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| Topic | Mega Man 2 sucks |
| Lopen 12/10/19 4:47:26 PM #14 | Like big problem areas in MM2 The extended disappearing block sequence in Heat Man's Stage is way out of line on difficulty without Item 2, and you may not have Item 2 upon reaching it, which is garbage. Borderline impossible to clear without a lot of trial and error, even if you're really good at platforming, just by the nature of how the blocks work. The laser stuff in Quick Man's stage is way harder without the Flash Stopper, but again, you may not have that. This one may be even worse than Heat Man because the lasers just sorta come out instantly and explode you-- you at least have some time to digest the Heat Man stage. The Wily boss that can only be killed with Crash Bombs which needs your entire meter and doesn't have any meter refills outside the room. So if you screw it up once you get game over, and you can actually have an impossible to beat boss even without making any mistakes if you don't go in with a full meter. Never mind that if you don't know what to do at first you may screw it up even if you enter the room with a full meter. I don't feel MM3 really has anything like any of these. If it has annoying stuff that depends on having a certain Rush Jet or whatever p sure that's all in Wily's Castle where you'll have everything at least. I guess it's long but whatever. In a first playthrough type environment I'd call MM3 way less jerky than MM2. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | saw a wild ulti today |
| Lopen 12/10/19 4:20:24 PM #70 | reddit is sort of designed in a way that helps facilitate burying people so I feel like people would think Ulti was put under the earth more effectively there even if the burns were actually pretty bad, especially to people who don't frequent reddit --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Mega Man 2 sucks |
| Lopen 12/10/19 4:15:23 PM #9 | MM3 is more difficult but I feel it's not in a frustrating way. MM2 has more stuff where if you don't know what's going on you just get blown away due to not knowing what the gimmick is and being punished with instant death or being hard locked. MM3 has stuff that is just tricky looking at it, but is more obvious about why it's tricky and can more plausibly be figured out on a first playthrough without being punished with lost lives. Maybe I'm just forgetting unfair sequences from MM3 though. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Mega Man 2 sucks |
| Lopen 12/10/19 2:53:09 PM #6 | I think MM2 is romanticized a bit. It's an enjoyable game and one of the better MM games due to what it does well like the difficulty, mostly well designed levels, iconic fun to use weapons, great soundtrack, but has some obnoxious stuff that is actually poor design that a lot of people give a pass to like dumb disappearing block platforming, and energy issues most notable in the crash man boss-- I'd imagine a lot of that is due to being raised in an era where word of mouth between friends gave you solutions to a lot of this, or guides were abundant. It's also slower than later MM games due to lack of a slide or dash. I'll take MM3 and MM5 over it every time. 9 and 10 (and maybe 11, haven't played) should probably be considered better too though it's hard to really take them with the same mindset as they're from completely different times. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 2 |
| Lopen 12/10/19 11:53:07 AM #139 | Thoughts on the project thus far The pitch idea was great fun The fight idea seemed tacked on and meaningless Kinda sucked that we couldn't pick up free agents for what this was-- no matter how many rewrites you give a character's role I think some people just see a dude's inclusion in a team as a red flag and will ding you for it every time and if no one is interested in taking your guy then you sort of just eat that penalty Were we ever to do something similar I'd prefer a slightly more in depth pitch voting and pitch formulation. I like the idea of pitch categories to vote on as well as voting on strength of pitch. Things like marketability, overall team strength, how much the team composition leads itself to diversity in plots, etc. Little things that contribute to a pitch but don't necessarily dictate which pitch you personally like more. I also like the idea of maybe giving roles to people in your team-- leader, major (central to the theme), minor (basically team filler-- may have character arcs for them sometimes but not necessarily going to be a big deal in most issues), supporting character (a character who is necessary to the plot and/or team formation but isn't necessarily considered a central team member for battles and such), etc. This would allow you to give some more depth to your team structure without bogging your pitch down with it. For instance if you had a benefactor that funded the team, they might be listed as a supporting character. It also lets you make your team artificially smaller by relegating people you have no particular vision for to minor/supporting roles. I dunno. Not sure exactly how to structure all this and I'm not sure you even ever want to do it again but yeah just sorta rambling. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 2 |
