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I was going to say that Missy Hyatt is a low key awesome Twitter follow but fuck that low key stuff. She's pretty awesome on Twitter.

I wish I could remember the guy's name (I wanna say Jeff Katz) but he did some WCW internet audio shows with Rude. He said they were doing one show that was boring as hell so Rude decided to mess with the crowd. Rude was like, "watch this. I'm gonna piss off that entire section without saying a word." Their broadcast position was kind of on an elevated crows nest thing so Rude stood up and just made eye contact with this one woman who was there with her b/f. He just held eye contact with her and smirked at her and her b/f. He did this for like 5 minutes and the boyfriend is cussing at him and then people around noticed what was going on and started looking. He just kept on smirking and looking and the whole section started yelling at him. Then he just sat down and continued doing play by play while that whole section was screaming at him.

Yeah, keeping fan interest is a good reason but is it a "valid" one is what I'm getting at. Fans are always going to watch. Teams are just going to have to figure it out and they will. Every major change that has come down the pike, teams have figured it out. There's just going to be a new normal and people are going to continue to watch. And just because kids can move more freely doesn't mean they will. And even with the transfer portal, you can only transfer one time and play immediately. If you leave again, you do have to attend your new school for a year without playing so it's not as Wild West as people think. There are exceptions to the one-time rule (if your scholarship is taken away for non-disciplinary/academic reasons or if your previous school dropped the sport).

Yeah as a fan it sucks but other than that, there's no valid reason why a player shouldn't be able to go where they want without losing eligibility. I guess the issue some of these NIL deals are going to run into is what happens when a player transfers? Do they yank the deal away? Miami already had a situation like this sort of arise. Someone in Wong's camp tried to strongarm John Ruiz, the CEO of Life Wallet, into giving Wong a bigger NIL deal than what was originally signed or else Wong would transfer. Ruiz said he wouldn't renegotiate but he would help Wong get other NIL deals if he transferred. Wong came out and said he never intended to transfer and that someone put that statement out without his knowledge and he was staying with Miami. So crisis averted here but I'm sure this won't be the last time something like this arises. https://caneswarning.com/2022/04/30/miami-hurricanes-booster-john-ruiz-will-help-isaiah-wong-get-other-nil-deals/

Apparently the Authors of Pain are putting together a series of shows. First one is next month and here's the card: World Championship match: Adam Scherr (Braun Strowman) vs. Alistair Overeem Women's Championship match: Lina Fanene (Nia Jax) vs. CJ Perry (Lana) Tag Team Championship match: Gzim Selmani & Sunny Dhinsa (The Authors of Pain) vs. Westin Blake & Steve Maclin (Wesley Blake & Steve Cutler) Killer Kross (Karrion Kross) vs. Samuray Del Sol (Kalisto) vs. JONAH (Bronson Reed) Women's Tag Team Championship match: Madison Rayne & Tenille Dashwood vs. Deonna Purrazzo & Chelsea Green Dean Muhtadi (Mojo Rawley) vs. Lince Dorado Pre-show match: Mike Bennett (Mike Kanellis) vs. Biff Busick (Oney Lorcan) Pre-show match: Dirty Dango (Fandango) vs. Levis Valenzuela Jr. (No Way Jose)

Here's the big question, why should there be a limit on player movement? Why shouldn't a player be able to go where he/she wants and not give up eligibility?

Agreed with this. Business wise, they're probably as stable as ever. TV deals, streaming service, Saudi deals, etc. They're probably less dependent on "butts in seats" and people actually buying merch or even watching the weekly tv than ever. All they have to do is pump out content and likely just keep the ratings above 3am informercials and they'd still make money hand over fist.

He actually did pull out the "I'm here for your souls!" line in a promo in 1988 or so. I wish I could remember when he did it but he definitely dropped that line post-Princess Bride. And was that Widowmaker era Barry Windham? He left the WWF in Sept/Oct 89 and didn't show up in WCW until May 90 as he was dealing with the fallout from Blackjack and Kendall's arrest. Interesting to see that he went to Japan in that time period!

