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  1. 1 hour ago, JLowe said:

    I did not expect to see Best Friends win, just assumed that Kingdom would keep going as part of the rickety Undisputed storyline.

    I think the brackets ruled that out, because no way were they running Kingdom vs Bucks in the semifinals. Bucks vs Private Party worked because of their history, and because while PP are heels they're not really all that hated, so they could easily play faces in this match. Bucks vs Kingdom wouldn't work at all, in my opinion

  2. 6 minutes ago, JLowe said:

    I found it a little funny that they announced that “Tony Khan has made it official: Julia Hart will defend her title against Willow Nightengale at Dynasty” when that was the announced stipulation for the match AND Willow won clean.

    A few weeks back there were some matches that were made official so quickly you could only assume Tony had nothing more important to do than sit with his phone ready waiting for a babyface to propose a match so he could immediately call in and make it official.

    My point is, he clearly lives to make matches official. Don't take that from him.

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  3. 2 hours ago, hobo joe said:

    It's Swerve's time. Really, it was Swerve's time 3 months ago.

    True. Thinking about it more, Hangman trying to cost Swerve the match and failing is the way to go. Hanger costing Swerve the title doesn't lead to anything new, while Swerve defending the title against Page makes for a fitting final blow-off to that feud.

  4. 6 hours ago, The Natural said:

    I think you'll get your wish. Swerve beats Joe at AEW Dynasty. Enjoy!

    Probably, yeah. Except... Hangman is still active and, as far as we know, still obsessed with ensuring Swerve never becomes world champion. Narratively, he pretty much has to show up and do something at Dynasty if not before.

    Of course, no reason he can't try to screw Swerve at Dynasty and fail.

  5. 16 hours ago, Technico Support said:

    I feel like a lot of wrestling criticism has its roots in Meltzer’s writing in the 80s, where guys who worked a technical style were just automatically seen as better workers.

    Hey! In my early days I saw guys who worked a technical style as automatically just better workers, but I came by that attitude the right way - via Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

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  6. 3 hours ago, Go2Sleep said:

    I guess we could argue about whether this should've been addressed on TV or not, but I feel like this is answered well enough with Mox and Claudio declining the invite for health/family reasons. A quick pre-tape from BCC or even Danielson off-handedly mentioning it during his screen time would make for optimal continuity, I'll agree with that. Just seems like such a small thing to worry about because only people who watch every second of AEW TV would catch it anyway.

    Well, I'm putting myself in danger of getting yelled at for repeating old issues here. But I'd say it would be a small thing if it were a one-off occurrence. It's not; AEW has wrestlers go off TV with no stated explanation all the time. And no other well-written serial fiction that I know of has characters randomly disappear from the narrative when the performers aren't available and just pop back up later still with no explanation for their absence. Pro wrestling shouldn't do it either, in my opinion.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Go2Sleep said:

    FTR is made for life, winning or losing a feud to BCC makes no difference to their status. They could win the tag titles at any time and be credible doing it, nothing wrong with gate-keeping for a bit. If anything, out of the 4, Claudio needed the win the most.

    I probably shouldn't speak for everybody, but I doubt many people are complaining that FTR were ruined by the loss or anything. The complaint I've seen is that it just doesn't make sense for FTR to get a first-round match in the title tournament while the team that just beat them doesn't even get a "wild card" match. It's a reasonable complaint, in my opinion.

     

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  8. 9 hours ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:

    Too esoteric. Just stick to cool robots and you'll cast a wider net.

    Hmm. Maybe.

    Or maybe I just need to tune it for the audience more. Are there any indie wrestlers out there whose gimmick is they're a robot god?

  9. 36 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

    I applaud them for being two dull mechanics who turned "being two dull mechanics" into their gimmick.  Some real 3D chess there.  Like, "we're not two boring, nondescript white guys whose only value is giving you a good 20 minutes!  We're old school wrestlers!"  Gotta respect that hustle.  It's like a con inside a con inside a con.  Con-ception.

    It works, too. I love FTR and have no real interest in all the dull mechanics in AEW who are just dull mechanics.

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  10. 10 hours ago, Just Dave said:

    Like, there’s no real friendship powerful enough to keep Chuck Taylor from being murdered by Miro. 

    Has Chuck Taylor ever been presented as being Miro's equal, though? My recollection of the Arcade Anarchy match was that near the end, there was an extended sequence of all three Best Friends fighting Miro before finally taking him out of the equation.

    I mean, I like Miro, but complaining that three guys (none of whom were jobbers) shouldn't be able to take him down seems a bit much.

  11. 3 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:

    I played it, beat it, and enjoyed it but I think the main issue people had with it (as a generalization) is the hype/expectations of the "space" aspect didn't meet reality. On their end, I think it was a mistake to tout how many planets there would be and emphasizing space travel at all. And on the expectations end, I think people unrealistically expected something more like No Man's Sky when it came to the 'space' part. It just didn't have that same feel when you could be on one planet and without taking off fast travel to another planet surface, I think in my last 50 hours I spent very little time in space. The planets were too uninteresting to get me to even explore them so it really just felt like very similar set pieces for battles on different islands over and over.

    Thanks Kevin. I didn't see any of the ads or other hype, so all I was expecting was a Bethesda game in space. Which I got. And one of the better Bethesda games I've played to boot.

    But if you were expecting a better version of No Man's Sky - yeah, you didn't get that. I remember thinking myself that the whole exploring planets/building outposts part of the game was pretty lame compared to NMS. (And I couldn't even really get into NMS, although I wanted to like it.) Fortunately you can enjoy the game without bothering with that stuff at all.

  12. So I picked this back up last week and finally finished the main storyline with one of my characters on Sunday.

    Overall, a pretty great game. There were a couple of annoying instances of railroading, but overall strong writing. Pretty much an across-the-board improvement on Fallout 4; a vastly better main storyline and generally improved game mechanics (although as I mentioned a while back, a lot of the new mechanics are good ideas implemented poorly). Even the absence of VATS or something like it is surprisingly tolerable.

    I've heard the game was panned in internet discussions elsewhere, and I find that baffling. Sure it has flaws, but they're all pretty much flaws that every Bethesda game I've played had. What exactly were the detractors expecting?

  13. 9 hours ago, The Idiot King said:

    They don't want to be told that the things they loved when they were younger fucking sucked any more than any one else

    I think that mellows with age, too, though. In my case at least, I'll always harbour nostalgic love for the '80s Transformer and G.I. Joe cartoons, but I'm also comfortable with the fact that they were objectively pretty bad. (The '80s Transformers comics weren't as good as I thought they were at the time either.)

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