Technico Support

Oh yeah, man. I thought he was great. My only point is that WWE has a very narrow focus and are very unimaginative, and it's likely they can only pay attention to one masked luchador at a time. They'll choose Metalik over Dorado. So you're saying he's better when he's in the ring with best-in-class dudes. So was Lex Luger.

Now THIS belongs in the "random stuff nobody remembers" thread (really, "random stuff I totally forgot about"). I absolutely forgot the SST used the Halloween theme. So awesome.

Dorado was nothing special and they already have Metallik, who they'll be putting more emphasis on. Dar is just garbage. No Gallagher or Tozawa is really disappointing.

I just saw that at Target today! It comes with a pretty horrid-looking Dusty, though. Yes he has the splotch, but I think it's in the wrong place. Also, his face sculpt makes him look drunk or like Sloth. They also had the Heenan Family AND Horsemen sets, so the Horsemen one is definitely in stores. If you're in MD, it's the Target in Gaithersburg. You can probably order online and do in store pickup.

LOL this fucking show. Whiterose cares so greatly about time that she spends her allotted 28 minutes with Angela leisurely smoking and speaking in a circuitous, meaningless and manufactured mysterious way that would make the David Lynch say, "man, that's just too much." You'd think someone so obsessed about not wasting time would have just gotten to the point but hey, painfully manufactured mystery is Mr. Robot's stock in trade. I was legitimately angered by the contrivance that was Angela's kidnapping and interrogation. Yeah, someone really concerned with not wasting time sure would have had no problem whipping up that masturbatory clusterfuck. What was the point to all that? It was only done to have something weirdly interesting and different on screen. It was just weirdness for weirdness' sake, in the greater service of nothing at all. And I just remembered this scene had no onscreen payoff. It seems Whiterose and Angela are at an impasse: Whiterose wants belief but Angela only has fear. The they just cut to Angela at the lawyer's house, seemingly all-in on Whiterose's goals. How did that happen? The writers have no answer either, they just needed a way to put their cute little setpiece on screen. I'd like to be in that writer's room where someone whips up a random, weird scene and they all ask, "well how do we get there?" Then there's a pause and they just laugh. Who cares how we get there? Just write the scene! Aside from the need of the creators to prove their cleverness at the expense of everything else, a big issue with Mr. Robot is that writing and plot are so paper thin that it needs to fill time with bizarre contrivances like this. Strip out all the foot dragging and this episode would have been 10 minutes long. Why did Tyrell need to use a coded message to talk to Mr. Robot? Just call him and tell him where the fucking cab is. It was just another "oh look at our cool and mysterious intrigue!" segment. It's so maddening to watch a show creator just jerk off all over the place and waste everyone's time. OH maybe that's the meta point! Esmail is wasting all our time so we feel like Whitetrose? This show is so heavy on style and so unbelievably light on substance. It's like Lost in that I have zero faith the finale will wrap up all the shit they've left hanging. It feels like they're afraid to pay off anything; just keep piling up the mysteries and hope the audience gets lost in a fog and never sees how threadbare this shit is.

I'm pretty sure Vince feels a manager with an actual stable is too old time rasslin' for his modern entertainment product.

I don't trust anybody who lies about how "rustic" his cabin is.

Hey, maybe he thought Watt was faking it and would get up and sack the QB as soon as Fisher backed off?

I definitely remember Randy cutting a promo in the ring in his Big Suit and Vince referring to his "stack of dimes" neck. Was it as shitty as Vince telling Rude that he was "looking a little small" when Rick had gotten off the gas to try to have a kid? No but still, god damn. EDIT: @Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 be me to it! That video is even worse than I remembered. It's no wonder Vince still lifts heavy. He has body image issues that would make teen girls say, "dude, what the fuck?"

Randy tried to hide his smallness by wearing a larger suit, only to end up looking like David Byrne.

Their co-starring role in Tougher Than Leather wasn't enough?

Jesus Christ when was that photo on the right taken? He looks like Chris Hero.

5. Evil Hooters waitress gimmick, complete with wing sauce "poison mist" 6. Feud with Asuka after Asuka mistakes her for a J-Horror ghost

That's the one, thanks! @Michael Sweetser was almost right, except this was apparently after Williams returned from his BFA injury. No idea why they needed a dumb gimmick like the "heritage" thing or him being managed by JR. I guess just letting a guy go kick some ass was too "rasslin."

Does anybody remember Steve Williams showing up in a robe and Kabuki mask on Raw and attacking someone?

LOL I thought of that, too. Here it is in video form:

A 71-year-old doing heavy squats? Fuck. Vince is essentially Body Dysmorphia: The Person

Can't unsee Rey's new tattoos looking like a bra

"Prescription I didn't tell the company about, "TRT I didn't tell the company about" and "tainted supplement" are all up there with "my Twitter was hacked" in the "bullshit excuses nobody ever believes" department.

You're right, but it's not WWE's moral or business responsibility to work that hard to satisfy a subset of a subset of a subset of fans.

I think this is a "more casual but still smart fan" vs "damn near Asperger's level smart fan" argument. I can pay $10 a month for a decent selection of stuff I grew up with and, once in a while, cool new stuff is uploaded. That's fine with me. Then there are fans who will go to tape traders, scour the Internet, etc. I don't have that level of obsession regarding wrestling. I like wrestling a whole lot but my life will still be great if I never see some random match from the Padukah Fairgrounds that the kids in the know are touting. I will never, ever need 100 disks of UWF wrestling and I remember watching it on TV as a kid. Nobody is going to convince anybody here that the other way is better.

Keep laughing at Paige, guys. It won't be so funny when she crawls out of your TV for revenge in 7 days.

D-Von and Ron Simmons teaming makes sense because it follows the rule that says if two black guys are in a company, they must feud or team I like how D-Von is so committed to his new gimmick that he's still wearing "3D" boots.

True. So crack down even harder. Multi-game suspensions for anyone that injures a guy with an illegal hit, even if the hit wasn't called as such on-field. There would be some growing pains and the game would be an absolute mess for a while, but it might work -- if the NFL really gave a shit. The NFLPA already gave Goodell carte blanche to issue any kind of suspension he feels is right, so it's not like this kind of enforcement wouldn't be possible. The truth is the NFL wants to pay lip service by putting money into research for safer helmets (which is laughable) and "heads-up tackling" programs in youth ball (also a joke) to give the illusion of action. They just won't take any real steps to fix the problem if there's a chance those steps may turn off some fans.