That was the Beware of Dog match. Where the woman was yelling at him the whole match and HBK got fed up.

I'm going to rewatch HBK/Bulldog from KOTR 96. Sneaky good match that gets overlooked due to Austin 3:16 and some funny commentary from Owen Hart.

Hardcore Holly talked about this in his book too. He said that some production company wanted Test for a movie because he had the look they wanted. WWE said that Test was "busy" and said they could have Cena instead. Test was basically just another body in some interchangeable battle royals they were running and Test 100% could've had that spot but he didn't hear about until after the fact. I get wanting to have the bigger names out there but that screws those other guys out of opportunities to get more over and paydays.

You'd never catch anyone confusing "less" with "fewer" if this guy had won The Battle of Blackwater Bay

Just wait until "mute point" becomes the standard definition. I've seen it used so much over the past 10-15 years that I wouldn't be surprised to see that being the accepted usage soon. Another thing that I've seen is people saying something like, "I may be bias" instead of "biased". That bugs the hell out of me but it's commonly accepted nowadays.

Thanks for the info @Kevin Wilson! I think I may wait and pick up a used copy at a later date. I've never played a FromSoft game before so I guess I'm wary to spend full price on something I might hate. Oh for the days when you could just pop into a Blockbuster and rent before you buy.

I did my favorite 15 on Twitter as well. Here are mine in no particular order Flair Austin Raven Terry Funk Stan Hansen Foley Harley Race Arn Anderson CM Punk Tully Bret Hart Barry Windham Eddie G Brock Lesnar Scott Hall

I see your Sharkboy and raise you a Curry Man. Imagine Dixie explaining TNA on a white board and then Curry Man strutting in, enclosing Dixie's drawing in a pyramid, handing her the marker and then dancing off.

I feel like you could pick Jeff Jarrett, Dixie Carter or Bob Carter to be Michael in this scene. I don't know who would be Jim as the voice of reason though. Maybe Cornette but no way he'd be this calm.

That's how I feel about it. At this point, dude is 73, he's not gonna change. Just let him do what he does and stop worrying about it as long as he isn't hurting anyone else. And that Law & Order episode is 100% what happened to my grandmother too. She was like 80 and on oxygen and would still smoke cigarettes. I bought her a carton of cigarettes as a bday present one year b/c they're so expensive now and she was on a fixed income. My aunts and uncles were chastising me for it and I was like, "she's eighty fucking four and been smoking since she was 8 years old. You think she's gonna quit now? Just let her be happy."

So I'm thinking about getting this game but wanted to ask a few questions. I feel comfortable asking people in this forum as everyone here is civil and won't be a "git gud" type asshole. Just how hard is this game? I've heard it's like Dark Souls, which I've never played but heard that the difficulty is frustrating. I don't mind a challenge but also don't want to be hitting my head against a wall playing a game that's unnecessarily hard. What other games is this similar to? I've looked at some videos and the combat sort of seems akin to Shadows of Mordor or AC Valhalla. Am I totally off base with that? Is the learning curve to being competent really steep? I get about an hour or two of gaming every couple of nights as I have a 5 year old so I just want to know how long it takes to sort of get the mechanics of the game down. Thanks in advance!

WCW apparently got a lot of angry phone calls and letters from people upset that the Filthy Animals beat the crap out of Flair and buried him the desert. IIRC from Guy Evans' Nitro book, the beating went on for sooooooo long that a lot of viewers thought it was unnecessarily violent and it turned off a lot of them, especially those with kids.

And don't forget that the clip of Bret putting Benoit in the Sharpshooter was in the opening of Malcolm in the Middle.

For some reason that reminds me of a joke from when the Washington Bullets became the Washington Wizards. I remember local talking heads (I'm from Virginia) joking that if they really wanted to drop the violent connotations from the name, they should've dropped Washington.

I remember that Sting and Hogan did the exact same match here that they did on the previous Nitro. Literally the same match, move for move until the finish.