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    *Official* Youtube.com cool finds thread

    in UK Fan Forum

    Posted · Edited by Majik

    Another great XPac one about the 'Plane Ride from Hell'. His youshoot looks like a good one.

     

    http://youtu.be/MIod1bAbJtY

     

    'Big bush' - http://youtu.be/CJL1GBb4GS4. X-Pac's hilarious!

    The Sean Waltman Youshoot is fantastic. Not only is it the best thing that Kayfabe Commentaries have released by a country mile, but it's one of the best Shoot Interviews period.

     

    Ho-Bag. Sean Waltman. Funny as hell.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJL1GBb4GS4...eature=youtu.be

     

    Ho-Bag. New Jack. Great, but his reaction just past 8:30 is hilarious.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjhnBr5fNE...feature=related

    Anime

    in Off Topic

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    I'm quite the fan of DeathNote - and it's got some meat to it's bones, as far as number of episodes is concerned. It's not super modern animation, which I prefer too...

    RIOT!

    in Off-Topic Gold

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    Absolute and utter bullshit mate. It is PROVEN by facts and evidence that your social background affects your employment chances/living standards/quality of life. EVIDENCE, not just living in some sort of American Dream scenario - why do you think they're more fucked than we are?

     

    Woah! I'm not saying it doesn't effect it, I'm saying it doesn't deem your employability - completely different. And ofcourse your social background affects your living standards / quality of life initially.

     

    And Dm, I'm not being simplistic - I'm applying what knowledge I have of the situation as best I can. If we didn't give a general view, then we'd be here for fricking weeks, wouldn't we? You're bang on the money that it is a complex issue, but that doesn't mean it can't be sorted, and it also doesn't mean that we shouldn't point out the shirkers from the ones who deserve an opportunity. And maybe that is where my frustration lies - there are opportunities out there, and everyone can take them if they really, really wanted to. The system is in place, and life is such that some people are going to have to try harder than other to achieve the same or less; however, they've got a chance to achieve much more too - which bring s me back to aspirations...

    RIOT!

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    You can say it's laziness when the resources are already there or you could say it's an innate sense of hopelessness that despite the resources being there it's not worth wasting your time on. None of it will make a blind bit of difference anyway. Whether this is true or not is irrelevant, as long as this is the general perception then it's as good as gospel. If you believe you're already fucked then you might as well get what you can while you can get it, things can't get any worse.

     

    Gibberish. There are plenty of people out there who choose to think their situation is hopeless as it's easier to blame than to take some responsibility and work hard to get somewhere. the very idea that your geography/social economy deems your employability is hilarious.

     

    I do, however, agree that asprations need to be concentrated on and shown to generations that anyone can be anything if they bust their hump to do it.

    UKFF Questions Thread V2

    in UK Fan Forum

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    So, I'm poking around YouTube last night and stumble across the Sting vs Goldberg match from Halloween Havoc. Can someone explain what this shitarse was all about? Neither man seemed to know what they were doing, what was booked and Goldberg obviously didn't expect to be handed a title! Story please, if available?

    The UKFF Comics n Graphic Novels thread

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    Woot! First post in this thread :) I've just rediscovered my Secret Wars graphic novel and spent all of last evening yumming it up. What a brilliant crossover - still unmatched from the little I've read.

     

    The last series I read was Battle Pope, which was a really good giggle, and I loved some of the artwork.

     

    Next thing on my list is to find Necessary Evil: Volume 2. I nicked Vol.1 off Gabe, and found myself very impressed. Art isn't my style, but the story really dragged me in (A University for Super Villians)

    The Official UKFF Top 50 Games List

    in Off-Topic Gold

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    Purely to annoy everyone, here are mine, as sent in word for word to Black2.

     

    On a side note, I was disappointed a little with the lack of arcade games, and think Goldeney is pish. My number one never even got a sniff...

