Doc Townsend

Running Charlotte vs, Bianca to unite the women’s titles wouldn’t be a bad idea. They’ve never had to depth for two women’s divisions. I dunno thwt they hsve the depth to make one women’s division interesting right now, I feel like there’s a big drop off once you get past the remnants of the Horsewomen, Asuka, and maybe Rhea. And Asuka doesn’t seem to be in their plans anymore.

The game was previously delayed from 2022 to 2023 because, a couple weeks before the release date, the developers announced they were going to use Unreal Engine 5 instead of Unreal Engine 4. There’s a fair bit of speculation online that the game doesn’t exist. edit: the game was originally scheduled for a June 2022 release. The studio announced in May 2022that they were switching to UE5 and delaying the game. Is it even feasible to remake the game with an updated graphics engine in 8 months?

I doubt Tony has that much power.

Would anyone be making this argument if the situation had been reversed and Hogan had shown up at Starrcade pale, out of shape, and possibly on something? I doubt it. I like Sting too - Surfer Sting is a top 10 act for me - but Steve Borden ultimately bears a lot of responsibility here. He’s the person who let his drug problem get out of hand and stopped caring. Sure, in hindsight, WCW should have trusted him less and kept a closer eye on him to make sure he could up his end of the angle and match, but Borden could also have been a professional and shown in in condition and ready to work, Bischoff actually seemed pretty rational about the episode when he talked about on his podcast. They didn’t toss a yearlong angle out because Sting wasn’t tan, but the tan was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak. On the podcast, Bischoff noted that you can get a spray tan in about 29 min and could probably get it done the day of the show. If you don’t care enough to invest that little bit of time and effort, I dunno that your employer should do you any favors. I’m really not sure that I believe Bischoff when he says that they only saw Sting in loose fitting street clothes and his gimmick attire and didn’t realize until the last minute that Sting had stopped working out and was out of shape. But, even taking some of what Bischoff and Hogan have said as the unusual carny bs, I think Borden still is at fault. The dude had over a year to get ready for the payoff to the angle and chose not to. You can make the same arguments blaming him that people are using against WCW. I doubt Hogan was unhappy about not having to do the job, but I also don’t believe he scrapped a yearlong angle at the spur of the moment. I don’t entirely believe Hogan and Busch’s account of things, but Meltzer has said much the same thing over the years (drug problem, didn’t work out, shouldn’t have been out there, aura evaporated by the time he finished his entrance, etc.) Ultimately, it’s to know who is working who and what actually happened, but I don’t think Sting is completely blameless here. Has anyone in the locker room come forward to defend Sting? I’ve never heard such, but I’ve never followed the story that closely. Bischoff and Hogan weren’t the only people, so i assume other talent knew what sort of shape Borden was in that night and the months leading up to it. Sting gets a pass because he’s popular and Hogan and Bischoff are easy to dislike.

Looks fun, though I dunno how they talked some of those people into doing a D & D movie. Someone apparently has naughty pics of Chris Pine in his tidy whities.

I’ve seen several reviewers see they enjoyed the games later stages, but, yeah, on the whole, reviews aren’t great. Same complaint people have been raising about the trailers and demo: story is dull, dialogue is banal. I’m going to watch one of those boss fight videos on YouTube before I commit, but I’m still looking forward to it. It looks like the kind of janky action-adventure that gets meh reviews, but I still end up loving (other examples: Echo, Valkyrie Elysium, Asura’s Wrath, etc.).

Personally, I don’t want my employee to keep me around if they don’t need me, don’t want me, can’t afford me, whatever. They never guaranteed me lifetime employment and I don’t really need or want a pity paycheck. my parents own a family business. I guess if I never want a job for life, I’ll go work for them.

It feels like they’ve waited too long to pull the trigger on the Sami storyline. They’ve been treading water for two months now.

Watched the premiere of Fox’s new show, Accused, last night. The trailers make it look like a run-of-the-mill courtroom drama but the pilot spent very little time in the courtroom and instead was something far better. The pilot told the story of two well-heeled, well-meaning parents who inadvertently raise a teenage psychopath. For most of the hour, viewers think the father is on trial for …but, it’s a clever bit of misdirection. Dad is actually on trial for The Shield’s Michael Chili’s plays the dad and gives a great performance. And the whole hour is well-written. The parents come off as complex people who are well-meaning and proactive and still fail miserably because they’ve decent people who want to believe their son can be helped. The show stayed away from the cliches and one-note characters that usually pop up when television tries to address this topic. I thought it was a very ambitious, very powerful hour of television, so I’m curious to see the rest of the season. Other network shows I’m watching: - Fox’s other new show, Alert, is mediocre so far. Kinda cliched, overstuffed with plot. It’s supposed to be procedural but the cases of the week so far are only backdrop for a mystery/conspiracy involving the lead couple’s teenage son. So far, I haven’t been at all interested in the overarching mystery and the whole thing seems preposterous to me. - ABC’s new cop show, Will Trent, is dark and different. Really liked it so far. Characters are very well-drawn. - East New York started off really strong but it losing me a bit. The last few eps have had a few melodramatic “only on tv” plots. In general, the show seems to be moving too fast. The no-nonsense older cop going rogue after his rookie partner is shot seems like something that should have happened a few seasons down the road after we get to know these characters better. Or maybe not happened at all, because it’s a kinda over-the-top plot for a show that is trying to be more gritty and grounded. Still recommended.

