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As a fan of Cave shmups, this makes me very happy.

For 50 years, Bats wore long-sleeves and body armor while his sidekick fought crime in.... er...tiny, tight-fitting swim trunks. I mean, if DC didn't expect me to conclude that Batman was a selfish lover with weird sexual hang-ups, I don't know what to say. Obviously, they don't want the scene in Harley Quinn because real superheroes only do it off panel as a metaphor for doing it in the dark. Among other things. BTW, am I the only person disturbed by the panel Natural posted? Bats and Cats are clearly post-coitus and Bats is wearing his costume. And his mask. Yep, that's normal. Completely normal. No hang-ups here. No siree, Bob. He looks happy. God, i hope he's not picturing tiny green swim trunks. Gail Simone is right. This is never going to be not funny. I fully expect to have trouble reading Batman back issues. I'm already picturing a Denny O'Neill story where Bats and Robin got captured and put in big glass cylinders. I mean, maybe the overly-elaborate deathtrap wasn't supposed to look like a phallic symbol, but...

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Honestly, i've been assuming nerd humor of the sort Devolver and Limited Run do plays well with most of their audience and I'm in the minority for not liking it. I do dig Devolver as a publisher, though. Sad to hear abut Everwild. Was really interested in it. The trailer they showed off last year was gorgeous. Hilariously, there was a rumor going around yesterday that Microsoft was holding their really big exclusives for 2023 and that would be a monster year for them: Hellblade II, Fable. Perfect Dark, a couple new IPs, the new game from Moon Studios, Everwild, etc.

?? According to Cubsfan article, Cubsfan's article is well worth a read. It's short and hilariously cynical about the state of wrestling in Mexico.

Lol, One of the side benefits of going almost completely digital is that I don't have to deal with LRG or watch their terrible E3 presentations. Honestly, all attempts at humor in these E3 presentations have fallen flat for me. I really wanted to turn off - or at least mute - the Future Games Show to avoid the forced attempts at humor between Troy Baker and Laura Bailey. And I feel like I've watched a presentation with them before (E3 2019 maybe) and had the same reaction for the same reason. The Devolver Digital presentation was goofy and didn't work for me. The PC Gamer presentation had a female host reporting from what was supposed to be the cockpit of a mech suit. Ugh. I just want people to come out, act laid back but professional, and let the games mostly speak for themselves. Is that too much to ask? Really curious to see what Nintendo does tomorrow. They've been kinda quiet lately. I was expecting a fairly good slate from them tomorrow to coincide with the Switch Pro announcement, but.... no Switch Pro announcement, so I dunno. Hoping we at least get a Zelda remaster or four that most of us actually want. At the moment, my prediction for Nintendo is Doug Bowser takes the stage, shows 20 min of Pong, then pulls out a fiddle and does a surprisingly decent cover of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Asks us to have a safe drive home.

I guess you’d prefer he didn’t get his job back? Granted, that would give people more reason to complain.

I wouldn't count the Million Dollar title unless we're counting King of the Ring and the like. Then again, it's Vince, so who knows? Maybe we're one step closer to everyone having their own title championship.

Nope. I played the demo and put off buying it. I still plan to pick it up eventually, but there are probably hundreds of games I'll end up buying first and multiplayer will be dead by the time I get to it (if it's not already). Good chance I never get around it.

If you ever wanted to find out how tall Luchasaurus really isn't, this will be your chance.

I try not to get excited about anything until it has a firm release date. Preferably one no more than a couple months out.

