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Arch Stanton

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  1. I completed the Crash N-Sane Trilogy last year, much to my own surprise, because I'm generally crap at platformers. There are some incredibly frustrating levels across the three games, but they are just about fun enough to keep you wanting to try. They're just the right side of the 'one more go' vs 'fuck this' balance.

  2. I currently watch less wrestling than at any time in the past twenty years, but that still amounts to a solid few hours a week. Until last year, I was watching all the AEW shows every week, but I burned myself out on it and my interest pretty much fell off a cliff as I felt the direction of the shows pulling further away from my personal tastes. I didn't like MJF as champ, I've never liked Adam Cole, I wasn't bothered about Edge coming in. I'm not really interested in anybody just having long TV matches for the sake of it. So I stopped watching almost all of it and didn't feel I missed it. Just recently I've started to dip my toe back in, but now I'm happy just skim-watching an episode of Dynamite or Collision once every other week or so to keep up to speed.

    I did the same thing with WWE a few years ago, only returning to watch it when the praise for the Bloodline storyline on this place made it impossible to ignore any longer. So now I am back into WWE moreso than AEW, but I'll just skim-watch SmackDown and catch up on the Cody bits of Raw every week.

    Across both promotions that's about two or three hours of TV in total each week, which is about as much as I can find the time for.

  3. Like @Statto, I absolutely love the Usos, I think they're one of the greatest tag teams of all time. Certainly one of my favourites. Their Mania match-up feels cold to me because it's just hard for me to invest in the idea that these brothers really want to fight each other. I just don't like seeing them apart. They're undeniably a stronger act together than individually, as evidenced by the fact that as a tag team they main evented night one of WrestleMania last year. I want that sort of success for them.

  4. 3 hours ago, air_raid said:

    Without being unnecessarily harsh I couldn’t disagree more with some of what I’ve read about Zayn and his route to this opportunity at Mania. I like Gable as a wrestler but have no huge issue with him as collateral damage here. Unless Chad Gable is genuinely your favourite wrestler, I’m dismayed that anyone would begrudge Sami getting this shot. After months and months of “Sami deserves better” - here it is, THIS is better. “Oh, we didn’t mean this” - fuck that, they can’t please some people whatever they do.

    What if Gable isn't 'genuinely your favourite wrestler', but you just feel his story and his in-ring style is a better fit for Gunther at WrestleMania? Don't get yourself all dismayed over it dude.

  5. I think Sami and Gable largely have the same type of fanbase, that appreciate the grafters and want to see them rewarded on the big stage. Sami got that last year, in a big way. So I think a lot of fans just felt like it should have been Chad's turn this year. I think he has the better backstory with Gunther too.

  6. It was so much easier when I was a kid, when it was the fashion for footy shirts to be baggy as fuck. At age 13 I'd have men's L or XL and be guaranteed never to grow out of them. Even better, the ones I kept still fit me now!

  7. I never saw The Nexus as anything like a missed opportunity, if anything they were sort of the opposite of that, if that makes any sense. They were initially pushed way, way too strong for the level of talent they had in that group, there was no way they could have sustained that much longer than they did. I think they realised this and that's why they were disbanded pretty abruptly. I think Barrett and Bryan would both have been much better off without being introduced separately, the association with the group probably stunted their development. Well, it definitely did for Bryan because he was a sacrificial sacking at the time.

  8. 6 minutes ago, air_raid said:

    I think it's just that in simplest terms while he's obviously really popular, nobody seems to be able to volunteer a match they'd go back and watch again. Hogan, The Rock and others that weren't the "workrate perverts" favourites still created something memorable, and the impression I get is that Knight hasn't.

    I guess the counter argument to that is that the matches you'd volunteer for best of Rock or Hogan would be their big main events and title matches.

  9. 38 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

    Finally bit the bullet and picking up a PS5 for my youngests 11th birthday today after work.

    Made her contribute her birthday money towards it as I'm not made of money (God I'm turning into my Dad) but I still feel sick.

    The absolute state of the price of controllers these days. That's the most shocking element I think.

    I haven't bought a second controller for any console I've owned in over fifteen years! Cannot bring myself to do it!

  10. The one thing they really need to change, is to check that every fucker knows how to tie their shoelaces properly.

    Other than that, Gauntlet is clearly not enough of a challenge. I'm sure they just need to narrow the track to make it harder.

    Viper has been a failure, the deliberate acts of cheating are unnecessary and hurt the integrity of the competition for the contestants. Above all though, he seems to be crap at every single event and doesn't have the charisma to carry the character. He's very much 'Wolf from Wish'. They only really need one bad guy character and Legend is head and shoulders above Viper, in every sense.

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