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Honest apologies for offending Primus fans. I should have said it’s like Tommy Wisseau claiming The Room was always meant to be satire or comedy.
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5 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Yeah, people can be forgiving when you say you idolize/cosplay as the “right” people.
for most people… Bret sycophants are good and the ones for Shawn are bad.
I can't stand any idolize/cosplay gimmick if it's just pretty much 1:1. I've already seen Bret, Shawn, Tully, Arn, etc. the first time. In person, multiple times. I need something more than "hey remember these guys! You liked them, right?" Hate the Bucks all you want but when they were doing Rockers cosplay while at the same time stealing the clique's gimmicks, they were trying to be annoying. FTR is the Force Awakens of wrestling.
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This reminds me of that series of Achewood strips where Ray is prank calling various other comic strip characters and Beef is cheering him on. Someone's going to be laughing in my ear and asking me to do Mike Bailey next.
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I applaud them for being two dull mechanics who turned "being two dull mechanics" into their gimmick. Some real 3D chess there. Like, "we're not two boring, nondescript white guys whose only value is giving you a good 20 minutes! We're old school wrestlers!" Gotta respect that hustle. It's like a con inside a con inside a con. Con-ception.
It's like when Primus turned "Primus sucks" into a catchphrase, thus sidestepping legitimate criticism.
It's funny to realize guys like John Walters just had to take their "boring technician" gimmick a few more inches into 70s & 80s cosplay territory and they would have been something.
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32 minutes ago, The Natural said:
Natural:
Bryan Danielson vs. Katsuyori Shibata, ****3/4.
After every 3rd or 4th Bryan Danielson match, The Natural has to replace the asterisk key on his keyboard due to wear.
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9 hours ago, Mike Campbell said:
All the talk, both good and bad, about the Aliens 4K transfer has had me thinking about the movie for the last few days. So, with the rest of the family having gone off to bed, I saw that it was streaming on Max and turned it on. I got most of the way through (up to the pont where Vasquez and Gorman sacrifice themselves in the vent) and realized that I'd missed probably my favorite scene. When they set up the sentry guns and start blowing them away. I thought maybe I'd just been looking at my phone or my mind had wandered and I'd missed it, so I rewound and there's no even a mention of them. The scene when they're looking at the blueprints goes from Ripley seeing the pressure door and suggesting they just weld plate steel over it and repair the barricades. I even found the same scene on YouTube in case I was just misremembering, and nope, there it is. "There's a pressure door, can't we put one of the sentry units there?"
In all seriousness, is there really any good reason for this scene getting scrapped? All I can think of is something related to gun violence (which is something I take seriously, as a father and the husband of a school teacher). But look at the movie we're talking about, and it's not like every other bit of shooting and killing was taken out. And it's on HBO for fuck's sake. I even did a google search to see if there was anything posted and I came up empty.
Apparently it's on the special edition but sometimes aired when the movie was shown on TV as well, so that's probably why people remember it. I guess it was scrapped for time but re-added for TV since they needed to make up time with other things cut for TV.
The special edition also has a set-up scene where you get a look at life on the colony before everything goes to shit. Not a bad scene but, again, some stuff just gets thrown out to tighten the movie up.
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I just side-eye the Smith because it feels dangerous in that it locks what should be fluid exercises into a flat plane of motion. It also keeps you from strengthening stabilizers because, well, you're not using stabilizers. I only use it for calf raises.
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25 minutes ago, Godfrey said:
Gotta say, Mox and Claudio squashing FTR in a feud and then immediately going on vacation is peak AEW
https://411mania.com/wrestling/backstage-notes-recent-aew-tv-absence-jon-moxley/
OMG Dave and Bryan going round and round about that yesterday made me dumber for having heard it.
10 Print "Bryan says: it was fucking dumb to put them clean over FTR and then keep them out of the tournament"
20 Print "Dave says: lots of promotions throughout history have done things like that. It's about making money, not logical booking"
30 GOTO 10
Dave, who has made a career calling out bad, illogical booking, reversing to say that if it makes dollars, it doesn't need to make sense, is certainly something.
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10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
You should be happy you don't have about six cowlicks in the same spot on your head like I do. Try getting THAT to ever look right.
10 hours ago, caley said:Ever since I saw 'Kingpin', EVERY time part of my hair sticks up anywhere, I immediately assume I look like Ernie McCracken and start frantically trying to fix it. It doesn't matter that every time I look in the mirror and it's not like that (Though im getting old so it probably IS coming!), every time my hair blows in the breeze or gets all static-y, it's
https://tenor.com/YWto.gif9 hours ago, caley said:My brother has a double-crown, he is so happy that his new baby does not!
Every time I start to feel bad about my hair thinning and getting patchy in front a few years back, leading me to just shave it weekly with a 1 guard, I'll revisit this thread. Thanks, dudes!
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13 hours ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:
DDP is definitely in Nitro. Do you mean WCW vs. the World? He's not in that.
