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Post by Starshine on Dec 4, 2021 21:24:34 GMT -5
A crisis in faith is the logical progression away from a faith based gimmick.
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Post by Starshine on Dec 4, 2021 21:08:09 GMT -5
Being a script writer in WWE must be like the Schrödinger's cat of jobs.
You can never know for certain whether whatever you're currently working on is alive, or dead.
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Post by Starshine on Dec 3, 2021 18:05:44 GMT -5
CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan? Eh, whatever.
CM Punk vs. Bryan Danielson? Hook it into my veins!
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Post by Starshine on Dec 1, 2021 18:54:03 GMT -5
I wonder how many of the people complaining about Edge referencing the Punk line loved Cody smashing HHH's throne, teasing the Pedigree, "sloppy shop", Jericho burying Hager's old catchphrase, Punk using Cena's moves and name-dropping Miz. And that's off the top of my head. Wrestling Twitter is basically a cesspool with stuff like this. AEW mentions WWE and the replies are full of people with Roman profile pictures telling them to mind their own business and WWE mentions AEW and the replies are full of people with the word Elite in their username kicking up a fuss. If "your" side does something you lap it up because hey, it's fine and all in good fun but if the other side does it it's bush league and unneeded. I'd like to think the WWF/WCW war wasn't this petty and boring with fans but I'm probably being naive and just not remembering how bad it was. Personally, I love it. Stuff likes this makes the show feel more real instead of a homogenized bubble that has no bearing on reality, which basically describes WWE's recent decade plus, coinciding with their slow slide into cultural irrelevancy; probably not a coincidence. I also give absolutely no shits about Twitter, so I couldn't care less which mutants say what there. So long as the angles around this sort of stuff is good, and it isn't used as a complete writing crutch (ala, 2000's TNA), then it makes pro wrestling more exciting.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 30, 2021 17:38:03 GMT -5
How idiot is he?
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Post by Starshine on Nov 30, 2021 2:20:22 GMT -5
Please explain why Deonna Purrazzo's single account covers every single match in Nia's career. Please provide a quote of every single person she injured saying, "Nah, Nia didn't do that", because that's the only way to justify her behavior. You are wrong here. If she is a such a reckless, unsafe worker, doesn't it seem just a wee bit odd that a peer could work with her repeatedly over a period of five years and never be injured or even banged up from doing so? Why, it's almost as if in the vast majority of her matches she didn't injure anyone, and indeed was trying not to injure anyone. Which is almost as if there's something more complicated going on than "she's reckless". You do know what statistical significance is, right? Because one handpicked account taken at face value doesn't explain anything, and this also doesn't consider any potential bias from the source (i.e. friendship, personal history, professional goals, etc). Now as for actual statistical significance, has Nia Jax, when compared to someone at her professional level and with her experience, caused injury to more wrestlers by comparison to the mean? If the answer is 'yes' and the most common denominator isn't the opponent, or a factor outside of Nia's control: then the fault is in her performance, reckless, or otherwise. That's not debatable.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 29, 2021 22:11:34 GMT -5
I don't understand why people continue watching a product they know will bring them no joy. I asked one of my best friends this question. He also loves AEW, sporadically follows NJPW (mainly the big shows), and has just recently gotten back into going to indy shows with me. Yet he insists on watching Raw and SmackDown every week. His answer? "Because I know the ONE WEEK I don't watch is the one week where it'll be a good show." So I asked him, "What would a good show even look like these days?" "I don't know," he said. So there you go. It's the sunk cost fallacy combined with a vain, vague hope that the product will turn around. That's a interesting way of putting it. Personally, I couldn't tell you the last full WWE show I watched. I do know the last full PPV was Mania 2018; which was such a miserable experience to the point that I was glad I had work commitments the following year which gave me an excuse from the live watch party we'd been doing for around 10 years up to that point. I vaguely follow the results and happenings (thanks Gorilla) because whether we like it or not, WWE is the big game in town right now, in the same way McDonalds influences the entire food service industry. If you're interested in pro wrestling, it's impossible to completely ignore. But no, I can't imagine actually putting in the time cost to watch this product right now. The last WWE angle I genuinely connected was over 10 years ago. Life's too short to expect dinosaurs to change.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 29, 2021 19:57:40 GMT -5
I think the current setup would look better if WWE somehow wrapped LED screens around the ropes along with everything else they own. I like it when my eyes start bleeding even faster.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 29, 2021 16:48:12 GMT -5
I’m glad that despite her recent career setbacks, she can still find some humour in injuring her coworkers…
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Post by Starshine on Nov 23, 2021 23:23:45 GMT -5
RAW's entire current booking process in a nuteggshell:
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Post by Starshine on Nov 23, 2021 21:46:55 GMT -5
How come none of these idiot fans try this on Brock Lesnar or Matt Riddle? Lesnar? No idea. Riddle? His stinky feet keep them at a distance.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 23, 2021 21:45:22 GMT -5
I guess I must have missed the part where the Snyder cut made all that money the cultists promised it would. But Ayer doesn't even have the small feral support that movie had.
If Ayer has to make an argument for supporting his vision, at least the creative or artistic spin would feel sincere.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 23, 2021 20:13:46 GMT -5
By the way, don’t go to Reddit to discuss this one. Had to have a debate with someone about this guy likely being mentally disabled where they brought up Hitler and The Big Lie to prove why a sound minded person could get tricked. Really. Ah, don't ever change, Reddit.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 23, 2021 19:54:40 GMT -5
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn wrestling the returning Daniel Bryan and.... Shane McMacmahon.
Two of those three names are pretty good choices, and the other one seriously drags it all down.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 22, 2021 22:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by Starshine on Nov 22, 2021 17:23:58 GMT -5
The WWE Title today feels like the Intercontinental Title of like... the mid 90's It's only "equal" to the Universal Title in WWE-speak. It's obviously tier 2 by the actions. Anywho, if your name ain't Roman you don't matter. Add another casualty to the massive evergrowing list. It's the B-Show title issue. Even when there's supposedly two top titles, one is always booked below the other, often correlating to whichever belt isn't on the main drawing show, which was previously RAW, and currently SmackDown.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 19, 2021 0:44:16 GMT -5
Personally, I think Bobby Fish is actually a total Jerk.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 18, 2021 23:10:14 GMT -5
Gesundheit.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 18, 2021 21:59:25 GMT -5
A silver lining take: the best thing you can say about Swerve's WWE run is that he finally nailed down a great character, which was his biggest weakness prior to Hit Row debuting. He'll definitely get picked up by someone.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 18, 2021 21:55:52 GMT -5
Again, who could give a shit about these shows when the characters in them are apparently so interchangeable??? I've been saying that. How can you possibly get invested in someone when they could be kicked out after like a month... and one match? How could you possibly write a show where any character could just flat out be removed for absolutely no reason without warning. Because they're more concerned with fans caring about the brand than any one character. Which begs the question of how can anyone care about a show that doesn't even care about it's own performers.
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