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The Wave Master 02/20/21 7:38:22 PM #251:	Naruto_fan_42 posted... Im up to date on WandaVision now and my hatred for Wanda grows stronger with every episode. Why do you hate Wanda? --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:950887682] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Naruto_fan_42 posted... </cite> <quote>Im up to date on WandaVision now and my hatred for Wanda grows stronger with every episode.</quote> Why do you hate Wanda? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
I_Abibde 02/20/21 9:09:02 PM #252:	Zeus posted... I can't recall if I've ever bothered to watch an episode of Main Event and, until I_Abibde suggested it, I had forgotten the thing existed. Needless to say, it's going to be a new experience. I'm not sure even Vince is aware it still exists, to be honest, but good on you for taking up the challenge. AEW Dark has been a little exhausting for me the past few weeks, since it's been running to 2+ hours, but the most recent one tightened it back up to one hour, like it used to be before the pandemic. --- -- I Abibde / Samuraiter Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002. <cite>I_Abibde posted [p:950890433] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>I can't recall if I've ever bothered to watch an episode of Main Event and, until I_Abibde suggested it, I had forgotten the thing existed. Needless to say, it's going to be a new experience.</quote> I'm not sure even Vince is aware it still exists, to be honest, but good on you for taking up the challenge. AEW Dark has been a little exhausting for me the past few weeks, since it's been running to 2+ hours, but the most recent one tightened it back up to one hour, like it used to be before the pandemic. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 02/20/21 11:25:40 PM #253:	I've been enjoying the Guilty Gear Strive Beta for the last three days. Because of server issues Arc System Works is extending the beta for another 3 days. That's good news for me because I broke my glasses in a freak accident with our bunny Sophie and my wheelchair. It was a bizarre moment because I crushed the frames but did zero damage to the lens. I usually don't have my debit card on me because I rarely go anyway on the weekends, and I have memorized my card number, so if I need to order food or something it's in the ole noggin, and most of the time Scarlett has both of my cards. So, I couldn't go to the eye mart place and get new frames today, and they're closed tomorrow. Therefore, I have to wait until Monday. Which means I can't see the television as well as I can with my glasses. I can see well enough, and the sprites are large enough in Guilty Gear Strive that it's not an issue, but I had started Control the other day, and I'm not even going to try to squint my way through that game. Nope, not a chance. Anyway, play Guilty Gear. It's awesome! --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:950894613] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I've been enjoying the Guilty Gear Strive Beta for the last three days. Because of server issues Arc System Works is extending the beta for another 3 days. That's good news for me because I broke my glasses in a freak accident with our bunny Sophie and my wheelchair. It was a bizarre moment because I crushed the frames but did zero damage to the lens. I usually don't have my debit card on me because I rarely go anyway on the weekends, and I have memorized my card number, so if I need to order food or something it's in the ole noggin, and most of the time Scarlett has both of my cards. So, I couldn't go to the eye mart place and get new frames today, and they're closed tomorrow. Therefore, I have to wait until Monday. Which means I can't see the television as well as I can with my glasses. I can see well enough, and the sprites are large enough in Guilty Gear Strive that it's not an issue, but I had started Control the other day, and I'm not even going to try to squint my way through that game. Nope, not a chance. Anyway, play Guilty Gear. It's awesome! </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/21/21 2:15:56 AM #254:	Well, if there's one thing I admire about AEW, it's the ability to take people and make them look like shit >_> I thought Jungle Boy and Comoroto both seemed like they had something, then I saw them paired together and... ugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTFsKwOFpE The way that Jungle Boy slows down each time right before Comoroto goes for a power move looks so awful. And his super kick didn't look so super. I also don't get why they have Jungle Boy fighting in singles anyway when he's got a tag team... and I also don't get why the fuck they'd have Marko Stunt physically kicking Comorota out of the ring. These guys are supposed to be faces. Kicking somebody out like that is kind of a dick move, and having Marko Stunt do it makes Comorota look like shit I_Abibde posted... AEW Dark has been a little exhausting for me the past few weeks, since it's been running to 2+ hours, but the most recent one tightened it back up to one hour, like it used to be before the pandemic. Good god... I guess the one thing about a YT show is that you don't have to worry about time constraints. And I'm guessing those long run times aren't because they're trying to squeeze in extra matches so they can go from doing 12 to 24 or something >_> The thing I've noticed about AEW matches is that they can work when they're short. The longer they go, the worse everybody looks. (Except the ~~Team Tazz guys, who did those stupid squash matches where they don't look like they could credibly squash anybody.~~) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:950898833] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Well, if there's one thing I admire about AEW, it's the ability to take people and make them look like shit >_> I thought Jungle Boy and Comoroto both seemed like they had something, then I saw them paired together and... ugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTFsKwOFpE The way that Jungle Boy slows down each time right before Comoroto goes for a power move looks so awful. And his super kick didn't look so super. I also don't get why they have Jungle Boy fighting in singles anyway when he's got a tag team... and I also don't get why the fuck they'd have Marko Stunt physically kicking Comorota out of the ring. These guys are supposed to be faces. Kicking somebody out like that is kind of a dick move, and having Marko Stunt do it makes Comorota look like shit I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>AEW Dark has been a little exhausting for me the past few weeks, since it's been running to 2+ hours, but the most recent one tightened it back up to one hour, like it used to be before the pandemic.</quote> Good god... I guess the one thing about a YT show is that you don't have to worry about time constraints. And I'm guessing those long run times aren't because they're trying to squeeze in extra matches so they can go from doing 12 to 24 or something >_> The thing I've noticed about AEW matches is that they can work when they're short. The longer they go, the worse everybody looks. (Except the Team Tazz guys, who did those stupid squash matches where they don't look like they could credibly squash anybody.) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/21/21 2:43:39 PM #255:	Well, my opinion of AEW Dark has officially tanked. I wound up watching the Feb 9 edition ("12 Huge Matches featuring The Natural Nightmares, Brian Cage, Pac, Joey Janela and more") and I had to fast-forward/skip through a lot of it. Despite advertising 12 matches, the listed run-time was 97 minutes which immediately had me a little leery. But I figured I liked the last one, so what could wrong? The answer, apparently, was lots. That 97 run-time included two commercials (same commercial, run twice) for the Inner Circle's beverage. It also included a rap segment I just skipped through. I watched a minute or two of a Sonny Kiss match, then skipped the rest. (Sonny's opponent was KC Navarro, who looks like a high schooler.) I then saw Marko Stunt wrestle and... wtf? I thought he was a little kid or something when he was coming out with Jungle Express. Then when I saw him in the ring, I was wondering if he was so small and kinda unusual-looking because of a disability, but I checked his wikipedia page and nope, nothing. He's just a super tiny wrestler who they have in with a 6 ft-tall guy and they have the 6 -ft guy selling to this 5-ft, 120 lb (that's his billed weight, although I expect he could be even lighter) wrestler who looks like he might be in high school. Wtf is this? Seriously? Then the main event was Jelly Nutella vs who the fuck cares. I sat through maybe 2 minutes of that before stopping. The other stuff on the card was a six-man tag (Dustin Rhodes, Comorota, and somebody against... whoever; Comorota showed off his power moves, but his opponents were literally walking right into them so it looked goofy), Brian Cage vs whoever (I thought Cage might have been Benoit's older son because I knew he was getting into wrestling, the look reminded me a little of Benoit, and he did that throat slit gesture but no, they're not related; I remember it being an okay match but it's a little hazy since I watched it last night), Tay Conti (who isn't great but is watchable in short matches), Pac (which was alright), and as soon as I saw Peter Avalon -- who I recognized as the short job guy -- I just skipped that fucking match. I also skipped the Dork Order match, although it was just one of them in there. Oh, and I saw SCU wrestle somebody and Lee Johnson. That was surprising, since SCU is comprised of two reasonably big name TNA guys who look like jokes now. And Lee Johnson was tagging with some nobody, and ~~their team lost~~ which makes it even stupider. I 100% understand all of Cornette's complaints about AEW booking. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:950913687] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Well, my opinion of AEW Dark has officially tanked. I wound up watching the Feb 9 edition ("12 Huge Matches featuring The Natural Nightmares, Brian Cage, Pac, Joey Janela and more") and I had to fast-forward/skip through a lot of it. Despite advertising 12 matches, the listed run-time was 97 minutes which immediately had me a little leery. But I figured I liked the last one, so what could wrong? The answer, apparently, was lots. That 97 run-time included two commercials (same commercial, run twice) for the Inner Circle's beverage. It also included a rap segment I just skipped through. I watched a minute or two of a Sonny Kiss match, then skipped the rest. (Sonny's opponent was KC Navarro, who looks like a high schooler.) I then saw Marko Stunt wrestle and... wtf? I thought he was a little kid or something when he was coming out with Jungle Express. Then when I saw him in the ring, I was wondering if he was so small and kinda unusual-looking because of a disability, but I checked his wikipedia page and nope, nothing. He's just a super tiny wrestler who they have in with a 6 ft-tall guy and they have the 6 -ft guy selling to this 5-ft, 120 lb (that's his billed weight, although I expect he could be even lighter) wrestler who looks like he might be in high school. Wtf is this? Seriously? Then the main event was Jelly Nutella vs who the fuck cares. I sat through maybe 2 minutes of that before stopping. The other stuff on the card was a six-man tag (Dustin Rhodes, Comorota, and somebody against... whoever; Comorota showed off his power moves, but his opponents were literally walking right into them so it looked goofy), Brian Cage vs whoever (I thought Cage might have been Benoit's older son because I knew he was getting into wrestling, the look reminded me a little of Benoit, and he did that throat slit gesture but no, they're not related; I remember it being an okay match but it's a little hazy since I watched it last night), Tay Conti (who isn't great but is watchable in short matches), Pac (which was alright), and as soon as I saw Peter Avalon -- who I recognized as the short job guy -- I just skipped that fucking match. I also skipped the Dork Order match, although it was just one of them in there. Oh, and I saw SCU wrestle somebody and Lee Johnson. That was surprising, since SCU is comprised of two reasonably big name TNA guys who look like jokes now. And Lee Johnson was tagging with some nobody, and their team lost which makes it even stupider. I 100% understand all of Cornette's complaints about AEW booking. