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What exactly “died”? There’s still dozens and dozens of promotions, some regularly selling out venues and some without announcing any matches because they have such a strong following. It’s not exactly a barren wasteland out there if you want to watch “the wrestling”. 

7 hours ago, simonworden said:

Seaking of Die Hard did anyone play the game apocalypse which had Bruce Willis as the main character? A really random 3rd person shooter that I found through a demo disc. Again it had that right combo for me of being fun and not too challenging which made it a great time killer to go back to. 

I did. Remember enjoying it, just mindlessly going through levels and shooting up waves of random demons and enemies, peppered with sound bytes of Bruce who couldn’t sound any less enthusiastic and clearly went to the recording booth and went, “Right, let’s get this done as soon as possible.”

Dirt tornados in my (figurative) back yard. Completely normal weather for the location.

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1 hour ago, Loki said:

In the end I went off to do Harry Potter instead

20 hours ago, Wideload90 said:

It was the first game - obviously there's better ones but for the first wrestling game, it was glorious. Nothing quite like having your player taunt on the character select screen. Also, for a gaming novice, Nitro was ideal. 

Don’t know why you keep saying this when a quick Google shows it wasn’t the first wrestling game. The release of Nitro was even delayed so as not to compete with sales of WCW vs. The World.

Absolutely loved the console and firmly entrenched me as “Team PlayStation” by the time the PS vs. Xbox era came around. Especially when the PlayStation 2 had backwards compatible and able to play PSX games. It made no sense to buy an Xbox only to be limited to the games I could play on it.

I got the PlayStation with Rayman as the first game, and built up a library of platformers, racing games, and—of course—pro wrestling titles. The Crash Bandicoot titles (particularly Warped and Crash Team Racing) were favourites and me and my brother would spend hours playing them.

I’ve actually rekindled my love of the original PlayStation as the past year or so, I’ve been dabbling in reverse engineering PSX games: taking the game ROMs and trying to disassemble them into working C code. There’s been people who have reversed other PSX games (and games from other platforms). I’ve picked WCW Nitro as a target to reverse, not because I think it was the best pro wrestling game, but because it was an early game in the PSX’s history and fairly simplistic (few games mode, few wrestlers, each wrestler only having three signature moves). The developers did me a solid though by using examples verbatim from the PlayStation SDK for some things; I’ve also managed to find out how and where models for the wrestlers and ring is being loaded.

Why am I doing it? I don’t really know; I’ve just found it a fascinating endeavour as my career’s been spent writing web-based software and not “proper” software that has to be compiled and runs directly on a CPU. I’ve just found it intriguing reading up on the technical aspects of something I took for granted over 20 years ago, and seeing just how those games that brought me hundreds—if not thousands—of hours of joy were made.

He looks like what you’d get if you ordered the KFC Colonel from Wish.

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24 minutes ago, Chili said:

Punk should be bitter about the horrid fucks. Saint Paul didn't put a stop to any of the shit they pulled on him post leaving with his wedding etc. Toxic culture that seeps down, except Triple H likes skulls and bullying and Vince likes blondes and bullying. 

I don’t think we really need to get into what Triple H likes…

9 hours ago, John Matrix said:

Does this count?  

Can’t see anything, mate?

1 hour ago, poetofthedeed said:

Have we done "what's Mick Vinceman doing in the impact zone" yet?

Get with the times. These days, it’s mocking up “[Insert name] is All Elite!” graphics.

Human behaviour is weird when it comes to airplanes and airports. Despite announcements saying to remain in your seats, as soon as the plane’s on the tarmac all you hear is people’s seatbelts going clack-clack-clack as they’re being undone, then everyone grabbing their bags and cases out of the overhead lockers just to stand in the aisle for 10 minutes. Just sit the fuck down.

56 minutes ago, eugenespeed said:

When did their website change from wcwwrestling.com to just wcw.com? 

Late 1998.

Didn’t know the best thread to put this in, so here goes.

I live in an apartment block. Obviously with the recent weather I’ve had the balcony doors open but my downstairs neighbour likes smoking weed. I mean, really likes it. All day.

I’m all for people doing what they want so long as they’re not hurting anybody else but what’s the best way to broach this with my neighbour? Because it’s far too hot to have to shut my doors due to the smell.

Wearing a single contact lens. Clearly the smartest guys in the locker room.

So, watched the first Nitro with Russo at the helm (October 18, 1999) and the product is absolutely night and day before and during this episode.

The show is absolutely car crash TV, and not in a good way. The camerawork is awful. There’s random 30-second segment after 30-second segment. Several “shoots” towards booking and management, including Buff having a strop whilst doing the job to La Parka, and Madusa sulking at having to do an evening gown match with Mona (Molly Holly). It also seems Russo’s decided to take away scripts (or at least bullet points) as there are some awful promos. Lex Luger’s in particular. Stumbles over literally every word and constantly repeats what he does manage to spit out.

People seem to point to the Fingerpoke of Doom as the turn of WCW going full-on WrestleCrap, but I felt ‘99 was alright up until this episode. Watching this episode, you can just feel there’s new hands in charge and it’s going to be awful if it carries on like this.

Ah, well. At least we get to see Norman Smiley just randomly start wailing in his match in what I’m guessing is the birth of Screamin’ Norman. No reason given for it. That wrestler you’ve seen pop up for a few years now? Well, he screams now.

Bold question. 

19 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said:

Booker for the rumble in January?

Hopefully a Rumble payday then means he’ll be able to afford some new turnbuckles pads where the lettering isn’t falling off.

11 minutes ago, stumobir said:

And why is territory of all words underlined?

Probably just meant to underline “TORY”.

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2 hours ago, s279 said:

I reckon it'll just be an Akam v Rezar three hour iron man match.

In the street outside.

Still hoping it goes ahead and they're selling limited edition "I was there" T-Shirts.

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Authors of Pain-fully Grammatically-Incorrect Tweets.

7 minutes ago, The King Of Swing said:

Apparently Sunak also gone. 

 

Wow. He always struck me as the one to play the game and stick the knife in when the time was right.

What’s the opposite of being woke? Being “sheeple”?

2 hours ago, 69MeDon said:

I don't think I've ever seen Vince pictured at any other sporting event like this, ever. Weird.

Never had the time being a CEO, innit?

Think this thread title needs updating.