Cristobal
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16 minutes ago, JohnnyJ said:
Most journalists don't last in the profession until they hit their 40s because it is extremely difficult to find someone who will pay you a livable wage with benefits. I obviously understand your point, but it takes a special kind of person to advocate for worker's rights in someone elses business while at the same time treating your own employees like crap.
Ok but again, "can't make a living in this industry" is, I would argue, quite a bit different from "dying decades younger than is normal".
Whether Meltzer and WO are shitty bosses isn't necessarily as important as the issue that in this instance they are promoting.
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Can people really not just read what I wrote, understand the difference between companies with big money behind them paying six figures for exclusive contracts and indies paying 20 bucks and a hot dog for a night's work and deduce that I'm only talking about one of those groups?
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3 minutes ago, JohnnyJ said:
Not trying to start with the whataboutism, but wasnt the observer recently accused of not paying writers and giving out free subs in exchange for content? Would love to see what the pension plan looks like. It’s probably buried somewhere in his shed next to the Magee tape.
How many Observer writers have died in their 40s?
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So are we bringing up AEW/RoH to say that these companies should also be forced to lose "independent contractor" status for workers under exclusive contracts, or are people bringing this up to say that if pushing WWE on this front doesn't also push those companies, it shouldn't be done, because if so, hi, welcome to how this works when you're waging a PR campaign. You target the largest, most visible corporation, the one that sets the standard for the industry, rightly or wrongly, get them to do what you want, and then go after #2 and #3.
It's why people who've been pushing for $15/hr minimum wages have targeted large fast-food corporations and Amazon. Because if WWE can be profitable while treating fairly with all their workers, (and they absolutely can,) then the rest will fall in line.
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3 hours ago, AxB said:
Whereas in the attitude era, they got away from the numerals to hide how long they'd been doing it. X-Seven and all that. In One thousand, nine hundred and sixty five years they're going to have a real problem deciding what to call that year's show. They've already done Wrestlemania 2000.
Wrestlemania MM, obviously.
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I got to hold the ropes for him as he climbed into the ring to talk to a group of fans and a few prospective students before APW's KOI in 2001. He was 71 at the time, and still had a tremendous passion for the business, even as he was long past working in it.
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My department had to do a mandatory test on some new Google software that my department would use like 20% of, giving us the choice to either spend 12+ hours studying courses we would never use or get in multiple choice guessing hell, where failing meant you couldn't retake the test for 24 hours.
I found an answer key for 5 euros online, and sent the .pdf to coworkers I liked.
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I don't care how "smart" (or not so) a crowd may be, if you can't get into Ricochet and Lio Rush going full speed with each other then you're not even trying to have fun.
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39 minutes ago, RolandTHTG said:
One Planeteer down. Just need a black guy, a Soviet, an Asian female and a South American now.
Shelton, Lana, Asuka, and...Andrade? Mexico is as close to South America as the main roster gets.
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Settle down, Hollywood DZnetico
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If he kneed the chapo guys in the face it'd be even better.
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Me five years ago, after Bryan beat up Bray Wyatt in the cage and led the Yes chants on top of it: I could not be any more into a wrestler than I am right now.
Me last night, after Bryan went on Vince McMahon's television program and made the case, speaking directly to Vince McMahon, that billionaires were immoral: ❤❤❤❤❤
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On 1/4/2019 at 10:28 PM, PetrolCB said:
She should’ve donated her mask to @Cristobal, he could’ve used it in the last couple months.
I have that exact mask.
I am not kidding.
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So tired of motherfuckers in this game who think they're clever headshotting me while I'm fishing.
They all ride off and I hunt them down and get like seven to one ratios on them before they leave the session cuz if they were any good they wouldn't be bothering fishers in the first place.
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3 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:
I know Daniel's being a dick about how he points it out but it's baffling how we're supposed to boo a man who's telling the truth. All that stuff was accurate and it was sad hearing the crowd cheer about it. Kind of wish they'd let him find ways to talk about that while as a face so people actually cared.
Do we need to post the pic of the McMahons in the Oval Office again to remind you who runs this dumb company?
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The "things happen for a reason" follow-up was way harsher.
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So instead of Baron Corbin in 15 segments a show, it'll be Steph?
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2 minutes ago, RolandTHTG said:
It's a fair point, but it's also a criticism of every single other ratings popper that they have up their sleeve. No different to say, The Rock, coming out, cutting a promo, hitting an elbow on a midcard guy, leaving and that's it. For all their obsession with the ESPN play of the day type legitimacy, it'd be nothing compared to it being replayed on every morning show thereafter.
I mean Rock at least has a built-in wrestling-friendly fanbase (i.e. Attitude-era watchers who fell off) that could conceivably be convinced to come back to today's product, (not with the current shit-factory that is Monday Night Raw but that'd be the idea anyway).
Rando Trump-fans? Nah.
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Leaving aside the nonsense of half of Raw's audience vanishing and literally no one else tuning in for a promoted appearance by the President, (or the idea that the split is 50/50 and not X-left/X-right/Y where Y=people who DGAF) I don't actually see how a Trump appearance helps the WWE outside of popping a single rating, which doesn't really benefit them any in the long run cuz no advertiser's gonna assume that's a real number as far as ratings for WWE go.
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Man I like Bernie and I don't want him anywhere the fuck near Raw or WWE.
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WWE trying to get me to boo Daniel Bryan by having him go full anticapitalist in his promos is definitely not gonna be working anytime soon.
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4 minutes ago, Raziel said:
We're supposed to blanketly hate every decision WWE makes no matter what now, you didn't get the memo?
I think people were under the misapprehension, however reasonable, that WWE Starrcade would in some way shape or form actually resemble Starrcade, especially when it was in Greensboro, as it was last year. It ended up being a house show with a few legends making appearances. This year was basically that, with a few sections edited together into a one hour Network show. So yeah, in 2017, the gripe was that we couldn't see Starrcade. In 2018, the gripe was that they put an hour of house show content on the network and called it Starrcade.
Peoples' reactions make perfect sense when you look at them in context. Or you can just not cuz you want to be contrarian.
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Which thread is the Lars Sullivan dumpster fire in? EDIT: found it.
So, How's It Going?
in LAND OF CONFUSION
Posted · Edited by Cristobal
Hang on. AFD pranks resulted in a violent altercation and not only hasn't the company cracked down, but when another prank gets an angry verbal reaction, they suspend the person the prank was pulled on? What kind of morons run this company and how can I get hired there so I can cash in with an easy 6-figure lawsuit?