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The 2014 World Cup Field
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yup - that explains it because both times I killed the Atlas, it was right in front of one of the random crates
Yeah - being an infiltrator made that mission really a piece of cake. So now I am curious to see if how much I can dominate Grissom Academy because I can just sabotage the fuck out of turrets.
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I am trying to decide - if Shark Boy came back to TNA today - where would he rank in most over guys in the company?
4th? 3rd?
Anyway - I felt like posting this to make us all realize that somehow TNA has been around forever
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I wonder how much it being a Christmas release instead of a Summer blockbuster release hurt it.
I mean it didn't open against anything amazing - yet is was crushed by everything it opened against... including Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Sudden Death opened the same time - didn't do great - but that a pure action movie with a "name" star so that could have also hurt.
I looked at the August 1995 releases and they were dreadful. I mean I really like Mortal Kombat and all but still. And if it couldn't have been ready in time, they could have easily snuck it in before Twister and Mission Impossible came out in Summer 1996
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Part of the reason I am not really enjoying these episodes - and this makes me seem terrible - but the actress they had for Barney's mother hasn't exactly aged well.
So now they are throwing together this season and she has been a major player in like three episodes and I keep thinking she is going to keel over at any moment.
Thankfully - the fucking Marshall roadtrip is over
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Okay - last call. This is what I am going to work with unless I hear otherwise
RippaRevJR GoldmanLacelleNinersControlFowlercubbymarkExecproducerL_W_PodessajaedmcJingusI am still unclear if Skelemania wants a pick this go around or not.Anyway - I will post the dates and order by the end of the week. Meanwhile - there are three movies right there for folks to blabber about. -
Yeah - they did a special (for the time) live edition of Impact the Thursday before Bound For Glory. They called if "Before the Glory"
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Couple of things from when I was playing the From the Ashes DLC yesterday
1) If I hadn't already gotten the achievement for hijacking an atlas - I would have been infuriated. I crack the canopy and kill the cerberus soldier inside and get the red circle and the option to take the atlas over. Yet no matter how many times I tried it won't start the animation to allow me to enter it. So I died trying to get in. 2nd time through same exact thing happened - this time though I was prepared for it to happen so I just went back to clearly the rest of the map out. But yeah... stupid glitching
2) I am really surprised they didn't add Eden Prime as a multiplayer map. I mean it was already built. It would have been a great combination of Glacier and White. They would have only had to make a few tweaks (mainly either making the roofs inaccessible or building a ramp so the opposing forces could get up there). Just like how I am surprised they didn't take part of Mars and put it in multiplayer - instead they started from scratch with places like Hydra and Rio.
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ZABKATAGE!!!
That saved it from being one of the worst episodes ever
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Folks need to remember the truly awesome matches in J'd versus Kyoko Inoue. I may need to rewatch those if they are on the internet.
Well there is at least this on Youtube
I just don't know how you will get paste all the Lioness either tagging with or against Jaguar matches that are on the internet
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So last week we were talking about how the Browns were going to have to bus back after their game do the weather.
Well they decided to roll the dice and fly home.
It almost was the last, worst decision they ever made
“It was terrifying,” Pinkston said, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “It was the real thing. The weather was so bad. We were coming in to land and [the pilot] had to go kind of fast to balance it out and we came down and we hit on two wheels. The
wing was literally three feet from hitting the ground.
“We’re actually pretty lucky to be alive right now, to be honest. We really escaped one. We got away with one last night.”That didn’t keep players from being terrified.
“There were a bunch of screams,” Pinkston said. “You could hear everyone screaming on the plane. It was pretty real. I screamed, because I was sitting right overwing. My window was open and I saw the whole thing.” -
Josh Johnson to the Padres on a 1 year, $8 million deal
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For 2014 - FIFA held a draw (at the start of qualification) to determine the match-ups which was the first time they did that.
One would assume they will do that going forward but this is FIFA we are talking about
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Of course it turned out that that match was the showcase for Aja Kong
But then RAW took place the next night
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NXT RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – February 20, 2013
(by PHIL RIPPA)
WHAT WORKED
Tatsu being a jobber in NXT shouldn’t make me laugh as much as it does. This week he is crushed by Bray Wyatt. Wyatt also wears an apron down to the ring. This was 60 seconds of fun. I am a simple man.
Wyatt also breaks down the rest of the family for not winning the tag titles and then builds them back up by having them beat the shit out of each other. He should be expecting a call from Rutgers any minute now.
William Regal – Color Commentator. With added Regal mocking the ever changing play by play guys he has to deal with.
HEY! It’s Ricardo Rodriguez wrestling as El Local. I will again point out how silly it is to have him stick a mask on but not cover his easily recognizable tattoos. Anyway – he wrestles Xavier Woods and it is perfectly fine (though it did fill the chinlock quota of this show in less than five minutes). The highlight is more the various ways Regal and Phillips find to call Rodriguez fat. God – he really would have been great in WAR.
My beloved Big E Langston is taking on Conor O’Brian. Since they have brought up about a 1000 times that this is a non-title match, I think we all know how this is going to end. I sorta feel bad for everyone on the roster not named Paige – as the reaction Langston is so incredibly different than any one else (again not named Paige) that all his matches feel special. This is just two heavyweights throwing bombs at each other. I am no fan of O’Brian but he does nothing to infuriate me. The fact that Langston’s neck is so huge O’Brian legit couldn’t lock in a full nelson is pretty fantastic. Aww… them going with the Double DQ finish now is just dumb. If you are doing non-title – O’Brian gets the win, sets up the title match THEN you do the Double DQ to draw out the feud. Instead – we get Corey Graves running out to steal the title belt from Langston. Lord – I hate Graves and his punchable face. However – Langston punching Graves in his very punchable face kinda has me excited.
