Technico Support

If it's legal where you are, a half a THC edible per day (5mg) is pretty nice.

I watched it three times. So good.

There’s so much to be said about how AEW told the story of a reluctant, self-doubting hero and his hesitant friends coming together for the common good, compared to WWE’s simplistic, alpha male, lone wolf, I am a tough guy and very badass characters and storylines. I am so thankful for AEW, its staff, and wrestlers for doing what they do and telling stories designed to appeal to more than just 14 year old white kids.

AKA the coolest distant relative

Yeah, it feels like maybe they were winding him down a bit. He’d been doing commentary on Collision to the point where it seemed like they could be preparing him for that role sooner rather than later. I’ve seen Cole since his ROH days teaming with O’Reilly and always felt he was a real talent and he truly came across like the nicest guy. All the best to him in whatever is next.

The Jazwares lazily drawn Orange Cassidy figure is pretty cool.

Surely you mean NXT Prohibited Portal on August 24? That has nothing to do with anything!

Another booking idea: Mistico milks the crowd singing his Mexican slow jam so long we get 10 more entrances and the match ends before he can get in the ring.

Exactly. 1 and 2 are the preferred spots because they’re (in kayfabe) the only spots actually guaranteed to participate in the match. MJF KO’ing Briscoe with his diamond ring for the win just as #3 Mistico is coming to the ring would be awesome. Puts the heat on the heel for ruining an anticipated match and feeds the MJF/Mistico feud. It won’t happen, for the reason @Matt D mentioned, but I feel like they really do need to end a Casino Gauntlet really early at least once to make the stip believable.

As the absolute whitest white meat babyface, Christian’s nickname was “all heart.” I’ll always remember Matt (former WWE writer) on the We Watch Wrestling pod struggling to remember his nickname and his best guess was “Fights Well from Underneath” Blake Christian.

A fan had a “Brody is invited to the cookout” sign, in Spanish! Thekla got bleeped at least twice. She got a potty mouth!

I met IVP Videos once in college and later lived across the street from the video store where he worked. Super nice guy. Obviously I didn’t know it was him until I was randomly posting about some dumb changes the store had made and he messaged me about it like “yeah, I work there and it sucks.” Life is weird.

When you game has awful tag team AI but also makes sure it gives the player the choice of being vegan or a meat eater, your priorities got fucked somewhere along the way. I liked most of the player models, but Sammy Guevara just looked weird and Ricky Starks looked like Butt-Head. And it goes without saying, but the creation suite was rough. Only one option for beards and one option for long hair means my Chris Hero CAW and the John Blud CAW that the devs created for the community creator DLC look exactly the same, and that's not right.

Right! The actual matches were fine. I don't need half hour struggle sim style matches, or minigames to get a pin or sub. But god damn did everything else drag it down. Getting unlockables by replaying the same limited, repetitive, branching story was a chore. I shouldn't have to dig up an Google Docs spreadsheet on a subreddit to figure out what choices to make to unlock what. Other things to fix aside from what you mentioned: They need to figure out tag team matches. Either let me control my partner who I just tagged in, or make my partner AI work in a way that makes sense like in FirePro. I found myself just winning tag matches on my own without tagging out because the partner AI was so bad. Finalize the roster closer to release or do updates more frequently. The game came out in 2023 but I swear the roster, attire, belts, venues, etc. were mostly from 2020 when they first started working on it. The game felt stale on day 1.

I don't watch WWE but I hear Meltzer and Alvarez summarize it...WWE creative is really missing out not having a heel cut a promo on Trish and say "I'm glad you're wrestling on the show...can't have evolution without some fossils! (evil cackle)." Also, it's amusing they have a show called Evolution when their parent company is mostly concerned with catering to a fanbase whose majority doesn't believe in it. Maybe next year it can be "WWE Women's Creationism" or "WWE Women's Inteligent Design," presented by Hobby Lobby.