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That is what I am always afraid of doing so it leads me to do this... No word of a lie, last night I was playing a save with a custom-made C-Verse company. The company just raised out of Insignificant to Tiny, so for the first time, I saw what you posted above. My message said we need 16 active wrestlers on the roster in order to avoid looking amateurish. It was followed by, As we have 50 at the moment, we are therefore safe. I sat there dumbfounded as I stared at the screen. I truly did not realize I had fifty wrestlers under contract. Especially at the Insignificant level, but I did. I went in and counted and yes I have twenty-five fan favorites and twenty-five heels. Now don't get me wrong, I knew I had somewhere north of forty as I have been holding either a twenty or thirty man battle royal on the pre-card of every show in order to get everyone on the roster work. But fifty! That shocked me. The thing is, I make over a thousand dollar profit on every show. The way I looked at it was, if I am making a four digit profit on every show, I can hire more workers. Whenever I try to play as Japanese companies I always have a hard time remembering Japanese names. I am not sure why but they just do not stick in my head. Therefore, I often find myself booking the wrong person in a match because I got their name confused with another wrestler's name.

I have been really enjoying this diary. Love the presentation. I honestly did not know Ronnie Garvin and Abdullah the Butcher went as far back as the mid-1960s.

I know nothing about Japanese women's wrestling but I will be checking this out just for the amount of work you must have put into this and the awesome presentation. I especially like what you did with the stables. Where you gave each stable a little summary and then if you click on the tab (For lack of a better word), you get a nice mini-bio of each worker in their respective stables. Keep up the good work.

Sort of off-topic because I do not really change stats for TEW. But I do change names and renders all of the time. I have said it in the past, but the AI comes up with some of the dumbest names and it will give multiple wrestlers a very obscure last name. I can't think of any off the top of my head but it happens all of the time. Now if this was in the WMMA section of the site, then yes I change stats all of the time in that game. For instance, I always make Luke Hilton into the badass that he was for the first three WMMA games. I cannot have him be some gatekeeper.

I honestly don't care if you like it or dislike it. You are entitled to your opinion just as I am entitled to my own. I am not one to get mad when people disagree with me or when they talk positively or negatively about something I like or dislike. After all, this isn't the AEW thread where you used to flip out on people for being critical of the promotion. Also, I am obviously an outlier when it comes to Tom Holland and this film series as the movie made something over a billion dollars. Like I said I find him to be highly annoying as Spider-Man and I really don't understand why the heck they have Marisa Tomei playing Aunt May. Aunt May is not supposed to be uber-hot like Marisa Tomei is. The one that really is going to suck for me is the upcoming Flash movie. I really would like to see Michael Keaton as Batman again but I really do not ever want to see Ezra Miller as The Flash again. That dude is highly annoying in the role. I wish they could have worked something out where Grant Gustin played the role in the movie.

