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| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 29 |
| NBIceman 12/22/17 9:43:21 PM #35 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 29 |
| NBIceman 12/22/17 7:31:33 PM #12 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 28 |
| NBIceman 12/22/17 3:09:06 AM #73 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 28 |
| NBIceman 12/22/17 12:54:02 AM #59 | |
| Topic | Pokemon Gauntlet Day 185: Decidueye vs. Ribombee vs. Lycanroc |
| NBIceman 12/21/17 11:52:10 PM #8 | Well done, B8. I was terrified Incineroar was actually going to win this. Decidueye --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 28 |
| NBIceman 12/21/17 8:31:25 PM #18 | |
| Topic | Pokemon Gauntlet Tiebreaker: Incineroar vs. Ribombee |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 11:56:05 PM #21 | |
| Topic | NBA Discussion Topic 4 - All Hail King James |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 8:38:01 PM #7 | Did Utah really just score 9 points in the first quarter? --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 8:22:36 PM #341 | voltch posted... Right was looking up potential challengers for Naito or Okada depending on who won. Well, assuming it will be Naito, let's look at everyone on the roster that could be a credible challenger at New Beginning. Bad Luck Fale Cody Goto Tanahashi Okada Omega Ibushi Elgin Suzuki Ishii Think you can pretty immediately throw out Cody (not over in Japan), Goto (under this scenario, would only be challenging if he was coming off a loss at WK), Okada (wouldn't do a rematch that quick, especially at New Beginning), and Elgin (likely won't be re-signed.) Suzuki's a fringe candidate for the same reason as Goto, but he has a little bit better case because he can get his heat back pretty easily and because it would ensure that Naito would still have pretty much 100% crowd support. Tanahashi is presumably losing to Jay White at WK, and I think he's pretty well done with being a HW Title challenger anyway. If they are going to give him another challenge at some point, I imagine it'd be at a bigger show where it's built up better. That leaves us with Fale, Omega, Ibushi, and Ishii, and I can see arguments for and against all of them. Fale is established as a guy who can be a credible placeholder defense for top guys, but it would be really out of nowhere in this case and he's never had the same chemistry with Naito as he does with Okada or Tana. Ishii, on the flip side, always has amazing matches with Naito, but they already had three singles matches with each other in 2017, so maybe they should take a break from it for a while. Omega and Ibushi are the intriguing ones. If you believe Voices of Wrestling, which I do, Omega v Ibushi is happening sometime in 2018, as the main event of a pretty important show. That would presumably mean one of them will be the champ sometime during the year. (The alternative would be doing it for a big US show, but that match wouldn't draw nearly as well in the US.) I doubt Omega gets the New Beginning challenge - it's too soon for Naito to lose, too soon and too small of a show for that rematch, and Omega shouldn't really be taking a high profile loss there either. Ibushi is a possibility, though. He could beat Cody at WK, lose to Naito at NB, and then face Kenny at some point later in the year after the latter takes the belt off Naito. TL;DR My ranking of likelihood for a New Beginning challenger for Naito would probably be Fale > Suzuki > Ibushi > Ishii. I couldn't possibly try and predict any further out. There's too many variables right now. Guess I should @voltch in this since he posed the question. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Pokemon Gauntlet Day 184: Decidueye v. Incineroar v. Ribombee v. Lycanroc |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 6:18:14 PM #33 | |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 12:53:13 AM #313 | UInstinctGogeta posted... Maniac64 posted...Personally, I dont care about top meaning "most famous". I care about top meaning "best". Just curious, because I know we'll never agree as far as the rest of this goes. How significant will you consider it if they manage to sell out their ~10,000 seat arena next year without even being attached to a promotion? --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | NHL Discussion Topic: Gameday Edition |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 12:45:42 AM #336 | Vegas/Tampa was an amazing game. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 27 |
| NBIceman 12/20/17 12:13:36 AM #58 | |
| Topic | Favorite character that shares the same name as you |
| NBIceman 12/19/17 10:58:40 PM #28 | Off the top of my head, I guess it'd be Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Not a whole lot of good Matthews in fiction. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Jeremy Parish ranks the Final Fantasy games |
| NBIceman 12/19/17 9:19:10 PM #16 | I was expecting the worse but that actually seems pretty solid to me. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 27 |
| NBIceman 12/19/17 9:01:42 PM #21 | |
| Topic | Trails series is on sale at gog.com |
| NBIceman 12/19/17 2:44:50 PM #5 | ninkendo posted... I think you mean Falcom games on sale in general. Get those Ys games everybody! 6 bucks for Origin is a steal. Do yourself a favor, everybody. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/19/17 1:23:16 PM #301 | Remember y'all are talking to someone who believes that if you think the likes of Misawa and Kobashi are among the best of all time, it's "Japan bias." By his metric of success, of course the Bucks are nowhere close to top 50. The Hype Bros would be above the Bucks on his list simply by virtue of the fact that they tagged in the WWE. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | SHINE's Top 10 Games, Top 5 Unplayed Games and Top 5 Old Games of 2017 |
