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MICHALECOLE posted...

Dude when I played HCTP.. a lot.. might still be in my top five most hours put into a game to this day, I used to HATE Rhyno. Literally no reason. I kinda watched wwe and rhyno was always just there, often as a jobber, but then for some reason one day I was like.. actually I kinda love this dude. I loved his fake ass spear, cant remember the name right now, and I loved using his special because it didnt have a cutscene animation in the game it was just a BLAM move.

I wish I could play HCTP again

I have made probably hundreds of caws

This is my favorite Rhyno quote ever:

"I tell people that nobody has ever kicked out of The Gore. And you can see the wheels turning, and you can tell they're thinking 'Wait, but what about...' and I say 'If they kicked out, it was a Spear I hit them with, not The Gore.'"

He's also the one that figured out how to make Edge spearing... Jeff? Hardy in that ladder match happen. The guy is pretty much a wrestling genius, but he's also humble as fuck.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Oh then yeah I met him

Yeah, Greg/Shane Helms are the same person, and he became famous as The Hurricane.

He's cool as fuck. He's one of the nicest people at Cons, along with Rhyno, who is... Blatantly not a cruiserweight.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Shannon Moore was actually one of my favorites, along with Paul London

Both Greg Helms and Shannon Moore were actually really good. Evan Karagias was definitely the weakest of 3 Count, even though he was the most pushed. Greg Helms went on to become The Hurricane, if that helps.

I love how I keep forgetting that Dean Malenko was a cruiserweight, because he was just so fucking talented in general that you forget he was a cruiserweight since he didn't really fit the mold they pushed, with people like Dragon/Mysterio/La Parka/Psicosis/etc. It made you appreciate how varied the division could be.

King_Rial posted...

R.I.P. Chris Candido.

His death is so insanely sad, because it could have been so easily avoided.

STEROLIZER posted...

If that was Lenny Lane wouldnt the artist use the controversial one that got banned by the Turner Network Executives?

My first thought was not Lenny Lane, since I mostly remember Lenny with the pigtails.

But then I remembered this being a meme image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/672158219125452800/DAf-lM4x_400x400.jpg

And the art appears to be blatantly based on that.

STEROLIZER posted...

I thought you might be confusing it with who I believe to be either Lenny Lane or Brian Pillman

I honestly had no idea who that was at all because I forgot Lenny Lane was even a thing. Sick Boy and Crowbar both have that kinda grungy "goatee/stache combo, long brown hair" look.

STEROLIZER posted...

Oh I can see it now. Which one is Sickboy?

Crowbar. I literally forgot Crowbar even existed, to be honest. I think you'll see why I got the two confused there, too.

STEROLIZER posted...

Which one did you think was Buff?

Chavo. I recognize him, now. I think I got confused because Marcus Bagwell was indeed initially considered a cruiserweight. Not sure how I forgot literally Chavo, though.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Ah yes los Villanos. Barely remember them for some reason.

How can you not remember the Villanos? They introduced the famous Villano Switch, where the legal man and the non-legal man would switch places and trick the opponent, without the ref realizing, since they looked alike (outside of the roman numeral on their attire). This was later also used by the Bella Twins.

This is rhetorical, by the way. The Villanos were barely featured. I just loved the Villano Switch.

I'm gonna just name the ones I recognize.

JL
Alex Wright
Eddie Guerrero
Sick Boy?
La Parka
Psicosis
Chris Jericho
Chris Candido?
Lash LeRoux
Prince Iaukea
Syxx
Disco Inferno?
Billy Kidman
Juventud
Jushin Liger
Sign Guy
Villano... 4 and 5? 5 and 6?
Shane/Greg Helms?
Buff Bagwell?
Ultimo Dragon
Evan Karagias
Shannon Moore
Chris Benoit?
Dean Malenko
Super Calo
Rey Mysterio

Link_of_time posted...

