SirSmUgly

You know what I like? When Rippa doesn't close the monthly discussion thread because of stupidity. On another vaguely related note, in an NXT thread, we were discussing the proper reaction for a crowd that wants nothing to do with a wrestler or angle that they are being given. What would the proper response be? Simply sitting on their hands in silence? Leaving the ringside area? Booing? What seems both a) most effective and b) the least cringey activity a crowd could do in order to indicate that they hate what they're seeing?

WELP. I just want them to spin NXT off completely as its own thing, bring Neville and Sasha and Becky and everyone back that they're not even using really, and have it become half indie-fantasy-matchup company and half minor leagues for the people with less experience who are learning. I complain about Full Sail a lot, but those fans are pretty forgiving of people who are trying hard even if they're not good yet. A hybrid mini-promotion like that can work.

For the love of it all, even Eva's instantaneous comebacks are wooden and stale. Plus, Eva said "verse" instead of "versus." Either she is the best heel ever or she's so shitty that she's come back around to good or something. Oh, yeah, the rest of the show. Nia Jax looks very good, but I wanted her to get more offense against Carmella. Carmella seems really nice on Breaking Ground, but her character hits every wrong note for me. It's so try-hard and forced from the moonwalk to the "Bye Felicia" (which I think she's dropped) to just everything. I liked the match as a "giant stalks the victim and finally gets her" type TV match though. The crowd being so into the Ascension makes me wonder if the things that I like are probably actually shitty if the NXT crowd also likes them. I will say that the highlight of that match for me was the girl in the Macho Man shirt who clearly wanted to do unspeakable things to Jason Jordan. Emma being mean is great. She's a fun squash match worker. Dash and Dawson are an awesome tag team just because they give the NXT drones nothing to cheer for or imitate. Bayley/Bliss was okay for what it was. Bayley is no super-worker and Bliss has shitty offense, so her boring control segments took me out of the match. Even my wife, who thinks wrestling is silly, is totally into Bayley. She likes the character's optimism and said basically that she became a fan of Bayley because her ability to draw people in is infectious. That was staggering coming from her because she sees wrestling as this kitschy thing that she's not really into. I thought it was cute that at one point while Alexa was in the middle of a long control segment, she said, "Bayley doesn't seem to have any energy tonight." Of course, I was thinking about Bayley's selling in holds and asked a dumb question about if she meant that Bayley needed to struggle more in holds to make the match feel more like a fight, but she answered, "no, I mean that she's barely been able to do any offensive moves in this match so far and the other girl is mostly beating her up." Watching wrestling with non-wrestling fans who buy in, even for a moment, is fun.

They really should have flipped the brackets so that Cesaro faced Reigns on the PPV and ADR faced him on RAW. Del Rio is garbage at this point from the admittedly little I've seen of him. I don't look forward to the crowd shitting on Reigns after he has a terrible match with ADR in the finals against the Owens/Ambrose winner. The inability to use foresight when booking is what has some people thinking that Reigns is being set up to fail. I take the Occam's Razor viewpoint: The creatives running the show are just incompetent.

I didn't see that at all. I thought Bayley was a really fun fired-up babyface. I do agree that she is at best a competent worker in terms of mechanics, though I think her facial expressions and ability to garner sympathy through selling are good.

I think that each person can work a set number of plants. I think that number is five, but that's just from my playing. I haven't looked it up online.

Whatever you build or plant is useless if you don't explicitly assign someone to work it. If you look at plants while in workshop mode, any plants with a green person next to them are being worked; any plants with a red person next to them are not. You need to find a free settler, target him or her, and click the "assign" button (which I think is X on PS4), and then go back to the thing that you want them to work (plants or guard post or whatever), target it, and hit the "assign" button again. Then and only then will the settler start working the plants or post or whatever it is that you want them to work. I hope I understood what you were asking and answered it well enough.

For Corvega, did you take the stairs up all the way to the top of the metal structure outside? There are a bunch of bad guys there (and a bobblehead). Also, you killed the leader of the Raiders inside the factory, right?

I thought that Tombstone piledrivers were known by that name pre-Undertaker.

This base-building shit is going to turn my game into a five hundred hour experience over multiple years. I just know it. If I can finish the game, but still play around in the Wasteland after I'm done, I will single-handedly restore the whole area with multiple townships.

No, you're not wrong. It's still fucking great. Even if you find everything else to be corny, the whole storyline is worth it for Jake's promo after he turns on Warrior where he tells a parable about a rabbit that goes to lengths to save a snake from death even after the snake warns the rabbit that he's still a snake, and in the end, the snake recovers with the rabbit's help and then kills him. After telling the story, Jake ends the promo with something like: "...and Ultimate Warrior, you are the dumbest rabbit that I've ever met in my life!" I saw that when I was maybe nine or ten and thought it was the best promo that I'd ever seen for years upon years after that. I still place it in my personal top five.

