Vic Boss

Day 9

SMT Strange Journey Redux continues. I like how the game prioritizes weaknesses but it doesn't make it easy just to hit something with its weakness. Also how many options and outcomes there are per battle. Platinum'ed Berserk and the Band of the Hawk, did end up being do-able with the Griffith mount Started and beat DuckTales Remastered, was a nice little platformer but the hit detection and environment detection was annoying. I'm jelly of Mera'din's trophy list so I went back and platinum'ed God of War, God of War 2 and God of War Chains of Olympus (just needed to do challenge mode 2, challenge mode and a speed run in 1, and challenge mode and a hard-mode run on Chains), quickly did the few user-generated content trophies in Infamous 2 to set up another platinum if I happen to go back and beat it on hard mode, and currently am trophy hunting in the original Shadow of the Colossus. I'd already beaten the game once before and had 24 of 31 trophies, but they were mostly bronze so the trophy list only read at 39%. I just beat Time Attack on Normal, gonna beat the game a few times and do the collectibles to pop most of the rest of the trophies, then try to beat the game on hard mode (gonna skip Time Attack on Hard).

It's interesting that the Observer rewinds are finally spilling into the NJPW dark ages and it sounds like Inoki wasn't just promoting wrestling and MMA together in a bizarre mishmash, he was trying to job out the wrestlers and the promotion to his MMA guys to put them over instead because he had some involvement in booking for K-1 and Pride too

MJF on Jericho's Podcast is wonderful

Fire Force is starting to cut corners animation-wise in episode 3 :(

Ep 4

It sounds like from what Meltzer's been told or hinted at that AEW is planning to run 100-120 shows per year. 51 episodes of live TV, a weekly Saturday house show, and some PPVs. Also they might be planning to tape TV on the Jericho Cruise.

I could probably rec it to new fans just based on the crowd roar. And then you can follow it up by going "This was actually just a strong match, not even a MOTYC" ;) Naito v Yano was fun for what it was.

Big Dave gave the 5 star treatment to Ibushi vs Ospreay on Night 5 and Ishii vs Moxley from Night 6, and 5.75 for Ospreay v Okada from Night 7. Moxley's first 5-star match

Night 8's solid all around. Ishii/Naito, Mox/Shingo, it's all about what you would expect

Just came here to say exactly that

Wow, they actually made me watch a Dolph Ziggler segment on SDL

93 Thissss fucking episode

I had two dream scenarios for last night and neither happened Scenario A Scenario B

1. Lost Odyssey 2. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (Hero Mode) 3. Mega Man 11 (Normal Mode) 3a. Mega Man 11 (Superhero Mode) 4. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings [Dark Mode] 4a Easy Mode/Roche Path 5 Pokemon Sun 6. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD 7. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 8. Berserk and the Band of the Hawk 9. God of War 1 (Platinum Trophy) 10. DuckTales Remastered 11. God of War II (Platinum Trophy) 12. God of War: Chains of Olympus (Platinum Trophy) 13. Shadow of the Colossus (Trophy Clean-up) Much more respectable 87% trophy haul. I beat normal time attack, maxed out Wander, climbed to the top of the shrine and collected all lizards and fruits to get those trophies. I started playing hard mode and I'm positive I could beat it eventually, but it was such a slog to get through the first two Colossi and I was so used to my third and fourth playthroughs high-stamina stabs and I know I don't care enough to beat time attack and get the Platinum, so I just left it.

Pretty much just can't recommend this enough. It's like if Deadpool and the X-Men had a pretentious baby. Also starring fat Brendan Fraser as a robot, Alan Turdyk as a whack-job bad guy and Timothy Dalton as a mad scientist.

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Night 7

Night 6 Backstage Comments I really love this format, you don't have to be a good scripted promo to get yourself over

I feel like this is gonna get trashed because it's not GoT

Marlon Craft - Gang Shit A white guy does some Joyner Lucas "I'm Not Racist" shit and it's really good

I never even liked emo the first time around, what the fuck? (16 year old me would've loved this song because we're the trolling-our-parents-and-grandparents-polite-society-sensibilities generation, 30+ year old me loves it because half the people I know our age, some now parents, would immediately hate it or cringe at it and it's proof positive that us trolls are becoming old and trolled ourselves and the cycle of life continues. Also love the delivery on some of those fucked up punchlines and that whole Joker-aesthetic he's got going on.) Also I guess if we're talking about horrific street cred, I first found out about this dude like a week ago when the Blink 182 drummer and Machine Gun Kelly decided to randomly bring '00s pop-punk back (I didn't even like it the first time around, what the fuck?). I guess everyone had their arms folded because MGK is uncool (Killshot is a better song and display of skill but Rap Devil is a better diss) but then anyone who lived through that time felt a glimmer of nostalgic youth and rocked out to it or something

Night 6 Featuring Moxley vs Ishii

I don't remember