| NBIceman 12/18/17 8:39:08 PM #18 | transience posted... that's a low bar fight me irl --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | PKMN Gauntlet 183: Decidueye v. Incineroar v. Ribombee v. Lycanroc v. Zeraora |
| NBIceman 12/18/17 5:42:29 PM #9 | |
| Topic | Name a User and I'll Give My Honest, Unfiltered Opinion About Them |
| NBIceman 12/18/17 5:24:43 PM #170 | |
| Topic | NHL Discussion Topic: Gameday Edition |
| NBIceman 12/18/17 12:55:15 AM #328 | VGK first in the Pacific woooo --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Best Dead or Alive girl? |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 9:07:51 PM #15 | |
| Topic | I need to tell you about my favourite songs and albums of 2017. |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 8:54:04 PM #7 | I've really been surprised at the lack of buzz Black Mile seemed to get. I've never been much of a Manchester Orchestra fan but that was easily a top 3 AOTY for me. The transition from The Sunshine to The Grocery is one of my favorite music moments from this year. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 26 |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 8:15:25 PM #55 | |
| Topic | feelings on undertale |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 8:14:55 PM #15 | mnkboy907 posted... Good but not even close to BEST GAME EVAR material. Yep. Creative and has an awesome OST, but that's about it. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Alright fine, Shad plays Trails in the Sky |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 3:29:07 PM #18 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 26 |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 2:45:11 PM #17 | |
| Topic | Games that were average or bad that you think the world of? |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 2:44:12 PM #20 | Sonic Shuffle. The cheating AI is obviously stupid, but it's a blast to play with friends. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 3:08:03 AM #145 | Man, I hate getting so riled up about crap like this. Wrestling is enough of a niche interest that its fans shouldn't get pissed for liking different aspects of it. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 3:04:57 AM #144 | Going after The New Day, of all acts, shows exactly how out of touch you are, and I say that as someone who never liked them at all, even when I was still watching WWE. Who cares if fans think they're entertaining? THAT'S WHAT WRESTLING IS! GETTING OVER IN WHATEVER WAY YOU CAN! You're supposed to present wrestlers that fans want to buy a ticket to see, that they want to buy merch for. If you accomplish that by having goofballs prance around dressed like unicorns, fine! Whatever works, do it. Even if I think it's dumb. You have become the old man yelling at the cloud. You have become Seymour Skinner, convinced that it's the children who are wrong. You have become Jim Cornette, angrily shaking your fist and yelling into a microphone about how PWG is killing the business, because you simply cannot understand that the business has passed you by. You hang on to the Steve Austins of yesteryear and fail to grasp that the only reason he was even so successful in the first place is because the all planets aligned so perfectly. There will never be another Steve Austin, but that's not because of smarks. It's because every factor that led to Steve Austin simply could never be replicated. I could've been just like you. I could've lamented the end of the ROH golden years and blamed all the new fans for being too stupid to understand what used to make the company great. Instead, I just accepted that all wrestling companies change and evolve as the business itself does. In another ten years, it'll look very different again. And that'll be okay, too. Fans that don't like it can go somewhere else. And wrestling will be much the better for it. You can talk down to smarks all you want, but just realize that by doing so, you're effectively saying you want the whole wrestling business to die. And maybe you do, I don't know. Maybe you hate it all so much that you do want thousands of people everywhere to suddenly be unemployed. But I find that pretty repulsive. One last note. I disagree with scarlet on one point. We're not all marks. We're all smarks. The literal definition of a smark is a wrestling fan who knows it's fake. Nothing more or less. You're in this topic, you're a smark. And that's okay. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 3:04:47 AM #143 | Hell, I wasn't going to get involved in this, but against my better judgment I feel like I have to. I'll touch on ROH first. It doesn't really matter if you don't like Dalton Castle. I don't even like Dalton Castle much. Honestly, I don't like ROH in its current form very much. I'm very much removed from the new breed of ROH fans that go to shows in their Bullet Club shirts and pay $30 to take a picture with the Young Bucks and 2Sweet Cody. I was part of the barricade-slapping, Final Countdown-singing, DVD-buying old guard that loved how underground the whole thing was. I loved when Gabe Sapolsky would randomly decide to add his horrendous commentary to the show and scream DANGEROOOOOUS at the top of his lungs at fairly basic moves. I loved watching Austin Aries go off on profanity-laced tangents at random fans during his promos. I loved that half the time they ran buildings lit so poorly and used cameras so cheap that you could barely tell what was going on. Sinclair-era ROH is virtually unrecognizable from the ROH I loved. They still put out good stuff most of the time. Their weekly show is probably the best one running in wrestling. But it's