So are you saying you're gonna teach your future kid not to chug alcohol anally? Or are you just gonna assume that scenario is implied in your "don't play in the street" talk? cuz if you don't that's pretty lazy parenting of you. Don't tell me that's absurd

Wait, are you saying not to chug alcohol anally is an "absurd" thing to teach? I'm so confused. Though, to be quite honest, I feel like I wouldn't normally ever even think to chug alcohol anally, anyway, and I certainly never thought it was a good idea, based on videos, or friends, or anything, so I'm... Extremely confused where this example came from.

loafy013 posted...

I understand if you want to remain vague, but I have to ask. Are you from the Chicago area? I grew up watching Son of Svengoolie but thought it was strictly a local thing. If it was broadcast to a larger area that is cool to know.

I grew up in northern Ohio, Canton-Cleveland area. Then I briefly lived in eastern Kentucky, and now Las Vegas. Svengoolie has been a thing in all locations, typically appearing on MeTV.

I get the confusion, since it legitimately does feel like such a local thing, but he really is a rather nationally known entity.

HylianFox posted...

They're also good conversation-starters

Anything else might elicit a "you look nice" comment and not much else

This is also true.

I have a shirt of AEW wrestler Danhausen, and somebody the other day was like "Is that a Svengoolie shirt?" And it's not, but the design is like, blatantly based on Svengoolie, since the character is also based on them, and it got us talking because we both like Svengoolie, and it was a pleasant conversation while we were both waiting in line. It was a fun conversation that the t-shirt caused, even though it wasn't actually directly related.

HylianFox posted...

Again, I don't get why people are so hung up on graphic tees.

I get way more compliments on my gaming shirts than anything else I wear
>_>

Same. I absolutely love graphic tees. Nobody judges anybody on their graphic tee, unless you're wearing one in some kind of fancy environment where a t-shirt isn't expected... But even then, it's not because of the content of the tee, it's because you're wearing a tee in a place nobody else is, to begin with.

I have several gaming related t-shirts I got from a several month subscription to Lootwear several years ago. One is a Wily skull made out of various Mega Man game sprites, one is Punch-Out related, one is a kinda neat artistic Bowser in Koopa Clown car, etc. I wear them whenever I feel like without really caring much, because they're just graphic tees. And, honestly, I've actually had several people go "That shirt is so cool" over the years. I don't think anybody has ever judged me negatively, and if they did, I didn't know it, and wouldn't have cared if they did.

That MK shirt is absolutely one I think would get the "That shirt is so cool" response.

EDIT: Basically, anybody who knows what it is clearly knows video games, and it's "OG shit." Likewise, anybody who doesn't know what it is will just assume it's... Random faces, and it's not some kind of "cringe" design or anything, it'll just mean nothing to them.

tl;dr: If you like it, wear it. Own it.

Also, I do need to amend my thoughts. I thought the "big logo" belts were the Raw belts. Realizing they're the Smackdown ones, I feel like that loses the thematic notion I thought they were going for, since... To this day, everybody considers Raw the bigger brand. So then, yes, I agree that the big logo belts are just kinda... Bad.

EDIT: That said, there are definitely people out there that like them, so I get why they kept that design. Some people just like less "busy" belts.

The_Popo posted...

Upper left = Raw Tag Titles
Upper Right = Smackdown Tag Titles
Lower Left = Mens titles (Top = Raw, Bottom = SD)
Lower Right = Womens titles (Top = SD, Bottom = Raw)

I do also like that the men's and women's titles are the same (or very similar?), just different color straps. It goes a long way in making the divisions feel more equal.

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It's extremely subjective. Some people love the "Big gold belt" look where you see a ton of gold and don't even necessarily see all of the design half the time. Other people love thematic belts that fit the character, like the Smoking Skull belt for Steve Austin, the Brahma Bull belt for The Rock, etc. Some like the more simplistic "logo" designs because they consider them less gaudy. It tends to depend on when you first started like wrestling.

