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  1. 5 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    Someone did this in WCW im almost certain. It might've been some combination of that DDP/Raven/Saturn/Benoit/Kanyon stretch of the US title scene. It could've easily just as well been some dying days Norman Smiley HC title stuff, but I am near certain it was done.

    I also thought this happened in ECW with Tommy Dreamer and Brian Lee.

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  2. 1 hour ago, DreamBroken said:

    KO was night 1, the other 3 were night 2 with McAfee getting the last one.

    Ahhh. I only watched KO vs Austin and Rhodes vs Reigns from that WM. It's possible I watched more, but I honestly don't remember. I'm pretty sure I only cared to watch those two. OH, and KO/Sami vs the Usos. I know people will say, "go watch Gunther vs whoever" but I honestly don't care. I could barely watch WWE matches then and it has only gotten a little better now. It's actually physically nauseating and almost migraine inducing to watch. I have never been motion sick so I don't know what that feels like, but whatever feeling I got from watching how WWE matches are shot and produced makes me think it's motion sickness.

    Since I started re-watching more over the last few months or so, it seems like it's a little better. And Roman's matches don't really necessitate a lot of quick cuts so those aren't that much of a problem. But I just remember parts of the tag match and one part in particular during KO vs Austin where Austin was throwing punches and stomping a mudhole and it was cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut on every strike and I felt myself start to feel sick. Getting old is super fun.

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  3. I bought The Marvels before knowing when it would be on D+, but I tend to buy almost all of the MCU movies anyway with a few exceptions. I thought it was...ok. I think the swapping when using powers concept they were going for was a little bit of a mess and you could tell that reshoots and rewrites made at least the first half or 2/3 not that great, but again, ok for the most part. Again, just something of a mess that they managed to salvage into a fun movie that was largely carried by Kamala's undeniable charisma. The villain was like Malekith levels of who gives a fuck though. I honestly would have preferred just a straight up Carol Danvers movie instead of this team up stuff and Brie Larson was a lot better in this than in Captain Marvel.

    So yeah, I don't regret buying it, I just don't know how much I'll re-watch it. Probably not at all? Maybe once in a great while if I'm bored. I would definitely go to rewatch this than Multiverse of Madness. The people saying this is terrible are like the same people that think Thor 2 was terrible. Thor 2 is like the Mendoza Line for MCU movies. It's totally not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It's perfectly fine and even a little fun. I kinda felt the same about this, althought I've seen a lot of people say they really enjoyed the Marvels more than reviews made it out to be. This was also horribly marketed. Like, Zack and Miri levels of bad marketing. 

    BTW, I take back what I said earlier about Dakota Johnson. I watched her on SNL and she's pretty fun, especially in the Please Don't Destroy sketch. I just think this Madame Web movie sounds like a complete and utter shit show. I don't give a fuck about young Madame Web, that doesn't even make sense to me. I give even less of a fuck about really young Ezekiel. I don't know what the response was towards Ezekiel, Morlun, and Madame Web back in the day, but I bought the shit out of that run and really liked it. All of this bullshit without any involvement with Spider-Man, but kinda getting what looks like Spider-Woman isn't going to salvage this thing.

    Sony, with the exception of Vemon, which is only good for the dialogue between Eddie and the Symbiote, please stop with this Spider-Man Villains Universe. It makes zero sense. I would almost be surprised if this made more than The Marvels did.

    In fact, you want a movie for Sam Raimi to direct? Have him direct a Venom movie that's just nothing but Eddie and the Symbiote bantering and talking shit for 90 to 120 minutes. Just make it goofy as fuck like Army of Darkness. Everything else though, like Madame Web, Kraven, and Morbius can fuck right off.

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  4. Helldivers 2 fucking RULES. Played solo yesterday morning and then in the evening, got together with 3 other friends and my god, it was some of the most fun we've had playing a co-op game. Just a lot of frantic yelling, laughing, accidental team kills, someone calling in an orbital strike in the same spot where two of us accidentally were respawning so we were immediately cleared. Making it the full 2 minutes waiting for our dropship to arrive, 3 of us go one side of the dropship, I go on the other side where there's a gigantic fucking bug spewing acid spray that kills me while me 3 buddies take off in their dropship. We were all cackling with laughter. If they can get quickly get cross platform saves figured out so my progress on the PC transfers to my PS5 then this might be my early GOTY.

    The wildest thing is that unlike D4, this game has live humans basically messing with folks and their campaigns on the fly like a real life DM. So if the community of Helldivers looks like they're having too easy of as time of retaking a planet or territory, someone on the game devs side can basically change something on the fly. It's wild. Maybe one of the wildest and coolest experiences I've had and this thing only cost $40. 

