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The 5 Policies thread reminded me of this. Pete Morton - Universal Basic Income

To be proper about this, I should point out this was a post by @Fatty Facesitter.

Wow, I've done a lot more internal logical labour than I realised when it comes to wrestling. I always put that kind of thing down to the fact that, wrestling (kayfabe) being a combat sport in which your average participants' emotions and mindsets are very different to everyone else's by necessity, borne of a set of "warrior culture" values of respect for someone you've fought, hurt, bled or been bled by, etc., you're not necessarily going to hold onto grudges in the same way as civilians - it's often talked about with real combat sports that fighters have to get into a mindset in which they have to find a way to detach themselves from their humanity, or dig up some kind of hatred or animosity against another human being they would otherwise have no problem with, and therefore have to be able to drop straight after the match. So, to me, it seemed reasonable that people who have to do that on a regular basis would have the emotional flexibility to do that. Of course, it falls down with real combat sports, because there are plenty of fighters who detest each other because someone went too far over the line in the build-up to their fight - and that's usually way tamer than what happens in wrestling storylines and angles.

I always saw all that stuff as the McMahons just being megalomaniacal richies who were motivated by a desire to break Austin mentally for defying them.

But a baguette is just the name of the loaf! You can make sandwiches with any kind of bread. Otherwise you could say that a sandwich made with a bloomer is a bloomer, not a sandwich. Only exception I can think of is a roll, and even then I'm not sold on the idea they should be called rolls if they're sliced in half and have stuff stuck in the middle.

I refer my right honourable friend to the fact that this was Post of the Year winner in 2022: 939523797_UKFF-MP4LowBitRate.mp4.2cde78076874fd006ee3e7a50e60fe17.mp4

At least no-one's suggesting "The Black-Eyed Fug-peas" this time

It has two very unique features that I've not seen before (not counting the earlier GG instalments) or after: 1. Create-A-Wrestler Mode is essentially training - your basic wrestler starts off with very few, basic moves. You choose one of the roster to train with for a training match, and when they hit you with a move a certain number of times, your character learns it. Depending on the type of character base you start with, i.e. striker, submission fighter, or "suplex"/slams style, you learn those moves quicker or slower. Also, the more you perform those moves on your opponent in training, the more powerful said holds get. 2. Historic Mode - these are historic, classic matches that you essentially re-create with computer guidance. It's basically a regular match with the stipulation that, at certain points in the match, you have to perform a specific move that occurred at the equivalent moment in the real, historic match, within a certain time frame, to get a percentage score to finish with. If you complete that match with 100%, it unlocks a highlight reel of the original match. You have classics like Misawa vs. Kawada, Misawa vs. Akiyama, Vader vs. Kobashi, Giant Baba vs. Stan Hansen, Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Misawa, Team No Fear vs. Kobashi/Akiyama, just off the top of my head. Loads of fun.

My Japanese Dreamcast is one of my most prized consoles. I have a whole host of games on it I love: Giant Gram 2000 (for my money possibly the best wrestling game ever), Fire Pro Wrestling D, Toukon Retsuden 4 (NJPW's game they based the SD engine on), King of Fighters '98/'99/01, Garou: Mark Of The Wolves (basically Fatal Fury: The Next Generation), Street Fighter III W-Impact/Third Impact, Street Fighter Zero-3 (the Japanese version of Alpha-3), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (a surprisingly great fighting game), House of the Dead, Virtua Cop 2, Confidential Mission, Soulcalibur, Fighting Vipers, Grandia II, Eldorado Gate (a very unusual RPG series in that it was initially released in instalments of three chapters every two months), Crazy Taxi, Zombie Revenge (a super-hard beat-'em-up that was a spin-off of House of the Dead), Shenmue 1&2, Sonic Adventure, Dynamite Deka, Rent-A-Hero No.1, Power Stone, and some other ones that were OK, but not brilliant like Blue Stinger or Buggy Heat.

I reckon Aldo should just go to PFL now, get some of that sweet, sweet oil money. He's by no means shot, but he's definitely not at the zenith of his powers. He could still reign as king in the PFL as it currently is, while earning the kind of money that someone of his calibre and legacy deserves.

I normally stick to the golden rule of 'Don't Read The Comments', but I thought someone might provide context - I didn't get any, but some wonderful soul did leave the following:

This is odd, but apparently (I say this because I don't remember it) I replied to that thread, pointing out that slagging off salad cream is a bit odd when they basically have the same thing in Miracle Whip. I didn't mention the fact that putting salad cream in it is heresy, because millions of others had already done that job.

Haggis is delicious. Hope it turns out alright. I found that putting a big dollop of grain mustard in with the neeps gives them a lovely boost of flavour.

Always thought it was a stupid name. They should've called it the MeltzDown.