Technico Support

This is a great point, and other have made it here as well. For all Dunn's faults, this still rests at Vince's feet. Word has always been that Dunn is lazy, taking the easy route and producing a homogenized, dull program, and he is very good at convincing Vince that this is the way it needs to be. From everything that ex writers, etc have said, Dunn is good at playing to Vince's worst instincts and his ego to keep in his good graces (Craig's "echo chamber" comment is spot on). All that being said, this is still all Vince's fault. If Dunn were gone, would nothing change? I'd like to think it would if the right person took over but do I feel it would definitely be slow.

If you can, drink some water while you drink. And throw back a B12 or two.

Maybe just tell Vince Sr that, while Dunn Daddy is a stand up dude, Dunn Jr will be worthless, so don't do it.

Normally I'm with you but you could drink Bud Light all day and still pilot the space shuttle.

jesus christ

It's not the announcers, it's the micromanaginfg lunatic with bizarre ideas about wrestling yelling in their ears.

Too bad it's Ultima Lucha and not NJPW. He'd fill in the alleged plot holes himself and pimp the storylines for a year-end award

Wait what

The funny thing about Dunn is that every defender, or dude just trying to be contrarian for fun, has the same defense. "Everything we know about him comes from second hand sources." Like everything we "know" about every other person involved in wrestling isn't second hand? I never saw Orton shit in any bags nor have I heard him talk about it. I never heard Michael Hayes drop the old N bomb. With a few exceptions, everything we think we know about the personalities of anyone in wrestling is either secondhand information or inferred by their actions. Yet somehow, this is a valid defense when it comes to Kevin Dunn.

Wait, Nick Stahl has fallen on hard times and is having drug issues? The John Connor Curse! Somebody tell Bale to watch himself.

Guys not fat shamed by Vince: Renee Dupree, Rob Conway, Matt Morgan etc etc

Owens doesn't look like the typical male underwear models that the latent homosexuals exec producer and chairman typically like to see roll around mostly naked compete. ps No diss intended to my out and proud gay bros

Maybe it's Kevin Dunn, the popular character actor (#wrestlingbubble)

Probably refereed by Drake Younger, while we're at it. With Samoa Joe on the undercard as we desperately wait for El Generico to heal and come back. NXT is the most bizarre thing in the world to 5 years ago me.

Matt Taven looks like a mid-90s porno actor.

Jingus mentioned Thandie Newton. She's definitely not a "one hit wonder" or someone who "never made it" but she fits the expanded definition some of us are using here. I remember when Mission Impossible 2 came out and she was being hailed everywhere as the new It Girl posided to take over and get all the big roles. She certainly didn't live up to that.

As Konnan would say (every 5 minutes) BOOM! I'm not hating, only stating.

Harbaugh is an obnoxious lunatic. It's easy to keep an obnoxious lunatic around when he's winning but as soon as you collapse the way the Niners did last season, it's time to go.

Well, word is HHH is being given everything he needs to ensure NXT is a huge success in order to prove to the stockholders that he can carry the company when Vince finally explodes and crumbles to ash like we know he will. Stockholders have always been wary of HHH because he's just a wrestler, not a MBA or whatever those of us in the rich white guy circle jerk that is big business consider important. NXT's success and, in turn, HHH's success, makes WWE look more stable and helps with the stock numbers. Vince and company are essentially working the stockholders.

Am I correct in remembering that Vince blew one quad sliding into the ring and blew the other by favoring the injured leg? Fucking spectacular. Remember, kids: too much steroids, bodybuilding, and no other training means your muscles will be all show and no go. Seriously, do not just shoot yourself full of irradiated horse piss and do 3000 leg extensions.

I think we always called them "preliminary wrestlers" when I was a kid. That was the Apter mags' influence, I think.

I really enjoyed the book but it feels unfilmable. Also, the rights for the music and the video game characters might be pretty expensive. I wonder what the budget will look like. While it was a pretty good selling book, it wasn't the Hunger Games as far as having a massive, built-in, rabid audience goes. Why compare it to a sterotypical (but admittedly great) YA trilogy? It's a stand-alone book (for now) aimed at an older, geekier audience? The ones who are helping to drive the MCU and comic book movie boom! As far as being unfilmable, the rights are the biggest concern (but Spielberg can probably make some things happen), otherwise the book is basically a movie script. I wasn't comparing it to Hunger Games because I think Player One is an example of YA, I was comparing it as an example of the type of books Hollywood throws big budgets behind; books with a huge audience already there who will see the movie on its opening weekend. Player One was a hit but hardly big enough to be considered a sure thing by risk-averse Hollywood. So I'm wondering what kind of budget it'll get. I didn't know Spielberg was involved so maybe we're good. Or to simplify... Hunger Games: sold a shit ton and has a rabid fanbase. Gets a gigantic budget because studios know they'll recoup it easily because that fanbase will go see it. Ready Player One: not so much

Vince McMahon says HAHAHA THAT SOUNDS BLACK ENOUGH I MEAN GOD DAMMIT I CAN'T TRADEMARK TYRONE JOHNSON SO THIS WILL HAVE TO DO

I have to say that I didn't care enough about Shayla to care that she died. She was pretty underwritten and only characterized as the sexy girl who fucks the protagonist and who gets him drugs. I guess we're supposed to identify strongly enough about Elliott to care about the people he cares about, but it just wasn't there. You really have to work to establish a relationship before you kill off a character to make us care. Yes, it was a gut-punch to realize that Elliott led to Shayla hooking up with Vera but it their meet-cute was too little, too late.