The Gaffer

Raven Vs. Rhyno at Backlash 2001 is well worth a watch if it doesn't ring a bell for you. It was clearly booked as the card's filler popcorn hardcore match but the two lads just sneak a last great ECW match inside it and just pelt each other.

Thanks for giving us the Lo-Down on that.

I'm not a fan but the annual "What, really?" of acts like Evanescence being announced for Download of all places is strange, to me. Bands like this have enormous nostalgia appeal, but also their top few songs have never left rock/emo/alternative nights in most major cities, and teenagers treat them as if they came out yesterday. Pretty sure the second stage space was overflowing when they played it a few years back. They're the most Downloady headliner ever. Edit: And yeah to what @Dead Mike was saying, obviously a major festival's going to be an exercise in commerciality to some extent, but there was a threshold Download passed in the last few years where you got that sudden festival awareness that you were a walking ATM. That and the language of everything turning into this aching, marketing taskforce slew of 'Download Family', 'Download Experience' etc. I binned it at that point.

I'm pretty sure most of that Austin/Bret stuff is in that Rise of Stone Cold timeline they uploaded awhile back, but I watched it all again anyway. The look and feel of the WWF shows - with that particular angle - is probably my favourite mini-era of wrestling ever. Pipebomb? Try showing up on Livewire and calling in angrily to the commentary desk during Raw! The injection the product receives is genuinely night and day. It still feels like they just gave up on Austin and said "Look, we're really tired. We're losing money. You have a bee in your bonnet about something? Have this segment." Pure, organic, visceral anger directed at Bret - a man who, hilariously, wasn't even there and had never mentioned Steve before - and none of it was a shoot. It was all just wonderfully worked make-believe. Also Brian Pillman pulling faces with his cane and his Marilyn Monroe t-shirt might be the coolest a pro wrestler has ever looked. That him, Bret and Austin didn't get to do an entire year of swapping around in different combos in the main event scene at the start of the Attitude Era is my biggest "What If?" in history.

Olivia decided Christmas starts today for me.

Assuming someone walked pass and mentioned there was a nickle on the floor.

God the title of that video can get fucked as well. You forced AI? How completely kerazy of you. It must have put up quite a resistance.

I know nothing's really going to live or die by its title, but Project Sentinel just sounds like the codename for Xbox's new lethal dose of restructuring poison. I can't imagine it having the same sort of cool cultural weight and longevity as Skyrim.

Yeah, fantastic coffee this morning. There'll be a time to parse promises, expectations etc but this is some of the most pleasant, funniest live election blogging I've been arsed to scroll through in ages.

Public responses to public posts are a perfectly ordinary part of a thread's transparency and progression, especially when the subject matter is still very much on-topic and it is clearly a shared feeling. I am - however - up for calling the next Spurs/Arsenal thread The Thunderdome.

I hate that - and I should have known better - my brain assumed you meant the Wade Barrett led cohort and was like "No, that can't be right." That - of course - was sixteen years ago. I completely edited the later one out of my head!

Another recommendation for the Switch 2 Cyberpunk port. It should be the benchmark of what that piece of hardware can do in the right hands for the rest of its lifecycle. No excuse for muck like the Oblivion remaster chugging along looking like an oil painting done in the rain when you can zoom around Night City dicing up choombas with your blades without anything much feeling compromised.

Not sure this one needs defending Twoster! Though maybe my original post wasn't clear that I enjoyed the segment. Even with your explanation it surely falls under pro wrestling bollocks in kayfabe terms. Everything about it was blatantly absurd, I would have thought.

- Nick Wayne gets out of a limo. - Pulls a mugging face that would get him thrown out of any struggling for membership acting school. - Seemingly senses without looking that Jericho is printed on the production truck behind him. - Reveals his surprise custom made 'NICK WAYNE BEAT CHRIS JERICHO' t-shirt. - Excalibur immediately mentions - complete with on screen graphic - that it's available for purchase on shopAEW.com - Pyro flies in the arena That's the best encapsulation of total pro wrestling bollocks I've seen in ages.