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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 29, 2024 2:08:21 GMT -5
So if you decide to change jobs, you get to leave immediately? Yes? I can quit right now with zero repercussions except losing a reference. Yeah, "right to work" states, giving 2 weeks notice is just a courtesy. Employees don't typically need to do it except to avoid burning bridges.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 28, 2024 23:59:48 GMT -5
We never saw Wilson’s face but there was a time when we saw him with his whole body with his face having shaving cream on it. We never saw his whole face. Parts of the face, yes but not the whole face. There was the season six episode with the Beach Boys episode in a blink and you'll miss it. But my pick is Mrs Columbo There was the spinoff, but basically no one would count that, especially since it's explicitly NOT canonical. Shame, Kate Mulgrew would have been a good enough lead for a mystery show in-general, but the project was doomed from the start because having Columbo's wife divorce him was just not what virtually anyone wanted to see.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 28, 2024 14:21:00 GMT -5
I think almost every company has done a Montreal Screw Job reference at this point... The first "Hostile Takeover" storyline was not the NWO . It happened at World Class Wrestling in 1989. Skandor Akbar somehow bought majority stock in the company. Eric Embry defeated P Y Chu-Hi in the final battle, and World Class became USWA . I believe Bischoff himself credits a Japanese Takeover angle for the NWO. Yep, NPJW vs UWFi. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWF_International
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 27, 2024 20:07:55 GMT -5
I binge-watched all of these with a friend who had not seen it yet, and it's really good, obviously, even if we could not help but come up with absurd jokes, like that Charles founded Waffle House, which served as inspiration for the Danger Room.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 11:10:34 GMT -5
Just remember how drab Toni Storm was in the first few months of her time in AEW. Sometimes you have to check out the lay of the land before making plans. I think Willow has already been elevated as I doubt she gets the title run if MM doesn’t sign. I don't entirely agree, I think she was going to rise regardless, especially given her history with Julia and Skye, but Mone definitely helped speed it along a little.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 11:03:47 GMT -5
It's too heated, which sucks because it'd otherwise be pretty spot on. Evil Uno isn't someone in that division really at all, and is just being thrown out there as a dismissive example. But yeah, a point that'd be made better with a cool head. Yeah I disagree with what banana was saying (I usually do) but it really was a tone problem If there's one thing that AEW does less than a lot of other promotions, it's rocketing people to the main event immediately so they have nowhere to go other than that, and I think that is a key positive for then. If Ospreay immediate just is in the world title picture either he or Swerve needs to start losing when they're both very hot and that's just a bad choice It sort of reminds me of, for all of their faults, WCW having guys like Luger, Sting, etc, give a shit about the US title during some of the stronger booked periods for WCW, and not just have everyone crowding the world title and never drifting from there.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 10:51:52 GMT -5
Clearly you do not watch the product. It is literally the #2 singles belt. OC held in it two long reigns and Jon Moxley is a former champ. Talking about evil uno winning the international get the f*** out of here with your trolling. So, hey, this is a totally reasonable reaction It's too heated, which sucks because it'd otherwise be pretty spot on. Evil Uno isn't someone in that division really at all, and is just being thrown out there as a dismissive example. But yeah, a point that'd be made better with a cool head.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 10:48:54 GMT -5
Anyone else think Ospreay will hold the world and international titles together after All In? I kinda imagine he loses the International title to someone who'll be one of his challengers once he becomes world champion.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 10:27:23 GMT -5
Before someone harps on it, because it always comes up: Meltzer has said to basically just treat the higher numbers as "still a 5, just, emphasis" and not to take it super seriously. The first 5+ was Flair vs Steamboat in the 1980s, so yeah, don't get terribly hung up on it.
Same dude has also said that many 5s take place that he simply doesn't ever see, like that Flair probably had many 5s on live shows with no official recordings or distribution in tape-trading circles, so yeah, it's not a science and never has been.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 9:27:25 GMT -5
I love that Bryan went from somehow having no 5 star rated matches, bafflingly, to 10 in the past couple of years. He really made up for lost time on that front.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 26, 2024 2:28:37 GMT -5
Codyverse was better. Like, yes, there were rough spots, obviously, but cool shit happened in it, too, and the matches themselves tended to be good, like Sammy and him in the ladder match on the way out.