Kinda pleased no one spoiled the reveal of the X fridge for me. Lol, that's my E3 moment so far. Xbox presentation was solid. Lots of exclusives, lots of release dates. Guessing late July - August will be packed. Thinking about exclusives, I guess the better answer is that they're why I care about Xbox Studios, PlayStation Studios, Nintendo. I mean, I have a lot of toys but they're just tools. My iphone is just a phone. My ipad is just a nifty laptop, etc. There really isn't much difference between Series X and PS5 (or PS4 and Xbox One), and even Nintendo could build a Nintendo Pro on par with the Series X if it wanted. So, without exclusives, I guess the consoles would just be tools and I'd buy the cheapest one or the one that was on sale or whatever. Exclusives are why we get attached to these companies and watch these presentations and argue about who is better. If the software libraries were basically the same, we'd be walking into Best Buy and saying "Eh, give me the red one." I don't really want to support a company that's just trying to sell me a piece of hardware and not at least trying to develop their own games, or form relationships with indies or whatever. That might just be me, though. Still unreasonanbly hyped for the X fridge.

I've got all three current gen consoles (Switch, PS5, Series X) and don't really have much of a preference between them and I still prefer exclusives. I don't really want to fan console wars, because I mostly think console fanboyism is absurd, but I dig exclusives. Why I want exclusives is a little murkier. I guess I like seeing a console maker to developing its own ips and stable of developers? I dunno, maybe its a habit left over from the consoles I played when I was young, but exclusives are the main selling point of a console to me. I really don't want Mario games on Xbox or God of War on Switch. I do realize there are a lot of good arguments for multi-platform releases, starting with the fact that lots of people can't/don't want to afford multiple consoles., The irony is that, at the moment, Series X is my favorite console and Microsoft is leading the charge towards cloud-based gaming and subscription services and has had the smallest, possibly least interesting list of exclusives. But, as much as I like Xbox, I'm not a fanboy. My preference in consoles shifts every so often. Microsoft has won the hardware battle with me and I generally prefer their philosophy, but Nintendo and Sony deliver the games Xbox doesn't. Off to watch the Microsoft presser (was busy earlier).

My wife is bouncing off the ceiling this morning, Basically, she was involved in a road rage incident a week ago. Guy pulled into a parking lot behind her, accused her of cutting him off a few blocks back. Situation got out of hand, some passerbys intervened, punches were thrown, and the cops had to be called. We were told the guy was being arrested. Today, we found out that the charges were either dropped or never filed. Cop I talked to claimed City Council got involved on the kid's behalf for pr reasons. Feel bad for the cops in this area. We live in a college town where the police force is 20% understaffed (expected to be 25% by year-end) and the attitude towards police is not great. Seems very much like the cops were trying to do their jobs and were prevented by circumstances beyond their control. Fortunately, no one was hurt and my wife was more annoyed than scared (she swears she didn't cut the guy off).

No idea about ECW, but Ian did do "tape trading" back in the day. I probably only remember that because Ian bootlegged his own shows. No, that's not a misprint. Ian sold bootleg copies of IWA-MS shows (Smart Mark Video had the rights to IWA-MS footage). I don't recall hearing of Axl selling footage or anything like that, so I'd guess it was Ian. Just a guess though.

Mutoh/Muta is a top 5 guy all-time for me, but: It's only funny 'cause it's true.

They're releasing a new gaming console in October. I don't know much about the Amico but it sounds like some sort of "updated retro" console that plays mostly 2d games with simpler graphics. Most of their launch lineup is new versions of classic arcade games like Moon Patrol and Burgertime.

