Andrew POE!
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
I think it may be that some people have had to step on eggshells for so long to keep in New York's good graces that they practically have Stockholm Syndrome.
This. I would say over half the people working in wrestling have Stockholm Syndrome and that's why there hasn't been a widespread condemnation from male wrestlers. They're afraid of Vince McMahon somehow preventing them from working in the WWE and/or sabotaging their careers. Even though Vince McMahon isn't even at TKO/WWE anymore.
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There's so much coming out in 2024 that it doesn't make sense to me to pre-order any of it.
Although I would be tempted to get Dragon's Dogma II & Rise of the Ronin on the same day and Stellar Blade four days before my birthday. I feel like those I'll get at Christmas time too or next year.
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach will have my money as soon as it's up for pre-order. Of course, that'll depend on if I can beat Death Stranding this year.
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1 hour ago, (BP) said:
Jeff spends at least five minutes throwing a pity party for the wrestling world he came up in disappearing because Vince is gone before Conrad brings up that there is an actual victim at the center of the story, and then Jeff goes straight into the anyone, even Vince, can be redeemed rap. It sucks.
I caught the clip on YouTube where Jeff Jarrett is clearly dealing with the issue and I have a hard time with his thinking that anyone even Vince McMahon can be redeemed.
Considering that Vince McMahon bought up his father's territory to drive him out of business, ordered his best friend to do an unneeded stunt that killed him, and Vince McMahon sought to professionally sabotage Jeff Jarrett through the years until recently, I guess Jeff Jarrett doesn't want to appear angry or bitter over that to assess the situation.
He did say he didn't read the lawsuit, so that didn't play into it either.
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PlayStation's State of Play tomorrow at 5 pm EST.
https://blog.playstation.com/2024/01/29/state-of-play-returns-this-wednesday-2/
It's rumored we'll see Final Fantasy VII Rebirth trailer/demo and Death Stranding 2 trailer/possible release date.
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6 hours ago, Death From Above said:
There was some executive at Ubisoft who very recently was quoted as saying that "people need to get used to not owning the games they pay for", which is just laughably evil to a comic book villain degree.
Anyway, Skull & Bones releases soon so there's going to be even more cuts and layoffs in the industry soon, AAA is going well.
Skull & Bones is one of those always online bullshit games where in a few years it'll get shut down. The Platinum will be pure torture to do in time and the game will pretty much be a $70 drink coaster.
Even if you don't care about the Platinum trophy, just the simple act of playing the game will be impossible at that point.
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Oh man.
I wasn't even aware that DEAN~! passed away.
It's crazy that his writings on the old forum was what brought me to this site while I was still in high school.
His exquisite musical taste got me turned on to a lot of bands - Roxy Music, Joy Division, The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Posies, I could go on.
One thing that struck me about Dean's writings with wrestling matches is how well they describe what happened or at least things that stick out in a match.
I'll definitely miss him.
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Considering that it's possible that he was "Corporate Officlal #1" in the lawsuit, Paul Levesque's days of running the WWE may be coming to an end. His answer seems like he knows his goose is cooked but he's not sure when or how.
The other thing: I'm wondering if CM Punk didn't win because they knew what would happen if Pepsi Phil was asked the same questions and weren't sure if he would tow the company line or not. So give it to Cody Rhodes again so he can lose to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania again.
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1 hour ago, Cobra Commander said:
Slim Jim might not be leading the people’s revolution but guess who is
yeah there might be a few people in/around the company using this opportunity to settle scores (not saying the score-settling is unjustified but)
Not to even come close to take Vince McMahon's side, but the irony is delicious that Ronda Rousey would say this considering Vince McMahon wanted her void of charisma on TV after her UFC career ended in the first place.
She's right but I hate that she's right. Fuck Vince McMahon and have Bruce Pritchard stay on his podcast where he argues with Conrad.
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According to Deadline, VInce McMahon resigned.
EDIT: I am slow at finding out apparently. Did you know I have 317 platinums now?
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4 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
...and yet Punk is back (and Jade is there too probably -- at least for now). I don't get it.
Honestly, the ship has sailed on Phil being on a moral high ground. For all of his Trans Rights/LGBTQIA+ allyship/"Believe Every Woman" shirts he wears on shows, he's just as bad as Hulk Hogan taking Vince McMahon's money, brother. Obviously, his personal transgressions in his life pales in comparison to Vince McMahon or Hogan or Ultimate Warrior or Brock Lesnar or any other terrible person coming back to the WWE.