| Lopen 12/10/19 11:39:49 AM #138 | So is this dead or what? Honestly you could probably just have us do +8, +7, +6, +5 etc style votes with 10v10 matches and finalized pitches if you just wanna give this a sense of resolution without dragging it through 4 more topic sets. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/09/19 3:47:43 PM #256 | I would say Syxx was pretty soundly on the third relevant tier, below Hogan, Hall, Nash, Bischoff, and I guess Giant when he was in the group, but still comfortably above the nWo B-Team guys of Buff, Norton, Vincent, Horace, etc. He was on the level of your Curt Hennigs and Scott Steiners and Randy Savages in terms of how important he was, which is fairly impressive. I mean he had a feud with Ric Flair for a few months and multiple title runs that should count for something --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/09/19 1:31:15 PM #250 | I never forget dimension travelling nWo X-Pac from Tom's TEW diary in my TEW diary, so of course Tom is a man of class who does not forget him. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/09/19 12:56:55 PM #246 | I'd probably put Waltman in before any of those before Bischoff or maybe Bagwell/Norton tbh Bagwell and Norton were fairly early adds, but were minor b-teamers Konnan actually came a decent amount later and I associate him with the wolfpac more than anything. Probably had the same amount of time served as Syxx in a time where the nWo wasn't as hot. Steiner came even later when the nWo was cooler still-- I guess he was in nWo 2000 but no one wants to remember that The Giant was in and out of the faction too often I dunno why Syxx in the nWo is forgotten but yeah when nWo was a big deal he was there --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/09/19 12:17:42 PM #239 | Syxx was the 6th member of the nWo and was in it from 1996 through when he left WCW in late 1997. He was also in the nWo during their WWE revival in like 2002 or whenever it was. I definitely associate him with the nWo though Bischoff would be a better inclusion, for sure. Probably if Bischoff actually had done anything as the consultant for Smackdown he was drawn in for it, I imagine. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | 1006-verse: There's always next TEW |
| Lopen 12/09/19 11:37:04 AM #288 | If Quetzalcoatl looked like Saki Akai I would actually be happy to have drawn her. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Topic 2 |
| Lopen 12/08/19 11:41:00 AM #128 | If it makes you feel better I didn't send a roster with the understanding that you'd reuse my last sent one based on previous times --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | 26 Year Later... Was Eight Rakes Too Many? |
| Lopen 12/05/19 10:48:25 AM #10 | RPGlord95 posted... Great scene. Sadly led to Family Guy using the same style of joke constantly Exactly The rakes bit was great but Family Guy proves time and time again you can overdo this kinda thing Feel like if I'd watch it again it'd be spoiled for me --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | When creating a custom character for games, do you generally... (Question 2) |
| Lopen 12/04/19 4:41:56 PM #19 | I can immerse myself in a character without it being me. That's what role-playing means. Hell when I make a character I try to make a consistent character that isn't me in the dialogue choices and crap which I feel helps with immersion not hurts, since me being in this world setting makes a lot less sense than a random fantasy character that I made up that fits the setting being there. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 5:50:34 PM #132 | I'm lamenting Bray's "supernatural elements" because they alter his power level significantly more than Kane and Undertaker's ever have, and demands more explanation than theirs have, because they came in with a base level of credibility which was higher than Bray's ever was, never fell as low on credibility as Bray has, and have always had that as an overarching element to their characters, whereas Bray did not except at a token level at best. Again it has nothing to do with the supernatural in and of itself, it has completely to do with internal character and booking consistency. Bigger jumps in gimmicks and card placements require better explanations. To me, that is just an obvious fact of how writing in general works, not even WWE specific. I'm only repeating myself because you're trying to make the argument about something it's not, because you want to paint my thought process as inconsistent. I'm sorry if you can't understand it, but that doesn't mean it's inconsistent. It's not. There's a reason I keep dragging the argument to Jinder and Tensai and you keep dragging it to Undertaker and Kane. It's because I'm not arguing what you think I am, and I don't know why you keep insisting it has to be about the supernatural part. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 5:41:55 PM #130 | Bigger jumps to levels not previously seen have higher standards for me to accept-- that's the gist of it. I also never said Kane and Undertaker were "completely logical and fine" I said they were easier to accept because they were closer to in line with their established power levels, were less of a jump in general, and got slightly better explanation. I said me disliking The Fiend has nothing at all to do with him being Supernatural and as such he shouldn't be lumped in with them. Like your argument is basically the equivalent of saying I can't say JBL's world title reign was easier to accept as something that happened than Jinder Mahal's because they were both punching above their weight class for their reigns. