Dragonmack

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Mr_Tricky" data-cite="Mr_Tricky" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="33970" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>.<p> </p><p> Do you agree with this? Is it something you are already aware of? Also, is it okay to enjoy anime in this style knowing that it is the product of racial shame?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's kind of like saying is it ok to enjoy looking at Victoria's secret supermodels even though they deliver a non realistic stereotypical depiction of what the ideal female form is supposed to look like and cause hundred of thousands of girls to suffer depression, undergo cosmetic surgery and deal with eating disorders in order to live up to that 'unrealistic' ideal.</p><p> </p><p> In the final analysis, rarely is anyone truly happy with who they are , or how they look or some other feature or characteristic of their life or their body.</p><p> </p><p> So why do I need to add to the many problems I already face in the world by taking on added guilt of someone else's expression of dissatisfaction with themselves? No thanks. I'll just enjoy the anime that lots of people created for the entertainment its supposed to be, and I'll lust after the supermodel and bang her if the opportunity ever comes without worrying about Jane Doe feeling inadequate.</p><p> </p><p> Next you'll be telling me I should feel guilty about listening to soul music and rock and roll which was heavily influenced by it in the early days because it grew out of the oppression of black people.</p>

My biggest issue with console gaming is 90% of the big games I'd actually want to play on my PS4 I can play in better graphical detail on my PC, such as Shadows of Mordor, Dragon Age Inquisition, GTA V ( which I actually did get for the PS4) Witcher 3 and Diablo 3. All of these games are available on PC which is my preferred platform. As I don't do shooter games like COD or Halo, there are very few games I play on the console. I bought Destiny but ended up barely touching it, and I picked up MLB 15 this week as the first gane that's console exclusive that I actually put some time on.

Although it is a complete 180 from the standard harem anime I enjoy, I really found Your Lie in April compelling as well, and I am not that much of a fan of classical music ( although I did enjoy the movie The Competition with Amy Irving and Richard Dreyfuss from the 80's). Partially as a result of this topic, but also from me getting older and broadening my horizons so to speak, I have come to enjoy a far wider range of anime genres than I did even a few years ago, when I watched mostly action stuff like Gundam, Bleach or Naruto.

A series I think is worth checking out is My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU It's beginning it's second season now and has some interesting characters, especially the MC.

I could see Sherri Martel, Woman or even Missy Hyatt pulling strings behind the scenes

that leaves Miss Elizabeth, Missy Hyatt, sherri Martel, Babydoll and Woman as the most well known women in wrestling during that time

Yeah, hard to believe its been over 7 years since it came out, but even glancing through a little of it today had me breaking out in laughter. That level of humor has only been matched by J Silver in my experiences here.