If Punk had principles, he would boycott being on WWE programming until Vince McMahon is completely gone and the cronies/enablers are gone too. But nope, ride the gravy train of money because CM Punkamania is running wild.
The "Pipe Bomb" from years is now just merchandise.
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7 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
You can say the same thing about any social structure or method of public participation at this point -- any and every sport, business, technological outgrowth, form of entertainment, religion, school, government, whatever. There are sick fucks like this living like termites in all of them. You can't trust anyone. My own best friend of 20 years turned out to be a predator and an abuser. That guy might as well have been my brother, but inside he was filth all along.
But I gotta live with it. I cut the cancer out the best I can and move on, however pointless it all is. And I'm not gonna let go of the art forms I love because of the foul-ball fucks within them. I'm too angry to do that. They don't deserve to have their awfulness poison me out of enjoying the only things I have keeping me alive in this world.
That's just how I feel, anyway.
I understand what you are saying and I agree - it's just for me, it's easier not to watch wrestling or even follow it on the internet when news appear. Sadly though, I've still been keeping up with wrestling through YT videos and news articles I get on my phone. Some of the YT subscriptions fed me wrestling news as well. I went through and unsubscribed from them all now.
And while I'm lumping in people who very likely are just as disgusted as I am, I'm only lumping in people working in wrestling because they are trying to appeal to the person at the center of all of this. People who got released from WWE are working in TNA or AEW or NWA with the hopes of....capturing Vince McMahon's eye and going back to the WWE. People being trained at the Performance Center hope to appear on NXT then WWE with the hopes of capturing people like Vince McMahon's eye. Who knows what acts Vince McMahon expected of the male wrestlers to earn his favor once they got there or what he expected from the female wrestlers to be subjected to. He drug a woman through all kinds of hell and she wasn't even trying to get a job in the wrestling business; she just wanted a job somewhere.
What @Stefanie Sparkleface mentioned is very much likely as well; those in wrestling are just as blindsided as we are and can't control what Vince McMahon does. For every story of wrestlers working in a professional manner with Vince McMahon, there are stories of people like Brock Lesnar who didn't and participated in whatever sick shit Vince McMahon thought up. Who knows if there are others. It wasn't that long ago when male wrestlers would actually laugh and joke about sexually assaulting female fans with spiked drinks or giving them drugs.
Wrestling as a form of entertainment is part of the same entertainment bucket as MMA or boxing. A corrupt entertainment business where athletic prowess is displayed and it's easy to ignore save for a few events.
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33 minutes ago, piranesi said:
One thing that could save the entire industry is if we find out tomorrow that a bunch wrestlers beat the shit out of Vince and quit.
I'm just saying. THink of how many jobs are at stake?
This of course is parody and sketch through my mirthful and whimsical online profile.
The odds of that happening is the same odds of the wrestlers joining the SAG union and getting paid decent wages and better residuals. Zero.
I know it's been covered endlessly in this thread but every wrestler in every company (AEW, WWE, TNA, NWA, gajin in AJPW & NJPW, etc) feel an undue and undeserved debt of gratitude to Vince McMahon.
Honestly, at this point, let all of wrestling burn down. Close every wrestling company. Let wrestling be left to the dustbin of history. Because the ones that knew Vince McMahon didn't speak out or tried to stop him. They let the fear of Vince McMahon removing their livelihood get in the way of doing the right thing.
They had to know the truth about him - from Steve Austin to The Rock to HHH to John Cena to CM Punk to Cody Rhodes to Seth Rollins to Becky Lynch to Titus O'Neil on down. Yeah, people like Dolph Ziggler and Brian Myers and Bryan Danielson got fired by WWE or left and went to the previously mentioned competitors but they are part of the problem too. Being in a wrestling ring and in front of a crowd is more important than stopping a maniac and a psychopath like Vince McMahon.
The same hope of a reckoning happening at the PPV - excuse me, Premium Live Event - this weekend isn't going to happen. WWE will at some point pretend Vince McMahon was never there, like they did to Chris Benoit.
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1 hour ago, Technico Support said:
You mean the fans who chanted "thank you Vince" and bowed to him the first time this happened?
Yeah, fair enough. I'm not sure there's really anything that would sway the current WWE fans to vocalize their displeasure at people like Brock Lesnar. The ones that would have mostly moved to AEW, which were promptly squandered by AEW.
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I read over the legal filing as well. When it starts out, I thought "Surely this is a misunderstanding because it seems Vince McMahon has empathy for this woman."
