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I like The Giants draft class. At this point I'd normally say I like the way the team looks and think they'll be competitive (and I do) but I'm not getting my hopes up. Defense will probably be very good. But the offense is kind of the land of misfit toys.
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Went back and got that weird Barrett date achievement in OG FF7 and platnumed it. Didn't end up being as cumbersome as I expected. With the no random encounters and limit breaks always on deals went by pretty fast.
I know that's not really worth of a bump of this thread. Main reason I did it is because (while I know it has no shot in hell at happening), I had to get the idea of a remake sequel trilogy out of my head.
So we got Crisis Core as a prequel. Then there's the remake trilogy. Id love if they followed that up with Advent Children the game. Then a remade / remixed Derge of Cerberus game. They'd have to retool it to be action RPG and not a FPS I would think. But then to close out the FF7 compilation you do one true sequel game that concludes the whole story.
There's a cut scene at the ende if Derge where Genesis comes back and Flys away with Weiss. Theres definitely a story to be told with that. A new story from scratch. Imagine the first true new FF7 content coming at the end of a seven game arc. I also love the symmetry of FF7 being a seven game AAA series.
Just putting it out in the universe. Maybe the Square Enix CEO has someone creep the board like Tony Khan does lol.
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16 hours ago, Craig H said:
Mariah isn't being used probably because her story is over. Why carve out more time on tv and take tv time away from someone else for someone who served their purpose, played out a storyline over the course of two years, and is destined to leave the company. It isn't like she has a ton of time left on her contract anyway. If she's put on tv all people are going to want to see is her and Toni and that's done. In some cases I'm not in favor of purely not using someone, but in the case, fuck it, that storyline ruled and she has earned some time off before she goes and signs to NXT.
I'm gonna sound like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth on this one. I find value in this. I do miss the territory days where there was good turnover and no one's runs really overstayed their welcome. People came in and made a difference until they didn't and they moved on and did the same somewhere else. I miss that freshness to the shows as a viewer.
That's from a fan perspective. It's a new day and age. It's the contract era. If I signed a contract for multiple years and you only use me for one story, even a year long one, then you're done with me? That's not very ideal. I'm not going to be happy. If that's disclosed ahead of time I'm not signing with you ahead of time because of it.
So I agree with you from the fan perspective. It makes for a better show as a viewer sometimes to have a really tight story beginning middle end and then when it ends it really ends. But if you're viewing it from the performers perspective that's not going to be appreciated. That's not going to be embraced. That will factor into future performers' thought processes on signing with you.
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Deshawn, Flacco, Pickett, Gabriel, Sanders. Well thank you for taking the mantle of weirdest QB room ever away from The Giants.
So you take Gabriel *and* Sanders why? Did you like Gabriel better? Did you not expect Sanders to last til 5 when you were comfortable taking him. Do you take Sanders only because you think someone will get hurt and be desperate for Sanders later? Trade bait?
I get gambling on Sanders. I don't get using two picks on QBs when you already have 3.
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I'm still thinking someone like The Colts with a shakey QB room might tale him in the 6th or 7th. What are the chances he ends up better than Richardson and Daniel Jones? 50/50? 30/70? I mean that's worth a 6th for a sure why not hail mary.
Dolphins? I mean Tua is another concussion or two from being out of the league. The Jets? Fields wouldn't like it but it's a business.
Colts / Dolphins / Jets / Panthers / Jaguars / Cardinals. Someone's gonna get him eventually. Even if they already have a pretty locked in starter. It's too tempting.
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Better than two singles matches once a year. WWE also does multiple stadium shows a year where AEW so far has only done one a year.
I'm not even discounting your point. There's a lot of women AEW present really well. But all I'm trying to put out there is it's short sighted to think that's the only worry for a performer. A lot of different workers value different things. If a female performer's ultimate goal is try to have a match with the biggest audience possible, better shot of that n WWE. Money, staying working more often, mega huge audiences... all of those go to WWE. Also prestige gimmick matches like Hell in a Cell, War Games, The Rumble, The Chamber. If being in those are something you really value AEW is not for you. Because AEW hasn't done the prestige gimmick matches with the women thus far. No Stadium Stampede, no Anarchy in The Arena, no Blood & Guts, no Royal Rampage. We have gotten Lights Out, Casino Gauntlet, & Cage Matches. But those aren't exactly the big ones.
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When does everyone think Sanders is getting picked? If The Browns don't take him at the top of round 2 I think he'll land somewhere weird no one is expecting like The Colts or The Seahawks in round 3.
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On 4/23/2025 at 10:08 PM, Niners Fan in CT said:
Aside from Stephanie who is destined for stardom (no pun intended) I don't see how anyone can say Lyra, Roxanne etc. are "going to be better off" in WWE. Talk to me in like 2 years and we'll see what they are doing with them Lol.
