Technico Support
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2 hours ago, Casey said:
anyone wanna guess when NXT Heatwave is taking place in August?
Surely you mean NXT Prohibited Portal on August 24? That has nothing to do with anything!
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3 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:
Ironically enough, I got a chuckle out of the match graphic. "MJF #1 entrant, Briscoe #2 entrant, and for some reason here's Mistico!"
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.
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35 minutes ago, Zimbra said:
The Casino Gauntlet doesn't have a 'last entrant' it theoretically could go on until they run out of wrestlers in the back. Having the 1st or 2nd pick is supposed to be an advantage because you have a chance to end the match before there are a million wrestlers in there and it's pure chaos.
I will stop before I get on my "The Casino Gauntlet is an inherently bad match" rant.
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.
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1 hour ago, Matt D said:
Man, no one asked for de facto face Blake Christian. That would have been way better as a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels type of match.
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.
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A fan had a “Brody is invited to the cookout” sign, in Spanish!
Thekla got bleeped at least twice. She got a potty mouth!
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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.
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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.
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27 minutes ago, Casey said:
https://x.com/WrestlePurists/status/1942920668779299266
Link won't embed but talks have "heated up" regarding another AEW video game. They know where they went wrong, and they won't announce anything until closer to a planned release date (if it happens).
I've been playing Fight Forever a little bit on my SteamDeck since it's on the Steam Summer Sale. I haven't touched this thing on PS5 since it came out, probably the Stadium Stampede update. It's not as terrible as I remember, gameplay wise I actually quite like it, but the customization and the career/season mode are both still real, real low points. So bad it actively brings down the rest of the game.
If they do a Fight Forever 2 and just build on top of what they already have and fix issues that fans had with it, I'll be fine. I don't need a community creations thing like WWE has (a return to CAW formulas would be fun actually). I don't need a battle royale mode, either - even if it was kinda fun the first few times just for the novelty of it.
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.
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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.
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Yeah, tribalism, racism, misogyny, and Mercedes getting to bring her writer onboard created this stupid perfect storm that culminated in this absolutely dumb rumor.
Tony Khan is not an idiot, and he's a student of wrestling. AND he already tried giving some limited creative control to Punk (by way of Collision) and we saw how that didn't work. I doubt he's just handing out creative control in any form ever again.
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17 hours ago, J.H. said:
Christ, the Robert Shaw "Going Out On Open Water Sucks" trilogy is diminishing returns with each film. Am I to assume you will complete the trifecta with Orca?
James
Completely unrelated, but your post reminded me of listening to The Rewatchables and hearing Van Lathan refer to Disclosure as “part 3 in the ‘Michael Douglas’ Dick Gets Him in Trouble’ trilogy.”
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44 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Books will someday be written about Chris Pratt and how whitebread and pablum a human being can possibly get:
This movie will make at least half a billion dollars and no one will ever speak of it again a month after its release.
You are 1000% correct on this. We saw Garfield in the theater (I blame my daughter) and I legit forgot it existed not long after. She mentioned the Garfield movie last month and I was just like “wuh?”
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It would seem the Big Damo Rule also applies to wrestlers' families.
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1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:
Interestingly, we found out via his WCW run that Roddy Piper was so interested in the art of drag as to be completely obsessed by it. That's...uh...something, I suppose.
3 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:Piper trying to do his open mic comic routine while being overtly homophobic and constantly talking about Viagra....not so much.
For an ostensibly straight dude, Piper talked about LGBTQ stuff in promos, completely out of nowhere, a whole lot. Sometimes I got the impression Piper was so far in the closet he could see Narnia.
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3 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Piper as a face was fine. Piper trying to do his open mic comic routine while being overtly homophobic and constantly talking about Viagra....not so much.
There are signs during the buildup to his match against Lawler for King of the Ring 1994 that he had lost a bit off the fastball. Those pretapes, which they had to clearly edit down, were horrendous. Then, it's full on cringe as the years pass. In small doses and (more importantly) shorter segments, he was tolerable. You can tell once Nitro is about 3-4 years in, his appearances become less and less special. That crazy pop he could garner in 96 and early 97 eventually becomes a very polite "hey, it's a guy from the glory days" pop. He also loses the crowd A LOT. If you want to build an argument about wrestling needing to be scripted, look no further than that era Roddy Piper.
Everything you wrote after the first sentence counteracts that statement. "Piper as a face was fine -- with about 30 exceptions I will list here."
I'll say Piper was a good face after his first turn in 86-87, but that only lasted a few months. Post comeback, the only thing he was good in was the Bret program, but that's because he was semi-heelish.
He was also horrible on commentary. Just like Savage, it was so off putting to hear him unabashedly cheering babyfaces, so against his established character. I blame Vince for that though, as that's how he liked his babyfaces.
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I know it couldn’t be avoided, because he was so over as a heel that he had to be turned, but Piper was just the dirt worst as a babyface.
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Adam Cole’s promos bug me in one very specific way. There’s this stammer that he does and I swear it’s not real, that it’s an affect he puts on in a misguided effort to sound real and natural. I swear he never did it before his NXT run, so I blame WWE’s acting coaches.
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On the plus side, the enshittification of, well, everything, and employees not being paid enough to give a shit, means I've been bringing my own shopping bag full of waters and snacks to the movies and nobody ever says anything. I know concessions are how theaters stay in business, but 3 waters, 1 candy, and a popcorn is like 50 bucks.
