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I do have Peacock. I’ll give both a look.

I feel like my memory bank of fun or great matches has gone the way of an encrypted archive due to just engaging with stuff on a more casual level. As we do this, I hope I can make some fun picks. However, this one is pretty on the nose. I looked at where @SirSmUgly is on his WCW project, and I figured we'd pick something on the other side of the Monday Night Wars from the same time frame. I'm going with the first Austin vs Dude Love match for three reasons: 1) the Over the Edge Match is the more famous match (it'll give me an excuse to watch both for the first time in over a decade as well), 2) the finish to this match has always stuck out more in my head, 3) I became a pro wrestling fan over the summer of 1995. If I think of a year/period where my childhood fandom was at its peak, it would be 1998 because WCW was still fun in the undercard for a good chunk of the year, and WWF had not fully fallen off the deep end with bad Russo stuff and the overall poor quality of 1999. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7cq9kg EDIT: Because Dailymotion embeds in the preview, but is blank after posting.

Yeah, I thought about going with the LP120, but both models have increased in price since I looked at them in the past. (The 60 is closer to what the 120 used to be). Uturn was a crowdfunded deal, and it seems like it's mostly had good responses. I think the cartridge and the stylus are both AT products.

I finally caved and got a turntable setup after years of putting it off while developing a small collection. The thing that reengaged this for me was I was on a beach trip with my current partner and her kids. While in 30A, I went to the indie record store there that's kind of priced sadly for the 30A crowd and not necessarily the hobbyist (it's still a neat spot there in Seaside). Anyways, I bought each of them an album on vinyl. I decided to at least just get a basic set up and maybe upgrade certain pieces from there over time. For now, I kept it around $400 and got a uturn basic orbit turntable (with preamp) and Edifier R1280DB speakers. A sound guy I know recommended me some higher priced klipsch speakers that were on sale, but by the time I'd have bit the bullet, they went back up (was at $370 and reg was $500). Everything should hopefully get here next week. I'm kind of excited to start this process and play some stuff that's just sat in a cheap crate for the last few years.

There's some device I'm seeing get tested on Twitter that looks like it's upressing games by hooking up the console to it. It seems like it's getting promising results. I think it's called Retroink (sounds like it could be pricey). Has anyone else heard anything about it?

I'm in and will hopefully be able to offer something/consistently participate. Even with the stuff I have seen throughout my life. I have a ton of blind spots both recent and not so recent. My relationship to watching stuff is more casual over the last decade.

Yeah, I'm more or less powering through it just so I don't have it on my endless pile of shame. I'm mad at myself for preordering Madden because I kind of need to play a ton of stuff. Not to mention my Series S I barely touch and its gamepass content.

I think there's supposed to be more to the gameplay from a battle system standpoint; however, you start with those assists. If you remove them for other attachments, I believe it's supposed to make the gameplay a little more based on how you control it. I've been lazy and haven't done that in spite of having some nice attachments right now. I'm guessing that I'm somewhere around the mid-way point as I'm a couple chapters into the second time jump.

To continue the Tennessee/Pruitt discussion, it appears he has taken a job as the PE Teacher at Plainview High School in Alabama. https://247sports.com/Article/ex-tennessee-football-coach-jeremy-pruitt-hired-at-alabama-high-school-per-report-213280785/

It definitely doesn't do Dalvin Cook any favors either if I were to guess.

As a small correction to my last comment:

Apparently, the original deal that Jim Ryan denied before all of this became an ugly public battle was to allow for most Activision-Blizzard products to be on Playstation consoles for ~7 years (I could be misremembering) or something. Curious to see if Sony does anything to react to this. I know there's been Squeenix rumors for years.

I'm hopeful we can make a meaningful run in the Copa next year. Might be a tournament I try to travel to for a game or two.

According to Google, he's 5'8".

We finished the second season yesterday and knocked out the first episode of this one. It's just tremendously hilarious stuff. I also like how a lot of the violence and action is more due to incompetence than intent, which fits these characters perfectly.

Trailer for Ridley Scott's Napoleon dropped this morning. Embed seems to be acting up on me.

It's probably the right time for this, honestly. For his legacy as one of the true great keepers in United history along with the legacy of being one of the few true bright spots on what's been a middling era in United history compared to expectation.

Yeah, I hate I'm not able to catch any of this tour. I've enjoyed listening to it on nugs. I watched some YouTube videos of the end of night 3. I might try to stream the San Fran shows if I don't head out for Phish in Atlanta.

Yeah, I'm for once trying to just power through. The second I veer to something else is when I don't finish it, which is always the case when I pay full price for major first party games. I want to clear some backlog before Spider-Man 2 hits in 3 months.

I'm thinking we're getting a fatal 4 way bloodline match at Survivor Series.

I'm hoping to get 2-3 hours deeper into it with the off day tomorrow, but I'm slowly plodding through this and am getting close to what I think is the end of the first act. There are moments in this game that really make you just go "wow," and I sense it's only going to get more spectacular until it doesn't. Clive may be one of the more interesting protagonists in this series.

That thing becomes more viral every year, so this is probably a no brainer for the bottom line.

One of my favorite Giant Bomb series from right before Brad/Vinny/Alex left was the Breaking Brad where Brad played his way through it. It's definitely a brutal game.

Here's a little more on the TCM stuff, including a statement from the 3 directors: https://www.avclub.com/spielberg-and-scorsese-got-together-to-yell-at-david-za-1850563822

I caved and snagged FFXVI yesterday because we all know I'm good at actually sticking to and finishing single player first party purchases. Anyways, the demo/opening two hours is solid. The combat was a bit wonky for me probably tied to one of the rings I had equipped and the auto evade basically makes you fly around like a maniac. The Eikon battle that closes that section is a bit clunky. I'll give more thoughts if I log a few hours in over the weekend.