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/22/21 3:22:41 PM #256:	Last night I wound up watching AEW All Out 2019 (or what AEW had of it on their YT channel -- it looks like the full show included a 21-woman battle royal (which I would have been interested in watching) and another tag match). Part of it was curiosity and part of it was the fact that I had just watched weekly shows so I wanted to see an example of AEW at its hypothetical best. Well, the event had one really good match, but goddamn if that match wasn't amazing. I'm very obviously referring to Cody Rhodes vs Spawn Spears, with MJF and Tully Blanchard respectively. And while Spears was fucking awesome, it was really Tully Blanchard who made that match because you got a LOT of old-school heel shenanigans. Cody was incredible, but I think a lot of that might be on Shawn Spears... who I didn't recognize as having been the WWE's Tye Dillinger (and then obviously the ringside Tully and MJF drove a lot of the action and kept me invested). Good fucking god the WWE under-utilized that guy back when I watched it. In fact, I can't think of any really huge complaints I had about the match (which even made the usual fight spilling out into the ground palatable after the package explaining the feud). However, I'll mention that in the middle of a fucking grudge match where Cody is finally getting revenge on this guy, he stops to high five a child. It was something of a nice gesture, but he completely broke character and took me out of the match for a minute. The rest of the PPV was a mixed bag. Jungle Express vs SCU was interesting since I got to see Jungle Express's early gimmick, between the different entrance video (with the cup of water homage to Jurassic Park) and the fact that JR (and only JR) kept referring to Jungle Boy as "Jungle Jack." SCU still seems like a massive under-use of reasonable talent, although I guess somebody like Christopher Daniels wouldn't rise above a midcard position outside of TNA. That Cracker Barrel match dragged on towards the end. The early going was neat. They worked in what seemed like another dig at Jim Cornette during the match, when Jelly Nutella pulled out a racket from under the ring and the announcers made a big deal about him not using (prior to that, Chris Daniels -- in the middle of what sounded like a heel entrance -- made a big about somebody talking about them not being able to fill an arena. I'm kinda guessing who they meant there). Darby and Jimmy Havoc were both cool. Jelly Nutella was a distraction. I laughed when one of the announcers call the match unforgettable. This one certainly won't stick out in my mind, even with the hilarious over-use of Cracker Barrel promotion within it. Pac vs Omega was okay. There was a lot of stupidity in it (all of which was 100% on Omega), but if somebody likes Omega, I guess they're into stuff like that. I thought it just looked lousy. I will credit Omega for his ability to mug for the camera and otherwise demonstrate personality. I've always been less impressed by his wrestling, although -- outside of the silly stunt stuff -- he's not terrible (at least when he's not trying to do things he can't pull off). Pac was reasonably solid. I liked the ending. Riho vs Hikaru Shida looked kinda bad mostly because Riho is fucking tiny as hell, something I didn't realize from the match preview images I've seen featuring her. To make it even more ridiculous, she looked as though she were dressed like a little girl. Between those two elements, I couldn't get into the match at all. The kind weird thing is that Shida is listed as only being 3-inches taller than Riho, but she looked big standing next to Riho. I'm already planning on watching the rest of the AEW Women's tournament (which thankfully will mostly be on YT -- including some of the American side -- so I won't be stuck having to watch Dynamite, other than for the Riho vs Serena match... which I don't have any hopes for now) The Bucks vs Lucha Bros was fucking terrible. There was a lot of synchronized, coordinated stunt shit where both sides were doing the same thing at the same time. If they hadn't been doing it at the same time, MAYBE some of that shit might have seen neat. However, it was a ladders match which I'm already predisposed to dislike because those are almost always stupid, and this probably one of the worst uses of the gimmick I've seen. You had the classic shit like "Gee, it's nice that those tables he set up earlier were there to break his fall!" (and yes, it's almost always the guy to set up the table who later goes through it, which I imagine is them verifying that the thing they're going to fall through is set up properly) and them doing moves that clearly looked like they hurting themselves or a teammate far more than an opponent. The only cool stunt in the entire match might have been a Lucha brother doing a jumping "cutter" from one side of the latter and grabbing his opponent on the other side. That I hadn't seen before and it looked great. Otherwise I'll never understand how the Bucks have fans. There are probably a thousand tag teams who do the things they do better, have a better look, and many of them can actually cut a promo. The main event was Jericho vs Adam Page, which... honestly I stopped paying attention during. I had broken the 3-hour or so PPV up between 5-6 hours of real time, but a combination of boredom and disinterest set in pretty quickly after I started watching the match. It was also just a long match. Oh, and there was a match between the Dork Order (accompanied by gimps -- is this supposed to be a sex cult gimmick? I didn't get that vibe from the newer stuff) and the Best Friends. It was two teams I dislike in a match that looked like shit. So the PPV had one incredible match, a bunch of things I was okay sitting through (Express v SCU, Pac, and the Cracker Barrel 3-way), a bunch of things I dlsliked sitting through (goddamn Bucks and Dork Order/BFs...), and a match I wasn't really paying attention to half the time. I guess Riho falls somewhere between okay and disliked. And thus ends my grand AEW experiment... no, wait. Technically I have to do one more thing to be thorough... I need to watch some TNA >_< Granted, the show isn't on Hulu and they don't have full episodes on YT so... maybe I won't. It wasn't a total waste of time. I saw one great Cody match, which was also probably the best wrestling match I've seen since... well, it's been a minute. I was happy to see that AEW has at least a few wrestlers on its roster, like Bear Country (and I guess Comoroto, although he still needs a lot of work). It was great seeing a few ex-WWE wrestlers like Pac. Then it gave me a reason to watch some WWE again. The two elimination chamber matches I watched were fantastic. The episode of SD would have been great if it didn't have so much filler. And while NXT doesn't look as good as it used to, I'm kinda tempted to check out a few more episodes. In general, it's kinda tough because -- just like before -- there are some wrestlers I want to follow, but there's a lot of stuff I don't care about (or dislike) in the way. In the case of Hulu, it's kinda hard to skip to where you want to be. YT is a bit more responsive, but it's still hard to dissect a program (as I realized while trying to skip through that second episode of AEW Dark). --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:950951812] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Last night I wound up watching AEW All Out 2019 (or what AEW had of it on their YT channel -- it looks like the full show included a 21-woman battle royal (which I would have been interested in watching) and another tag match). Part of it was curiosity and part of it was the fact that I had just watched weekly shows so I wanted to see an example of AEW at its hypothetical best. Well, the event had one really good match, but goddamn if that match wasn't amazing. I'm very obviously referring to Cody Rhodes vs Spawn Spears, with MJF and Tully Blanchard respectively. And while Spears was fucking awesome, it was really Tully Blanchard who made that match because you got a LOT of old-school heel shenanigans. Cody was incredible, but I think a lot of that might be on Shawn Spears... who I didn't recognize as having been the WWE's Tye Dillinger (and then obviously the ringside Tully and MJF drove a lot of the action and kept me invested). Good fucking god the WWE under-utilized that guy back when I watched it. In fact, I can't think of any really huge complaints I had about the match (which even made the usual fight spilling out into the ground palatable after the package explaining the feud). However, I'll mention that in the middle of a fucking grudge match where Cody is finally getting revenge on this guy, he stops to high five a child. It was something of a nice gesture, but he completely broke character and took me out of the match for a minute. The rest of the PPV was a mixed bag. Jungle Express vs SCU was interesting since I got to see Jungle Express's early gimmick, between the different entrance video (with the cup of water homage to Jurassic Park) and the fact that JR (and only JR) kept referring to Jungle Boy as "Jungle Jack." SCU still seems like a massive under-use of reasonable talent, although I guess somebody like Christopher Daniels wouldn't rise above a midcard position outside of TNA. That Cracker Barrel match dragged on towards the end. The early going was neat. They worked in what seemed like another dig at Jim Cornette during the match, when Jelly Nutella pulled out a racket from under the ring and the announcers made a big deal about him not using (prior to that, Chris Daniels -- in the middle of what sounded like a heel entrance -- made a big about somebody talking about them not being able to fill an arena. I'm kinda guessing who they meant there). Darby and Jimmy Havoc were both cool. Jelly Nutella was a distraction. I laughed when one of the announcers call the match unforgettable. This one certainly won't stick out in my mind, even with the hilarious over-use of Cracker Barrel promotion within it. Pac vs Omega was okay. There was a lot of stupidity in it (all of which was 100% on Omega), but if somebody likes Omega, I guess they're into stuff like that. I thought it just looked lousy. I will credit Omega for his ability to mug for the camera and otherwise demonstrate personality. I've always been less impressed by his wrestling, although -- outside of the silly stunt stuff -- he's not terrible (at least when he's not trying to do things he can't pull off). Pac was reasonably solid. I liked the ending. Riho vs Hikaru Shida looked kinda bad mostly because Riho is fucking tiny as hell, something I didn't realize from the match preview images I've seen featuring her. To make it even more ridiculous, she looked as though she were dressed like a little girl. Between those two elements, I couldn't get into the match at all. The kind weird thing is that Shida is listed as only being 3-inches taller than Riho, but she looked big standing next to Riho. I'm already planning on watching the rest of the AEW Women's tournament (which thankfully will mostly be on YT -- including some of the American side -- so I won't be stuck having to watch Dynamite, other than for the Riho vs Serena match... which I don't have any hopes for now) The Bucks vs Lucha Bros was fucking terrible. There was a lot of synchronized, coordinated stunt shit where both sides were doing the same thing at the same time. If they hadn't been doing it at the same time, MAYBE some of that shit might have seen neat. However, it was a ladders match which I'm already predisposed to dislike because those are almost always stupid, and this probably one of the worst uses of the gimmick I've seen. You had the classic shit like "Gee, it's nice that those tables he set up earlier were there to break his fall!" (and yes, it's almost always the guy to set up the table who later goes through it, which I imagine is them verifying that the thing they're going to fall through is set up properly) and them doing moves that clearly looked like they hurting themselves or a teammate far more than an opponent. The only cool stunt in the entire match might have been a Lucha brother doing a jumping "cutter" from one side of the latter and grabbing his opponent on the other side. That I hadn't seen before and it looked great. Otherwise I'll never understand how the Bucks have fans. There are probably a thousand tag teams who do the things they do better, have a better look, and many of them can actually cut a promo. The main event was Jericho vs Adam Page, which... honestly I stopped paying attention during. I had broken the 3-hour or so PPV up between 5-6 hours of real time, but a combination of boredom and disinterest set in pretty quickly after I started watching the match. It was also just a long match. Oh, and there was a match between the Dork Order (accompanied by gimps -- is this supposed to be a sex cult gimmick? I didn't get that vibe from the newer stuff) and the Best Friends. It was two teams I dislike in a match that looked like shit. So the PPV had one incredible match, a bunch of things I was okay sitting through (Express v SCU, Pac, and the Cracker Barrel 3-way), a bunch of things I dlsliked sitting through (goddamn Bucks and Dork Order/BFs...), and a match I wasn't really paying attention to half the time. I guess Riho falls somewhere between okay and disliked. And thus ends my grand AEW experiment... no, wait. Technically I have to do one more