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Post by devilfish on Apr 3, 2024 9:50:42 GMT -5
I seem to remember hearing that they produced more cartridges of it than there were Atari 2600s at the time. Is that correct? That was Pac-Man. Allegedly they printed up 12 million Pac-Man cartridges when they were only 10 million working Atari 2600s in existence. Ultimately they sold 7 million of them which is a huge accomplishment, but there were still 5 million on sold which when you factor in the production costs, they were unbelievably in the red because of that
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Post by devilfish on Apr 3, 2024 8:57:44 GMT -5
Haven't seen her mentioned yet, but Sherri Martel was usually good for a laugh with her over the top reactions during promos “BETTER THAN THE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST!!!!!”
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Post by devilfish on Apr 3, 2024 8:52:30 GMT -5
From Oil Trough, Texas
Dirty Dutch Mantel!
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Post by devilfish on Apr 3, 2024 8:20:40 GMT -5
“The game of human chess” being used to describe a tagteam match
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Post by devilfish on Feb 20, 2024 12:29:00 GMT -5
Here’s one from the UK. Back in the 1990s Hoover vacuum cleaners were the biggest brand of vacuums in the whole country. In fact, Hoover were so popular that the word Hoover became slang for a vacuum cleaner in England.
A way to grow their business, they did an ad campaign, where if you spent over £100 a new vacuum cleaner. You could redeem it for two free plane tickets to a couple of different European destinations. It turned out that because of the redemption rules, which require jumping through a whole lot of hoops. Not a lot of people redeemed their free flights, and they still sold a bunch of products so they decided to expand the offer by giving away free flights to America. They didn’t realize that they were going to shoot themselves in the foot because back, then a plane ticket from London to the US cost about six times what it cost to fly to a different city in Europe. And most people were able to buy the cheapest Hoover that qualified, which cost around £120 (as such that was jokingly called the Christmas. Everyone got a Hoover.) and then tried to jump through all the hoops and all of the fine print to get these extremely expensive fights to the USA.
Hoover did sell a bunch of vacuums in the beginning, however, it became a PR disaster when news stories came out about them, disqualifying people for the most Ticky-tack of reasons, denying people their free flights, and making it all but impossible for people to redeem the vouchers.
The resulting PR disaster cost Hoover to lose so much money in England, that, among other things they lost their royal warrant, which is a fancy form of promotion in which they are given a few of approval by the royal family
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Post by devilfish on Nov 24, 2023 8:16:52 GMT -5
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Post by devilfish on Jul 8, 2023 21:28:51 GMT -5
According to Kirk Fogg, the budget only allowed eight grand prize wins per season, thus why the Temple Run was insanely hard. But...I have video evidence at least ONE gumshoe was able to conquer the Africa map. youtu.be/JvC2-IaC_gI
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Post by devilfish on Jul 7, 2023 15:55:20 GMT -5
The top comment on that video sums up my entire argument. “ you can’t truly criticize the movie, unless you have an extended lore behind your characters persona.”
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Post by devilfish on Jul 7, 2023 15:46:26 GMT -5
“oh no! The evil Lord Zinyak has abducted me and he’s gonna blow up the world with his Calcinator Death Ray! And he’s locked me in the dungeon of his spaceship and there’s nothing I can do to get out… ” Where he, and he alone was the only one who could save the Earth from these evil aliens from his giant spaceship… but first let’s review this issue of action comics. been playing Saints Row 4 recently? How’d you notice?
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Post by devilfish on Jul 7, 2023 9:00:01 GMT -5
I honestly think I was an absolute tosser up until my 30s, and even then I still did a lot of cringe stuff like for a period of about a year. I use nothing but a lot of British slang and even tried spelling words the British way because I wanted to be different and I watch a lot of British TV.
Seriously there are times I wanna slap my younger self right upside the face but you grow
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Post by devilfish on Jul 7, 2023 8:50:21 GMT -5
So…random thought for Friday.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole the last few days, watching some videos from YouTube producers from a couple of years ago that I was a fan of. And I noticed something I want your opinion about it.
Back when the Internet review were boom was really happening, around 2010 to 2015 or so, is it just me or did all of the big reviewer start this weird trend, where they added all of these weird story lines and acting segments to their shows?
I mean for a few years there every single show would seemingly start with a 10 minute segment in front of a green screen where they would say something like “oh no! The evil Lord Zinyak has abducted me and he’s gonna blow up the world with his Calcinator Death Ray! And he’s locked me in the dungeon of his spaceship and there’s nothing I can do to get out… But first let me review superman 64!”
I think the one that abuse the privilege of the most was Linkara, who is seemingly obsessed with constantly including multi week storylines like the entity and other stuff… Where he, and he alone was the only one who could save the Earth from these evil aliens from his giant spaceship… but first let’s review this issue of action comics.