not for me. Dalton Castle also is not for me. But that's alright, for two reasons. Number one, ROH isn't dead because they put the belt on him. ROH has never been healthier. They're doing their best business ever, far beyond what me and the other DVD-buying diehards could ever bring them to. Number two, there's plenty of other companies out there that are for me. A lot of them. There's close to two-dozen different companies on my list of companies that have had a match I considered MOTYC-level this year. And more and more fans are realizing that great stuff like that which appeals directly to their tastes as wrestling fans is out there now. You know what that translates to? More wrestlers getting steady bookings and getting to do what they love. Variety is only a good thing for wrestling. Remember the Monday Night Wars? That came because people wanted variety. We're never going to see a competitor like WCW to the WWE machine again (unless Mark Cuban decides he wants to throw his weight behind NJPW), but we do have alternatives, and that's just as good. I went to an indy show a couple months ago in Austin, TX where I got the chance to talk to a wrestler who told me, in no uncertain terms, that he wouldn't be wrestling if the wrestling environment was more like it was even just five years ago. He loves wrestling, and he's getting the opportunity to wrestle because those smarks that you hate have demanded, in their collective voices, for something different. Smarks are bad for wrestling? Nah. They're bad for WWE. And the WWE never wanted them anyway. You claim they catered to them? Give me a break. Yeah, they gave Punk a title reign where he hardly ever main evented a show and succumbed to the overwhelming pressure that led to WM30. Other than that, it's been business as usual. Wrestling fans are known to be the lowest common denominator because WWE made them that way. The entire product is predicated on making sure complete idiots can understand it. You're mixing up the cause and effect. Of course all the smart people stopped watching - their intelligence is being insulted every segment! And by the way, smarks can very much afford to support products they want to. Companies are going out of their way to make it affordable. demandPROGRESS, which incorporates shows from a half dozen companies, is $7.50 a month. NJPW World is just under $9. Highspots Wrestling Network is $10, and there's literal years worth of content there. And the list goes on. You can rent most shows for 24 hours for 5 bucks. And even the precious WWE network is only, as Michael Cole and all the other robots love to remind folks, $9.99. There's no problem with affordability. People are just more choosy about what content they actually feel deserves their money. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 2:12:30 AM #140 | I definitely wasn't talking about you. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 2:09:06 AM #138 | Originally? No idea. I keep a doc in my computer with a bunch of reaction gifs and other funny nonsense. I decided that since certain people decided to be nonsensical tonight, I'd just break out some nonsense myself.  --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 2:05:42 AM #135 | |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/17/17 2:00:48 AM #131 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 25 |
| NBIceman 12/16/17 6:12:48 PM #38 | |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/16/17 2:15:26 AM #97 | Castle probably would be more over in NJPW than Cody is, though. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 24 |
| NBIceman 12/16/17 1:55:19 AM #63 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 24 |
| NBIceman 12/15/17 9:43:13 PM #30 | |
| Topic | Please recommend me albums |
| NBIceman 12/15/17 12:33:21 AM #15 | The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 23 |
| NBIceman 12/14/17 3:46:20 AM #88 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 23 |
| NBIceman 12/14/17 12:44:08 AM #56 | |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 23 |
| NBIceman 12/13/17 9:45:41 PM #26 | |
| Topic | What fictional characters put on the most exciting fight sequences? |
| NBIceman 12/13/17 3:27:10 PM #3 | First one that comes to mind is John Wick but if I thought about it more I'm sure there's plenty that are better. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | And the WINNER of the Great SHONEN JUMP Character Battle II is... |
| NBIceman 12/13/17 3:23:36 PM #15 | |
| Topic | Pokemon Gauntlet Tiebreaker: Incineroar vs. Solgaleo |
| NBIceman 12/13/17 2:03:22 PM #29 | |
| Topic | All-Purpose Rusev Day Topic 426: 12 Days of Rusev |
| NBIceman 12/12/17 7:31:04 PM #42 | PrivateBiscuit1 posted... So I've slowly been catching up on NXT and I just need to ask. Well, he's roughly .1% as talented as HBK. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 425: Am I fucking going over? |
| NBIceman 12/11/17 3:43:21 PM #483 | Strife2 posted... Chuck Taylor has a future in the WWE naming/branding department if he wants. I've been waiting for "No Gimmicks Needed" Steve the Samurai to show up in some indy ever since this list came out. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 425: Am I fucking going over? |
| NBIceman 12/11/17 3:42:07 PM #482 | Jakyl25 posted... Jericho isnt signed so making it a title match tips the winner I mean, the winner's pretty well tipped either way. Making it a title match at least throws in the outside potential for an angle that could extend into their next show in the States. Kenny's obviously winning either way, but the title would at least give it some doubt for some of the newer fans that might not be as familiar with the company. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
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