Golgo 13

I'll go with WWF Attitude, as far as wrestling games go. WWF War Zone could be forgiven a little, but there was just no excuse for Attitude. Or for that matter, any of Acclaim's wrestling games after that. Hell, cross "wrestling" from that sentence, since Acclaim sucks the meat missle altogether. Aside from the novelty of legends, I don't know why people pinned their hopes on the LoW series. I don't get why WM X-8 was a disappointment, simply because I didn't think there was that much expectation to begin with. Just because it was on the Gamecube didn't mean it was going to be the successor to the N64's No Mercy. WM 19, on the other hand, could be counted. Gameplay was improved a bit, but that idiotic Revenge Mode broke it. As far as biggest disappointment ever, I'll go with Piss' mention of Daikatana.

I shall start later today. Don't forget to grab my stats update, Icon.

MacFarlane was great, especially when relating Paris Hilton to a grasshopper or his tolerance spiel at the end of the ep.

Aww. You see what you guys did

DS is always a possibility. Basically, I was clicking around on IGN a couple months ago, looking for info on the series. I saw the Mother 1+2 re-release, and Mother 3, but all were listed under the GBA category, which is the same thing I saw when I went back today.

Isn't this just for the GBA though?

Mansonosity is taking over.

Basically. At that point, I was in a mad rush to finish, and was pulling whatever I could out of my ass with no attention to detail. As always, thanks for comments, Dace.

MAIN EVENT NO DISQUALIFICATION NON TITLE MATCH Janus vs. Toxxic - Toxxic. SINGLES MATCH Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix vs. Ace Lezaire - Maddix. THE AT THIS POINT REQUISITE HANDICAP MATCH! Sean Davis vs. Ced Ordonez and Munich - Davis. TAG MATCH Andrea Montgomery & The Birdman vs. THE WAYWARD SONS!!! (Edward James and Alan Clark) - Andrea & The Birdman. USJL CONTENDERSHIP TABLES MATCH "The Icon" Max King vs. "The Corona" Vladimir Everheart - Vlad. SINGLES MATCH "The Paladin" Chance Silver vs. Candace - Mr. Bukkake. CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE MATCH "Hollywood" Spike Jenkins vs. "The Superior One" Tom Flesher - Taamo.

I had something here before about grabbing both pre and post-opening video package promo slots. Well, nevermind. I'll grab the pre-opening slot only. Not even worth calling, really, but just stating it for the record so no one else writes something for that slot.

3. Angel Grace Blue is the 'troll' name of JSP, webmaster of 665, a site which GOdrea is a fan of. 4. He didn't make one appearance, unless he was posting under an alias for the duration his character was involved, but I highly doubt it. 8. As already stated, Shadow, the head of SCW, got banned. I seem to recall the OAOAST invading and taking over the dead forum, until eventually they were given one of their own, but I'm not exactly sure and this bit of information isn't terribly relevant anyway. 13. It was never stated by either one, I don't think. But in some non sequitur comment in chat a few weeks ago, Spike said the crap between he and Thor was a work.

I know it's not finalized, but looking at the roster from the PSM article, it lists two Kanes. I have to say, that's so completely stupid and is really fucking unnecessary.

MAIN EVENT HANDICAP MATCH Janus vs Ced Ordonez & Munich - Janus. WORLD TITLE #2 CONTENDERSHIP Jamie Drazon vs Ace Lezaire - Lezaire. CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE CONTENDERSHIP OVER THE TOP FOURWAY Alan Clark vs Ryan Dustin vs Austin Sly vs Rob Gilbert - Dustin. TAG TITLE CONTENDERSHIP MATCH Andrea Montgomery & The Birdman vs “The Icon” Max King & Martin “Big Country” Hunt - King & Hunt. USJL TITLE MATCH Manson vs The Masked Man© - G0R0. SINGLhES MATCH Dace Nigt vs “The Corona” Vladimir Everheart - Dace. SINGLES MATCH Petey The Irish Penguin vs “The Paladin” Chance Silver - Silver.

What are you talking about? He added a hat to his dance routine! A HAT!

If we're thinking of the same one (but then, how many movies can there be with doggie door escape attempts). The chick's name is Shannon Whirry, and after checking at IMDB, the movie is most likely called Private Obsession.