Lol, we’ll be talking for years about Mike McCarthy’s less-than-inspiring halftime speech “This is how I would coach Russell Wilson…” At this point, I’d believe anyone who told me that Dak and Maher are both sleeper agents. I think the codeword is “Rosebud.”

Lol, Goodell probably wishes this game had been fixed.

To me, it sounds like he is about to pull an Andrew Luck. i don’t think would be a bad idea for him or the team. I dunno how you depend on him too heavily next season or pick up his option for 2024, much less give him a contract extension.

Team name: Dead and Buried

People don’t like Dungy now? I didn’t know that.

Nope, but I’ve only watched Impact a couple times since the Destination America years.

I figured Deaner was done with Impact after his character, y’know, stabbed a guy to death. Lol, did they explain how he’s free to wrestle or is it just ~WRESTLING~ (waves hand).

Wife and I watched 5-10 minutes of Power Slap: Road to the Title and laughed ourselves silly. It’s exactly what you’d expect a show pitched by Dana White with that title to be - big muscly dudes slapping the shit out of each other. We kinda thought there would be some sort of swerve, but nope. I am really skeptical this will catch on. The presentation and staging reminded me of the various attempts to make professional arm wrestling a thing. Remember the Sly Stallone movie? No? Me neither. I remember he starred in a movie about a pro arm wrestler. That’s about all I remember. Anyway. Power Slap is two large guys facing each other over a tiny table and one guy lets the other slap the stuffing out of him. Judging by the trailer and what we saw, I have no doubt these guys could actually injure each other. In the “coming this season” trailer, one guy gets floored and apparently knocked out. When he comes to, he asks if he was in a fight and is told, no, you were in a slapping contest. The look of utter confusion on his face says a lot. Although I did wonder if guys are really getting knocked loopy or they’re pretending so they event looks dangerous. I guess there will be some sort of torunamernt leading to a ppv. Lol. Will never watch this again, but sheer ridiculousness of it probably entertained me more than two hrs of pro wres would have. I don’t know that a show where big ripped dudes in tiny shorts enact testosterone-fueled morality plays complete with legit blows to the head is any less absurd.

I’d be surprised if most of the audience knew who Jay Briscoe was. Unless casual fans really don’t exist and the AEW audience is almost entirely hardcore internet fans. Which wouldn’t surprise me. I’m a little skeptical of the “AEW wouldn’t allow it” thing until I see it backed up somewhere legitimate. To be honest, I don’t think a tribute show is called for here.

Lol, you probably didn’t mean this as a suggestion, but I took it as one. Ordered spare “clickers” for my vehicles this AM. That incessant chiming is annoying. I used to be religious about seatbelt safety, but I had surgery about six years ago and didn’t heal up quite right from that. Left me with some scar tissue on my right side and clipping in the seatbelt can actually cause me pain on that side. So I got out of the habit of buckling up and now rarely do it. I don’t recommend it, but i do it anyway and am reasonably comfortable with not buckling up. The fine for not wearing your seatbelt is $25 in our state. Honestly, that’s not much of a deterrent. Probably needs to be 10 to 100 times thot if they want to deter anybody.

I may be alone on this board, but I’m hoping Brady plays one more year. I’m basically a fan, but mostly I just think it’s one of the most interesting things that can happen this off-season. Where he goes and who he convinces he can still go will be peak hot stove league, and then you get the year-long story of whether not he really can still go. I’m certainly not convinced he can still be a winning starter again, but I wouldn’t bet against him. Bucs have a lot of issues besides qb play. I think he’ll ultimately decide to return and a surprising number of teams will line up for him.

Google, so I can find out who Zach Collaros is?

Team Fish showing up to fight for their lives in the trenches was not something I expected to see today. I know people are rooting for the Bills because of Hamlin but I’m on Team Fin until at least 4:25.

Cesaro’s been in the country how long and last night was his football game? Okay, that does it. I’ll never be able to buy Cesaro as a babyface again. Guy’s definitely a heel. This is almost as bad as the episode of Total Divas where Bryan Danielson turned off his indoor plumbing to force his in-laws to use his composting toilet. In Summer. In Arizona. That was definitely a heel move. I’ve never been able to take BD seriously as a babyface since.

Yes.

The funny part is that if the Seahawks had come into the season with any thought that they could make the playoffs, they would have gone out and got a marquee qb. Geno mostly played above expectations and the whole team overperformed. Now, Geno is probsbly going to cash in and get a huge payday from someone.