I'm a late 80s/early 90s baby, so I love me some Big Gold Belts, which is why I love these tag titles, for example.

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They look much better close up when you can actually see the design:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f7d6e435.jpg
It's a more old school design and I absolutely love it.

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I'm torn on this. Design-wise, they're definitely worse. That said, thematically, it makes sense for the logo to be larger on those belts, since you're literally THE champion/s of the company. Bigger logo = bigger value is a thematic choice I don't immediately hate.

Overall? Yeah, honestly, they're kinda sick. I loved the tag belts that had the gladiator/Spartan/whatever helmets on them, though, but I also didn't like that both sets were the same, just in different colors.

What's even worse is they dropped the bear on the wrong side of the fence, so it couldn't even make it back.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I truly cannot believe that was considered horny posting lol well now I know the limit

I'm not even going to dispute it. Don't even know what to say lmao

...Holy shit, I swear I did not mark it. I was joking.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I'm a 30 year old man and if I saw Mariska Hargitay on the street I'd ask her to help me find my mom too

Mod cops, arrest this man for horny posting.

Full_Pokedex posted...

No? What makes you think I would gain anything from Trump winning. Just because I'm not voting for Biden doesn't mean I want him to lose, I just think my choice is better.

Your history of posts supporting right wing talking points, for one. Those just so happen to conveniently mesh with "I refuse to vote for Biden."

deoxxys posted...

That's a big wall of text. I tried to read it all but I didn't really digest it.

Why exactly were pregnant women turned away? And what does that have to do with roe v Wade? They weren't trying to get abortions? The hospital's supposed to help them give birth.

America explain! please

Your questions are, quite literally, answered in the article that you just admitted you refuse to read.

Full_Pokedex posted...

If enough young people don't vote because of Israel he might lose.

You'd sure love that, huh?

ssjevot posted...

"I was being rhetorical, because I was trying to make the point that equalizing a colonoscopy to this particular procedure was apples and oranges," he said. "So I was asking a rhetorical question that was designed to make her say that they weren't the same thing, and she did so. It was the response I wanted."

Let's assume that this was the intention, why not just say that instead of "fascinating"? Seems weird to make it seem like you're just an idiot if your real intention was this.

Yeah, a response of "Fascinating, that makes sense" pretty clearly paints the picture that you... Quite literally, just learned something new.

Reading the article is so fucking depressing.

Dr. Julie Madsen, a physician who said she has provided various telemedicine services in Idaho, was testifying in opposition to the bill. She said some colonoscopy patients may swallow a small device to give doctors a closer look at parts of their colon. One such device, known as a PillCam, has been successfully used after research studies including one at Stanford University in 2008.
"Can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is?" Barbieri asked.
Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina.
"Fascinating. That makes sense," Barbieri said, amid the crowd's laughter.
The committee approved the bill 13-4 on a party-line vote

Doctor, opposing the bill: "...No. Of course not. That's fucking stupid.
Crowd: "*Literally laughs at how stupid the question was*"
Republicans: "We're going to pass the bill, anyway."

Barbieri later said that the question was rhetorical and intended to make a point.

A point about... How much he doesn't understand anatomy?

pinky0926 posted...

Why are you drawing a straight line between earnings and athletic ability?

The strongest man on earth is a pharmacist. Most track athletes have secondary jobs. Most female athletes who are the greatest even in the biggest sports make hardly any money.

By your own definition, Lionel Messi today as a semi-retired man in his 30s playing for a baby league is a greater athlete than Patrick Mahomes.

It's not athletic ability that determines earnings. It's marketability and public interest.

I'll tell you right now, your first mistake is taking literally anything Aloc says seriously. He pretty much literally only exists to troll, just look at his current account.

Oh, shit, I'm in on this, now.

Awesome Truth - Rocket and Groot

LA Knight - Ant-man

Everybody loves him, but we know he'll never actually be anything more. That said, he still gets the occasional kickass moment.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

I came in here hoping to see a Don Flamenco reference. Was not disappointed.

