Cliff Hanger

Something I forgot to mention last night: I trust the diehard weirdos in the PC arena to come up with some kind of chant for Baron's "fake beard" crack at Lexis. (It won't happen, but the funniest thing they could do for 2k24 would be to have the NXT Orlando audience "whoo!" during Lyra's theme song and none of the other crowds do it)

Wondering if the thing about NXT getting picks this year was misinformation (or disinformation), or if plans changed after the news and "news" people got hold of it.

"Have some candy, Book." Man, I'm used to Booker wilding out but I think this is the first time I've seen Vic get this cranky as a result. Fun show. Probably the right choices on both title matches. I hope Corbin goes back on the road after this and that he's able to be as good as he has been during his year of being sent down. NQCC needs a new fourth member; make it a woman if you want to bounce them off OTM and the Family for a while or pick another dude.

The Fired Festival continues, and Von Wagner is out. I never loved the wacky man-child gimmick, but I'm surprised nonetheless. With his size and comic timing, I figured he'd have a spot locked up in the comedy tier if nothing else.

I forgot how terrible the Firepro download interface is on Playstation. I woke up with the idea that I was gonna find the best versions of a few of my current faves before work, but that absolutely did not happen.

Rooting for Roxy to lose tomorrow feels weird, but she's better than half the women on the touring rosters and probably should have been called up before any of last year's call-ups save Zoey and maybe Alba (who has been badly underused). Do we know anything about how Wes Lee's recovery is going? He was my favorite last year in spite of his terrible booking (which, in retrospect, was partly to cover his injuries) and I want him to be able to come back strong almost as much as I want him to be OK.

The Nigerians have to be worried.

All the FF games on PS+ except Stranger of Paradise are leaving PS+ on 5/21, so if you've been putting something off it's time to fuckin go

God dammit Matt, you got whiskey up my nose

If you get a chance to play the PS360 Splatterhouse, do it. It's janky and sleazy and dumb, but it's fun as hell despite being a C+ in every way that SHOULD make for a great game. As far as smashy smashy button mashy combo brawlers go, I get more joy out of that than I do a lot of objectively better games. It also has the uncut version of the arcade game (both the Namco Museum and Arcade Archive releases for Switch have green blood) and both Genesis sequels included as unlockables.

So does the late Drew Gulak stay on the roster page forever like Brodie Lee at AEW, or is this just until they find the corpse or the police call off the search? This show wasn't as much fun as the last couple, but I was glad to see a few new directions etc. Dijak being the victim of a long, slow heat segment during a picture-in-picture break was downright weird, but it feels like they kind of HAVE to turn him if he's staying in Orlando because the Loyal Perverts love him too much. (Not that I blame them). Very interested to see who wins the women's belt next week and who gets pinned. Didn't they used to be better about setting up both weeks of the Double Digests before the first one? Or am I misremembering? I guess the Draft Sandwich nature of the event means there will be people competing on the second show who were on a touring roster the Tuesday before, which may be why Natalya v Vice is the only week 2 match so far. We're clearly getting Axiom/Frazer v Authors on night 2, I just hope it doesn't end up being a 3 week reign.

Announced for NXT tomorrow: Trick Williams v Carmelo Hayes, steel cage match Dijak v Noam Dar Thea Hail v Tatum Paxley Sol Ruca v Lola Vice Joaquin Wilde v Ridge Holland Malik Blade and Edris Enofe v Authors of Pain Also announced: Tony di Angelo returns from Boca after his loss to Ilja I have high hopes for those first 2 matches.

RIP to the Rawbot and Smackdrone

Especially since they are always incredibly careful to call the boss Paul "Triple H" Levesque in similar releases

Perfect Dark is probably the best single-stick FPS ever made, but be aware that if you don't have an N64 Expansion Pak you will only be able to play deathmatch mode, not the story. There's a solid stack of missions where you play vs bots a la the Unreal Tournament games or the Dreamcast version of Quake 3, but you will be missing out on the main piece of solo content