AndrewTS

What brand extension?

The Blade 3 trailers look exactly like the RE:A trailers, but with Wesley Snipes.

RVD's shitty punches + Rene's selling them shitty = awful-looking sequence.

How about what Lea Meow wore when she was managing the Yung Dragons? Since probably nobody else was watching WCW at that point--it was a dominatrix thing I think.

Problem: That would probably require them to keep employing Kenzo.

Taller than Rey. Eh, 5'4" mabbe?

Puder should have mentioned that Tae Kwon Do is kinda of useless in a bo--er, "Dixie Dogfight." A photo shoot of Torrie fully clothed? That's nearly as useless as Kenzo. ....Torrie talking about "morals." Uh-huh.

Eh, good tires can get expensive. UUUUGH! That picture of Orlando made him look like an offensive charicature.

Angles revolving around cars always sell huge, don't they?

Which one is this?

Ms. Bukkake is wearing less.

I thought the only ones who could pull off wearing a Hawaiian shirt were gay guys and big fat party animals?

Getting "all up in your BUTT" sounds really gay, and I don't care who is saying it.

Just played it up my local arcade--yes, it finally got a new game in. A whole damn buck to play, but still... I randomly picked Asuka--apparently subbing for Jun and I was very pleased with the feel of the game. It feels a lot more like the older Tekken games (as opposed to 4) but still has lots of new techniques. I didn't get to actually play against anyone though, but the CPU was alright. I have no idea what the card system is about, so anyone wanna shed some light on that? "My only complaint is that Namco didn't make it clear enough that you're not supposed to put quarters in the card slots." I never read this part of the post when I initially checked out this thread, but I think you have to be pretty damn dumb to put the quarters in there. Yeah, instead of the LIGHTED COIN SLOTS JUST BESIDE IT! I can take a PS2 controller there and us it to play?

You never checked the production details and saw who was writing/directing? Alexander: Never saw it and don't wanna, but I liked this quite from bongonews.com... How so? While it was very stupid and did indeed suck, there's a genuineness about the it that's "okay, let's make a cheeseball action flick that has zombies in it that loosely follows the game(s) storyline" that I appreciate a lot more than PWSA's "lookie, lookie! I'm trying to make a scary movie! I suck ass at it but I'm trying damnit!" I'll actually admit that I thought a lot of the scenes in the church worked. Unfortunately, since it was directed by a 2nd-unit director taking his first crack in the main director's chair (basically, a guy who shoots scenery not involving the main actors) close to Anderson and it was written by PWSA (big shock, huh?), it was doomed to a) suck, b) star the chick that WS is currently fucking, and who he wants everyone to know he is. Good for you, WS, now try making a movie that doesn't ****ing suck. I went to see AVP with a friend who was in utter denial that it would absolutely blow. He's now a rabid WS hater Also, no Paul, a PG-13 rating isn't an excuse for your movie being bad.

So that's who Kevin Dunn is trying to target with his stupid angles...

The best solution is to find a rental store that fixes scratched discs. They'll often have a resurfacing machine that can fix CDs, DVDs, etc. If that doesn't work, it's probably done for. I go to a local one that charges 3 bucks and guarantees money back if it doesn't fix it. Those scratch fix kits with the aluminum oxide fluids may fix lighter ones, but I wouldn't count on it in your case.

