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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 12, 2011 2:59:20 GMT -5
Ha.. love the Cubs manager tearing into the crowd saying they don't have jobs if they can attend a day game.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 12, 2011 2:56:01 GMT -5
This too. People who say stuff like "forever alone" and "cool story bro" in public are turbo-charged tools to the 10th power. The worst was when I was still going to ROH shows. You could usually tell a geek by how poorly he heckled. Dead giveaway: heckling revolving around workrate or personal life stuff. Ugh... reminds me of when I watched the CM Punk promo where he signed his WWE contract on the title, and one of the hecklers yells "Your shining wizard sucks!"
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 12, 2011 0:58:38 GMT -5
At least Luke got him some during this trilogy. Actually, now that I think about it that is out of character for him at that point. His part is also horrendously off as the prequel movies completely undercut his primary motivation. Lando and Lobot's parts were minorly interesting, at least. Also, the second one of that trilogy did have a decent cliffhanger with a videotape of Han bound and getting the tar beaten out of him for 5 solid minutes as a warning to Leia (the acting Chancellor of the New Republic). Yeah, makes perfect sense what with Callista and Mara. Who cares that the universe is being invaded and Han is in danger? Luke needs to tap that ass. Well to be fair, Luke was off on a personal quest w/ the gal trying to find out about his mother. Turns out the broad lied to him about his mom being a part of her weird Force tradition, but he was separate from the other parts of the story. Personally I thought the Yevetha were an interesting enemy. One thing I liked about this era of the EU vs when Del Ray got the rights was at least they had a variety of enemies. Now it's like "Oh great, the Sith are back AGAIN?" The Bantam era had the Imperial Remnant, the Yevetha, a force ghost of an ancient Sith Lord, a fallen student of Luke's and Han Solo's pissed off dickhead of a cousin to name a few.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 12, 2011 0:37:40 GMT -5
Yeah, people being comfortable with themselves sucks, lets hope that ends. It's nice because these days a lot of formerly considered geeky things are more socially acceptable, and people don't have to hide their geek interests that EVERYONE has to try and look cool. It's actually funny because it's made douchebags stick out even more like a sore thumb because they seem to be bigger posers then ever lately.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 12, 2011 0:19:10 GMT -5
I'm surprised the Nintendo Virtual Boy wasn't on the list.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 18:19:58 GMT -5
The thing about Triple H? He's not a star. He never was. I know people TREAT him like a star, and everyone talks about how he's a star, but he's not. He has no crossover appeal, and he's never captured people's attention as the face of the company. He was a very very good worker back in the day, and he was "loyal," so I can understand wanting him in a prominent position. But no one who wouldn't wear a wrestling T-shirt in public knows who the hell he is. He's Tito Santana, if everyone acted like Tito Santana was The Rock. They want him to be really really over, and storylines require him to be really really over, but he cannot maintain that level of popularity without being cast as the coolest, toughest, most awesome guy in the world. The Reign of Terror wasn't HHH stroking his own ego; it was HHH not being believable as a top heel unless he won clean more than any other top heel in history ever has. Even now, I truly believe that they really think they're going to finish this with Punk and del Rio and Rhodes and Ryan and whoever all huge huge stars because of HHH! I think it's really unfair to assume the man himself is insisting on being treated like hot stuff. But the fact of the matter is: HHH couldn't work in this role if the walkers-out had had legitimate points. It wouldn't work if he acted upset about them leaving instead of smug. It wouldn't work if he had lost to Punk when they wrestled. HHH needs to be protected, because in order for him to be the big deal they want him to be, he can have no chinks in his armor, period. And now they're in a corner because of it. He's like a more credible Jeff Jarrett to me. At least Triple H looks like he can beat everyone's ass.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 18:14:48 GMT -5
The hell you talkin' bout son? I put more then that in every opponent!
