Technico Support

Galloway and Jinder are apparently allergic to leg day.

Ice. Fucking. Cold.

Seriously. We have at least one actual white nationalist, essentially a Nazi, on the cabinet. WWE going back up to at least PG-13, if not straight-up R, would be no problem.

Nah. They both usually like LU; But Bryan has hated intergender since the start and rails against it almost every time. Different people are into different things. I know as soon as Pentagon started strangling a woman with a cable, I said, "this is fucking dumb" and turned it off. As I said, different people like different things and see things differently. For me, and likely B&V, watching Pentagon punch and kick women and beat them with foreign objects while a rabid crowd cheered it on was gross. Up there with Vince and Trish's "bark like a dog" shit. Again, that's just me.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

I think I posted this in the PWG thread but at BOLA there was a match between Matt Sydal and John Hennigan. Either Excalibur or Taylor referred to it as a "rematch from ECW" and both just cracked up.

Fun article but it falls apart when they suggest maybe HBO planted the account on Getty. The guy has over 1600 photos there and the article cherry-picked a few that are Westworldy. The real revelation is that, with this show's massive budget, they dropped $435 on a stock photo instead of doing a quick shoot someplace.

In unrelated news, Chuck E Cheese establishments in and around Memphis just hired extra security staff.

"You don't want a criminal lawyer...you want a CRIMINAL lawyer."

When did kids start just calling it "prom" instead of "the prom?" Leaving off the "the" makes it sound like Wrestlemania.

Yeah, they REALLY did not go into how the safety situation worked in any satisfactory manner. I get that the hosts' guns fired something that could hit the guests but not kill, but they didn't get into it enough at all. And what about physical violence? Were they just programmed with the knowledge of how to rough someone up without doing real, lasting harm (like a pro wrestler or really skilled abusive spouse)? I'm not paying five figures to get punched in the face.

Right there with you. I put Westworld up there with Mr. Robot as a frustrating mystery box show that didn't need to be. Both had lots of slick creative choices and looked amazing, with very cool atmosphere and world building, but with a purposefully nebulous narrative. Why did they have to keep so much stuff secret for so long when, as @nofuture just said, most of the "twists" were telegraphed a mile away. To put it another way, the mysteries should serve the story. They shouldn't be the entire point of the story. It shouldn't feel like the writers started off with a twist or big reveal, then worked backwards, crafting the narrative around it. I was discussing this show with a coworker who said, "I enjoyed it but I felt like it crapped out maybe halfway in. It was good but it's not something I'm going to go out of my way to recommend to people." This is not to say I disliked it because that's not true. But they piled up so much stuff that I lost track. Shit, I didn't even notice that the final episode was a Ford face turn, where he admitted that Arnold was right, until I read it in a review. When a key point like that is missed due to the sheer weight of the shit you've piled up, it's time to back off just a bit.

Maybe Ford orchestrated the whole escape attempt to distract Delos staff from seeing him somehow completely empty cold storage and put all those hosts back in the park. Here's a shot from episode 6 of Ford planning his endgame

It's ironic that the still frame for Cesaro's excellent workout routine is a shot of him doing a behind the neck press.

I don't tip any of those guys, either, but i do tip on tattoos. Because they're not employees; they're essentially working out of a shop and giving the shop 40 - 60% of what your tattoo costs. If they have no customers that day or someone cancels, they sometimes still have to pay something just to be there. Plus they're paying for all their own supplies. If you tip your hair stylist, you should tip your tattoo guy.

Conspiracy theorists are a sad, pathetic bunch.

Well Glenn was Asian! No, I get your point. In their defense, the show started in rural Georgia so I can see the lack of diversity making sense there. But now they're in Northern Virginia and I don't see a single Asian or Indian and the only Latino actually came from Texas. WTF.

My friends and I had front row for KOTR '94. We bought tickets right at the ticket counter during a January house show, as soon as they went on sale. We were excited about it for months. Then they reconfigured and put the former Mayor of Baltimore/Governor of MD and some "dignitaries," various cronies and flunkies in front of us, so we were now effectively in the second row. Fuuuuuuuuck.

All the good old school ones have been taken, so I'll go with the team of Excalibur/rotating guest commentator in PWG. I wouldn't enjoy PWG as much without their commentary, which is funny while still calling the match pretty seriously. Excalibur and Steen were awesome and Chuck Taylor has really come into his own lately. Never forget that nobody kicks out of a falcon arrow, his name is Chris Hero and he throws elbows, stiff kicks to the back are fucking unnecessary, and that El Generico is undoubtedly a big boy.

I just legit gasped in fear for Ricochet's life at that SSP over the post. Jesus.

7 foot Captain Spaulding will haunt your dreams

In the comics, in the scene where Fat Jim or whatever his name is brings Lucille to Negan, he asks, "did you eat her pussy like a lady?" Not "did you pet her pussy" or whatever bowdlerized shit they came up with. American TV: where you can show two people's heads graphically bludgeoned down to Hamburger Helper, but you can't say "eat pussy." As much as I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, he's just a bad choice for Negan IMO. I didn't think it was possible to overdo it when portraying a character that's already over the top, but I was wrong. His delivery is stilted and weird and his "lean back lean forward while I talk" thing is annoying. Also, as mentioned here already, he's really skinny. Negan is supposed to be imposing. He couldn't have bulked up a bit for the role? That leather jacket looks like it's falling off him.

Like the time I heard Lex Luger's theme in Creepshow 2...I'm sure they used a lot of music library licensed stuff to save money.

The third guy is the host version of Ford's father that Arnold built as a gift to Ford.

Too much to talk about and process right now, but here are some random questions: Was Maeve's decision to go back and find her daughter her own choice or was it just the endgame of her loop? Did you guys catch the post-credits sequence? Was the actress who played Armistice wearing a really bad merkin? Did Papa Abernathy/The Human USB/Johnny Mnemonic get out of the park or was he part of the Island of Misfit Toys Death Squad? Also, Remus (Steven Ogg/GTA Trevor) just loving the shit out of that massacre was just the best.