There are business metrics beyond 'how they're used on TV' that performers care about. I hate to start sounding like a WWE apologist but I feel like there's not enough objectivity in some of these takes.
I'll concede your point just for the sake of argument and say Lyra isn't better off on WWE TV than she would be presented in AEW. Maybe getting consistant work is something she values. Honing your craft and keeping sharp is hard to do when you only have two or theee women's matches a week.
Maybe money is valued more than TV presentation. WWE's pay structure, merchandise, and royalties give priority to being used. Even AEW's downside offer is higher, a lot of people still end up making more in WWE.
Maybe being on the big shows getting big moments matter more than TV presentation. All In had 4 women wrestle. Wrestlemania had 11.
That's not even considering maybe she goes there and ends up as Deonna Purrazo or Taya Valkyrie. One title feed then literally nothing for them after but ROH stuff.
I'm fine with pro AEW bias. I consider myself to have that as well. But let's a fair and clear view in perspective here. Being objective and noting criticism if it's constructive is not a bad thing.
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The Eagles just gave up a 5 to move one spot. I dont understand at all. The Chiefs surely wouldn't trade back one spot to let The Eagles take who they wanted. So why would The Eagles need to move up? What am I missing?
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Wow The Falcons gave up a future 1 + more to move up and The Giants only had to give up a 2 and 2 3s. I'm happy with the outcome. The Giants got the best defensive player in a the draft a QB to try and develop. I was high on Sanders but all the comps to Josh Allen for Dart had swayed me to wanting him.
What's funny is I saw a report this morning that Joe Schone's son accidentally revealed this plan on social media. He had Carter & Dart listed as who The Giants were getting. And I mean on Hard Knocks the kid wanted Jaiden Daniels. So he knows his shit
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Oh shit Giants back into the first who's it gonna be??
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18 hours ago, Eivion said:
I think Bayley should leave just because she has lost all the momentum she had from last year's WM win and it feels like there is nothing new for her. I think a change of scenery would do her a lot of good. I don't think she can reach the levels she wants without it.
This is such a good point. Sometimes that good soldier shit just doesn't work. Cody had that same view point and dove hard into crappy stuff like Stardust. But the only way he changed their perception is by leaving and proving them wrong. Drew too.
Cody never would have been the star he is today had he stayed and tried to be a good soldier. If Bailey wants a chance to be seen as a top tier level star, she's gotta go out and change their perception of her.
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35 minutes ago, SovietShooter said:
So, the way the bookings work, in general, is that there is no "contract", the booking office just agrees that they will give you a certain number of dates within a period of time (week/month), for "x" pay. So, maybe they promise a guy two bookings a week, at $50 a pop. Maybe a guy a bit higher up the card is promised 15 dates a month for $100 each. Whatever it is, different guys have different amounts promised. But for them to get that money, the independent promoters have to book indie shows, or AAA spot shows. I don't know off hand how many guys AAA had on their internal roster, but maybe it's 50 different guys. I just don't see TKO offering $100KUSD to 50 prelim & midcard acts, none of which will provide any revenue to TKO.
I mean WWE pay Shiima something like $300k a year and he only gets maybe 6-8 TV matches a year. I dont think it would be too crazy to think they'd offer 30 natives $75k a year plus merch cut to do the 30 ot 40 TV shows. And while not all talent will appreciate the pay cut or change to their life style, plenty will take it and be happy they don't have to grind out so many shows and hustle to get chosen by the office to get on the spot shows.
You have way more knowledge of how Mexico works. But I don't think a lot of that is relevant in the sense that WWE will want to make Mexico work how they want it to work. Regardless of the success / failure of that want.
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I understand the difference in how AAA operates and how most of the talents income come from being booked out to local promoter indy spot shows. I agree WWE aren't going to do that for them. But why is it being glossed over that what WWE will do it sign them all to contracts and pay them enough to not need more than AAA shows?
WWE has about 300 people under contract right now. Maybe 150 regularly make TV between the 3 brands. Some are being paid to train. Some are being trained to sit in catering. I don't think WWE is going to have an issue paying out to have guys under deals and change the structure of how Mexico operates.
They'll run 40 shows a year. All will be TV or PPVs. They won't do house shows. WWE will rotate in main roster lucha guys they aren't using. Send nxt guys or people like Omos as attractions. Essentially its going to be ran like a typical WWE brand. Just keeping the name with history and to make it an easier transition to not alienate fans of lucha.
The indys / spot shows of Mexico will get flooded with guys. The market will be over saturated and it's going to be a net negative for the business, while a positive for WWE. It'll be like 2002 when WCW and ECW were gone. Sure there were ROH & TNA trying to fill the void. But the vast majority of talent ended up screwed over.
