SirSmUgly

I know that I'm way late to this, but Brock Lesnar being overjoyed that the RAW crowd in Minnesota was totally into him is one of the most delightful things I've seen all year. Dude was genuinely laughing at how over he was.

This seems like a textbook example of "damning with faint praise."

The only issue is that he can't just do his entrance and that's it - he has to wrestle, too.

SWEET FUCK.

One of the things that I never really got was that people said these guys were good as the Sheepherders. I thought they were pretty mediocre then, too. The Fantastics are one of the best tag teams ever, IMO, and I don't think one of their matches with the Sheepherders goes beyond "decent," for example. I've never seen them in Stampede (they were there, right?) or anything, so maybe there is some great match or feud that I'm still missing.

Fuuuuuck yeah Io Shirai!

The main event was a really fun tag sprint. Every time I see TM61, I wonder why I dislike them so much. Whenever they cut a promo, they remind me. Speaking of promos, even the inimitable Paul Ellering cutting a promo wasn't my favorite spoken thing on the show. It was Asuka's crazed OKAY that she likes to repeatedly yell when someone challenges her. It's the verbal equivalent of taking out your earrings before a fight.

OK, so this is a new mechanic. You need to build more housing in your cities, or they won't grow. You can build housing in two ways off the top of my head (I'm sure there are more, but I'm still learning the game): 1. By constructing a building that grants housing (like granaries). 2. By having a builder complete a tile improvement that grants housing (like farms). Without adequate housing, your cities won't grow. This is where land management comes in. So, you have a couple quick options: Use gold to buy more tiles, and then cultivate the tiles in some way (farms, complexes that can be upgraded with special buildings). Work on the current complexes that you've laid out already and upgrade them with complex-specific buildings that grant housing. Build buildings directly in your main city that increase housing space.

Play it more like Civ IV than Civ V. You're right that in Civ V, surrounding Civs were slow to attack. It was easy to thus build up a state that had the guns to deter war declarations at any point in the game (pour effort into growing food + building Wonders in the early game, and then pour out waves of Feudal-era defenders in the end-of-early/start of mid-game that you continually upgrade to keep other Civs from attacking). By my 200th hour in Civ V, I was basically winning games without ever going to war in every game that I started. Civ V is badly unbalanced. Civ IV, on the other hand, forced you to build your army to massive proportions, and it didn't matter against the AI because they would build about fifty pikemen and group them together to go on inexorable marches deep into your territory. Civ VI is a happy middle ground where you will get attacked if you neglect your army, but there are numerous bonuses and perks to help defend your home turf as long as you keep a modest standing army. My suggestions: First, go a difficulty lower than where you are if you can. I like to learn Civ games on Prince, and then after I win a couple games on that level, I go to the next one and see how consistently I can win when the computer only has a slight advantage. Second, for the first four turns that you build, intersperse a warrior with something else (I go warrior-builder-warrior-settler, myself). By then, you should have enough money to buy a warrior or slinger, giving you three units with which to defend your territory early on. Third, pick a character that has bonuses to home turf defense like TR or Catherine de Medici. I think TR is a good starting character for home turf defense because all units get a defense boost on their starting continent. Montezuma gets Jaguars early, and those are elite melee units, so Montezuma might also be a good pick for you because his special units win battles consistently in the early game. Fourth, send delegations to each new civilization that you meet ASAP to get your relationships with them off on the right foot and to make them less likely to do an early sneak attack to push you back or to quickly destroy you. That should hopefully give you enough room to repel attacks and thus start to figure out the rest of the game's mechanics.

Civ 6 is pretty good. They really cleaned up the UI, and at least during the beginning of the game, you are making a lot of choices that at least feel consequential. Splitting policies and tech into two separate research trees, for example, gives you a chance to make numerous early-game decisions about what kind of cities to mold. The other thing is that land management and acquisition, particularly in order to build specialty buildings and Wonders in your cities, is such a huge part of the game now, which I am still getting used to.

