The Comedian
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2 hours ago, nate said:
It amazes me how far we came from Bray's return, after all the speculation of where he would go, his relative radio silence, the death of his friend, then his heartfelt return promo before the bollix set in. Smh
Man is this an all-time fuck-up...
This dude had people eating out the palm of his hands on his return, and ended up taking it as permission to continue doing his silly puppet shows and avant garde theatre routine, when really they were cheering the (apparently false) notion that the silly puppet shows and stupid magic tricks were Vince's bad creative, and that Bray was going to return to the bad-ass Cape Fear / Night of the Hunter cult leader they actually loved...
I know Hunter's been giving people freedom to sink or swim on these return hires, but he had to know he was dealing with the Titanic here at some point...
HHH: So now that you're back, what's the game plan? Get your new Family put together, right?
Bray: Can we start by bring my brother back?
HHH: Yeah, sure, I guess he'd make an obvious member for the new Wyatt Fam...
Bray: Oh no, that's not what I want him for.
HHH: Oh? What for then?
Bray: I want him to dress in an uncanny valley mascot costume and play a nightmare version of my namesake uncle Barry, who may or may not be my ally,,,
HHH: WTF...
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Woll is disappointing but not unexpected. After She-Hulk it seems like they're interested in not having Matt Murdock tied down to a love interest. And she's easy enough to write off; Karen's off doing investigative journalism somewhere. Hensen is tougher to cover for because he's Matt's best friend and Season 3 ended with them reforming Nelson & Murdock. You have to come up with a fairly big off-camera falling out, or even worse (FAR worse), hard reboot him out of continuity. Any kind of hard rebooting like that will make fans of the original series seriously pissed...
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Now I'll really be furious at next year's WO Awards if Dominik doesn't get Best Gimmick for his "privileged Mexican-American lad play-acting Blood In, Blood Out" schtick...
I wish DVDVR could have it's own awards, but we can't even have a Top 500 without some Thrillseeker getting his knickers in a twist...
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Folks, to clarify, when I say MJF is Shane Douglas with better press, I mean that MJF is an OK worker whose mic work is heavily overrated by his fan base because his boss let's him cuss and say shooty things...
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Honestly if the Observer Awards voters were really smart they'd give all the awards to TJPW.
Every wrestler has a well-defined character, most with long and compelling story arcs.
And every once in a while their best wrestlers show up in AEW to do jobs for Wrasslin' Pittsburgh Dentist.
And of course Kento Miyahara's out there in AJPW having 5-star matches with anything that moves.
But God forbid they look at a non-NJPW or NJPW-affiliated fed in Japan...
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5 minutes ago, Raziel said:
MJF and the fifth iteration in 3 years of "My opponent has to run a gauntlet to get to me", which is the only storyline he has outside of being a forum troll.
I probably wouldn't mind as much if MJF wasn't basically Shane Douglas with better press...
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2 hours ago, For Great Justice said:
I mean it’s a no-win black hole of a discussion that I’m sure I’ll regret starting, but I can’t help but say I don’t think the WON Awards have ever been further away from the general wrestling zeitgeist (even the internet version of it).
Agreed. This has never been more clearly "Dave's Personal Wrestling Awards for his Subculture of Smart Marks with 0% Objectivity Hatred for WWE".
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On 2/17/2023 at 2:48 PM, elizium said:
Knock at the Cabin is good M. Night. The 7 lead performances are all fantastic, from Big Dave on down. I love that M. Night trusted Batista with so much of the emotional heavy lifting. Without getting spoilery, its super tense and heavy, there were some dusty eyes in the theatre last night. It does get a little heavy-handed, one character even has a monologue toward the end where they explain the symbolism of some things, but that's just the kind of thing you should expect in an M. Night movie...he did cast himself as writing Jesus in one of his movies after all. His cameo in this one is pretty funny.
Be warned, about 30% of the film is shot in ultra close-up. If you see it in the theatre, a 50 foot Batista head will be looming over you for a good chunk of the run time. Its very effective, though, especially during the event that occurs after the first choice.
I'm curious enough to want to read the book the movie was based on. There's a lot of talk about existing in online echo chambers and I want to know if that is original to the movie or something already in the source.
For recent M. Night output, I'd put it in line with something like Split, but way better than Glass. Haven't seen Old, but did listen to the Too Scary; Didn't Watch podcast about it and Knock sounds much, much better.
It was already pretty apparent before, but this pretty much seals Batista as the best actor-wrestler. He makes the most interesting choices and is clearly putting in the work, rather than just relying on personality like the Rock.
I hope it's good. If only because it was partly shot in my hometown of Tabernacle, NJ. Which gives us another thing to be famous for besides being where "Mexican Lindbergh" Emilio Carranza crashed and died on his way from NYC to Mexico City.
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A Dookie gimmick will get Corbin more heat than his old "I hate Indy guys" schtick ever did ...
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I feel like a lot of people are preparing for a fan turn on Cody that's not gonna happen, or at least not for a while. Certainly not before Mania. Keep in mind Cody's actually got a closer storyline to Bryan than Sami does. "Evil WWE Creative tried to bury me but I persevered and now I'm gonna take the gold to prove them wrong once and for all." That will carry him through this. And WWE won't let him do the kind of dumb "Codyverse" shit he got away with in AEW.
This isn't like giving the fans a choice between Bryan or Batista, it's like giving them a choice between Bryan or Punk. Either way they're gonna cheer. It's a win/win...