I can kind of understand being afraid of Dynamite's crew and feeling like he had to respond physically to show the locker room he couldn't be pushed around. Although he waited a month to knock Dyamite's teeth out, so Bad News and the boys had plenty of time to rough him up again or decide he was a pussy or whatever. I think I'm just too old for this "code of the locker room" nonsense. Seriously, most of us grew out of fighting in our teens and taught our kids not to fight, so why am I supposed to romanticize this stuff, exactly? It's not Jacques. I have the same reaction to Taker waxing nostalgic about his era when men were men and guys reached in their bag for handguns instead of their Switch and dudes knew their place in the locker room because Taker and his crew would beat on them if they didn't. Honestly, the one thing these documentaries prove over and over again is that a lot of wrestlers consistently make bad decisions. Sometimes it's a combination of drugs, booze, and steroids. Sometimes it's just sheer stupidity (NIck Gage, bank robbery, something something something). I forget the exact quote, but, in the Collision in Korea ep, Scorpio says something along the lines of "Well, what am I supposed to do? Let Hawk get one over on me in front of the boys?" This is in reference to his plan to shiv Hawk. And I'm sitting their thinking "Well, your alternative is to murder a dude, cause an international incident, and maybe spend the rest of your life in a North Korean prison. So, yeah, letting it go and allowing Hawk to get one over on you in the locker room seems like a sensible plan to me." And of course, the whole beef started because Scorpio had some idiot beef with Flair that possibly only existed in Scorpio's head and Hawk was in withdrawal because he couldn't walk around pilled up and plastered. I think I'm just tired of dudes who never grew up thinking the only way to live is to beat up dudes on the playground 'cause they looked at you funny and party like a rockstar in between. I mean, I enjoy football, I enjoy wrestling, I enjoy combat sports. Doesn't mean I go out and fight guys in real life after I turn the tv off. I haven't been in a fight since my mid-teens and do not expect to get in one any time soon. And I did my share of drinking (and some drugs) in my 20's. My first job out of college was stressful and I'm in a white-collar profession kinda infamous for the "work hard, play hard" stuff. Didn't take too long to figure out that I was wrecking my life and my wife was going to leave me if I didn't dry out. So I did. Not easy peasy, but not impossible either. What has Flair said about Scorpio? I can't remember, even though I've seen shoots with Flair, read his book, etc. Scorpio thinks Flair got him fired from WCW? Any truth to that?

Presentations today were solid but not surprising. I like Ubi and Devolver, but I don't buy a huge number of Devolver's titles and I don't get too excited about Ubisoft. Lol, my pile of shame has a lot of Ubi titles but I don't feel like I play that many. Death's Door got a release date next month, which was one of the major things I wanted from this weekend. Feel like Ubi's got problems that extend beyond the pandemic. They're in a rut. I don't even really get excited about AC anymore and it's probably my favorite franchise of the past 20 years. Valhalla was a solid game, but it doesn't feel like an AC game. Not my idea of an AC game anyway. Origins tied back to the franchise enough to feel like an AC change of pace. Odyssey and Valhalla didn't really need ti be under the AC umbrella. Expecting some decent stuff tomorrow from Microsoft. My expectations aren't insane, so I imagine I'll be pleased.

For me, Le Batard is a "Vince Russo" type. Chafes at having someone looking over his shoulder and convinces you he'd probably deliver a better product if he got the creative control he seems to want and didn't have to fool with corporate interference and such. Then he gets that creative control elsewhere and you realize he has too many ideas and isn't that good at filtering himself, and that, instead of stifling him, oversight was weeding out his worse impulses and self-indulgent ideas and he probably needs that sort of environment back. I like Le Batard in small doses, but radio isn't the right format for small doses of anyone. Lol, at least Vince Russo never had a Papi. One point in Russo's favor, bro.

Bischoff has claimed that the extra $5,000 for "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" was the reason Buffer mostly just did the ring intros for main events. Bisch allegedly wanted to use Buffer all night instead of just one match - to get their money's worth out of him - but they didn't want to end up owing him an extra $50k after he said "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" ahead of every match.

Yeah, supposedly his base appearance fee was $30,000 back then. Bischoff and Tony Schiavone have both claimed he had a few extras written into his contract, like an extra $5,000 every time he said "Let's get ready to rumble". $30,000 isn't that excessive. Buffer himself has said that he typically gets $25,000 - $100,000 for appearances.

I just discovered Spivey's 68. Holy S%&#@. He looks like that at his age? Jesus. Imagine being five years old and going the grandparents for Chistmas and bald-headed geriatric giant Spivey comes out to rock you on his knee. I'd need therapy after one holiday.