Cliff Hanger

MCMG had their entrance video posted and it looks good. No stats or card reveals for anyone, and only 1 of 4 entrances, is weird this close to the first drop of the year. New card pack is frigging weird; it's a "greatest hits" of older card blocks, with a pretty high draw rate. I bought 3 packs because the first 2 each had the WM41 Cody that I already had, thus paying for themselves. The 3rd had KO from the Tempest booster. Grabbing a card anywhere fills it in everywhere, so you'll get rewarded for any new pulls both under the greatest-hits set and the one it originally came from. That fucking Wargames at the end of the first NYC chapter. If they were smart they threw enough money at Booker to get him in the studio to yell "Ah! Ah! Ah!" solely for when Stephanie uses the Devil's Kiss (the neck-fucking thing) on him

It is. And I'm determined to win it simply because there's a month-long chain that ends with a purple masked Punk persona, but you have to get the HHH card from the Roman birthday event to go further, and it's obnoxious but not fuck-you obnoxious. Gonna try again with Ilja, simply because it's easier to get to 90 with strikers than other classes.

I cannot describe the joy of taking an OVR 76 Kurt Angle into a match with a Roman with perfect stats who starts with full meter, and stuffing 3 spears and a Superman punch in 90 seconds. If only I'd won the match after that

I know Styles said a few months ago that he owns his stage name and the P1 logo on his tights, and licenses them to whoever he signs with as part of the deal.

Personally, I kind of loved the Allreds' idea from the end of their FF run (Matt Fraction left partway thru, credit him too if this was an idea from before he exited) that Doom has fixed his face repeatedly with magic or science, and still wears the mask (and often ends up disfigured again) because deep down he sees the mask as his true face. ObWrestling: I know I say this here every few years, but I still want to see a one-night tournament where a chickenshit heel pays other heels to jump them 9 seconds into the match for the first 2 rounds (causing the heel to win by DQ) so that the finale is a babyface who's won 2 wars vs a heel who's fresh as a daisy...and then the face guts it out and wins.

Thanks, and you're right. I tried to check but apparently being on the bus turns me from a below-average internet searcher to completely incompetent.

So what's the name she probably can't use on TV?

The ones that really bum me out are Jakara Jackson, Oro Mensah, KC2 and Dakota Kai (who i like, but who seems kind of fragile and was really hurt by Asuka and Kairi going out with injuries themselves.) I was never a huge Shotzi fan, but I also didn't dislike her. I felt really bad for her spending a year on the shelf with the knee and then coming back as the third wheel on a tag team. Theory should definitely be trying to get a Dragon Con table if it isn't too late, and to get booked on the wrestling show at the con--his hometown crowd will go nuts for it. Others have said he could come back bigger after some time in other promotions, and I can see that. I really wouldn't want to be a non-Dempsey member of NQCC, which sucks because I like them all. I still absolutely do not understand why they put Sinclair 90% on the bench after her awesome showing at Deadline. I also really wouldn't want to be anyone who graduated from LVLUP to Tuesday, and then ended up on Evolve (Crusifino is already probably dead in canon; Gallus and Osborne are out, there's also Wendy Choo, Brinley Reece, Kendal Gray and Carlee Bright.)

I have seen lots of people mindmh offering suggestions for high quality games news and journalism, but can someone suggest a good replacement for Polygon's Puzzmo puzzle page? (That isn't NYT Games) Also, more of a tech site than a gaming one, but add Daily Dot to the funeral pyre.

I didn't watch wrestling with any regularity or intentionality until the NWO existed and half the damn dorm was watching Nitro and the MU* games I played on were creating dedicated wrestling chat channels to keep it from contaminating everything, so I'd have to say Chris Jericho when I was 20.

Take with a mine of salt and all, but I remember Hogan telling Leno the night he "announced his run for POTUS" and "retired" that Vince Sr. asked him to go red as Incredible Hulk Hogan and he said no because he was paranoid about it causing him to go bald faster (which raises the question of why he was willing to bleach it)

So if we're counting bodies for the coming Annihilation Wave, Ashante Thee Adonis joins Ridge Holland and Luca Crusifino on the list of guys I wouldn't want to be in May. It was evident for a while that Meta Four was over with, but I was still bummed. Unhinged, abusive Andre Chase is the best Andre Chase. I really dug both the big tag matches. I had been hoping for Briggs/Inamura to be the ones who toppled Fraxiom, but now that Hank and Tank got that honor I think I'd have been disappointed to see H&T lose. Heel Trick is kinda dull. I don't know if the State Bomb would freak me out more or less if they did it with the lights on like normal perverts. I want IYO to go twenty with each of the other women in the main.