We're friends now.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Doflamingo being in the spotlight really was a high point. Such a great character.

Doflamingo is great, the arc just drags on for SO long. The last anime episode I watched, he had his head cut off, only to basically go "j/k, now time for the main event, which I will build toward for countless more episodes." And while I've liked what I've watched so far, it already almost felt like an entire arc, and now it feels like I'm probably only actually... Halfway through?

Glob posted...

Nobody is denying that having connections can help get a good job. The TCs claim is that its the only way to get a good job, which is bullshit and probably a coping mechanism for why he doesnt have a better job.

My job is great and I didnt even know anybody in the country when I got it.

That's fair, actually.

I probably read through the histrionics of TC's post to get to the (assumed) actual point. Yes, it's obviously not the "only" way, so we don't disagree. My bad, I probably gave TC too much credit.

EDIT: I'm also, admittedly, biased. At my last job, they hired a tech lead who was obviously underqualified, but also came cheaper than the one they replaced, and she promptly basically tried to bury us existing staff so she could point to "failed" contracts to let us go and hire her friends for cheaper, and the CEO fell for it. That said, joke's on him, about three months after she succeeded in surrounding herself with all of her friends, they literally all left for different positions, that they leveraged with the jobs they had landed with the company I worked for. Get what you sow, I guess.

Turbam posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1941046b.png

Don Flamenco is better than Doflamingo could ever hope to be, especially in the Wii version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS_AOjqeo-w

EDIT: I'm only partially kidding, too. Punch-Out took a character who, lore-wise, was SUPPOSED to be good (he appears in the World Tournament, despite seeming like a total scrub in his previous fight), but literally never showed it, and gave him possibly the most entertaining character in the whole game.

Having watched both the anime (Granted, I'm halfway through Dressrosa, currently) and the live action series, I think I prefer the live action's pacing SO MUCH more. Yes, you lose certain characters, and some things don't hit quite as well... But I'll be damned if it didn't tell the basic story in a condensed enough nature that pretty much anybody could get into it, and I still loved every second of it, even having already far passed the story points it hits, in the anime.

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It's absolutely the case, though.

Obviously not literally EVERYWHERE, but... If you have an "in" to a certain company, you're definitely much more likely to be hired, qualifications be damned, than anybody else. "Who you know" absolutely matters.

It's not the end all, be all, since... Obviously, not every job is going to have a "who you know" scenario. Not even most jobs, necessarily. That said, it absolutely exists, in enough of an amount that it's noteworthy.

And there are several reasons why. Could be nepotism, could be... Yes, hiring a known quantity is actually better than not. There are several reasons why it might occur.

...Okay, so I Google'd and Wiki'd things just to answer my question, and... Holy shit.

CM Punk's contract was terminated in September 2023. According to wikipedia... Colt Cabana started appearing on AEW programming again in EXACTLY September 2023.

If that doesn't feed into the rumors, I don't know what does.

Here's a question, since I don't really watch AEW much.

Has Colt Cabana been on AEW TV, lately? There was a rumor that, once Punk joined, he basically blackballed Colt from appearing on AEW, which is why he was mostly relegated to ROH stuff, so I'm curious if he ever ended up back on AEW once Punk left.

Glob posted...

This is something from Dairy Queen? So its just an ice cream right?

Never been to Dairy Queen but Ive always been capable of eating a crazy amount of ice cream.

It's ice cream, but it's super thick, and regularly includes copious amounts of some kind of candy, such as Oreo, Reese's Pieces, etc.

On average, the candy to ice cream ratio is a decent bit higher than found in most regular ice creams, and the thick texture also tends to provide a sensation of feeling like you're eating something heavier than you actually are.

Mistere_Man posted...

I once saw a cartoon with the red hulk in it, and they were talking like a military person so it makes sense now.

This was probably it. Red Hulk has appeared in atleast a cartoon or two, always with the same background.