First off I did not know they were the writers of V for Vendetta. Learn something new each day. That very well could be the case. Meaning the fans are the ones who are placing far more importance on the meanings or hidden meanings of the movies. There was an article that I read that the Matrix is a transgender metaphor. This comes directly from Lilly Wachowski herself. She said, and this is a direct quote from the BBC article, "The Matrix stuff was all about the desire for transformation but it was all coming from a closeted point of view." I love your line about Catcher in the Rye because I am one of those people who fall into the Holden was whiny brat category. A good portion of academics fall into the other category and therefore if you fall into the whiny brat category then you obviously do not understand the true meaning of the story. A little sidebar here. I am one of those people who never bothers to try to find a greater meeting in any form of art. Maybe it is because I lack critical thinking or maybe I just do not care. To me when I go to a movie, listen to music, or watch television, I do so to be entertained. I just want to shut my brain off and not think about other things like what this scene means or what have you. I don't want to write a thesis paper in my head about anything. When I watch something I either like it or I do not like it and that is the extent of how I feel. I often could not even say why I liked something, but I can always tell you why I do not like something. When I was in college I was in a film studies class. One week the professor assigned us the task of watching I believe the opening scene of the movie Rear Window (It has been twenty years so my memory is a little foggy). The scene sees Jimmy Stewart, who is bound to a wheelchair, watching his neighbors through binoculars. We see what he sees in the various apartments. The task was for us the students to watch that scene and give the hidden meanings of what was going on. I must have watched that scene over seventy times in a row and for the life of me I could not figure out what was the hidden meaning. I looked at it as more of an opening shot in which Hitchcock was introducing the various other secondary characters in the movie. That was what I got out of it and so that was basically what I wrote. Obviously, I dressed it up a little more but if you were to boil down what I wrote that was it. Well, that was not what she was looking for. The answer she wanted was something about the social commentary of 1950's Greenwich Village. Now I knew that was the answer she wanted but I honestly did not see it and I was not going to bs my way through it and say there was a meaning that I did not see. Needless to say, I got a low mark for that task and from that point forward I forced myself to come up with something about society because I knew that was what she wanted. I remember watching La Jetée (which was a French movie that inspired 12 Monkeys) and then saying some crap about how it was talking about post-war France under the de Gaulle government. What I wrote was complete and utter bs but the professor ate it up and I got an A. She even noted that I brought up points that even she was not thinking about. I laughed when I read that comment. I guess when I want to find the greater/hidden meaning in entertainment I can bs my way into finding it. Even if I do not believe a word I wrote. What is my point too all this? Heck if I know and if anyone read this entire thing I applauded you for doing so. I wrote it and I am not going to even bother to look it over for the numerous grammatical errors or misspelled words that I am sure are there. Road to Perdition was very good. Though I have not watched it since going to see it when it came out. I remember having a jump scare near the end of the movie. I don't really want to go into details for those who have not yet watched it. Granted giving me a jump scare is not that big of a deal. I jump out of the seat at the slightest of loud noises. I don't know who is to blame for the modern day shape cinema is in. If you look back at the stuff from the 70's and 80's a lot of that stuff is leaps and bounds better than the vast majority of stuff that has come out recently. That being said there was a ton of crap made as well, Dolemite I am looking at you. Now is that me viewing the past through rose-colored glasses? Yeah, that argument could be made. Though I would say, they really do not make movies like Chinatown, The Conversation, Platoon, or Apocalypse Now (just naming a few off the top of my head) anymore. Or when they do make movies at that level it is few and far between. Could the audiences be blamed? Possibly. I never saw either of the two films you are talking about so I have no idea if they are good or bad. That being said, I am a Gen-Xer but I am far closer in age to Millennials and have many friends who would fall into the Millennial generation. I have noticed a lot of them, this antidotal to the people that I know, are not able to focus for long periods of time. They tend to get bored easily so sitting through something like Godfather II is not something a lot of them would be willing to do or if they do then they are constantly checking their phones. Then again maybe Ridley is just not making good movies anymore. I don't really have an answer for it.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25823" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Someone peed in your cheerios today</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> What do you want me to make multiple posts day after day saying, "Oh joyous of joy I just saw so and so movie and it was the best movie. I am not going to lie it brought a tear to my eye and I am not afraid to admit it. I can't wait for a sequel!"<img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> There are plenty of bad movies, in fact, I would say the vast majority of the movies are either bad or average, and people are allowed to dislike them and post about their dislike of them. </p><p> </p><p> I find a post like <strong>Swanton's</strong> far more interesting because Swanton goes in-depth as to why they do not like the movie. It is far better than reading people saying how great every movie they watch is.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="28374" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You necro bumped a nine year old thread to complain? <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> :p</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> This was the music thread that came up with the most views in the search function. Where would you like me to post it? <img alt=":rolleyes:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/rolleyes.png.4b097f4fbbe99ce5bcd5efbc1b773ed6.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

I swear if I have to hear Fancy Like by Walker Hayes one more time I might have to follow the path that Vincent van Gogh took. Seriously that has to be one of the worst songs I have ever heard. Granted I despise country music in general but I can tolerate it to an extent. However, this song is just at another level of torture. Shoot, I would rather be locked in a room and forced to listen to Yoko Ono's greatest hits than hear Fancy Like one more time.

I really dislike Tom Holland as Spider-Man. Maybe not as much as the weirdo who plays the Flash in the Justice League movie, but yeah to me Tom Holland is just not good in the role. I saw a headline the other day that said something along the lines of, "A new Matrix movie is coming out. But do we really need it?" I think the better question is, why were any of them made. To me, the Matrix, alongside Avatar, is one of the most overhyped series there is. I always felt that it was all style and very little substance when it came to an actual story. Yes I do understand the story but I still do not think it is good.

I don't think the German government would support any company with the word Reich in it. Because...you know, its connection to World War II and the guy with the funny mustache (We can't use his name on this site but I think most people would know who I am talking about.). I think the modern-day German government would do everything in its power to actively stay away from the use of that word.

