Chaos
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Since the Hogan thing has been a topic since it happened, I really want to know if anyone asked themselves if having him there in that moment was a good idea. Booking Hogan in California in LA in front of a fairly heavy Hollywood crowd has to be one of the worst cases of "read the room" of the HHH/Khan era if not in any era. Given how Hogan went straight through it like he memorized the script over and over again shows that even he was aware that was probably going to happen.
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The focus on last night's "re-debut" was casual fans and new eyeballs, with this also aiming for some PLE spectacle. Overall, I think it was an okay episode of RAW but didn't fully deliver on the quality being marketed. For WWE, I think this episode was overall mission accomplished.
Roman vs Solo ended up being fun, and the final moments leaned heavy into some Paul Heyman coked-out ECW overbooking. I'm guessing everything involving the Rock was very telling, and I believe this says he's not stepping in the ring again as a competitor, and this is a conclusion to 4 years of Bloodline story. It'll be interesting to see what plays out from here, but this definitely seemed like a "we've told what we can tell here without the Final Boss staying the Final Boss" moment.
Rhea vs Liv transitioning from Last Woman Standing to "solid tv match" was an interesting choice, but you can kind of see a narrative that Rhea is potentially "the face of this show" for the next year.
Jey vs Drew was probably the one spot where you could have let the heel win, and I would have probably ended things on the rebound claymore. Jey got his moment with the entrance and Drew tried to get what he could out of this.
I found Punk and Rollins to be underwhelming with too many unnecessary nearfalls. I have taken a turn over the last few years of how I view Rollins as an in-ring talent to where I've enjoyed a fair amount of his recent output. This one fell more into what I disliked about him in ROH and his early single's run. I will admit I'm not sure how much of that is just Punk is a different worker at 46 than he was in his mid-30s as well.
EDIT: I also wanted to highlight how much I enjoyed GUNTHER's video package. He's the most Pro Wrestler to ever pro wrestle, and that's fine by me.-
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Random question. If I gave a Persona a shot, is 4 Golden the one that's the *one* to try?
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3 hours ago, EVA said:
Truthfully, there’s nothing you can do to salvage the 5/12 and 6/11 games. While those might be matchups ripe for an upset in CBB, the fact of the matter is that a difference between being a top 5 caliber team and a 10-15ish team in CFB is an ocean of talent, and those are always going to be thumpings. But 7/10 and 8/9 can get a lot more interesting if the seeding is right.
I think we have some in the media with Herbstreit as the poster child creating this utopian fantasy land where we're going to get 12 even-level teams play each other and every game is going to come down to a field goal and the final two minutes. They had a hard enough time getting competitive games with 4 teams.
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Overall, I thought it was an excellent holiday episode. We're on our third straight season of watching with the kids. We normally do it at around dinner on Sundays, and it was the most I've laughed at an episode in awhile. I'm in general not in love with the current cast. Update is usually the highlight and just speaks to the stability of Che and Jost doing this together for so long.
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Atlanta United signed Ronny Deila. I'm hoping the club can be more competitive in the coming year.
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13 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
A judge has extended the NCAA's losing streak, granting Diego Pavia an injunction and making him eligible to play another season in 2025.
Could be huge for Vandy, could be a big portal bidding war.
That might be the week that decides if Hugh is on the sidelines for Auburn in 2026.
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1 hour ago, The Natural said:
Exactly 115 seconds between both Manchester United goals.
I was in church and just got a succession of quick buzzes on my Apple Watch.
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I'm kind of surprised by that one. The common narrative around Mullen is he liked working in TV and wasn't interested in coaching again.
I think he'll do well there.
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2 hours ago, supremebve said:
I have the worst gaming ADHD. I play through 83% of games and then never finish them. I have the last God of War, the last Horizon, the last Spider-Man, and Baldur's Gate 3 all with about 10 hours to go.
There's wisdom in having self awareness in what ways you are broken. Then you lose all wisdom when you never learn to correct it haha. At least that's how I feel a lot of the time.
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I'm on concert ticket probation because of everything we have planned in 2025, so of course Pearl Jam announces a rare southeast run in the spring and Dead & Co officially announce another 18 night Sphere run. I'll end up caving and doing something for my birthday, but that's more likely to be Umphrey's or Billy Strings or something random like Matt Nathanson.
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Because I have the happy medium of no time to game and gaming adhd, I have this coming in from Gamefly, and my initial plan was to do full playthroughs of the first 3 before touching this. I paid full price for Inquisition and never left the Hinterlands 10 years ago, so the joke's on me. Maybe I'll get into a better schedule of plugging away stuff to its conclusion.
