCW did were much better than how it ended up being in the books.

  18. 56 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Could somebody make a gif of the Pedigree (attempt) on Rocky? I'm trying to imagine it and can't gather if it's his arms or his back that couldn't bend. It sounds like trying to Pedigree one of those old LJN WWF figures. 

    That Pedigree gave me a good laugh. My assumption was that the arms were the problems. Considering that Cody did not even try to bend the arms I assume they did run through the bigger spots beforehand in the PC and there were issues with a lack of flexability of a certain 51-year-old.

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