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    JULY 2016 WRESTLING PHOTO THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    erm maybe not girls

    I was about to say...isn't Ibushi part of that community that enjoys the matches of one Stylish Alan Jones?

    Re: Lana and Rusev...they must have skipped the Performance Center seminar where they brought in an old timer to teach the kids "it's not what you make, it's what you save." 

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    MR. ROBOT

    in MOVIES & TV

    Posted · Edited by Technico Support

    15 hours ago, J.T. said:

    No updates on Tyrell

    He's alive.  That's who was on the phone at the end of the episode.  The caller said, "bonsoir, Elliott," which si what Tyrell said to Elliott a few times in season 1. And it was clearly his voice.
     

    Good enough opener and I'm with you w/r/t the show going in directions you didn't expect. 

    Whenever a series premier or season opener is front loaded with the first two episodes, it's because someone thinks episode 1 isn't enough to hook new viewers.  And they're usually right, as episode 1 is always heavier on table-setting than on flashy stuff.  So good choice in that regard, USA.

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    WWE CRUISERWEIGHT CLASSIC (NO SPOILERS)

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    Wow, what a good show.  It came off as so spontaneous and fun since it wasn't overproduced like Raw.  Bryan & Mauro were excellent and I didn't hear a single reference to a wrestler being "fun to watch."  Amazing how well an announcer can do when they don't a geriatric loon in their ears yelling at them to use catchprases and $10 words at every turn.

    I noticed the ring looked smaller and had wider turnbuckle pads.  Good choice.

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    Raw is Spinning Its Wheels Until the Draft - 7/11/16

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    Vince is really tone deaf about race.  This is a guy who claims MLK is an idol of is, yet booked a storyline (and storylines involving Vince are just his way of living out his fantasies, come on now) where he drooled over the possibility of having "bestial" sex with a black woman.  Because sex with blacks is the same as fucking an animal, I suppose. 

     

    JULY 2016 WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, jstout said:

    Does any of our older posters feel the Monday Night Wars burned them on wrestling?

    In a way, because it made matches less special.  I grew up on syndicated shows where the occasional midcarder vs midcarder main event was something unique and fun.  I'd look forward to SNME and Mania like they were Christmas because that was the only time you'd get a bunch of matches with marquee guys.  Also, the squashes served to build guys up.

    The Monday Night Wars killed this dead because the competition between the companies forced them to put star vs star matches on free TV.  And now, even though the war is long over, they still burn through prospective matches and nothing is special anymore.  I've seen Owens vs Cesaro on free TV 3-4 times already and, while they're awesome wrestlers and I enjoy their matches, the bouts mean nothing.  There's no build to the matches and nothing to get excited about.

    So I'd say one very particular aspect of the wars -- the overexposure of big matches -- still has repercussions today and absolutely burned me out on WWE.  I like Popeye's chicken but I don't want it every day.

     

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    RED DEAD REDEMPTION is backwards compatible

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    I forgot how addictive the non-storyline stuff is, just exploring, doing bounties, picking flowers for the survivalist stuff, dead-eye shooting dear in the head with a pistol, killing ambushers.  I did one mission for McFarlane and then spent an hour assing off.  More than any of the GTA games, the world in this one just feels real and is one you want to spend time in to see what random shit happens next.

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    JULY 2016 WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    10 hours ago, SorceressKnight said:

    To the fans, on the other hand? He was never "Antonio Cesaro", all of these things were jokes (to the fact the crowd actually bought into doing the "WE THE PEOPLE!" claim done by the guys who were sold as racist assholes who hate everyone who wasn't a straight white male)- all of that was nothing. To them, he was Claudio Castagnoli, the same guy he was in ROH or CHIKARA all along, and he needed to be treated as EXACTLY as big a deal as Claudio Castagnoli was in ROH or CHIKARA, no matter that either promotion are far smaller than WWE- and if he wasn't instantly as huge a deal as he was there it's was BERRIEDED and proof WWE hates them (even if they changed the story to make Daniel Bryan win at Mania 30...what've you done for us LATELY? We want Cesaro now!)

    I think, in your irrational hatred for indy fans and your overzealous rush to demonize them as wrestling hipsters at every opportunity, you overestimate the size of that fanbase vs the size of the part of WWE's fanbase that only follow WWE.  I guarantee the majority of people watching WWE had no idea who Claudio Castagnoli was when he was brought up.

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    SON OF A~!

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

    Posted

    9 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

    Hey guys, did you know that most black people are killed by other black people?  Well that's what some dopes like to bring up in these discussions but my counter to that is ALL races are more likely to be killed by someone of their own race. No fucking shit. People are going to kill people who live closest to them. Whites mostly kill other whites.

    Such a dumb argument.

    That argument right there with "but...but...something something Chicago!" on the Dogwhistle Racist Bingo Card.

    24 minutes ago, Ryan said:

    Why use math when you can just make up figure on live TV and not be question on them and then lecture an entire race on how to raise their children before you go off and cheat on your 94th wife on a pile of rubble you probably bought on eBay.

    I was scanning around talk radio yesterday (because I'm an idiot) and hear this kind of thing and it just drove me nuts.  Is there anything as tone deaf and clueless beyond the pale as older, well-off white guys telling all black people how they should feel and act? 

    WWE BRAND SPLIT 2.0

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Wait wait what?  I haven't watched Raw yet, just read a recap.  So Stephanie and Shane will be COO's of their respective shows and then each will name a figurehead commissioner, too?  Holy fuck.  So the only thing better than an authority figure is FOUR authority figures?  Well I guess the trend of FFWDing through their shows and watching two segments will continue unabated.

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    SON OF A~!

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

    Posted

    What the "All LIves Matter" morons don't get (or simply refuse to acknowledge) is that the "too" is implied.  Holy shit, it's not hard to understand.  When I say, "I really like Five Guys hamburgers," nobody pipes up and yells, "fuck you what about BGR?  All burgers are delicious!" 

    It's sad that we have to be reminded that black lives matter too, but a normal, law-abiding dude just got gunned down in his car by a scared-ass cop for nothing and nobody seems to really give a shit outside of the requisite two-day period of virtue signaling, so here we are.

     

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    July 2016 ANIMATED GIF THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Rev Ray said:

    oh wow, Rude and Bull were sort of doing the Problem Solver/Snap Shot?

    Seriously, I've never seen that.  I remember Rude finishing guys with the DDT back then (the original "Rude Awakening") but I can't recall ever seeing this double team.  Awesome.

    Has there ever been another team where both guys have such amazing, sweet mustaches?  Instead of "R n R," they should have been called "The Flavor Savers."

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