That whole twelve man tag match was a complete crap show. I understand why it was done to get EJ over but still those teams just seemed to be very random. For instance why was a member of CONTRA on the heel's team when all the members of the MLW roster are supposed to despise CONTRA? I do have to say EJ looks like a million bucks and I am shocked that the WWE would cut him. To me, the dude has superstar written all over him. Then there is the Women's division. They are doing a really bad job trying to get me to care about the Women's division. How do you have a Women's division with seven women in it and only one of them (Holidead) is pushed as a heel? Why should we as fans care about a bunch of fan favorites fighting each other week after week, only to hug after the matches? Where is the conflict? That being said I do think that Willow Nightingale could very well end up being heel. They are kind of leaning her that way and her promos are very annoying. So I could see her winning the title and then being pushed as an annoying heel. Finally, I will never not be happy to see Homicide and LA Park. LA Park was always my favorite Lucha guy in WCW and I am not sure why I like Homicide but I always have.

In regards to the cuts, I was watching a YouTube video with Lance Storm and his co-host (I did not catch his name) who have a podcast. Lance was saying, I am paraphrasing here, that you can expect more of these cuts to happen on a regular basis for developmental because they are going to evaluate each wrestler every six months (I think that is what he said) and if they are not up to the standards the promotion wants, the promotion will cut them. He added that there are a hundred plus people on developmental contracts and only six or seven of them make it up to the main roster a year. This is what happens in baseball as well. I once read a Tommy Lasorda book and he said in all of the years that he was a manager of the Rookie-level team in the Dodgers organization only two players made it to the main roster. Which is astounding to me. It looks like that will be how the WWE minor league roster is run from here on out. They will sign a bunch of people and only a handful will make it to the main roster. His co-host also pointed out that some of these cuts were due to wrestlers not wanting to get the shot for Covid.

I was always annoyed by the docdroid diaries. Not because people used them as a format, I saw why people liked to use that format. It was mainly because my Anitvirus protection always deemed those diaries to be viruses. It happened all of the time without fail. It did not matter which writer posted a show, I was never able to read them. Which sucked because a lot of good writers used that format. I went looking for my old SWF diary to show you what I did but I guess that diary was one of the ones that got purged (Which sucks because at the time it was one of the longest running diaries on the board.). I am a lot like you, I am not one to do move by move results for matches. I don't enjoy writing it that way and I don't enjoy reading it. Also, if I am honest I probably could not visualize it in my head even if I wanted to do so. But, and I am going off memory from a diary that was probably written in 2010 or so, I basically did what you brought up in your post. Whenever I do match write-ups I do it in the Jingo style (As I like to call it. Jingo was the first writer that I know who did it this way and I totally copied him.). What I would do is a bullet point of each major event in the match. I start with the first two who come out and write anything relevant to what they did. Then I would write when the third worker came out, so forth, and so on. I would mention who eliminated who and at what time. I also tried to make mention of any storylines that were furthered in the match. I did this all until I got to the winner and that was that. I believe I ended up doing a post-match summary of the other stuff even though I mentioned it in the match. Such as when each entry entered the match, when they were eliminated, and who eliminated them. I also did a breakdown of how many people each worker eliminated. Yes, it was also listed in my "match write-up" (I say it that way because it really was not much of a match write-up) but I wouldn't expect people to read a wall of text that took me like two hours to write. Hence the summary so people could get the gist of what happened in a more digestible form. I am not sure if any of the above helped or not. I might not have explained it clearly, I tend to do that. But I hope you got a rough idea of what you could use if you wanted to do it the way I did it.

I know you like sci-fi, but I don't recall you saying how you feel about superhero stuff. But if you like that sort of stuff as well, check out Titans. It is very good, much better than any of the CW DC shows. Though I have to admit I like Stargirl and The Flash. Doom Patrol isn't bad but for me, it is really hit and miss. I mean I want to like it because I like the cast and think they all do a great job, but some of the episodes are just too strange even for me and that is saying a lot.

I know pretty much nothing about Japanese wrestling in the real world or the C-Verse. That being said I have tried playing as SAISHO in the past and I did find it to be enjoyable. The one thing that always killed me was the touring schedule, I was never able to make a profit. I was wondering if you have run into this problem as well or if there is something that can be done to make the company profitable while keeping up their touring schedule. Good luck with this new diary it looks like it is going to be good.

Is this new version woke in any way? I am so sick of all of the woke social-justice crap getting put into these franchise movies (Dr. Who and Star Wars I am looking at the two of you.). I stayed away from the new Halloween for this very reason because I heard that it was overly woke. Funny that CQI13, should bring up Michael's age because I was wondering that as well. He would have to be in fantastic shape to be doing what he is doing at the age of 64. Yes, I looked it up and if you are to go by how old he was in the first movie, then he would be 64 or 65 depending on if he had his birthday or not. Also, what does he do throughout the year when he is not doing his yearly killing spree? If he was locked up in a mental institution for his formative years, one has to question how he can possibly make it on his own after all of these years. I guess he does just fine but it is something I never really thought about before.

