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    Official TV Show Discussion Thread

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    8 hours ago, Blackman said:

    Watched most of it but it didnt seem that awful or funny. Couple of laughs though, especially the bumper car segments. 

    And I continue to strike out on recommending things I find funny to people. I'm beginning to think I have a weird sense of humor.

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    Official TV Show Discussion Thread

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    17 hours ago, Matt_Black said:

    If you would like to see how well it was executed, four episodes were packaged together as movies, Master Ninja and Master Ninja II, and both were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

    Oh I am all over that! Can't believe I never watched those episodes of MST3K

    [HYPE] CVerse Women's Revolution

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    1 hour ago, Mecha Kaji said:

    I find it quite hilarious but awesome that so many are particularly taken with the Five Woman Love Hotel Deathmatch lore.

    I was surprised too since I wrote that as a throwaway joke line like I enjoy doing in many of the bios I write. Honestly, I expected people to just kind of make up whoever else was in the match for their diaries if they even cared about the concept at all. Definitely didn't expect it to wind up being one of the deepest cuts of lore in this mod.

    Official TV Show Discussion Thread

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    5 hours ago, Matt_Black said:

    They used to do shows like this all the time in the 70s and 80s. While there are many excellent examples, the one that I immediately think of is... uh... Master Ninja, starring Lee Van Cleef.

    That is an amazing concept and I hate that I already know Lee Van Cleef as a ninja is nowhere near as cool as it could be because most 80s TV sucked at fight scenes.

    [HYPE] CVerse Women's Revolution

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    50 minutes ago, Mecha Kaji said:

    I'm actually curious how others envision this match stipulation. I previously booked it as a 5-way deathmatch in a cell, with nearly every implement available (sadly... or thankfully, no platypus).

    I would set it as either a cinematic match or a special set since it was fought at an actual Japanese love hotel (with zero permits), with whatever implements your sick little hearts desire and first one to score a pin or submission wins.

    It is a shame there's no way to include the platypus or the weird German-sounding (Or possibly Drusselstein?) pharmacist that was with him or why they were there. Oh well, that's what imagination is for.

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    The Video Game Thread

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    2 hours ago, Blackman said:

    Anybody hyped for the Harry Potter game coming up? I'm going to skip it because I feel it's not for me as I'm not that fond of the HP universe, though I liked the movies. But apparently a lot of people are hyped for it, the way they were about a open-world pokemon game. And look how well that did, despite its obvious faults and bugs.

    The crazy thing is that people seem to boycot it because of the "anti-trans" stance of the creator, JK Rowling. Funny enough, it seems it's a game that is the most inclusive game I've seen in terms of character creation. The way it handles gender in relation to the storyline and the creation options should be celebrated by LGBTQ people. But no: supporting this game just proves that you support anti-trans propaganda. Sure... except it's the exact opposite. Keep promoting all other binary games. The sheer stupidity of some people... It's almost unbelievable.

    It's a good thing Game Freak isn't making the game then. Avalanche (different Avalanche from the one that made Just Cause), the actual studio making the game has actual experience making sandbox games.

    And I think the problem is that for all the inclusivity in the game itself, Rowling still gets money from each game's sale and she is pretty explicit in using her wealth to harm and isolate trans people. Not to mention that most of those inclusivity options are already become more common even before the game's release. When even games like Forza Horizon 5 allow you to pick your pronouns separate from body type, it's not exactly groundbreaking anymore. So while I don't think a boycott will do anything, I can understand why there are people who don't feel comfortable buying it are boycotting it.

    Of course, paying full price for any game these days confounds me when you can just wait half a year for it to be less than $40 and most of the bugs have been patched by then. Considering the game is published by Warner Bros, it'll probably be free on Epic in like a year as well.

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    The Video Game Thread

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    4 hours ago, Jaysin said:

    Honestly, I was torn between Breton and Orc, but Orc took it because of it's starting bonus to the Enchantment skill. 

    Plus I've never had a good save with an orc. 

    I've thought about doing a Red guard heavily influenced by Marvel's Blade. Thinking that'll be my next save if/when I tire of this one. I have so many games to play on Switch, yet Skyrim still dominates my video game time 😂

    There are some katanas laying around in Skyrim if you want to go full Blade with it. I can't remember exactly where but that should be a dozen places online that have it listed.

