Robert S
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Probably not the correct thread (if there is one), but I just discovered that Raspberry Pi 5 is coming out at the end of the month. The specs look really nice (4x2.4 GHz ARM CPU, 800 MHz Broadcom GPU, 4 or 8 GByte RAM, integrated power button ...). For Retropie people, this should advance the possibilities by a generation. N64 seems to run almost smoothly for some people hacking around with non optimized emulators, for example. GameCube should also be feasible.
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5 hours ago, GuerrillaMonsoon said:
Whose idea was it to put Diana Hart on TV? I'm assuming it was a favour to Davey Boy, but also, she's just horrifically wooden - they already knew this from 1992, and the angle gets dropped without any real resolution beyond just the commentary team deciding that she had to be making it all up.
Just seriously weird.
I don't know who came up with the idea, but according to a Jim Cornette story, the reason why the thing was dropped was that Stu Hart did not like the portrayal of his daughter on TV:
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18 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
The wrestler who plays Michael Hayes in Iron Claw looks like Chippendales Michael Hayes in his pic:
Or maybe he’s alternate universe Seth Rollins. I don’t know.
Edit: just realized another nickname "Magic Mike Hayes"
He might be okay as Michael Hayes, but he would be great as Steve Keirn or Stan Lane.
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I love that Stephen Colbert is back and the first couple of guests he's got are (I guess due to the SAG-AFTRA strike) all showbusiness friends (Neil deGrasse Tyson (if you can call him being in showbusiness), John Oliver and Anderson Cooper; I guess Jon Stewart and Steve Carell were unavailable).
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4 hours ago, Zimbra said:
Onita went from being a pretty normal jr heavyweight to the deathmatch king. I don't know that I'd characterize him as a monster, though.
Matsunaga was an Aoyagi karate guy before he became Mr Danger.
Isn't Minoru Fujita nowadays a deathmatch guy? That would fall into the same category.
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18 hours ago, odessasteps said:
People could be making up some of these NXT names and I would not know the difference.
Do you want to play the game NXT or ChatGPT?
Lola Vice
Elowen Roark
Lyla Stone
Tank Ledger
Bronco Nima
Seren Winters
Lyric Larkspur
Sol Ruca
Draven Hawthorne
Lucien Price
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Reg. FFVII Rebirth: why would you release a game on two discs if you have to download tons of GB (and I guess install everything on your HD/SSD) anyway?
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20 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
I only have issues remembering with the older folks who I already in my mind have killed off. Someone like Lance Cade? Yeah, I already know.
Keep track of folks like Gran Naniwa (who like Test, also died at 33) or Bobby Duncum Jr. who faded away or weren't as popular in their heyday or never really wrestled for WWF/E are a bit tougher.
The hardest to me are people you would expect to be dead because of the ... demographic they belong to. I mean how many 80ies fat guys besides One Man Gang and how many 80ies roid freaks besides the Warlord are still alive? So my brain always wants to put them into the much larger group of dead guys fitting those descriptions.
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Ignoring the silly rant by Quack, the whole Colony gimmick was over AF and I suppose the limit for an OC gimmick 15 years ago was much lower. So even if there is a lot of nonsense in that mail (you could give countless counterexamples to the first sentence, I mean whole companies were built around the theory of ethnic draws and the Attitude era targeted a very specific age and sex group), in this particular case he was not wrong.
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On 9/2/2023 at 4:50 AM, Contentious C said:
For this case, I think the simplest example of that would be, "Yoshi: Swallowing anything you put in front of me since 1990!"
I have never consider Yoshi eating stuff a sexual thing before but considering that he transforms most things into eggs, yeeesh.
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1 hour ago, John E. Dynamite said:
Matt, Nick, Page, Kenny, Colt, Brandon, Nemeth, Jungle Boy, TK, Fish, Jericho, Matt Hardy, Christopher Daniels, with assumed heat from Kingston, Britt Baker, and William Regal.
And Seth Rollins and Hornswoggle and R-Truth and HHH and Ryback. AJ Styles, Booker T, The Miz. Corey Graves, Elijah Burke, Beth Phoenix. Some actual bad people like BJ Whitmer, Hulk Hogan, Mike Quackenbush, Teddy Hart.
