Kevin Wilson
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Keep in mind it is pronounced MA-ruh-gowld, not MEH·ruh·gowld. Say it wrong and GIulia will get ya.
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I'm always fascinated by QB Quarterback contracts and where the next contracts will slot. The contracts will keep going up of course, as the cap keeps going up and QBs will always be the most valued position. But where does Dak slot in the top 5? Tua? Look how much Murray, Watson, and Cousins are making, Tua and Dak would slot over them but will either set a new Avg Per Year record? I'm definitely thinking Dak will, especially if he signs next offseason, but I have no idea where to slot Tua. Who I think is really good but I don't know if he's "make more money than Lamar, Herbert, and Burrow" good.
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Anyone else find it a bit odd that Sareee has a big match in Stardom and then a month later has a big match in Marigold? Not that the wrestlers themselves seem to be on bad terms or anything but with how Rossy left I just assumed they wouldn't really be sharing Freelancers. Although now I figure there is no way that Sareee beats Mayu, not that I expected that anyway but I can't see the IWGP Women's Champion wrestling on the debut Marigold show. But wrestling is wacky and weird so who knows.
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6 minutes ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:
Suzu is with Stardom, if I'm not mistaken she's contracted now.
I saw people invoking Asahi on Twitter as a talking point, about how Asahi would have been disappointed by this development, and I don't think that would have been the case at all. Asahi was extremely close with Nao Ishikawa, both from Ice Ribbon and afterwards, and she was close with Misa Matsui. She also openly talked about how her time as a wrestler wasn't over and we'd see "the wrestler Asahi" again someday, not just "the actress Asahi". I fully believe she would've been one of the ones to have left AWG to join up if she was still alive.
Either way I think we can all agree that anyone invoking a recently passed wrestler to push their own thoughts on a situation are probably pretty shitty and should stop doing that. (I don't mean you since you are just responding to it, but anyone that brings it up in the first place)
I'm still a little unclear if the former AgZ wrestlers are officially signed with Marigold, will be Freelancers with Marigold as their main home, or they will be signed but it was such a late development they haven't signed but are going to any moment. I say that partially because Marigold's website roster has all the other wrestlers including Nanae and Nao, but none of the former AgZ wrestlers.
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7 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
I always just assumed that carrying capacity - for the most part was due to technical limitations
Like I am trying to picture how much more broken a Bethesda game would be if you could bring everything into every environment
I can see that with older games but new games shouldn't have that problem. I mean if there are skyrim and fallout mods that make infinity carrying capacity I am sure developers can do it if they wanted to. I think they think it presents more "tough" decisions to the player, its just not one I enjoy haha
I am not even going to play fallout 4 next gen update unless I am sure the mod for carrying capacity is compatible. I just wanna kill stuff and make shitty settlements.
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As I play Dragon's Dogma 2, and its a good game, I come across a common complaint I have about some games like this. I hate, with a capital H, games with very limited carrying capacity. I get it, they are trying to add an element of realism. But in a game I'm battling dragons, not eating regularly, and going days at a time sometimes without sleeping, can we focus on what is *fun* and not what is realistic? Having to spend time giving things to pawns, running back to town to use storage (when there is no easy/cheap fast travel especially early in the game), not being able to pick up things I want while deep in a cave isn't fun. I want to have fun.
I don't use mods often but one mod I do use for skyrim/fallout is the mod for unlimited carry capacity (or something similar). I don't mind some realism in games, for example I have no issue with games that have "weight" matter when equipping armor like FromSoft games as that adds an element of strategy. But if my guy is carrying two swords, two suits of armor, two tents, 20 potions, and 5 pieces of iron ore, what's a few more items?
Anyway, I like Dragon's Dogma 2 a lot, I just hate the inventory management.