thing to be thorough... I need to watch some TNA >_< Granted, the show isn't on Hulu and they don't have full episodes on YT so... maybe I won't. It wasn't a total waste of time. I saw one great Cody match, which was also probably the best wrestling match I've seen since... well, it's been a minute. I was happy to see that AEW has at least a few wrestlers on its roster, like Bear Country (and I guess Comoroto, although he still needs a lot of work). It was great seeing a few ex-WWE wrestlers like Pac. Then it gave me a reason to watch some WWE again. The two elimination chamber matches I watched were fantastic. The episode of SD would have been great if it didn't have so much filler. And while NXT doesn't look as good as it used to, I'm kinda tempted to check out a few more episodes. In general, it's kinda tough because -- just like before -- there are some wrestlers I want to follow, but there's a lot of stuff I don't care about (or dislike) in the way. In the case of Hulu, it's kinda hard to skip to where you want to be. YT is a bit more responsive, but it's still hard to dissect a program (as I realized while trying to skip through that second episode of AEW Dark). </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 02/23/21 2:45:37 PM #257:	I meant to finish a post I started yesterday about Guilty Gear Strive and missing WWE Elimination Chamber from Sunday night because I didn't care too much, and the beta is so much fun, but I got distracted looking for a printer. Yes, a printer. I went to 4 difference stores and looked on Amazon to find a printer, and the wife and I became so frustrated that we just gave up, and I forgot to finish my post. I'm not sure why there's a printer shortage, but there is. I would blame the printer shortage of 2021 on the pandemic, but everything is digital, and you can just email or cloud over your projects. Bank Robber told me there's a shortage on the supply side from China, but I haven't looked into it yet, bit I guess, "Pandemic Yo!" We did find a printer/scanner this afternoon. So happy ending! --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:950988352] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I meant to finish a post I started yesterday about Guilty Gear Strive and missing WWE Elimination Chamber from Sunday night because I didn't care too much, and the beta is so much fun, but I got distracted looking for a printer. Yes, a printer. I went to 4 difference stores and looked on Amazon to find a printer, and the wife and I became so frustrated that we just gave up, and I forgot to finish my post. I'm not sure why there's a printer shortage, but there is. I would blame the printer shortage of 2021 on the pandemic, but everything is digital, and you can just email or cloud over your projects. Bank Robber told me there's a shortage on the supply side from China, but I haven't looked into it yet, bit I guess, "Pandemic Yo!" We did find a printer/scanner this afternoon. So happy ending! </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/23/21 2:52:09 PM #258:	The Wave Master posted... missing WWE Elimination Chamber from Sunday night How many elimination chamber matches did they have this year? I know they were doing a men's one from both raw and SD, but was there also a women's chamber again? Oh, and has Edge picked his WM opponent now? (Which seems like it was always going to be Roman Reigns, so he could put him over at WM.) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:950988591] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>missing WWE Elimination Chamber from Sunday night</quote> How many elimination chamber matches did they have this year? I know they were doing a men's one from both raw and SD, but was there also a women's chamber again? Oh, and has Edge picked his WM opponent now? (Which seems like it was always going to be Roman Reigns, so he could put him over at WM.) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 02/23/21 7:38:41 PM #259:	Zeus posted... How many elimination chamber matches did they have this year? I know they were doing a men's one from both raw and SD, but was there also a women's chamber again? Oh, and has Edge picked his WM opponent now? (Which seems like it was always going to be Roman Reigns, so he could put him over at WM.) Edge picked Roman. you were right I don't know how many chamber matches they had this year, and I kind of don't care. Now there's some stuff with Bobby Lashley (Milk Dud or The Beta Male. Pick one) The Miz (who has the belt because he made a deal with Lashley and cashed in MITB) --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:950999006] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>How many elimination chamber matches did they have this year? I know they were doing a men's one from both raw and SD, but was there also a women's chamber again? Oh, and has Edge picked his WM opponent now? (Which seems like it was always going to be Roman Reigns, so he could put him over at WM.)</quote> Edge picked Roman. you were right I don't know how many chamber matches they had this year, and I kind of don't care. Now there's some stuff with Bobby Lashley (Milk Dud or The Beta Male. Pick one) The Miz (who has the belt because he made a deal with Lashley and cashed in MITB) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
WhiskeyDisk 02/23/21 7:41:21 PM #260:	The Wave Master posted... I meant to finish a post I started yesterday about Guilty Gear Strive and missing WWE Elimination Chamber from Sunday night because I didn't care too much, and the beta is so much fun, but I got distracted looking for a printer. Yes, a printer. I went to 4 difference stores and looked on Amazon to find a printer, and the wife and I became so frustrated that we just gave up, and I forgot to finish my post. I'm not sure why there's a printer shortage, but there is. I would blame the printer shortage of 2021 on the pandemic, but everything is digital, and you can just email or cloud over your projects. Bank Robber told me there's a shortage on the supply side from China, but I haven't looked into it yet, bit I guess, "Pandemic Yo!" We did find a printer/scanner this afternoon. So happy ending! I would also have to imagine that the number of people working from home and kids schooling from home has made a lot of basic office supplies scarce. I know there was a major shortage of chromebooks around this time last year. --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:950999099] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>I meant to finish a post I started yesterday about Guilty Gear Strive and missing WWE Elimination Chamber from Sunday night because I didn't care too much, and the beta is so much fun, but I got distracted looking for a printer. Yes, a printer. I went to 4 difference stores and looked on Amazon to find a printer, and the wife and I became so frustrated that we just gave up, and I forgot to finish my post. I'm not sure why there's a printer shortage, but there is. I would blame the printer shortage of 2021 on the pandemic, but everything is digital, and you can just email or cloud over your projects. Bank Robber told me there's a shortage on the supply side from China, but I haven't looked into it yet, bit I guess, "Pandemic Yo!" We did find a printer/scanner this afternoon. So happy ending!</quote> I would also have to imagine that the number of people working from home and kids schooling from home has made a lot of basic office supplies scarce. I know there was a major shortage of chromebooks around this time last year. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/23/21 8:12:08 PM #261:	Hamilton Pop!s are now a thing. What took Funko? >_> Really capitalizing on this late. If I thought they might do Mystery Minis for Hamilton, I'd probably skip these. However, since they likely won't, I might at least pick up the Angelica Schuyler. Generally trying to keep my Funko purchasing in check. Oh, and I watched the next 4 matches in the AEW Women's tourney (rest of round 1 for AEW, round 2 for the Japanese women's branch). Tay Conti's work was better than in the dark matches, but there was this hilarious moment where they did one of those badly telegraphed running-at-an-opponent next to the ropes then getting flipped/tossed over the ropes. Of course, they just happened to do it on the side with the ramp, so they didn't have the usual stakes. (Although that's probably smart, considering that it's usually a hard bump.) Anna Jay was subbed out (due to a legit injury) for Madi Wrenkowski, and I'm kinda wondering who was originally booked to win that match. The shit with Dr. Britt Baker, DMD was humorous since you don't do "Dr." with "DMD" (it's either one or the other; supposedly she's a legit dentist, so this feels like a Ken Jeong thing... except she actually works as a dentist as well, which is unsurprising given that she works at AEW). Fun match, though, and it was good that it was saved to last, because it ~~obscured how long the Aja Kong match was.~~ Then the round 2 Japanese women's matches were kinda better than the round 1 on the whole. Emi's first match was better, because Veny was a much better performer but Yuka looked decent here... and Mei Suruga, who was ringside for Emi, got involved with some fake-looking kicks when she and her cohort jumped Yuka outside of the ring. Then Aja vs Ryo was better than either of their first-round matches. I kinda expected Ryo to win just because I figured they're putting Yuka over and it'd look more credible for Yuka to beat Ryo... although it'd be crazy as fuck if Ryo wound up winning. The only round 1 match I haven't seen is Riho vs Serena Deeb, which I might skip because it would entail watching an episode of Dynamite and, knowing the result, I'm not terribly interested in seeing ~~Serena, who I remember as being half-decent, job to a joke wrestler like Riho~~. I think the remainder of the tournament will be going to just be on YT, and then the winner fights Shida (who I guess was in attendance in Japan) at a PPV. I'm half-wondering if Shida was in Japan because they're just going to film the PPV match (and finals match as well). Given that the whole thing is a work, they can just shoot things beforehand. The Wave Master posted... Now there's some stuff with Bobby Lashley (Milk Dud or The Beta Male. Pick one) tbh, Lashley is one of those wrestlers I always wanted to like, because the dude looks like a powerhouse, but it's just never happened. His face run with the WWE sucked. His feud with VKM was fucking garbage, including that awful VKM fake death storyline that ended because Benoit died for real (leading to that tribute... before the news came out that Benoit had murdered his wife and kid then took his own life) and the terrible decision to put him over on the ECW relaunch which took CM Punk's spot (who I liked at the time, and the fact that the WWE kept under-using him was a big reason why I stopped watching at the time). In some ways, he was both a prototype for Roman Reigns and followed in the tradition of John Cena, where VKM picked a guy he thought should go over and, even when fans weren't feeling it, he kept pushing, and pushing. I caught part of his TNA run after that where they had him as a heel but... eh, idk, even then I wasn't buying into him as a star. Other than having an incredible physique, he didn't seem to really have much going for him. His promos never even seemed good. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951000169] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Hamilton Pop!s are now a thing. What took Funko? >_> Really capitalizing on this late. If I thought they might do Mystery Minis for Hamilton, I'd probably skip these. However, since they likely won't, I might at least pick up the Angelica Schuyler. Generally trying to keep my Funko purchasing in check. Oh, and I watched the next 4 matches in the AEW Women's tourney (rest of round 1 for AEW, round 2 for the Japanese women's branch). Tay Conti's work was better than in the dark matches, but there was this hilarious moment where they did one of those badly telegraphed running-at-an-opponent next to the ropes then getting flipped/tossed over the ropes. Of course, they just happened to do it on the side with the ramp, so they didn't have the usual stakes. (Although that's probably smart, considering that it's usually a hard bump.) Anna Jay was subbed out (due to a legit injury) for Madi Wrenkowski, and I'm kinda wondering who was originally booked to win that match. The shit with Dr. Britt Baker, DMD was humorous since you don't do "Dr." with "DMD" (it's either one or the other; supposedly she's a legit dentist, so this feels like a Ken Jeong thing... except she actually works as a dentist as well, which is unsurprising given that she works at AEW). Fun match, though, and it was good that it was saved to last, because it obscured how long the Aja Kong match was. Then the round 2 Japanese women's matches were kinda better than the round 1 on the whole. Emi's first match was better, because Veny was a much better performer but Yuka looked decent here... and Mei Suruga, who was ringside for Emi, got involved with some fake-looking kicks when she and her cohort jumped Yuka outside of the ring. Then Aja vs Ryo was better than either of their first-round matches. I kinda expected Ryo to win just because I figured they're putting Yuka over and it'd look more credible for Yuka to beat Ryo... although it'd be crazy as fuck if Ryo wound up winning. The only round 1 match I haven't seen is Riho vs Serena Deeb, which I might skip because it would entail watching an episode of Dynamite and, knowing the result, I'm not terribly interested in seeing Serena, who I remember as being half-decent, job to a joke wrestler like Riho. I think the remainder of the tournament will be going to just be on YT, and then the winner fights Shida (who I guess was in attendance in Japan) at a PPV. I'm half-wondering if Shida was in Japan because they're just going to film the PPV match (and finals match as well). Given that the whole thing is a work, they can just shoot things beforehand. <quote>The Wave Master posted... </cite>Now there's some stuff with Bobby Lashley (Milk Dud or The Beta Male. Pick one)</quote> tbh, Lashley is one of those wrestlers I always wanted to like, because the dude looks like a powerhouse, but it's just never happened. His face run with the WWE sucked. His feud with VKM was fucking garbage, including that awful VKM fake death storyline that ended because Benoit died for real (leading to that tribute... before the news came out that Benoit had murdered his wife and kid then took his own life) and the terrible decision to put him over on the ECW relaunch which took CM Punk's spot (who I liked at the time, and the fact that the WWE kept under-using him was a big reason why I stopped watching at the time). In some ways, he was both a prototype for Roman Reigns and followed in the tradition of John Cena, where VKM picked a guy he thought should go over and, even when fans weren't feeling it, he kept pushing, and pushing. I caught part of his TNA run after that where they had him as a heel but... eh, idk, even then I wasn't buying into him as a star. Other than having an incredible physique, he didn't seem to really have much going for him. His promos never even seemed good. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
shadowsword87 02/23/21 8:19:59 PM #262:	Do people actually care about funko pops? I thought it was just a waste of plastic. <cite>shadowsword87 posted [p:951000451] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Do people actually care about funko pops? I thought it was just a waste of plastic. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/23/21 9:08:07 PM #263:	shadowsword87 posted... Do people actually care about funko pops? I thought it was just a waste of plastic. I've gradually come around on them. Prior to talking to a Funko rep who just gave me a bunch of stuff (some Pop!s, Mystery Minis, etc... actually, come to think of it, she gave me a lot of stuff), the only ones I had picked up were Chernabog (because how could you not like Chernabog?) and Bumble (the Abominable Snowman). I generally prefer the ones with mouths -- the lack of mouths is why I originally wasn't terribly enthused by the line in general -- but I'll sometimes get some of the mouthless ones as well (Sorceress for instance, although I just really like the Sorceress... which I why I paid like $80 or $90 for the MotUC version). I've mentioned them a few times in every Geek Topic going back maybe at least a few years now. My collection might be up to 30-40 Pop!s total, which is tiny compared to actual Pop! collectors. I know a lot of people who got crazily into them, and often people you wouldn't think would be into them. They're still far more popular than they logically should be, which is why you can find them all over the place and they've been going strong all this time. My favorites among the ones I own are probably Chernabog, Sharnado, Tung Lashor, and Donquixote Doflamingo... and maybe Bebop & Rocksteady. That said, I greatly prefer the Mystery Minis line. (And I like the Hikari line, but the pricing is generally greater than my interest. I just own maybe 2-3 of the Skeletor variants because, well, Skeletor.) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951002027] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>shadowsword87 posted... </cite> <quote>Do people actually care about funko pops? I thought it was just a waste of plastic.</quote> I've gradually come around on them. Prior to talking to a Funko rep who just gave me a bunch of stuff (some Pop!s, Mystery Minis, etc... actually, come to think of it, she gave me a lot of stuff), the only ones I had picked up were Chernabog (because how could you not like Chernabog?) and Bumble (the Abominable Snowman). I generally prefer the ones with mouths -- the lack of mouths is why I originally wasn't terribly enthused by the line in general -- but I'll sometimes get some of the mouthless ones as well (Sorceress for instance, although I just really like the Sorceress... which I why I paid like $80 or $90 for the MotUC version). I've mentioned them a few times in every Geek Topic going back maybe at least a few years now. My collection might be up to 30-40 Pop!s total, which is tiny compared to actual Pop! collectors. I know a lot of people who got crazily into them, and often people you wouldn't think would be into them. They're still far more popular than they logically should be, which is why you can find them all over the place and they've been going strong all this time. My favorites among the ones I own are probably Chernabog, Sharnado, Tung Lashor, and Donquixote Doflamingo... and maybe Bebop & Rocksteady. That said, I greatly prefer the Mystery Minis line. (And I like the Hikari line, but the pricing is generally greater than my interest. I just own maybe 2-3 of the Skeletor variants because, well, Skeletor.) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 02/24/21 10:12:06 PM #264:	I like Funko Pops. I have a few. I'm not a collector or anything, but I have maybe about a dozen. Just from atidd that I like, for example, Regular Show, or Supernatural. The new Spider-Man. Movie has a title. Spider-Man: No Way Home. After the events of Far From Home the tiyle6 enables sense. --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:951042270] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I like Funko Pops. I have a few. I'm not a collector or anything, but I have maybe about a dozen. Just from atidd that I like, for example, Regular Show, or Supernatural. The new Spider-Man. Movie has a title. Spider-Man: No Way Home. After the events of Far From Home the tiyle6 enables sense. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Revelation34 02/24/21 10:14:18 PM #265:	Scorpion as the villain or bust. --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:951042354] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Scorpion as the villain or bust.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/25/21 12:07:50 AM #266:	I keep meaning to talk about the Chase again, but I keep thinking I've already done it since I probably covered a bit of stuff in my first post about it. At any rate, apparently the reason Ken Jennings hasn't just kept on with Jeopardy is because of his commitments with the Chase (which hopefully will end, especially because the smarmy jackass executive producer they have doing it now pisses the fuck out of me and then the clown car of celebrity guest hosts is going to annoying). But that's only a small side discussion to what I've got to say about the Chase. I think I've seen 6 episodes of the Chase so far (probably however many are up) and it kinda reinforces what I said in the first place -- Jennings is wrong for the program, but so is Brad. You have teams playing against these Jeopardy champs and it's just too fucking easy to root against the contestants. Ken Jennings is a choir boy, so his trash-talking falls flat. Brad's ridiculous bowtie is distracting, but more importantly he's still a reasonably likeable guy. (There's also the sub issue that Brad is the weakest of the chasers by a very wide margin.) By contrast, James is made for the fucking role because he can play a convincing heel... although half the time I'm still rooting for him because he's a cool heel. For example, we learn that the third guy on a team is actually an 8-time Jeopardy champion. James's reaction? "I'm a 36-time Jeopardy champion. Welcome to the grown-ups table." (Of course, it's worth noting that Ken's run is much, much longer but I can't see Ken saying something like that, let alone having a great delivery.) The Brad episodes kinda feel like a waste, although they also pair him against weaker opponents. Speaking of a waste, contestants have an option of selecting other offers but offhand I can't really remember them ever going for the high/low. The Wave Master posted... The new Spider-Man. Movie has a title. Spider-Man: No Way Home. I can dig it. The Wave Master posted... After the events of Far From Home the tiyle6 enables sense. z0mg no spoilers! I guess because of the fucking Sony involvement, neither of the MCU Spideys is on D+. Revelation34 posted... Scorpion as the villain or bust. Would be nice. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951045838] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I keep meaning to talk about the Chase again, but I keep thinking I've already done it since I probably covered a bit of stuff in my first post about it. At any rate, apparently the reason Ken Jennings hasn't just kept on with Jeopardy is because of his commitments with the Chase (which hopefully will end, especially because the smarmy jackass executive producer they have doing it now pisses the fuck out of me and then the clown car of celebrity guest hosts is going to annoying). But that's only a small side discussion to what I've got to say about the Chase. I think I've seen 6 episodes of the Chase so far (probably however many are up) and it kinda reinforces what I said in the first place -- Jennings is wrong for the program, but so is Brad. You have teams playing against these Jeopardy champs and it's just too fucking easy to root against the contestants. Ken Jennings is a choir boy, so his trash-talking falls flat. Brad's ridiculous bowtie is distracting, but more importantly he's still a reasonably likeable guy. (There's also the sub issue that Brad is the weakest of the chasers by a very wide margin.) By contrast, James is made for the fucking role because he can play a convincing heel... although half the time I'm still rooting for him because he's a cool heel. For example, we learn that the third guy on a team is actually an 8-time Jeopardy champion. James's reaction? "I'm a 36-time Jeopardy champion. Welcome to the grown-ups table." (Of course, it's worth noting that Ken's run is much, much longer but I can't see Ken saying something like that, let alone having a great delivery.) The Brad episodes kinda feel like a waste, although they also pair him against weaker opponents. Speaking of a waste, contestants have an option of selecting other offers but offhand I can't really remember them ever going for the high/low. The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>The new Spider-Man. Movie has a title. Spider-Man: No Way Home.</quote> I can dig it. The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>After the events of Far From Home the tiyle6 enables sense.</quote> z0mg no spoilers! I guess because of the fucking Sony involvement, neither of the MCU Spideys is on D+. Revelation34 posted... </cite> <quote>Scorpion as the villain or bust.</quote> Would be nice. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/25/21 5:35:46 AM #267:	Matt Groening spoke out on the VA change for the Simpsons: https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-simpsons-creator-matt-groening-recasting-white-actors-1234699766/ And tbh, the fact that they use the same actors for so many roles does add another whole level of stupid to the change, since now it means that either you're hiring an actor for one role or do all voices associated with that race. Brings to mind Flanders's "good intentions" rant from the episode "Hurricane Neddy." --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951050951] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Matt Groening spoke out on the VA change for the Simpsons: https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-simpsons-creator-matt-groening-recasting-white-actors-1234699766/ And tbh, the fact that they use the same actors for so many roles does add another whole level of stupid to the change, since now it means that either you're hiring an actor for one role or do all voices associated with that race. Brings to mind Flanders's "good intentions" rant from the episode "Hurricane Neddy." </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 02/25/21 11:31:18 AM #268:	Zeus posted... Matt Groening spoke out on the VA change for the Simpsons: https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-simpsons-creator-matt-groening-recasting-white-actors-1234699766/ And tbh, the fact that they use the same actors for so many roles does add another whole level of stupid to the change, since now it means that either you're hiring an actor for one role or do all voices associated with that race. Brings to mind Flanders's "good intentions" rant from the episode "Hurricane Neddy." I don't mind the changes because Kevin Michael Richardson has been featured in the cast for 3 or 4 seasons now. He's a regular cast member as far I'm concerned. Plus, there's a part ipf me that hopes someone other than Bank Robber and myself remembers, "The Knights of Prosperity." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgEl1TRsstw --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:951058576] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Matt Groening spoke out on the VA change for the Simpsons: https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-simpsons-creator-matt-groening-recasting-white-actors-1234699766/ And tbh, the fact that they use the same actors for so many roles does add another whole level of stupid to the change, since now it means that either you're hiring an actor for one role or do all voices associated with that race. Brings to mind Flanders's "good intentions" rant from the episode "Hurricane Neddy."</quote> I don't mind the changes because Kevin Michael Richardson has been featured in the cast for 3 or 4 seasons now. He's a regular cast member as far I'm concerned. Plus, there's a part ipf me that hopes someone other than Bank Robber and myself remembers, "The Knights of Prosperity." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgEl1TRsstw </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
