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Yup. Or to recap what Ren was ranting about before..."GAY COWBOYS!...IN 3D!!" Shame that the details on these aren't more specific. Hopefully we'll be getting most of them. If I get Metal Slug 3 (which I am for X-Box) and perhaps a Metal Slug 1 as part of a collection (it's a helluva lot for Saturn), I'll be more than pleased. The GBA Metal Slug is supposed to be an original title too, as far as I know.

But...but...he squashed Hurricane, Steven Richards, and is gonna beat Matt Hardy!! Anyway, yeah, basically a more in depth explanation of my gripe. In general, though, it's messed up anyway. There's the "main eventers" who challenge each other for the title, there are the handful of guys waiting in the wings who get title shots once in a while, then there's everyone else. Title shots are pretty arbitrary. You may get a #1 contendership match even if you blew your last title shot and haven't had a major win in a long time, then sometimes you do NOTHING to warrant it at all and the match ends up booked anyway. *shrug* There is the Rumble I guess, and occasionally a guy will rack up a ton of wins and get a title shot, but that's rare. There's rarely any logical progression up the ladder like WCW tried to fake back in the day. I miss the WCW Top Ten.

Can I be RACIST!~ and still drool over the bootylicious Ripper sig pics?

"Initially, the character (who will be played by Kenzo Suzuki) was going to be brought in with a top push, but the word I am getting now is that they will bring him in on a less grand scale and see if he gets over before committing him to a top of the card angle for him. " Holy shit! What a novel idea. "Jay Landry sent word that the following names have been trademarked by WWE: - For Real - The Problem Solver - Mr. Thursday Night" They're going to be marketing those? Ugh. "the company has also trademarked, believe it or not, 'Kamala Films' as the name of a motion picture company. That one has to be some sort of joke." Hey, Eddy's next heel challenger!!! Right there!!! You'll have an EVIL AFRICAN MOVIE EXECUTIVE to go after the title now. Well, no more evil than Michael Eisner... And they weren't full of shit this time.

Chris: I hardly think that would be the reason, considering how WWE portrays all of their women. Also, I don't really think the big deal about Liz was so many any special charisma she possessed, but it was more about how she was portrayed and booked. WWE doesn't even try to do anything like that any more, as all the valets are pretty blatantly sex objects and prospective Playboy models.

They need to shit or get off the pot with Kane already. They constantly build him up only to tear him down, and he keeps going through transformations and becomes and monster and becomes more of a monster--does it even mean anything anymore? I have confidence if Kane's motivated he can have a good match with Benoit (hell, if Angle and Albert could, he should). Although that means that very shortly they're going to have to push Kane as a title threat. It's hard to see that happening when he's hardly been near the title in a hell of a long time except for that disasterous Katie Vick angle.

Choken: You forgot the Kat, although Lawler's not a regular worker.

Don't get too attached. If Hirohito turns out to be another Nathan Jones debacle, I don't expect her to stick around. Why does Raw need this guy again? Or SD?

Well, no wrestling experience at all...eh, I guess she's just going to be a valet and won't stink up the women's division any more than it already is. That *can't* be right...

He eased the HHH mean-face water bottle (the head was pretty big and had that cro-mag look to it) into a shot and had it look face to face with Regal, then Eugene did the "pose, spit water" thing.

I didn't put down rap. I don't like it, but you sure as hell didn't change my mind about it the way you worded that reply, but rather you were essentially proving the irrational conclusion of the other poster. Whenever you're trying to get across a viewpoint of yours, ranting and swearing like an irrational 12-year-old comes across as extremely immature and undermines whatever you were trying to say. If you want people to believe you're mature, act like it, where ever or however you may be expressing your opinions. ^ While I'm not the person this was directed at, this is precisely what I'm talking about. The "fake thug" stuff is what most of the mainstream rap that those not familiar with it hear. Naturally, hasty conclusions are drawn. That part I understand, because my favorite genre of music, heavy metal/hard rock, has had quite a lot of untalented posers giving a bad name to the talented groups. However, the poor grammar, punctuation, and capitalization combined with the rush to sling the racist label onto some one, AND using profanity-laden insults really hurts your argument. Maybe the people who dislike rap may know of the sorts aside from the "fake thug" stuff and simply have a personal preference that the music itself, more so than the lyrics, is even more important. That really knocks the appeal of rap down several pegs because many of the "beats" are just background music or a skeleton of the rap's structure. Furthermore, plenty of white people listen to it to--probably as much or more than the number of black people listen to rap. If some one hates blues music, do they hate black people, even though there are many blues artists and listeners who are white? Plenty of hard rock musicians/bands are outgrowths of blues music, but I know there are plenty of them that dislike rap. Are they racist because they don't like that music or they only like the blues music that's been "whitey-fied?" What about people who like hip-hop and don't like rap? Off-topic I know, but there's plenty of ignorance on all sides here.

Pretty much that's what doesn't make me at all enthused about this presidential race, and frankly rather apathetic towards Kerry as a candidate. Even before it was pared down to Kerry, I shook my head and wondered "is this the best that they can do?" The economy is uncertain, there's growing discontent about Iraq, and you'd think a competent campaign and candidate would sweep in and clean up. Not so. I agree Mike seems to be overestimating Bush's advantage, although I would be somewhat surprised if Kerry were to actually be elected. Naturally, Hillary would be the best choice for Democratic nominee...if you're a Bush-supporting Republican.

