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Supergirl used AI in pre-production (or whatever it’s called) to mock up concept art and stuff. WB already took down the behind the scenes doc they posted because it’s going viral. The real kicker is that Momoa didn’t bat an eye, and he owns a clean water company lol

Beau outlined what Season 2 would’ve been if he had stayed and the What If people didn’t come in and re-write mostly everything. A lot sounds good, some seems terrible still. I’m in no way advocating that they need to bring him back, but they need to move on from these people who worked on What If because that show was a huge disappointment and kind of sucked. An entire episode dedicated to Darcy and Howard the Duck? Fuck off. Anyway. Next season is the true test since it’ll have nothing from Beau, whereas this season still has traces of his original S2 outline. I still enjoy it because animated X-Men is just my jam, though.

I need to do a complete binge rewatch of S2 but my thoughts right now are that it wasn’t as cohesive as the first season and the What If writers kind of suck.

There’s only one of ‘em that’s pretty much 100%, the other witches could realistically be anyone. I’ve seen wild names floated out there.

HBO also passed on shows centered around Catwoman starring Zoe Kravitz and a Posion Ivy one.

Waller and Paradise Lost are officially cancelled.

Nightcrawler sucks.

Allow me to lighten the mood by revisiting the paying your dues argument: Lol

I'm pretty sure Brooks has said that all of his tweets where he's posting matches that he's watching are set up in the PC on a TV or whatever, and nobody else ever watches stuff with him. He's also a Mike Awesome fan so he's pretty cool.

In WWE's case, 8 matches across 26 matches that week (including RAW, that had no women's matches) is like 30%. If you take out RAW and it's 4 matches, it's 36%. AEW's 5 out of 23 matches that week comes out to around 21-22%.

For that week that was mentioned: NXT, Main Event & Smackdown: 8 matches for roughly 44 minutes Dynamite, Collision & ROH HonorClub #176 (aired 7/23): 5 matches for roughly 37 minutes -- so, yeah, WWE had more matches while AEW had less and almost equaled the same amount of in-ring time. Not a great look either way for either company, when WWE has TV on almost every night of the week in some form and AEW has four hours + usually now a lengthy overrun. In case you or anyone is wondering, the very next episode of Honor Club that was taped the same day, but aired a week later, had 6 women's matches alone that was almost equal in time (34 minutes) to everything AEW and ROH offered the previous week, AND WWE.

catching up on the last two episodes before the finale, and goddamn they did Magik so dirty

There's a solid argument in there for Blake stalling all her momentum to chase the WWE dream, but I don't think there's much of one for Stephanie Vaquer. She's pretty solidly at the top of the card, and has been since she debuted - in NXT, and the main roster. Toni Storm's final promo with Mariah/Blake rings true to this day, and it's kind of funny honestly. Man, I hate to defend WWE here, but - 1) that's from almost a month ago, so, cherry picking. But the cherry picking doesn't even work here, since if you look at the totality of WWE's output that week VS. AEW's shows, WWE handily beat them in women's wrestling minutes across anything televised like Main Event, NXT and Smackdown. Smackdown was almost entirely focused on the women that week. AEW had one match on Dynamite, and two on Collision - one of which lasted a little over a minute.

Warframe's new player onboarding is worse than Destiny 2. All of the content might be there in Warframe, unlike D2, but they throw so much at you in the first few hours of playing that it's overwhelming for a lot of people. Besides that, my problem with Warframe is the same as The First Descendant these days - everything is too quick. Whether it's designed that way (Warframe) or due to player power/build being too strong (TFD). Marathon wasn't designed to be purely PvE but I'm pretty sure them extending the window for the PvE mode is a glimpse into the fact that it's pretty successful and what's needed to make the game last. ARC Raiders lost half of their PC player base within a month, after the Riven Tides expansion and the announcement at the end of May that they were moving to a bi-yearly content update schedule. At this point, PvE modes are the only thing that'll bring a lot of people back (or new players in), especially in a ratfuck game like ARC Raiders. I'll never understand PvP enjoyers having a problem with a PvE mode. It doesn't affect them in any way, except for not having fresh meat readily available to grief. At the end of the day, if they like these games and don't want to see support pulled entirely, they're gonna have to do it probably. If the new expansion in ARC Raiders in October doesn't bring back the players they've lost, and/or new ones, then they'll probably pivot. The Chinese release of the game already has a mode like that.

There are WWE-only fans quote tweeting me calling me insane for saying that. I guarantee the only GCW shows they’ve seen, if any, are the ones with WWE talent on them. Brett is a carny up there with the best of ‘em in the modern day, lol.