    The Video Game Thread

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    3 hours ago, Jaysin said:

    I had an idea for a role play for Skyrim where I play as an Orc that calls himself the Winter Knight. He uses ice related spells with his left hand and in his right hand is a sword with frost enchantments. I'm using a Blades sword currently, but eventually going to switch to a Stahlrim sword for it's aesthetics and frost enhancements. 

    This is the most successful "spellsword" character I've ever had in Skyrim and I am having a blast. 

    I love making RPG characters who are the opposite of their race's "standard" role. Halflings in heavy armor, Orc wizards, Goblin clerics, etc.

    The Video Game Thread

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    IT'S SWANTON RECOMMENDATION TIME AGAIN! Hi-Fi Rush is an absolute must try for everyone with Game Pass. Devil May Cry meets rhythm games isn't something I expected to work, but good sweet lord does it ever!  As a bonus, unlike other rhythm action games like Metal: Hellsinger, Hi-Fi Rush doesn't punish rhythmically challenged folks like me by taking away the music the worse you do and instead goes the other way by simply rewarding you with extra damage and faster attacks for being on time. Wrap it all up in a charming art style similar to Into the Spider-Verse, a killer soundtrack that includes Nine Inch Nails and The Prodigy and tons upon tons of references to games the developers love (there's a freaking Xenogears reference in there!) and you get an early frontrunner for my GotY.

    The Music Discussion Thread

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    57 minutes ago, Jaysin said:

    I get Korn, Adema, and even a little Linkin Park vibes. 

    It's rad that there's a nu generation of nu metal. 

    I was going to mention Adema but I thought I was the only person in the world who still remembered them! I used to boot up MK Deadly Alliance as a kid just to watch their Immortal video.

    And agreed. I'm so happy that we've finally gotten past the kneejerk "nu metal bad" thing everyone was stuck on for so long. It was getting to the point where people were just grasping at straws to say that a nu metal band they liked "obviously isn't nu metal" because of some random aspect that ignored all the similarities. "Mudvayne can't be nu metal because they're too heavy!" "Slipknot isn't nu metal because they stopped using turntables as much!" "Deftones aren't nu metal because I like them!" (Frankly liking Deftones is far more of a sin than enjoying nu metal in general if you ask me)

    The Video Game Thread

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    I disagree. There are plenty of games out there that are still extremely fun even if I wouldn't rate them higher than a 7/10. Saying that "good, but not great" games can't be worth talking about is really reductive in my eyes.

    The Avengers comparison doesn't really work either because there's a million other action games out there that do the same beat 'em up formula better. How many good 3D platformers are out there doing any sort of Sonic-inspired gameplay lately? I'm seriously asking because all I know about is Spark the Electric Jester 2 & 3. If there were a glut of other options then yeah, I probably wouldn't be enthusiastically recommending Frontiers (I'd still be talking about it though because I'm still shocked Sonic Team didn't release a broken mess), but here we are.

    Also, blame Sony and their deal with Marvel for Spiderman being exclusive not the devs. They get full control over Spiderman's usage outside of comics and live action movies. I highly doubt anyone on the development side for Avengers thought that was a good idea that would help sales and adding him in for free on other platforms at this point would just get them slapped with a lawsuit.

    The Video Game Thread

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    22 hours ago, same-old-davey said:

    Anyone play dance / rhythm games? I got my very first Perfect Full Combo today on my home computer. Pad play.

    Congrats! I've never been much of a fan of DDR as I have two left feet, but I did used to play a LOT of Rock Band and Muse Dash on Steam is pretty fun.

    8 hours ago, Blackman said:

    From what I've seen it looks a bit rough, but I too had a great time with Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 on the DC, so I wanted to give it a chance... someday. Still need to finish Sonic 1 actually. It's one of my shames :p

    It's for sure rough in places, but the controls actually work for once and the homing attack goes where you want it to instead of doing its own thing like it's done since SA2. Frontiers is one of those games that if you just watch other people play it doesn't seem all that special but then you play it yourself and see why people have fun with it. I'm not gonna come out and say it's top shelf GotY candidate or anything crazy like that. It's a solid 7/10 game that feels like a good foundation for future games. When was the last time that could be said about any Sonic game?

