Andrew POE!

Probably both getting his foot stuck in the ramp and the dangerous Anarchy in the Arena match did a number on Danielson. Thanks a lot Tony Khan.

Honestly, the way the roster is at AEW, that's probably a good idea. Tony Khan has the roster too stacked. Christian (who should be in the interim champion talks) is dealing with a guy who can't wrestle and a guy who can't talk as tag champions and both will never get any better as wrestlers. Sting (another person hyped up his debut) is nowhere near the AEW World title. Miro isn't talked about for a World title contention. The problem is Vince McMahon sees Claudio as nothing more than a midcarder despite Claudio's abilities, look, work ethic, and match history. Claudio and Ricochet will forever be floating around US/IC title reigns and I'm not sure Claudio would be considered for a World title reign unless Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, and Randy Orton all retire, Drew McIntyre, Seth Rollins, Cody Rhodes and Bobby Lashley get injured, and any other available choices would get no reaction.

Honestly, they should have Hangman Page be the interim champion. I really feel there's a lot of unfinished business for him as a champion. He could defend against Adam Cole again, Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, Eddie Kingston, Chris Jericho, Moxley, Keith Lee, Jake Hager (guy has been there for 2+ years and he's never sniffed a World title match?), Miro, Dustin Rhodes, Samoa Joe (not sure how well he would do), even Sammy Guevara, Lee Moriarty and Daniel Garcia (although Garcia would probably not do well due to his being undersized). I would hold off on Wardlow until either Punk comes back or Page/whoever the interim champion is becomes the permanent champion. Wardlow really isn't ready and needs another feud to establish himself and be more than "Batista in 2022." Notice I didn't say MJF because I would hope AEW isn't going to go that route of doing something that obvious (I honestly have no desire to see MJF on TV again and/or in endless promo wars with CM Punk when Punk returns). That ship not only sailed, it sank.

When I saw the Rollerdrome trailer, I had no interest in it at all. Roll7 recently shut down Laser League this year, so I think Rollerdrome doesn't have long for this world even after release.

Honestly, I think if he stayed home and sold the stretcher job still on Dynamite I would have a bit more respect for him. He's the most protected guy (he has the Lesnar schedule and he still complains?) in AEW and yeah it sucks he's not getting paid what he's worth, but he's acting like he won't be back after 2024. At that point, fuck him. AEW will succeed in whatever form they'll succeed in despite MJF, not because of MJF.

I watched the MJF promo on YouTube videos that other people uploaded and I'm not exactly sure it's a 'worked shoot' promo at this point. As someone mentioned earlier, it made MJF come across as a spoiled, entitled brat and not the 'pipebomb' everyone thinks it is. AEW completely scrubbed it off their YouTube page and it's not even mentioned on their results page. That tells me that MJF said he would speak about what happened over the weekend and probably lied to them about doing an apology to the people who had to get refunded at Fan Fest (sorry dude but people paid $100s to see/meet you at least say something to apologize to them instead of attacking them too). Instead, MJF turns on the fans, the other AEW wrestlers and Tony Khan. The delivery of the whole promo felt like a public meltdown and I really wouldn't be surprised if we don't see MJF on TV anymore (unless he just shows up next week and tries to grab a mic for security to escort him out or it gets cut off again). At some point, it becomes a question of how much is it worth the headache/hassle to deal with him. If he thinks he should be in the WWE and can make it there, the WWE will look at something like this promo and missing the fan fest as being 'nos' for them. Also, I know MJF doesn't realize it but....he just trashed his own supposed stable members FTR and Shawn Spears (what, they can't tie his boots either?) too. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to more worked shoot comments from MJF when I'm not even seeing a payoff for this.

The servers for the PS3 version of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and the servers for PS3 & PS4 versions of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes have been shutdown. If you're looking to Platinum MGS V PS3 and you haven't started, you're out of luck. I'm thankfully three trophies away from Platinum'ing MGS V PS3. Servers for PS4 version of Metal Gear Solid V are still up...for now.

