DrVenkman PhD

So in Canada, Raw will now be on EVERY week at 10pm - the compromise is (in theory) there will never be any "mystery times" where hockey or baseball games cause pre-emptions, or pre-emptions until midnight for that matter. I can live with that (and watch Two and Half Men!).

This is the first season they've had a show, so there really isn't a "do they usually do this?" mold of things to go on right now. The best you can say is they haven't interviewed anyone for the show yet. I think Season 1's winner was interviewed for a general WWE.com piece, though.

http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/f...t.asp?aID=16829 Blatant plug for my work on a big website. Go me!

A huge, pissed off wag of the finger to people who commit credit card fraud. I, like 330,000,000 or so other North Americans, assumed CC fraud happens to everyone but them. Well, apparently it really CAN happen to anyone, and I had to make the dreaded phone call to cancel my card, reverse the charges, and get a new card. Thankfully I only have one monthly subscription fee on it and this shouldn't be TOO much of a hassle. This really put me in a bad mood all the same, though. The worst part is I have not even learned a lesson in any of this. As soon as I get the new one, I'll be back to buying everything online and using my card freely at any store I walk into, which is how I figure I got into this mess to begin with. That, or the fact I throw out receipts and statements and people probably go through the garbage. I probably haven't learned a lesson about that, either. However... A big "Tip of the Hat" to the people I was staying with for the past month for introducing me to Cogeco Digital Cable and "Movies on Demand" from The Movie Network. It was enough to convince me to finally start shelling out for digicable at my own place and that should be a go in a few weeks (if only Cogeco had The Fight Network... someday, though. I guess I'll be a WWE mark and shell out the extra $10 for 24/7 too). Also, I was just informed that Stephen Colbert would be on Conan tonight. When I went to NBC.com to verify this was happening and not a rerun from December, I saw that not only Colbert but Rainn "Dwight from The Office" Wilson would be on too! I am staying up for this one, no doubt about it.

To be fair, you subscribe to a different company in a different market with different channel packages, and even then I liked the concept. I'm just REALLY sold on it now.

Yeah, I was just about to say "So how about that WWE leaving TSN news?". Weird no one mentioned it until now.

Uhmm... commercials? Guess what took up about 15 minutes of pointless TV time... during the actual SmackDown broadcast... that wasn't an advertisement between segments. That's right... the Diva Search.

Watched the show and wrote a report for WO.com - not that good. No match sucked, which was nice, but the main event is a little over FIVE MINUTES as they did a commercial right after ring entrances. Lashley/Finlay is 10 minutes and London/Noble is 5 minutes. But guess what took up about 15 minutes of pointless TV time?

Rainn Wilson is on Conan tonight along with Stephen Colbert. Best Episode Ever potential.

Good stuff there. Candice being a NES fan is neat.

X-2 links the world of Spira to FFVII therefore it is the most important game ever.

I read an interview in EGM with a Sony rep (forget his name, but not Ken) stating "we've never been first to release our console", referring to the Xbox 360 being out a year prior to the PS3. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the current (previous?) generation, wasn't the PS2 launched a year prior to the Xbox and GameCube? Should the fact the DC came out in 99 really count? It was not a factor in what is now just a 3 system race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKKKglACpd0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNliAuhi3yE Ric Flair in DX at a house show (warning: pretty bad quality!) Ric and HHH doing the chops Ric and HHH hugging, ending their bitter rivalry!

So, not only did they do the Heyman/Lesnar "you don't listen to me so I'm going to cost you the title", which I thought might happen based on Monday, they use the SAME OPPONENT and the SAME MATCH FINISH (well, a slight variation). That's extreme. All told I thought the last few minutes of the match were pretty good. Glad they introduced Punk, hopefully he'll be at the Detroit tapings.

There is an hour of dark matches scheduled tomorrow.

I wish I would have loaded up some SD! guys for the battle royal being advertised on WWE.com - I think it was there earlier in the day and I just ignored it because I thought it was yet another story about Rey being an underdog with his world title. I assumed Sabu was going to be RVD's partner tonight with all the talk of him "being ok to wrestle tonight" but alas WWE changed the match and now I'm thinking Sabu won't even be on ECW tomorrow, so that might end up being $4m wasted. Glad I picked Edge though.

True enough about the title screen, but it was very cool to see an "arcade / Saturn" title screen on a Genesis, even if it was really simple.

So I figure I have a blog with a nice amount of views and a good rating, maybe I will join the "let people drop a name/thing to be commented on" craze. I'm not expecting this to go over as well as the other guys (I figure mostly just GQ asking things to get this rolling) but we'll see. Also, my responses may be slow since I'm still "away for a month".