But no....that was a ruse, a character like one he plays on TV. It's gross, jock/fraternity boy garbage from a garbage human being that I can't wait to see headlines of his impending death. He essentially gave the woman a false sense of connection by talking about his life then coerced her into sexual acts out of fear of losing her job.
And tbh, I don't think we'll ever see Brock Lesnar in a WWE ring after this. Unless they don't care that he's going to get the same reaction Chris Jericho got a few weeks ago ("Kylie Rae" and "NDA" replaced with "Janel Grant" and "NDA"). I'm not sure Brock Lesnar would care either because he has WWE over a barrel.
And the video with Stephanie and Vince McMahon....my God, Stephanie was telling the truth. It wasn't a storyline.
I also wonder how many in WWE (and by extension TNA and AEW) knew about Vince McMahon's behavior. I think it was an open secret.
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Part of me hope this will lead to WWE going to back to TV 14 / more mature storyline era and leave behind TV PG but I should know better.
And we all know Roman Reigns will still be WWE Unified Universal Champion in 2025. So maybe he'll move to Raw and Seth Rollins (or whoever the World Champion is) moves to Smackdown.
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6 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
Cody is regular Cover
Bianca and Rhea are on the Deluxe Cover
March 8, 2024
Roman Reigns should have been on the cover but then no one would buy the game.
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2 hours ago, Casey said:
(It’s Troy Baker)
Troy Baker is AI.
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On February 20th, Rockstar Games is ending support for Rockstar Editor on PS4 and Xbox One.
This will affect 10 DLC trophies/achievements. On top of the other shutdowns I'm working on (just Armored Core Verdict Day for me to Platinum), I have to play through the campaign to unlock all the story characters in Rockstar Editor and get the rest of the trophies for Rockstar Editor.
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Microsoft had their Developer Direct and Hellblade II finally has a blasted release date on May 21, 2024. Ninja Theory has made a career of over-promising and under-delivering so this is expected. They also showed Indiana Jones & The Great Circle which supposedly is coming this year (likely 2025 but who knows, it'll probably be in the fall).
They also had Avowed and some strategy game and Visions of Mana.
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4 hours ago, Robert S said:
They can't for the next 9.5 years, right?
Supposedly. I'm not sure if that was a requirement from SEC for the Blizzard/Activision/King purchase or just a gentlemen's/prior agreement that Microsoft agreed to. I think it'll be sooner than that.
Probably by the time it happens, Microsoft will have bought PlayStation so it won't matter.
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On 1/10/2024 at 9:39 PM, Casey said:
You can say the exact same thing about Sony.
I guess. Sony really isn't doing as well as people may think despite PS5s selling like gangbusters. Microsoft could buy all of PlayStation from Sony if they want to and still have money left over. Who's to say that's not what they are planning on doing?
PlayStation miscalculated buying Bungie, who had to cut staff and delay Destiny 2: The Final Shape. According to the Insomniac hack, Insomniac has to sell over 100 million copies of Spider-Man to stay afloat. If that's the case for Insomniac, imagine what it's like at Sucker Punch or Naughty Dog or Sony Santa Monica.
Yes, PlayStation has great single player games that sell millions but they are losing money. They barely sell millions for PC versions too.
Microsoft meanwhile doesn't have to do anything. They don't even have to release anything that people have wanted (like Indiana Jones or Hellblade II or Avowed or Fallout 5, etc). They just buy developers and let them sit there and not use them (hence Micro$oft gotta Micro$oft). They have Call of Duty now - so they can just pull it from PlayStation at some point and that would be the death for PlayStation. They can just milk people for GamePass, barely do anything, rely on their Windows and cloud services for revenue, and they are fine.
Microsoft is playing chess while PlayStation is struggling with checkers.
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Got the Platinum for The Crew last night. Servers are shutting down on March 31.
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There's rumors that Indiana Jones is coming out in 2024. Part of me wishes it was on PS5 too but Micro$oft gotta Micro$oft.
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According to PlayStation Wrap Up, my most played game was Dreams. All I did was make sculptures that look like poop to rack up XP to earn the Platinum.
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The Wall Street Journal Vince McMahon Thread.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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That's entirely plausible. Rather than do "The Pipe Bomb Promo Part Deux" with a live mic, he fakes being injured. But the flip side to that is CM Punk really is injured and he's Mr. Glass.
He got injured in AEW and was out for months. Both injuries due to arm injuries.
It just tells me that honestly and seriously CM Punk may not be cut out for wrestling anymore, not that he doesn't want to work for WWE due to Vince McMahon's actions.