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Poundland Rammstein. 

1 hour ago, Carbomb said:

That's not how it happened, though.

The WWF(N) had managed to come to an agreement with the WWF that worked for some years - fairly sure this was mediated through the courts, so it was documented. What caused them to kick off was that Vince insisted on being Vince, and breaching the terms of that agreement pretty blatantly, so the WWFN would have been confident at the time that they had Vince bang to rights; hence why the wrestling promotion came out on the wrong end of things.

I thought the disagreement came from merchandising? I think the World Wildlife Fund had allowed the WWF to continue using the initials, but with restrictions on merchandising, and—as you rightfully say, Vince being Vince—just disregarded that, churned out merchandise, and the Fund called him on it and took him to court.

29 minutes ago, Tommy! said:

Where do you stand on the occasionally heard view that lack of limitations hinders creativity by not presenting problems to try and solve? I tend to hear it talking about things like Silent Hill or Soul Reaver where limitations drove great creativity choices or ensured everything was relevant in driving the game forward.

I genuinely think not shipping on finite-space, physical media has had a negative effect. Studios think nothing of digitally peddling 100-plus GB unfinished titles, knowing fine well they can just put out at a zero day patch that it probably going to be dozens of GBs again, and probably not fix all the issues that players are going to encounter any way.

When you were releasing games on disc, there was none of that. What you shipped was the finished product, so you better make sure it fits on disc, and you better make sure it’s not a steaming, buggy pile of shit.

Kinda makes Brexit feel even more pointless when it was built on, “the UK can set its own laws!” and then starts repealing them to bring them in line with EU legislation.

I’ll never understand the logo, and why it was reduced to essentially just “WW”.

We went on a family holiday to Florida at the start of May 2002. I remember being giddy at being able to watch WWF at the “proper” time. I put RAW on, my mum sees the logo and asks “Is it just ‘WW’ now?” and I was equally dumbfounded.

41 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

I don't know who else is involved beyond Gauntley, but it's difficult to justify giving anyone trading under the 1PW name the benefit of the doubt.

Pretty sure he rebooted it with the owner of BWR in Grimsby, which is surprising because BWR seemed to build up a great reputation and following.

I assume “controversial” as in, “from the outfit that employs abusive prick Adam Blampied.”

34 minutes ago, Gus Mears said:

Game adverts in which none of the footage is from gameplay. If I want to watch a film I'll go to the cinema.

Yes. This should be illegal in my opinion. You’re basically trying to sell a product with nothing representative of that product. It’s like a movie trailer containing no actual footage from the movie it’s advertising. 

What’s the deal with Doink The Clown? Is there some dark and seedy carny stuff he was involved in or something?

On 4/25/2023 at 2:00 PM, Uncle Zeb said:

TIL (or belatedly realised) that the Fremantle that took over from Silver Vision to handle WWE DVDs/Blu-rays is the same company that produces Neighbours.

Surely opportunities have been missed there? Harold and Lou's alternative commentary, Doctor Karl's opinion on Cowboy Bob's cast and D'Lo's chest protector, the Lawman's verdict on Clarence Mason; it's all money left on the table.

No wonder Amazon had to bail them out.

They should have had the Neighbours cast sat ringside at RAW giving shit to the wrestlers, like WCW did with the Battledome guys.

Imagine Toadfish squaring up to The Miz? Money. 

3 hours ago, gmoney said:

he'd being doing Dame Edna since 1955

On 4/13/2023 at 9:13 AM, King Coconut said:

There's a Black Cock Inn in Caerphilly. That refers to a chicken though, so that's ok.

There’s one in Caernarfon too (well, at least was about 5 years ago when I went on a trip to Wales). The name definitely wasn’t based on a chicken or Charles from their signage. 

Wrong font for “Monday” in the logo. I’m out. 

4 hours ago, Thunderplex said:

3 pages in and no-ones wished them luck in their future ENDEVOURS. (capitalised for the dimmer members).

Done in another thread, though: 

34 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Well well well.

 

Surely this is just going to end up being like Prince Andrew and his attempt to “clear things up”.

I think it was impossible to find someone who didn’t play-wrestle at school in the late ‘90s.

There was a brick wall around the back of our tech block. A load of us would meet, pile our rucksacks into a shitty crash mat, and then do splashes and senton bombs onto them from the top of the wall.

I was also a skinny runt when I was at school, so ended up taking more moves than I gave. Remember taking a 3-D and a double vertical suplex on the school field. All I’d get to do is ground submissions like sharpshooters and figure-four leg locks.

No game is ever “finished”.

4 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Mortal Kombat already got there before him

Means nothing. Robocop was in WCW years before Mortal Kombat.

16 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

That Veg Maharaja Mac looks immense.

5 hours ago, Gay as FOOK said:

Yeah I try not to let presentation affect my enjoyment too much, but by the end WCW live crowds were dreadful. I specifically remember the very serviceable Starrcade 2000 having next to no crowd reaction for anything since by then the arenas were just filled with much older fans or families who didn't want their kids watching Vince's alternate smut at that time. 

I have such a soft spot for WCW November 2000 onward. They rely a lot on enhancement talent, the Natural Born Thrillers, Disco Inferno in various guises etc but they really went back to a quite humbled "Look we're struggling here, here's a mostly logical, low key wrestling show" vibe. 

Yeah. I like the Thrillers (with the exception of Mike Sanders). And I could watch Sean O’Haire’s Seanton Bomb all day. Such a thing of beauty.

He and Mark Jindrak also did a double hip toss from the floor, over the ropes and back into the ring. They did it for weeks on smaller guys like Kwee Wee, then one week they randomly hoisted Sting over the ropes.

I think my biggest bug bear in terms of presentation was, by mid-2000, they just started uses the same floor-length “TurnerVision” screen for every show: Nitro, Thunder, pay-per-views. It was all the same set-up, just with a different video looping in the background. Was such a shame, given how creative and impressive WCW sets were in the mid-to-late ‘90s.

Well, I’ve done it. I’ve rewatched WCW from the first Nitro, right up until the last, including Thunder and pay-per-views. It was kinda bittersweet watching in late-2000/early-2001 knowing that even though the on-screen and in-ring product was getting better, the arena and crowd sizes were dwindling and the end was nigh.

Topped it off by watching WrestleMania X-Seven, and then jumping straight to the May 28 Raw is War to watch the Invasion start, and going to watch that time period through.

27 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

Elon's latest way to save money is to bin off Periscope. Nobody will miss it but I'd forgotten I had a few videos uploaded there.

I found a hooky site that has allowed me to download them as there doesn't seem to be an method to export. VLC being the champ that it is can play them no problem. But Windows native players can't can't play it and my video editing software doesn't recognise it. I've tried VLCs convert feature but it fails with the obscure "mjpeg error: cannot peek" error.

Anyone know how I can convert this into something usable? Last resort is to screencap it with OBS but it's a bit long winded when I have a file right there.

What file extension does the hooky site download them as?

20 minutes ago, Thunderplex said:

I’ll do it!  I know fuck all about football and will just make knob jokes for an hour.

Ball jokes would be more appropriate.

1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

We only do famous people, we are ghouls, but not complete ghouls. 

1 hour ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

That’s ‘Just Bring It’.

Don’t know if jazzy was trying to say the one with Fred Durst was also the one where bumps sound like a lorry crashing. Admittedly I did read it back a few times too.