Going through some old PM's, I stumbled on an introduction I had written and sent to Monkeypox ( he of the epic Mark Cuban Does Dave diary) to look over as it was a follow up idea to the collapse of DAVE ( which had gone belly up when TEW 2008 came out) and this was an idea I had for a story with PSW. I ended up not following through with it I think because McShamrock had introduced his PSW diary around the time I was thinking about doing this and his was so good, I didn't feel like trying to compete with the same promotion. Anyway's I thought I'd post it here to show an example of a good idea that doesn't end up getting told. "This is it. This is my life." I staggered around my small apartment blurrily looking for the bottle of Jack Daniels I was sure I hadn't finished off yet. " Welcome to rock f**king bottom! How the hell did I end up here?!" I muttered to myself as I finally located the bottle, which in a small blessing, still contained a couple of shots. As I stumbled back to my bed, I reflected on what brought me to this point and once again went over the conversation I had earlier tonight. Who am I? I am no one, well, no one you have ever heard of at any rate. My name is Greg Anderson, although everyone just calls me The Grand A, with the A standing for various things depending on the mood and the anger level of the person saying it at the time. Anyway, my name doesn't really tell you anything, but maybe my situation will help make things clearer. It all started a year ago. I am , or rather, I should say I was, a member of the booking commitee of DAVE. I wasn't the main guy, as that spot was usually held by either Phil Vibert or Nemesis, and near the end this guy John , who I still don't remember his last name as everyone just called him 'Monkeypox'. Forgive me, the alcohol is making my mind wander a bit. As I was saying, I wasn't the head booker, but I did help tweak the storylines as well as come up with some of the gimmicks for the undercard and the occasional feud. So, enough about me , and back to the events that lead me to this point. Like I said, it all started a year ago. We had just lost our PPV, and money, never in an abundant supply, was drying up at a rapid rate. We thought it was the end, but then just after the new year in 07, Phil told the lockeroom that he had sold the company to one of those dot.com billionaires that also owned a basketball team and got a bug about wrestling. While I personally thought the guy was a total jackass, I figured with a billionaire as the owner, money would finally never be a problem. Or so you would think. It all started off well enough. We still had our big names like Peak, Tyler, Brandon, Acid, Giedroyc etc and at first things were really starting to take off. The booking commitee, especially the head guy John, spun out these fantastic character overhauls and made some practically overnight cult icons in the Cult of the Gray Dragon, an over the top "Great White Shark" psycho Eddie Peak, taking his character and amping it to the max, and an anti-authority Eric Tyler who actually got the crowd rallying behind him when he told off this pisswad billionaire on live tv. But the crowning achievement had to be taking the talented but somewhat bland English gentleman character of Jack Giedroyc and creating the revolutionary character 'The Wrath of God!" The buzz surrounding DAVE at that point reached epic levels, and it felt like we were back at the beginning again right after the East Coast Wars, renewed and ready to take on the world! We were all re-invigorated and re-energized. The entire booking staff thought the sky was the limit , what with the industry all abuzz about the revolutionary characters and some fantastic storylines revolving around Peak-Brandon and Tyler-Acid. The whole roster was buying into us finally taking that big step to challenge the big two. Hell, even Emma Chase agreed to dye her hair black and go goth to support a storyline of the Cult of the Gray Dragon and Adrenaline Rush, and you have no idea how much faith she showed us by doing that. It truly looked like the golden age had come again to DAVE. And then the rug got pulled out from underneath us. It seems our billionaire expected us to be a self supporting entity, and when he saw the monthly statement almost a quarter million in the red, given that we still didn't have a PPV deal, he had a fit. Then the final straw was when the network refused to renew our Tv deal. The tv show didn't make any money, but it was crucial to getting our product out there and selling our main monthly events. But it seems that the billionaire boy was dabbling in more than wrestling, he was also trying to start up a cable company of his own and had managed to make enemies at the network and the PPV providers, who were basically making impossible demands to sign a deal with us. So four months later, the guy with more money than Richard F'n Eisen himself decided that we weren't worth his time and effort anymore and declared chapter 13 on us. So there it was , at the end of April 2007, DAVE was suddenly no more. Years of blood, sweat, tears, hopes and dreams gone, just like that. For some, like the big names, things turned out allright. The big two, SWF and TCW, were more than eager to cherry pick these iconic figures we had just created and cash in on our hard work. And a couple of the guys were able to get steady work in Japan. But the others, the midcard and lower guys, people who had called DAVE home for more than a decade, and all of us staff people, well we were SOL. It hit Phil and Nemesis the hardest as DAVE had been their personal brainchild, and both just took off from the business, possibly forever. Then came this crazy idea. Mitch Naess, who had practically been annointed as Phil's successor, decided that we could start over, rebuild from the ground up again and remake DAVE, only this time bigger and better as we could avoid the pitfalls and mistakes made the first time around. It sounded great at the time, and Mitch managed to secure a couple of investors and get some of the veterans who hadn't found anything else to sign on board. So he then founded Pittsburgh Steel Wrestling, and Alex Braun then took over as head of the booking staff. We were going to bring hardcore back to its roots, and back to the people! We were all fired up with the new venture, the supposed second lease on life. But then a basic rule of life revealed itself. Starting from the ground up really, really sucks! We didn't have any of the names that drew people into the seats from DAVE, the people we did have were either guys who were already on their way down in DAVE and had mostly been there to put the true stars over, and a collection of guys from the indys, most of them unproven or untested. The lingering aura of DAVE got us off the ground, but as soon as people realized they weren't going to see Eddie Peak, Acid, or the Wrath of God, the attendance soon plummeted to a fifth of what DAVE used to draw. The reality was, DAVE had been a company that had been at its height the third largest promotion in North America and PSW was barely bigger than NYCW or MAW, and unknown outside of the Tri-State area. We were holding shows in high school gyms and small clubs in dirty steel towns and lucky to get 1000 people into a show in places we used to get 10,000. Once again, we were barely holding on by a thread, struggling to pay the bills each month. Mitch was down to his last 100K and that was only thanks to a bank loan. All of which leads me to tonight and why I am sitting here in my apartment exploring the bottom of this bottle of scotch. You see, earlier tonight, Mitch got into a huge argument with Alex Braun, and Alex basically told Mitch to shove the booking duties up his a*s and said as soon as his contract is done, he is out of here. So Mitch called me in an said this is all now my problem. You see, as of tonight, you are looking at the new head booker of Pittsburgh Steel Wrestling. Now, where did that bottle of JD go? I definitely need another drink.

