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| Topic | Here's 7 hours of dic |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/24/22 12:16:42 PM #3 | Was this just bait to catch me? Because it worked. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Floridians... Are you ready for the Hurricane? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/24/22 1:59:39 AM #5 | https://youtu.be/6yP1tcy9a10?t=66 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Man I hate MTX so damn much. |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/24/22 1:59:08 AM #15 | LinkPizza posted... Personally, I dont really see a reason to end MTX. Depending on the game, they arent needed, and can have fun things (again, depending on the game) I dont see an issue if people want to buy stuff As long as it isnt needed or used to PVP, I think its fine Except they can utterly ruin games. Even in single-player (see also, Shadow of War). If microtransactions influence gameplay mechanics in any way, they're generally 100% bullshit. Whether it's pay to win (in which case the devs will likely artificially spike difficulty to drive purchases) or pay to avoid grind (in which case the devs have motivation to make their game grindy as fuck and boring as hell) or even just including things like real money auction houses (at which point the devs have a motivation to utterly break item drop rates), the mere existence of microtransactions tends to result in shittier games that you would have otherwise had without them. They are absolute fucking cancer on the industry as a whole. About the only justifiable microtransactions are cosmetic only (with no effect on gameplay whatsoever)... but there are reasons why even those can be immortal as fuck and psychologically manipulative as well (see also Fortnite), especially if they exploit gambling mechanics and FOMO/addictive behaviors (see also Overwatch). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | betrayal |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/24/22 1:55:20 AM #9 | KodyKeir posted... Dontreplytome, fly by night alt, lasted a couple of hours until it was nuked. Yeah, but who were they before that? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 4 day work week |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 6:19:43 PM #26 | Entity13 posted... Then I hope the generations Z and after have the sense to cut us off who've lost our own senses before we cycle things back into a situation beneath even the Great Mighty Poo. Let's be honest, when Generation Z is in charge of everything, they're mostly just going to be fighting over water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d605rM0U3x0 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | UK: "we call it autumn |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 6:15:22 PM #23 | Vampire_Chicken posted... We invented the word all right, but it was never popular in everyday usage. It was popular for 80 fucking years. It wasn't really until the 1960s that there was major blowback on calling it soccer in England. At which point the English started trying to convince everyone else to exclusively call it football only and not soccer, which has mostly led to them getting pissed off when the US doesn't want to play along. And the US never really saw the point of changing it because we'd already been calling it soccer (just like everyone else) for decades at that point, and already had our own version of football. So we preferred the alternate name because it cut down on confusion (and we never really gave much of a shit about soccer in the first place). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football#Reaction_against_soccer It's only really become an issue in the last 20 years or so, because with the growth of the Internet everyone always wants to throw childish tantrums about it in spite of barely having any idea what the hell they're talking about. And Brits and Europeans always seem to get pissy about the fact that someone, somewhere in the world still calls Association Football "soccer". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | UK: "we call it autumn |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 5:27:20 PM #21 | Vampire_Chicken posted... Um, point of order: almost all of us call it "football". I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times in my life that I've heard anyone in dear old Britland call it "soccer". Might want to reread what I wrote there and think about it for a bit. Maybe even look up the etymology of the word and see where it actually came from (hint: it wasn't the US). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 4 day work week |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 2:03:13 PM #24 | Entity13 posted... Most of us, now, are already screwed over by being short-staffed, and the vast majority of short-staffing being due to insufficient pay, bad hours, and undue stress from the worst of the worst people being our customers each and every day (and even worse still on Wednesdays). I'm not disputing any of that. I was just pointing out that, even if everyone only worked a 4-day week, someone is still going to have to work Wednesdays, so it's still going to be a shit day for someone. Though I suppose you could do alternating work cycles, where some employees work 4 days a week (but get Wednesdays off), while some people work 3 days a week (and work the remaining days, including Wednesday). That way people working on the most stressful day would be balanced out by working less time overall. Revelation34 posted... Why would a god need to rest? https://youtu.be/QkT1-N0VqUc?t=26 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | sunny wasn't being very zen |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 10:32:44 AM #46 | Revelation34 posted... I'm not going to say who I think it is since they're hated for no reason. CaptBuzzKiII posted... no one here is disliked for no reason. There is always a reason. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 4 day work week |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 10:29:55 AM #11 | Entity13 posted... Gods, I'd like a three-day weekend including Wednesday, just to get away from the Wednesday crowds at my job The problem is, presumably everyone else at your job feels the same way. So short of closing entirely, someone at your job is still getting screwed over. And if you just closed, all you'd really do is drive that business to other days anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Dear god was reading this cathartic. Take notes gamefaqs. |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/23/22 2:27:53 AM #20 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... The person writing that sounds like the problem. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You're hungry and don't wanna cook, so you order pizza. Where do you order from? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/22/22 9:06:38 PM #4 | MannSaurus posted... Do you go with major franchise like Domino's or Papa Johns? Or do you get from a local mom and pop shop owned by residents who moved to your state from New York? I live in New Jersey, so we have plenty of Italian-Americans of our own running pizzerias and Italian restaurants. I pretty much refuse to eat "fast food" pizza. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | are you based and redpilled or woke and bluepilled? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/22/22 9:05:11 PM #2 | Too old and having too much self-worth to identify as either. Or to whine about it on Twitter. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | UK: "we call it autumn |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/22/22 8:34:50 PM #19 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... Are you talking about football? ParanoidObsessive posted... Yes, we all get it, you're belligerently European. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It's the greatest time of the year |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/22/22 7:39:17 PM #15 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... Labour Day is the remembrance of the Haymarket Affair. Yes, we all get it, you're belligerently European. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | UK: "we call it autumn |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/22/22 7:37:08 PM #17 | rexcrk posted... from the French word autompne and later, the Latin autumnus I'm from the US, and I've always called it both Fall and Autumn more or less interchangeably. Except when trying to do a pun involving multiple definitions of the word "fall" in a context that makes me seem clever. The real question is, if the season is Autumn vis-a-vis the Autumnal Equinox, why is the season of the Vernal Equinox "Spring"? English screws that one up as well. hera posted... both autumn and fall originate from britain They're also the ones who named their favorite sport "soccer", but that hasn't stopped them from whining about it for the last 100 years. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | sunny wasn't being very zen |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/22/22 7:20:53 PM #16 | Jen0125 posted... He's probably feeling extra mad since I sent his wife screenshots of the shit he posts to me on here. Silly Jen, he doesn't actually have a wife. You just sent your screenshots to the sock puppet account he uses to convince people (and himself) that he has a wife so he doesn't cry himself to sleep at night. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | One thing I don't think I could ever accept is that |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/17/22 5:34:45 AM #12 | Metalsonic66 posted... Maple syrup tastes better cold Depends on what you want from your syrup. Cold literally makes sweet things taste less sweet, and heat makes them taste sweeter. There's a reason why some fancier restaurants will heat up maple syrup for you if they serve it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 1/5th of congress found insider trading (or whatever) |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/17/22 4:26:21 AM #9 | Straughan posted... We are a joke. If by "we" you mean "humans", then I agree. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | my dentists name is |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/15/22 10:40:56 PM #18 | There's a dermatologist near me named Santiago Centurion. The first time I heard the name, I was like "Bullshit, there's no way that's real." But it is. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you went on a cruise, what kind of room would you get? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/15/22 10:39:04 PM #6 | The room that is back on shore. I'd never go on a cruise. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | WotC Files An Injunction Against 'TSR LLC' To "Prevent Harm To Brand" |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/15/22 4:13:49 PM #15 | Gaawa_chan posted... Hahahaha, of course. Didn't Gygax tihnk women's brains made them incapable of playing DnD or something like that? What a bunch of morons. Considering his second playtester for the game was his daughter he probably didn't think that at all, and you're probably kind of being a bit of an asshole just making shit up. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What's happening in Illinois? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/15/22 4:11:29 PM #10 | Straughan posted... They're whining about it on tiktok as if it's gonna be "The Purge" The world would probably be a much better place if we could just purge most of the people on TikTok. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | We're you a Belieber? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/15/22 4:07:31 PM #21 | Can't vote. Need an option for indifference that doesn't assume ignorance. I knew who he was and was aware of his popularity but didn't really care. And honestly, I relate more to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQUnxNEDqk --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Whatever happened to webcomics? When did they die? What killed them? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/14/22 4:42:11 AM #55 | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... You just said you weren't around for what I saw. I wasn't the one who made it so webcomics stopped appearing where they used to. What we've established is that times HAVE changed, it's just you weren't around for "times." Except no, the opposite of that. In other words, the "times" weren't what you thought they were even when you thought they were. And now, it's not the "times" that have changed, only your perception of them. So webcomics aren't dead, and the only thing that has really changed is you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It's hard to date at Disney |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/13/22 6:14:21 AM #9 | THEGODDAMNBATMA posted... Don't know anyone else Develop hobbies that allow you to get out and meet people outside of work. Or if you're just really bothered by the idea of being single and can't meet people any other way, just try out a dating app. It's essentially becoming the new standard in the smart phone-driven world of the future anyway. Yellow posted... Same issue tbh, I'm 28 and reaching that point where hitting on 18 year olds is gross. Just wait another 10-15 years or so, then go through your midlife crisis and it'll probably seem way more acceptable to you. Also, you'll get to invest in a cool sports car. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which religion from a work of fiction do you find most interesting? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/13/22 6:07:42 AM #13 | Here's two more: The Incarnations of Immortality series. All of the primal fundamental forces of the universe - Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good - are actually jobs that are held by ordinary humans who are granted incredible powers (and functional immortality) to fulfill their purposes. And the universe is basically broken and unfair because the role of God is filled by a total narcissist who has spent the last 2000+ years staring at his own perfection in a mirror. Empire of the East/The Books of Swords series. A doomday weapon designed to prevent nuclear war unravels the basic laws of physics and makes technology (including nuclear weapons) impossible, and essentially floods the world with magic. Existing nuclear bombs turn into literal demons. There are no gods, but human belief literally creates them. The new gods basically act like people expect gods to act, doing things gods should probably do, and ultimately doom themselves by creating powerful weapons that cause humans to stop caring about the gods (and making them capable of killing the gods). And then all the remaining gods die because humans stop believing in them. Yellow posted... Unironically I'm a huge fan of modern Christianity lore. No other religion goes that hard on the magic unrelenting torture dimension. Other stories say "there's a bad place that sucks and ye get what you deserve", but only Christianity says there's an entire dimension that has reworked the laws of physics to be as tormenting as possible. To be fair, Christianity itself kind of doesn't do that. For most of Christianity, the only real torment of Hell was the fact that everyone there is effectively removed from God's grace, which in and of itself is the worst torment any being can ever suffer. The idea of Hell being eternal fires and torture sort of got tacked on as various Church leaders decided the idea of God not caring about you being the ultimate doom felt too esoteric for stupid peasants to understand, so they had to come up with new ways to convey to the dumb idiots just how bad it was. And then the Hell symbolism and idea of ironic tortures took a HUGE boost from Dante's Inferno, which was really just Dante's way of writing mean fanfiction about people he didn't like (because he wrote about them all getting tortured in Hell, ha ha fuck those guys). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which religion from a work of fiction do you find most interesting? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/13/22 5:44:48 AM #11 | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. God is powerless, the prophesied savior is an asshole (and a leper), the closest thing to angels are narcissistic shitbags, and the Devil is basically the personification of self-loathing. And the world is saved by laughter. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | can you remember the Toonami lineup off the top of your head? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/13/22 5:38:19 AM #5 | No, because I never watched it. It's also why I had zero nostalgia for it after it went away, and didn't really care when it came back. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Whatever happened to webcomics? When did they die? What killed them? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/12/22 12:34:56 PM #34 | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... But you people who claim webcomics aren't dead only say so because you go out and see them. But the converse of that is that you only think they're dead because you don't go out and see them. So it's still on you. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... You should know it wasn't like that before. You know that back in the late 2000s even if you didn't deliberately go out and read a comic where it came from, you saw it posted in forums and stuff. Except I never really experienced what you're describing even then. I can honestly say I almost never saw people post webcomics anywhere at any point in the last 20+ years. I almost only ever found them when people I knew said "X is good, you should read it", or by following ad links or recommendations from comics I already read, or by seeing something mentioned on a site like TV Tropes and becoming curious about the comic. I always went straight to the comic's own site and read their daily/weekly/etc updates (I didn't even use RSS feeds). I actually used to have a topic on my own website (gone now) that had all the links on it that I could click one after another to see each comic (and now I just use the preset pins in Firefox's start page). Granted, that might be because I wasn't a teenager hanging out on kid forums or specific game forums (even on GameFAQs I tend to avoid the hell out of the game boards unless I have a specific question), which might be where that sort of thing was way more common. But it was never really much of a thing any of the places I generally hang out. And I'd say comics are about as likely to be posted here on PotD as they ever were, because it was never all that likely in the first place (it might happen occasionally, and it still does). To use your own example, I have literally never seen an Awkward Zombie comic posted anywhere. I only ever found it myself and read through it on its own site. I never knew it as "that one webcomic with the Smash Bros. characters in it that wasn't Brawl in the Family" because I never went to where anyone would talk about it that way. I don't go to Smash Bros sites because I don't like the games. And if Awkward Zombie was literally just a Smash Bros comic, I probably never would have read it (and in fact, I've never read or even seen Brawl in the Family, either). With most webcomics that reference games, I'm more likely to know the comic itself from reading it than I am the games it's referencing. Which, if anything, may have just answered your question - if your perception is that webcomics are dead because you don't see them on forums anymore, it's probably because forums aren't as popular as they used to be. Webcomics haven't changed, you're just no longer going to the sort of places you used to. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... I mean what happened to the scene? What happened to the industry? Nothing happened to it, it's still there. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... What has caused the differences we see now compared to what we saw then? You. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Whatever happened to webcomics? When did they die? What killed them? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/12/22 12:37:49 AM #13 | KodyKeir posted... Yeah. (shame when erfworld imploded) Yeah, though it feels like that one was always plagued with one problem or another. Also kind of a shame that stuff like 8-Bit Theater and Dr. McNinja eventually ended, though I'd rather a comic end on its own after having told the story it wanted to tell than to just keep going forever and get more and more lame and tired as they run out of ideas but are clearly just padding everything out and churning out comics to keep cashing in. And it's always easier for gag-a-day comics with low continuity to last for years and years than it is more story-driven stuff. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Willow Series Trailer |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/12/22 12:36:13 AM #10 | JOExHIGASHI posted... Kinda weird to make a sequel now. It's been like 30 years. Does this movie have a huge following I'm unaware of? It didn't even have that large of a following 30 years ago. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Apparently, NerFlix is moving away from binging... |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/12/22 12:33:54 AM #35 | LinkPizza posted... Apparently, NerFlix is moving away from binging... Man, that's a bummer. How does NetFlix feel about it though? blu posted... I thought Netflix rated things more on bingability than on long term number of views or completions. I assume most streaming services mainly only care about front-loading the first few episodes, because it's more important getting you in the door than it is keeping you there. Which is why so many overhyped streaming original series these days seem to have really strong starts and then trail off into bullshit and nonsense. If anything, that might be why a weekly release schedule might be better for streaming services in general. Because then it will take you a few weeks to figure out that the show you're watching is actually shit rather than just a few hours. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Whatever happened to webcomics? When did they die? What killed them? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/12/22 12:21:09 AM #11 | PK_Spam posted... Theres more of them than ever before and even some of the really old ones like Unsounded are STILL going on. Sluggy Freelance is currently hitting it's 25th anniversary, Penny Arcade is still around... Revelation34 posted... Well to be fair Ctrl Alt Delete got really bad. To be fair Ctrl Alt Delete started out really bad. KodyKeir posted... ... Girl Genius is about the only one there I really read. And I read about a dozen others regularly in any given week. I just started reading Sleepless Domain recently. I've been reading Order of the Stick almost from the very beginning, and I'll occasionally catch up on Oglaf. And I actually used to read a lot more (most of which are still around), though I've gone off on some of them (like Something Positive or Real Life). https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicsLongRunners --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What do you want to drink? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/11/22 11:55:36 PM #24 | KodyKeir posted... So it doesn't just shrink your testicles. It doesn't even do that, since that's always been bullshit. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Whatever happened to webcomics? When did they die? What killed them? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/11/22 11:53:51 PM #6 | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... Whatever happened to webcomics? When did they die? What killed them? They didn't die and nothing killed them. There are literally hundreds of them out there if you bother looking. Just because you got old and stopped reading them or interacting with the sort of people who do doesn't mean they stopped existing. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... When's the last time you even saw an Awkward Zombie comic? About three days ago. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... Did you even know that was the name of those comics? Yes. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... Oh, well, see, that's probably proof of the rule. "Loss" actually came from the heyday of webcomics. Nobody today remembers "Loss" for the webcomic it came from. It's just a meme today. Someone literally mentioned it on this board like two days ago. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Killed a weird bug in my bedroom the other day |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/11/22 4:18:16 PM #13 | FatalAccident posted... Invade peoples houses lol I hate bugs as much as the next guy but get a grip dude He's not really the one who needs to get a grip, honestly. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Horizon: Pokemon Dawn |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/11/22 4:17:09 PM #4 | They still look a bit too "real". If they were Horizon robots they should look a bit less like the actual animal and a bit more mechanically stylized. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | NFL Football Season Rules |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/11/22 4:15:20 PM #4 | I feel like you missed a line break in that post. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | capitalism is just a pyramid scheme |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/11/22 4:14:14 PM #10 | Lokarin posted... There's a big misunderstanding about what capitalism even is. There's also a big misunderstanding of what the actual flaws in capitalism are. Capitalism isn't the problem. Humans are the problem. Human greed and willingness to subvert any system we create is what causes inequality. Any other economic system would be just as open to exploitation (and often has been, as is obvious to anyone who studies history). Doing away with capitalism tomorrow wouldn't magically solve every problem of the modern day overnight. Short of finding a way to completely rewire the human brain to fundamentally alter human nature, or creating completely unbiased AI and putting them in charge (though that would come with an entirely different host of potential problems), we're kind of forever fucked. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | A Guild of Calamitous Geekery |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/10/22 6:11:42 PM #21 | Count_Drachma posted... Long story short, you're far into the Kenny & the Bucks' camp despite the fact we keep seeing issues like these from them, particularly when they were butting heads with Cody? Regardless of whether you like the Bucks/Kenny or hate them, or assume they're entirely blameless or totally guilty of tons of things, it really doesn't change the fact that in this case Punk is ridiculously worse than them in every possible way that matters, and is pretty much the least professional person in the whole mess in spite of whining about how unprofessional other people are. I'm not saying they're entirely blameless (because that's murky as hell he said/she said bullshit). I'm saying Punk absolutely is. Regardless of whether or not someone else is a saint or a criminal, if you take a shit on their carpet you are still an asshole. And like I said, it's not just Kenny/the Bucks/Hangman/etc or people directly attached to them who are pointing out how much of a shit Punk can be/has been. Plenty of other people have been firing shots into that particular melee, and almost none of them are on Punk's side at all. Hell, there's at least a few theories going around that a lot of stuff being leaked isn't coming from the Elite at all as much as it's coming from Jericho, who has always had a pretty strong line to Meltzer when it comes to leaking (and who would be pretty neutral in this particular scenario). And Sean Ross Sapp has his own sources and has always been one of the more reliable journalists in the business, so it's not like this is 100% coming from Meltzer (allowing Cornette to dismiss it all as "Uncle Dave" being friends with the Bucks). Almost everyone involved has said they've heard tons of things, and almost none of it from the Elite themselves. Which is why they've kind of called out Punk for being full of shit on that front as well. Count_Drachma posted... These problems will keep popping up so long as the EVPs are in power and constantly going into business for themselves. Except that's not even remotely the issue here, and is really only the spin Punk himself put on it to justify his own tantrum. I know you're a firm card-carrying member of the cult of Cornette and are right there with him swearing Kenny is the Antichrist because he wrestled a blow-up doll more than a decade ago and no one should ever forgive or forget because wrasslin' is srs bzns, but that viewpoint has always been kind of full of shit in its own way. And it completely blinds people with that mindset to any objective reality. And to be brutally honest, even if the Elite were all sneaking manipulative politicking backstabbing villains (which almost no one other than Punk and maybe Cornette are saying is the case), the blame still wouldn't be on them as much as it is on Tony Khan. Because it's his job to keep a lid on this sort of BS, and for the last few weeks it seems like he's been gleefully stoking the flames because he loved the idea of having his own version of Bret/Shawn (which people have been pointing out is a terrible idea). Which is what empowered Punk to whip his dick out and piss on the birthday cake in the first place. There've been multiple issues backstage lately that have absolutely nothing to do with the Elite or their friends (the MJF debacle, Eddie and Sammy, the Thunder Rosa mess, people like Miro and Black grumbling a bit, etc). Tony needs to get his house in order a bit, especially now that HHH is in power on the other side and the grass is starting to look greener and greener elsewhere. He also needs to remove about three feet worth of tongue out of Punk's asshole, because when you spend most of your time talking about how much you love one specific person or how important they are or how much of a fan of their work you are, it's not entirely surprising that they're going to assume they can do whatever the fuck they want and get away with it (again, see also Shawn Michaels). Count_Drachma posted... Which is a perception created by the EVPs -- and the dirtsheets doing their bidding -- and echoes a lot of other previous things they did, including being a carbon copy of Cody. Except plenty of other wrestlers (not directly connected to "the EVPs") have said similar things or alluded to stuff in interviews (ie, not the "dirt sheets"). (And constantly whining about the dirt sheets makes you sound less like you're parroting Cornette and more like you're parroting Bruce Pritchard - which is an even worse step down.) At this point it seems like the only people on Punk's side are a couple of the really young wrestlers who he's offered advice to (like Jade), FTR (who seem to be friends with him just out of their shared love of Bret Hart), and Ace Steel (who is deep in his own bucket of shit right now for throwing chairs and biting people). As Booker T once said about Punk years ago, if you have to go around telling people you're the locker room leader, you're not the locker room leader. And that seems to be one of the things that's put a cactus up his ass so badly - he feels like everyone should respect him and lick his taint the way Tony Khan does, but plenty of people in the back simply don't respect him all that much. Count_Drachma posted... Like I've said elsewhere, the "Elite" is what you'd get if you took the Kliq, but removed the talent, personality, charisma, and every positive quality And like plenty of other people have pointed out, Punk is kind of what you get when someone who wants to be 90s Bret Hart winds up behaving a lot more like 90s Shawn Michaels instead. But again, the rest of that is the disingenuous Cornette spiel at work there regardless. Because you can say that you don't like the Elite as people. You can say you don't like their style of work. But saying they have absolutely no talent or charisma (in the face of the tons of people who would disagree with you) kind of makes you absolutely full of shit (and it's the sort of mentality that has led a lot of modern wrestling fans seeing Cornette as complete joke now). Like it or not - and no matter how much some people might wish otherwise - it's not the 1970s anymore. And you can't really put the kayfabe genie back in the bottle. Wrestling needs to evolve, or wrestling dies. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | A Guild of Calamitous Geekery |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/10/22 10:02:08 AM #17 | Count_Drachma posted... Saw the more recent trailer for Black Adam now. Still kinda hyped. The optimistic view is that maybe Warner Bros has finally turned a corner and have figured out how to make movies that don't suck, and the future will look brighter (which is nice, because Marvel's a wreck now). The more pessimistic view is that Black Adam only looks as good as it does because Dwayne tends to have tons of creative control over any project he works on now (and he's a producer on this one), so maybe it's only good because of his influence, and all the movies he's not in will still suck. We'll see. Count_Drachma posted... The EVPs and their buddies had been talking about Punk to the dirtsheets and Hangman Page went into business for himself on live tv (among other things). Punk very publicly responded to that stuff, most notably in a media scrum after All Out 2022. The EVPs and friends decided to take one of Punk's suggestions about "finding him" a little too seriously, which led to a fight in the locker room where everybody involved was suspended -- and had their belts stripped (all of which had been won that same night) -- and there's currently an inquiry into the matter which may lead to additional punishments. That's certainly how Punk himself would probably explain things. Sadly, it seems like almost no one else seems to be that generous about his role in the situation. And people have constantly been pointing out all the problems with his viewpoint (and behavior). For starters, the (single) promo he was apparently pissed about was barely anything, almost no one really gave a shit about it at the time, and nearly everyone forgot about it after, while he continued to stir over it for months at a time. And Punk's repeatedly gone into business for himself in response to it, to the point where he's been way worse than anything anyone else has done. And he complained about other people jeopardizing big money draws when he's literally the only one in the entire mess who's actually jeopardized anything at all. What makes it worse is that, as people have pointed out, it's pretty clear he rehearsed that rant in his own head beforehand (and deliberately went off on the tirade - it wasn't prompted or triggered by anything spontaneous), so he went into business for himself knowing full-well it was going to stir shit up way worse. Mainly because Tony Khan has done nothing to rein in Punk's ego (and a lot of things to inflate it), so Punk was probably assuming he's pretty much bulletproof at this point and could easily get away with it. There's a good chance he still assumes that (and doesn't see himself as having done anything wrong) because he got injured (again), which means he wasn't stripped of his title for disciplinary reasons as much as because he's going to be out for at least 8 months (during which time he can't be fired without prompting legal issues). Telling people to "find him and say stuff to his face" is also kind of rich, considering his solution to the issues he has was apparently to completely avoid the people involved and complain about them in ways he knows for a fact they completely cannot respond to directly. And when they actually do go to try and talk to him in person, he he either tries to avoid them (his own story) or starts throwing punches almost immediately (their story), while his friend starts throwing chairs and biting people (both versions of the story). And for all his whining about "the dirt sheets", most of them have pointed out they didn't even get the info he's mad about from the EVPs at all, he straight up misquoted what some of them even said (as Alverez pointed out directly to his face at one point), and most of the Colt Cabana stuff is assumptions the fanbase easily put together themselves, not "lies told by the dirt sheets". So for someone complaining about other people not getting the story right, he seems to be pointing a lot of fingers at the wrong people for things they didn't even do because he doesn't seem to have a very good grasp of what's actually going on. Not that that actually matters to Punk. And then there's the fact that most of the locker room apparently don't want Punk back at this point because he was already pissing lots of other people off other than just the EVPs or Colt Cabana's friends. Other than a few people Punk is close with (like FTR), it doesn't seem like anyone is supporting his side of the story (or him). It kind of doesn't help that nearly every single thing Punk is whining about is stuff he himself has done, only worse. Which is why the fun new game online