Chaos
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6 hours ago, Matt D said:
Ok, tagging is working right now, so I'll toss a reminder to people who I couldn't tag on Sunday and haven't posted a match this week yet (Unless I missed something, which is possible!):
@John E. Dynamite, @Curt McGirt, @Chaos
Mainly I'm just flexing my ability to tag.
I've been tied up the last couple of days. I'll do my write up for last week and find something to pick either tonight or tomorrow.
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9 minutes ago, supremebve said:
Speaking of Fallout, Fallout 3 is great on the Series X. The graphical upgrades make it look more modern and the framerate improvements means it doesn't feel junky as shit like it did when it came out. Seriously, I loved it when it dropped, but it was a mess technically. I was hoping for a remake, but it honestly doesn't need it.
Does the Gamepass version have all the DLC included? I keep meaning to look. I own a disc copy but only have a Series S for now. Plan to upgrade at some point, but I also have such limited time on gaming (I've been kind of building a priority list for this year to drop backlog 2-3 games before year's end... problem is my limited gaming this weekend went to sports games instead).
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30 minutes ago, Casey said:
Speaking of Bethesda, I wonder if they’ve forgotten about the Fallout 4 next gen upgrade they were going to do. Seems to have been lost in the hype with Starfield and whatnot.
Wasn't it supposed to release around a year ago?
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1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:
Well, I wanted to give you Disco Inferno vs. Saturn on the 12/8/97 Nitro, but that's not easily findable online in full, and I don't know if you have Peacock/WWEN.
On that note, here's a match that stood out to me above your typical young lions match in WCW: Title vs. mask, Chris Jericho vs. Juventud Guerrera.
I do have Peacock. I’ll give both a look.
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I feel like my memory bank of fun or great matches has gone the way of an encrypted archive due to just engaging with stuff on a more casual level. As we do this, I hope I can make some fun picks. However, this one is pretty on the nose. I looked at where @SirSmUgly is on his WCW project, and I figured we'd pick something on the other side of the Monday Night Wars from the same time frame. I'm going with the first Austin vs Dude Love match for three reasons: 1) the Over the Edge Match is the more famous match (it'll give me an excuse to watch both for the first time in over a decade as well), 2) the finish to this match has always stuck out more in my head, 3) I became a pro wrestling fan over the summer of 1995. If I think of a year/period where my childhood fandom was at its peak, it would be 1998 because WCW was still fun in the undercard for a good chunk of the year, and WWF had not fully fallen off the deep end with bad Russo stuff and the overall poor quality of 1999.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7cq9kg
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
I hope everything works out for you! Buying new stuff can be a toss-up. I've gotten cool looking, newfangled record players before that flat just wouldn't work; I keep coming back to the trusty Audio-Technica group. Even got a double-deck cassette player and one of the decks broke within a couple months (though that could have been user error).
Yeah, I thought about going with the LP120, but both models have increased in price since I looked at them in the past. (The 60 is closer to what the 120 used to be).
Uturn was a crowdfunded deal, and it seems like it's mostly had good responses. I think the cartridge and the stylus are both AT products.
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I finally caved and got a turntable setup after years of putting it off while developing a small collection. The thing that reengaged this for me was I was on a beach trip with my current partner and her kids. While in 30A, I went to the indie record store there that's kind of priced sadly for the 30A crowd and not necessarily the hobbyist (it's still a neat spot there in Seaside). Anyways, I bought each of them an album on vinyl.
I decided to at least just get a basic set up and maybe upgrade certain pieces from there over time. For now, I kept it around $400 and got a uturn basic orbit turntable (with preamp) and Edifier R1280DB speakers. A sound guy I know recommended me some higher priced klipsch speakers that were on sale, but by the time I'd have bit the bullet, they went back up (was at $370 and reg was $500).
Everything should hopefully get here next week. I'm kind of excited to start this process and play some stuff that's just sat in a cheap crate for the last few years.
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20 hours ago, Casey said:
Somewhat related: I’m stupid and I need suggestions on good options for an AV to HDMI converter or whatever so I can stop using this small TV on my desk and hook up my PS2 to my 4K TV. Yes I realize they’ll look like shit probably but PS2 games look like shit anyway.
There's some device I'm seeing get tested on Twitter that looks like it's upressing games by hooking up the console to it. It seems like it's getting promising results.