I do think this is the new WWE strategy for globalization. NXT UK tanked hard. Started new NXTs everywhere isn't happening. What is happening is buying their way into new markets with slow transitions over time to the WWE way. It's the territories being bought out all over again.
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Im surprised it's that high. The average UFC fan (not all, mind you) are the type to look down on wrestling because it's fake. They just want real fights and brains getting beaten in. Generally not the type to appreciate a well crafted story about limb damage leading to someone's downfall.
Theres a reason MMA (as we know it) started in the early 90s. It coincides with wrestling coming out in the late 80s as predetermined. MMA is wrestling for people who thought wrestling was real. You're just not going to get those people to watch a fake version of what they like.
Now none of these are absolutes. There are people that enjoy both and don't fall in line with the above. But the vast majority do. Just like there is a large majority that watch wrestling because they know (in theory) the object is for people to not get harmed. And you're not going to get them to watch a spot that routinely has gross cuts and bone breaks happen before your eyes.
It's a personality types thing. I get why they'd wanna try. But it's an uphill battle to say the least.
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9 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
The women's division has been on fire so while Mercedes/Toni is a huge match and would make sense for 'All In' I hope that Athena, Statlander, Willow and the rest of the women have something going on for that event. They should have minimum 3 women's matches on that show.
Hear me out, Women's Casino Gauntlet at All In. Which leads to Athena winning. Which leads to Athena vs Mercedes (after she beats Toni at All In) at like All Out or Forbidden Door for all 7 or 8 Women's Titles they will have between them. Let's get Mercedes up to 11 to surpass Ultimo lol. I joke, but really I'd love to see it. Their match was fantastic last night and I think they have an even better one in them with some build and importance behind it on a big PPV.
But a Women's Casino gauntlet is the way to go for All In. Last year's men's one at All In was really fun. Let's get a lot of the women on this year with a few fun surprises.-
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You're missing the point I'm trying to make by quite a bit. Or maybe I'm doing a bad job expressing it.
The reason I have an issue with the enhancement matches getting 10 minutes is because everything gets 10 minutes. I'm not asking for more squashes. I'm asking them to vary up the match times, the match lengths, and the match purposes. For my tastes Nitro was the show that's gotten it the most right. Sometimes you'd get a 5 minute Marty Jannetty vs Booker T match. Sometimes you'd get a 10 minute Rey vs Dean Malenko banger. Sometimes you'd get The Giant squashing Roadblock in 30 seconds. You honestly never knew how long a match was going to go from segment to segment.
I want unpredictability. I was spontaneity. I want purpose behind what we're doing. To me Dynamite feels more like Ink Master than an exciting wrestling show. Ink Master has it's formula. You start with the flash challenge. You do the elimination tattoo. You get the critique. Someone's gone. They do very little to ever mix up the format. Or a show like Chopped on The Food Network. It's the same format every week and you just plug and play the contestants. That's what Dynamite is. There's an excel spread sheet and TK plugs and plays different people into the same segments / matches with no real rhyme or reason. And I've gotten tired of it. It's lazy.
Do more to mix it up. I don't care if Blake Christian gets an extended 10 minute enhancement spot if every match wasn't 10 minutes for the sake of being 10 minutes. Mix. It Up. That's where I'm coming from. Having the same template for every week and just writing new names into that same template over and over isn't how wrestling is supposed to be (in my opinion).-
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1 hour ago, Technico Support said:
They’re not pushed as equals, though. It’s just that the “JTTS” level guys are still good enough to at least hang. This is the same pearl clutching that happened five years ago when Omega dared to give Alan Angels part of their match. I’d rather see a good match, even if I know who’s winning, than a squash. I fast forward squashes. I’d hate to +10 the whole show because “2 minute squashes make more sense than 10 minute really good JTTS matches.”
After 50 matches in a row that go 10+ minutes, even the forgone conclusion ones, you go numb to it. It has no impact. It has no purpose. It doesn't do anything for the performers except churn content and waste time. I'm not advocating for a Superstars format to return where it's 50 squashes in a row either. Because then you go numb to squashes. What I'm advocating for is a fluid format that sometimes has 5 minute competitive sprints. Sometimes there's a squash. Sometimes there's a competitive 10 minute enhancement match. Sometimes you get that dope 20+ minute epic that wows you. What I'd like to see is less predictability in formatting. Because then you never peg down what the format is and you don't go numb to it.
Dynamite is 6 matches. Every week. No wavering from it. Unless it's a Blood & Guts episode. One of those 6 matches features the women. All of them go 10+ minutes. A more effective way to format the show is to vary the amount of matches and the length of matches. On paper I don't have an issue with Omega giving Alan Angels what he did. Or even giving Blake Christian that. If the amount of matches and length of matches varied, those would stand out as giving those guys some shine and trying to raise their stock. But because long matches are the norm, it doesn't do any of that and actually starts to diminish your star performer.