I am not sure if they had a real falling out, but at some point Punk and Chris Hero were not on the best of terms (a long time ago, of course).
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Not sure if this has been mentioned here already (I did not see it in the last couple of pages), but the latest Observer has a curious line about the incident:
QuoteUnlike with other situations, the belief is that there were surveillance cameras with footage of all of what happened.
Knowing this and Punk being fired outright (instead of trying to settle it), i.e. AEW apparently not being afraid of a lawsuit, this makes me consider that the versions where Punk sucker-punched Perry might not be that far from the truth (of course, if Perry is getting fired within the next days, my interpretation might be off).
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12 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said:
Yo dawg I heard you like Yoshi so we put a Yoshi on your Yoshi so you can ride Yoshi while you're Yoshi.
Hmm... I don't want to google it, but there have to be rule 34 versions of this.
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39 minutes ago, supremebve said:
After watching some YouTube reviews, I think I'm going to like this game. A lot of the criticisms, which seem valid, are that it doesn't feel like space and it's missing the sense of discovery that you expect from a Bethesda game where you can just wander from place to place and find interesting things to do. Almost all of them say something about how a lot of it is empty, and instead of stumbling onto new things, you kind of have to do missions to find the interesting parts. With that said, they say that the story is much better than they expected, but once you get deep into the story all of it feels much better. I feel like that's what I need in games like this. I have played hundreds of hours of Skyrim, but have never beaten the game nor have I done any of the civil war stuff. I just wander around doing random shit until I get tired of playing. I'll probably miss the exploration and wanderlust, but I think I'll probably actually get somewhere by having to work through the story first. I haven't heard a single bad word about the story and how it plays out. Matter of fact, all of the reviews seem to love the story and went out of the way to not show any video or mention any of the story beats from the main quest. I don't think this is going to do anything for the internet discourse, but everything I've heard made me feel like I'm going to enjoy the game despite it not being 100% of what I wanted.
The Gamespot review was pretty down on the main quest, FWIW. I have tried to remove anything that could be remotely considered as spoiler from the relevant passages of the review, still I put it into a spoiler field:
SpoilerStarfield's main quest is the most emblematic of the game's shortcomings. Despite romanticizing the idea of taking to the stars to explore the great unknown, these narrative ambitions fall into shallow stories that undersell the spacefaring premise. (...) Starfield tries to instill personality into its story, but consistently weak writing and generic dialogue means these characters--who do have a few interesting moments along the way--largely fall flat.
(...) There's very little weight or impact given to what characters often describe as great discoveries that could change the course of history, and it's missing an earnest examination on the nature of humanity's place in space, even when it tries to be self-reflective. I was never asking Starfield to lecture me on quantum physics, but I hoped for a story that wants to pay reverence to the scientific philosophies that make the genre intriguing to give those concepts their necessary respect.
The wild goose chase that is the main quest lacks strong motivations from a narrative perspective, and the mission structure mostly relies on a predictable formula. (...) Or you're (...) to fetch clues on the next objective, follow laughably nonsensical riddles, or have conversations that could've been an email. There are occasional breaks in this process that lead to notable moments (...)
These kinds of moments highlight the illusion of choice, where supposed moral quandaries boil down to vague differences in philosophy, and this extends across the story (...)
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(...) When you strip Starfield down to its essentials, it relies on a tried-and-true, but well-tread formula while missing some of the depth of the games that came before it. Starfield is a game more concerned with quantity than quality, and leaves the experience at the surface level.
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10 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
There was a nintendo direct this morning. Didn't watch yet. But looks like Mario Wonder footage and maybe a new Switch oled model.
I did not realize that there is an elephant form of Mario now that looks uncanningly like a German kid's cartoon character (that was created in the 1970s).
