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Isn't Minoru Fujita nowadays a deathmatch guy? That would fall into the same category.

Do you want to play the game NXT or ChatGPT? Lola Vice Elowen Roark Lyla Stone Tank Ledger Bronco Nima Seren Winters Lyric Larkspur Sol Ruca Draven Hawthorne Lucien Price

Reg. FFVII Rebirth: why would you release a game on two discs if you have to download tons of GB (and I guess install everything on your HD/SSD) anyway?

The hardest to me are people you would expect to be dead because of the ... demographic they belong to. I mean how many 80ies fat guys besides One Man Gang and how many 80ies roid freaks besides the Warlord are still alive? So my brain always wants to put them into the much larger group of dead guys fitting those descriptions.

Ignoring the silly rant by Quack, the whole Colony gimmick was over AF and I suppose the limit for an OC gimmick 15 years ago was much lower. So even if there is a lot of nonsense in that mail (you could give countless counterexamples to the first sentence, I mean whole companies were built around the theory of ethnic draws and the Attitude era targeted a very specific age and sex group), in this particular case he was not wrong.

I have never consider Yoshi eating stuff a sexual thing before but considering that he transforms most things into eggs, yeeesh.

I am not sure if they had a real falling out, but at some point Punk and Chris Hero were not on the best of terms (a long time ago, of course).

Not sure if this has been mentioned here already (I did not see it in the last couple of pages), but the latest Observer has a curious line about the incident: Knowing this and Punk being fired outright (instead of trying to settle it), i.e. AEW apparently not being afraid of a lawsuit, this makes me consider that the versions where Punk sucker-punched Perry might not be that far from the truth (of course, if Perry is getting fired within the next days, my interpretation might be off).

Hmm... I don't want to google it, but there have to be rule 34 versions of this.

The Gamespot review was pretty down on the main quest, FWIW. I have tried to remove anything that could be remotely considered as spoiler from the relevant passages of the review, still I put it into a spoiler field:

I did not realize that there is an elephant form of Mario now that looks uncanningly like a German kid's cartoon character (that was created in the 1970s). Elephant Mario: Benjamin Blümchen:

I watched the 9th episode yesterday. On the one hand, the female part of the cast is definitely very musically talented (the male side was saved by heavy usage of auto-tune). On the other hand, the songs were mostly very forgettable (besides the song by Chapel and Spock's reprise (ignoring the horrible lyrics of the reprise) about halfway through). Once More With Feeling (Buffy) this was not, it's not even My Musical (Scrubs). Besides the non-catchy tunes (which to me is one of the more important things in musical episodes), it felt too long and they centered the big finale around the best singer in the cast but did not give her much story to work with (has it ever been part of any story that Uhura feels alone?). BTW: there were a couple of lines that felt like obvious nods to Once More With Feeling (I doubt that it's a coincidence that during a musical episode they start talking about bunnies, for example).

I would assume that Sea of Stars runs on many more PCs than Starfield does (which is true for me, for example). My work holiday is coming to an end. I planned to use it for some hiking but the weather was not accordingly (first it was too hot and then we had heavy rain for a couple of days), so I used to time to play through the two Ori games (as someone was mentioning the term "Metroidvania" here recently). The games were a bit different than I expected, more focus on platforming and puzzles and less on combat (the first game does not have a single boss, for example). There are a couple of places that felt a bet "cheap" to me, for the first game that was the escape sequences that require pretty high precision, for the second game there are a bunch of platforming sections that are a bit ridiculous and there was one boss fight that took me 30 tries or whatever. On the other end, the games are generous with save points, so I guess that equals itself out. In total it felt like time well spent. I also wanted to write that those were the best Austrian games I have ever played, but actually I am not sure if I have played and other games by Austrian developers at all. I am pretty sure I have never played any JoWooD games, Koch Media & THQ Nordic were publishers and I can't think of any other studios. Hmm... looking at Wikipedia, apparently Anno 1602 (and 1503) was developed in Austria, I did not know that. Funny thing I noticed: the German Wikipedia lists about 10 Austrian video game companies and I just noticed the CEO (and founder) of one of those companies is a guy I studied with.