Good. It's about time.

Huh. I should be cursing up a storm, but I know not to expect anything better from WB, with the rare exception... I already know which movie I'm not gonna see.

That would be Thoth, I believe.

Although the frequency of doing so was far less than it is now.

One of the mods/admins/whoever needs to place the spoiler disclaimer at the top of the appropiate folders again.

The Invasion should have easily written itself. The angle recovered well enough from the disasterous first night, and it was very salvagable, even without the big WCW names, until the night Steph was brought into the picture. It started off well enough, with the ECW reformation, who could have served the nWo purpose well... but of course, it all went to hell later. It turned into any old WWF stable with Test, Austin, Angle, Christian, etc. joining. There was also WCW and later the Alliance looking second-rate. From Booker literally never getting one up on Rock and losing the belt, to DDP being booked as a jobber, to Booker deferring leadership to Angle and Austin later. Just terrible. What I truly don't get was Vince unwilling to buy out contracts and sign people for the Invasion, but right after the Invasion ended he picked up Flair, and a few months after that shelled out money for Hogan, Nash and Hall. As for the nWo... that angle was pretty well over when Rock walked out with a limp and taped ribs weeks after Hogan attempted to, well, kill him. It didn't even get as far as the Invasion before looking like a joke.

Not to mention Lorne. He went in thinking he had a dream job, and as early as Life of the Party we saw him being mentally and physically worn down by Wolfram and Hart. By the end of the series, he was completely jaded, having to confront his own guilt in Fred's death, and being asked to do the impossible by Angel in taking a life by assassinating Lindsay. He left with nothing at all, and chances are, he regretted ever meeting AI.

White Castle is one of the first hamburger chains, primarily located in the midwestern U.S. They're renowned for their cheap, small, square, steamed "slider" burgers. Being that quite a few are open 24 hours, it's a favorite of late-night partiers, college students, stoners, insomniacs, etc. Given that WC is promoting it on their site, it must be official.

Yeah. It's a huge mega event clusterfuck which is maligned by 99% of readers, with good reason. In all honesty, I thought it was intriguing at first, and it was successful enough initially. But heads got too big and greed took over, to the point where it dragged far too long in an attempt to squeeze out a few extra sales. The whole thing ended up being a gigantic debacle. Anyway, read this.

Don't take this as the final word, since I'm as lost as yourself. Bankruptcy: The comics industry was in a creative and financial drought, with DC and Marvel feeling the biggest effects, resorting to short-sighted gimmicky hooks, their problems even being brought on by the hooks themselves. DC had Zero Hour and Electric Superman, probably others since I never followed DC too closely. But at least they had the Vertigo imprint. Under then owner Ron Perelman, Marvel was laboring, relying on overkill of their franchises and multi-book spanning crossover events. With these huge events which lured you into buying every issue having to do with it, lest you miss out on a piece of the story, came the chromium foil, holographic, skullfuck my eyes out on the price covers. I'd assume there were originally high demand for these covers. Again acting on assumption, I guess comic shops were ordering these things by the truckload. Suddenly the demand dropped off, and comic stores were left with a bunch of unsold shit, hurting them and Marvel in the process. This would be enough to turn consumers off, but the complete ass raping of Marvel's poster boy in Spider-Man had something to do with it, turning off even more people. Then they kept it going for ages due to initially high sales, eventually writing themselves into a corner, thus turning off even more people. Also of note in causing the bankruptcy is the backwards heirarchy and political system within Marvel. It was extremely hard on those having to do with creating the stories, as they were allowed very limited creative freedoms, often working on the whims of the higher-ups (which, again, leads to shit like the Clone Saga, or the overexposure of the X line). A lot of the books had a literal revolving door of writers and artists alike, leading to a lot of inconsistency. Toy Biz kept Marvel afloat for some time, I think, due to a consolidation of some sort. During this time, Marvel was trying to find its legs still, with restart after restart of its franchises, during the post-Onslaught stuff. Finally, largely due to the success of Marvel properties in theatres -- and through revamped heirarchy practices with new voices on staff (like Joe Quesada, who I'm not even sure is still around) and reshuffled comic lines, they pulled themselves out of it. Stan Lee: As far as I know, he only serves as a consultant of sorts. Hell, he's even done some stuff for DC, surprisingly enough.