I_Abibde 02/25/21 5:11:11 PM #269:	"Steal from the rich to give to themselves!" Underrated show, that. For Zeus: Have you tried MLW Fusion? Free to watch on You Tube if you want a more indie vibe to your wrestling. Also: Got the Hamburglar Pop. Small victory. For PO: I found several Books of Lost Swords at Half-Price Books yesterday. Coincidence? --- -- I Abibde / Samuraiter Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002. <cite>I_Abibde posted [p:951072149] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>"Steal from the rich to give to themselves!" Underrated show, that. For Zeus: Have you tried MLW Fusion? Free to watch on You Tube if you want a more indie vibe to your wrestling. Also: Got the Hamburglar Pop. Small victory. For PO: I found several Books of Lost Swords at Half-Price Books yesterday. Coincidence? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/25/21 5:42:01 PM #270:	I_Abibde posted... For Zeus: Have you tried MLW Fusion? Free to watch on You Tube if you want a more indie vibe to your wrestling. I'm not really looking for indie, but I'll give it a try. Getting really annoyed by AEW Dark, so I might just drop that (although I guess AEW uploads some individual matches so I don't need to bother with full shows). The one I just watched (and by "watched," I mean I had to skip 2/3s) wound up pairing Bear Country in an 8-man tag with... Jelly Nutella and Sonny -_- I_Abibde posted... Also: Got the Hamburglar Pop. Small victory. Oo --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951073896] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>For Zeus: Have you tried MLW Fusion? Free to watch on You Tube if you want a more indie vibe to your wrestling.</quote> I'm not really looking for indie, but I'll give it a try. Getting really annoyed by AEW Dark, so I might just drop that (although I guess AEW uploads some individual matches so I don't need to bother with full shows). The one I just watched (and by "watched," I mean I had to skip 2/3s) wound up pairing Bear Country in an 8-man tag with... Jelly Nutella and Sonny -_- I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>Also: Got the Hamburglar Pop. Small victory.</quote> Oo </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
shadowsword87 02/25/21 6:03:54 PM #271:	Oh, PO, I'm curious on your opinion on BattleTech and all of their stuff. I've been slowly getting more and more into it. <cite>shadowsword87 posted [p:951075112] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Oh, PO, I'm curious on your opinion on BattleTech and all of their stuff. I've been slowly getting more and more into it. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Naruto_fan_42 02/26/21 3:42:08 AM #272:	The Wave Master posted... Why do you hate Wanda? She stole Visions corpse and revived him even though he was ready to die, only to fool him into being with her. She subjugated an entire town, which both took away their lives and put them through a lot of pain(as shown by the dude at Visions workplace). She kicks anyone she doesnt like or that challenges her in any way out of her false reality with no regard for their safety. She seems to be aware of what shes doing. Both Vision and Monica have brought it up to her but she chooses to ignore them. She left the hex on exactly one occasion when she took the missile back to the commander and made the barrier thicker. She left the hex purposefully to taunt the military, which means shes aware of the damage shes causing but does it anyway just to be with Vision. Other people died and their loved ones never did this. Combine that with the fact that I think Wanda is stupidly OP and that I just think shes an annoying character plus having a general dislike of her before the show even started that I could never put my finger on, and it all culminates in me hating her with a burning passion. --- w h e r e s t h e g i a n t m a n s l e y <cite>Naruto_fan_42 posted [p:951093131] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>Why do you hate Wanda?</quote>She stole Visions corpse and revived him even though he was ready to die, only to fool him into being with her. She subjugated an entire town, which both took away their lives and put them through a lot of pain(as shown by the dude at Visions workplace). She kicks anyone she doesnt like or that challenges her in any way out of her false reality with no regard for their safety. She seems to be aware of what shes doing. Both Vision and Monica have brought it up to her but she chooses to ignore them. She left the hex on exactly one occasion when she took the missile back to the commander and made the barrier thicker. She left the hex purposefully to taunt the military, which means shes aware of the damage shes causing but does it anyway just to be with Vision. Other people died and their loved ones never did this. Combine that with the fact that I think Wanda is stupidly OP and that I just think shes an annoying character plus having a general dislike of her before the show even started that I could never put my finger on, and it all culminates in me hating her with a burning passion. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Revelation34 02/26/21 7:21:28 PM #273:	Robots have corpses? --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:951124391] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Robots have corpses?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 02/26/21 11:04:33 PM #274:	Revelation34 posted... Robots have corpses? Depends on which Sci Fi franchise you want to base your logic on presently. Zeus, I hope you watched the Lance Archer, Rey Phenix match on AEW Wednesday. It was awesome. Simply awesome. Also, Cameron Grimes becoming a bilionare off Gamestop stock and stealing the million dollar man's gimmick on NXT is just gold right now. Good stuff. --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:951131652] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Revelation34 posted... </cite> <quote>Robots have corpses?</quote> Depends on which Sci Fi franchise you want to base your logic on presently. Zeus, I hope you watched the Lance Archer, Rey Phenix match on AEW Wednesday. It was awesome. Simply awesome. Also, Cameron Grimes becoming a bilionare off Gamestop stock and stealing the million dollar man's gimmick on NXT is just gold right now. Good stuff. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/27/21 1:57:53 AM #275:	The Wave Master posted... Depends on which Sci Fi franchise you want to base your logic on presently. Speaking of, how much robotification does there have to be before somebody stops being a cyborg? And if a deceased person is robotified, are they still considered a cyborg? The Wave Master posted... Zeus, I hope you watched the Lance Archer, Rey Phenix match on AEW Wednesday. It was awesome. Simply awesome. If they upload it to YT later I might, but I'm not sitting through another episode of Dynamite. Well, not unless they're gating the finals for the women's tourney behind Dynamite, but I think all of that is going to be either on YT or some other website. Granted, I'm guessing Yuka will win because that's the only outcome that really makes sense and, having seen a bunch of her other AEW matches, I'm kinda checked out. Then again, given that Yuka has had runs at AEW, maybe the whole Japanese bracket is meaningless and they're not going that direction. Either way, Yuka isn't doing it for me and Riho looks like a joke when she's wrestling normal-sized women. (I did just watch a match between her and Shoko Nakajima where, because they're both tiny, the stuff didn't look egregious. It was still kinda goofy, though.) Granted, if Dynamite was on YT rather than Hulu maybe, but only because it's easier to skip around in YT than Hulu. It's weird how badly Hulu runs even after all of these years. The Wave Master posted... Also, Cameron Grimes becoming a bilionare off Gamestop stock and stealing the million dollar man's gimmick on NXT is just gold right now. Good stuff. That I'll have to check out. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951135636] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>Depends on which Sci Fi franchise you want to base your logic on presently.</quote> Speaking of, how much robotification does there have to be before somebody stops being a cyborg? And if a deceased person is robotified, are they still considered a cyborg? The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>Zeus, I hope you watched the Lance Archer, Rey Phenix match on AEW Wednesday. It was awesome. Simply awesome.</quote> If they upload it to YT later I might, but I'm not sitting through another episode of Dynamite. Well, not unless they're gating the finals for the women's tourney behind Dynamite, but I think all of that is going to be either on YT or some other website. Granted, I'm guessing Yuka will win because that's the only outcome that really makes sense and, having seen a bunch of her other AEW matches, I'm kinda checked out. Then again, given that Yuka has had runs at AEW, maybe the whole Japanese bracket is meaningless and they're not going that direction. Either way, Yuka isn't doing it for me and Riho looks like a joke when she's wrestling normal-sized women. (I did just watch a match between her and Shoko Nakajima where, because they're both tiny, the stuff didn't look egregious. It was still kinda goofy, though.) Granted, if Dynamite was on YT rather than Hulu maybe, but only because it's easier to skip around in YT than Hulu. It's weird how badly Hulu runs even after all of these years. The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>Also, Cameron Grimes becoming a bilionare off Gamestop stock and stealing the million dollar man's gimmick on NXT is just gold right now. Good stuff.</quote> That I'll have to check out. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
