The Swanton825

I'm shocked it took so long for a D&D game to have that option. The ultimate question will be if you can seduce the main villain.

I for one would love it if there were more RPGs where you aren't "The Special" and maybe even not have the plot be about saving the world. Planescape: Torment is one of the best written RPGs ever and it's about an amnesiac's quest for identity. Also, now I can't get the image of Captain America braiding all the other Avengers' hair out of my head.

That's about what I figured. I imagine Yuke's original plan was to just use what they had with the WWE games. As much as I love the AKI games though, I do wish someone would give me something closer to King of Colosseum.

I have to wonder how much having someone with zero development experience like Omega overseeing the project hampered Yuke's. Not that I think he didn't have good intentions or intentionally sabotaged things, but putting a gamer with only a limited idea of what goes into making a video game in a producer role tends to end poorly. Since they seemed for be trying for the old AKI style, hopefully they can move on and give us a similar jump in quality and content like from WCW/nWo World Tour to WCW/nWo Revenge with the next game.

Watched the original Transformers movie with my older brother. Despite the fact that he grew up on the G1 cartoon and I was a huge Transformers nut as a kid (Armada Starscream is still best Starscream), both of us somehow managed to never see it before. This movie goes harder than a glorified 90 minute ad for new Transformers toys has any right to! Optimus Prime going all Carmageddon on the Decepticons while The Touch blares should be so, so stupid - and it is - but it does it with zero shame and such glee that I felt childhood nostalgia for something I'd never watched before! I'm not saying the Bayformers movies could be instantly improved with cheesy 80s arena rock, but I'm not saying they wouldn't either. And credit to Judd Nelson and Leonard Nimoy giving real effort for what I'm sure both saw as an easy payday. Even that Orson Wells performance everyone always mocks I thought was fitting for a creature like Unicron.

I believe it was late 2006 or early 2007. I got sick of waiting for someone to translate Fire Pro Wrestling 2's promoter mode and wound up finding out about TEW 05. I tend to be a lurker rather than a user, so I may have joined later than I remember. EDIT: Just realized that I could look and see the date I joined, lol. It was May of 2007

A good chunk of those spelling mistakes are probably mine. I don't know what it is with me, but sometimes I'll write something and see zero issues with the grammar or spelling until someone else points it out. It's like my brain refuses to acknowledge the typos while I'm writing. And if I try to compensate by watching out for that tendency, I somehow miss OTHER spelling mistakes!

I think it depends on which era you're talking about when discussing "classic" MMA. You've got those who are nostalgic for the borderline bloodsport that the original Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments were with no weight classes and no standardized gear. Then there's the ones who preferred it feeling like a legit sport, but were turned off by the increase in reality TV drama brought on by the Ultimate Fighter, the PRIDE fans who miss that puroresu-inspired presentation and squared circle, the ones who didn't mind that but drew the line at Conor McGregor's pro wrestling heel antics, the ones who got mad about women's MMA becoming more prominent, it just goes on and on. Some day people will be nostalgic for this era of MMA in the exact same way. And that's just the surface level stuff! Fact is that a lot of early UFC lacked any sort of competitive parity. More often that not, grapplers won the second the fight went to the ground because the idea of being disciplined in both a striking and grappling art wasn't part of the basic skillset back then.

I didn't realize I could love Sabu more than I already did. More people need to watch his matches with Taz in ECW. Sabu was a much more rounded worker than people think. He just made more money crashing through tables.

It wouldn't surprise me if AEW did move shop in that situation. Brits love their wrestling.

No, but the people who come back will be there for his drama. Also, there is absolutely no way either side is professional enough to actually work a program together. The Elite only work with their friends and Punk would be too paranoid that three guys with all the stiffness of a wet noodle would shoot on him.

That audience won't stick around for long once they're bored of Punk's little drama dance. And he's standing up for a fifty-year-old man whose first instinct was to BITE another human being like a dog! And it was Kenny Omega, of all people! If there's anyone I believe would cut and run at the start of a melee, it's Omega.

