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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="bigtplaystew" data-cite="bigtplaystew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So is it better for Cena to lie down and let Bray trash him and not retaliate a single decent shot back at him until Wrestlemania? Is JOHN CENA supposed to cower in fear of Bray Wyatt? It's John Cena, man. He NEVER BACKS DOWN lol. <p> </p><p> I don't know. I feel like when two wrestlers go at each other on the mic, they each get to hit each other. I think cena making fun of Bray is 100% fair game. Now bray has to go back and tear Cena a new one on Smackdown. Thats how a hot feud should play out IMO. These are, from what I understand, two guys on a very small list who do the old school promo style of receiving bullet points and doing the rest on their own. It feels more real if Wyatt is trying to tear down Cena and Cena laughs it off. Ifeel like that's how it SHOULD go. But that's my opinion.</p></div></blockquote><p> I agree. If we're going to say Cena is wrong to do this then we need to go back and say that The Rock and Chris Jericho were also wrong to do it, too. Hoot-n-Toot Guerrera, anyone? I mean, it fits his character, like it fit Rock's and Y2J's, to take childish pops at his opponents. Not every character can pull that off, but Cena can. He's geared towards the younger audience, and they love all that crap, just like we loved The Rock telling all the 'rudey-poo jabroni's' of yesteryear just what he thought of them. Just like we loved DX coming out and mimicking the Nation. It really is hard to say that its harmful, because it didn't hurt the product or the workers much back then.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="RKOwnage" data-cite="RKOwnage" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just finished Tomb Raider. It was a solid reboot even though the ending felt rushed and the supporting characters weren't really fleshed out. It's got a lot of potential, the game was pretty fun.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Smasher1311" data-cite="Smasher1311" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>And i just got Tomb Raider. I'm in the Mountain Village. Pretty awesome game thus far and the best one that i got with PS Plus thus far.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm assuming you got these on PS+? I tried to download it the other day, says it needs 12GB of space, I have 17GB free and it was saying that there wasn't enough space. I only have a 40GB HDD on my PS3 (it's pretty old) and I'm playing Remember Me right now with BioShock Infinite also downloaded ready to play, so I'll wait and finish Remember Me and try again.</p><p> </p><p> On another note, did you guys play Brothers? I did. It was alright, it's very short (about 2-3 hours), but having to control two characters at the same time was often quite the challenge. I wouldn't say it was a great game, but it was a great story. Almost like an 'interactive movie' type thing.</p>

I feel your pain on the internet speed. I have terrible internet speeds where I am - so much so that I don't connect my phone to the wifi because my 3G internet is as fast (sometimes faster) than my Sky Broadband. We get about 4Mbits here, the road behind me get 15Mbits <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Pretty much the bolded part. I initially used PCSpecialist to spec too, then looked around. Had I bought everything seperately I'd have saved about £200, but I'm not too comfortable building a PC from scratch. I've upgraded everything inside a PC except a motherboard and it's never bothered me, but I'm not too sure about building one. I'd hate to mess something up and ruin one (or several) of the components, and then essentially have wasted money. This way I get it done for me, I get a warranty (I think it's 2 years but I'm not sure), and I can pay it off over 12 months instead of shelling it all out now (and over 12 months is interest free). So even though it's costing quite a chunk more than it should, it gives me ease of mind.