When I was younger I found his TV character to be one angry and scary dad. Future re-watchings of The Wonder Years have shown me that he wasn't all that scary, but he could yell when he needed to. His death saddened us all. I didn't really like him at first, but (so far) he's one of the few guys the company is giving a lot of wins too without ending it with some stupid count-out or disqualification. His manager is very annoying but I am finding him less annoying as the weeks go by. His match against Hacksaw Jim Duggan at the John Labbat Centre in London, Ontario on July 8th should be a real barn burner. 3 2 1. 1 2 3. What the heck is bothering me? The fact CFMT (Canada's First Multicultural Television) moved Family Matters to a timeslot that interferes with my work. Carl was your typical "I have a scheme / I forgot something / something happened to something and I can't tell the wife" TV husband, but Reggie Vel Johnson had good chemistry with his the other characters, specifically Steve Urkel. A weird girl, but it was cool that she was into anime in high school. I liked that about her and I think in high school that caused me to overlook other things that I should have disliked about her. But we've discussed this all before... A great "wacky friend" character who really got on Mr. Powell's nerves. The friendship between him and Charles was one of those things that, if they weren't two TV characters scripted to be friends, would two people like that REALLY be best friends? It could happen. Of course, Buddy went on to become "Bibleman" in a series of direct to video specials about the bible.

Still no final decision on a PS2 trade-in (or even attempt or thought of going to the mall). I was playing some Genesis multirom on the Dreamcast today and I was surprised at some of the stuff on there, like a 2D Virtua Fighter 2 and a really, really bad 16-bit interpretation of Duke Nukem 3D. Duke was a disaster and should never have been made (and I'm actually wondering if it ever was, or if it's a hack/unreleased rom). Doom for SNES was bad enough - this was taking a superior game and putting it on the weaker 16 bit system. VF2, on the other hand, was one hell of an experiment. The friend I was playing this around said he recalled this game really existing. Presentation wise, it was pulled off great - the title screen and character select screen look pretty awesome for Genesis and the fighters look pretty good in gameplay. Unfortunatley, the game plays slowly and doesn't control very well in it's 16 bit faux-3D/2D environment. Worth looking at for the attempt, though.

Ranma 1/2

I just saw Ranma's first two seasons (still watching the tapes of S2, actually) last week and it's pretty funny. Ryoga and Kuno are awesome characters. I have the "Yapappa" song stuck in my head, though oddly enough when I try and remember the melody, I end up hearing "ya pa pa, ya pa pa..." as it morphs into a ocarina song from Zelda. The spanish version of the theme I saw on youtube is great too, mostly for the part where it shows the shows title in Japanese lettering and a spanish voice yells "RANMA!"

Ref bump, double pin, double ref count. Edge is WWE champ, RVD is ECW champ.

Victim of apathy towards the board, I guess. I decided to put more energy into my re-vitalized blog and posting comments in OAO/"Comments" threads where appropriate, but that's about it.

I've had it with my PS2. At home, I haven't noticed much problems since getting a stand-alone DVD player for Christmas, but since temporarly moving into a friend's house, I hate it. It seems to not want to play half opf the DVDs we try in it, and now even some games don't work. SFA Anthology works and GTA:SA works, but I tried playing some GM Mode with a friend in SvR 06 and it was a no load. Some people at the house rented Fatal Frame 3 and that too did not load. Apparently if I give EB my current PS2, I can get a new slimline PS2 for either $46 or $83 (I asked what I would get for a trade-in, the girl said "$45.99, and there's no tax so you don't have to pay that - I don't know why I would have to pay tax to give them something, so I assume she quoted me the price... although there is a chance she thinks I am giving them a slimline and not a non-working dustfilled loud box from 2001). Do you guys feel it's worth paying some extra money to know that I'll be able to save space on my console shelf (which was becoming a problem once I added an Xbox last year) and be able to load games (and DVDs when taking the system on the road) without it being a 50/50 situation? Also, will EB take / test my PS2? Does "refurbished" mean that they take possibly broken systems and get them repaired before re-selling them, or do they only take fully operational systems? I don't have a warranty handy for the PS2 (and if I did, it would be 5 years old and probably not valid) so I don't know if just getting the laser repaired would be easier or cheaper. I've wanted a PS2 Lite, and the recent DRE errors I've been getting seem like the best excuse to trade. I just don't want to pay $100 for it, or to go to EB and find out they can't accept my system for much / any tade-in because it's 5 years old and has laser reading issues.