Eivion

A plague upon the house of whoever made this week's Ascendant Challenge. Yeah, I died 4 or 5 times and just had to give up so I wouldn't hold my poor fireteam back anymore. Its the same bs that was getting me with last week's challenge with those damn spinning rocks and annoying lack of strong visuals in the Ascendant realm.

This is what happens when there is no one to hold Didio back.

I did not realize this. I thought you had to kill the first ogre before the second one showed up. I guess I lucked out both times. Glad you mentioned this. I had every intention of trying to solo this before reading that. Its possible she shows up at the end of the Dreaming City story line. I don't think we are quite finished with it content wise. You know we aren't getting rewarded with that until Destiny 3. Honestly, it doesn't sound too different from EP and Blind Well. You complain about only rewarding hardcores, but I'm almost certain you and me are already strong enough to probably complete it with a fireteam. RIPPA himself is probably only a week or two away from that point.

Unless they air the show out of taping order or put up 3 shows those first two weeks, probably not. The champion wasn't even decided until the second set of tapings.

Its good they are finally starting.

They would be the best of friends and/or the worst of enemies. The important thing is the eventual tag team that should totally win tag gold.

Honestly, I've yet to be really impressed with Ruby. She is solid but not much more. I like Liv. She is a decent henchwomen and wonderfully obnoxious in a Harley Quinn-esque way while making it her own. I think Sarah is a bit awkward and not as good as she should be for the team's muscle.

Wow, sorry to hear about this, jae. Have there been any updates on the case? Hope you and your family are staying safe. This does remind that I met both a murderer and his eventual victim in grade school. Both were Asian. Not sure about the why of it though I know multiple people were involved. The murderer was someone I had in one of my classes for semester or two during I want to say middle. Can't remember about what, but I did used to talk him and was on semi-friendly terms with him. The victim was in a high school class I had to eventually drop out of. It was very weird learning later that semester that he was killed and one of the people who had killed him. It wasn't a situation you could have really seen coming from from the points I had met both guys at.

Io/Zeuxis was a nice enough match and better showcase for Zeuxis than the first round. First round Io undershoots the moonsault and this week she overshoots. Hopefully she has it don next round. Deonna/Xia was a decent little match. Really hope Xia starts appearing in NXT proper. Nicole/Tegan was short, but decent whiel it lasted. Kaitlyn/Mia was more solid than I was expecting with the limb work and how everything built. Loved the reaction to Mia kicking out of the spear. This was a better showing from Kaitlyn than probably her entire run in WWE with just how much more fluid she moved and hit her offense. Really hope we see more of her after this. Decent episode but a step down from last week's for sure. It was never going to be able to live up to it considering how good Meiko/Mercedes was.

The show currently only has 4 official matches with an unofficial match in the MYC to make 5. This is supposed hitting the new 4 hour standard and I doubt all five of those matches are going long (only 3 of them should really even go beyond 10 minutes). I doubt any of the main roster women are on any type of kickoff show match unless that is where they do the likely battle royal. Otherwise I expect any main roster matches to make the main show.

Dug both Flash and Black Lightning's returns.

I like that Billy has to take a minute to think if she has ever been champion. Why assume it will be a kickoff show match?

Now this I would all for.

The Annual in January is supposed to cover his death.

I had a weird run of Crucible last night. I only did two matches, but they were my worst performances in a long while yet somehow my teams succeeded. There is something annoying about performing well and losing, then performing shitty and winning. My victories feel a bit tainted. The better run I had this morning did make up for it somewhat. Mulling over whether or not to do Gravetide Summoner again. I probably will for the gear, but that is really fucking annoying and needs to be fixed already. There are at least two big Wanted bosses we haven't seen yet because of this bs.

I was never an Evolution fan so their reunion doesn;t interest me at all. Rey vs. Nak though has plenty of my interest. Wonder if this means Rey will be part f the SDL crew.

But obnoxious dick Sami is so great. This is only works for me if and Becky pull a reverse from their MMC partnership with Sami trying to better Becky.

Dug the segment with AJ, Miz, & Bryan. Feels like that will turn into a 3-way somehow for sure. Charlotte/Becky was great and their best match yet though fuck did that post match have me worried for Charlotte's hand/wrist. Kind of ridiculous she was still able to do the MMC. I like the Last Women Standing match choice for Evolution. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

I don't think this was the case before, but we can now reacquire shaders from our Collections now via combos of glimmer, bright dust, and legendary shards. And the weekly bounty is the Summoner again. Yeah this is definitely a glitch.

The lack of red gloves is disappointing. Not bad otherwise though I have no idea what emotion Rose is supposed to be portraying in this picture. That is a pity. Legends is a very fun show after the first season.

I think the first one was technically a success so....yes I suppose. Honestly, I can't say I'm super excited. I don't really want SS turned into GotG. Really I just hope Gunn avoids the whole Waller is worse than the villains bullshit so many writers push. Its lazy and just not nearly as interesting to me as the far more grey area character in Ostrander's run and even JL/JLU. It would also be nice if at least some of the villains on the squad were true pos sociopaths.

Congrats, those aren't the easiest solo though i think the Gravetide Summoner is probably the best one for it. I'm surprised you waited til reached 540. You would have been good at 520. I'm not sure why thy made those armors available to to people now and not give them an extra buff to make it worthwhile. I still wonder if the Gravetide Summoner twice in a row was a glitch. There is supposed to be one of these bosses in each world space. Not sure why you skipped it. Even if it you've only already done it it was a semi-easy way for more powerful gear. No reason to waste it. I actually did again during the weekend. I tend to buy to get most of the weekly bounties, even if they are somewhat annoying. I'm not really bothered if I succeed or fail at them. I've only manged to take out an entire team once, and never during a PE fight. I always try to deny motes. So there are people that stupid, wonderful. I've been curious if an idiot bringing motes over for an invasion delivers those motes to the opposing team when he is killed.

To be fair the Riott Squad really didn't have much stock in the first place. They started the same week another group with a bigger name did. They have had no real feuds of value, closest being this recent one with Ronda and the one short one with Charlotte. Honestly, its weird seeing people complain about how Ronda in being pushed so strongly. She is natural far beyond the talent she should realistically have. She is the biggest star they currently have signed and waiting too long to push her would be a massive waste. With the background she is coming from, she really shouldn't be having competitive matches outside the biggest female names in the promotion and monster types like Nia. I think they are using her generally well which is to me the odd part. They have pushed her strong while avoiding fear of how long she will be around forcing them to rush her through her biggest potential matches.

Didn;t Trish and Mickie originally want to face each other again for this? While a somewhat interesting match, this was never going to be the match that really drew people in. That was moronic thinking on their part. To be fair I don't think they ever announced the UK title would be defended anywhere that people normally would see it. It certainly wasn't mentioned during the original announcement on Raw or any time on tv.

The problem is NXT is already taped so if there is anything beyond the already announced Kairi/Shayna it will just be semi-random segments.. becky vs. Charlotte is happening on SDL. I suppose if we get a fuck finish they will announce a final match, but still I do wish they would stop overkilling things with these rematches.