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 5:30:30 PM #126 | Here's the main difference between Kane and Bray The Fiend at his strongest took like 45 Curb Stomps, getting thrown through explosives, hit with a sledgehammer, chairs, and a bajillion other objects, and completely no sold it all to boot. Kane at his strongest kicked out of two Tombstones. Impressive, but nothing a high card guy like Roman Reigns hasn't done. Bray Wyatt at his weakest was a lower midcarder who would go on losing streaks for months Kane at his weakest was I guess Corporate Kane, a dude who was still an upper midcarder in spite of not having supernatural elements, entirely off of being big more or less. Just look at their career win/loss records should tell you these are completely different beasts in terms of overall credibility, with Bray's Win rate being about 30% and Kane's being about 50%. I mean they're similar, but only at a superficial "I want to win an argument" level. Any attention to the details will tell you that Fiend is way more of a jump than Kane ever had. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 5:20:23 PM #124 | Was a pretty minor footnote in a bad feud so I don't know. Maybe that was the implication. It was sold so poorly as a relevant detail, and never actually caused Bray to win or even perform significantly better in a match, that I wouldn't count it myself. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 5:14:40 PM #119 | Bray Wyatt has not had supernatural possession that changes his strength before, and he's an over 5 years established character, so we need good explanation as to why it does. Like if his gimmick was always that he was a spirit channel and his strength would change from month to month based on the strength of the spirit flowing through his vessel or whatever that's fine but we've never been told that. We've had Bray ramble about vessels but yeah it's never been anything substantive. Again it's just a different standard for establishing a character vs changing a character. I hold the latter to a much higher standard than the former. That being said Kane and Undertaker at their most stupid with throwing fire and lightning and crap were a bit much too. But at least that stayed out of the matches, generally. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 5:06:48 PM #114 | Kane and Undertaker have never really been a joke though. This is at best hyperbole, at worst outright fabrication, in order to make your point stronger. Like yes Kane has has his ups and downs over his career, but I would say at worst he has been a stronger midcarder than Bray typically is, and at his best he has been significantly weaker than The Fiend. But you know what? This is true of every wrestler in the WWE. They all have ups and downs. It's all about thresholds and ranges. The further you jump up or fall, the more detailed an explanation you need. I would say Bray vs Fiend is the biggest jump in power we've ever seen in WWE, over even Jinder, by a large margin --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 4:56:12 PM #112 | I mean first of all Kane and Taker have never completely no sold the amount of crap The Fiend has in just like 2 or 3 matches/ Second of all Kane and Taker started at the level and went down and back up as they ebbed and flowed. It's easier to accept they can return to that power level because you've seen it before. Again you can keep false equivalence going because "hee hee ho ho" but they're pretty different situations. Fiend really is more of a Jinder situation than a Kane or Taker situation. It's just instead of jobber -> ME we have midcarder -> super ME. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 4:41:51 PM #109 | HashtagSEP posted... So to me personally, I could see somebody buying into all three, or somebody going "No, this is stupid" to all three, but it's weird to me to accept "immortal" and "flame conjuror" but not "possession." I told you the difference multiple times If Bray always had this aspect to his character it would be fine. The ability to tap into some sort of nigh invincibility at random from time to time, rather than it just randomly surfacing over 5 years into his career. If you just make it surface, a damn good explanation is necessary, which we have not received. Kane and Undertaker, that's how they've always been, so you kinda just accept that this is what the established character is. Like if say I don't know TNA had Willow, Jeff Hardy's alternate identity, able to tank ungodly amounts of punishment or able to throw lightning when Jeff Hardy had never shown that ability, I would shit on it too. Like you can refuse to accept there should be a difference but I'm telling you the difference I see, and it's a significant one. Changing an existing character demands more detail in the writing than introducing one. And that's true of anything, from the supernatural type characters to the normal ones. It's the same reason you typically would expect a reason for someone to turn someone heel, but if they debut as one you don't care as much. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 4:13:53 PM #104 | I guess the meat is I accept supernatural stuff in angles but if it makes them way stronger in the ring that just feels like a copout to push a guy that isn't on that level unless it's fleshed out well. Even a stupid supernatural explanation of why Fiend is so much stronger would probably be fine, but we don't have one. More elaboration on why the Fiend is stronger than Bray Wyatt is needed for coherence. "He's not Bray Wyatt" is not enough explanation for me. That just explains why his mannerisms would be different. Compared to Mick Foley's alter egos which imo were actually done well, they had fairly consistent power levels and were just sliding bars of sadism vs masochism vs neither, which had varying efficacy depending on what was most effective vs his opponent. And to be fair I think The Demon King Finn Balor is super dumb too, so I'm at least consistent in that regard! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 3: Gold Division |