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13 minutes ago, Just Dave said:
I don’t understand this Kyle O Reilly/Rod Strong thing. Like… who is this for? Do you think there are 50 people worldwide who weren’t gonna order Dynasty who will now because this match is on the card? Tony drives me crazy with this niche within a niche shit…
It's not for me, but I will say I am in the minority here in that I don't mind the super long PPV cards. I have no kids and nothing better to do, I have no issue sitting with my brother and watching five hours of wrestling while we shoot the shit and eat pizza. So if TK wants to add another ***1/2 star match, I won't complain, give me all you got for my $50.
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About time, I've been holding off my re-play for at least a year waiting for the next gen update. My backlog is too deep right now to dive right into it day 1 but I'm looking forward to playing it again, its been awhile.
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10 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Yeah, you carefully select one wrestler anything sounds suspect. Shit, Dom has 29 matches this year. He is clearly the high number. He is probably above and beyond any wrestler anywhere. Everyone else checking several people has between 10 to 20 ish.
Nakamura hasn't had more than 72 matches since before the pandemic. Damian Priest had 100 matches last year but also hasn't wrestled more than 84 or even close to that in several years beyond that. Sami Zayn had 94 last year but 78 and 55 prior to that. Gunther had 96 and then 83. Obviously while signed to NXT UK, he wrestled once a month if you average it out. Was Gunther in semi retirement? Cody wrestled 100+ last year but look at the amount of matches in his prior WWE run. He was doing between 160 to 190 matches a year. 119 was his low in a healthy year. That would be close to the top number for a WWE guy or girl nowadays.
And that's essentially my point. We are not talking the old WWF/WWE schedule. In addition, going back to one of points pages back, why are you trying to make a Will Ospreay wrestle that much anyway? A Dom or an Austin Theory should be getting valuable ring time.
I had checked to and honestly its impressive how much Cody Rhodes is wrestling. And not just wrestling but putting the extra effort in being the super friendly fan favorite at every event (at the house show I went to, during intermission he signed autographs for anyone close to the guard rail). While I think Cody is a little carny sometimes (who isn't?), the work he is putting into his current run is top notch, definitely maximum effort to show he's ready to be the face of the biggest wrestling promotion in the world.
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Not sure if this is new news or old news, but Diana now has a monthly streaming service for recent shows as well as a backlog going back to the start of 2022 called EveryDiana. 990 yen which seems a little on the high side. I'm surprised they didn't just go the Youtube route like PURE-J, Ice Ribbon, and Marvelous since I would assume they have a pretty small fanbase and it would be easier, but who am I to judge without knowing the financial details. They also still air live shows, so I imagine there will be a gap from when the show airs to when its added to the monthly service (last show had a 30 day wait).
Honestly, if they added events from when they started the promotion I'd buy it in a heartbeat but I don't know who even owns those older shows or if they were taped. But a lot of lost gems for sure in their early days I'd love to watch.
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12 minutes ago, Godfrey said:
I honestly thought there would have been more folks taking victory laps today. I guess the confirmation that Punk was in no way defending himself or controlling the situation is outweighed by the rest of it. It sucked to watch and once again nobody looks good
That's kinda the thing. The footage didn't make Punk look "good" as he got physical with someone that was literally fixing his hair and had made no aggressive movements. Punk was clearly the aggressor, both by going up to Perry and getting physical with him. BUT no one really cares about that just due to how AEW went about it. If this footage was released the following week to further a Perry storyline the reaction wouldn't have been nearly as strong. The fact is most wrestling fans know Punk is a whiny malcontent asshole so this video didn't change anyone's opinion of him, it just made most people shake their heads that TK thought it helped AEW in some way to show it.
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I was hoping showing the video would be funny or amusing in presentation but it really just came across as dumb. One can nitpick but its 90% how Punk described it, and the TK "feared for my life" part looks silly since while Punk did yell at him (it wasn't mentioned but you could tell when it happened) it didn't look like he was going to attack him. Then they sent out boring ass shitty promo FTR to further kill the already confused crowd for the next hour. TK needed a good friend to tell him showing the footage would only "work" if it was presented ridiculously almost like a cartoon, or it showed a very different version than what Punk said. Neither happened. They should never mention it again and hope everyone forgets.