Not to shortchange your post, but the points that you make aren't really an issue with NXT. They're an issue with how the company promotes wrestlers coming up from NXT. The presentation of the cruisers is a Vince McMahon issue, not a NXT or CWC issue. Guys like Kevin Owens got over on NXT TV beyond just being known for his ROH or PWG work because he was presented effectively. On the other hand, he came up and was being 50/50d after beating Cena. Zayn's gotten it worse. The presentation is there on NXT beyond just relying on name value. Nakamura comes off as a stud, Joe comes off as a killer, because of how they are booked and presented, and that goes beyond name recognition. All the problems that you point out can go right in the pile with the rest of the problems with how shitty main roster WWE is. Holy shit, no one is arguing that fans like Gregg are shitty because they don't follow every aspect of every indie or Japanese wrestler's career. Your rants are pushing a false premise that is contra to the discussion that NXT is specifically catered for indie fans by the company itself to draw those fans in and away from New Japan or ROH or whoever else might otherwise take their entertainment dollars. We get it, you hate wrestling nerd fans. Odd, since you're on a board full of wrestling nerd fans, but hey, you do you.

What in fuck are you talking about? I sure didn't claim that Gregg was good enough to be a fan of NXT. I'm just saying that NXT is specifically catering to niche wrestling fans at this point. Gregg isn't a niche wrestling fan, which is fine, but that means that he'll be a bit put off by guys like Roddy Strong showing up and being over because of what he did in Ring of Honor. This was a particularly random, whacked-out rant even for you, SK.

You're not the target audience for NXT, Gregg. People who are aware of the Nakamuras and Roddy Strongs are. And yes, I know that this is different than how it was in 2013 NXT, but 2016 NXT might not be for you if you're not the type of fan that follows the indies and Japan enough to know these guys who come over.

It really bums me out that the team I want to win the Classic is getting killed by the AoP next round. I'm glad to see that even this jaded Full Sail crowd gets excited for fat-guy double-team moves. Patrick Clark from Paisley Park has potential, I think? Maybe.

If this thing will let you take actual console-quality games on the go like the Vita promised (and only somewhat kinda did for a short while), I'm in. Well, as long as it's fewer than two-hundred-and-fifty American dollars, that is. Nintendo hardware just isn't worth that much.

C'mon bruh, at least wait for the torrent of sexist, judgmental posts before you start complaining about sexist, judgmental posters. Like fuck, some of y'all flood these threads with more complaining about posts like this than there are actual posts like this. And no, making shitty jokes based on pop culture references (half of which I don't even know because I'm black and younger than quite a few of you, apparently) doesn't count as judgmental. You no-fun-having people. You know of whom I speak. The Roger Goodells of this board. You hate fun.

I've seen a picture - she was the one down on one knee. Their relationship is absolutely none of my business, and yet I can't look away.

Too late. Sasha Banks is already nearly breaking her neck on dives in every match.

Plz Red Dead Redemption sequel + Red Dead Revolver/Redemption Remastered double-pack.

I just realized Mat Mania is in this sale! I loved this game as a kid when my parents would take me to the arcade...at least until the G.O.A.T. arcade wrestling game known as WWF Wrestlefest came out. IIRC Technos did both Mat Mania and Wrestlefest, too.

I got Pacman, Last Blade 2, and Killzone: Shadow Fall. Last Blade 2 looks hideous because they didn't re-size the game and the options that you get are either to stretch out that beautiful, beautiful artwork or to have that hideous border around a small screen, but it's acceptable for when I want to play on the go on Vita. When I'm at home, though, I'll just continue to play my physical Dreamcast copy. It should be a fucking crime to treat such a beautiful game like that.

I'm excited to play RotTR, but I think I'll wait until Black Friday and try to score a deal from Amazon. I loved Tomb Raider: DE so much. Yes, I wanted more tombs, but the combat was really good. The bow and arrow is the most satisfying weapon that I've used in a video game ever. It feels fantastic. Civ 6 is coming out next Friday, and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to play it since it's so busy at work for me, but I can't resist buying it day one even though I got burned buying Beyond Earth day one.

Didn't know that I wanted to see Asuka in that specific matchup until I had it spoiled for me by going to another message board.

I appreciate Graves pulling a Bobby Heenan and changing his pick each time he sees a new heel team put in work in this tournament. I thought that the showcasing of Sanity was so good that I'm looking forward to when they eventually face off with the Authors of Pain. Even shitty Eric Young couldn't ruin it. Looking forward to Nakamura/Joe II. Hopefully, it's harder-hitting like the first match should have been.

This game looks worse (literally, I mean; the visuals are hot garbage) than it normally does. I think I'll wait for Amazon to inevitably sell it for thirty bucks on Black Friday, and then I'll wait another six months for the gamepass to be sold for sub-ten bucks in a flash sale. I think that's probably the best way to get the most value out of these games, at least for me.