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No way can I resist being involved in this.

Prepare for my draft strategy to be a mirror of my wrestling drafts where half my choices are actually savvy and half are off-the-wall vanity picks.
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A slow, poor guy beats his meat and then gets into a fight with a black man.
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Thank you! How are you enjoying the Rusev storyline? I'm so glad I don't have to seek out porn to get my cuckolding fix anymore...
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No, you called everyone in "the other topic" AEW shills, in fact.
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Would it just absolutely rock your world if I told you that I have been extremely critical of AEW's TV product so far and haven't even watched the last two weeks?
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It really is sad how poor sweet innocent Vince McMahon and his progressive Saudi brethren have to be victimized by scum like Tony Khan when all they're trying to do is spread joy across the world.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

NBIceman posted...

Trent's name has been listed both with and without the question mark multiple times on official channels. I don't even think they know which is "correct."

It's Trent?

Now get your facts about a major figure in board 8 history right son

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It's always interesting to me to read opinions about Tales of the Abyss. I love how polarizing it is.
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"A two hour postgame is a new feature" is quite a take.
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Zigzagoon posted...

Again, I think people would be a lot less pissed if we were getting a game that was actually worth cutting 500 pokemon.

I don't know if anyone here has been keeping up with spoilers... but

There's literally nothing new or exciting that these games are adding. Post game is a 2 hour little thing and then you have the battle tower. That's It.

Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2... games that were made on the N64 had like one thousand times the amount of personality put into it with the animations.

Again. People would be a LOT less pissed if Sword and Shield had a ton of new interesting features along with great animations and graphics. Instead we get a slightly dialed up 3DS game that's removing more features than it's adding.

And this is from the biggest media franchise in the world.

But I guess we are all entitled.

I guess WE should be the ones making the games if we have a problem with it.

This is where I'm at too.

I don't care about catching 'em all. Never have. But a lot of people have been waiting a long time for a mainline Pokemon game on a mainline console, because we assumed it would make for a really expansive adventure with interesting features that just weren't feasible on handhelds.

And all of that grand potential has culminated in... giant Pokemon. If GameFreak was using all its development time on polish and presentation, it'd be one thing. But they're not. The graphics are mediocre and animations are absolutely horrendous. The excuses they've come up with are lazy at best and straight-up lies at worst.

SwSh's existence doesn't offend me and if you want to buy it, more power to you. I hope you enjoy it. But there's a lot more to the complaints than just being entitled and spoiled.
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Trent's name has been listed both with and without the question mark multiple times on official channels. I don't even think they know which is "correct."
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I'd like to vote SA because of Dani California, as that's one of my all-time favorite songs, but realistically there's way too much wasted space on that album.

Californication is the right answer.
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There are people not voting for Typhlosion and I demand they show themselves so we all know never to take them seriously again.
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#rahrah
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Lopen posted...

Or in other words we'll arbitrarily reduce the number of movies that fall into the "cinema" umbrella to win arguments until the word loses any sort of meaning that anyone should give a crap about to begin with

Was it worth it. What did it cost you?

grow up

Yep, there it is.

Nothing to see here, folks.
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This is just the new age version of people calling fans of comic books childish and stupid.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

The final third was what made Berseria not my favorite Tales game (though I still liked it a lot). Arthur's villainous plan felt really dumb. Took all the nuance out of the plot.

Yeah, it feels like they really lost their nerve by making Artorius's plan so overwhelmingly nonsensical that it no longer felt like the main party may have been in the wrong.
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Well, it took a literal hostage situation, but I'm glad people are finally jumping on the "stop supporting WWE" train that some of us have been on for three years.
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They scrapped a remake and made Fates.

Truly the worst timeline.
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Remember when ACH went on a Twitter rampage in which he went after Jay Lethal out of nowhere?

I don't, and it was like three days ago.
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Lapras
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I think this is unfair to her. She's overall a good writer, she just had no plan for the series going on and it showed once it came time to drop the curtain.

This is interesting, because I feel like she had the opposite problem. It seems like she had a very firm idea of the big story beats, particularly the closer the series got to its end, but wasn't really sure how to get there in a compelling way in a narrative context.
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Harry Potter really suffers in later entries because of JKR being a really lousy writer. As a worldbuilder, she's obviously incredible, but the woman can't right for shit.

I love the series because I grew up with it, but it certainly shows its warts as you get older and start to look back at more of the nuts and bolts.
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This oughta be fun.
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Undertale is an average to mediocre game.

Sans is a damn good character.

Megalovania bangs.

Kenny Omega is awesome.

Draven sucks.

These are the correct takes.
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LeonhartFour posted...

physical copy master race

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Off the top of my head, Koloktos from Skyward Sword.
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The real question is how did the crowd reaction to the main event draw come off in the building?
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I would like to thank Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter for vindicating me by going out there and having a match that was very compelling anytime Hayter was in control and very sloppy and bad every time Britt went on offense.

Please, Brandi, be my guest to continue sending Britt out there against as many names from my list as it takes to realize she's not good.
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How little self-awareness do you have to have to say such stupid things?
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Wouldn't it be funny if the Hawks beat the Seattle team before they beat Vegas?
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La-Mulana - Grand History

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Depends on what else is available in the 3rd- or 4th-gen hack that'll eventually be made with them included.
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Well, I'm late responding to all this...

