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Hayabusa vs anyone from Dragon Gate Steve Williams vs WALTER Nigel McGuinness vs Davey Boy Smith Jeff Hardy circa 2001 vs Darby Allin And just for laughs: Tony Khan vs Nick Khan in a battle to decide the true Khan of Wrestling! Will Tony's dad be forced to pack it in and move the Jacksonville Jaguars to London? Will Vince ever learn that just having the name Khan doesn't make Tony and Nick related? Will I be able to think of a third question!? Find out next time on Wrestle Ball Z!

Marry into a family that controls one of the major powers, start fabricating claims on my weakest neighbor, then start looking for other powerful families to marry my future kids into so I have half of Europe at my beck and call for every war I want to fight but not close enough to me that I need to put much effort into supporting their wars. Then I pray my realm doesn't get split by endless succession wars between my idiot kids.

It never fails to amuse me how much Chase Owens would talk up his friendship with The Young Bucks while training people and yet he got left behind in Japan, never to see an AEW card.

Shredder's Revenge is so good! The soundtrack is awesome too. They got Raekwon and Ghostface Killah from Wu-Tang to do Shredder's boss theme. Whoever composed this game deserves all TMNT soundtracks going forward just for finding the peanut butter and chocolate combo that is TMNT and Wu-Tang.

I mean, has there ever been a partner Christian hasn't betrayed because they failed him or just out of pure jealousy? In fact I swear I remember a promo in TNA during his feud with Rhino where he got compared to the Scorpion and the Frog. Turning on people is in his nature.

I wasn't offended. I just rarely get the chance to dunk on a saying I dislike and make fun of myself at the same time.

Bischoff lies as easily as he breathes. He's like Cornette, everything good was his idea and everything that went wrong was completely out of his control or the smarks "just didn't get it". Meltzer may be a putz at times but he does have actual journalism skills when he wants to use them. And I've never cared for that old saying. I was completely talentless in the ring, dropped myself on the back of my neck, briefly KO'd myself on a DDT and even managed to botch a clothesline. By that logic, I should be running my own school based on just how much I "can't".

I'd be on board for any of those, particularly Man-Bat. If for no other reason than to show the idiots responsible for Morbius how you do a tragic monster kind villain. What I'd really love is an adaptation of Batman: Gothic, but it's so overtly supernatural by the end that there's no way we'd ever see it done on film. Not to mention Mr. Whisper isn't exactly the kind of villain who you could easily sell toys of.

I feel like in most cases (at least where I'm familiar with him) Riddler is a whiny lunatic. He's a narcissist driven by a need for attention and a massive superiority complex, hence his obsessive compulsion to leave riddles behind to "prove" his intellect. I can't remember if it was an B:TAS episode or from one of the tie-in comics, but there's this great Riddler story where he purposely tries to commit a crime spree without leaving any riddles or clues behind but eventually Batman catches him because of a riddle he left behind without even thinking about it. It culminates in this great moment where Riddler realizes he might actually need help and goes to Arkham without a fight. Haven't seen Behind the Mask but it's on my comically long watchlist so I do plan to get around to it at some point. The reveal still worked for me in that it fit perfectly with this Riddler's whole vibe as a David Fincher-esque villain. He's a dorky-looking nobody who would never be seen as a threat. No scars, no disfigurement, just some random guy. I'm only familiar with Keoghan from his part in Chernobyl but I agree he did a good job. Though I do hope Reeves sticks to his guns in not wanting Joker front and center in any sequels so other villains can get some time in the sun for once. Also haven't seen Old Henry, or any westerns at all in the past few years come to think of it. Last one I watched was Bone Tomahawk which was honestly more of a slasher movie masquerading as a western. I've got a lot of catching up to do with movies.

I'm interested in anything that does a slasher throwback correctly. Hatchet is one of my all time favorite horror movies for that exact reason. Definitely going to be keeping an eye for this one on streaming! Finally watched The Batman and I'll admit I was skeptical of Matt Reeves being to make an almost three hour Batman movie not outstay its welcome but he did it and then some! I loved everyone's performance in this movie, Pattinson is already among the ranks of the best to play Batman IMO (I thought his was a little wooden when out of the batsuit but that can be chalked up to this being before he really develops his billionaire playboy philanthropist image), Jeffrey Wright was a perfect choice for Gordon, Paul Dano's spin on Riddler worked great despite how silly that mask was, Zoe Kravitz's Catwoman felt like she came straight out of the Arkham or Telltale games, Colin Farrell channeling the spirit of James Gandolfini with Penguin, John Turturro reminding everyone that he can be an awesome actor when he wants as Falcone, the list goes on. I could rave about this movie for hours if I wanted to, but I'll just close on this note: if DC and WB can find a director who loves Superman as much as Matt Reeves loves Batman, they could legitimately have a shot at overtaking Marvel.

It's an easy mistake since Yuke's are the ones everyone is always talking about and if Day of Reckoning is any indication, they can make a really good AKI-style game when they feel like it.

Actually Aki were the ones who made WCW vs NWO. Yuke's are the ones who made Smackdown and almost all the other WWE games in the 21st Century. IIRC Omega was pushing hard for Aki (they're called syn Sophia now, but it's still the same Aki) but Yuke's has more experience with modern consoles so they won out.

Thank God it isn't just me who can't stand that ad! The song doesn't even sound good! It reminds me of when they used to try and dub the songs in anime and force the English lyrics no matter how hard it was for the VAs to sound remotely natural.