LuciferSage 02/27/21 2:07:30 AM #276:	Zeus posted... Speaking of, how much robotification does there have to be before somebody stops being a cyborg? And if a deceased person is robotified, are they still considered a cyborg? I would have to argue that there's a huge range in between Johnny Mnemonic, Robocop, Hugh/7 of 9, and Data. --- http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u260/luciferxsage/LxSsigFinal.png pigs we get what pigs deserve... -\|\\| \| \|/\| <cite>LuciferSage posted [p:951135798] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Speaking of, how much robotification does there have to be before somebody stops being a cyborg? And if a deceased person is robotified, are they still considered a cyborg?</quote> I would have to argue that there's a huge range in between Johnny Mnemonic, Robocop, Hugh/7 of 9, and Data. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Metalsonic66 02/27/21 1:44:19 PM #277:	Naruto_fan_42 posted... She stole Visions corpse and revived him even though he was ready to die, only to fool him into being with her. She subjugated an entire town, which both took away their lives and put them through a lot of pain(as shown by the dude at Visions workplace). She kicks anyone she doesnt like or that challenges her in any way out of her false reality with no regard for their safety. She seems to be aware of what shes doing. Both Vision and Monica have brought it up to her but she chooses to ignore them. She left the hex on exactly one occasion when she took the missile back to the commander and made the barrier thicker. She left the hex purposefully to taunt the military, which means shes aware of the damage shes causing but does it anyway just to be with Vision. Other people died and their loved ones never did this. Combine that with the fact that I think Wanda is stupidly OP and that I just think shes an annoying character plus having a general dislike of her before the show even started that I could never put my finger on, and it all culminates in me hating her with a burning passion. Just so you know, you got several of the details there wrong. Might not change your over all opinion, but might help put things into perspective. --- PSN/Steam ID: Metalsonic_69 Big bombs go kabang. <cite>Metalsonic66 posted [p:951148495] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Naruto_fan_42 posted... </cite> <quote>She stole Visions corpse and revived him even though he was ready to die, only to fool him into being with her. She subjugated an entire town, which both took away their lives and put them through a lot of pain(as shown by the dude at Visions workplace). She kicks anyone she doesnt like or that challenges her in any way out of her false reality with no regard for their safety. She seems to be aware of what shes doing. Both Vision and Monica have brought it up to her but she chooses to ignore them. She left the hex on exactly one occasion when she took the missile back to the commander and made the barrier thicker. She left the hex purposefully to taunt the military, which means shes aware of the damage shes causing but does it anyway just to be with Vision. Other people died and their loved ones never did this. Combine that with the fact that I think Wanda is stupidly OP and that I just think shes an annoying character plus having a general dislike of her before the show even started that I could never put my finger on, and it all culminates in me hating her with a burning passion.</quote>Just so you know, you got several of the details there wrong. Might not change your over all opinion, but might help put things into perspective. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Naruto_fan_42 02/27/21 2:06:54 PM #278:	LuciferSage posted... I would have to argue that there's a huge range in between Johnny Mnemonic, Robocop, Hugh/7 of 9, and Data. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pw9GHwSVOAE --- w h e r e s t h e g i a n t m a n s l e y <cite>Naruto_fan_42 posted [p:951149118] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>LuciferSage posted... </cite> <quote>I would have to argue that there's a huge range in between Johnny Mnemonic, Robocop, Hugh/7 of 9, and Data.</quote>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pw9GHwSVOAE </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
LuciferSage 02/27/21 3:20:36 PM #279:	Just dropping this here for the hell of it. https://youtu.be/ijUKBIxeAS4 --- http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u260/luciferxsage/LxSsigFinal.png pigs we get what pigs deserve... -\|\\| \| \|/\| <cite>LuciferSage posted [p:951151528] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Just dropping this here for the hell of it. https://youtu.be/ijUKBIxeAS4 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
I_Abibde 02/27/21 8:44:30 PM #280:	Zeus posted... Oo I only collect certain Pops, and most of the ones I have to tend to be villains, so yes, the Hamburglar is a small victory in that regard. You mentioned you have several Skeletors. I picked up the Terror Claws version about a month back. --- -- I Abibde / Samuraiter Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002. <cite>I_Abibde posted [p:951161803] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Oo</quote> I only collect certain Pops, and most of the ones I have to tend to be villains, so yes, the Hamburglar is a small victory in that regard. You mentioned you have several Skeletors. I picked up the Terror Claws version about a month back. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 02/28/21 7:12:38 PM #281:	I_Abibde posted... I only collect certain Pops, and most of the ones I have to tend to be villains, so yes, Oddly enough and rather unintentionally, I think most of the Pop!s I own are also of a villainous sort. I_Abibde posted... so yes, the Hamburglar is a small victory in that regard. tbh, I only recently learned that the McDonald's ones were a thing when I stopped in a Hot Topic recently. And while Funko has just about everything in its Pop! line, it's still one you would really expect. I_Abibde posted... You mentioned you have several Skeletors. I picked up the Terror Claws version about a month back. Hikari line Skeletors, not Pop! Skeletors. I still don't have a Pop! Skeletor, although the Pop! metallic Terror Claws Skeletor looks cool. Funko's Hikari line is/was mass market "designer" sofubi (soft vinyl). It was a weird concept, since the designer vinyl market is angled as being a limited collectible (and "unique," even though a lot of designer vinyl collectors will own most of the same shit) and even though Funko was doing limited runs, they're very much a mass retail company. The original MSRPs on the line were something stupid, like $60-80. I think I paid maybe $20-30 shipped for the ones I bought. iirc, I bought Mystic Powers (seen above), Havoc, and.... I can't remember the last one. I love the Mystic Powers Skeletor, I could have lived without the other two (well, I mean, technically none of them were necessary for my survival, but you know what I mean) They're substantially larger than Pop!s and often have shoulder/neck articulation (although there's no real point in posing them). I forget the whole backstory on what the concept is based on, but apparently sofubi have a lot of tradition in Japan.... although I think Funko was manufacturing in China. There were a few other characters and entries in the line I was tempted to pick up, but at the time I didn't want to wander too far down that rabbit hole. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951193650] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>I only collect certain Pops, and most of the ones I have to tend to be villains, so yes,</quote> Oddly enough and rather unintentionally, I think most of the Pop!s I own are also of a villainous sort. I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>so yes, the Hamburglar is a small victory in that regard.</quote> tbh, I only recently learned that the McDonald's ones were a thing when I stopped in a Hot Topic recently. And while Funko has just about everything in its Pop! line, it's still one you would really expect. I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>You mentioned you have several Skeletors. I picked up the Terror Claws version about a month back.</quote> Hikari line Skeletors, not Pop! Skeletors. I still don't have a Pop! Skeletor, although the Pop! metallic Terror Claws Skeletor looks cool. Funko's Hikari line is/was mass market "designer" sofubi (soft vinyl). It was a weird concept, since the designer vinyl market is angled as being a limited collectible (and "unique," even though a lot of designer vinyl collectors will own most of the same shit) and even though Funko was doing limited runs, they're very much a mass retail company. The original MSRPs on the line were something stupid, like $60-80. I think I paid maybe $20-30 shipped for the ones I bought. iirc, I bought Mystic Powers (seen above), Havoc, and.... I can't remember the last one. I love the Mystic Powers Skeletor, I could have lived without the other two (well, I mean, technically none of them were necessary for my survival, but you know what I mean) They're substantially larger than Pop!s and often have shoulder/neck articulation (although there's no real point in posing them). I forget the whole backstory on what the concept is based on, but apparently sofubi have a lot of tradition in Japan.... although I think Funko was manufacturing in China. There were a few other characters and entries in the line I was tempted to pick up, but at the time I didn't want to wander too far down that rabbit hole. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Revelation34 02/28/21 8:04:44 PM #282:	I need to look for ones I want. I'll probably get another Skeletor at one point. --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:951195310] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I need to look for ones I want. I'll probably get another Skeletor at one point.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 03/01/21 8:07:14 PM #283:	After playing both The Lasr of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, my game of the year is Final Fantasy VII Remake. Yes, the level design is trash, but the rest is not, and I'm having a hard time with the combat in other games because it's so good in the Remake. Like, it's really damn good. . That's why I was actually excited for the Yuffie DLC coming in June. I know it's going to be 20 dollars, I don't care, and it's PS5 only, again I don't care because my PS5 came 2 weeks ago, and I'm tired of Inyernet culture telling me not to like something or not to be excited for something. I'm excited for the DLC and it makes me happy. --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:951232051] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>After playing both The Lasr of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, my game of the year is Final Fantasy VII Remake. Yes, the level design is trash, but the rest is not, and I'm having a hard time with the combat in other games because it's so good in the Remake. Like, it's really damn good. . That's why I was actually excited for the Yuffie DLC coming in June. I know it's going to be 20 dollars, I don't care, and it's PS5 only, again I don't care because my PS5 came 2 weeks ago, and I'm tired of Inyernet culture telling me not to like something or not to be excited for something. I'm excited for the DLC and it makes me happy. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/01/21 10:20:34 PM #284:	I'm trying really, really hard to still like the AEW Women's Tournament, but it just gets harder and harder with this nonsense. The third "tournament show" starts with a 6-woman tag match involving the tourney's losers and the woman's champ. First problem? The teams. They randomly put Emi Sakura and Mei Surugi, despite the fact that Mei has literally been serving as Emi's ring girl (in addition to competing separately) and ambushed her opponent in the last round. Like, why? This is just idiocy. Obviously they should be on the same team if you've been presenting them as a stable. Common fucking sense. Oh, but do you know who is on Emi's team? Fucking Veny, Emi's first round opponent! And who's Mei with? The champion, Hikaru Shida, who iirc stopped Emi, Mei, and the other ring girl in the midst of their post match beatdown of Yuka. AEW can't book for shit. This is just embarrassing. Why the fuck wouldn't you have ~~your heels together facing down a team led by the champion who got in their way? Instead, the pairing basically flies in the face of everything we saw in the first two rounds.~~ And there was really no reason for the pairing, either. It's not like the teams were arranged to avoid any first-round opponents being paired together (although they should have been). In fact, one of the losers isn't even in the six-woman tag for some reason (which is why Hikaru Shida is there instead?). The only connection I can think of is that all three girls are ~~title-holders although, other than the AEW Women's Championship, I'm not sure what those titles are or if they mean jack shit.~~ It was a sloppy match with some amusing spots. ~~Mei and Maki~~ were entertaining, but half the time their stuff looks like crap. My favorite moment was probably ~~Emi putting a simultaneous submission on Hikaru and Mei~~ ...then, to add to the stupidity, you have the post-match where Emi attacks Hikaru after the match -- which seems in character -- only for MEI, you know, her ring girl who assisted her in a post match attack in the "last" show (I'm assuming these were all really filmed at the same time) to make the save. The Wave Master posted... That's why I was actually excited for the Yuffie DLC coming in June. I know it's going to be 20 dollars, I don't care, and it's PS5 only, again I don't care because my PS5 came 2 weeks ago, and I'm tired of Inyernet culture telling me not to like something or not to be excited for something. I'm excited for the DLC and it makes me happy. The Yuffie DLC is a great example of why I don't bother buying shit at release any more. Eventually they'll do a special edition with the core game and DLC included, which I'll get for less than the vanilla version's MSRP >_> Also, the lack of Yuffie was one thing that bugged me about the remake. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951236745] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I'm trying really, really hard to still like the AEW Women's Tournament, but it just gets harder and harder with this nonsense. The third "tournament show" starts with a 6-woman tag match involving the tourney's losers and the woman's champ. First problem? The teams. They randomly put Emi Sakura and Mei Surugi, despite the fact that Mei has literally been serving as Emi's ring girl (in addition to competing separately) and ambushed her opponent in the last round. Like, why? This is just idiocy. Obviously they should be on the same team if you've been presenting them as a stable. Common fucking sense. Oh, but do you know who is on Emi's team? Fucking Veny, Emi's first round opponent! And who's Mei with? The champion, Hikaru Shida, who iirc stopped Emi, Mei, and the other ring girl in the midst of their post match beatdown of Yuka. AEW can't book for shit. This is just embarrassing. Why the fuck wouldn't you have your heels together facing down a team led by the champion who got in their way? Instead, the pairing basically flies in the face of everything we saw in the first two rounds. And there was really no reason for the pairing, either. It's not like the teams were arranged to avoid any first-round opponents being paired together (although they should have been). In fact, one of the losers isn't even in the six-woman tag for some reason (which is why Hikaru Shida is there instead?). The only connection I can think of is that all three girls are title-holders although, other than the AEW Women's Championship, I'm not sure what those titles are or if they mean jack shit. It was a sloppy match with some amusing spots. Mei and Maki were entertaining, but half the time their stuff looks like crap. My favorite moment was probably Emi putting a simultaneous submission on Hikaru and Mei ...then, to add to the stupidity, you have the post-match where Emi attacks Hikaru after the match -- which seems in character -- only for MEI, you know, her ring girl who assisted her in a post match attack in the "last" show (I'm assuming these were all really filmed at the same time) to make the save. The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>That's why I was actually excited for the Yuffie DLC coming in June. I know it's going to be 20 dollars, I don't care, and it's PS5 only, again I don't care because my PS5 came 2 weeks ago, and I'm tired of Inyernet culture telling me not to like something or not to be excited for something. I'm excited for the DLC and it makes me happy.</quote> The Yuffie DLC is a great example of why I don't bother buying shit at release any more. Eventually they'll do a special edition with the core game and DLC included, which I'll get for less than the vanilla version's MSRP >_> Also, the lack of Yuffie was one thing that bugged me about the remake. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Metalsonic66 03/01/21 10:25:07 PM #285:	Yuffie wasn't in the part of the game the remake covered anyway --- PSN/Steam ID: Metalsonic_69 Big bombs go kabang. <cite>Metalsonic66 posted [p:951236911] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Yuffie wasn't in the part of the game the remake covered anyway </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Revelation34 03/01/21 10:37:40 PM #286:	Oh so it's going to be an even bigger ripoff than initially thought. $60 for a 20 hour game that's split up to at least 3 separate episodes. Then bullshit DLC added. --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:951237329] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Oh so it's going to be an even bigger ripoff than initially thought. $60 for a 20 hour game that's split up to at least 3 separate episodes. Then bullshit DLC added.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Metalsonic66 03/01/21 10:44:49 PM #287:	Revelation34 posted... 20 hour That's cute --- PSN/Steam ID: Metalsonic_69 Big bombs go kabang. <cite>Metalsonic66 posted [p:951237587] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Revelation34 posted... </cite> <quote>20 hour</quote>That's cute </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Revelation34 03/01/21 10:47:05 PM #288:	Metalsonic66 posted... That's cute That's what helly claimed anyway. --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:951237682] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Metalsonic66 posted...</cite> <quote> That's cute </quote> That's what helly claimed anyway.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
LuciferSage 03/02/21 3:09:17 AM #289:	What should have been just "we can fix bugs and provide expansions" became "putting the coin slot back on your console" and pushing half baked hot garbage out the door with day 1 dlc they would have had to put on the main game disc before it shipped a few generations ago. Now they can charge full retail for the game in whatever rotten state they can push it out the door in, and then hit you twice over for season passes and dlc that used to have to be part of the retail release out of necessity. I can't get behind the modern state of gaming. --- http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u260/luciferxsage/LxSsigFinal.png pigs we get what pigs deserve... -\|\\| \| \|/\| <cite>LuciferSage posted [p:951243499] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>What should have been just "we can fix bugs and provide expansions" became "putting the coin slot back on your console" and pushing half baked hot garbage out the door with day 1 dlc they would have had to put on the main game disc before it shipped a few generations ago. Now they can charge full retail for the game in whatever rotten state they can push it out the door in, and then hit you twice over for season passes and dlc that used to have to be part of the retail release out of necessity. I can't get behind the modern state of gaming. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/02/21 5:14:21 AM #290:	Metalsonic66 posted... Yuffie wasn't in the part of the game the remake covered anyway Well, that just raises more questions than it answers. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951245080] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Metalsonic66 posted... </cite> <quote>Yuffie wasn't in the part of the game the remake covered anyway</quote> Well, that just raises more questions than it answers. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Metalsonic66 03/02/21 1:45:25 PM #291:	Pretty straightforward --- PSN/Steam ID: Metalsonic_69 Big bombs go kabang. <cite>Metalsonic66 posted [p:951257133] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Pretty straightforward </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
I_Abibde 03/02/21 1:48:26 PM #292:	Zeus posted... Hikari line Skeletors, not Pop! Skeletors. I still don't have a Pop! Skeletor, although the Pop! metallic Terror Claws Skeletor looks cool. I stand corrected. ... That happens a lot in this series of topics. Meanwhile, I am not the biggest Yuffie fan, so the DLC being exclusive to the PS5 version of the game does not bother me. shrugs Still hoping Episode 2 of the remake gets a PS4 release, if only to see how Nomura crashes that particular bus when he no longer has the original plot off which to piggyback. --- -- I Abibde / Samuraiter Laughing at Game FAQs since 2002. <cite>I_Abibde posted [p:951257238] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Hikari line Skeletors, not Pop! Skeletors. I still don't have a Pop! Skeletor, although the Pop! metallic Terror Claws Skeletor looks cool.</quote> I stand corrected. ... That happens a lot in this series of topics. Meanwhile, I am not the biggest Yuffie fan, so the DLC being exclusive to the PS5 version of the game does not bother me. shrugs Still hoping Episode 2 of the remake gets a PS4 release, if only to see how Nomura crashes that particular bus when he no longer has the original plot off which to piggyback. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/02/21 2:45:20 PM #293:	Pro gamers just get younger and younger these days... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56239242 It's starting to feel like Muay Thai, where 17 is sometimes considered over the hill >_> (Although in that case it's because they start training at age 7 or 8, fight incredibly regularly in a dangerous style, and have often suffered many serious injuries by 17... or so a documentary or two I half-remember has claimed) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951259329] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Pro gamers just get younger and younger these days... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56239242 It's starting to feel like Muay Thai, where 17 is sometimes considered over the hill >_> (Although in that case it's because they start training at age 7 or 8, fight incredibly regularly in a dangerous style, and have often suffered many serious injuries by 17... or so a documentary or two I half-remember has claimed) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Revelation34 03/02/21 2:55:40 PM #294:	Metalsonic66 posted... Pretty straightforward I agree. https://i.imgur.com/RWofEpi.jpg --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:951259756] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Metalsonic66 posted...</cite> <quote>Pretty straightforward </quote> I agree. https://i.imgur.com/RWofEpi.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 03/03/21 9:16:05 AM #295:	I found this website, skinit.con where I can get a akin for my Playstation 5. Of course I want the Spider-Man ones, but my hands don't work to well, and I'm sure I'll mess up putting it on my ps5, and I'd be upset. Guilty Gear Strive has already made a lot of people in the FGC happy. Rollback netcode has made playing fighting games online so much better. There's still lag, but it's do infrequent that it's almost not a problem. --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:951286725] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I found this website, skinit.con where I can get a akin for my Playstation 5. Of course I want the Spider-Man ones, but my hands don't work to well, and I'm sure I'll mess up putting it on my ps5, and I'd be upset. Guilty Gear Strive has already made a lot of people in the FGC happy. Rollback netcode has made playing fighting games online so much better. There's still lag, but it's do infrequent that it's almost not a problem. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/03/21 5:25:24 PM #296:	I've never really seen the appeal of system skins. It's not like you're even paying much attention to the system itself much of the time. Some time ago I wound up overpaying on a DS (with a busted battery) with a sticker-skin of the Hulk. (Maybe it was like $12? Which I guess still isn't terrible, although it didn't come with a cord, either. However, given that I paid $5 for that rose-colored one with a cord in better condition -- which was a bargain (possibly second only to my cobalt-blue GBA-SP I got from a garage sale for $5 which came with the cord and a pouch) it feels like I massively overpaid.) I still need to get that sticker off one of these days. Fucking ugly thing. However, I can more see skins on something like a handheld because you're constantly seeing the system itself while you play. However, I can't say I'd want to use them. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951302915] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I've never really seen the appeal of system skins. It's not like you're even paying much attention to the system itself much of the time. Some time ago I wound up overpaying on a DS (with a busted battery) with a sticker-skin of the Hulk. (Maybe it was like $12? Which I guess still isn't terrible, although it didn't come with a cord, either. However, given that I paid $5 for that rose-colored one with a cord in better condition -- which was a bargain (possibly second only to my cobalt-blue GBA-SP I got from a garage sale for $5 which came with the cord and a pouch) it feels like I massively overpaid.) I still need to get that sticker off one of these days. Fucking ugly thing. However, I can more see skins on something like a handheld because you're constantly seeing the system itself while you play. However, I can't say I'd want to use them. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/06/21 6:14:36 PM #297:	Wrassling stuff: I'm thinking of following SD again. When properly edited, the shit looks pretty damn good. (Of course, that looks like they trimmed it down for YT.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6QPfkD1jW0 The only problem is that there's so little in the way of actual wrestling or even promos on the show. Instead there's a lot of shout-outs to the other show, crappy comedy skits, and padding. As for AEW, I'm still not caught up on the Women's tourney but... they kinda went with an interesting winner for the tournament. Ryo seems pretty talented from the matches I've watched -- even making Yuka look pretty good -- and it kinda makes sense to go with her, since Yuka and Emi Sakura have both already appeared on AEW where, afaik, Ryo hasn't. However, the whole handling of this thing has been kinda silly where it was shown on YT instead of Dynamite, although I'm kinda happy for that since that'd mean I'd need to watch Dynamite for more of it Otherwise for AEW, I guess Shawn Spears is back? He looks like he put on some weight. I caught the Tully part of a match, and I might endure part of Dynamite for the full Jurassic Express match against Tully, FTR. Can't remember if I or anybody else brought it up, but the Big Show signed with AEW... as a color commentator. Given that he makes almost the whole damn roster look like children (Luchasaurus probably being a big exception), I guess they would have to have him behind a desk. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951420559] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Wrassling stuff: I'm thinking of following SD again. When properly edited, the shit looks pretty damn good. (Of course, that looks like they trimmed it down for YT.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6QPfkD1jW0 The only problem is that there's so little in the way of actual wrestling or even promos on the show. Instead there's a lot of shout-outs to the other show, crappy comedy skits, and padding. As for AEW, I'm still not caught up on the Women's tourney but... they kinda went with an interesting winner for the tournament. Ryo seems pretty talented from the matches I've watched -- even making Yuka look pretty good -- and it kinda makes sense to go with her, since Yuka and Emi Sakura have both already appeared on AEW where, afaik, Ryo hasn't. However, the whole handling of this thing has been kinda silly where it was shown on YT instead of Dynamite, although I'm kinda happy for that since that'd mean I'd need to watch Dynamite for more of it Otherwise for AEW, I guess Shawn Spears is back? He looks like he put on some weight. I caught the Tully part of a match, and I might endure part of Dynamite for the full Jurassic Express match against Tully, FTR. Can't remember if I or anybody else brought it up, but the Big Show signed with AEW... as a color commentator. Given that he makes almost the whole damn roster look like children (Luchasaurus probably being a big exception), I guess they would have to have him behind a desk. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/07/21 8:38:32 PM #298:	Watching MonsterQuest's New England vampire episode was probably the strongest reminder as to why I stopped watching MonsterQuest and, to some extent, the History Channel's programming in general. They don't fact-check shit and bring in subject matter "experts" whose claims can be debunked with a simple google search. And that's on top of the investigation itself being silly and, in this case, not even entertaining. At least some of the other crock of shit speculative documentaries were fun to watch, be it America Unearthed or whatever and... whatever that series was with the three goofs who had no business being in this shit investigating paranormal stuff in... oh, right, Missing in Alaska. Man, those guys were knuckleheads. I think Tommy might have been the only one to have a brain between them, although I might be thinking he's smarter simply because he doesn't open his mouth as much. At any rate, I was looking up the AEW Evolution results just because I was curious what they were doing with that Women's Championship match... and then I saw that one of the prelim bouts involved Maki Itoh in a tag match. If they were going to bring some of the other women from the tourney over to the US then why bother shooting that whole tournament in a warehouse with curtains everywhere? That said, if they brought some of the women over, I would probably be a bit more interested in AEW's Women's division because, while I wouldn't call a lot of them great, most were still better than many of the ones they have now... if only by a small margin. (Although from the one or two matches I've seen, Britt Baker seems decent. And I kinda like that Maddie chick, even though she's pretty green.) --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951459410] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Watching MonsterQuest's New England vampire episode was probably the strongest reminder as to why I stopped watching MonsterQuest and, to some extent, the History Channel's programming in general. They don't fact-check shit and bring in subject matter "experts" whose claims can be debunked with a simple google search. And that's on top of the investigation itself being silly and, in this case, not even entertaining. At least some of the other crock of shit speculative documentaries were fun to watch, be it America Unearthed or whatever and... whatever that series was with the three goofs who had no business being in this shit investigating paranormal stuff in... oh, right, Missing in Alaska. Man, those guys were knuckleheads. I think Tommy might have been the only one to have a brain between them, although I might be thinking he's smarter simply because he doesn't open his mouth as much. At any rate, I was looking up the AEW Evolution results just because I was curious what they were doing with that Women's Championship match... and then I saw that one of the prelim bouts involved Maki Itoh in a tag match. If they were going to bring some of the other women from the tourney over to the US then why bother shooting that whole tournament in a warehouse with curtains everywhere? That said, if they brought some of the women over, I would probably be a bit more interested in AEW's Women's division because, while I wouldn't call a lot of them great, most were still better than many of the ones they have now... if only by a small margin. (Although from the one or two matches I've seen, Britt Baker seems decent. And I kinda like that Maddie chick, even though she's pretty green.) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The Wave Master 03/08/21 7:36:35 AM #299:	Jim Cornette or "Old man yelling at kayfabe clouds." Was upset at AEW again because some audience member took a video of Shaq being taken away from the ambulance before the big reveal that he had "magically" disappeared after the match on Wednesday Dynamite. (A darn good match too) What's hilarious is that Shaq was in Atlanta, on the same network, doing broadcast duties for the NBA All Star game on Sunday, you know, his regular job. The video got released Sunday afternoon on Twitter. People on Twitter called him out because his podcast ratings are up only when he complains about AEW. He quickly banned those people, and his kayfabe of his own reality continues. --- We are who we choose to be. <cite>The Wave Master posted [p:951473067] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>Jim Cornette or "Old man yelling at kayfabe clouds." Was upset at AEW again because some audience member took a video of Shaq being taken away from the ambulance before the big reveal that he had "magically" disappeared after the match on Wednesday Dynamite. (A darn good match too) What's hilarious is that Shaq was in Atlanta, on the same network, doing broadcast duties for the NBA All Star game on Sunday, you know, his regular job. The video got released Sunday afternoon on Twitter. People on Twitter called him out because his podcast ratings are up only when he complains about AEW. He quickly banned those people, and his kayfabe of his own reality continues. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 03/08/21 2:24:22 PM #300:	The Wave Master posted... Jim Cornette or "Old man yelling at kayfabe clouds." Was upset at AEW again because some audience member took a video of Shaq being taken away from the ambulance before the big reveal that he had "magically" disappeared after the match on Wednesday Dynamite. (A darn good match too) His video on that was hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsoFql6skME He's really been taking the piss out of wrestling promotions for constantly using kidnap gimmicks (AEW I guess had 4-6 kidnappings in just the space of a month, between Marco Stunt, Darby Allan, The Young Fucks' father, and Hook (who I didn't know was Tazz's son), as well as a few others I've forgotten) and "teleportation". This is in addition to two promotions -- AEW and TNA -- having wedding angles around the same time. And his commentary on TNA's shenanigans has cracked me up. I saw a clip on YT from the Shaq fight, which only had a few minutes and was about what you might expect from a mixed tag match where one guy isn't a pro wrestler. And, honestly, Shaq is better at it than some of the jabronies they've hired. The Wave Master posted... What's hilarious is that Shaq was in Atlanta, on the same network, doing broadcast duties for the NBA All Star game on Sunday, you know, his regular job. The video got released Sunday afternoon on Twitter. Jim & Brian laughed about that fact as well. They pointed out that, in addition to no reason for the disappearance (or for Tony or whoever to open the back of the ambulance in the first place), it was silly because they had him on announcing right after. They also criticized the Young Fucks for doing a table spot later in the night that took attention off the Shaq match, which was a pretty legit criticism because it ~~devalues something that should have been a highlight of a night by doing the same thing but bigger.~~ The Wave Master posted... People on Twitter called him out because his podcast ratings are up only when he complains about AEW. He quickly banned those people, and his kayfabe of his own reality continues. His podcast ratings are constantly up. And AEW doesn't have the audience where they can really help him. Honestly, Jim Cornette has done far more for AEW getting over than anybody at AEW. If he wanted the promotion to die, he should have stopped talking about it immediately. And it's pretty clear that they've mostly chosen to push some wrestlers because of Cornette. There are actually times when I've wondered if Tony Khan might be slipping Cornette a check for advertising their shit (I know that I would have even known about the "Japanese schoolgirls tournament" if he hadn't talked about it and Maki Itoh)... but then I realize how much WWE stuff he does. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:951485443] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>Jim Cornette or "Old man yelling at kayfabe clouds." Was upset at AEW again because some audience member took a video of Shaq being taken away from the ambulance before the big reveal that he had "magically" disappeared after the match on Wednesday Dynamite. (A darn good match too)</quote> His video on that was hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsoFql6skME He's really been taking the piss out of wrestling promotions for constantly using kidnap gimmicks (AEW I guess had 4-6 kidnappings in just the space of a month, between Marco Stunt, Darby Allan, The Young Fucks' father, and Hook (who I didn't know was Tazz's son), as well as a few others I've forgotten) and "teleportation". This is in addition to two promotions -- AEW and TNA -- having wedding angles around the same time. And his commentary on TNA's shenanigans has cracked me up. I saw a clip on YT from the Shaq fight, which only had a few minutes and was about what you might expect from a mixed tag match where one guy isn't a pro wrestler. And, honestly, Shaq is better at it than some of the jabronies they've hired. The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>What's hilarious is that Shaq was in Atlanta, on the same network, doing broadcast duties for the NBA All Star game on Sunday, you know, his regular job. The video got released Sunday afternoon on Twitter.</quote> Jim & Brian laughed about that fact as well. They pointed out that, in addition to no reason for the disappearance (or for Tony or whoever to open the back of the ambulance in the first place), it was silly because they had him on announcing right after. They also criticized the Young Fucks for doing a table spot later in the night that took attention off the Shaq match, which was a pretty legit criticism because it devalues something that should have been a highlight of a night by doing the same thing but bigger. The Wave Master posted... </cite> <quote>People on Twitter called him out because his podcast ratings are up only when he complains about AEW. He quickly banned those people, and his kayfabe of his own reality continues.</quote> His podcast ratings are constantly up. And AEW doesn't have the audience where they can really help him. Honestly, Jim Cornette has done far more for AEW getting over than anybody at AEW. If he wanted the promotion to die, he should have stopped talking about it immediately. And it's pretty clear that they've mostly chosen to push some wrestlers because of Cornette. There are actually times when I've wondered if Tony Khan might be slipping Cornette a check for advertising their shit (I know that I would have even known about the "Japanese schoolgirls tournament" if he hadn't talked about it and Maki Itoh)... but then I realize how much WWE stuff he does. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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