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    Gay as FOOK

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  1. Love this vantage point for Cody and Rock's entrances. After years of things getting gradually bigger and shinier seemingly without end, the Raw stage has actually shrunk down considerably now and they have this great balance between some really good lighting effects and the stars looking fucking megabucks coming out from behind the curtain. This is just how things look and sound when you're molten hot because of the people on your show, and not just because you've cracked new media streams and markets to do record revenue years to cricket indifference
  2. Asking Alexandria needles me every time I see it. Worst kind of metalcore, pool party, grab-yer-Vans, honour between bros shite name.
  3. Man, I can't get over how low energy Mone is. It's early days I guess but divorced from the rest of the Horsewomen, the I Made It theme and the whole ascendancy feeling of her being a massive face even when she was heel she seems to just be coasting along all indica as that cousin of hers would say. She's in a business that's full of people right now who are revealing themselves to be really clever, endearing and funny whether it be in small on screen moments or supplementary/social content and last night she picked up the Jim Ross award for unenthused commentary. Osprey? Not going to lie, the better he looks in AEW - and as someone who has not followed his career until now he looks very, very good - the more it's going to make me salivate over him getting the red carpet treatment where the big boys play. Can't help it. Not a knock on what he might do in AEW, but you can already kind of see the ceiling. Becomes their champ, has bangers with puroresu guys. But the potential of him entangled with Reigns, Rhodes, Drew, Punk and President CyberRock in a few years? randymarshcum.gif
  4. What everyone else said. Incredible stuff. It feels almost cruel to the guy at this point, though, but my personal standout was Rollins just pissing insecurity on the mic with Punk. "You don't care? Well...fine! Good! Because I don't care either! I'm super not bothered by you!"
  5. I'm probably overthinking it, but viewing that clip from its original angle doesn't she sound extraordinarily close to the camera from ten feet away? They've certainly put a plant in for less, and it makes total sense to do since viral clips are where it's at. Back and to the left etc.
  6. Getting into the Tomb Raider remasters after about a year of not playing anything at all. I find myself switching to the potato graphics a lot when I'm stuck. The more simplistic textures and lack of dynamic lighting make hidden switches, health pickups etc way easier to see! Persevering with the original for now to do it right, but the series starts for me when the Bartoli boys start kicking off in the sequel.
  7. It's a shame the crowd has burned out slightly on the insanity of all of this. They definitely seemed a bit more tepid to what was - indeed - a more logical, comfortable segment on this week's show. You sort of have to feel that image of Jey and Rollins hopping over the barrier woulda/shoulda been accompanied by a much bigger pop sans Rock's shadow looming over everything. Still, better this week from Smacky D.
  8. Not sure if you're talking about UKFF or Spooky Bathroom but it works either way!
  9. She's mastered how people look at me during dates as a thumbnail.
  10. Christ yeah. The muttering in that clip would drive me nuts.
  11. I think this has stopped getting Cody over more. He's still getting brilliant reactions on the road, but the actual in ring promos over the last 2-3 weeks on TV have had a much more routine response to my ears. Going for exchanges on Rock's level with yo momma and tiny dick barbs isn't going to do anything for his bottom line. Cody's bottom line is the fact that there's a white meat, superhero babyface over like rover in the hyper-cynical 2020s. Wrestling spent effectively an entire generation booing the heir to the throne. Then the most obvious heir to the throne ever came along and everyone decided the world's a miserable enough place as it is, so let's just actually cheer this really good guy. Kids watched during the Attitude Era, it's a total Bret Hart take. I get it. But his character should have a certain weird integrity to me. Cody's the guy that's awesome with kids. Now he's teaching them the Attitude Lite stuff. Wish they'd just move WrestleMania to this weekend and get it over with. The go home show will have funny sewage falling on Rock whilst he tries to run through a 42 minute Cody "This is your bitch fart crybaby life" segment at this rate.
  12. Pretty much just Dynamite during work, a bit of Collision and whatever the 'main' in ring promo/segment on Raw and Smackdown were on YouTube. I acquire the AEW and WWE PPVs and watch them on a morning off but usually either skim halfway through or just fob them off because waiting to see what's been posted here about it is more entertaining. I still feel invested, it's just that once that initial massive anchor wrestling has like twice a year wears off, I can't stick to actually watching the full shows. I'll see Punk coming back, or Cody finally getting the push, or whatever it is and feel as hyper-invested as ever, and then once the weeks start rolling into one another - even if the angle's being handled well - I'll just drop off again in no time at all. Wrestling's retrospective content for me and there's enough of it there that I'm sort of okay with that. It's OSW, Wrestling Bios and podcasts. Just...good fan made ones. Because I'm way over the hill with even the supposed clever carnies and their endless takes on how they'd do it, based on that one year they got that one storyline really right. I'd love to be sitting on WCW PPVs for the occasional fun watch but it's not worth maintaining an active paid sub with the evil empire over. The last time I watched week to week in full - live where I could - was 2005 which is nuts as I type it because like I said I still feel like I've been invested in the almost 20 years since then. That was the last year the 1 AM "THIS is Sky Sports" call got me excited. And it got me very excited. I was so into it, and felt like I was fighting wrestling's corner against a world that didn't understand it. Those were the days. But these are the days too. You grow up.
  13. Yeah it was a bit marmite wasn't it. I think keeping scrapping and base building an essential part of what's possible but completely divorced from any actual main quest progression/badgering should be an easy enough task to do. Treat it as a roleplay element essentially. Then again it is Bethesda we're talking about.
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