The Swanton825

His two matches with Triple H didn't come close to his match with him at WM 17, the HBK matches were great but felt like the same match (I always find myself mixing up which spots happened at 25 or 26), and I honestly didn't give much of a crap about his match with Punk while it was happening since there was zero chance Punk was winning. As I'm writing this, I'm also realizing two things: how many bad matches Taker got saddled with at Mania (It wasn't until 14 that he even had a good one) and two: matches I thought were Mania were on other PPVs. Don't know why the heck I thought his Hell in a Cell match with Lesnar was at WM. Too many head injuries for this guy, obviously. EDIT: Add another one to the head injury count. I forgot the last thing I was going to say. My idiocy caused me to pick a bad example, but my point remains that gimmick quality and match quality are not a 1:1 thing.

I was talking about the gimmick, not match quality. If we're judging gimmicks solely by match quality, then Taker's biker gimmick was better than any of his Deadman personas because he had most of his best Mania matches as Biker Taker.

I still feel that Toni Storm gets unfairly lumped in with the dumber stuff like Garcia's dance (seriously, dude went from being the next great technician to Disco Inferno). She commits to the gimmick and IMO it sets her apart from the rest of the women's division.

I can't decide if that makes it better or worse. I'd appreciate it if TK could stop with the surprise signings and focus on the roster he does have before the bloat gets too bad.

@gazwefc83 Oscar Gold and "Old School" Holly Wood.

Oh, right. I try to forget about Scurll as much as I can.

That's just vile! That could have easily ended in Dalton being in a wheelchair the rest of his life!

Damn, that's a shame. I can't imagine how agonizing it is for him to bump then. Also makes me realize how much of a wimp I am in comparison.

I've tried to avoid saying anything about the AI renders because I didn't want to discourage newer users, but I really don't like most AI renders. It was really starting to get on my nerves how the AI posts were taking over the re-render thread. Though now that they've got their own thread, it doesn't bug me as much.

Even if you're only rethinking requests and not giving up, I just want to back up what has already been said that what you and all the other artists on GDS do is leagues above AI art. AI art is the art version of autocomplete, it'll always be missing something because it lacks any thought to it besides "make complete image". Your work has its own distinct style and real thought put into the appearance of the logos. And if you're looking for any more city suggestions: Frontier Wrestling Laramie Laramie, WY Brown and gold logo that incorporates the Wyoming Cowboys logo (if it's good enough for our license plates, it's good enough for a promotion)

It's what I do *puts on thick rim glasses with tape over the middle as White and Nerdy by Weird Al plays* This unit can have as much soul as it desires. Now come along, we've got a suicide mission to go on!

I'm going with the assumption it'll wind up like the Geth in Mass Effect. One machine achieves sentience, society massively overreacts and starts purging all robots in paranoia of an uprising.

The personal touch will always be needed IMO. The only way AI could totally replace the creative process is if said AI was fully sentient and capable of its own creative vision.

I've always loved wrestlers who can dial up the intensity in their promos (Terry Funk's "Florida Cracker" promo is one of the best of all time for that) and then have their ring work keep up with it. This would be the perfect time to start laying the groundwork for a big push for Dalton.

Am I the only one getting Brian Pillman vibes from those Dalton Castle promos?

That's an even more apt comparison than you think. Mitchell plays the segment well (it's James Mitchell, of course he does), just like Raven did during Sandman's crucifixion, but both wind up getting the wrong kind of heat because it's shock value for shock value's sake.

I'm not the right person to ask. The second the words "Twitter", "Instagram", "TikTok", or "Social Media" get said by any announcer, my brain tunes out everything they have to say.

Billy Corgan is an idiot for wanting a segment like that. I think he forgot that he bought the NWA and not ECW. You've got a TV deal waiting in the wings and screw it up before a single taping. Even TNA under Russo was never that stupid!

The main complaint I have is advancing storylines on Twitter. I don't like having to keep track of social media goings on in addition to watching several hours of TV in order to know what's going on. This isn't just an AEW problem though.

I'm the basic boy who always plays the good guy and even I've noticed how there's really no other way to play your character in Starfield that makes sense for RPing. Constellation are too outright good for it to make sense that they tolerate an evil PC. You say that like the pyromania is a bad thing. ...I really should talk to my therapist about my taste in women.

I wish I had the kind of imagination on my playthroughs of games. I'm the kind of player who always says he's going to play differently, then I wind up making a two-handed melee, heavy armor build again lol. I can't wait for the bigger mods to start popping up. If nobody makes a Star Wars total conversion at some point, I'll have lost my faith in humanity.

Gonna second Jaysin on Arkham City being amazing. 10/10. Would 100% again. Really, the only outright bad game in the series IMO is Arkham Origins - Blackgate. The Arkham formula does not work in 2.5D. It feels so weird being seemingly one of the only people enjoying Starfield. I think I've made my hatred of Bethesda and Todd Howard clear on here, but Starfield has been a fun chillout game for me. By no means is it a great game or "the least buggy game Bethesda's ever made" like some Microsoft exec tried to claim, but it scratches some itch in my stupid ape brain that keeps me playing.

I'd like to add Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 to the suggestions. It's not mind-blowing, but it's a fun beat 'em up with a big cast of playable heroes.

Cole would absolutely drop AEW like a bad habit if WWE promised him a push and Saraya will work wherever lets her relapse like a female Jeff Hardy. But I was speaking generally about my thoughts on ex-WWE talent getting work elsewhere. AEW isn't quite to the TNA/WCW level of taking every single WWE castoff yet.

I can't speak for others, obviously, I mostly find it annoying because it's obvious that most of them are using AEW/TNA/WCW as a rebound until WWE comes calling again. Remember how Drew McIntyre went back to Scotland to headline ICW for a while and it wound up helping him completely reinvent himself? That's what I'd like to see more of from WWE castaways. Find a new place to do something different. It feels like that old joke of "What's [insert legally distinct ring name from their WWE that still sounds a lot like it] doing in the Impact Zone!?" has never stopped being relevant. I get that it's not always financially viable for everyone fired by WWE to do this, but it would be nice to see from time to time.