| Lopen 12/03/19 3:58:36 PM #13 | Pitch Johnbobb banananor Wicklebee IhatethisCPU Nothing really to say about these pitches that hasn't already been said, as they haven't changed much from last week aside from Martin's which I feel has become less intriguing with this attempt to summarize it. It's gone from a "wow this could be funny to watch implode" to a simple "why are they teaming." I'd honestly probably lean into the team imploding and try to build an appealing story from that instead. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 3: Blue Division |
| Lopen 12/03/19 3:49:41 PM #13 | Pitches: Iceman Eddv Snake Mostly by default Mana and Shad are far too barebones for me to get much a feel of anything they're doing beyond teams and they're against good coherent pitches. Meanwhile I can no longer follow Scare's pitch, though I think I liked Iceman's regardless. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 3:33:45 PM #101 | I'm not saying they're not saying they're alternate personalities. That much is obvious. I'm saying you're fleshing it out a lot more than they are running with the premise that they're ripping off Split. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 3:29:03 PM #99 | HashtagSEP posted... I just don't think the supernatural stuff is all that much of an inconsistency if you're already willing to accept Undertaker and Kane Because it's not actually about it being supernatural at all, for me at least, which has been my whole point. Not saying no one has that problem, but I feel like among people who dislike it, it being supernatural probably isn't the issue for the majority of them because otherwise why are you watching WWE in the first place. Like if you're going to tell that split story that's fine but man WWE hasn't really done that at all and that's a lot of hoops to jump through to give the character the benefit of a doubt I think. At that point you're practically writing the story for them (as someone who has watched inconsistently, no less-- trust me those gaps you're filling in were not in the episodes you missed) because that's absolutely not what they've given us. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 3:09:59 PM #92 | I guess I have less of a problem accepting Kane gradually declining to weaker because that happens with literally everyone on the roster-- it's consistently inconsistent with the rest of the roster. Random power spikes are a lot more rare, and usually they're just a return to form rather than reaching a level that they'd never previously reached. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 2:57:57 PM #87 | HashtagSEP posted... I mean actually it sounds exactly like Split when you describe it that way, since Kevin was a loser and only developed all of the other personalities as defense mechanisms over his life, eventually resulting in the last personality (The Beast) being supernatural, and taking hold when he was most susceptible to being overcome by the other personalities. I wasn't aware Bray Wyatt had a lifetime of multiple personalities being developed on WWE programming In fact I'm pretty sure he's only ever had one alternate personality and it was the super overpowered one Wait is Husky Harris a multiple personality too --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 2:54:46 PM #86 | I'm not saying Bray Wyatt has never had supernatural elements before the Fiend. I'm saying the Fiend is grossly inconsistent with his established power levels and has never been hinted at before. Anyway if you don't have a problem with the gimmick that's fine-- I'm just explaining at least part of the reason as to why some people do, even if we are a minority among WWE viewers at the moment. I mean there may also be some that say "all supernatural stuff bad" but I feel like those are an even smaller minority because frankly if you never wanted any of that you wouldn't be watching WWE to begin with because that kinda stuff has existed there in gratuity since the 80s. And now that I think of it Jinder Mahal was brought up and he probably is a better analog than Tensai in a lot of ways. Dude who was established gets a freaking huge power spike for not much reason at all. Main difference is Bray Wyatt has a lot more talent. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 2:09:15 PM #83 | TheRock1525 posted... He didn't have any back hair at the time! He shaved off the sentient back hair which gave him the ability to speak English as A-Train See this is why no one understood the storyline. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 2:08:29 PM #82 | The difference is Undertaker and Kane were consistently supernatural since debut. If anything they're more like the multiple personality thing you're describing because Corporate Kane and American Badass Undertaker were slightly less credible than the dark counterparts (but the gulf was way less than with Bray vs Fiend). Bray Wyatt was a loser and then they needed to give him an excuse to win and so they made a dumb mask thing. It's not like Split. It's like Split if The Beast doesn't debut until Glass because they wanted to arbitrarily buff him so he could credibly fight Bruce Willis. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 2:00:12 PM #77 | Sentient back hair gave him the ability to speak extra languages was the implication --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | They better not put Dante in smash bros |