WHAT DIDN’T WORK
Hey! Tom Phillips is back. I mean he is better than Tony Dawson but that is a very low bar to clear.
So Sasha Banks secret admirer turns out to be Audrey Marie and she is able to drop Banks with a single slap to the back of the head. And then less than 10 minutes later they are having a match because fuck waiting. It’s a good thing both of them can get into their gear so quickly. Shit! I SEE SASHA’S RIBS!!! CLEARLY SHE HAS AN EATING DISORDER TOO!!! Anyway – the premise is that Audrey Marie is back from injury and thinks Sasha Banks took her spot. Of course – as Regal points out – this is the same reason Paige and Summer Rae are feuding. Oh and Sasha gets zero offense in so ya know… it’s great that they gave her those couple of wins a few weeks ago.
No wonder all the folks in NXT keep getting long term injuries – their doctor looks like he would be more qualified to sell you new windows than diagnose a separated shoulder.
Crap – there is Tony Dawson. He has an in ring interview with Tyson Kidd. What you would expect to happen in wrestling when you have a guy in ring in crutches happens. Leo Kruger comes down and threatens to beat Kidd up until Justin Gabriel makes the save. So while that can be fun when, I assume, it takes place next week – this was a waste of time that could have been better filled with a match or a recap of almost anything else or maybe an Emma dance montage.
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Has he been there consecutively?Connor O'Brian.
I know he was on one of the NXT seasons and then I just suffered through him redebuting but I was wondering if it was a case where they let him go and then someone decided to bring him back and do something different with him
EDIT - Nevermind Z answered it.
And Dallas got that weird mini run around Rumble time so at least he got to be on a PPV
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I don't think they are y'know, Algeria and Burkina Faso are just about to kick off...
You are right - for some reason I thought that match was yesterday
And just for the record I approve of any draw that puts the US in with Algeria or Burkina Faso
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Speaking of Indy guys and NXT
With Hero getting let go and Xavier Woods debuting last night - who has been in NXT/development the longest?
I feel like it has to be one of the women as it seems like I have heard Paige and Emma's names attached to NXT forever but I feel like there is someone on the men's side I am forgetting.
And I know this might have been covered in the NXT thread but I am now avoiding that thread as I am trying to avoid spoilers as much as possible.
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I might have missed it in this thread. I definitely missed it last night if it happened.
Was there any explanation as to why Kane wasn't punished for his matchmaking last week?
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And Ghana is the final African team to qualify.
Egypt lost one game the entire qualification run yet didn't advance.
Of course the one loss was a 6-1 blasting... so yeah...
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It's gonna be interesting to see what happens if Robinson Cano sticks to his current demands and the Yanks tell him "Good luck in your future endeavors"
I'm curious how close he could get to his 10 year, $300 million demands from a team desperate for a FA
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BTW - this is the Giants season.
They can afford to lose one game max the rest of the way - it certainly can't be against Dallas.
Besides dropping two back in the NFC East - they would lose the tiebreaker to Dallas thus for all intents and purposes making it a 3 game lead.
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Well Seattle is on bye - so not quite
EARLY SCENARIOS TO WATCH
By Joe Ferreira, NFL playoffs expertDenver BroncosDENVER can clinch a playoff berth this week with a win + San Diego loss or tie + Pittsburgh-Cleveland tie + Oakland-Tennessee tie + Either Baltimore-NY Jets tie OR Baltimore loss and Miami loss or tie.Kansas City ChiefsKANSAS CITY can clinch a playoff berth this week with a win + Pittsburgh-Cleveland tie + Oakland-Tennessee tie + Baltimore loss or tie. Kansas City doesn't need the Miami loss or tie as they would have conference record tiebreaker advantage over the N.Y. Jets in this scenario.Indianapolis ColtsINDIANAPOLIS can clinch the AFC South division title with wins over the next two weeks at Arizona and vs. Tennessee. The wins would get Indy to 9-7 at worst and would limit Tennessee to 9-7 at best with a Colts sweep of the Titans.Seattle SeahawksSEATTLE is on bye this week before hosting New Orleans on Week 13 and traveling to San Francisco on Week 14. By winning both of those games, Seattle would clinch the NFC West division title and, with a loss/tie by Detroit, a first-round playoff bye. The Seahawks can also clinch homefield advantage throughout the playoffs by Week 14 if they win Weeks 13 and 14 plus any Detroit loss/tie and if New Orleans loses to Atlanta (Week 12) and Carolina (Week 14) [one of the Saints losses could be a tie] and Carolina loses to either Miami (Week 12) or Tampa Bay (Week 13). -
I knew I was going to do Lioness sooner rather than later because when folks a couple of weeks ago were talking about greatest Survivor Series teams and totally ignored two teams.
Bertha Faye, Aja Kong, Tomoko Watanabe, & Lioness Asuka vs. Alundra Blayze, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, & Chaparita Asari
There is a whole lotta random folks to appear on a WWE PPV there (and man does Bertha Faye stick out like a sore thumb in that match).
Anyway... God do I love Lioness.
Basically watch this (and then a zillion other matches)
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