     

    1) The Bard’s Tale (Amiga) – the first truly EPIC role playing game, Interplay managed to recreate the heroic task of taking utterly rotten level one fodder through a blockbuster storyline to become veritable Gods. Party members fell on the journey, and there were desperate times rushing through the streets of Skara Brae to find a temple without encountering any beasty that didn’t let you “Flee”. The Bard’s Tale will have a special place in my life as the first game I ever stayed up all night playing, or to be more accurate, two nights playing down Simon Tam’s house whilst his Mum and sister were on holiday in Cyprus. One huge TV (it was 22” of incredibleness!), a kitchen full of snacks and 50 hours straight of Bards Tale (and reams of graph paper for mapping out the dungeons, ofcourse) produced hallucinations, but more importantly, it got us to THAT gate. We just couldn’t work out how to get in it. Heaven and hell in a single game, and I don’t think I’ll ever be so involved in a video game ever again as I was that balmy weekend in the summer holiday of 1989.

     

    2) The Secret of Monkey Island (Amiga) – the single funniest game ever. Now, don’t get me wrong – I’ve played some funny games in my time (Sam and Max, Leisure Suit Larry, Discworld) but this was the first game to reduce me to a gibbering wreck, sliding off my dining room chair (I didn’t have any decent seating for my desk at the time) and happily collapsed on the floor; the particle board making a beech coloured roof for my proverbial padded cell under the counter. It was the small things which always amused me most – the little comments by the supporting cast, and the animation when you finally achieved a goal (cannon fire, anyone?). A seriously challenging game, like a lot of games on my list, the hours I spent thinking about it was probably treble the hours I actually spent playing it. However, there was nothing like suddenly realising a connection between two objects in the middle of a Maths lesson, bearing in mind that Mr Black, as hard as he was, was also playing through at the time.

     

    3) Elite (Amstrad CPC) – the game with no end. It is with some sadness that I know that there will never be another game like Elite, and there will never be a group of players like Elite players. No online play to up the action, just pure strategy and….*drumroll*… vector graphics. For anyone that has never experienced it, it is VITAL you search youtube for the Elite opening credits.

     

    4) CounterStrike (PC) – I got dragged, kicking and screaming into a “clan” at Coventry and Walsgrave NHS Primary Care Trusts’ IT support department. Strangely, there was a lack of white hoods and burning crosses though. There was, however, the costliest PC game I have ever come across. My PC was never fast enough – overclocking became an obsession (peltier cooling for me~), twin CPUs, and my front room buzzed constantly with our very own server. God bless [HH-STM] Huge Hole – Spank the monkey!!! The worst clan ever.

     

    5) Eye of the Beholder (Amiga) – wait a moment… You mean I can play Dungeons and Dragons WITHOUT the stale odour of unwashed bully fodder in the room? What a result! Wandering monsters, high powered magic items, and a seemingly endless supply of dungeons filled many years of my life. I even bought a disc drive to speed things up. Beat that.

     

    6) Tetris (Gameboy) – I was the King. Actually, I was the King, Jack, Joker and every other badly transposed male card icon. I was an authorised and verified 999999 pointer.

     

    7) Gauntlet (Arcade) – I get the feeling that arcade owners everywhere owed the creator of Gauntlet at least a reasonable night of hot ass action. Up and down the country, whenever I arrived at an arcade, my skinny hand full of 10p pieces ready to kick ass as the warrior, there was always a queue on the Gauntlet machine. Without fail, there were snot nosed kids (me being one of them) hovering around the seemingly giant machine, awaiting their turn to shoot the fire breathing demons and run like shit buggery from Death. Incredibly simply game that I spent a small fortune on. In my castle, there will be a Gauntlet arcade machine.