I think it's called Retroink (sounds like it could be pricey). Has anyone else heard anything about it?
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I'm in and will hopefully be able to offer something/consistently participate. Even with the stuff I have seen throughout my life. I have a ton of blind spots both recent and not so recent. My relationship to watching stuff is more casual over the last decade.
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Yeah, I'm more or less powering through it just so I don't have it on my endless pile of shame. I'm mad at myself for preordering Madden because I kind of need to play a ton of stuff. Not to mention my Series S I barely touch and its gamepass content.
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3 hours ago, Craig H said:
The gameplay is basically mashing square, except throwing in a few combos here and there so you don't feel like you're just mashing square the whole time.
I think there's supposed to be more to the gameplay from a battle system standpoint; however, you start with those assists. If you remove them for other attachments, I believe it's supposed to make the gameplay a little more based on how you control it. I've been lazy and haven't done that in spite of having some nice attachments right now. I'm guessing that I'm somewhere around the mid-way point as I'm a couple chapters into the second time jump.
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To continue the Tennessee/Pruitt discussion, it appears he has taken a job as the PE Teacher at Plainview High School in Alabama.
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14 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:
The contract feels like an L for Barkley, based on how he has been talking. I don't blame him for signing it, its money, but basically he now has to report five weeks sooner than he was probably going to and apparently some/all of the bonus money is based on the Giants making the playoffs, not his performance. Plus he didn't even get a "no tag next year" provision.
It definitely doesn't do Dalvin Cook any favors either if I were to guess.
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As a small correction to my last comment:
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3 hours ago, RIPPA said:
The Microsoft acquisition of Activision is basically now official as A) a federal judge ruled against the FTC and B) this
The agreement is for 10 years
Apparently, the original deal that Jim Ryan denied before all of this became an ugly public battle was to allow for most Activision-Blizzard products to be on Playstation consoles for ~7 years (I could be misremembering) or something. Curious to see if Sony does anything to react to this. I know there's been Squeenix rumors for years.
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On 7/13/2023 at 9:09 AM, Marcel said:
I'm happy that Gold Cup and Nations League Finals won't be the same summer going forward. It does us no good to split the roster for two competitions a month apart.
I'm hopeful we can make a meaningful run in the Copa next year. Might be a tournament I try to travel to for a game or two.
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42 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
So is Joaquin really short or did they decide to hire really tall actors? I mean actors have a rep as being short anyway. I just rewatched The Master (incredible film btw) and I didn't notice anything.
EDIT: If you didn't know, Napoleon also had a rep as being short... thus "the Napoleon Complex". (I really hope I didn't need to explain that haha)
According to Google, he's 5'8".
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6 minutes ago, Greggulator said:
Man, as a ridiculous comedy enthusiast, I really have to think where the hell Gemstones goes on my all-time list because it is so so so so so good. It has everything a TV show can have:
1) Some of the best and most unique characters ever. I think Judy is the best of the main characters and the best character on TV and Billy Bob is just the ultimate in scene stealers.
2) It says something about a slice of Americana that probably most people with MAX subscriptions aren’t intimately familiar with but absolutely love to see deservingly mocked with the whole megachurch world.
3) John Goodman is a national treasure.
4) It is somehow also secretly the best action show on television?
5) The amount of laughs per line is at a really high ratio.
We finished the second season yesterday and knocked out the first episode of this one. It's just tremendously hilarious stuff. I also like how a lot of the violence and action is more due to incompetence than intent, which fits these characters perfectly.
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Trailer for Ridley Scott's Napoleon dropped this morning.
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31 minutes ago, The Natural said:
David de Gea confirms he's leaving Manchester United.
It's probably the right time for this, honestly. For his legacy as one of the true great keepers in United history along with the legacy of being one of the few true bright spots on what's been a middling era in United history compared to expectation.
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On 7/4/2023 at 3:23 AM, Johnny Sorrow said:
I'm hanging with my best friends after three days of Dead and Company at Boulder. It was wonderful!
Yeah, I hate I'm not able to catch any of this tour. I've enjoyed listening to it on nugs. I watched some YouTube videos of the end of night 3. I might try to stream the San Fran shows if I don't head out for Phish in Atlanta.
