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1 hour ago, Raziel said:
It was pretty much like when Stacker 2 came out in 99 with the ephedra and it was getting used as "legal" speed until people started ODing and their hearts started exploding.
The shitty thing about that is that people were dying from ephedra supplements for years, but it took a baseball player showing up out of shape, to Spring training in Florida, after taking lord knows how much gas station crank, dying during a conditioning drill, in order for the government to take notice.
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1 hour ago, ExcellenceofAirPollution said:
The "controversy" on his last match is pretty overblown IMO. I've never used Kratom but you can buy it all over and I generally know it as a shitty drug teenagers abuse. It was basically every indy match with an old guy. He probably shouldn't have been doing it, but he went out there for the payday, and promoters/commissions don't care if a guy can barely move. It's sad, and this was higher profile, but it's literally every weekend on the indies with somebody, they're all playing roulette, and there's no indication yet it directly led to his death.
Seriously. I'm not a fan of GCW but terminally online goofs jumping on the garbage train and using this as ammunition is shitty. Not that Janela is doing himself any favors either, but I'm at least glad he tried to explain Sabu's regular kratom use a little better. But people are acting like evil mudshow wrestler Joey Janela personally drove to Sabu's hotel and shot him full of horse tranquilizer.
I think I saw Sabu on TV before the magazines, weirdly enough. In the early 90s, my college's "dorm cable system" was actually just a homegrown solution built by a local dish provider. We'd get some weird-ass networks, man, and one of them was the Sunshine Network. Stumbling upon ECW at like 11 at night, during a time when WWF and WCW were both creatively in the shitter, was like finding a transmission from another dimension. It was insane in all the best ways and Sabu was a massive part of that. Just to echo what everyone else has said, the man was the last of his kind. RIP.
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46 minutes ago, AxB said:
Apparently, WWE is considering running the all-women Evolution 2 PPV in Atlanta GA, on the weekend of July 12th 2025. Same weekend as AEW All In Texas.
Now All In is a Saturday PPV with an early start time, and WWE is supposedly running an SNME as well.
All these pathetic, scarcity mindset, "it's not enough for me to succeed...I need you to fail" motherfuckers. HHH, Nick Khan, whoever else...I hope they're as miserable as they seem. They're on top of the most profitable pro wrestling company that ever has been, most likely ever will be, and they're worried about AEW getting a minuscule slice of the pie. It's like Taco Bell getting up in arms about the old lady selling homemade enchiladas on Facebook Marketplace. Fucking pitiful and sad.
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10 hours ago, odessasteps said:
just saw our local regal is showing Re Animator Monday night. Very tempting since I have the night off.
My local (-ish, 15 minutes, non-highway) Regal closed down in December. It was the last non-fancy theater close enough to me. All I have now are highway drives to two different, pricey "reclining seats and full menu" monstrosities. I just want to watch a movie, not have a "premium experience."
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21 hours ago, twiztor said:
Curt, we love you bud. please take care of yourself.
Yes, this. Thank you for posting. We’re pulling for you, Curt.
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I would have loved it if, when confronted by the Grizzled Young Vets, O’Reilly said “Silver and Reynolds, you’ve grown!”
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To be fair, “this movie is not great” and “this movie is getting Oscar buzz” are not mutually exclusive. I can believe Rock’s representation is in an all-out blitz to campaign for a nomination to rehab his image after Black Adam and all the other mess adjacent to it.
When I posted about spooky gimmicks mostly sucking, I forgot Undertaker! I guess I was thinking more about stables. Also, I guess I meant more “occult” gimmicks. Kane felt more like an unstoppable monster to me, like Lord Humongous, than an occult spooky gimmick.
On the side of “this shit is lame,” apparently Aliester Black is back in an empty room cutting nonsense edgy promos. Nice!
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57 minutes ago, Log said:
"I hate spooky wrestling." - Phil on the latest Way of the Blade episode.