I don't see how placating an egotistical manchild who has proven time and again to be unreliable is "taking the industry seriously". Keeping Punk and putting him on a pedestal is putting a bandaid on a hemorrhaging artery. His antics have turned him into a freakshow draw where a lot of people are paying attention because they want to see what other drama he can get up to, not because of his wrestling. Those kind of viewers can't be relied on to stick around for very long. So you're looking at short term gain for no long term benefit.

If they can't survive without Punk, then there's no salvaging AEW from a downward spiral either way. If they keep him, they'll become a rotted husk held aloft by TK's money and Punk's frail ego. AEW needs to work on rebuilding the image they began with: an alternative to WWE.

Jeez, I felt that burn!

Whine until you get your way, that's the Hulk Hogan CM Punk way.

Seeing as how I never mentioned Becky Lynch, I don't know how I'm supposed to respond to that. The last time I sat down and watched a full WWE show, COVID wasn't even a thing. So I can't even comment on most of Becky's promos to begin with, much less argue on behalf of company I find infinitely more exhausting than AEW. Britt's promos bore me, so I consider them to be 'meh'. If Becky's are worse, then I would consider them worse. That's it. I don't measure talent based on how much they get paid. If that were the case, then I would think that The Rock is the greatest technician who ever lived and Brock Lesnar has promo skills the likes of which even God has never seen. As for the wrestlers I listed, I was listing ones I considered "better than" Britt, as Matt_Black was saying that there were better workers than her. I'll admit I forgot about Thunder Rosa, but I wasn't calling the rest of them bad, I just considered Britt the better worker overall. The entire crux of my argument was "who else would they put in that position at this time?". And of course it's a booking problem. When hasn't it been a booking problem with this division? But I can't exactly determine if someone's a good worker by the five or six times a year that Tony remembers they exist.

If you're counting the joshis they rarely use sure. Outside of that, you have: Jamie Hayter, Kris Statlander (for the five weeks a year she isn't hurt), Ruby Soho, Toni Storm and the ticking time bomb that is Saraya. Like it or not, their women's division is poorly booked enough that Britt has become its Randy Orton. Bland in the ring, meh promos, but consistent enough to be considered a reliable drought player. EDIT: Totally forgot Mercedes Martinez still wrestles from time to time! Put her up there in the better workers category too

But weren't they pushing her hard from her debut? So, what? Did they give her that push solely to lure her boyfriend in two years later? I'm not a big fan of Britt, but that seems kind of insulting.

The thing is though, just like when Ted Turner failed, the billionaires will barely feel it while the wrestling scene overall gets worse as the survivor pulls the shattered remains into his corporate borg of homogenized wrestling.

Just thought I'd chip in with one point: if Shad Khan takes away Tony's funding, it'll be because his stocks took a massive tumble, not because AEW is a money pit. Dude owns the freaking Jaguars, the team with some of the worst attendance figures in the NFL, and he still keeps breaking free agency by overpaying mid-tier players. Both Khans spend like there's no tomorrow.

"Vote Christian Cage for Mayor of Tampa!"

Or, they could have their own moment that doesn't make them look like a bunch of fanboys recreating an impossible to match moment in history. I mean, I guess Ospreay could go out on a crack binge and forget everything they'd planned for the match like Bulldog did, but as talented as Omega is, I don't think he could carry a strung-out addict to a 5 Star match like Bret did. Quick, let's test by putting him in a match with Jeff Hardy!

I mean if he doesn't, then Punk himself will. Just in case, someone get a Hannibal Lecter mask on Ace Steel right away!

The way I was taught it was that fans often only remember the beginning and end of most matches. Particularly if they didn't pay to see you. Just keep them engaged until the end and then get your cool stuff in. That goes a long way to explaining how nobody ever remembers someone like Jason Kincaid despite the fact that the guy can do a coast-to-coast suicide dive! He and a lot of others put most of their best work in the middle of the match.