Vic Boss

IIRC, that ref has been reffing Ring of Honor for a decade or so, unless we're ignoring everyone else's kayfabe, which is tricky because everyone else's kayfabe is why most people on the roster are considered stars in the first place

Did you get a bugged No Mercy cart or the fixed one?

Format = they'd have a Raw vs Smackdown match, and the winner got to select first for the round. Each round Consisted of 2 SDL picks and 3 Raw picks (Because Raw has a third hour, so they need a larger roster). Instead of doing what sports would do, picking the best players first, they instead seemed to save a number of higher tier stars so that most rounds would have someone interesting get picked. So you had a situation like Seth Rollins, despite being the Universal Champion and one of the top stars in the company, basically getting picked almost 30th overall because they had to save some big-time picks for Raw, which means people like Nattie, the Viking Raiders and Heavy Machinery got picked ahead of him on Smackdown.

Well like, what happened with Kenny in the six-man-tag now makes so sense. If it's a real sport, you adjust tactics based on what you're allowed to do, and AEW just allowed a non-legal wrestler in a tag match to be attacked and knocked out of the match without penalty, or even an explanation for why the referee was using his discretion to allow it to continue. So now, in every tag match, you should be able to get one of your friends to drag away the non-legal man and beat the shit out of him and then gang up on the legal man, and if they disqualify you, you can sue them or complain using the previous ruling as a precedent.

I don't think anyone in WWE management actually watches sports. Generally, you draft the best players first and then the so-so's and then after them the scrubs.

>tfw you beat a Legendary Spirit with 1 HP remaining YOSHHHHHH (Baby Bowser) 102/124 Challenges (just have a few Classic Mode Challenges left and then it's Online Challenges), 1069/1343 Spirits (don't know if that counts DLC or not, haven't gotten it yet), and beaten Classic Mode with 13 Fighters

Ep 15

Dig the graphics and production values on SDL

Mostly as Marth, Ganondorf or Bowser to finish off World of Light stuff or challenges I do plan on beating a single player Smash Mode with each character once just to see if anyone feels better (and to pop spirits)

Pretty much agree with all of that. They're not explaining "referee's discretion" very well. Like that kind of stuff happens on the outside of the ring in Japanese wrestling, but there's a cultural reason for it (a directive to make sure every match has wins and losses after the UWFi got hot promoting that and New Japan and All Japan had to follow suit). I feel like Kenny's sacrificing the western women to get over the Japanese, especially Riho (though apparently the teenage audience jumped when she came on, so maybe they know what they're doing). But yeah, Impact's got the best booked women's division outside of Joshi and WWE's got most of the best women's talent, it's a real weakness in AEW.

Popping Spirits (I think I'm 10 or 20 off of 700) and doing Challenges is extremely addicting (64 of 124) and satisfying in Smash . 100%ed World of Light, primarily concentrating on non-online and non-spirit challenges first, then gonna alternate online and single player Smash mode for spirits Fanservice in the game is absolutely insane too. Lost my shit when I played as Simon Belmont for the first time and all his moves are exactly his ability set from the side-scrolling games, down to that arc-ing axe

I was familiar with the beat from when Pusha T massacred Drake with it, but never heard the actual song until randomly hitting it up last week (and god damn that music video )

HERE WE GO NXT Card (Copied From SI.com) AEW Card (Also copied from SI.com) Jim Cornette is moving his podcast to Fridays (recording Thursdays) for the next month, pledging to watching both shows (though probably not NXT's network hour) and then commenting/ranting on them. He might continue doing more afterwards but it depends on if there's a real contest and if he likes anything.

I thought Dark was a mess. Cima/Darby was good, 8 Man tag had a bad flow, women's match was meh, six-man tag had Marko Stunt being treated like a wrestler instead of a mascot in it

Vol 24/197-206

Now with Blast Processing

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I like the aesthetic and who they've got playing Batwoman. The set-up is 100% CW Superhero formula, it's pretty much Arrow if Ollie was Detective Lance's daughter and Detective Lance started as a police chief and Felicity's tech-helper role was replaced with Curtis. The villain situation is goofy as fuck (they can never help themselves with Bat-villains, always too silly). We'll see where it goes. Just finished off Season 2 of Krypton. Much weaker season as they deconstructed a lot of the Krypton society build-up from last season, and weak in the sense that a lot of the major character events of last season were quickly undone and a lot of the plot revolving around them was stupid (they even used a fucking clone once). A lot of the plot of the second season was also very clearly written around the idea that the universe recognizes the main characters as the main characters and things don't progress in a way that felt believable to a population of people. Good showing by Lobo and Braniac. My favourite Zod that I've seen so far (it's almost like if Patrick Stewart had an intense edge to him) and the Braniac voice is creepy as shit. I miss elements of the show but now the show itself, if that makes sense.

This Shaq/Dame Lillard rap battle is incredible

Dat Lillard 3

I just realized

Finished off Kirby Star Allies, I play a bit of Tetris 99 while listening to podcasts. I think I'll play a bit of Sonic Forces just to see if it's decent and then wait for a PS4 sale. Gonna give Smash Bros Ultimate another go sometime soon but I've played so little Smash over the years that it's a lot to dive into.

Cody just announced AEW Dark, a youtube show (I think?) hosted by Tony Schiavone that features Dark Matches (sorta like Main Event) for Tuesdays

Yep, played a normal tournament mode, did about 30 Spirits and had a chugging random online match. Can't get it up for Smash.