Has there been any talk on how that glass spot got on the show to begin with? I mean considering that backstory, there is no way that the limousine was there for any reason but for the glass spot. And if that's the case, you are looking at more people involved than just two wrestlers and an agent.

I just realized that the "real" NWA World Heavyweight Champions are dying out. In principle Dory and Flair are the last two "real" ones (as in NWA-board approved and defending the title in different territories). Tommy Rich's run never took him outside of Georgia and by the time Garvin got it, JCP controlled the board (and at least cagematch does not have an non-JCP matches during his reign; there are a couple of UWF dates, but that was after Watts sold the company).

Here is my favorite Terry Funk promo: I love Hugo's look: "You are getting us all killed."

At the same time I am sure there are lots of great TV shows that were written by a small handful of people. I admit I don't know anything about TV etc. production but from the outside this one seems to be a weird hill to die on.

In addition Dmitry Utkin (Wagner's second in command) apparently was also on board.

It took me 21:40, I am sure you can beat that. Also, @S.K.o.S. misspelled Nova.

Do you mean with guys like

After I watched the Nextlander guys playing multiplayer Vampire Survivors, I cleared my save file and well... I already spent a couple of hours unlocking stuff, time I have could used for way more productive things.

Just to give some context about late 90ies US mainstream pro wrestling in Germany (and Austria): the WWF exploded in about 92/93 where a lot of teenager were watching wrestling. So when WWF business went completely shit in the US they ran an insane amount of dates of here. WCW was a step below but had a pretty decent time slot. The downfall of WWF (besides the natural cycle) started in late 95 / early 96 when they lost their timeslot (the station they were on tried to move WWF from a 10 PM timeslot to a 5 PM Saturday (or Sunday?) slot, after two weeks the Bavarian media regulatory body threatend to revoke the TV license of the station if they continued to air wrestling before 10 PM; as a result the station moved wrestling into a graveyard timeslot and eventually canceled wrestling completely). In early 96 WWF switched to the same station that WCW was already running on (in the midst of the Monday Night Wars, WWF and WCW were on the same station here), so WCW had the same visibility as the WWF. The advantage WCW had was that the German program was produced by the station itself (or at least a company that was closely affiliated to the station) while WWF produced its stuff themselves. The coexistence latest for about two years (until early 98). During that time the owners of that station started a pay TV station that aired a lot of wrestling (besides WCW and WWF, they aired old ECW, SMW and AAA tapes). Again using the closeness to WCW, they did about one live event a year from Germany that aired on that station. One had for example boxer Axel Schulz acting as guest referee in I think a Sting match (where he counted a pinfall - when Sting put his opponent in the Scorpion Deathlock). WWF did the last live tour in Germany for lot of years in early 97 (the one with the European title tournament) - the attendances were still okay I guess, but North American business already had picked up by that point. WWF was off the air in the German speaking market for almost the whole year of 98. They came back at the end of the year, airing on a smaller station in a bad time slot (AFAIR). WCW kept their decent timeslots until the very end of their run (actually until 2002 or so, they aired older shows after the sale). So even in when they did their shows in 2000 they had pretty good audiences (thehistoryofwwe.com says that the 2000 Oberhausen shows had 11.000 and 9.000 people attending). The match that got pushed on TV of the first 2000 tour was Berlyn vs. Tom Gerhardt - a German... let's be generous and say comedian (who did the kind of humor that's only funny if your alcohol level is above 0.15 %). WWF (and later WWE) was "cold" over here for lots of years, you could for example see it on the message boards where almost all posters were guys of approx. the same age, who watched it during the boom and unlike 99% did not fall off. EDIT: Okay, I should probably add that another reason for WWF fall off much harder than WCW was that a lot of the "stars" when WWF was at its hottest over here were in WCW by 98. Also I would assume that Attitude-style wrestling did not appeal to the audience as much (it definitely did not for me and for the couple of my friends that were watching wrestling before).

I love the crowd chanting "Rock'n'Roll" at Todd Morton.

I didn't know that Chris Jericho was friends with Brutus Beefcake.

I want to tell me that the semicolon has uses besides C(++/#; or in Java, Perl, Pascal, ...)-compilers having a chance to complain about something?