With my favorite people in WWE (Fraxiom and Roxy) going on the road, I'm curious to see if NXT continues to do a better job of holding my attention than either of the road brands, as it has for the 2 years since I started watching again. I kinda hope that doesn't change.

Continuing to explore Super Technos World; River City Renegade is the game I saw EGM and Gamepro drop screens of and called "River City Ransom 2." It's certainly a lot closer to that than the game released here as River City Girls Zero is. Kunio's Dodgeball Time (bitch!) is way more complicated than the NES game, and not as much fun. Super Dodge Ball (Neo Geo) is gorgeous but I haven't totally figured it out yet. Combatribes and Shadow Force I already knew well, so I haven't really checked them out here yet. Kunio's Oden is INFURIATING. It's a Puyo Puyo style match-4 game with Oden ingredients, but it's blindingly fast from the jump. There's a trophy for getting 200 points, which i did in the 90 seconds between starting and quitting. I hope that baseball game is good.

I got ONE win on Cena with Ilja, after loading him up with counter timing buffs. I definitely have not spent as much time this year on MF as 22-24, but my "4 stars or better before you try to win" Superstar Mode with Lola has been a ton of fun. (I had to relax it to 3 stars for Underground matches and Brawls, because it's basically impossible to deliberately draw a KO match out to build that high) I am at 184 stars for Rise, trying to decide whether to make new chars for my 3rd and 4th runs or just keep using the OVR 100 chars i built from the first 2 runs for the sake of speed. I say this every year, but THIS is the year I actually finish setting up GM mode and play at least one week. Choice paralysis, you will not defeat me! We need elimination mode for brawls, either patched in or for next year. What good is dumping 8 people into the parking lot if the first KO ends it? 18 days til the first DLC, and we don't know who Celebrity Asshole #1 is. Now watch the Wrestlemania Pack mystery character just be Grande Americano.

Super Technos World is out today. Annoyingly, while all the Kunio games are freshly localized and the arcade games (and SNES Combatribes) already all had English versions, the two RPGs (Suguro Quest DICENIKS and DunQuest) are untranslated. The in-game manuals for the SFC games also ONLY explain controls and control-related mechanics, so have fun with GameFAQs if you want to understand the difference between a char type DDO and DOM in Kunio-Kun Dodgeball Time (bitch!). Still, looking forward to digging into River City Renegades.

With the announcement of Battleground on 5/25 in Tampa, we are getting 2 NXT PLEs within 14 days since WWC is 6/7. That at least negates the worry i had when WWC was announced alongside MitB that NXT doing afternoon shows on main-roster PLE days would become the norm.

The Hendry/Orton finish was so beautifully timed, just the most perfect version of "Hendry hits his whirling smile pose, only to get RKO'd from out of frame" that could ever happen

I think it unfortunately says a lot that no one, including me, is talking about this acquisition in the lucha folder.

Shit, did i never watch the rest of that episode? Damn, I need to be more careful.

Tyler Bate's first match in nearly a year and they don't mention his extended injury or do much of anything at all with him.

I grabbed the Llamasoft remake of I, Robot (a personal favorite obscurity from the crash era) and it's really frustrating in a way neither the original game nor Minter's earlier Atari collabs are. I keep getting blasted by Big Brother despite not jumping, and the in-game hints don't tell me what I'm doing wrong. If you're an old school Llamasofty or got last year's Gold Master anthology, you may be pleased to know that a brand new light synthesizer is included as "The Ungame."

New patch added the Breakkensteiner (double jump top rope Frankensteiner) as "Avalanche Frankensteiner", but didn't add it to Bron's list of signatures.

See, I feel like Vice has been ready since before the women's NA belt existed, but so has Hail. Either one would make me happy. Izzi absolutely should not win right now; i think it'd be funny for Kelani to win the belt in a 6-woman ladder match again and lose in her furst 1 v 1 defense but that's just my own amusement and not remotely a good business plan. Vice, Hail and Zaria are all about equally valid picks, but Hail as the returning heroine who's been on the shelf for 9 months is likely the most commercial choice.

What's Dingo TV?