NoCal: I've yet to actually play R&C1, but I can't recommend the latter 2 enough--they're so freakin' fun that even if they're short and kinda easy. I rented Jak 3 and...I hate it. Amount of time actually spent in good ol' fashioned platformer bliss--almost none. Time spent completing annoying arcane tasks because the storyline demanded it--out of 2 hours of play, probably 1 1/2 hours. I enjoyed Jak 2 quite a bit--even though I only rented it, I was only displeased about the anti-grav bikes, which handled far too loosely, and resulted in me continuing over and over, getting far, but often hitting an obstacle and exploding in one hit. At it's heart, the only thing that had really changed with the game structure (the city was more constricting than the many over-world style environments in J&D) and Jak being able to transform. Here, *so far* I'm in a city for seeable future, but I gotta keep doing errands. To become a citizen of a city of wastelanders, you gotta earn your way there...by kicking ass in the battle arena. Problem though: the camera. The camera angle sucks for the battle arena--and you'll constantly be attacked by enemies you couldn't even SEE, because you can't zoom the view out to get a look at the whole thing. If it was just the battle arena, that'd be no problem, but annoying things like hoops you have to hop through for a race will appear *just* far enough to the side that you might miss it due to the camera angle, and other racers have no problem apparently smushing you between the hoop and themselves (I don't get how the holograph hoop would do that, but meh). The semi-warped view of the sides that you had in J&D (where you could see plenty of the sides through distortions is gone. Since you race *a lot*, this can get annoying. "Oh boy, more Precursor crap!" -- Daxter Yeah, that too. J&D suffered from the bane of modern platforming, collect-a-lotta-crap syndrome, and this is kind of similar. However, instead of nabbing power cells, collecting crap is your objective in many of the missions.... There's some stone heads in the wasteland city that you pay skull orbs to so you can...try to collect gold Precursor orbs (what good they're for I don't know). Oh, and thanks game, for giving me 20 seconds to nab that gold Precursor orb where you show me the damn orb's POV, but don't actually give me a good idea of where the hell it is. On top of that, Jak is really freakin' slow, and I have to spend half that time getting to an animal to ride so I can have a chance in hell of getting it, and I'm still nowhere near knowing where it is. It's not a hard game, just full of nagging little flaws and with a lot less actual platforming than I'd prefer (maybe they tucked all the platforming portions later into the game...). Oh, you have weapons too! But they kinda suck! Sure, they're great when you're fighting small numbers of enemies--that would be more effectively dispatched with the punch. But when there's groups of enemies...you're better off using the spin attack. Okay, the weapons I have *now* suck and are slow, but maybe they get better. It's kind of like they want to make Jak 3 like Ratchet & Clank, but they suck at it. Oh, remember those tedious circuit-matching mini-games? I've run into something very similar...basically, there's this nucleus-type thing in the center of the screen, and on the top, bottom, and sides are circles "guarding" it, and you have to hit the buttons to destroy the attacking patterns (X, square, circle, triangle) to protect the nucleus...in the *first* time I've found this mini game you had to do it SEVENTY FIVE TIMES...in the first time. So I continued a couple times to try to get past this lousy mini-game. Yes, you get penalized for "misses" or if one of the symbols hits the nucleus. So, I'd had enough of the game--all that item-collecting, racing, and errand-running have turned me off of it. Nice cinemas though. I'd recommend Sly 2 or R&C3 over it by a mile.

He also went on talk shows to warn everybody just how much it sucked and told people not to see it. I think it made just around 5 million, so Cosby ended up eating about a million...but LP6 plugged Coke so damn much he probably came out without much money lost. http://www.agonybooth.com has a piece up on Leonard Pt. 6.

As a wrestler, sure. As a performer, not so much. He's excellent at working a crowd (in the ring, not necessarily on the mic), but I think as far as actual wrestling (especially on the mat) Hart, Perfect, etc were superior. It's easy to overrate him since he's just about the only major WWE worker recently who did high-spots and worked them very well into his matches. Until Eddy won the title, HBK was the only guy that made you think "moonsault" and "WWE Champion" fit together at all. Although HBK's WMXIV match is supposedly what actually paved the way for the "WWE style" for main eventers to follow. Up until then it wasn't so much that MErs had to work a slower-paced style so much that it was all they could do (larger guys in general were the standard for WWF champs for quite a period of time). Yet, guys who work high-spots rarely sell properly or use the psychology HBK would put into his matches, but of course we know as a face the kippup was just as bad of a no-selling tactic as Hulking Up. Crowds loved it, but it could take you out of the story of the match. I think a good example is the first HIAC match at the original Badd Blood. Marks and budding smarks at the time loved the hell out of the match, but these days it's barely mentioned and basically gets crapped on when it is brought up because of the way it was worked.

Lil Naitch gave me a copy of one of the CD-Rs when I sent him a tape of a show he missed. It doesn't contain the most recent new entries, but it has almost everything from before the wipe (although some entries like the Doomsday Cage are missing). Maybe he's kept up to date with it, so PM him about it.

Seeya on WWE TV in about 5 months after your OVW stint, Justice. At least having these guys be the final two makes sense. Does the DDF actually decide the winner, or is there still a final vote to go?

That's better, nik. Hm, I didn't know he was. But yeah, he would.

Gee, I hope Mick shows up, so he can finally have that long-awaited Whore-Off against Ric Flair. Shame on you nik, for not putting "Raw Is Jericho" in the thread title. While it's a nice thought for Jericho to win the title, it makes no sense, and you know he'd not hold onto it for long, so I really don't see the point. Either he'd just lose the title to HHH again, or it would be transitioned to Orton in some fashion (assuming HHH/Orton for Mania still).

The casual fan doesn't know TNA even exists, most likely. I hardly even believe in the existance of "casual fans" (they probably all left when Rock went bye-bye. Without characters like Rock, Austin, etc--they don't give two shits about WWE). They likely would be pulled in by spotfests to a certain extent, because it is something you don't see on WWE. The stupid angles might turn them off in a big way, though. I don't think WWE fans are oblivious that, aside from a few exceptions, hosses tend to suck. They care about the same amount about No-Name-Nothing-Hoss #132 as they do Billy Kidman--not a damn bit. Characters like Snitsky and Batista--maybe they would care. I don't get the argument at all, though. When has the lack of a decent CW division been the IWC's main concern, BTW? I though it's been the same thing for the past several years--shitty writing. We still see talented guys on TV a lot--it's hardly as bad as it was in the past.