I'd put 'Taker/Henry casket in my top ten 'Taker matches. I have a (maybe) irrational love for that thing and think it's the best casket match ever in the company. Yes, even better than HBK/'Taker at the Rumble '98 (which is actually my favorite of the HBK/'Taker matches by a slight amount over the Hell in a Cell). 'Taker/Flair is also pure fun. Actually, I prefer 'Taker/Flair and 'Taker/Henry to basically any of the other WM matches that he had after them.

So I've been playing this off and on in between Fallout. It's definitely interesting. I don't know how much I like it. It prioritizes the first strike over everything since after that, the person with the last reversal will get a free beatdown period on his opponent. I know that rest holds are supposed to mitigate that issue, and it somewhat works, but not totally. I like the ideas here, definitely. I see what they're trying to do in order to take the game from a reversal-fest into something more like a typical wrestling match. It probably needs a couple more iterations of refinement. The showcase, which is where I have spent much of my time, is okay, but there is far too much watching the computer play out the match for you and not enough of you controlling Austin in a few of those matches. On the other hand, Savio Vega! I killed my daily download limit in a very short time. I cannot find the custom rings that I downloaded when I want to use them in exhibition matches, though. They have changed enough around that I need to just sit down and go through all of the menus.

New Vegas does, IIRC. FO4 is still great, though. Just a minor criticism about it.

The dialogue options actually bum me out. They feel too streamlined, and not in a novel Alpha Protocol-type way where you're really more focused on how you say something than what you say. Also, I don't think that you can do an idiot character like in the other games that only speaks in grunts and the occasional word. Part of this is the voice acting for the main character, which probably wasn't the best idea.

I'm level six at this point. Went straight for the lockpick and hacking perk upgrades just like Oyaji, I think it was. Also got Lady Killer because I want to influence half the people in the game to give me stuff or not force me to do missions for them. And of course, I always work to increase the max weight I can carry. I'm in This game is pretty damn fun just like 3 and NV. You can't fuck up Fallout, though. The formula is fuck-up-proof.

I'm glad that I stopped playing Fallout 4 for long enough to watch this show because it was super-enjoyable, especially Bayley being a great '80s WWF-style super-face and Dash and Dawson taking apart the Villains. Dash and Dawson are the perfect type of tag team to have across from Enzo/Cass and Jordan/Gable, where the guys who play FIP can garner a ton of sympathy while Dash and Dawson destroy a limb. The Nia Jax squash was fun. Jax helping Eva Marie become champ in London, not so much. The Crews/Corbin and Joe/Bálor angles were hot, too. Really good show.

Fucking Mirelurks. I just spent eight Stimpacks shotgunning five of them in the face in a tense eight-minute battle. Fuuuuuck. I still have nine Stimpacks left, but shit man. My attempt at Molotoving them before they knew what hit them was unsuccessful, to say the least.

Did you take actually exit it or did you just unequip it. The second one leaves the base on. I actually exited it by holding X. I just had to skip back a brief autosave before, and it worked just fine after that. I am enjoying this game otherwise, though I already feel overpowered relative to the rest of everything. It's easy to scrap up powerful weapons early. Still, man, I just love exploring uncharted lands like this while listening to the radio. So much fun. I can't build structures yet for some reason, but I'm also looking forward to getting my base set up.

Didn't take me long to hit my first glitch. The game treats me as if I'm wearing Power Armor, but I don't have it equipped. Can't mod weapons as a result. Irritating.

I played a bit last night and still haven't entered yet, but it feels like everything moves so fast so far in this game. I already . Like damn, they weren't playing around with moving quickly to get me right to bashing things in the face with batons.

PLEASE tell me that is still in the game, but they also added this time around. Man, this wait to play is figuratively KILLING me and maybe even literally as well.

I got a copy today because Target had B2G1 going on. I may regret this. I skipped 2K15 last year and just played 2K14, which was okay, but the last game I really got into in the series was '13. Mostly I downloaded a bunch of old NWA and AWA wrestlers and had six-man Elimination Chamber tag matches. Can you still do that last one on this game?

Just picked this up before work, but won't be home to play it until about 10:30 PST. Womp womp.

I didn't watch Tough Enough, so I'm sure that I'm saying what other people have already said, but Josh looks like white Roman Reigns. Josh/Roman Reigns vs. Cena/Darren Young might collapse the fucking universe.