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Eagles always prioritize the O line too. You got two future HOFers there in Kelce and Johnson and three young studs. They just made their O line coach the highest paid position coach in the NFL. Good O line makes everything better. Don't need to waste money on big name RB's if your line can open holes my grandmother could run through.
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Natural, are you currently on any anti-depressants? I've been on Lexapro for 7 years, it's like night and day. No more voices in my head telling me that everyone hates me and wants to hurt me and that I should just beat them to it and put a bullet through my head, no more hiding in the bathroom at work to bawl my eyes out over a minor setback, stuff like that.
Much love and well-deserved peace to you.
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Also RockNRolla is super underrated and deserves as much love as Snatch...
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2 hours ago, StuntmanCrowley said:
The sheer amount of Salt from almost every single fanbase that Philly is in is wonderful
I've heard the term "Mickey Mouse" schedule from Cowboys fans the most. I wonder how they feel Micah Parsons, probably the best player on their team, is rooting for the Eagles to win.
Even if you don't like the Eagles or their fans, I think anyone should at least be rooting for Jalen Hurts in some capacity. Work ethic, leadership, etc, etc, etc. He's been doubted at every single phase of his career and he has succeeded at every single phase through just hard goddamn work. I feel like you have to actively TRY to root against him.
Bias is showing, as I'm live/am from Philly and the area, but c'mon, the national narrative is such shit against the city.
Yeah, the whole, "Let's root against this underdog fan base that stays passionate despite hardly ever winning anything" narrative has gotten pretty tired. I'm 46 years old, and Philly big 4 teams have won 4 titles in my life, half of which were before I was cognizant of the sports world. So the '08 Phil's and '17 Eagles are the only championships I've experienced.
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Eagles vs. the long-time former head coach
Kelce brother vs. Kelce brother
and for the first time ever, black QB vs. black QB
...and yes, sadly, somewhere in the suburbs of Philly, there's still some middle-aged white guys grumbling about how "Wentz coulda done this too if we'd given him all these weapons", long past the time when they could still hide their desire for a white QB as "reservations about Jalen's ceiling as a starting QB"...
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18 minutes ago, Raziel said:
Now us Phily fans get to listen to 2 weeks of salt.
Well, "let's hate Philly!" Is the oldest, tiredest trope in American sports media. It's just a shame when it affects how players are covered. I mean, Jalen Hurts' success through hard work, determination, and great character should be one of the feel-good stories of the season, but he plays in Philly so instead we get jackasses like nepo baby Simms trying to tear him down...
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Vikings fans shoulda told the Niners fans what happens when you hang your jersey on the Rocky statue...
Now that we've emerged out of a conference final four featuring 3 teams I despise (beating the living shit out of 2 of those teams in the process), I feel pretty good about the Super Bowl. I mean, if the Eagles lose I won't be happy, but at least I won't be angry if the Bengals finally get one, or our old pal Andy gets another...
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13 hours ago, The Natural said:
Unfortunately not. Even the broken microphone didn't want to work with fucking Hulk Hogan.
"Hey Vince, me and that microphone just doesn't work for me brother. I just don't see it being a main event-level mic."
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15 minutes ago, supremebve said:
I 100% agree with this with one caveat. I use humor as a coping mechanism, but I also understand that not everyone is in on the joke. If I'm talking to friends, loved ones, and/or people who understand who I am and how I cope with things, I will go ahead and make jokes that people may find distasteful. If I'm talking to someone I don't know, or in a public forum, I will not make these jokes. Nash, who is a public figure who's words reach far farther than mine, should understand that not everyone is going to appreciate that joke (if he is joking). I don't want to be that guy, but not every joke is for everybody, so I guess I'm saying we should all consider our audience in these cases
No I think you make a perfectly valid point as well supremebve. I totally get where you're coming from.
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Speaking as a depression sufferer with suicidal ideation, I really don't have a problem with Nash even if he is joking. Humor is a coping mechanism. I use gallows humor all the time. I refer to my anti-depressants as my "don't kill yourself" pills. I also have a mix of songs about suicide on Spotify. It seems counterintuitive, but as the late Bushwick Bill once said, "Why must I always sing these sad songs?/ Because it comforts all my feelings inside til all the bad's gone".
If you suffer then by all means get help though. I medicated depression with whiskey for way too many years because of stubborn pride...
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Hogan's ability to always be able to find a way to make himself an even bigger douche nozzle is truly impressive...
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8 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
If I'm not mistaken, the American flag was one with thirteen stars for the original colonies.
That's some pretty awesome fridge logic on the WWF's part; Taker's undead, so for all we know he could've been around in the 18th century, chokeslamming Hessians and tombstoning Redcoats...
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JLowe's pretty much right. Look at Taker's first face turn logic. "Even an evil zombie demon wrestler from Hell like me wouldn't hit Miss Elizabeth with a chair! Oh, btw, forget dominating the WWF, now I just want to waste several years of my career safeguarding the fed from the freakishly tall and morbidly obese, basically anyone who's too big for me to hit my cool finisher on."
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My money's on Comcast.
They've already shown that they're open to owning an organization run by dinosaurs who keep putting out an antiquated, unappealing product, yet still make money off a loyal fan base. They own the Flyers...
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March 2023 Wrestling Discussion
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Posted · Edited by The Comedian
typographical error
I feel the same way about LA Knight that I do about Greta Van Fleet; yeah, the act is a complete rip-off of a legend, but it's a pretty good rip-off, and if you're gonna rip somebody off, why not The Rock/Led Zeppelin?