DrVenkman PhD

The answer is still 11pm est on Spike TV.

Bruce Timm > whoever is writing the Superman TAS direct to video movie.

The beauty of the real-time AKI openings is that, back when technology allowed us to edit a wrestler's attire, editing the main attire resulted in it being in the opening. Why do office chairs and the like explode in GoldenEye?

Yes it was announced last night on SD! and has a listing on WWE.com's GAB page.

Animal is available at a cost of $3m. This is my line-up for next week: Batista (assumed Title Retain points) Benoit (assumed Title Win points) Christian Heidenreich (taking a chance on this one) Juvi (assuming they add a CW title match, assuming Juvi wins) Kurt Angle Maria (extra $1m left over) Melina (her or Torrie would both be good picks since their guaranteed to bbe making PPV appearance, match, and specialty match points) Muhammed Hassan

The opening to WCW/nWo Revenge is awesome. It really shows off both the fun chaotic side of wrestling with all the midcarders hitting high spots and having a good time and the intense big-time feud side of wrestling with Sting beating up Hogan's truck driving friend ("WHAT!?"). Hogan visits him in what seems like a dark hospital room only for it to be revealed as an arena when Sting teleports to the Nitro set with his lightning bolt powers, causing Hogan and Sting have a staredown so intense that their hate manifests itself as eye lasers which causes everything to explode.

I was playing Shut Your Mouth today... THQ really should go back to making the ending / credits like they did in that game. Real American / Beautiful People playing while you watch tech demos and various hilarity still rocks almost 3 years later.

For an attorney lacking any form of wrestling training, he takes good bumps. Funny, eh?

Reminder: To get big time PPV points for the Bash, you'll need to set your roster by 7pm est on Monday.

So is WWE bringing up The Boogeyman so quickly some sort of slap in the face to Cornette? Well, it's better than 15 slaps in the face, I guess.

Angle bringing back the Challenge adds a whole new deal to the game. I was miffed that Masters only got regular match points but, combined with the fact that he got appearance, match, win, finisher, and finisher win points, it's cool... then Angle brings back the Challenge and I pretty much get everything I would have from the Masterlock Challenge. Pretty tense though.. they made Striker seem like a possible winner.

I dumped Hassan and picked up Edge for Week 5 as they just announced Edge vs. Kane for Raw. I assume Edge is winning and will be racking up appearance points. This leaves me with only JBL for SD! since I'm loaded with $5m contracts this week... HBK, Angle, and Cena. Part of me thinks that they'll only be good for appearances this week but I just added HBK and Angle to my week 5 roster and want to see how it works. Carlito is there since he's good for an appearance and possible title retain points, and MAsters is there because it seems the Challenge is bi-weekly now. I'm sure now that I've caught on to this pattern he'll show up to do it next week too. It's probably only a matter of time before Big Show answers the call and ends the deal and with my luck that will be this Monday.

I'll have to agree with a friend tha tsent me an e-mail prior to me seeing the episode that the vomit scene and Stewie ranting ("You know the words to Mr. Plow? Well do does everybody else!" or something along those lines) were good, but I feel the Breakfast Machine wins the episode.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion.

Why was Donkey Kong Jr. (as opposed to DK) the driver in Super Mario Kart? DK had been MIA for quite some time but putting the kid with his white shirt / bib in seemed odd... then DKC retconned it so DK Jr. is the current DK and Cranky is the original... right? The Kong family is confusing.

I'm going to have to agree with Anya that fighting games need (optional, of course) story modes that fully flesh out a fighter's storyline with each fight. Back in the day (I'm thinking 1997), I spent many a quarter trying to see everyone's ending in X-Men vs Street Fighter. Of course, back then, it was just pictures with words, but I enjoyed it and was bummed when I saw that the follow up games in the Vs. series (specifically MvC2 as that is the only game I can recall finishing a 1P mode at home) contained nothing. In this day and age, it would be pretty awesome if between fights in a Street Fighter game you were given animated cut-scenes.

Well this was the last of the PWI Insider updates. spman informed me today that Mr. Scherer suspended his account for "posting "Copywritten News" to online boards and taking away subscribers". How they tracked him we are not sure but the current guess he was the only subscriber.

Fair enough, apologies for becoming overly defensive on the issue. Excuse the slight interuption in thread conversation, let us resume...

We have a no spoiling policy in that channel! Your attitude that everyone who uses the internet to look or discuss any wrestling related information wants to be spoiled (or should know better because otherwise they will read spoilers) is the same logic that caused Meltzer to have to apologize for mentioning Benoit's name (re: draft lottery) out of the blue in his news updates.

Daivari's first name in the WWE (which, more or less, seems to have been dropped) is Koshrow, not Shawn. Though I now understand what you were saying so disregard this. Good read.

That doesn't stop other people from going and then informing you online. I understand your point but there are times where a person is spoiled without intending to be. I chat in a channel in IRC that has a newsbot and a lot of times Meltzer's headlines will pop up as "Meanie vs JBL on SmackDown" or "SmackDown Spoilers - 2 titles change hands". I hate it when he does things that are unavoidable like that.

They also still have him doing Live Event News in Canada thanks to the magic of pre-tapes.

Well he did cancel his WOL appearance, and the fact he's calling the woman he has suppoedsly since made peace with a "whore" a few weeks before possibly being in an angle with her comes off as a bit odd.

From PWI: Jim Cornette, who handled the Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental territory along with Danny Davis, was fired by World Wrestling Entertainment. The last straw in a series of incidents was Cornette slapping an OVW student "ten to fifteen times" after the student, in front of fans, giggled instead of showing fear towards The Boogeyman Marty Wright during an OVW TV taping. There are a number of people who are noting that Cornette seemed extremely burned out in recent months, although none were willing to defend him for raising his hands to the student. One source noted that just last week, after returning from a WWE forced vacation, Cornette snapped and walked out of a taping while claiming he was done with the company, only to return an hour later. There is no word yet as to who will be taking over Cornette's duties yet. Lance Storm finished his tenure with WWE yesterday and has headed home to Calgary. During Cornette's "vacation", Storm, Tommy Dreamer, and Al Snow handled the TV end of the territory

I enjoyed readins his positive out of character views of the ECW show. It also shows he's not just being a total ass on the DVD.