You are exactly right! Old man brain strikes again.
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Every time I see Jericho's weave/plugs/otherwise fake hair get all sweaty and sticking out in all directions, I can't help but think of Bill Murray in Kingpin.
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Oh man I remember being psyched to buy WCW Nitro for the PS1 back in the day. It was so long ago I think I bought it at KB Toys. What an absolute pile of shit. We were so convinced that DDP was a hidden character that we put the CD in a computer and tried to dig around; there was no way WCW's hottest new star wasn't in the game, right? What an absolute disappointment that game was.
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2 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
I didn't know that Rhianna was part of MKULTRA but now I do.
I hear the mind altering drugs hit you right in the cerebellum
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Rabid Star Wars fans & MAGA dirtbags is a wild Venn Diagram I hadn't planned on thinking about today.
It's also really something to see MAGA people and anti-rape people (w/r/t the Weinstein connection) on the same side.
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I'm just happy to see what I hope to be a tighter, smaller, more fun story after whatever the fuck Prometheus and Covenant were supposed to be. Fewer overreaching pompous ruminations over the origins of life, what it means to be alive, etc. and more frank discussions of the bonus situation, god dammit.
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4 hours ago, Death From Above said:
People marking out about belts and I'm over here just happy that Eddie Kingston is having a 3 year run where he has, like, every concievable Kingston dream match one after another. What a fucking ride, man.
I was just thinking about that this morning! Dude went from working possibly his last show, during Covid in some backyard and selling his boots, to wrestling Japan's top guy of the last decade on national TV. Good for him.
1 hour ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:I don't know why I had this thought, because I have literally zero evidence or indication to support it, but as I was watching I kinda wondered to myself if this was a "backdoor pilot" for a three-hour Wednesday just to see how it does
Oh sweet Christ I hope not.
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2 hours ago, Mister TV said:
How about replacing it with the Nestle Alpine White song.
You cruel bastard :D
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I kept expecting CRITICAL to flash on the screen after any one of Hook’s suplexes.
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2 hours ago, Lawful Metal said:
This looks great! Can’t wait!
It does! It’s apparently an “interquel,” taking place between Alien and Aliens.
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2 hours ago, Just Dave said:
No. Best Friends don’t do much for me. I’m not a fan of all the “winning through the power of friendship.” They should’ve lost the first Parking Lot Fight, Arcade Anarchy, and at All In 2023, but hugs & minivans, right?
You know, there’s a whole ‘nother wrestling promotion built around god fearing all-American themes of rugged individualism, bootstraps, and friends just being people waiting to stab you in the back. Vince is gone but his recurring themes are still around.
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But as always to paraphrase the Deadlock boys in their incredible Slammys episode, which I always think of when I see Rude, "Rick Rude was the most attractive person in existence at that time. If your wife went to a show and Rick Rude was on it, Rick Rude was fucking your wife."
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Oh my god early 90s WCW undercard was a desolate wasteland of crap. Everything outside the main event scene of Sting and pals vs Dangerous Alliance was just trash. I feel like it got bad around Bash 91 and I need to read through all the cards from that show on to figure out when they pulled out of this death spiral because god damn is that list of undercard talent BLEAK.
I watched the main event of Clash 26(?) last night, Rude & Vader vs Sting & Flair, elimination match. Better on paper than in execution. Absolute bullshit double elimination as Vader murders Flair's back in the ring and then Flair is carted off by medical staff, I guess, as Vader freaks out at ringside. For the crime of holding a chair he is, I suppose, DQ'd by Commissionner Nick Bockwinkel. So in a match designed to build a Flair/Vader PPV, both guys look like shit. Nice job, fellas. Sting and Rude have a passable few minutes and then Sting pins him with a flying splash. So disappointing.
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Just now, Zakk_Sabbath said:
Damn! I feel super dumb for not even noticing (I've missed I think a single Rampage since they were reintroduced, too, it's not like I haven't been watching). Guess they couldn't have been that important, then..
Don't feel bad. I only know because Alvarez mentioned on a few pods that they seem to have gone away. But yeah, IIRC, they announced rankings in early February with the idea that they'd update once per month. With March 2/3 over and no rankings, it's maybe safe to say they've done away with them.
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27 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
Agreed huge - I almost didn't want to address it because I feel like folks are probably getting tired of me complaining about it, but yeah, this needs to be dealt with swiftly. Rankings returning were a good step, but it's still too damn muddy.
Rankings seem to be gone again already. Which is fine, because they just make a bad situation worse. Multiple singles titles have no kayfabe reason to exist, and then you have the ratings on top of it? Like is there a top 5 for each of the four belts? Then you'd need to rank those belts in order of importance, which they're not doing. And if not, then is, say, the Continental title automatically the #3 contender to the world belt? It's just a fucking mess.
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AEW TV - 3/20 - 3/26/2024 - Do You Wanna Ride In My Mercedes Boy?
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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This and this. The exception being booze with zero calorie soda