    Plus, as anti-nuke as I am, there was something really almost awe inducing to firing off an ICBM to complete a mission, watching the rocket take off and thinking, well, that's it, and moments later there's a gigantic fucking flash on the screen from the explosion miles off in the distance and there is essentially a second sunrise for minutes afterwards. It's completely bananas. This game rules. Video games rule.

    RIP Dead Cells. You were in that category with Celeste, Outer Wilds, and maybe Hades for as perfect of a game as you can make. Each 4 basically just a love letter to video games in general with someone's heart and soul completely poured into what they were making. One of these days I will finish both Dead Cells and Hades.

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  5. If Cody wins at WM, there’s only one other thing missing to bring this story to a close. Cody is going to need help to overcome the odds and a Rock intent on keeping Roman as champ. So when all the chips are down, when the Bloodline have taken out everyone else to keep cheating for Roman, there’s only one guy left to take out the Rock and keep the match fair and let Cody win clean. This is WWE’s “portals” moment…

    Or in other words, just break some motherfucking glass. One more time where the Rock’s eyes bug out at Stone Cold, one last time Stone Cold can take out the Rock, and one last time where Stone Cold can take out a power hungry authority figure.

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  6. BTW, I may think Seth’s gimmick is shit, but man, that dude has been done so incredibly dirty and been buried so hard over the last week. It’s crazy. Like, they kinda threaded the needle with Cody, but no one is even talking much about how Seth is being buried. Maybe it’s because he’s had his big WM moments and has been a top guy. Still, they’ve buried him and the title to the point where if you’re a casual fan how could you not wonder the same thing Roman and even Rock is saying about him. He looks like a total geek.

  7. 34 minutes ago, For Great Justice said:

    I’m not a big fan of critiquing wrestling writing because, I mean, it’s wrestling. But man, this is kind of egregious.

    Why, exactly, did Cody bring Rock out last Friday in the first place? Like, his character did that. Not The Rock himself, not HHH, not Roman.

    I mean, what? Unless they covered this somehow at the presser and I missed it, it’s the biggest WTF I’ve seen in a show storyline since Jack’s tattoo.

    They did cover it pretty well on Monday. Seth got in Cody’s head and fucked up his decision making as Drew pointed out, so much so that he wound up talking to the Rock and Cody gave his spot at WM to him. Then it became clear during the press conference that this was a power play by the Rock, it’s easy to fill in the blanks that Cody was vulnerable and even Roman called him indecisive which lead to Roman vs Rock, and Cody finally came to his senses seeing that this was all about Rock and Roman thinking their family is bigger than wrestling and saying fuck all of that.

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  8. There were a couple moments during Swerve and Hangman where I thought, Jesus, this guy was a hair away from never walking again. One of those was on Swerve flipping out of the powerbomb and the other was Swerve giving Hangman a Dead Eye off the ring through a table. Like, Hangman came so close to getting spiked.

    Aside from that, I could watch these two feud forever and they already had maybe the damnedest death match I’ve ever seen. 

    I don’t know how you further raise the stakes with these two. Hair vs hair? Loser gets 10 shots with a cane or rope just to repeat Dreamer’s “thank you sir I’ll have ANOTHA!” A proper barbed wire exploding ring death match?

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  9. Heel Hangman driven crazy and being a heel by Swerve fucking rules.

    Can you imagine if Sting’s one son, the taller and more muscular of the two, the one who looks the most like Sting, were also a wrestler with his dad’s same charisma and ability? He’d be the biggest draw in the country. Dude is an absolute unit. It’s crazy. He’s like a fucking action figure. 

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  10. My hypothesis is that Dave is a lot like one of my close friends where his bit was to always be extremely literal as a goof. That was back in high school. We’re both 43 now. He’s done it for so long that now that’s just how he is. It’s like a bad habit he can’t break and we just go along with it.

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  11. The Switch Pro controller is…alright. At the very least it’s their best normal controller ever simply because it just copies the other two companies. Even still, the d pad stinks and the buttons are too squishy, but I’ll take that any day over using Joycons.

    My daughter likes the Joycons if they’re in the little handle for them, but even she is using the Pro controller more and more.

  12. 5 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:

    Were you laughing because Seinfeld went off the air 27 years ago and thus couldn't have run a storyline fifteen years ago, as Meltzer apparently said?

    Meltz is a total space cadet and I remain surprised that people pay to listen to him talk about wrestling because they value his wrestling opinions. Now, valuing him for being unintentionally funny and generally entertaining, I totally get. 

    Meltzer first said it happened on Seinfeld 100 years ago, but because he is nearly Drax levels of not understanding or using sarcasm, he had to immediately correct himself by saying, “well, not 100 years ago, probably more like 10 or 15.”

    It’s too bad for Bryan that they’re on video now and can’t mute himself before banging his head against his desk.

    Oh Dave.

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