| Lopen 12/03/19 1:46:42 PM #3 | Close. I want Kirby with a Dante hat teamed up with Dante to beat everyone. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 1:44:07 PM #74 | I think Tensai was easily fixed by just acknowledging hey it's the same guy but he got better. That being said the fact that it was A-Train was not really outright denied as much as hand waved. He was acknowledged as "a guy who used to work here and went to Japan" with the A-Train/Albert name not ever being acknowledged But the point is that the lack of real reason given for how he transformed from A-Train to Tensai was the main problem with the character more than anything. Fiend has the same problem-- you can say there are things that are "implied" but that's giving an awful lot of slack to WWE's storytelling that it frankly hasn't earned. Figure the current WWE fanbase just has a lot of Bray Wyatt sympathizers is the main reason there's significantly less backlash on the Fiend than Tensai-- people who'll take any dumbass explanation or lack thereof as long as it means Bray is finally getting pushed. Anyway Tensai tangent aside the main point is it's not like Undertaker or Kane at all. And I stand by that. Nothing wrong with a supernatural gimmick-- the problem is it's a supernatural gimmick that spawns from a midcarder who was nowhere near that power level. Fake Diesel who puts on a Kane mask, is still acknowledged as Diesel, but becomes super powerful as Kane, would be the Kane version. I'm not sure there is an Undertaker version because he was always fairly consistent-- even as American Badass he was a tough sob. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 1:24:21 PM #70 | Tensai was not Jindered. Jinder was a loser that inexplicably became a winner. Tensai was a debut that ascended really fast, that's all. The issue was that he was treated as a different entity from A-Train, right down to not speaking English, which was impossible to believe because people knew he could speak English. It's basically the same thing as The Fiend. I'm not saying people can't buy The Fiend as a world champion-- I'm saying that the people who think it's stupid as hell can't buy him as a dude who can tank hand grenades with no reason given. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 1:18:21 PM #67 | Trying to compare Fiend to Undertaker or Kane (Mankind isn't really even similar at all) is kinda missing the core issue with the character, because the issue isn't really the supernatural element or whatever. It's the internal inconsistency. Bray Wyatt was frankly kind of a goober. Meanwhile The Fiend can take 48 finishers and no sell them all. The only real explanation given is that Bray Wyatt puts a mask on now. It'd be like if Kane was acknowledged as Fake Diesel with a mask on rather than a complete repackage. It's kinda like why people hated on Lord Tensai but like, way worse, because at least Tensai was actually gone from WWE for like 10 years and in theory could have gotten better, and his power levels didn't go from "midcarder" to "unkillable death machine." --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/03/19 12:05:56 PM #58 | If only Glacier would come to WWE his blue lights would cancel the red lights --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | When creating a custom character for games, do you generally... (Question 2) |
| Lopen 12/02/19 6:21:52 PM #4 | Some combination of the last two options, as I do repeat intentionally down to the name for certain compatible settings and such, but if I can't make something close I won't repeat so it tends to be more the last option (which I voted for) --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/02/19 5:18:10 PM #47 | Yeah I feel like AEW has laid groundwork for a lot of interesting storylines but hasn't actually committed to any of them yet and is largely sustaining off of random matches and the Inner Circle pissing people off. Random good matches but still random matches. Like Pac vs Moxley had a good setup for a fun feud and I feel like they ruined the main draw of it (Pac's record being unblemished except by Moxley) by having Omega just beat Pac on a no build match on Dynamite. Janela vs Kenny Omega could have been a good filler feud that led to something but was just a good match followed by a good match with Janela randomly feuding with the that goth dude over a staple gun for no reason. The women's division was building up Shiida as a contender vs Riho but then has her lose in a tag match. I also couldn't really tell you any feuds currently going other than Cody vs three randos. And I guess Lucha Bros vs Best Friends? I don't know. Like I think the Jericho segment with Virgil to start the show was funny but I feel like when you only have 2 hours of programming a week and try to give good matches with a lot of your time, you really need to pick the purpose of your interview segments very carefully, and book very carefully. AEW segments feel a lot like output from a TEW autobooker. In some ways that's good because it makes the shows feel less formulaic but I do need a bit more direction than what they've been doing since the PPV. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/02/19 4:45:35 PM #39 | TheRock1525 posted... getting beat up by some guys working for a lady in a bunny mask wasn't a great decision? Seriously what even was that. Why did Excalibur even know their names (the audience even chanted "who are you?" for a bit when the first guy attacked) I can't even be too surprised that NXT won convincingly this week because it was definitely the weakest episode of AEW by a lot. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/02/19 4:41:39 PM #35 | Also you could go another way Cody goes heel at some point by being upset he can't challenge for the title, creates his own title which in some ways has more prestige than the real title because Cody is a big name. Real title holder can then challenge him title vs title to get rid of his dumb fake title. You can also make him focus on tag/trios in the meantime to give those divisions some more weight. I dunno I think there are a lot of potential ways out of it that make for some good storytelling if they go for it, even ignoring the obvious "why can't he just fight in feuds that don't involve titles" solution. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| Lopen 12/02/19 4:37:36 PM #33 | TheRock1525 posted... I got to believe the way they're going to get out of it is say that Cody can't challenge for a title but someone can challenge Cody and put the title on the line. This is what I was expecting as their out. And to me that's fine and doesn't undermine the stip at all. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Thoughts on the anti rallying measures of 2018? |
| Lopen 12/02/19 3:13:14 PM #24 | I don't want no rallies I just want smaller rallies (alternatively ones that don't involve vote stuffing over Allen's amateur hour protection but that's neither here nor there) Once you're putting up like 60% on MMX and Ryu it's way more degenerate than anything Link puts up and the contest is way further down the path of dead and buried than it is with Link. Like Starcraft in 2004 was super exciting. Hell L-Block in 2007 was exciting too, even if it did ultimately end up winning. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Thoughts on the anti rallying measures of 2018? |
| Lopen 12/02/19 2:59:33 PM #21 | Well first of all you're the one who said it was 'less boring.' Now that someone has told you it is just as or more predictable you're saying it's the same? Second of all Link puts up less dominant percentages and totals than rallies so you can at least hope something interesting will come out of it. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | I accidentally bought a game I already have... In the spirit of Christmas... |
| Lopen 12/02/19 12:06:44 PM #23 | I don't WANT to do it but I don't mind doing it. As I understand it you need a roll bot of some sort on Discord to do one and I'm not gonna put the work in for putting one on the b8 Discord but if the b8 Discord already has one then I'll do it there I'm also fine with just random.orging but I imagine people don't trust me anymore than they do you so that doesn't solve anything. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | I accidentally bought a game I already have... In the spirit of Christmas... |
| Lopen 12/02/19 11:33:54 AM #21 | It's not an issue. Just let me know when I need to roll something or other I guess. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | I accidentally bought a game I already have... In the spirit of Christmas... |
| Lopen 11/30/19 7:00:57 PM #14 | If Discord can roll why does it need to be a neutral entity. Now if you want me to just honor code a roll I can do that right now cause I don't care who gets whatever you're offering here --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | X-Men Draft Round 2: Gold Division |
| Lopen 11/27/19 9:59:04 AM #39 | Pitch DeathChicken vs. Johnbobb - Most improved in every regard, DC's got a decent name and direction now and I could see having some interest. Johnbobb's meanwhile is maybe too simple to really draw me in with the roster it has-- at that point it's mostly character driven amd those characters don't speak to me a lot. DC's also wins the name game now, which is enough to cleanly put it over. IhatethisCPU vs. redrocket - rocket's still has the same problems of it being an x-23 solo title where I'm not sure why everyone is going, and I still like CPU's pitch though the miniseries copout has to go. ChichiriMuyo vs. MartinFF7 - chichiri's pitch still just reads like an excuse for an assortment of strong mutants to team up more than any sort of coherent pitch. There are invaders and a team is assembled by Xavier-- okay but why this team? Martin's is still kinda trainwrecky but I dunno, has a cool name and is so weird I'd wanna see where it goes more than a phoned in plot about an invasion. banananor vs. Wicklebee - banananor improves the pitch but Wickle remains my favorite in the group --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 491: Seth Rollins Appreciation Topic |
| Lopen 11/26/19 6:53:54 PM #459 | Keith Lee is better than Ciampa so he def got it right. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
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