Not like Jericho hasn't had some great matches in there, obviously, but Cody never completely shit the bed like one of Jericho's Orange Cassidy matches where he got completely blown up and was legitimately embarrassing to watch, like him being unable to take Orange's "Mouse Trap" move right at all, which, given it was the finish, wasn't great.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 24, 2024 10:41:23 GMT -5
It took too long to get there, with Jimmy having not done enough to differentiate himself as a singles guy, and also didn't exactly benefit from just much better, higher-stakes matches at 'Mania. It just made this too little, too late.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 23, 2024 23:02:07 GMT -5
Yes OF is an easy job compared to wrestling, sure At least you get paid to look at a bunch of chuds' gross peckers in your DMs on OF Yeah, sex work is work, she just doesn't gotta fill out her bump card.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 23, 2024 22:59:36 GMT -5
I am awaiting when NXT just decides to turn her heel for no actual reason. She technically is a heel right now. Unless you mean the KO "turn heel when you're already heel" More or less, like when they take someone people want to cheer, like Cesaro post-Andre Battle Royal, and just draaaaaaaaaaag them out as a heel for no particular reason. You don't have to make someone face right away, but you can't drag it out for too long if you still want people to care as much as they could.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 23, 2024 21:33:39 GMT -5
I am awaiting when NXT just decides to turn her heel for no actual reason.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 23, 2024 8:44:01 GMT -5
I think Liv losing now was the right call, if she won the battle royal now it'd just come off like a fluke while actually directly beating Becky for it will do more for her in the long run plus it gives good reason for her character to grow more heelish, just the match itself sucked. Yeah, I had even suggested that, had they had Nia won, I'd expect they'd do the same thing, Liv beating her for the increased credibility. This is thankfully way less awful, but like you say, the match was bungled. All the more reason to NOT give it to Liv just yet, really.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 23, 2024 8:39:53 GMT -5
I mostly just wouldn't want Linkara to cover Sonichu at all because it's just really grotesque to do so. That, plus what would Linkara be able to say that'd add anything to that conversation? There's just much better stuff left to cover that doesn't contribute to the internet dogpiling someone. As said the thing was webcomics but he kinda broke that at some point... though I think that Webcomic did produce a book. That said Sonichu itself would also have the whole can of worms about it's creator... that he isn't going to want to really open. Especially because it's inextricable with its creator, like CWC IS the story, it's just a series of boasts and gripes about someone's personal life wrapped up in bad drawings. There is no substance to address.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 22, 2024 22:37:10 GMT -5
There was a time when pushing Nia made sense. Then, bringing her back made some amount of sense from a standpoint of "okay, Rhea facing someone bigger than her in Australia when she's de facto gonna be a megaface there will get sympathy on her". Now, though, yeah, hope they signed her to a short-ass contract, or just have her be someone's Diesel, because she's really wrung dry.
Nia's in the top 3 of issues with that battle royal, but even if she was pre-injuries Nia who could at least move, the booking of this match sucked ass for the reasons Lizuka and others mention. Bull Nakano at her peak would not have been able to make this match not lame.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 22, 2024 22:22:17 GMT -5
While the chance to work together was never really there, I would think Hogan would have loved to work Foley, considering Foley would just allowed Hogan to beat on him all day. I could have totally seen it working in WCW at a certain point, certainly, especially if Hogan wanted to try to present himself as not being edgeless. Either have Hogan do a match with Mick and send him into some barbed wire or otherwise push the envelope, or have the two of them swinging barbed wire 2x4s if Mick picked up some crowd buzz and Hogan wanted to appear hip and partner with him in some big gimmick match, especially since it kinda writes itself. "Hogan has feud with Kevin Sullivan. Hogan decides to get additional backup from one of Kevin Sullivan's hated enemies, his former partner Cactus Jack."
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 22, 2024 22:14:59 GMT -5
I mostly just wouldn't want Linkara to cover Sonichu at all because it's just really grotesque to do so. That, plus what would Linkara be able to say that'd add anything to that conversation? There's just much better stuff left to cover that doesn't contribute to the internet dogpiling someone.
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