You are correct, I looked at it again and it was a no contest. I am not sure why I thought I read it was a draw. The minute I read your post I was like, "That is odd, it should be a no contest."

Here is something I have personally never saw happen before. This did not happen to me but in my GAMMA save two women fighters who fought each other on the last WEFF card both had positive results come back in the drug test. Thus rendering the fight a draw. I never had that happen to me before and I never saw it happen before. Sure I have had one fighter get popped but not two in the same fight.

I have nothing to add to the op's question. But I will say this, the game does mirror real life or at least it does for me in this instance. I remember when I used to go to ROH shows and some of them would just go on and on. One show started at 8pm and ended close to 2am. If I had been the one who drove I would told my friends we were leaving but I was not and so I had to sit through a nearly six hour show. The burnout set in around the three hour mark for me and I am not someone with any sort of attention problems but damn it just gets to the point where you want the show to end. Especially seeing how it took another hour to get back. That was just one of their house shows. Some of their "shorter" shows would last like four hours long. That was why I was always happy to go to their PPV because I knew those shows would be done at a more reasonable time. Yes you get your money's worth but nobody wants to see Necro Butcher wrestle in a twenty minute match and I was a fan of the guy.

My computer is too damn old to play CK3. But I have heard it was not as good as 2. I forgot how many hours I have sunk into playing CK2, but it is a lot. I recently got really into State of Decay 2 for the XBox. The game came out in 2018 and the developers are still putting out new content. They just added a new map last month (Or the month before, but the point is it was recent). If you play it more than once, it can get repetitive because you play a lot of the same missions over and over again (I swear if I have to track down Eagle Eye's rifle one more time I am going to go nuts.) but it is still fun. One thing I like is that you can save up to fifty characters from your various communities and use them in a new community. I always look at characters that do not have many zombie kills and bring them over to the next community. Also, you can recruit players from other allied communities to join your community. There was a guy named Pizza John in one of my allied communities and of course I could not pass up having someone named Pizza John in my community so I had him join my community.

I am just going to do a back-to-back because this is an entirely different topic. I saw The Many Saints of Newark and I thought it was very good. For those who don't know what that is, it is a prequel to The Sopranos. It shows Tony as a pre-teen and a teenager and although the focus is not on the character of Tony it does show you how Tony became who he was. Also, I have to say Vera Farmiga just killed it as Tony's mother. It was truly like watching a younger version of the way Nancy Marchand played the character. Vera just nailed it with the mannerisms and the way she would look at the other characters. Corey Stoll did an okay version of Uncle Junior. But the thing is he sounded nothing like Junior. Now I understand that an adult voice can change with age, just listen to Al Pacino in either of the first two Godfather movies and then listen to him in the third one. But Corey's voice does not even sound anything remotely like Dominic Chianese's voice. I don't know, just a minor thing but it did take me out of the any scene Corey was in.

I am the same. The budget should never matter as long as the story is good. I am a fan of the 1960's television show Dark Shadows. The budget and even the acting were sometimes very bad on that show (Which is odd because a lot of the cast were from Broadway, but the show was live). That being said, the writing and the overall stories were pretty good if you are willing to overlook the other flaws. Speaking of which I would add the two movies based on the show to the list. Which are House Of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971). House is by far and away the better of the two movies but Night is not that bad. Both movies use the original cast members of the television show for their respective movies. What I would not recommend is that abomination of a Dark Shadows movie that Johnny Depp put out. Which sucks because I like Johnny Depp and I knew he was a huge fan of the show. Therefore, I thought he would make a good movie based on it, but that obviously did not happen. In regards to Midsommar I felt it was a far too long, pretentious arthouse movie. It went on and on and it was not nearly as well written as some people seem to say it was. There is a guy on YouTube called the Critical Drinker, who summed up why Midsommar was not good. You are a braver soul than me. After watching the second one there was no way I was going to go anywhere near the third one. The Soska Sisters are all sorts of awesome. I have never had a chance to see anything they directed but they did write a Black Widow comic mini-series which was one of the better comics I have read in a long time. I have also watched interviews with them and when I did have Twitter a few years back, I was a follower and they were nothing but nice to their fans. Which if you know anything about people who write comic books, that is something that does not happen very often. More often than not, a good amount of people who work on comics are raging a holes. I really need to check out some of their movies and for anyone who has not had the chance to do so, check out the Marvel Comics miniseries by the Soska Sisters called Black Widow: No Restraints Play.

You would not be talking about a certain Christopher Lee classic, if you are then yes I agree. I thought Midsommar was terrible, I mean how does one make a boring horror movie? Forgot to mention if you have not done so already, please for the love of all that is holy stay away from Lost Boys 2. That movie was horrible as the day is long.