Casey

It’s working out pretty well for them, since every currently available Fallout game is experiencing either its all-time player count or just more active than they’ve been in years. It’ll be real shitty if the next-gen update wipes progress and makes you start a new game, though. Apparently that’s what happened with Skyrim and the Anniversary edition.

X-Men characters are rumored to be in the next season of What If, so it makes sense. I think Storm specifically, if I’m remembering right?

days late, but this is the second PPV in a row I didn’t buy because I’ve been down on AEW for a bit. But they hooked me back in with pulling the trigger on Swerve. I was scared they wouldn’t, but then I remembered what company this was. I don’t feel like Ospreay/Danielson is the best match I’ve ever seen, but it’s way wayyyy up there on the list. Danielson is obviously one of the GOATs, but it’s really incredible how far Ospreay has come when he was a junior. Ospreay/Swerve is going to hit like fucking CRACK if they do it at All In. Only other things I have to add: the Jericho match wasn’t the worst in company history, or even close. It wasn’t great or anything, but let’s not lie to ourselves here. And we also can’t ignore the fact that HOOK just… isn’t that great, honestly. He needs NXT, or something like it. Working double digit TV matches a year isn’t going to get him where he needs to be, IMO. Jericho sucks, and this whole meta “Punk was like this backstage” gimmick is fucking stupid. It’s one of the things bringing me down on AEW - now that the bad man is gone, they start doing stuff they should’ve been doing a long time ago (Bucks & Hangman going heel are the main culprits). Toni at the presser saying if you want to watch cinema go watch a fucking movie is how I feel about WWE right now. They’ve only got my attention because of Punk and a few other things, but this over reliance on “omg this is cinema” and stupid shit like that clouds fan perception of what’s really going on.

@Matt D Appreciate the burner account, that makes things easier for me. I’ve got this weekend off so plenty of time between now and next weekend to watch that. For you, I’ve got… more indie women’s wrestling. But from a few years ago. It’s Mercedes Martinez and Kylie Rae in a no ropes submission match. I’ve always been a big supporter of Mercedes - criminally underrated in the larger women’s scene anlongside the previously watched Nicole Matthews - and Kylie Rae is one of those What If questions for early AEW. Again, not sure of what I’m supposed to be giving you every month since you’re more cultured than I am, but I figure somewhat current indie women’s wrestling might be a small blindspot for you.

I’ve been binging the Blacklist on Netflix, up to S9 already. Boy, they really drag out the Liz/Red story as far as they can, over the shark, and then a little bit further huh? This S8 finale is just a huge info dump, likely because it’s Megan Boone’s last episode I believe. Still fun stuff though, and a real treat to see James Spader just hamming it up and being fucking awesome every episode. Sidenote, but the Tom story was ended too soon, and Liz/Ressler doesn’t feel earned at all the few times it does happen. Samara being shuttered away a few seasons ago SUCKED, too. Aram is just so whiny now, and that’s horrible because he was one of my favorite characters.

The rumor was that he was fired from The Witcher for being physically and emotionally abusive to other staff, so who knows. Jeff Sneider says that was the case on X-Men ‘97 as well.

That last 20 seconds or so with Rogue and Gambit was fucking soul shattering, holy shit. This show might be the best thing Marvel has put out in YEARS. We’ll have to see if they stick the landing, and I’m sure they will, but oh my god. This is fantastic stuff.

CM Punk is truly the best thing that ever happened to this dude.

Meltzer said that was the case, so you get that section on your bingo card. But he’s also saying there were loud Fuck CM Punk chants the moment Perry got shoved in the video, and I’ve watched a few in-arena videos at this point and all I hear are loud chants for Punk. So, like… I dunno. You’d think a guy who has an online only business and has a live YouTube show would be able to use that platform to verify, but…

The show is definitely canon, they’ve said that several times.

On that Jon Snow show - the only spinoff from the original show that I’m remotely interested in is one centered around Arya Stark and what she’s doing following the events of Season 8.

If they can hold these viewers, that’s great. I hope they do, and can. But I’m not hopeful tbh. If not, you kind of just proved that Punk is a draw even on a show he’s not on. That’s not great (for AEW and non-Punk fans).

I got to 30 waves before my team quit without me knowing, I died, and it was over. I was so mad. I do enjoy Onslaught, though. It’s really fun. I know PVP is popular with this game but I wish there were more PVE options besides Vanguard/Nightfall and DoE. I’m not counting raids and dungeons since they don’t support matchmaking and are knowledge based (enemies, movement, puzzles, etc) more than anything. I’m just gonna go ahead and guess that when Marathon inevitably flops, Bungie/Sony will panic and push for accelerated production on Destiny 3. Or they gut Bungie.

Next gen update comes out two weeks from today.

Me, a “New Vegas is the best Fallout” guy: The show: fuck you

Sure, but if you believe the sheets, Perry was egging it on with “why don’t you do something about it?” and whatnot.

aaaaand now they’re copyright striking footage of Brawl In and fan shot footage of inside the arena while it aired.

just to be an asshole here… in like two months he’ll be closer to 30 than 23, because he’ll be 27

My brother in christ, Jack Perry is almost 30 years old.

The fans in attendance were chanting for Punk during that footage.

It was a mistake showing that footage.

EA has put Dead Space back on the shelf. No DS2 remake, or new entry, due to low sales of the DS1 remake. At least I got the remake for $2 thanks to Xbox’s “Offers For You” thing in their storefront. And all three original ones still hold up incredibly well, so I can play the remake and then go right into 2 and 3.

The worst part of all this is that Jack Perry is going to be catapulted into a high profile spot with the Bucks and Okada. Brawl In is the best thing that ever happened to him, clearly.

Yeah I'm not so sure about that. Deadpool & Wolverine will probably make $1b or something absurd, F4 will probably do well for them, and Secret Wars is their big chance to do crazy shit and make tons of money, like Jackman’s Wolverine with Tobey’s Spider-Man, and bringing back RDJ and Evans. Phase 4 made more money than all three Star Wars sequel films combined. You might be onto something if the phases were grossing low amounts, but they aren’t.

I haven’t watched a full AEW show in weeks, and tonight probably won’t be the time I break that streak (but that’s mostly due to all episodes of Fallout dropping on Amazon Prime tonight). I can’t WAIT to see the backpedaling Fightful and the Observer do when the footage has nothing to do with Punk. EDIT: What a huuuuuuge nothingburger. It’s exactly as Punk described, and if that is why Tony feared for his life… holy shit bro