Haha, I'm waiting on my new PC as well. I've always bought cheap PC's and then spent more doing them up, but then I've also always bought computer consoles too. There isn't anything that is drawing me to the new generation of consoles so I decided I was going to get a new PC... Then my current PC blew up (thankfully the second HDD which was a 1TB survived), so I decided the time to get a new one is now. I've been extremely greedy with the specs but my wife is paying some of it as an early Christmas present, and also on the understanding that I am not going to get a new gen console. I ordered it from PCSpecialist.co.uk and just waiting on it now. 3.7GHz Intel i7 CPU 4GB Nvidia GTX 770 GFX card 2TB HDD (Plus my current 1TB HDD) 16GB KINGSTON RAM (2x8GB Cards) I literally can't wait. I'm using an old PC that just isn't fit for anything, it's so slow and sluggish it feels like I've gone back a decade in technology. I'm happy my 1TB drive survived when my main PC died because it had most of my Steam stuff on there.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="christmas_ape" data-cite="christmas_ape" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That's exactly how I'd put it. <p> </p><p> Although I do disagree with the idea that the fans should be happy with how Bryan is being used. You can say that being in a major match at Wrestlemania is enough but it just isn't (I would also say facing Triple H isn't so major as much as I do like him.) if Wrestlemania doesn't end with Bryan with the belt and the whole arena in a Yes chant then they have just missed a huge opportunity. I'm on course not saying that he is being buried or anything stupid like that but the argument that being in a major storyline is enough would perhaps be right for people like Ziggler last year but not for Bryan now. Yes he is now comfortably in the main event but letting him headline Wrestlemania is the one thing that could truly make him a superstar.</p></div></blockquote><p> But what I am saying is this: Daniel Bryan being in the title picture isn't an option. The WWE don't want him there, and no matter how much the fans chant Yes! Yes! Yes! that isn't going to change. They want the Hollywood star who is going to be in this spring/summers blockbuster to hold the title to try and bring more awareness to the brand. Remember, when Batista is on these talk shows hyping his movie he will also be hyping not just the WWE, but the WWE Network. That is big money for the WWE.</p><p> </p><p> I'm not saying Batista deserves it. He doesn't. Guys like Bryan and Ziggler deserve it before he does, but that is the harsh truth.</p><p> </p><p> Now, on the flip side, WWE could have just forgot about Daniel Bryan. They could just go 'well, he isn't in the title picture, we'll just have him go into an angle with Fandango', but instead they continue the storyline that started last summer.</p><p> </p><p> You know I've said this many times in the past and I think it's warranted here so I'll say it again; holding the title doesn't make you the number one guy in the company. The fans make you the number one. And Daniel Bryan is the number one guy right now, WWE know it, but their plans are set.</p>

<p>I get that people want to see him reach his goal of having a run with the title, but we need to realise that that isn't going to be happening anytime soon, so him playing second fiddle to main storyline of Orton / Batista is not a bad thing. We've seen the WWE many times over the past decade pick up and drop wrestlers as and when they want too. We've seen wrestler being Champion one week and jobbing the next, but that hasn't happened to Daniel Bryan. He's firmly established himself at the top of the card, but unfortunately the WWE see's more money in a Batista WrestleMania main event (I see their line of thinking; his new movie is going to be heavily promoted and they want him holding the WWE Title while he is on talk shows bigging up the movie).</p><p> </p><p> Now, the harsh reality is that Bryan will be no where near the title picture for the foreseeable future, so what is second best? They continue their authority storyline and keep Bryan at the top of the card while he comes up against The Authority. The other option is that he does a Ziggler, ADR, Miz, etc. and goes back to midcard obscurity.</p>

<p>So, I was reading on another forum people complaining that Daniel Bryan is still being held down by the WWE. I've never really commented on this, and since that forum is full of nonsensical fanboys who like to flame war, I thought I'd share my views here instead.</p><p> </p><p> It seems that the WWE is caught between a rock and a hard place, because no matter what they do with Daniel Bryan, it isn't good enough. There's only one thing, apparently, that would keep the fans happy, and that is Bryan winning the World Title at WrestleMania. This, I think should be fairly obvious, isn't going to happen. Bryan is pretty much set to face Triple H on the big stage, and more than most likely will go over. However, still fans seem to think that the guy is being held down by creative, which is a completely insane view point to have. Daniel Bryan's journey is one of a few major storylines in the company right now, he get's as much screen time as John Cena, Randy Orton and Batista, and is constantly being featured in their media (website, etc.). Not to mention that over the last twelve months Daniel Bryan has featured in six main event's on PPV. Ok, so two of them PPV's were the Elimination Chamber and Money In The Bank matches, but he was still in the final matches on them cards. That puts him level with Cena and two behind Randy Orton (including their title match at Royal Rumble, if we remove that then he is one ahead of Cena and one behind Orton). The closest anyone comes to that figure are Shemus and Christian, both with two each, but both matches were the Elimination Chamber and Money In The Bank matches.</p><p> </p><p> This view that the WWE hate's its audience is just bizarre to me. Daniel Bryan has been heavily featured for a year, he is up there with the WWE Champion and John Cena. He is in a storyline where the people in charge don't want him to succeed, and they are trying their best to keep him down, yet Daniel Bryan always seems to come out on top, only to be screwed over. Yeah, it's a storyline.</p><p> </p><p> It just has me bemused that people that consider themselves 'smart' to the business are getting so bent out of shape over a storyline which they genuinely believe is true. They genuinely believe that Triple H and the McMahon's hate him and don't want him anywhere near the main event. Despite being in six of twelve PPV main events. Despite being in one of the hottest storylines of the past year. Oh my beloved wrestling fans, aren't we a fickle bunch?</p>

Well I now have it fully working on my iPad and on IE. It still won't work on Chrome for some reason and not on my PS3 either. It'd be nice if they made an official XBMC addon, but since the platform isn't that mainstream, I don't see it happening.