That's the beauty of the C-Verse and the various mod verses. They are practically blank slates to make anyone you like a star as long as you can write someone creatively.

If you are still looking for suggestions to review, something in a far different vein than all the ecchi harem animes this season just ended. ( not that I don't enjoy ecchi harem animes, but no point in reviewing them ) Its called Your Lie in April. just finished on Crunchyroll its 21-22 episodes.

Dec 15th 2013 18 months ago, my dreams as a star wrestler ended in a botched powerslam thanks to the walking catastrophe known as Big Smack Scott. 2 months in the hospital, 6 months in a wheelchair, and another 6 months in strenuous rehab to get back into shape, only to be told that my body could not take the stress of being a wrestler again. For the next 3 months I was in a severe depression over losing the opportunity to do my life's passion. But then it occurred to me, that I didn't have to give it all up. Yes, my in ring career was over, but I had done far more than just wrestle. I had worked behind the scenes as a booker, quite successfully. Although my body could no longer wrestle, my mind could still plan stories, build heat and raise the fortunes and prestige of a promotion. All of which led me to the door of a lower east side office building with the letters NYCW on the window. It seems the beginning of every important chapter of my life started here. 2007, when I was first starting out and got my first major opportunity, both in the ring and backstage when The Stomper hired me as a booker. Then in 2010, when after the lows of being fired from CGC and MHW by selfish owners who felt threatened by the success I was generating, I came here to rebuild both my pride and prestige and was given a second chance by my mentor Stomper. But this time was different. This time, the Stomper was no longer there, having retired to a comfortable life off the profits I had generated for him before I went to the SWF, when Larry Vessey, the current owner took over. Vessey and I had worked together when he came in 2010, so we were familiar with each other, but it was nowhere near the same relationship I had with The Stomper, who was a mentor\father figure wrapped in a tightfisted, curmudgeonly package. And while some things were still the same here, a lot had changed in the last 18 months, so it was with some trepidation that I walked through that door, to see Vessey and try and convince him to once again let me control the reins of NYCW. Because I knew I was still capable of taking NYCW to the next level, even if I was no longer able to wrestle. I knew that I would succeed, because I was me. I was David Mack, and this is my chronicle. The David Mack Chronicles: NYCW 2014- The Changing of the Guard

Watch Kite. Then Akame ga Kill doesn't seem as bad. Although definitely don't get attached to any characters in it as they probably going to die.

since no one else is coming up with review suggestions, let me toss a couple out there that are a little different than what's been suggested so far. Rail Wars Sabagebu- Survival Club Game Both 12 episodes and both on Crunchyroll summer 2014

I can come up with more but wanted others to have their chance to suggest. been a lot of good animes out in the last year or so.

I request INVADERS of the RYOKUJYOMA!? 12 episodes, summer 2014 on crunchyroll

A remake of Fate\stay Night just finished on Crunchyroll. I had watched the first episode but then came across that fate\zero was out so decided to watch that first before I start watching Fate\stay night. Also haven't seen the original version from 2006 so don't know if there were any changes between the two versions, other than the animation being brought up to Zero's level.