    [HYPE] CVerse Women's Revolution

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    9 hours ago, Le Gentleman said:

    Hello, maybe the question was already ask, but how can I put the Women Revolution DB in my Cornellverse DB, because when I download the DB of the WRevolution, there is only the new characters, how add their in the CV DB?

    You need to create a new database for this mod, then import everything from it into the Default database.

    My import order (hopefully I didn't forget anything):
    Workers
    Worker relationships
    Tag Teams
    Moves
    Move Sets
    Graduates
    Alter Egos

    The Video Game Thread

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    So, Sonic Frontiers... I haven't had a Sonic game that clicked with me since I was a wee little kid playing Sonic Adventure 2 in between games of NFL Blitz on my Dreamcast, but Frontiers hits different. Like, this is actually a fun game. Not "it's playable, that's all I can expect", but actually staying up late because I want to finish a zone! It's still got plenty of that 3D Sonic jank (pop-in everywhere, the cyberspace levels suck and they still won't stop taking camera control away from the player) but for the first time the new stuff Sonic Team added to a game is what I want to see more of and the classic stuff less so.

    It's weirdly relaxing speeding through the open areas collecting rings and other assorted pickups with the calm BGM playing. Then you get to the boss battles, the metal kicks in and the game turns into Asura's Wrath! I've seen people are divided over the gameplay shift in the true final boss fight, but IMO that was the hypest boss battle I've played in a long, long time. Heck, even the story is engaging! A Sonic game with an engaging story, how weird is that!?

    So yeah, it's a good time.

    [HYPE] CVerse Women's Revolution

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    On 1/11/2023 at 4:18 PM, DarK_RaideR said:

    Since the main re-render thread isn't exactly meant for requests, now that willr0ck's found this cool new style and is on a kick rendering women, any chance to re-do Chernobyl Generation (Iryna Motyl and Rayisa Volkova) from this mod in the style of Heidi Howitzer and Max the Impaler a.k.a. Wasteland War Party?

    NGL when I first saw those two I was shocked at how close they, especially Max, were to my mental image of Iryna and Rayisa when I wrote their bios.

    On 1/11/2023 at 6:43 PM, willr0ck said:

    Also I'm glad people are bumping this thread becuase I have a surprise in store:

     

    The Women's Wrestling Revolution Expansion Part III

    "The Return Of The Joshi"

     

    And I'm not gonna tell anyone when it's going to drop, it will be a total surprise.

    I'm probably super rusty by now, but if you need any help just drop me a line.

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    The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread

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    1 hour ago, Dalton said:

    Three awesome matches from Dynamite yet again. Crazy that a company can still continue to put on such a good television show week after week. Even the down weeks are better than any other wrestling on TV in 20+ years.

    I guess I should've kept watching after Hangman vs Mox. Maybe I'm becoming an embittered old man, but Hangman taking the exact same bump that could've killed him last year followed by running a concussion storyline with Mox just felt tasteless.

    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

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    2 hours ago, Blackman said:

    Sorry to not jump on the whole "Saudi's bad" bandwagon, but you can probably say a similar bad thing on anyone in the "consortium" of a bunch of random people, which you seem to be completely fine with.

    The SWF (not the TEW company obviously :p) of the Saudi's is a complex construct with several 'owners'. Nevertheless a LOT of people are going to have problems with this, even if they were to announce that "nothing is going to change", because we all know how that will go... XD

    The crown prince had a journalist butchered in his palace for being critical of him, the House of Saud sponsored Wahhabism to create an army of fantatics to fight the House of Rasheed for control of the peninsula and continued to help it fester until well after it turned into the brand of Islamic extremism that has killed millions. That's without getting into their long, storied history of human rights abuses that make us Americans look like slackers in comparison. So yes, the source of the term Saudis (I.E. the people in charge) bad. And people can have a problem with all that while also realizing that the rest of modern life is also built upon suffering. Having a red line of what you'll continue to pay money for is the first step in very, very, verrrrrry, slowly untangling the mess humanity is in.

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