Same, Phil, same. Love learning that pointing out how dumb Bray Wyatt's stuff was alienated Phil from the other Ringer wrestling writers.
Has “spooky wrestling” ever been done well? I’d say Sullivan in Florida back in the day, but that heavily took advantage of satanic panic. Aside from that, spooky wrestling stables just look like edgelord cosplay dorks.
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4 hours ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
A show of 6 15 minute matches is boring. A show of all tag matches is boring. A show of all death matches or all spotfests or all sports presentation is boring. Wrestling needs short matches long matches luchadores brawlers hosses tag teams fat dudes ripped dudes monsters wimps. Variety is a nessicary component
Right, but AEW already does a good deal of the stuff you swear they’re not doing. They have squashes. They have shorter matches. They have different kinds of wrestlers. I can’t speak for everyone, but I argued with you because you’re making a statement that just isn’t true (AEW is stagnant, it’s all 15 minute 50/50 workrate matches).
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Oh man I’ve been slacking on this thread! Trying to remember what I’ve had recently. I know I had a Beer Farm Irish Red (local MD beer) that was disappointing and bland. Troeg’s Nugget Nectar limited release is out now, but only in 12 packs near me, so that sorted my beer for last weekend and this as well. It’s delicious! I actually had one from a frosted glass first, and switched to a room temperature glass after that. Some beers just do not work in frosted glasses, as I find the cold numbs my taste buds sometimes and kills the flavor. I could definitely taste the difference between that a a regular glass. My British pals might be on to with their room temperature beer.
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11 hours ago, SovietShooter said:
I remember a rumor like 10+ years ago that they were going to do a remake of The Six Million Dollar Man, starting Jim Carrey. The idea was going to be that $6M now doesn't go as far as it did in 1975, and thus hijinx would ensue.
They should do this with the Million Dollar Man gimmick. Re-do all the classic promos, except this time everyone has a way higher price than before, and he just don't have that much cash on him.
A “rich” guy showing up to brag about having millions, only for a good chunk of the locker room to be like “yeah, we’re paid well and we have that, too” would be amazing.
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When Anna Jay yelled WHO WANTS TO GET CHOKED OUT and Harley sheepishly raised her hand, I lol’d
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I would have liked it if MJF misunderstood the mission and then spent like 10 minutes insulting Top Flight until they cried. Then he could say, "see? I hurt people too!"
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Oh lord, Trump is going to take credit for the new Pope being American, isn't he?
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"Should AEW feature more meaningless 5 or less minute matches, which will surely be bad matches, instead of fewer meaningless matches that are long and good?" is a real zen koan. I mean I know I'd rather see actual good wrestling than the 2025 equivalent of 5 minutes of Ciclope vs Mike Enos just to get them on the card. (I know I'll get a few people hopefully unironically saying this match sounds rad) I understand this board skews "old school" but please take off the nostalgia goggles, friends.
I actually feel like @NoFistsJustFlips is sort of making a fake argument here. AEW does have some short matches and squashes already. Nick Wayne just beat RHINO in like 3 minutes ffs.
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They were also known as WWFe as a corporate entity at one point, I want to say in the early 2000s.
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If the champion is just going to win anyway most of the time, maybe make some of these eliminator matches straight up title matches instead in order to hype up the show.
Eliminator/non title matches really only work if you have a semblance of a ranking system, and then your non-title matches feature the champion vs someone who normally wouldn't get a title shot. Then there's the intrigue of, "what if the #15 ranked (or whatever) person actually wins?" And then, once in a while, you do that. As it stands now, nobody would bat an eye if Thunder Rosa were granted a title match today.