I admit, I have a love of a good harem anime. what I have really liked recently is that a lot of them are going away from the 'wimpy' male lead character and instead having them be the more badass one. Good recent examples are Black Bullet, Irregular at Magic High, Bladedance of the Elementalers and Fruit of Grisaia all with a main male character who isn't completely oblivious, or weak from the start.

To be fair, everyone loved ME 3 .... right until that horrible excuse for an ending. Up until that point ME 3 was actually a very good game. Everyone has the bad taste of the ending still in their mouth, and that makes them tend to forget that they enjoyed the hell out of playing it till then ( or they never would have gotten to the ending ) Dragon Age 2 had some issues in that it seemed they were trying to make it more of a console game than a pure PC RPG like the original. it was still good to play through once, and the character was interesting, but it really didn't feel like it had as much to it as the first one did. Basically, after you finished the story, there wasn't really as much motivation, at least to me, to go back to play out different characters or paths, which for me was a hallmark of the other Bioware\Obsidian games such as Neverwinter nights 1 and 2 and KOTOR 1 and 2 . I am pumped for Dragon Age Inquisition ( have it pre-ordered already, even though I am literally buried in games to play right now with Wasteland 2, Shadows of Mordor, new Wow Expansion in a week, Sid Meier's Beyond Earth, and beta for Elite Dangerous all within the last month) and looks like it will have that good mix of real time\pause combat that worked well in the Kotor and Never Winter Nights games. As for the rest of it, will have to see how it plays out. Bioware still knows how to tell an overall good story, even if the games themselves recently have caused some disappointment. They had built themselves to such a high standard, it was inevitable they would slide down at some point. Now we have to see if DA:I can see them start to climb back up again.

i was actually part of the kickstarter backers for Elite Dangerous ( along with a lot of other games that have or are coming out in this year and next) and just got the beta myself. haven't had a real space flight game since Freelancer a decade ago. but for this really think going to need to get a joystick. seen a Logitech joystick going for around $35 on best buy that has some good reviews and planning to pick one up so I can play the beta more ( if I get any time between Shadows of Morder, and the WOW expansion launch in a couple weeks)

you can get Shadows of Mordor on PC as well and probably cheaper with a deal from greenmangaming or steam. Although if you must do on PS4 i'd definitely recommend it. Killing Orcs never gets old. alien isolation has a lot of good buzz, but not something to my personal taste, as don't like horror gaming that much, a couple missions in Vampire: Bloodlines from back in the day were scary enough Lords of the Fallen from what I read is a not as good as Dark Souls type game, but if you like the Dark Souls type games, then its a good choice and PS4 is definitely better than than PC from the reviews I have read. from 14 to 15 as you say, probably not enough changes in game to make picking up at full price worth it.

yeah, ive only found a couple series on Netflix that couldn't be found on crunchyroll such as Kaze no Stigma. One thing I really hate about Netflix is that they do their subbed lines in a light yellow, and they are hard as hell to see half the time.

okay, I request Black Bullet. It was on Crunchyroll in the Spring season.

While they are the same in a lot of respects, i'd say the combat mechanics are somewhat different. shadows has the free flowing counter combat that you see in the arkham games while the stealth part is more assassins creed, including hiding in bushes, stealth kills and such. obviously it borrows heavily from both games, but I think it does so fairly successfully.

so anyone else checking out "Middle Earth-shadows of Mordor?" for anyone unfamiliar with it, the gameplay is basically a combination of Batman Arkham city and Assassin's Creed- but set in middle earth during the period between the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings for instance, you have the counter fighting of the Arkham series and also the stealth killing of Assassin's Creed all set in an open world environment like those games. It was released yesterday and I played for a couple hours and I really enjoyed it. reviews were overwhelmingly positive ( Steam had 1000 positives to only 77 negatives)

i was on the kickstarter for Wasteland 2 and for Elite dangerous. Played some of the beta on wasteland 2 and liked it, but was waiting for full game. just been too busy this week to start it up. also did the kickstarter on Grim Dawn, by the people who made Titan Quest. Also did the kickstarter for shadowrun, and a few other games coming out . Man I have a crapload of games to play and so little time!