I still seem to have mixed results here from the UK. I use Private Internet Access's VPN anyway and the Network will work on my iPad but not on my PC or PS3. On the PC I either get the 'TV-PG' clip play and then it just loads nothing or I don't even get that; I just get a blank space where the video should be.

The only PPV's I've seen anyone mention that were missing were the overseas WCW ones (the NJPW shows and the German PPV) and the overseas WWE ones (Inserrextion etc). I'm not sure why these aren't on there but it's possible that at least with the NJPW shows that WWE don't own the full rights to the shows. If they were co-produced then it might be joint rights most likely meaning that NJPW would be due a cut. If that is indeed the case then it makes sense from a business standpoint to leave them out.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="christmas_ape" data-cite="christmas_ape" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ah I didn't know that. You're probably right then although you would think if that was the only problem then they could get it out everywhere else much sooner than they plan to. Although that's probably just me being impatient and wanting it in the UK as soon as possible.</div></blockquote><p> Yeah I'm from the UK too and I want it now also. I think the wait is to see how big server they believe they will need. Knowing the traffic from (what should be) the US alone will give them some indication of how big a server will need to be to give other countries access too. Like Jaysin says also music rights are probably playing a part too.</p><p> </p><p> Hopefully we only have to wait until the back end of this year for a service here, and by the time it's available here hopefully it'll be content rich with past TV episodes and such.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="christmas_ape" data-cite="christmas_ape" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thanks, hopefully it will be up for the post RAW thing, not expecting anything amazing from it but Hogan's on it so interested to see what it is. <p> </p><p> Not sure how true it is but I've read that it's due to the tv deals they have with Sky. Might have some sort of UK exclusivity which they can't change till their contract is up.</p></div></blockquote><p> They've only just renewed with Sky so I don't think they'd have offered them exclusive content as such. I think it's simply that they can't predict the kind of traffic they may get, so launching in one area first and then branching out later is a better business choice. It means they can iron out the kinks and problems they may have over the next few months before making a decision on launching over seas.</p>

I'm in the UK and have the Network working on my iPad so long as I have a VPN active, but I cannot get it working on my PC at all. With or without my VPN, I click a video, it loads the page, but doesn't load the video at all. It doesn't even load the Error Message that other people seem to be getting. Ah well I'll give it to the end of the week and see where we are at.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Consrvtve" data-cite="Consrvtve" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>its working on my phone. Laptop was working but its down and xbox never would work because it wouldn't accept my wwe info.<p> </p><p> JBL was blabbing on twitter about how he'll be on tv hyping this today. I suggested instead of Hogan they have Obama host WM30 since wwe apparently hired his company to host the network.</p><p> </p><p> From what I saw, it was very cool but this shit shouldn't have happened launch or no launch. If people are flooding them to watch a world class show from 1982 (its actually available) what gonna happen on WM Sunday?</p></div></blockquote><p> Being in the UK I don't have access to the WWE Network at the moment, but I will say that with any launch of something like this there will always be hiccups. Do you think online services like Netflix and Spotify started out amazing, with no issues? I've been with Spotify a long time, and it still has issues. It's day one, people are flooding it to see what is available, even those that know they won't be getting it are looking just so they can certify to themselves that it isn't for them. Come WrestleMania all the kinks will be ironed out, and it'll be running smooth. You could do the best possible polls and survey's to get an idea of the amount of traffic you'll receive on launch day, but you'll never be fully prepared.</p>

Nope that was brilliantly explained, thanks tjb.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="bigtplaystew" data-cite="bigtplaystew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28397" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You name your price, you'll be prompted to pay with paypal (or other alternative) and then they email you keys to add games via steam, or to direct download drm-free copies of the game.<p> </p><p> So lets say you choose to pay $10. You then have a slider to determine how much you wish to go to developers, charity, and/or the "humble's tip"</p><p> </p><p> Its pretty easy to do i've done it before it's pretty sweet.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That sounds good to me. Cheers T.</p>

Excuse my ignorance but can some explain to me what the Humble website is all about? I've checked it out and it looks good, but I'm a little confused. Is it all Steam games, but with a % going to charity? Are they same price as they are on Steam? Cheaper? Dearer? It looks good and I'm interested in using it but I'd just like a little more clarification if someone would be so kind.