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I can understand why TK offered Matt Hardy a contract as he still seems to dream about "one last run" for the Hardys, but I hope now that Matt declined it that TK takes it back and moves on to someone else. I think Hardy would work ok in a producer/backstage role but if he still thinks he has value as a wrestler I'd just let him go and see what he can find. With AEW's stacked roster I just don't think he has anything to offer in-ring anymore.
Since Matt turned it down, I'm thinking it was probably a pay decrease, or he told Matt he wouldn't be a featured wrestler.
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Everyone in my office building went outside to look at it and stayed outside for 30+ minutes, at least 100 people. I couldn't tell if people were really THAT interested (it was about 80% covered where I live) or people were just taking the excuse to not work for a bit.
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Seth is the ultimate company man, looked like the biggest goof all weekend but went all-in on the bit. Even being the last one up during the celebration. I don't know what direction he goes in next, maybe a break if his back is really an issue, but I hope he gets something nice in return.
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12 minutes ago, tbarrie said:
He shouldn't do this.
NO FUN AT ALL
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I hope its real footage with The Bucks doing in-character commentary over it. Apparently there is no NDA at all related to the incident so nothing Punk can do about it, as long as they don't so severely edit it that they show the events too far out of context. I'm sure AEW's lawyers have that part covered. Petty TK is the best, and anyone saying he "shouldn't do this" after what Punk said last week is no fun at all.
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2 minutes ago, Just Dave said:
It makes me happy that y'all aren't shamelessly fellating this steaming pile of prison ass like they are other corners of the internet. I love you all. Fuck this company, and fuck the people running it who covered up human trafficking.
I think everyone just scared away the people that wanted to be positive haha sometimes its hard to be the one going against the grain.
I liked the show more than some here but the biggest issue to me was only... two matches felt like WrestleMania matches. Sami/GUNTER and the main event. Not to say the main event was good but it felt special since The Rock was in it. Becky/Rhea was fun, ladder match had some good spots. But the women's tag and lucha match just felt like Smackdown matches, nothing wrong with either but instantly forgettable. The Usos match was just bad, it came six months too late and no one cares anymore. I felt bad for Jey as he had to know it was a turd, whoever produced that match should be sat down and talked to by someone. Main event was 20 minutes too long, liked the end stretch but too plodding to get there. Sami/Gunter clearly the match of the night.
Top to bottom it was *fine*, I don't regret watching it but I hope Night 2 is better. The potential is there, just has to deliver.
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While I do think transparency is... nice, I also think TK can keep some things to himself as it just opens him up to criticism. Its going to come anyway but giving people ammunition like this:
“I think that this year I have been very active not only in the free agent market, but in the production budget. There are things tonight, like for example, on one song alone, I spent like a year’s pay for most pro wrestlers in this business."
Just isn't a good idea. To say right after firing ten people "I spent more than a year's salary for most wrestlers on one song" isn't going to impress anyone, its going to do the opposite. Cut people if you have to for whatever reason but any questions about it should get the most PR responses ever. If I got fired tomorrow, my company's CEO wouldn't go on X and say "we had to fire Kevin, I needed new cushions for my yacht". It may be true but doesn't need to be publicly said. Also what fucking song was on ROH's show that cost $100K+ for one time use???
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I mean this in the nicest way possible but I can tell when wrestling fans haven't worked a corporate job before or don't have to deal with travel for one. The company I work for is worth probably half a billion dollars or so. When I fly to job sites, sometimes they send me to a cheaper airport and have me rent a car and drive two hours to save a couple hundred bucks. If I eat a $9 lunch and want to expense it, I have to take a picture of the receipt, make it into a PDF and attach it to my expense report to prove I really spent the money. $9! Its nothing on their budget but I still have to do it. As EVA said, its not that Shad Khan is sitting down at night looking at ways to save $1,600, its the managers of departments looking for ways to keep their budgets at a certain number so they don't get fired.