Elephant Mario:
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Benjamin Blümchen:
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I watched the 9th episode yesterday. On the one hand, the female part of the cast is definitely very musically talented (the male side was saved by heavy usage of auto-tune). On the other hand, the songs were mostly very forgettable (besides the song by Chapel and Spock's reprise (ignoring the horrible lyrics of the reprise) about halfway through). Once More With Feeling (Buffy) this was not, it's not even My Musical (Scrubs). Besides the non-catchy tunes (which to me is one of the more important things in musical episodes), it felt too long and they centered the big finale around the best singer in the cast but did not give her much story to work with (has it ever been part of any story that Uhura feels alone?).
BTW: there were a couple of lines that felt like obvious nods to Once More With Feeling (I doubt that it's a coincidence that during a musical episode they start talking about bunnies, for example).
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2 hours ago, odessasteps said:
If both of them are on Game Pass, they're nominally the same price, right? Not sure how much Sea of Stars is to actually buy.
I played for about 5 minutes and didn't even save, since I'd only beaten 2 monsters and set up a camp fire.
I would assume that Sea of Stars runs on many more PCs than Starfield does (which is true for me, for example).
My work holiday is coming to an end. I planned to use it for some hiking but the weather was not accordingly (first it was too hot and then we had heavy rain for a couple of days), so I used to time to play through the two Ori games (as someone was mentioning the term "Metroidvania" here recently). The games were a bit different than I expected, more focus on platforming and puzzles and less on combat (the first game does not have a single boss, for example). There are a couple of places that felt a bet "cheap" to me, for the first game that was the escape sequences that require pretty high precision, for the second game there are a bunch of platforming sections that are a bit ridiculous and there was one boss fight that took me 30 tries or whatever. On the other end, the games are generous with save points, so I guess that equals itself out. In total it felt like time well spent.
I also wanted to write that those were the best Austrian games I have ever played, but actually I am not sure if I have played and other games by Austrian developers at all. I am pretty sure I have never played any JoWooD games, Koch Media & THQ Nordic were publishers and I can't think of any other studios. Hmm... looking at Wikipedia, apparently Anno 1602 (and 1503) was developed in Austria, I did not know that. Funny thing I noticed: the German Wikipedia lists about 10 Austrian video game companies and I just noticed the CEO (and founder) of one of those companies is a guy I studied with.
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Has there been any talk on how that glass spot got on the show to begin with? I mean considering that backstory, there is no way that the limousine was there for any reason but for the glass spot. And if that's the case, you are looking at more people involved than just two wrestlers and an agent.
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I just realized that the "real" NWA World Heavyweight Champions are dying out. In principle Dory and Flair are the last two "real" ones (as in NWA-board approved and defending the title in different territories). Tommy Rich's run never took him outside of Georgia and by the time Garvin got it, JCP controlled the board (and at least cagematch does not have an non-JCP matches during his reign; there are a couple of UWF dates, but that was after Watts sold the company).
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Here is my favorite Terry Funk promo:
I love Hugo's look: "You are getting us all killed."
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8 hours ago, jaedmc said:
That's kind of a ridiculous argument that can easily be countered by all the shitty shows with big writer rooms.
At the same time I am sure there are lots of great TV shows that were written by a small handful of people. I admit I don't know anything about TV etc. production but from the outside this one seems to be a weird hill to die on.
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2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner private military company that attempted a coup (?) earlier this summer in Russia, is among those believed to be dead in a plane crash. He was 62.
Well, more accurately, the small private jet he was on was shot down while near Tver, Russia.
Once again, if you come for the king, you best not miss.
Slava Ukraini
In addition Dmitry Utkin (Wagner's second in command) apparently was also on board.
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2 hours ago, Shartnado said:
You are such a king for making these, but I'm scared of ever even trying them. But I see people making insane times on these things, and I'm in awe of them as well! Great job guys!
It took me 21:40, I am sure you can beat that.
Also, @S.K.o.S. misspelled Nova.
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6 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Just imagine the vignettes of Shane playing basketball with at risk youths on the streets of Pittsburgh
Do you mean with guys like
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2023 TV DISCUSSION THREAD
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I thought that the third season was the best so far. It's amazing how well Selena Gomez works as straight woman for Martin Short's and Steve Martin's humor. Meryl Streep delivers big in a couple of scenes and the musical stuff they did is pretty catchy and pretty well integrated into the story. And having a Mel Brooks cameo is definitely not a negative either.