Is it just me or is he trying to do a really bad Mankind impression in that video with his whiny rambling?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here's the website where you can get stats on matches/win/draw/loss records for wrestlers across all promotions dating back to the early 1900s.<p> </p><p> <a href="http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bilanzen&kategorie=0&liga=0&sort=&jahrzehnt=0" rel="external nofollow">http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bilanzen&kategorie=0&liga=0&sort=&jahrzehnt=0</a></p></div></blockquote><p> This is what I used for it, yeah. </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="lazorbeak" data-cite="lazorbeak" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Why wouldn't you just use <a href="http://www.cagematch.de/?" rel="external nofollow">http://www.cagematch.de/?</a></div></blockquote><p> To be fair both sites have a nearly identical database. I find wrestlingdata.com just easier to navigate.</p>

<p>Ok, so using the same workers that that report used (excluding Batista), I went through and made a tally of 2013 using just TV taped events (PPVs, Raw, SmackDown!, Main Event). Here is how it looks:</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://www.raywilsondesign.com/misc/matches.png</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> So Cena still wins all, but other than him, there all about the same, except Daniel Bryan clocks up the most amount of wins. We have to remember that Cena and Sheamus both had time away too due to injuries.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: It looks like Bryan and Orton have worked a lot, but they were both doing Raw and SmackDown! a lot. Bryan was sometimes wrestling 2 or 3 matches a show, too.</p>

<p>I'm sure I read when it was first announced that it was going to remain free. I don't feel it suites a monthly subscription, and if they charge for that plus card packs it's a little over kill, if you ask me. I have 7 of the 9 classes now. Pretty pleased with it overall. It's making me want to play World of Warcraft again.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Make that 8/9 <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Just the Warlock to unlock now.</p>

<p>So upon realising that I was still paying Blizzard a subscription for World of Warcraft despite having not played it for over a year, I signed into my Battle.net account to cancel it, and noticed that their new card game has been released to open beta. It's called Hearthstone and plays like any other battle / strategy card game, but I'm quite enjoying it. For those that ain't seen it, I'll give you a few details.</p><p> </p><p> You get a class (you can't choose a name or anything, it's just the 'head card'), and once you have done the tutorial you have access to the 'Play' and 'Practice' modes. The latter is obviously just against the AI, while the Play mode is split into Casual and Ranked. I'm yet to play Ranked as I'm still coming to grips with the game.</p><p> </p><p> You get quests to complete and they have to be done in Play mode, but most can be done in either Casual or Ranked. As you level your card up it will gain more class specific abilities, and you'll earn gold from the quests to buy new card packs. 100G will get you one pack of five cards, and each pack has at least one 'rare or better' card. You can spend real money to buy new packs but I don't really feel that it's necessary unless you're desperate to have a massive collection of cards, although you can only have 30 in your deck at once anyway.</p><p> </p><p> You can unlock other classes by beating them, either in Play or Practice, and then when you unlock them they start at level 1 and you have to build them too. The game is still in beta, so I'm not sure if there'll be any more changes too it, probably not. Oh, and it's free to play, which is nice. You just have to download the client, which I think was a couple hundred megabytes. I want to say it was about 250MB, but don't quote me on that. If anyone else is playing it, or is interested, I'm in the European server, and you can add my battle.net account via my user name RayW1986 or my email address <a href="mailto:" rel="">raywilson1986@hotmail.co.uk</a>. Overall, I'm enjoying it.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="delv213" data-cite="delv213" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Bret was in WCW feuding with Flair and Perfect by 1998. I always find it odd when people think Bret was a mark for himself. Bret was treated like a hero during his Anti-American stuff here in Canada during 1997. People in wrestling always laugh when they say Bret thought he was a Canadian hero and took himself too seriously, in reality he was voted 39th Greatest Canadian by CBC in 2004. Saying he was a hero here isn't too much of a stretch.</div></blockquote><p> Yeah I'd been following for years prior to me watching the WWF. At the time here in the UK we had WCW on tv on TNT which was a free channel and I didn't have Sky Sports which was what the WWF was on. I wasn't dissing Bret just saying that he looked really uncomfortable doing an anti-American gimmick. As in his facial expressions kind of said it all, he clearly didn't want to be doing that. He was gold as a heel though, in my opinion.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Truly" data-cite="Truly" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>By the way, Austin lost the title match against Taker via interference from Pillman. The way they developed Stone Cold's character, carefully booking when he would go over someone or not, really maximized the effect of his climb to the top in my opinion. Would he have had the same impact if he was just hotshotted to the top? I honestly don't think so. The way WWE is handling the Bryan situation is the right way to go about it if history has a say in it.</div></blockquote><p> I've recently been re-watching the WWF from around early 1996, and my next event to watch is In Your House 15. The whole Bret Hart and Steve Austin thing is awesome (I missed out on this by about a year, I didn't start watching the WWF until around mid to late 1998). Austin is full out loose cannon at this point, while Bret is (looking very uncomfortable while) doing his anti-American gimmick, reuniting the Hart Foundation, this time with Bulldog, Owen and Pillman. Very entertaining stuff.</p>