And even that story has nothing on NBA 2K16's. It still holds a special place in my heart for its hilariously awful and pretentious storyline. Paper-thin characters appear and disappear from the story at random, "shocking" reveals come out of nowhere and make you feel nothing, that constant sense of "The writing wants to convince you it has depth without actually being deep", it has it all!

And I'm not saying it wasn't a feel good moment. Just found it weird.

Am I the only one who finds it weird that Austin is one of those "back in the good 'ol days" types and he still broke the cardinal rule of not winning your retirement match?

I finished Kena: Bridge of Spirits this past week and either I missed the hype train on this game or nobody talked about it. It's a shame because this game is like a Pixar movie in video game form. If I had any major criticism it would be that the combat was trying too hard to mimic the God of War reboot and it just winds up leaving you with frustrating boss battles. Outside of that though, this is one of those games that doesn't really innovate on anything but does what it sets out to do well enough and with plenty of charm that it's still super enjoyable. Also, if you don't find the misleadingly-named Rot to be absolutely adorable, you have no soul.

I am so pumped for this to come out on HBO Max next month! I'm really tempted to go to the theater and see it, but the cheapskate side of my brain keeps winning out.

I still consider Slappy DeMatt my magnum opus, but I'm really happy with how The Circumstance's bio turned out. I love giving workers origins from places that don't get as much attention. Also the second I saw the render, I knew I had to make him a Jersey Shore reference somehow.

Finally watched the new Candyman and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The original is one of my favorite horror movies and after being tormented by the first two godawful sequels, it's great to finally get a good one. My biggest critique would be that it feels like it should've been 20-30 minutes longer because the climax tries to throw in too much too fast for my liking. It blows my mind that this is Nia DaCosta's first horror film. Some of the shots this movie has with this budget is what you'd expect to see from someone who spent a decade grinding it out working for Roger Corman or John Carpenter, not a director relatively fresh out of film school with only one previous feature film under her belt.

I actually enjoyed Lifeforce. Not as a genuinely good film, mind you, but as a fun late night B-movie that just runs with the fact that it's about a naked space vampire.

If it was something stupid he'd tweeted out once as a failed joke or troll and was embarrassed about, I might give him the benefit of the doubt. But he said this heinous crap in an interview that was going to be sold for money. There's no way he didn't believe in it when he said it. If he's changed since then, I only have one question: why didn't he ever come out and disavow it? "I said some very ignorant and hurtful things in an old shoot interview and would like to take this time to apologize for what I've said." See? Not that hard. Here, I'll even take it a step further just to demonstrate how to act when you actually regret something: I've personally been a terrible, confrontational jerk for a good chunk of my life and I've posted plenty of stupid crap I'm ashamed of, some on this very forum. A lengthy string of failures coupled with the pandemic forced me to come to terms with how I've acted in the past. I completely disavow any of the stupid and confrontational things I've said on here and I am sorry. Didn't take me being called out on something to do this. And I'm a nobody! There's no excuse for celebrities in any industry to wait to apologize until they're caught.

In case anyone missed it, they added all three of the newest Hitman games to Game Pass as an all-in-one release with the missions from the first two retouched to take advantage of Hitman 3's features. All three are a must for anyone who enjoys stealth games and with the botched, price gouging Steam release of 3, it's the best and cheapest way to play it.

A Switch is way more worth the money anyways IMO. It's very similar to Skyrim's combat. Light attack, heavy attack, block, etc. The main differences are that you pick a class with three exclusive ability trees and you cast spells and use skills from a hotbar like other MMOs. The neat thing is that every skill tree besides the class ones are open to everyone so you can play a sorcerer in heavy armor with no real issue. The only thing I'm not fond of is that you have to commit to either improving magicka or stamina if you want to stay effective at later levels which means you either use a staff if you focus on magicka or any other weapon if you go stamina because that's what the damage scales with. They try to balance this by letting you "morph" certain spells into ones that scale with stamina but it is kind of a buzzkill that I can't play a sword and shield battlemage with a focus on magic spells without massively weakening my effectiveness. As for 8 and 16-bit games, I had a lot of fun with Flynn, Son of Crimson. It feels a lot like the kind of sidescrolling platformers I played all time on GBA when I was a kid. That might be a bit newer than what you're looking for but I just had to mention it.

Have you heard about RAID: Shadow Legends? It's the hit mobile- Nope, can't do it. In all seriousness, SWTOR is the best if you prefer story in your RPGs and the only current gen Star Wars game better than it is Jedi: Fallen Order. Elder Scrolls Online has gotten really good in the past couple years and is now the best when it comes to combat and a sense of adventure IMO. I'm also weird and have a thing for playing solo, especially in dead or dying MMOs so I've got quite a few hours in games like Age of Conan, The Secret World (now only playable if you owned a copy of the original version, otherwise you have to play the awful Legends relaunch. Thanks, Funcom) and both EverQuests. Though I can't exactly recommend them to anyone but antisocial weirdos like me lol. If you've never played it and don't mind spending a bit during a sale, the original Guild Wars is still excellent. With all the instances, it's more an RPG with online features than a full-fledged MMO but you can still tell ArenaNet's founders were ex-WoW devs. Speaking of, WoW has basically been steadily destroyed from within by Blizzard in the past few years. Instead of adding new content, they've been cutting out older parts and replacing them with stuff for the expansions. I don't mind world-changing events, but I would much rather they happen when I reach a certain level or story point rather than replacing the noob areas (I restart a lot) and more so they "gel" with events of the expansion. ESO does this a bit too, but you can still access the starting areas and even the original tutorial zone with all the quests and stories intact. Hopefully Microsoft buying Activision will be a net positive, though after Microsoft did Asheron's Call dirty, I'm not holding my breath.