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This weekend's beer was Bell's Two Hearted IPA. I've seen people refer to it as the very best IPA they've ever had. I'm not good with top whatever lists or ranking anything as the best, but I'll say I guess this is up there as far as higher quality, tasty IPAs go.
I made the mistake of chilling some glasses for it since Saturday was a hot day. I'm learning that IPAs really aren't great with chilled glasses. Chilled glasses kill the taste and also make it burn going down. I left that glass of beer on the counter for a few minutes and it was much better. Save the chilled glasses for less full-flavored stuff like lagers or maybe even pilsners, which get more crisp from the chill.
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Following up on the "too much shit before the movie" discussion from a few weeks ago...I went to the movies over the weekend and here's how it went:
- Pre-trailer cavalcade of commercials ended, and trailers started, 2-3 minutes after the actual feature's advertised start time
- A whole bunch of trailers
- Coke ad
- Promo spot for whatever technology this film is being presented with (AMC Laser, I believe)
- PSA about silencing our phones
- AMC Nicole Kidman spot
- The actual film
So all that took roughly 20 minutes. Add in the commercials running long and the feature presentation started around 23 minutes after its advertised start time.
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On 7/6/2025 at 1:54 PM, HumanChessgame said:
Bowens and Caster were definitely a "sum is greater than the parts" team. Caster's loser streak continuing and Bowens not being able to find his place in the singles scene is good enough cause for them to get back together, as long as they don't bring Gunn along and ditch the scissoring and other bullshit comedy. Them getting back together, going on a hot streak, and being challengers to The Hurt Syndicate wouldn't be the worst way to go.
23 hours ago, HumanChessgame said:They did just fine with Caster's raps and Bowens' follow-up which were comedic, but not the corny shit they did when Billy joined in with them.
Hell yes. The Flanderization of the Acclaimed, by way of adding Billy Gunn as their mascot, was a fucking crime. They were fun and a little edgy, and then got turned into a one-note goofball act. They went from "we're smart ass pricks who are going to rap some mean shit at you, talk shit, and then beat you up" to "we're going to do our catchphrase ad nauseam and gosh darn it we're gonna win those six man belts for Billy!"
The Gunn/Bowens bit from Collision was horrible, especially because Bowens was on the floor and it was shot from behind Gunn, making Gunn look even bigger and Bowens look like a child.
I'm sure Billy Gunn's a nice guy but he was the 4th most over member of a hot act 30 years ago and is old enough to be the Acclaimed's grandfather. Making him the focus of their act was such a bad move.
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On 7/5/2025 at 9:07 PM, Elsalvajeloco said:
It started off as WWE's idea to compete with the NFL on FOX morning show. So basically, they took constant shots at the NFL on FOX show and even made some (really lame and awful) skits centering around it being this dumb jock show etc. Unfortunately, WWE didn't have the hindsight that it would still be popular more than THIRTY YEARS LATER.
That's Vince for you. The man is a lunatic and sincerely believed his product was better than anything out there, including the top drawing sport in the country. "We have Santino!" He took up permanent residence in the WWF/E bubble and probably got his mail delivered there.
On 7/5/2025 at 11:24 PM, SovietShooter said:People always shit on Garvin's "lame duck" run as NWA Champ, and rightfully so. But, go back and watch the matches with Flair from that run - they are all brutal stiff-fests.
Absolutely! Flair/Garvin had some excellent, brutal matches. It was just that Garvin was in that mid-level Flair challenger group where you know you'd get a good match but none of those guys were at Flair's level in the kayfabe hierarchy. Like Flair would defend against Ricky Morton and Road Warrior Hawk on Bash tours but you knew they weren't going to win the belt. That's the level Garvin was at...but then he won the belt. Also, as you mentioned, the "going on a three month sabbatical to train for the rematch" was a dumb move and also not a good story for a babyface.
On 7/6/2025 at 12:57 AM, Shartnado said:That wasn't the song I was using, but I did make a very squat based video for my wife. Obviously, that one is not going on YouTube. We did joke that If I'm desperate enough for money in the near future, another kind of account isn't out of the question, however.
OnlyFins?
On 7/6/2025 at 1:10 AM, Cobra Commander said:and I was not prepared for the absurd Jean-Pierre LaFitte intro promo, although saying he's the only living relative of the famous pirate Jean LaFitte is a heck of a way to say that his father is dead
It's 1995 and a young Jay Reso is practicing flat back bumps with Ron Hutchison in a run down gym in Kitchener, Ontario. He gets a strange feeling and, for reasons he doesn't yet understand, realizes a deep desire for kinship with, and possibly to even mentor, Carl Oulette. It makes no sense to him then, but it will eventually.
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39 minutes ago, Shartnado said:
@Technico Support Where is your weight at currently? Do you feel like the shed pounds have improved your cardio further? I mean I remember you telling that your cardio has always been on a good level despite being a big guy!
I ran without the weight vest last weekend and it felt like cheating !
Thanks for asking! Currently at 226 and change, down from around 310 about two years ago. I'm sure dropping the weight has helped, but this weather hasn't! It's been so hot and sunny (high 80s/low 90s) that it just wears me out and I'm lucky if I can get six miles (trying to find shadier routes definitely helps). But I had two recent days that were cloudier and cooler and I was able to go 10 miles each day -- contrast that with the fact that I've only done 10 twice before that and that was like a year-ish apart. So I guess increasing the long run frequency means I'm getting in better shape.
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AEW NEWS - JULY 2025
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The Jazwares lazily drawn Orange Cassidy figure is pretty cool.