TK deserves criticism for firing someone that was out injured due to a job-related injury, and he seems to see that now (not sure why he didn't realize it before doing it). And he probably shouldn't give an interview saying 'yes I fired those people because I want to sign big free agents' (or in essence), its not good optics. But big companies sweating the dimes and nickels is the American way, AEW isn't doing anything different then any other company in the country in that regard.
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The call on Aaliyah Edwards just as a fan was a shame. I'm not saying if it was "right" or "wrong" as I can see both sides (it was a foul, but who wants a foul called there??), but its still unfortunate. All the casuals watching wanted to see a shot go up at the end, not for it to end like that.
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I know this is partially TK's fault for selling it in the past he'd never cut people, but I really think The Internet is making this a bigger deal than it is. Just about every company in the world cuts/fires people that they feel aren't doing well, or just to save money, or because the CEO wants a bigger bonus. Most fans don't care about any of this stuff, as general wrestling fans are used to the occasional cullings since WWF/WWE has been doing it since the dawn of time, I think its just the vocal small minority of online fans that care that The Boys were cut and why.
I take no personal pleasure on people losing their jobs, and TK getting some side eyeing since he said he wouldn't do this is justified, but in the grand scheme of things this is just normal business. The lesson he needs to learn here is to never discuss the "why" part and just keep it moving, and probably don't cut people that were injured wrestling as its just poor optics and not very nice.
I do think its interesting that the Bischoff's "billionaire's kid" talk has seeped into DVDVR, I guess it shows if something is repeated enough online it stays in people's brains. Every wrestling promoter has been spending "someone else's" money, its such a weird criticism. Ted Turner funded WCW and Bischoff spent his money. Rick Rubin funded SMW and Jim Cornette spent his money. All big billion dollar companies fire people sometimes, if you anti-capitalism that's fine but its weird to paint AEW as different just because its funded by one person and another is making the day to day decisions.
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On 3/31/2024 at 3:43 PM, Kevin Wilson said:
Unless there was a witness that can ID him at the scene as the driver, I assume right now he is finding a good friend that will take the fall. So I imagine he'll be "fine" as far as the NFL goes unless more comes out. I say that not just because he's famous, but unless someone saw the driver its a really hard case to prove as it just being his car can only go so far to proving he was the one driving it.
Still, a shitty situation.
Guess I have to call myself out as this isn't what happened, as Rice has admitted he was driving one of the vehicles. I think he'll definitely get a suspension now between racing and leaving the scene, although he may get somewhat of a break for cooperating. Two of the people they hit were injured enough to go to the hospital so while not a Ruggs situation it wasn't a victimless crime either so I don't think they can sweep it under the rug completely.
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I hope that anyone (not on here but just a general "anyone") that got worked by Jack Perry's recent comments related to talking to TK/still being part of AEW feels silly after The Young Bucks mentioned him on Dynamite. It never made any sense that going to NJPW was some sort of punishment or that TK was mad at him and wouldn't allow him on AEW. I have no doubt there was initially some annoyance there and they did put him on the shelf for a bit to cool off, but anything he is doing/saying now is 100% storyline and in sync with AEW. Nothing else would make sense. I don't know what the end game will be, maybe he'll wrestle at Forbidden Door as an "outsider" and use that to start wrestling in AEW again.
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AEW DYNASTY - 4/21/2024
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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I think they made Bucks/FTR a ladder match so that FTR can more easily lose via shenanigans without taking a pinfall loss. Not that I've ever gotten the impression that FTR refuses to take pins, far from it, but it will give the rematch an easier justification and maybe will make the anti-Bucks people more chill as grabbing titles from a ladder has always felt like less of a direct loss than pinning someone.
Anyway, I assume Jack Perry makes his return to help The Young Bucks win.