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Also, another thing I was thinking about. They've talked a lot about people still dosing their kids with V but shouldn't there be more natural born supes now? Ryan is proof that a human mother can carry and deliver a supe's kid. In the last episode, they revealed that Newman dosed her daughter with V but in reality, why would she have to? Shouldn't her kid inherit her powers or at least some of them? I know she was dosed as a kid but in the show's cannon, she should still be able to pass down some kind of powers. SB was dosed with V and he was able to pass on powers to HL. And yes, I'm 100% putting more thought into this than the writers lol. None of this annoys me or anything, just fun thought exercises and discussion.

My guess is that Ryan would have to kill Homelander. Ryan should be stronger than HL at some point since he's a natural born supe. I also wonder how the virus would work. Does it only work on people who were dosed as kids? If so, it might not be effective on people like HL and Ryan. HL was created from Soldier Boy's sperm so it's in his DNA. I'm far from a doctor or a fancy science talking guy so I dunno if a blood born virus would work that way. HL also got dosed with a bunch of V in embryo IIRC and also as a kid b/c they wanted to see just how strong they could make him so maybe it would latch onto the V that's in his system that way but it might not work on Ryan. Just spitballing stuff here. Another thing they could explore is how to replicate SB's radiation blast. In fact, I don't know why they haven't mentioned that. It's a surefire known way to depower supes and they have him sedated. Again, whether or not it would actually work on HL is another question b/c V is in his DNA and I believe they said that SB's blast fries the V out of their blood but it'd be worth exploring.

It really is hilarious to see people saying the show got "woke". Did they not see any of the first seasons? I mean, they literally had three superpowered women kicking the shit out of a Nazi which is their textbook definition of "woke". I think the interesting thing with Frenchie this season is him turning himself in to the cops. I kinda want to see where that goes. Do they play "he works for the government, look the other way" card and get him out or does he actually want to stay in prison b/c it's the only way to assuage the guilt he feels?

Interesting theory about Butcher and Kessler https://twitter.com/TheBoysOOCC/status/1806382351276204096

Anyone ever play Frostpunk? Looks like an interesting strategy game.

I loved Bill Alphonso as the only ref who would enforce the rules in ECW and playing into Cactus Jack's anti-hardcore gimmick. "It is Cactus Jack's CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to be counted out if he wants to be!"

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Also, VATS doesn't completely stop time like it did in the previous games. It slows things down but opponents still move.

That reminds me of Foley's story about his loser leaves WCW match with Sullivan. He told Sullivan to slam him off the top to the floor and Sullivan was like, "do I stand on the ring apron or the floor to slam you?" Foley said something like, "I took a look at the 5'6 Gamesmaster and said, "ummm, maybe the apron Kevin."

IIRC, the fog in Far Harbor was causing crashes on PS4 when that DLC was released initially. I think they fixed that though as I never had a problem with it.

Goddammit, now I want to play this game again. Anyone using BOS mods? I was using an Improved BOS mod and BOS Workbench that let you craft Maxton's battle coat but for some reason it makes all of the BOS people at checkpoints walk around in their underwear. If you're using good BOS mods, let me know your mod order b/c I might do another playthrough.

I remember I had a VHS tape of random matches from early-80s Memphis matches and there were at least 4 matches of a young Rick Rude wearing a dress b/c he lost a match to Jerry Lawler. It wasn't something I traded for either. It was a commercial tape that my mom had gotten from a video store. It had the famous match where Savage piledrove Ricky Morton through a table and also the match where Hawk nosold Lawler's piledriver. 12 year old me didn't know what he had. A lot of the matches were clipped to hell but it was still pretty awesome. I vaguely remember there was a cage match where the cage looked like it was made out of chicken wire.

Disco Inferno will be showing up as HTM's protege around the same time Yoko debuts as the newest member of the Hart Foundation.

You think Karate Elvis was taking any bumps in the 70s? Well outside of key bumps if you know what I mean.

I imagine DOD HTM as him going full on disheveled Fat Elvis and doing karate in an ill-fitting jumpsuit/gi and now I'm sad we never got that. https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/union/giphy/2022/07/04/5352afe5.gif?crop=4%3A3

Jericho had a really good interview with Gabbi Tuft aka Tyler Reks. Really insightful stuff from Gabi as she talked about transitioning from male to female, her time in WWE, etc. She was overall very positive about her time in WWE but she did say something that about how WWE hasn't let her backstage at a couple of events after she transitioned when she thought she'd be able to. She had everything set up to go backstage and say hi to people and then it got nixed at the last second. She theorized that some people there were uncomfortable with her but didn't name any names. In any case, interview was worth checking out and I thought Jericho did a great job with the interview. Asked some good questions in a very respectful manner and I found it educational.

As someone who grew up in the JCP era, it was always weird to see weasely, hit you with a loafer, JJ Dillon as a commissioner. The first live show I went to, the main event was an I Quit match b/t Dusty and Tully that Dusty won when he stopped JJ from hitting him with the shoe and then he hit Tully with it a bunch of times and ground the heel into Tully's face until Tully quit.

Only if they do an angle with Christian where Christian goes after Cage for having a dead father and Cage reveals that his father is still alive and The Warlord comes out.

That was a pretty good episode. Gambler sounds like a really nice, chill guy.

I had a couple of them too. I thought that out of the bunch, Messiah and White Trash Johnny Webb were actually competent wrestlers.

Funk's WCW hardcore title match against Candido is one of my favorite matches. Just for the spot when Funk piledrives Candido in a horse stable, the horse kicks Funk and he yells something like, "you goddamn horse I'll kick your fucking ass" and Schiavone yells, "the horse with the highspot of the night!"

I think that was mainly b/c Ali was starting to show some cognitive decline at that point and Vince wanted to make sure nothing went wrong. There was already one unknown variable in the ring in Mr. T so he didn't want to add another. They still wanted Ali attached to the main so they just stuck him outside and let Patterson be the main ref. Vince wanted Patterson in there to direct traffic if T forgot spots or if Piper/Orndorff really did get into it with T.

This is where I am with Roman's title reign and the Bloodline angle. At this point, I don't really give two shits about the storyline b/c it seemingly just always boils down to, "will the Usos superkick someone or won't they?" but I'm also not going to deny that it's drawing people in and working.

The craziest thing is how much money they had to pay whenever they used the crow on a show. They had to pay for plane tickets for the crow handler, the crow...and a back-up crow. IIRC, according to JJ Dillon it was like $10K or more anytime they used a crow and they did it more than just at that Clash. They used it for various videos and stuff for Sting. JJ wrote that they should've just gotten a bunch of shots with the crow once and interspliced them but anytime they needed the crow, they'd just fork over the $10K or whatever and fly in the whole crow entourage for one off shoots. WCW paid for plane tickets for a stunt crow...multiple times. How does anyone listen to Eric Bischoff when it comes to the "business of the wrestling business"?

There was one a couple of weeks ago where he and Conrad got heated with each other over AEW having Collision. I never actually listened to it because I can't think of anything I want to listen to less than Bischoff's post-traumatic Thunder syndrome rantings. He's made it pretty clear that he doesn't think it will work b/c it failed when he tried it 25 years ago. For someone who always says "context is king", he sure as shit doesn't adhere to that when it comes to AEW's new show. Just because some Turner schmuck exec who wanted WCW to fail hoisted a show on you back then with no warning or plan doesn't mean that's what's happening right now.