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 18:07:40 GMT -5
They resolved the walkout way too quickly. Within the first 10 minutes everything is back to normal. Not much reason to keep watching after that. They had to do SOMETHING, if it wasn't resolved we have some weird night of one match and a ton of promos interlaced with shots of protesters or something.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 18:05:11 GMT -5
I'm treating her presence as a homage to the other Avengers. Hawkeye's the 1 I don't get. How is exactly is a bow a superpower? Well, he's one of the classic Avengers. Reason enough.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 18:03:09 GMT -5
Old Yankee Stadium seems like it should have been preserved as a historical monument and museum. Even if they no longer played there, you don't think people would pay money to stand at the same plate guys like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Joe Dimaggio and Roger Maris stood?
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 17:59:41 GMT -5
The Crystal Star was just godawful. A lot of KJA's stuff was terrible, too (though I thought the Tales of the Jedi comics he co-wrote were pretty good). Honestly there's a lot more bad than good in the EU books, but generally the good stuff comes from: Matthew Stover Timothy Zahn Michael Stackpole Aaron Allston Drew Karpyshyn (who's also one of the writers at Bioware; he's the head writer of the Mass Effect games and also worked a lot on KOTOR and TOR) OTOH, I tend to not like stuff by these folk: Karen Traviss James Luceno Troy Denning Kevin J. Anderson KJA gets a pass for creating two of the more interesting villains in the EU: Exar Kun and Admiral Dala. Exar Kun+ Ulic Qel Drom> Revan+ Malak. Plus I liked Kyp Durron, and a lot of the other students at the Jedi Academy. Really the only huge drawback of the Jedi Academy Trilogy to me was the Sun Crusher... that was a bit too over the top. I think he wrote characters well, but tried a lil too hard to outdo the Death Star as far as ultimate weapons go. At the end of the day, the backbone of the EU is the Thrawn Trilogy and Jedi Academy trilogy. The Thrawn Trilogy set the stage and reintroduced us to the galaxy and the fallout post RotJ, and JAT laid the foundation of the return of the Jedi Order in the EU.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 14:41:59 GMT -5
Somebody post that picture of Knee-Sabre Man. To me that sums up the EU better than words ever could. Ha.. this guy? starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Irek_IsmarenI'd say as far as BAD EU... people hate on Darksaber and say it's the worst, I say those people never read "The Crystal Star".
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 13:57:09 GMT -5
I know a lot of people love the site, and I admit there is some interesting stuff on it... but I can't help but get "douche chills" reading it often. I think what annoys me is the fact that every trope entry, instead of explaining things, references like 5 other tropes in it, so to even get what the hell is being said either you have to obsessively memorize as many tropes as possible, or look them all up. It comes off as people trying to cram as many references as they can in for the sake of doing it.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 3:49:03 GMT -5
I voted Drew... but Mason has been getting the crowd behind him, so, good for him. You certainly couldn't tell judging from tonight. Guy got absolutely no reaction after pinning Dolph. Did we watch the same show? I heard the crowd count along and pop pretty decent for the pin.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 1:26:41 GMT -5
On one hand, liked the Dr. Death shout out... on the other hand I thought a Dr. Bomb was a gutwrench sitout powerbomb.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 1:17:50 GMT -5
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 1:16:07 GMT -5
I voted Drew... but Mason has been getting the crowd behind him, so, good for him. It's sad that Drew got massively overpushed before he was ready, gets the rug yanked out from him.. and improved tenfold and SHOULD get a big push now but is treading water.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 11, 2011 0:42:38 GMT -5
Y'all bash Kelly Kelly likes shes the worst ever, but at least she doesn't screw up standing still. I cringed when I saw that one since someone could have really got hurt. Almost looked like a handspring axed kick on accident by Kelly. Who was the one that botched it when Kelly's timing was off on pulling the ropes down awhile back and instead of improsing, just dove through the ropes unprovoked?
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 10, 2011 22:18:30 GMT -5
I don't understand why people compare UFC to WWE in this stuff... if UFc emulated WWE's style and had their top guys beating the piss out of each other every week, someone would die or be seriously injured.
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Oct 10, 2011 21:31:27 GMT -5
My fav moment during Bubba's stuttering gimmick was against Kane, he was doing the whole staggering around as Kane gets ready for his flying clothesline routine and the announcers yell "t-t-t-t-TURN AROUND!"
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