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I don't agree. Pro wrestling is at its absolute worst when they try to work real-life shit into the storylines. I'll concede enough people are inexplicably interested in the backstage crap that it might have been the most lucrative thing they could have put on screen. But best? Nah.

Getting to see the title change hands in person was nice and all. But I think Copeland costing Christian the title by preventing The Patriarchy from cheating at the last PPV might have been the right call. They could still have had the same blowoff match and Garcia would benefit more from the title than Copeland.

On a whim I looked at the rankings that went up Wednesday and the most interesting thing to me was Mariah May at number 2 in the women's rankings. A sign that they're planning to pull the trigger on Toni vs Mariah sooner rather than later? The funniest thing was Claudio and Mox at number 3 in tag teams, higher than most of the teams in the tournament. Yet still, to my knowledge, no in-story explanation for why they didn't get a spot in the tournament. Edit: forgot to include a link: https://www.allelitewrestling.com/post/aew-rankings-for-march-27-2024

It absolutely does. Depending on whether MJF comes back cooled off or his absence makes the audience's hearts grow fonder, they can modify how much TV time it gets and how long it takes. But just dropping it completely would be terrible writing. I don't know if this would effect a double turn, though. I mean, Swerve did shit like that to Hangman and came out of that feud a bigger face than Hanger. So I'm not convinced it would suffice to turn MJF back heel.

I think the brackets ruled that out, because no way were they running Kingdom vs Bucks in the semifinals. Bucks vs Private Party worked because of their history, and because while PP are heels they're not really all that hated, so they could easily play faces in this match. Bucks vs Kingdom wouldn't work at all, in my opinion

A few weeks back there were some matches that were made official so quickly you could only assume Tony had nothing more important to do than sit with his phone ready waiting for a babyface to propose a match so he could immediately call in and make it official. My point is, he clearly lives to make matches official. Don't take that from him.

True. Thinking about it more, Hangman trying to cost Swerve the match and failing is the way to go. Hanger costing Swerve the title doesn't lead to anything new, while Swerve defending the title against Page makes for a fitting final blow-off to that feud.

Good show, but why were the Montreal fans chanting "Swerve's house"? Shouldn't it have been "Chez Swerve"?

Probably, yeah. Except... Hangman is still active and, as far as we know, still obsessed with ensuring Swerve never becomes world champion. Narratively, he pretty much has to show up and do something at Dynasty if not before. Of course, no reason he can't try to screw Swerve at Dynasty and fail.

Hey! In my early days I saw guys who worked a technical style as automatically just better workers, but I came by that attitude the right way - via Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

No worries. The Robot God is all-forgiving.

Maybe. Either way the pronoun should be capitalized, though.

Well, I'm putting myself in danger of getting yelled at for repeating old issues here. But I'd say it would be a small thing if it were a one-off occurrence. It's not; AEW has wrestlers go off TV with no stated explanation all the time. And no other well-written serial fiction that I know of has characters randomly disappear from the narrative when the performers aren't available and just pop back up later still with no explanation for their absence. Pro wrestling shouldn't do it either, in my opinion.

I probably shouldn't speak for everybody, but I doubt many people are complaining that FTR were ruined by the loss or anything. The complaint I've seen is that it just doesn't make sense for FTR to get a first-round match in the title tournament while the team that just beat them doesn't even get a "wild card" match. It's a reasonable complaint, in my opinion.

Hmm. Maybe. Or maybe I just need to tune it for the audience more. Are there any indie wrestlers out there whose gimmick is they're a robot god?

I'm only offended that I can't seem to segue this thread into a discussion of robot gods in pop culture.

Joke??? Robot gods are serious business, Eddie.

Criticism of either Primus constitutes blasphemy and should be avoided. Of course, it's possible you guys are discussing some third "Primus" who isn't a robot god at all. In which case - carry on.

It works, too. I love FTR and have no real interest in all the dull mechanics in AEW who are just dull mechanics.

I haven't read the linked article, but I'm curious whether this was actually Larian's choice or Hasbro's (Hasbro being WotC's parent company). My understanding was that Baldur's Gate 3 was pretty successful, so it would surprise me if Larian deliberately chose not to do follow-ups.

Has Chuck Taylor ever been presented as being Miro's equal, though? My recollection of the Arcade Anarchy match was that near the end, there was an extended sequence of all three Best Friends fighting Miro before finally taking him out of the equation. I mean, I like Miro, but complaining that three guys (none of whom were jobbers) shouldn't be able to take him down seems a bit much.

Thanks Kevin. I didn't see any of the ads or other hype, so all I was expecting was a Bethesda game in space. Which I got. And one of the better Bethesda games I've played to boot. But if you were expecting a better version of No Man's Sky - yeah, you didn't get that. I remember thinking myself that the whole exploring planets/building outposts part of the game was pretty lame compared to NMS. (And I couldn't even really get into NMS, although I wanted to like it.) Fortunately you can enjoy the game without bothering with that stuff at all.

So I picked this back up last week and finally finished the main storyline with one of my characters on Sunday. Overall, a pretty great game. There were a couple of annoying instances of railroading, but overall strong writing. Pretty much an across-the-board improvement on Fallout 4; a vastly better main storyline and generally improved game mechanics (although as I mentioned a while back, a lot of the new mechanics are good ideas implemented poorly). Even the absence of VATS or something like it is surprisingly tolerable. I've heard the game was panned in internet discussions elsewhere, and I find that baffling. Sure it has flaws, but they're all pretty much flaws that every Bethesda game I've played had. What exactly were the detractors expecting?

Would "dreading" not be the more appropriate verb?

Cool. And it has a Linux version. Added to my Steam wishlist, thanks.