Jesse

I presume it's because being told by the person in charge of talent is better than finding out by checking the WWE Twitter account

Apologies if this is old ground but what's the opinion on getting cheesy chips as part of a chippy tea? I'm a recent convert but every time I order it I feel a secret shame, like I'm letting down the traditional chippy tea

Got my 2nd AZ vax yesterday and promptly passed out for about 12 hours overnight. Not feeling too bad today, tired and run down but not had the fever and aches of the first time. Celebrating with a full chippy tea tonight.

I've genuinely gone back just to rewatch that entrance four or five times in the last day. Watching Mox lose himself in the moment and Kingston laughing at him fills my soul with joy

I was almost lost after the Cody/Ogogo mess but Miro throwing the snake back up the ramp and gurning for the camera afterwards brought me right back into it. Just looks like he's having the time of his life.

Folding Ideas on YouTube did a cracking video that's ostensibly about flat earthers that segues about halfway through into Qanon
 

I'm not sure if they exist any more, but for a while at least there were companies going round copyirght claiming stuff that wasn't there, then approaching the original owner and saying "Hey, we stopped a bunch of people using your copyright, and you can sign up with us to get the money from it" with them retaining a 'fee' for doing it. It was an absolute menace.

1 hour ago, Hoptimus said:

WWE don't partner with promotions. Are they going to have MLW mentioned on WWE television? Are they going to allow for WWE superstars to appear on an MLW event without it being WWE controlled?

I don't know how you can say this when, as the article points out, this is exactly the deal they just had with Evolve, and before then with ECW (and not too far removed from their deals with Progress & ICW that allowed talent to appear).

MLW won't be mentioned on WWE television, John Cena won't be rocking up to win the MLW belt, it'll just be a place for the people they don't have space for in NXT to be allowed to wrestle on shows so they don't get bored & pissed off and can, in theory continue to develop as performers.

With his history he's lucky to not be showing up as a prime example of problems in the industry

My biggest problem with it is Jason Mantzoukas, everyone else in the voice ast is great and fits right in, but he stands out like a sore thumb. Don't know if it's that he doesn't even remotely sound like a teen or just that he sounds like he's doing a mildly toned down version of the same voice he brings to every show but it pulls me out of the show every time.

Are those gems ever actually gemstones? They always look like coloured plastic

It's quite possible that to save on costs they're doing the production live, since they're already set up to do it for the shows afterwards it saves having to do the majority of post-prod if you're just cutting it like its live, and if they're doing commentary live as part of that it's harder to edit around fuck-ups. Given the disparity in viewership and oversight between live TV and YouTube it's quite possible they're doing what's cheap & quick and not overly worrying about it.

On 3/12/2021 at 5:58 PM, SuperBacon said:

That's doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Happy to redeem my wife, who ordered McDonald's delivered to our house the next morning.

Now, 24 horus later, I've felt well enough to microwave it and eat it. I'm glad to be getting the vaccine, but fucking hell that's a rough 24 hours afterwards. Mildly dreading the second dose since it's supposed to be the stronger of the two in terms of response.

Me & my wife had ours booked at the same place 5 mins apart, so instead of McDonald's I was allowed some healthy watermelon chunks to eat in celebration.

Still better on the feet than Ben Askren tbf

I think you're right with Goldust, especially since the WM12 match with Roddy Piper was, in many ways, the precursor to the modern 'cinematic wrestling' idea with pre-tapes mixed with live to create that match.

Isn't it Amazing Red's old 'Infrared' move? 

His landing always looked fairly ungainly too, basically involves just landing your weight on your opponent and just being the size of Amazing Red so it didn't matter.

2 hours ago, BomberPat said:

Someone claimed in an interview that no one in WWE had ever been told to point at the sign

First thing that came to mind was Randy Orton repositioning three times until they were happy with the framing
 

Torn between wanting to see Logan Paul humiliated and wanting him to do better than Conor

Don't know if it still happens, but with the way Facebook tracks 'views' companies used to get up to some dodgy stuff.

One of the old esports companies, DingIt, would have their flagship videos as pop-ups on other sites or embedded on the page with an auto-play, where any page view for the unrelated content becomes a view on the video. It was a great way for, fairly cheaply, padding your social media video view stats to make you look better to investors or partners.

Been a few years since I was involved in all that, so their impressions tracking might be smarter now and those views are legit, but I'm always skeptical.

Is that the Global Force font?