Collision they do have a little bit of fluidity in the formatting. But I don't watch Collision very often. That's a whole different subject that would just muddy my point here. My point here is that variety is necessary for wrestling shows to be exciting. Dynamite hasn't been exciting in a long time.-
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If everyone is elite no one is elite. If everyone has a belt no one has a belt. If you push everyone as equals no one gets mega over. You don't get to have your cake an eat it too. If you throw someone on TV who hasn't been on in a long time, who they have no plans for, and that person hangs with Omega for 15... that doesn't bring them up to Omega's elite level. That brings Omega down. It's just what the optics are. Just because a match is long, doesn't mean you gain something from it. Just having him go long doesn't raise his stock. Going long and losing 50 times in a row just means you're a jobber and the best in AEW have trouble beating jobbers.
You can't protect everyone. When you do everyone just blends together as equals and no one stands out. And yes matches going long is a form of protection so the performer doesn't feel slighted. Would Warrior beating Honky Tonk at Summer Slam 88 have meant as much if they went 15 minutes? Would Waltman beating Razor have meant as much had he been going 15 minutes in the weeks leading up to that win in close defeats?-
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Unpopular opinion (maybe?), AEW doesn't do enough squash matches. Even enhancement matches are 15 minutes long and have a commercial break. It's a real draining format. They need to switch shit up and do a few short matches and a few squashes here and there.
I know Collision is a little bit looser than Dynamite when it comes to that but it's still too much. One thing that clouds TK's booking is his fandom (in my opinion). He's a fan and wants to have all these long matches because he wants everyone to show their best stuff each time out. But a good showing means more when long matches aren't the norm.
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If you lose every match, you're a jobber. He's doing the job. Has he ever won a match in AEW? (ROH doesn't count).
In this day and age you can rehab anyone and make them meaningful. But dude is the definition of a jobber right now. He's talented but he loses all the time. Would you have less of an issue if he used enhancement talent instead of the word jobber?
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Yeah he had one in AEW that was too close, they actually had to take it down and stop selling it lol.
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Looking more and more like The Giants will end up with Abdul Carter if they stay at 3. I really want Sheduer. But I get using the number 3 pick on someone graded where he is defies current draft logic.
Better mentally prepare now for a season with Big Russ as my QB1.
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16 years between year long reigns is kind of mind blowing. 1989 when Savage dropped it until 2005 when Cena hit his year.
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Final Fantasy Omnibus
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I felt like Nero in Intermission was just an introduction. Especially since he consumes Sonan's soul or whatever and briefly appears as Yuffie's biggest fear in her Rebirth trial. Weiss they didn't even have in the game, just a post game combat sim fight. There's already so much to fit into part 3. I know they'll expand upon Vincent's backstory and Wutai will have a larger presence. But I don't think they get into covering much of Dirge. It was only a 10 hour game or whatever, so I guess its possible. But that would shift timeline stuff around quite a bit, with all that happening after the conclusion of OG & Advent Children.
I just think the three games in this series released so far have been very successful. Crisis Core did over 2 million units, Remake at about 7 million units, and Rebirth speculated to have done 4 million units on PS5 alone plus now whatever they've moved on PC. And the games have been critically very well received. Compare that to the last mainline FF game doing about 3.5 million, seems like FF7 is a more bankable brand than Final Fantasy it's self. Not advocating for mainline FF games to go away or anything. But there's definitely a market to continue this series if done with some foresight.
I don't think the remake trilogy ends any other way than as a lead in for Advent Children. I know the game seems like threes a lot of meta shit happening and Sephiroth seemingly from the post Advent timeline. But I think they'll get crucified if the story ends too off course. You do a modified and expanded AC game with Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo as the big bads. Leading to a reborn Sephiroth finale where he is vanquished again. Then a modified and expanded Dirge game, with Nero & Weiss as your big bads. That ends with Nero's demise and Weiss escaping to be saved by Genesis.
Then it's almost like the MCU leading into the Infinity series. You have 6 games retelling the story you already knew leading into the big final 7th game of all new material where an unleashed Weiss & Genesis are the big bads. Or you could even find a way to bring all the villains back and do a mega team up with Genesis, Nero, Weiss, Kadaj, Loz, Yazoo, & Sephiroth. The sinister 7 in a way lol. Shinra is ultimately defeated for good in the end. All the villains are destroyed and expelled from the lifestream. The planet is totally restored and saved. Total happy ending for all characters left.
It's a pipe dream. But just a brain worm kinda thing where I really just had to get it outta my head.