I just want to know why that was a thing 
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Post by devilfish on Jul 5, 2023 8:44:02 GMT -5
Eight pages in, and nobody has mentioned Adipose Rex himself, Bob Chipman (aka. MovieBob).
Among other things, his utterly toxic Twitter account where he has said stuff so viciously hateful towards anyone tho doesn’t vote or act exactly like him, unable to take any criticism from anyone unless it’s a person who is politically on his side, since he seems like he desperately wants to be loved by his fellow far lefties and be seen as “one of the good ones.” Being woke to the point of parody yet also saying some very sleazy stuff, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
His Patreon has lost almost half of its monthly revenue and bleeds money every month, and Lindsay Ellis had to tell him to back off when he kept trying to make it seem like the two of them were friends.
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Post by devilfish on Jul 4, 2023 9:56:04 GMT -5
The ring announcer from the 2001 PPV “WOW Unleashed” who announced the wrong winner to a match and then hastily corrected himself about 30 seconds later
After Bronco Billie beat the Disciplinarian, the announcer (who presumably is sitting at ringside, said “ and the winner of this match is… The…Disciplinarian!”
(Thirty second later, clearly having been prompted)
“BRONCO BILLIE! The winner was BRONCO BILLIE!”
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Post by devilfish on Oct 16, 2022 20:30:56 GMT -5
[/quote]Here’s a link archive.org/details/wwf-magazine-1988-02/page/n7/mode/2upFlip to page 9. Also, back in the early 90s,WWE magazine just before their Personality Profile section, they had an ad for Columbia Hiuse CDs (some of which had profane language I believe.) Also, after Lex slammed Yoko on the intrepid (an event that was sponsored by Chevrolet trucks which had the slogan: “Tough like a rock”), an advertisement for Chevy trucks appeared in the magazine. [/quote] The Columbia record club, which inspired by favorite joke from "You Don't Know Jack", "Ah yes, the Columbia Record Club. Here's twelve CDs for a penny, and oh by the way, we now OWN YOUR SOUL!!!!!'
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Post by devilfish on Oct 16, 2022 19:37:47 GMT -5
Sorry to bump a dead thread but one of the people that jumps out at me was "Nurse Vanessa", a valet for Dr. Johnny Feelgood. The Apter mags were OBSESSED with this woman for a while, going so far as to do a multi-page spread of her, no joke, taking a dip in a Jacuzzi, with plenty of spots of her sopping wet body.
I was confused as an eleven year old wrestling fan...and now I'm creeped out as a FORTY year old wrestling fan.
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Post by devilfish on Oct 16, 2022 18:05:55 GMT -5
"Ric Flair's Last Match that turns out isn't his last match after all" Not for nothing, but if you honestly thought that would be his ACTUAL last match, I've got beach-front property in Arizona to sell you.
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Post by devilfish on Oct 16, 2022 17:55:54 GMT -5
Check early editions of WWE magazine in the mid 80s and the Apter magazines. There are a lot of weird sponsors in them. OMG, the Apter Mags had LOADS of sketchy sponsors. I remember ads for among other things: - A play-by-mail wrestling role-paying game where the champion would win a "real title belt" (a drawing of which was included in the ad, and I swear it looked like a wristwatch
- Ads for what was charitably advertised as "women's wrestling" even though one could clearly see it was porn. (You could even see it was in someone's apartment)
- An entire page of ads for really sketchy "soldier of fortune" type stuff like handcuffs, billy clubs, and fake badges (and there was NO WAY that was legal)
- Adrian Street selling wrestling gear with his "Bizare Bazzar" store
On top of that, I remember the Apter mags having an unhealthy amount of attention on "Magnificent Mimi" Lessoes, including a MULTI-PAGE SPREAD of her filming a movie in Italy. (And that's not even getting into one add doing essentially a pinup photo shoot of Nurse Vanessa taking a soak in a hot tub...and I swear I saw that spread with my own two eyes)
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Post by devilfish on Feb 28, 2022 11:13:31 GMT -5
That’s not even the half of it. Allegedly, he would run charity shows for toys for tots but keep the best donated toys for his own personal use. He would also run shows in direct opposition to fundraisers they were trying to raise money for juvenile diabetes. And on top of that he did his best to bury the pro wrestling in East Tennessee. We went from Smoky Mountain wrestling, the hottest territory in the country, to him doing public access shows I would show old matches from five years ago interspersed with video of some teenage girls singing country music karaoke.
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Post by devilfish on Feb 28, 2022 0:36:40 GMT -5
It was announced today that Terry Landell, The infamous Knoxville Tennessee wrestling promoter, has passed away. He was 58 years of age. There was a lot that I can say about this man, and A great deal more that I want to say, but common decency forbids me from doing so. Honestly right now is not the time nor the place
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Post by devilfish on Nov 15, 2021 18:04:04 GMT -5
Well not today but this past weekend I went to Atlanta and I got to see Joe Bob Briggs live and in person.
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