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Didn't catch this last night as I was watching college hoops, but I popped for the thread title. Fleet Foxes are always a great listen, but this is coming from a guy that listens to a lot of jam band music and doesn't use substances other than IPAs.
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5 minutes ago, EVA said:
I think my biggest takeaway from reviewing the season so far is that, until these division-less conferences get it fixed, imbalanced schedules are going to have a huge impact on the championship picture. There are so many teams around the top of the stranding and national rankings who are really only playing 1- or 2-game regular season schedules. Lots of opportunity for teams like Indiana, SMU, and Texas to shoot the moon.
They're almost going to have to find ways to do the NFL strength of schedule model and release the conference schedule once a season is over. I even question if permanent rivalry games will exist in a couple of years or if they do and cap it at one, some tough choices will be made.
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12 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
Ed Orgeron won a Natty.
And then got fired less than two years later, but still.
Also seems to be working really well for Spencer Danielson at Boise right now.
Coach O kind of blanked my mind, which is odd because I was thinking of him in relation to LSU and Bryan Kelly this weekend.
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1 hour ago, RIPPA said:
East Carolina is gonna remove the interim tag from Blake Harrell's title
The Pirates are 4-0 since Harrell took over on the interim basis
I feel like this rarely works out well. I know he's the best example of it, but is Dabo maybe the last good example of it?
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I'm fulfilling the Auburn people love Auburn narrative by catching a night game in Jordan Hare for a 4 win team on Saturday. Crazy thing is, I feel like we are going to pull this one off, so here's hoping I'm Swag Surfin to start the 4th quarter.
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2 hours ago, J.T. said:
I am taking leave from 15 December to 5 January so there will be a Veilguard bender in there somewhere.
I took an extra day off as a buffer day when I went to Boston a couple of weeks ago so I could have a selfish day for gaming all day. Total time a console was on that day: 0 minutes 0 seconds.
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Tata Martino has left Inter Miami for personal reasons.
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On 11/15/2024 at 10:10 PM, Cliff Hanger said:
How the fuck is Microsoft letting these terrible Call of Duty podcast ads into the wild? Do they not care because addicts will always line up for another fix, or do they somehow not understand that "vaguely Southern guy yelling a plot synopsis and some marketing buzzwords with no production" is a shit way to sell a game?
I know this board is not exactly a heavy listener base for JRE, but I grew tired of the interrupting ad with Peter Stormare the last few weeks when I would listen to an episode.
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Rumors are Michigan offered Underwood $10.5 million to flip. Never sure how much to believe reports like this.
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5 hours ago, sabremike said:
How in the hell has nobody noted Miami and Messi going down in flames? Even more hilarious is the griping over the (admittedly dumb) best of 3 format because in theory it should've made bonkers upsets even more difficult to pull off (imagine if the US had to beat the Soviets twice in 1980) and somehow the two biggest ones in league history happened just over a week apart using that format.
As an Atlanta United supporter, it couldn’t have been more beautiful. Guzan has taken a lot of flack and played about as well as a 40 year old keeper could have even after getting mauled by Suarez.
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9 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
It might be nothing, but there's a lot of smoke about Michigan pushing hard to try and flip Bryce Underwood from LSU. He's a local kid (I, in fact, briefly lived in Belleville round about 2006ish, and it's just outside Ann Arbor) and the rumors involve a major, major NIL offer.
Dave Portnoy did pledge to spend up to $3 Million to get the right Quarterback for Michigan going forward.
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I don't enjoy any of these underpowered card vs overpowered card matchups to be honest. Took a stab at the Jey vs Jimmy one last night and quickly didn't want the headache.
Final Fantasy Omnibus
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One of my goals this year is to spend my limited gaming time focusing more on backlog and single-player experiences (my limited time tends to end up going to sports games, wwe 2k, or the occasional games as a service venture). That means a lot of games that I've partially started may have to go back to the beginning because I remember nothing. I'm almost 5 years into my FF7 Remake playthrough of starts and stops (bought it at launch) with significant progress made through some of last year before stopping again. I'm finishing up a couple of sidequests in chapter 14 before moving on to the final linear stretch of the game and then jumping into Integrade.
One thing I've noticed is that some of the trophies never triggered (like defeating a summon). I'm not sure if that's a glitch from upgrading or what. I also am not sure if I missed one of the Johnny events because I finished his last piece and it didn't trigger.