Oh, he's scarier and creepier than a barrel full of clowns, but isn't he about 10 years old?

He looks quite young, but again, the age thing. He'd have to look way younger. That doesn't assume that the studios will care or if even Depp (who could really sink his teeth into a role like that) can save it. I've very, very unconvinced that will be any good. As mentioned, an "update" kills a lot of the original's appeal. A remake set in New York. Ugh. I'm sure that decision was made based on some marketing surveys or some such garbage. Plus, what director could possibly do any remake of ACO justice?

Mitchell is pretty hard to watch and to be honest I didn't like it at first. I do now, but I think if it hadn't been Joel's farewell show it would be far less remembered. I've noticed sometimes when the experiment they would have for a show would be a little less memorable, they'll usually have something out of the ordinary happen in the host segs. See also: Timmy during the Fire Maidens ep, the "Mirror, Mirror" parody during the Last of the Wild Horses ep, Krankor's return during the Invasion of the Neptune Men ep (which saved it for me, since the movie was really dogging that ep for me at that point), Mike's trial during the Agent for H.A.R.M. ep, and while it failed miserably, Pearl in the theatre for Quest of the Delta Knights.

So, at least 720 million sex change operations occur every year? Are these a bunch of a rich peeps going back and forth like the freakin' sneeches? I'm wondering where those numbers come from.... Actually, it becomes news because it isn't exactly the most socially acceptable of practices, regardless of how common it is or isn't. Plus, I doubt you're going to get an accurate number of just how many people are in S&M relationships with porn shop owners, but considering they have to be underestimated at least...millions? So in reality...? Unless giving one of them a set of fake boobs and a vagina is going to give them any more talent, I don't give a damn. Maybe they'll make a movie about it. "You don't want flammable tits, do you?"

That would force them to wait until they made the PS2 Metal Slug 4, and even then what would they have to do when 5 rolled around? They'd have little choice with a bundle unless they did 4 and 5 together, then bundled 3 with 1 or X, and X is already out on PS1. Puyo Pop Fever's lack of a PS2 release in the States is likely for the same reasons.

Probably, since Goldberg didn't get a chance to main event a PPV without HHH, and Shawn's reign was still a part of the HHH feud. "Where does it rank in history?" It ranks, I'll tell ya what. *rimshot* I think the significance will be lessened if Lesnar comes back.

It'd be a mark "dream" match, naturally. Better that than one of those fabricated dream matches that WWE claims we all wanted to see, like Hogan vs. Vince. I'm surprised that a possibly-good monster vs. monster feud, Kane vs. Goldberg, was ruined so they could insert HHH into the match. Although hardly a "dream" match, that would have been something fresh. Back during Armageddon or whenever that match was.

It had already happened though, was done much better, and at that time it was only a "dream" match to Hogan, Bisch, and Warrior, really. Goldberg/Lesnar hadn't ever happened before. I'd argue the worst-booked dream match that WWE's done was WWF vs. WCW/ECW (Alliance, whatever).

Kreski actually used storyboards, paid attention to continuity--like a good TV writer should. However, ironically WMX-7, possibly the best PPV WWF ever had, didn't come about under Kreski's watch. Although the big angle heading into it (Rock/Austin) was really stupid, and the end of the match and the aftermath sucked as well. In between the opening bell and the Vince run in, it was awesome, though. Also, if this is him, why doesn't anything WWF appear on it? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470913/ No other Chris Kreski's are listed. *shrug* Then again, imdb is known to be missing info or be somewhat inaccurate.

Nope; much like not too many 12-14 males are going to be rushing out to play Bear in the Big Blue House. It just isn't happening. Truth be told, the focus should be on making games that are good, first and foremost, and if you can make it appeal to lots of people, good. That's why Mario's so awesome. Games that seem to have been conceived, carefully target-marketed, focus-grouped, etc usually seem so transparent and pandering that they really piss me off. It's the result of people thinking "your demographic might like this" rather than "we busted our butts to make an enjoyable game."

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Plus Conan's self-deprecating humor works great, as opposed to Kilborn the cocky prick. I don't know if it was late night, but what about "Danny!"? The Chris Wylde Show managed to be worse than the Magic Hour, amazingly enough.

Why does everyone hate Acclaim? I've never noticed. Are all their games usually that bad? I can't think of a lot of what they've published besides Turok and the WWF/ECW games....what else have they done? Are the bad games the only reason people hate on them, or is there more to it? Every game on from the PSone days to present have sucked complete ass, the graphics are terrible and glitchy, and overall lazy efforts put into everything. Since the PS1 days? Heck, from 8-bit onward they've pumped out plenty of shitty games with only a few exceptions (stuff made by the Probe team and translations of Midway games to home consoles). Take a look at WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game. Now look at the sequel produced in-house by Acclaim. Ugh. Acclaim is the king of shitty cash-in licensed games. Acclaim also does not have a quality control department. They simply do not care about the mediocre-to-terrible games they create. BMX XXX--need I say more? I seriously doubt they'd want the responsibility. They just wanted to sell their name for profit. You're in a very small minority of females, then. Therefore, you don't matter to large game companies. Acclaim isn't competent enough to capture that audience. That would require them to assemble a game that could hold the attention span of a human being over the age of 10. They have a hard time doing that without restrictive licenses. Square would be in a far better position to do that in between Final Fantasy What-the-hell-ever, since their games are far better and far more appealing to young females than Pop Star Flavor of the Week in Collect-A-Ton XXXII.