Robert S
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59 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
I guess we'll never know how much Netflix would have paid for Raw if Cody went over at WM39. But the machine just rolls on without regards to their decisionmaking and the "millionaire who should be a billionaire" secondguessing can't be stopped (I think now it's "billionaire who should be a multi-billionaire")
Actually now it's "billionaire who should be in jail".
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10 hours ago, Casey said:
On the other side of the spectrum, John Cena is doing SuperBowl ads for a gambling company. So, fuck ‘em both?
John Cena did an appearance on Colbert and there was no word on Vince or anything about that topic. And considering that the questions are pre-agreed on, you can't blame Colbert here. So yes, John Cena sucks.
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6 hours ago, piranesi said:
All great new keywords that will need to be added into keyword search on everyone’s favorite streaming platform!
Moment .... nope, no hits on Netflix and Peacock.
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11 hours ago, zendragon said:
Batista has been good in James Bond, Dune and Bladerunner. He’s really carved a nice career as a character actor. He’s also in the new Del Torro film The Boy and The Heron. Cena did good voice acting Ferdinand The Bull Austinnwas good in that hunting humans movie he did
The Boy and The Heron is a Miyazaki film, I think the only connection to Guillermo Del Toro is that Del Toro introduced the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival. (or am I missing a joke here?)
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Random question: I like procedurals. Does that make me a bad person?
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If I would not be too lazy I would post the old meme. Step 1: acquire lot of studios. Step 2: ??? Step 3: $$$
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2 hours ago, Go2Sleep said:
People can be victims in some circumstances and predators/enablers in others. Vince himself was a victim of physical and sexual abuse as a child. In no way does it excuse his actions as an adult. It's possible to have sympathy for Stephanie for what she went through as a child (and given some of the long standing rumors out there...), but she isn't immune from consequences if she enabled Vince as an adult by doing clean-up work for him to stay in power.
After reading Josie Abraham's book on Vince and what she found out when looking into Vince's childhood and adolescence I would be careful in taking Vince's word about that. His personal history according to himself is full of exaggerations and transpositions (I don't think that's the right term, what I mean is that some stories that he told did not seem to be his own ones but things that he saw or heard of). I am sure that there was some physical and verbal abuse in his childhood, I am not sure about the sexual part and also if the abuse that he experienced exceeded what an average child of his generation had to endure.
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1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
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It's really tough to maintain your principles when you're a tech being shown a picture by the insane billionaire boss of the company, and you really need this job. Not saying there's not a right or wrong here, but there were probably a bunch of people who needed to make some very difficult choices.
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Now would be the time for those people to stand up and at the very least testify in court. TKO would have to be really, really stupid to fire someone in this scenario. Disregarding the potential law suits, imagine the press they would get.
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11 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Hell, I didn't know there was a doc. However, I had watched interviews with Rob Morvan (re: Milli Vanilli) and researched a bit to know the group was just an amalgamation of different male (and female) singers w/ Rob and Fab as the lip syncing front men. Boney M, on the hand, was Frank singing all of Bobby Farrell's parts. AFAIK, the female singers of the group actually sung their parts.
Reg. Boney M, one of the female singers' voice (Maizie Williams) was not used in studio recordings. Farrell and Williams did sing during live performances, though.
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Frank Farian, best known as songwriter, producer and singer of Boney M. and basically being Milli Vanilli, passed away yesterday at the age of 82.
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On 1/22/2024 at 11:46 PM, Infinit said:
Has anyone ever been to obscure yet pro wres identifiable town before?
I once was in Bucksnort, Tennessee.
Depends on your definition of obscure. I have been to quite a bunch of central European towns that are hometowns of pro wrestlers that made it in the US, e.g. Lucerne, Switzerland (Claudio's hometown) - most not really obscure to a European though probably somewhat obscure for an American. Apros pos Claudio: I have driven past the Alpamare as in "Alpamare Waterslide" - a move Claudio uses - dozens of time (though never been inside). Did WWE ever announce Fabian Aichner's / Giovanni Vinci's hometown (a small town in South Tyrol, Italy)? Because I have been in that region quite often (mostly driving through, though).
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2 hours ago, zendragon said:
Rey v Eddie but I dont know how many matches they had beside Halloween Havoc
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There was the (acclaimed) series on Smackdown in 05 where they fought for Dominick's custodianship - I guess Rey is regretting now that he won that feud.
Also a year after the apuesta match, there were a bunch of matches centered around the initial lWo.
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12 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Currently thinking about a world where TNA rebrands as Turner Nonstop Action in 2005 post-FSN/pre-Spike in order to get on a Ted network.
