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    NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    Damn, who is that in the background and why does he hate LL so much?  The sheer force of his hating could power a city. 

    Speaking of old school Def Jam, I got the douchechills when Corey Graves tried to drop a lyric off Licensed to Ill at the start of the show and fucked up the quote.  Good job, you Hot Topic tryhard motherfucker.  You hate hipsters because you are one.

    RED DEAD REDEMPTION is backwards compatible

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

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    On 8/18/2016 at 2:38 AM, odessasteps said:

    Had my first death by cougar.

    i was trying to do the achievement of killing wolves with my knife and it was dusk near twin rocks and im killing the wolves and then one moves in really fast from the rear and then i realize its a cougar. And while i was trying to pull out my revolver, it killed me.

    welcome back to the game for real now. 

    The best way to get that achievement is to wound the wolf with a gunshot first.  Cougars work the same way but a wounded cougar will run and then you just feel like an idiot chasing a hurt cougar across the map with your knife.

    MR. ROBOT

    in MOVIES & TV

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    I have such a love/hate relationship with this show.

    It is shot beautifully, pretty well acted and has some cool ideas but I'm still not convinced that Sam Esmail isn't a derivative hack.  There's a good review on i09 about this episode where they made the point that an unreliable narrator is fine for a movie, but when you use on in TV it can have diminishing returns and end up being detrimental because TV is a long-form narrative and you have to buy in and trust the narrator at some point.  After two Shymalan-level gotchas, why should you be invested in this show? The narrative loses its weight when the specter of "it could be that none of this is actually happening" is always in the back of your mind. In other words, why should you give two shits about any dramatic events from here on out when there's always a possibility it isn't happening?

    The big reveal that the narrator lied is supposed to be the end of the story.  St. Elsewhere didn't keep going after the snowglobe thing because that would be dumb.

    CWC EPISODE SIX - 2nd Round (8/17/16)

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    On 8/18/2016 at 1:25 AM, sydneybrown said:

    Agree with pretty much all of that.  My only nitpick is that those snap Germans look so much more deadly than the regular one.

     

    Definitely.  The slow, deadlift German looks awesome when done on a bigger guy because you can buy that the impact of his body weight can put him out for 3.  But I can't buy it as a finish against a small guy.  The snap German should have been the finish after Gallagher kicked out of the deadlift.

    On 8/18/2016 at 7:29 AM, MORELOCK said:

    I know the usual suspects will shout me down for this, but that Gallagher knot spot was really stupid and took me completely out of that match. Gallagher last night was a less flagrant offender of all the things people are hating on ZSJ for in his matches. 

    I liked the end result of the spot itself but as @Kyuubi said, it needed to be set up better.  There was no struggle at all.  It came off way too cooperative and phony.  But Tozawa being stuck in the move and the ref being flummoxed?  I loved it.

     

    19 hours ago, Greggulator said:

    The guy Gallagher reminds me the most of is Eddie Guerrero. Obviously they are different workers (and Eddie might be the best ever). But what Eddie did best in his "Lie, Cheat and Steal" thing was let the audience in on what he was doing. It was mischievous hi jinks as opposed to malice.

    Gallagher let us in on the act with his wave taunt. It wasn't him being a jerk. It was him trying to rile his opponent up.

    Sabre didn't look like he did his stuff out of fun. It was more serious. If you're doing a "serious business" thing, your stuff better look tight or else it doesn't work.

    But Gallagher is sort of a comedy wrestler, just like Eddie was in a lot of ways. He is more towards the Santino camp than the Dynamite Kid realm.

    This.  Sabre and Gallagher could have the exact same match and Gallagher's would be better because of the way he portrays it.  Gallagher understands his character and that makes all the difference.

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    AUGUST 2016 WRESTLING DISCUSSION

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, Reed said:

    Granted, this has undoubtedly been brought up before, but, damn, are Del Rio and Paige one of the strangest wrestling couples ever. I wouldn't have put them together in a million years.

    It's not even the age thing. Not quite. They just seem so, well, different from each other. On every possible level.

    Eh, opposites attract, I guess?

     

     

    "Older guy looking for some young strange to shore up his insecurities meets immature girl who doesn't know any better, probably has daddy issues" is a tale as old as time my man.  Typical midlife crisis; can't wait to see ADR's new sports car or maybe a Harley.

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