Name: Something's Always Wrong
Origin: Toad the Wet Sprocket

I sure have a knack for accidentally nominating your favorites, don't I? Did it with Somewhere in Time last topic, too.

Name: The Twyncyn/Trembling Willows
Origin: Pure Reason Revolution

The entire Dark Third album is just bizarre as hell, in a good way. It's one of the most unique listening experiences I've ever found, and I've never come across anything even remotely like it. And this song's kind of a microcosm of that. The latter half of the song where it's just a continuous, perfect duet with ridiculously intricate lyrics isn't something I've ever seen duplicated.

Name: We Forgot We Were Human
Origin: Dirt Poor Robins

DPR legitimately gets better with every release. They're in the midst now of another 3-part story divided between EPs, and if it were all just released as one traditional album it would probably be my runaway album of the year.

If you dig the somewhat theatrical style of WFWWH, check out Welcome to Lady Hell and Maximilian Von Spee from the Raven Locks series. If you just want to hear them doing a more traditional style of straight-up good music, try out Scarecrows or But Never a Key from this new Dead Horse project.

Name: Applause of a Distant Crowd
Origin: VOLA

We Are Thin Air from the same album would be my other VOLA rec. It's probably the one closest in style to this song.

Name: The Mighty Echo
Origin: The Family Crest

You really nailed the overall feel of this song in the writeup. The band is generally very good at creating that whole "floating" sensation because their entire style feels very light and airy without sacrificing complexity and depth. They can be a little hit-or-miss with me because I'm big on lyrics and that can be pretty inconsistent in their writing, but when they land, they really land, and Mighty Echo is definitely their crowning achievement so far.

I had this pegged as my highest finisher from the very beginning. Fun to be proven right, and glad you enjoyed it!
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More evidence that all of Vince's success has nothing to with wrestling acumen and everything to do with luck and business acumen.
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I gotta say, I don't really feel bad for anyone who chooses to go to WWE and gets saddled with crap like that. You have to know the score by now, and with the amount of options in today's wrestling, you've really got no one to blame but yourself.
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LeonhartFour posted...

friendly reminder that Sylvain is just a poor man's Zelos

I don't know if I necessarily see that as that big of an insult. Zelos is pretty damn cool.
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I think double DQs/countouts can be okay with a character like Mox as long as you don't lean on it too heavily. It's not what I would do, but I don't think it's automatically bad.

If it was me, I think I would just have Mox beat him, but I think we've already pretty well established that AEW isn't booking anywhere close to how I would be.
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It's funny you say that, because to me the kick to the nuts is much more of a copout than a properly executed time limit draw.
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Moxley/PAC likely ends in a draw of some sort. Time limit, double DQ, something like that.
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I would 100% not put Darby over Hager if that's indeed the PPV match they're building to. The only Inner Circle members with a clean win on TV so far are LAX, and that was over enhancement talent.
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If you wanted to remind everyone Hager was a thing, have him come down to the ring alongside Jericho and let Jericho send him to the back. That would help put over the "cocky prick underestimating his opponent" side of the story.
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I mean, did he ever explicitly use the exact term "no-frills"? Maybe not, I don't know. But the way he spoke about it overall made it seem like that was the underlying intent.

I'm not saying they were straight up lying to us with what they claimed it would be (although I do think they were at least a liiiittle bit) - I'm partly to blame for extrapolating maybe a small part of this. But when they were so insistent on the idea of being an "alternative," I was definitely hoping for something that felt a little less familiar.
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And to clarify, I don't want them to ape NJPW either. NJPW even has a little too much BS spread throughout the card for me these days.

I wanted them to be something truly unique. I've been begging for a company to commit to W/L records forever. And that's led to awesome stuff already, like the PAC/Mox stuff tonight. But that kind of thing feels so secondary when there's all this other stuff on the show that just immediately makes me throw up my hands and check out.
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StealThisSheen posted...

Just out of curiosity, what were you hoping it'd be?

Something that doesn't feel married to the standard American TV wrestling tropes. There's way too much outside bullshit for me. I don't need pre-match beatdowns or interference. Why is it that Jericho can beat Kenny Omega and Adam Page clean but he needs Jake Hager's help to beat 50-year-old Dustin Rhodes and a guy with his hands taped behind his back? Why do we have to have a ref distraction and low blow as the finish to a throwaway 8-man tag on AEW Dark? It's such lazy booking.

Then you've got the other American wrestling tropes, like the big Cody vignette that played tonight to hype up his challenge against Jericho at a PPV that's still three weeks out when Darby Allin is challenging for the title later in the show. Or like the horrendous camera that cuts every few seconds, particularly when a move lands so they hide as much of the impact as possible, or that constantly shows random crowd members who are rarely if ever even reacting.

Tony Khan was selling this product as no-frills, no-bullshit, and it just hasn't lived up to that. I spent the entire Jericho vs Allin match not caring about anything because I already knew, based on only two weeks of television, that it wasn't going to end without Hager interference. And the whole time I'm just wondering why I'm doing that instead of catching up on one of the half-dozen promotions I'm woefully behind on that don't have all this extra eye-rolling stuff attached to it.
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I think this is the week of AEW that has convinced me that American TV wrestling is just not for me. AEW is not interested in being what I thought it was.

I'm thrilled beyond belief that people are enjoying it as much as they are, though. I guess that's actually the best outcome for me, since now I get the popular competition to WWE that I hoped for without feeling obligated to add more wrestling to my schedule to watch.
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