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No, you see, they have to be GTA songs
Los Titanes del in the Aire tonight
Eddie Kingston be wise
Rhythm of the Kevin Night
Keep on Loving Yuta
Private Party all the time
I got Alan 5 Angels on it (okay, that's a stretch, sorry)
Wardlow is necessary
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Something somethign doofus son in law something
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19 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
-Rhyno v Big Show
-APA vs Saturn & Malenko
-Matt Hardy vs XPac
-Dudleys vs Holly's
-Edge & Christian vs Eddie Guerrero & Jeff Hardy
-Kane vs Kurt Angle
-Benoit & Jericho vs HHH & Austin
I loved the main, but aside from that, none of those matches went longer than six minutes, and at least two were fuck finishes. The main was less than 14. So it was like 45 minutes of wrestling on a two hour wrestling show. You can't just say "look at these big stars all wrestling each other!" The truth is "look at all these big stars wrestling each other in shit matches that end before they start!" I'd rather have AEW exactly as it is now than an optical illusion of a card like this.
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8 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Depending on how you count Jimmy Hopkins (Bully), who can be seen in the background of GTA IV.
Though supposedly his great grandfather is a kid in RDR2, his grandfather is in LA Noire, and he is in Manhunt.
Well now you're getting into that Rockstar Games Shared Universe thing!
Also, I forgot that Laszlo, Love Fist, and Fernando are in the old and new GTA universes.
Checking out the site that @RIPPA linked, holy fuck this game is going to be huge. Just scrolling and checking out the map areas, I'm like "okay Vice City, Keys, Everglades..." then I kept scrolling and saw like 3-4 more areas I didn't expect. God damn.
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17 hours ago, TheVileOne said:
Credit where credit is due, Max Caster's "Best Wrestler Alive" schtick is hilarious, and it's weirdly getting over. I hope they go somewhere with it. I was dying when Max was corpsing as fans started chanting along with him. He picked the most obnoxious, hardest phrase to chant along with, and fans actually started doing it.
It's wild that Caster is getting this nothing gimmick over, while Bowens is getting boring already, still tied to that albatross Billy Gunn and just screaming catchphrases.
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41 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said:
Nitro 12/22/97:
- Fit Finlay vs. Eddie Guerrero
- Meng (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. Steve McMichael
- Hector Garza, Juventud Guerrera & Rey Misterio Jr. vs. La Parka, Psychosis & Silver King
- Hammer vs. Chris Benoit
- Rick Steiner (w/Ted DiBiase) vs. Scott Norton
- WCW United States Heavyweight Title Match: Curt Hennig (c) vs. Disco Inferno
- Lodi & Riggs vs. Harlem Heat (Booker T & Stevie Ray)
- Buff Bagwell vs. Chris Jericho
- Randy Savage (w/Miss Elizabeth) vs. Lex Luger
Thank you for posting this. When I read "it needs to be more like Nitro" my first thought was, "outside the cruiserweights, Nitro kinda sucked. I should go look up a random Nitro to see if that's true."
- Fit Finlay vs. Eddie Guerrero -- might be okay, sounds like a real styles clash
- Meng (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. Steve McMichael - shit
- Hector Garza, Juventud Guerrera & Rey Misterio Jr. vs. La Parka, Psychosis & Silver King - probably decent
- Hammer vs. Chris Benoit - Benoit probably did his best
- Rick Steiner (w/Ted DiBiase) vs. Scott Norton - shit
- WCW United States Heavyweight Title Match: Curt Hennig (c) vs. Disco Inferno - shit
- Lodi & Riggs vs. Harlem Heat (Booker T & Stevie Ray) - shit
- Buff Bagwell vs. Chris Jericho - Jericho probably did his best
- Randy Savage (w/Miss Elizabeth) vs. Lex Luger - probably a fuck finish
Double checking, this was also the episode where the NWO tore down the set. What a shitshow. Yes, please be less like Nitro. The good old days weren't always good.
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5 minutes ago, supremebve said:
They shouldn't try to associate him with Ted DiBiase in any way, but a billionaire villain would probably be pretty successful these days.
I somehow don't think we as a culture despise the rich like we used to.
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Basically DVDVR LiveJournal
in LAND OF CONFUSION
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Why did people working in stores start saying “welcome in” and why do I hate it so much?
(because it’s redundant and the kind of fake cozy only a marketing type would come up with)