Sony's State of Play is this upcoming week on June 2 at 6 pm EST. I will temper my expectations but I really hope for TMNT Shredder's Revenge release date.

Gran Turismo will probably be either a) Top Gear but with Kazunori Yamauchi and others at Polyphony driving cars, visiting test tracks, looking at new cars or b) some reality TV bullshit with people who play nothing but Gran Turismo becoming actual race car drivers. Neither sounds appealing.

I care! (Still haven't played the first one yet but I love its BioWare-esque approach)

It looks like a mobile game. Seriously.

I'm somewhat curious what new games from PS1/PS2/PSP gen (hey where's the Vita?) will be added that weren't available on PSN store during PS3 days. If it's essentially what's currently on PS3 PSN store, then it's going to be a harder sell for me to get the service when I can just play what I have on PS3. I have an Asian account so I'll look at it next week if it allows me to see/browse the games.

Sony released some of the lineup for their new PlayStation Plus tiers starting this month in Asia and next month in the US. https://blog.playstation.com/2022/05/16/all-new-playstation-plus-game-lineup-assassins-creed-valhalla-demons-souls-ghost-of-tsushima-directors-cut-nba-2k22-and-more-join-the-service/

And it's another game that uses servers for the entirety of the game, so I better Platinum this quickly.

Game is closely becoming vaporware and I wouldn't be suprised if it's out in 2023, 2024 or beyond.

As a trophy hunter, I'm concerned about being able to get the online trophies for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and being able to 100% Rise of the Tomb Raider & Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Also, I'm hoping that this doesn't mean that Avengers will be shutting down sooner than later and I'm hoping they'll fix the numerous bugs/issues/unobtainable trophies with the new owners. Also, I really hope we'll see more realistic expectations for Crystal Dynamics/Eidos Montreal/S-E Montreal games from Embracer. Expecting Final Fantasy like sales for their games wasn't fair on them. It also makes me wonder about the financial shape Square Enix is in to be selling their North American developers/division basically. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony swoops in to buy the remaining Japanese portion of Square Enix.

It's rumored/pretty much accepted as fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Remastered will be out around the same time as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. I'm legitimately confused at this point that Activision didn't go the "God of War Ragnarok" route of naming the sequel: Why not Call of Duty: Going Dark? Or something referenced in the reboot game?

It's not the first time they did a Mortal Kombat Trilogy game - they did one back in the day for Mortal Kombat 1-3 on Nintendo 64 and PS1. So I'd rather they put something out that potentially shows a new engine before they do Mortal Kombat 12 (or whatever title it's taking).

As soon as this becomes available, I'm pre-ordering the fuck outta this game.

Or bring back Suzie Plakson as Q's wife (or maybe ex-wife to explain Q's current issues with Picard).

Yup. I did Infallible (which is that trophy) when they had custom game glitch that unlocked the trophy for a day or so in 2021.

Got my 248th Platinum trophy with Fall Guys last night. Basically, it's been a race the last couple of weeks to Platinum this due to MediaTonic releasing a new launcher (and new trophy list) on April 5 and discontinuing the current launcher on May 9. This is, in effect, a server shutdown. MediaTonic support just basically doesn't understand how trophies work and claim the old list will be deleted on May 9 when there's a brand new list that's out. Sony will never do that for anyone.

So either a) CD Projekt Red doesn't like even more bad press about having a Russian team handle the upgrade or b) this is another Cyperpunk 2077 situation and the upgrade is off the rails.

I have tickets to see Sigur Ros in May and Fleet Foxes in July, both in Marietta. I just got tickets to see Red Hot Chili Peppers in August at Truist Park but I've always heard that Anthony Kiedis sucks vocally live. I just don't feel that Anthony Kiedis or John Frusciante are long for this world after Taylor Hawkins' death.

Guess this means I need to get the Platinum/100% on Wildlands and the Platinum on Breakpoint sooner rather than later. It's a matter of time before Ubisoft announces a server shutdown for both. The servers are still up now, but once they go down, the Platinums will be unobtainable.