is to go back through his Tweets and point out all the ones that make him look like a huge hypocrite (there's a lot of them). Regardless of whether or not anyone else in the story is actually at fault or not, Punk himself is responsible for about 90% of the current shitstorm. Which is why even a lot of fans who really loved him aren't on his side now. And why people are starting to recontextualize all of the problems he had in WWE as maybe not being as much WWE or Vince's fault as people used to think they were. Triple H's comment about "He's your problem now" is starting to look more and more prescient. Punk's pretty much a tantrum-throwing narcissist with zero self-awareness and a penchant for burning every single bridge he crosses. And it's starting to look like it was never a question of "if" he was going to have issues in AEW, but more just a question of "when". Because apparently he's incapable of not having issues. Realistically, this ends with him getting fired in about 8 months (and would probably end with him getting fired now if he wasn't injured). About the only thing that's going to prevent that is if he does a radical change of personality in the next year and offers up a huge mea culpa (which he won't do, because he's Punk), or if Tony continues to fanboy and keep his tongue firmly up Punk's ass, letting him get away with it and enabling him even further (which would be a catastrophically stupid thing for Tony to do, especially now that WWE is reviving - it'd make all the WCW comparisons become even more apt). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you think cartoon characters should be voiced by their ethnicity/race |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/10/22 12:23:22 AM #53 | Revelation34 posted... She wasn't. At least the original version and art style. Kind of hard to say. She looked vaguely Asian in her first appearance, but that could just be a quirk of the art: https://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/uncanny_x-men_244.shtml https://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/uncanny_x-men_annual_13.shtml She was definitely made Asian the moment Jim Lee took over drawing the comic though, because he wanted to draw more Asian characters. Which is why they straight up race swapped Psylocke from being a white British fashion model into a Japanese ninja woman. But it might have been hard to tell, because he drew like half his characters with Asian-looking eyes and other features, even characters who explicitly weren't. https://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/uncanny_x-men_256-258.shtml She's generally been seen as being Asian right from the beginning (it's why her last name is Lee, with her code name basically being a pun). It's why you'll notice they always cast her as an Asian in the X-Men films. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Anyone planning on going to King Charles' coronation? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/10/22 12:13:43 AM #16 | Sufferedphoneix posted... K. I don't really care. The royal family shoulda been done away with long time ago. Remind me. What purpose do they serve? You're American, so why the fuck is it any of your business? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | A Dark Room |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/09/22 11:17:29 PM #7 | Firewood18 posted... A Dark Room https://youtu.be/wkKueyJaA0A?t=74 Man, this is like the third time I've posted this video lately. It's weird how relevant it's become. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Sitting at a hotel bar in a airport right now AMA |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/09/22 9:19:14 PM #9 | Pikazard1 posted... where are you starting from, and where are you going? Who are you? What do you want? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | A Guild of Calamitous Geekery |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/09/22 9:14:40 PM #15 | JigsawTDCII posted... he claims that, but he literally responds to every single one Nah. Only saw this topic because it had Geek in the title and it was on the main page. So I was coming in whether or not someone tried to @ me or not. Basically, if you're @ing me I'm either never going to see it anyway, or I'm only going to see it if I was already reading the topic regardless so you're pretty much wasting your time. I'm actually way more likely to respond to PMs, though I don't look at those all that often either. The only other person who thinks I'm lying about that is helly, and you really don't want to be a helly. That's a terrible thing to be. JigsawTDCII posted... Also, if he had tags disabled it wouldnt let you tag him in the first place. This isn't actually true, so you're pretty much full of shit. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How not to catch an ass beating at your local pool hall. |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/09/22 9:07:55 PM #2 | Straughan posted... Don't show up and play with a rough looking group of guys You could have stopped here and you'd sum up every experience I've ever had in a pool hall. If I'm not playing with the people I came with, I'm not playing. In fact, if I'm not showing up with people in the first place, I'm not there at all. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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