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Thanks. I appreciate that and you’re right. You’re really a cynical, miserable person who can’t help yourself. I’m sorry I say shitty things about people in wrestling I find dislikable, but you’re just constantly awful to people who post here, which is worse.

“Even handed” was me acknowledging that I’m probably being over sensitive about it. But god damn, why are you the first person to jump on someone with personal attacks every damn time?

Pot, meet kettle. I tried my best to even handed call out something I found distasteful in light of recent events. Apologies to anyone relevant I may have offended.

I don’t want to be mean and maybe I’m over sensitive, but Cody drawing attention to his dog feels so off putting with Andy Williams not even in the ground yet. It just feels so “look at meeee” on Cody’s part when so many of Williams’ friends and fans are still dealing with this. Just kind of moronic and tone deaf, but that’s Cody, I guess.

I need to see someone put the DLSS 5 treatment on something that was never meant to look realistic, like Pokémon or something, just to witness true horror.

Satan himself looked at that team-up and was like, “fuck, that’s a little much.”

I guess I need to watch more ROH. I watched Lio Rush vs Action Andretti on YouTube and thought Ian and Caprice were awful. There was a point in the match when Lio brought out a box as a foreign object and both commentators made their own jokes at almost the same time and then, because neither acknowledged the other's joke, both made the same jokes again, as if afraid the other hadn't heard their brilliant quip the first time. And at the same time, there was, you know, an actual wrestling match going on that neither was actively calling because they were so desperate to get their shit in. It was so amateur hour and cringeworthy. Very "I SAID...DID YOU FORGET YOUR SCISSORS?" energy.

How did I, a dude with a GI Joe tattoo, not get that Butcher’s look (bald, monocle, big mustache, sleeveless duster) was inspired by Dr. Mindbender?

There’s a similar urban legend about Andrew WK.

Looool that’s just a hilarious coincidence…it’s Oakland’s area code.

If you’re an Observer/F4W subscriber, Josh Nason put out a WOL episode today with nothing but fun clips of a Butcher interview he did in 2023. It’s great.

Oh man, I forgot about that! Cool Hand Ang deserved better than that dumb angle. Shitty of Paige to do interviews like “I’m a WWE girl through and through and I was never happy in AEW, please pass me your boot, Mr. Levesque, so I may lick it more!” when TK did her a favor as big as hiring her untalented brother.

I don’t buy a lot of wrestling figures but I do buy the ones that just look fucking cool. Of course I have a Butcher figure.

Awful news about Andy Williams. RIP

Image on the left is how I see Ciampa and it takes me out of his matches every time.

Mine was a PVC (weird beat) that, after 3-4 tests and a thousand dollars or so, turned out to be benign. Fuuuuuuuck.

Wrestling merch fun fact of the day: The 80s LJN WWF ring was recalled, a few years AFTER LJN went out of business, because a few kids somehow impaled themselves on the ringposts. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1991/ljn-sling-em-fling-em-wrestling-ring-toy-recalled

McMahon, which is definitely worse because I imagine her saying it in her standard monotone, maybe with that “whoah oh whoah oh, WrestleMania!” song playing. I could look it up to be sure, but nothing good ever came from Googling “Linda McMahon butt stuff Hulk Hogan.”

Sorry, @Contentious C, can’t help you. I think I tried whatever Target’s next step up from generic was, a very long time ago, but that’s all. I buy Gold Standard from Costco, about $80 for a 5.64lb bag. That’s a decent price, but higher than it used to be. Costco used to have their own store brand in similar size for around $50, but they haven’t had it in a while, which sucks. Now if you excuse me, I’m off to make protein pancakes for breakfast.

The Magnum comparison is a great call. We were either talking about it earlier in this thread or in some other thread, but it really stands out that Vince never booked good looking babyface guys aimed specifically at drawing women. I need to really think about it some more, because I get the feeling it’s somehow tied to Vince’s fucked up views on masculinity, sexuality and, you know, pretty much everything. It could also be something as simple as the feeling that a good looking babyface marketed toward women would divide fans and you didn’t want to pull fans from Hogan. Oh great, now I can’t stop thinking about that (apocryphal?) Linda quote about Hogan’s sex appeal. I think she was comparing Backlund to Hogan and said, “Bob is the guy you want to bring home to your parents. Hogan is the guy, you might let him do butt stuff with you.”

That sucks, man. Are things going better now? Heart-wise, not Punk-wise. . I had a small heart scare earlier this year and it sucked. Once WWE’s current crop of memes use up their 15 minuteshausen, they should pick up Caster and Bowens. They could do sanitized rap intros that mention WWE’s sponsors. Acclaimed in the house and we’re comin here to get hype Gonna flush these punks one at a time like Dude Wipes Used to work dark matches at the Fyter Fest Now we’re on Main Event hyping Cricket Wireless Drinkin Prime not Gatorade cuz that stuff is lame (can’t say “shit!”) From Maybelline New York to LA, everybody loves the Acclaimed

As always, I blame the inclusion of Billy Gunn into their act as their downfall.

Counterpoint: “it won’t happen to me” (despite it happening to everyone else) is the rallying cry of human nature.

Brandon Martinez calls time cues loud as fuck. Twice I could hear him telling Moxley and Fox (the Mox and Fox Connection!) how much time was left. Mercedes is one of the best workers out there, but whatever that vocal affect she's doing is (for example, "you" becomes "YO-WUH") drives me up a wall and makes me skip her promos.

I tried to replay 3 and I fully concur with your assessment. I think I finished the first island and then gave up. I played through 4 and both DLCs on Xbox Series S maybe two years ago. I just wanted to get through them, so I enabled cheats (ammo, guns, health). They were fun but the base game's mission structure is so repetitive. So many missions could be stripped down to "go here, kill these red dots, and leave." I feel like they used TLaD and Gay Tony to experiment and really expand on what missions could be, especially in the latter. Also, beating the final mission on 4 on the modern Xbox is incredibly hard because there's a QTE where you need to button mash, but now you need to button mash twice as fast because the game is now running at double the FPS.