Merzbow

3 hours ago, Jazzy G said:

some Japanese lads having a scrap in a derilict house. It was properly weird stuff. 

There was also a weird IWA Japan deathmatch in a bathhouse that did the rounds on those tapes, just fighting while naked people are wondering what the fuck is going on.

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Shadow WX in a loser has to wrestle an alligator deathmatch, the match beforehand is ok I guess and the typical kind of thing from both guys but it's the dog shit "match" vs the alligator which I love for how bad it is. Everyone is expecting something killer and you can even see the sadness in Matsunaga's eyes when out pops a literal baby animal, he's actually soft with it and does whatever he can to not hurt the poor bugger. I weirdly love the whole thing.

They made an entire tape all about it, too, which I had a bootleg VHS of.

15 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

Dunno if this new stuff will get a similar response?

I didn't really get the hate the first time around, plenty of bands come back with new lineups but this seemed to get a bigger backlash than others. I've already seen the typical "I prefer the original vocalist" comments for this new track.

I'm watching the live action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender and and it's surprisingly not terrible, after awful adaptations from Netflix like Death Note and Cowboy Bebop they've seemingly got their act together with this and One Piece. It's also far from brilliant and possibly not even needed but the young cast really make it work, it's just never going to live up to the original which is rightfully seen as one of the best cartoons ever (even if I prefer Korra).

I wonder if Rare has had a hand in the emulation side, their games on the N64 side seem to have had more care. I was surprised at how well Goldeneye plays, too.

New Catch Republic? NCR? Someone is a Fallout New Vegas fan.

I played some Killer Instinct earlier, it's cool but falls really far behind the arcade version, more than other conversions of the time.

Even the N64 version wasn't as good, now that was an odd port though and seemingly went through development hell?

4 minutes ago, The Dart said:

People complained that Drew was treated like a "hometown" star for a show in Wales.   He's from Adelaide which is a 28 hour drive from Perth.   Putting a lower midcarder who has no current storyline and have him win, just because he's from the same country would be nutty.

Just change where he's billed from, worked for Bulldog.

I'm surprised it's advertised that way, I always thought he was just having his last match and might show up from time to time in other ways.

Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio is a fav shitter to go back to once in a while, the latter being one of the worst workers in existence but with a hugely over inflated ego so thought he could no sell everything thrown at him until the strikes became so real he was kicked in the head repeatedly busting him open and probably knocking him the fuck out.

He's a really interesting fella though.

The Bucks need to take away their dad's Internet.

The Zone of Interest manages to be the most harrowing tale of fascism since Salo yet almost doesn't show a thing, I felt sick to my stomach throughout. Watching a house party next door to genocide while the same thing is going on today in the world..

Iron Monkey are back! Vocals aside that's 100% how I remember them.

6 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

And I don't know what MEAT MADNESS is but I'm extremely excited and happy about it. 

BSE! BSE! BSE!

Hopefully his social credit score just fell to rock bottom.

Regarding getting fans to come back to shows, hasn't that been one of the biggest problems in wrestling as fans often just don't come back regardless of quality? I can speak for myself and say I haven't come back to WWE in nearly a decade now, and it's been months since I last watched a full AEW show.

22 minutes ago, Factotum said:

Bitter Hangman in a wheelchair could be bloody great. Obviously not what they want, but he can make it work

He'd be a better Bret than Punk and Dax combined.

I started a new run yesterday hours before they announced there would be a trailer, I must have From Sense of something.

On 2/28/2023 at 11:39 AM, Merzbow said:

Let's fucking go.

I like seeing the word expansion, too. Reminds me of the old days when "dlc" was huge.

It seems like there's even a physical edition? It must be huge.

Brother Bruti and a couple of lads.

I'm replaying some Prey and it's making me sad that Arkane is now a shell of it's former self thanks to the big Beth and Microsoft, it's going to take a new killer dev team to being back the AAA "im-sim" which is my favourite microgenre of game. A new Deus Ex was cancelled recently after Embracer Group shat the bed and is firing half of the people it bought up during covid.

The Yemeni armed forces have apparently sunk a British cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden in the past few hours.

On 2/13/2024 at 4:17 PM, Snitsky's back acne said:

Japanese legend Hayabusa wrestling some scrub in a dingy nightclub in Florida in 1995.
No idea of the venue but it looks tiny and the crowd is silent throughout. No idea who the wrestlers are who attack 'HAY-BUSA!!!' afterwards,
All very bizarre,.
 

 

That's when he was over in the US for a few weeks after a lengthy Mexico excursion, he was living with Mike Awesome and had the WWF looking to sign him around this time, too.

Ogogo is fucking class.