AndrewTS

That so? Please share. I never heard anything about that.

It's probably just part of the top of the cage, with fake barbed wire, that they had Bradshaw pose on. I don't get the point though; are they gonna just wrap wire around the top? Cuz if they do, then the match pretty much has to be pinfall, not escape, and if they do that, the wire is meaningless because it's at the top of the cage. They've been plugging the barbed-wire cage match main event here locally (I live in south-western PA and NWO's going to be in Pittsburgh) and they showed a little bit of the cage--it looks like only on the top, going by the commercial. Other than that, it appears to just be a normal cage. Come on, not even Vince is stupid enough to commission to have a special cage built for a Bradshaw match on the lame-duck-to-WM PPV.

Coincidence. Yeah, Namco did indeed make Weaponlord, but what happened with it is that supposedly a group of fighting game experts were brought in as advisers and basically guided the entire development process. I think most of them were American, though, and it is highly unlikely Namco's Japanese home offices would decide to base a game around an older, AMERICAN BRED fighting game. IMO, it's more likely that SNK's Samurai Shodown was the real forerunner to the Soul games (which began with Soul Edge/Blade, not Soul Calibur 1). I think Sam Sho was the first weapons-based fighter...that was any good anyway. There were similar storyline themes and character designs as well. Plus, Weaponlord used a very non-traditional control system, and the Soul games are much more conventional. In fact, the Soul games are just about the only 3D fighters that feel as smooth and fast as the classic 2D fighters of old.

I'd bet this is the work of the losers on GameFAQs who revived the old Genesis Shaq Fu board and filled it with stupid posts about how it being the greatest game ever. But this reminds me of how much I like this page: http://grblitz.overclocked.org/fighters.htm Too bad that they didn't get any pics of Final Fight Revenge. It looks as bad as the original SATURN Virtua Fighter. Oh, and this is funny... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WD1V Oh, insidepulse.com has a tribute up of sorts for Clayfighter (which was actually my first fighting game, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit), and iceanvil.com has similar rantviews up on various crappy old games, including Brutal. A thread about crappy fighting games? Anya should be all over this. Anyone ever play that sad-ass DC Comics answer to the Marvel/Capcom fighters, Justice League Task Force? It looked like it would have been a fine rental, just for the fanboy factor, but every review I'd seen basically said it was painfully mediocre. Plus, it's odd that Weaponlord seemed to be loved by plenty of magazines, but nowadays it is called crap or completely ignored. EDIT: Apparently they hacked the game into an RPG of sorts. *scratches head*

Final poll results are here: http://www.wrestlecrap.com/mailbag.html JBL: WWE Champ came in second. The entry did remind me of the horrible casting special, where it seems like they cut plenty of girls far more attractive than the early cuts on Raw and the judges flat out insulted plenty of them.

Glad it won. I voted for it, because frankly Kane-Lita and the Snitsky angle were too unintentionally hilarious to hate. The Diva Search was painful, though. This is probably more of a Gen Wrestling topic, but I guess that's up to the mods.

The selection isn't for as many consoles as I'd like, but it's still very cool. Thanks for posting.

The presents are what I suck at. I can't seem to find them in the levels except for the early ones. I guess I could FAQ them, but why bother? I'm still having a hell of a lot of fun. I like it the most when you're rolling up people. They try to run away but WHAM WHAM they're part of your Katamari and can't really do much about it. The translation and almost complete lack of "localization" is very quaint. Almost nothing is changed from the original version, including the whacky box arm. Kudos, Namco. There's already a sequel in the works, I'm glad to hear. EDIT: Anybody know why it's "Katamari Damashi" on the label? Just different, but still viable, pronunciation of the kanji?

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They must really, really, really miss Tinky Winky. At least there was something that vaguely supported what they thought they were seeing. As a Christian, I'm offended that so many prominent ones are such fucking dipshit bigoted tools.

So am I. Loss > most heterosexuals in this thread Ditto, and I think her music is shit and try to avoid any and all MTV-pushed pop music. Kudos to Yuna for at least being brutally honest. But she's got less issues than buffy, who is racist against her own race. I never really thought as Beyonce as "meaty" though. *shrug* If I was a gay woman I'd 53xx0r5 Yuna, she's funny as hell a lot of the time, even if for all the wrong reasons. And HOLY CRAP--Cowell does have an Exec Producer credit on WM: The Album.

Microtouch = for gay men, really anal men, or for rich women to buy for their trophy husbands.

Between that and the Worm, these finishers fucking suck. And Kenzo's trip takedown

*insert Cena gay joke about Kurt here*

WWE Logic: Big Show is trying to SNEAK ATTACK SOMEBODY!! The 7' 500 lbs. guy is trying to SNEAK ATTACK SOMEBODY!! Jebus Cripes.

Agreed. It's so stupid. This stuff killed in the mid-90's, you know!

"You never did anything with your life! You just sat in your padded cell and watched pornography!"

Hell no. H-Reich in a white suit works, IMO.

This reminds me--what C/D-list celebrities do you folks suppose are going to be at Mania?

I thought it turned out that the newsgroup that busted him has a track record of tampering with internet conversations to make them incriminating. Not that having a child molestor as a reference is going to *hurt* your chances at getting a job in WWE...

Just check the listings for Comedy Central's Secret Stash (Saturdays at 1 PM or something) and set a tape. It's usually one of the Rock specials if it isn't the 28th showing of South Park: BLU.

Let me put it this way: directly north of North Carolina is... West Virginia. If you've ever been there, then you know that the true South isn't all downhill of the Mason-Dixon line. KKK and I can testify to that. Reid looks to be on something...

I use one of those CDs with brushes attached to it to clean my lens. I don't think a can of compressed air is really necessary. If you have one anyway, sure, go ahead. However, I wouldn't buy one just for the PS2. When I opened up my PS2 to install my flip top, I blew out the dust (not a heck of a lot) and there wasn't even all that much there. I'd say it was probably more effective.

Sign me up for just about anything with Regal as the lead. He might actually make it work.

Okay--that's actually kind of surprising, because his true "face" runs seemed like blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of affairs. So I guess that's a little more support on the "wait for a face turn" front.