Barnett as in Jim Barnett who turned 80 in 2004, had severe health issues and died in that year?
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11 hours ago, Andrew POE! said:
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Microsoft meanwhile doesn't have to do anything. They don't even have to release anything that people have wanted (like Indiana Jones or Hellblade II or Avowed or Fallout 5, etc). They just buy developers and let them sit there and not use them (hence Micro$oft gotta Micro$oft). They have Call of Duty now - so they can just pull it from PlayStation at some point and that would be the death for PlayStation. They can just milk people for GamePass, barely do anything, rely on their Windows and cloud services for revenue, and they are fine.
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They can't for the next 9.5 years, right?
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4 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
but "don't turn around" is valid advice around Gunther
The English lyrics are an almost literal translation. The German chorus goes "Drah' di net um, schau, schau, der Kommisar geht um" which is Viennese dialect for "Don't turn around, look, look, the commissioner (Kommissar) is somewhere around here." (literally "the Kommissar is walking around" - I guess "the Kommissar's out and about" is a pretty decent translation). Not much diffent than "Don't turn around, ja, ja, der Kommissar's in town".
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20 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
random: currently imagining the music video of Gunther chopping people set to "Der Kommissar" by After The Fire
Considering Gunther is Austrian, please go for the original
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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:
EDIT: Oh, and I said it in the Indie thread, but there must be at least one WAR six-man on the show.
A WAR six-man AND a WAR heavyweight tag match with big, fat guys beating the shit out of each other.
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I hope Didier Deschamps is extra careful the next couple of days (so far there have been three people winning the World Cup als player as well as coach: Beckenbauer, Zagallo - who died a couple of days ago - and Deschamps).
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3 hours ago, RandomAct said:
Last night I watched THE BURIAL. I don't make the rules, but if you want a good courtroom film, then it has to be set in Mississippi. Alabama also acceptable.
Hmm... there's To Kill a Mockingbird and The Jury what else am I missing? Inherit the Wind takes place in Tennessee (the movie apparently does not even mention that state, the play though is placed in Tennessee). There is also The Chamber - I am sure I have seen that movie but I don't remember it (and the Rotten Tomatoes score is very much on the "rotten" side).
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In 2023 I almost exclusively played stuff on Game Pass. Game Pass does not give you a list per year (of what you played for how long), but you can at least see for single games the total number of hours spent on it. So here is my list (sorted by hours):
- Chained Echoes (55 h)
- Phoenix Wright Trilogy (55 h)
- Loop Hero (36 h)
- Age of Empires IV (33 h)
- Formula 1 Manager 2023 (30 h)
- Ori and the Will of the Wisp (20 h)
- Ori and the Blind Forest (for whatever reason Game Pass does not list the time spent, but I think it was about the same as for the second Ori game)
- Persona 5 Tactica (11 h)
- Humankind (11 h)
- Fuga (10 h)
The last three games I somewhat bounced off from. There were also a couple of games that I played less than two hours, also some games (e.g. Vampire Survivors and Flight Simulator) that I played in 2023, but played already a lot in earlier years, so I don't know how much I actually played them last year. I would guess both in the 20-30 h ballpark.
I bought a PS5 shortly before Christmas, so this year will be way less Game Pass-centered, I would think.
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35 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
Come to think of it… shouldn’t a Paul Roma/Hercules tag team have been called The Roman Empire because Roma is named Roma and Hercules is the name of a famous ancient Roman even if Hercules Hernandez is a Spaniard Hispanic (IIRC. He might be a Tampa Cuban)
They probably had Power And Glory in mind for some tag team and they finally found their team for the name.
Well, Hercules is the Roman name of a figure of Greek mythology. So they were more Greco-Roman than simply Roman.
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I played Against the Storm a bit since it got to 1.00 and became available on Game Pass. Sadly that game fights with the Game Pass cloud save and I just lost about 10 hours or so of progress. I will wait until the issues are fixed before touching the game again (the developer puts the blame on Microsoft and reading a bit on their technical explanation, I tend to agree with that assessment).
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Do they need a third season? The second season was already very uneven and pretty uninspired. They probably should have stopped with just doing the book.
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40 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Fuuuuck. Now I can’t hear two wrestlers from Finland trying to plan a match, and getting confused, Who’s on First style, when one asks the other “what’s your finish?”
Hmm... I think the "who's on first" bit would be even more confusing in Finnish because AFAIR, there is no special intonation for questions in Finnish, am I right @Shartnado?
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The Wall Street Journal Vince McMahon Thread.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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I was mostly lurking back then but my impression was that the sleaze thread came and went and was barely a thing for at least a decade, was only brought up here for a side remark here and there.