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11 minutes ago, Craig H said:
I’d love to get a chance to play this, but D4 and TotK are a larger time suck than I thought they would be.
Yeah, I'm for once trying to just power through. The second I veer to something else is when I don't finish it, which is always the case when I pay full price for major first party games. I want to clear some backlog before Spider-Man 2 hits in 3 months.
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Just now, odessasteps said:
There's a part of me that expects one of them to turn on the other.
I'm thinking we're getting a fatal 4 way bloodline match at Survivor Series.
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I'm hoping to get 2-3 hours deeper into it with the off day tomorrow, but I'm slowly plodding through this and am getting close to what I think is the end of the first act.
There are moments in this game that really make you just go "wow," and I sense it's only going to get more spectacular until it doesn't. Clive may be one of the more interesting protagonists in this series.
SUMMER SECRET SANTO 2023~!
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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I'll have a few posts along with some better definitions of what I can watch tomorrow and the next day. However, the first of two matches that @SirSmUgly allowed me to dust off my wrestling writing chops. I don't expect that I'll consistently write to this level about every match, but I did for this and probably over did it. I'll write about his other suggestion and @Matt D's picks later this week.
I find watching this era of WCW today fascinating because it was peak childhood enjoyment for me. I was the cliché kid during the Monday Night Wars due to watching the early part of Nitro, watching all of RAW and flipping back over during commercial breaks. I also would tape RAW and Nitro every week on the VCR due to the Nitro replay starting after RAW ended, and then I would look forward to ending my school day with the overused VHS that consistently captured 5 hours of Monday night water cooler discussion. With that said, I’ve forgotten so much of the not big moments of these shows, and my WCW viewership fell to nothing after the infamous 1/4/99 finger poke.
With that said, WCW had bit players that I really enjoyed watching before I had a critical eye for pro wrestling. (In some ways you can argue, I’ve always had a critical eye for pro wrestling in the first match I would have proclaimed as my favorite 2.5 years prior would have been Bret Hart vs Mr. Perfect at SummerSlam 1991.) Some of those carried over even into their early WWF/E runs (Perry Saturn and Chris Kanyon both come into mind). I’ve always wondered how those perceptions would change with my own ways of watching wrestling having evolved, so I found this random five minute Saturn vs Disco Inferno that I haven’t thought about in 27 years to be a present surprise, especially with my last major context for Glenn Gilberti (Disco) being his main event adjacent run in TNA around ~2003.
By WCW’s commentary standards of always talking about the nWo and the war to save WCW, the story here was well established for the uninitiated. Disco suffers from repeated embarrassment of defeat after losing to Jacqueline in October, and he has disavowed himself of any gimmicky flash associated with his gimmick. An attribute that was less acknowledged to this match was that Saturn had Raven’s Flock in his corner, but he was without Raven. Saturn in many instances had acted as Raven’s heavy or Raven’s final test before staring down at the head of the flock. I feel like the lack of Raven should have been more significant to this match and its result in the moment.
The bell rings, and you can sense Disco’s eagerness to push the pace on this match. He suffers by eating a scoop slam from Saturn who then taunts him by pointing outside of the ring. An early strike exchange benefits Saturn, who is trying to show “you think you want to work at this level, but your heart isn’t quite in it yet.” Disco finally gets the upper hand by repeatedly attacking the neck and throat before sending Saturn into the corner. The relentless attitude remains the prevalent theme of this battle, and it stepping outside intensifies this notion. Back inside, Saturn is able to regain control and remind Disco that losing focus for a second has consequences. Those include a throat across the top rope and a release pump handle suplex before Saturn’s own ambitions get ahead of him with a missed top rope drop. The brawl goes back outside, and Saturn tries to get his fellow flock members involved before dumping Saturn into them and then giving Lodi a chartbuster across the ring barricade for good measure.
Disco attempts to continue the punishment by repeated strikes in the corner before mishandling an irish whip suplex. Saturn capitalizes with the intent of finishing things. A couple of suplex attempts fall into a countered powerbomb that allows Disco to hit the chartbuster, steal the victory, and race outside of the ring with an unexpected victory. This was a little forced/sloppy in spots, but it told a nice, condensed story for a five minute sprint, and it highlights the true power of Nitro at its peak, which was the unexpected fun encounters.
EDIT: Finally got tags working.