     

    8) Street Fighter 2 (SNES) – Now, I was never any good at SF2, but I didn’t care. All my mates were, which meant we were the rulers of everything down Quasar in Cov City Centre. Plus, my mate Sui Wing Sang won the SF2 tournament down Holyhead Road Currys which was hosted by Dominic Diamond! (Sometimes, it frankly stuns me I’ve ever had sex)

     

    9) Ultimate Fighting Championship (Dreamcast) – Twist. Turn. On top. Underneath. Catch fist. Turn. Mount. Reversal. Double leg nelson. Roll through. Catch foot. Takedown. Inside guard. Catch fist. Catch fist reversal. Take the back. Choke. Yes, yes, yessssss!!!!!!!!! Undisputed can suck my balls. This was one on one fighting at it’s very, very best.

     

    10) Shenmue (Dreamcast) – Before this, I’d never really connected with a video game character on any kind of level, but Shenmue was kind of …real. He did normal things, and brought me along for the ride. I got to fight with him, gamble with him and foil the bad guys with him, whilst beating off the ladies with a stick. Incredible storyline, incredible graphics and about ten years ahead of its time. What a game.

     

    11) Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast) – The soundtrack to my flat for some time came in the form of Offspring and Bad Religion. Hilarious and addictive, you could tell a good player a mile off by the routes he took. The bottom of the hill caf

    The Official UKFF Top 50 Games List

    in Off-Topic Gold

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    Wow, you possibly enjoy Excel more than JLM, and that is a tough accolade to acquire... Nevertheless, it could be quite interesting to see charts.

     

    I am the biggest Excel nerd you'll never meet, certifications, forums, MVP, the lot. We should have a Pivot-off~!

     

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    Challenge accepted.

     

    :laugh:

    www.shitarsefifty.co.uk - THE SHITARSE FIFTY~~~~!

    in UKFF Gold

    Posted

    ok lets stop all the arguing, maybe i shouldve worded my argument differently. Basically the whole british scene of wrestling has gone way down hill. The fact now that most matches you see are the same. People wanting to be heel but just going out there and telling the crowd to shut up, why would you do that, no one tells stories in their matches as to why their the heels, or why their working the wrist they put on a wrist lock because its all they know and dont get as much out of their moves as possible and do everything they know in one match which lest be honest isnt impressive. The fact theres a 50 worst british wrestlers prooves that wrestlings gone bad. I know world of sport to most people these days doesnt look all that, but when you watch it their wrestling hold for hold not doing everything in the first 5 minutes. They slowly build the match and if you notice they stick to their own move sets. So you wont see two guys doing dropkicks or cross bodys. They set themselves apart. Nowadays everyone does the same things, big spots and badly and quite frankly we tried to copy the americans but dont have the funds to be able to and for that matter we dont have workers with their size. You get small guys clotheslining bigger guys, wheres the sense in that, and you get bigger guys going to the top, why would they do that. Basically british wrestling is suffering because of guys with superstar syndrome who quite frankly arent all that and do the same match over and over again, and workers who refuse to put people over becauyse they want to look good forgetting pro wrestling is a worked sport and the only way to make a match look amazing is the guys putting aside ego and working together rather than looking out for number 1.

    I actually agree with odds and sods of what you are saying, but how about not tarring the whole scene with the same brush, eh? If you seriously want people to work together, try not saying everyone is shit - it's not the best way to get started, is it?Most of us worth our salt know how well Dropkixx train their boys and girls in amateur, freestyle and wrestling - both JR and JH have nearly ripped my face off quite a few times, but that doesn't give you the right to declare DK the top of the tree, does it? And here's a thought - maybe there are fans that perceive DK as shit. Nothing you can do to change their minds, is there? We're in the entertainment business, and if what you do doesn't entertain some people, then it's tough titties, and it's not going to change. Tell the story right, as you have said, and most people are going to enjoy themselves though. There's always going to be a minority that prefer rum and raisin when you're offering them raspberry ripple - doesn't mean it's crap, it's just not their flavour of ice cream, but it's all ice cream nevertheless.And don't try and get out of all of this by using your "most" quote - that's a cop out. As it happens, I think you're right regarding how matches are portrayed, but only in the minority of promotions.Majik
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