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    From sonny himself:

    Prepare to have your hearts broken.

     

    It's time to hear the cold, hard truth.

     

    I'm going to break this down in the best way possible, but I don't expect anyone to cut me any slack here. I knew what I was getting myself into, and I've been prepared for the consequences for quite some time.

     

    Truth: There is no such thing as Fire Pro Wrestling HD and there is no such thing as the Fire Pro Wrestling 20th Anniversary Collection.

     

    Now let that sink in for a second and get angry about it.

     

    Here's another truth: I HAVE been in contact with some former Fire Pro Wrestling developers.

     

    Now let that sink in for a second and ask yourself why I would make up such a story.

     

    Here's the final and saddest truth: According to my contacts, Spike has no plans to ever make another wrestling game ever again. Period. That's it. It's over. No more Fire Pro. No more KOC. No more Blazing Tornado. No more Iron Slam. Kaput. Finished. THE END. The deep six. etc. etc.

     

    Fire Pro Wrestling Z was supposed to be the finale. As far as Fire Pro Wrestling games go... it was rather pathetic as a finale. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns was a way to do one of two things:

     

    1) Bring the series BACK

    or

    2) Let the series end on a happy note with a proper finale

     

    Sales were less than stellar, so we obviously got number 2.

     

    Now let that sink in for a second and ask yourself if you're OK with that fact. Ask yourself if you're OK with playing Fire Pro Returns and KOC2 for the rest of your days. If you're anything like me, you'll say, "HELL NO I'M NOT OK WITH THAT."

     

    Games like TNA IMPACT, Smackdown, and Legends of Wrestlemania don't satisfy most of the guys around here. Even a game like Pro Wrestling X, which is supposed to be by the fans and for the fans... looks like it won't deliver what we really need. Hell... we aren't even totally satisfied with games like Wrestle Kingdom and All Star Pro Wrestling, which I feel are light years ahead of the crap we usually get. We're here because of Human / Spike. We love THEIR wrestling games.

     

    So here we are. Stuck in the year 2009 with nothing to look forward to ... yet we're sitting on a mountain of ideas, wish lists, suggestions, and testimony from people saying they'd buy new systems and pay for monthly DLC if a new Fire Pro game was on the horizon.

     

    We can do one of two things here.

    We can keep playing Fire Pro Returns and KOC2 until we all grow apart and the community slowly dwindles down into a small group of e-fedders and 'vets'...

     

    Or we can seriously try to do something about our gaming future.

     

    The word is out there, now. This entire FPHD thing has made it to Japan. They want it, too. It's not just us. And there are people out there that don't even know about the FPHD 'hoax'... yet they still want FPHD. You know they do... because FPHD was not just some random collection of bullet points. It was a large collection of things that people in this community have asked for and wished for. It's possible. It's achievable. There's no ladder match. There's no table match. There's none of that stuff. This game is actually possible, and it's what we really want.

     

    And you know what... it's not TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, either.

     

    Who says we're never going to get what we want?

    Who decided that what we want is too good to be reality?

    I'm not in that camp.

     

    I think it can be done, and I say it's time we do something about it.

    Maybe it will work. Maybe it won't.

     

    But sitting around playing a 4 year old wrestling game isn't going to get us anywhere.

     

    I love Fire Pro and KOC just as much as anyone else here... but I'm not satisfied with where the story ends.

    And as you can tell by this entire 'hoax'... I don't really care about my credibility or 'internet status', either. I care about these games, and they come first. If you guys hate my guts for this, I'll understand. If you want me gone, I'll understand... but I'll still be fighting for a new Fire Pro.

     

    And if that falls through... well... some of you know my other plans, but that's not going to be a reality any time soon.

     

    So where do we go from here?

    That's for us to decide.

     

    I say we need to do something. Others may disagree.

    They say it won't matter what we do. I disagree.

    Some people may think that this was the stupidest thing I could've ever done. Maybe they're right :lol:

     

    But I do know one thing for sure... the world got excited about Fire Pro again, and its on people's minds right now.

     

    We need to get the word out. We need to team up with fans in Japan. We need to increase our numbers, and we need to let Spike know that this series can be profitable again.

     

    If we don't... then it's game over for Fire Pro.

     

    It's very possible that we may lose... but I'm not going to sit around without at least giving it a serious shot.

     

    So I guess that's it. The community will now decide what happens next.

     

    I'm sorry for wasting your time. I'm sorry for lying to you, and I'm sorry that FPHD isn't real.

    OH GOD, how I wish it was real.

    And MDK... I'm sorry for lying to you about my intentions for this entire thing. If you ban me for this... at least let me go out in a blaze of glory with a typical barrage of troll posts and flame topics. It's only fair.

     

    BEWARE OF FIRE PRO

     

    /sigh oh well

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    awesome read!

     

     

    I am your Density!

     

    It’s hard to notice stuff when your jaw’s lying on the floor, but this episode was really that good. Watching Desmond’s consciousness catapult back and forth across eight years of his life should’ve been confusing… it should’ve been way too crazy to follow, way too far out to make much sense to people. Yet when you think about it, the writers of LOST have been gently herding (Shepharding?) us along, building us up, preparing us for this exact moment for over three years now. All of the answers weren’t just thrust upon us simultaneously in one season (cough… Heroes!… cough…) as if we, the audience, were a bunch of eager simpletons impatiently banging the table for immediate answers before switching over to 24. No – the writers and producers of LOST really took their time telling this story. They told it with great sets, beautiful scenery, incredible writing, and deep characterization. And this is why it so totally rocks the balls off any other television show.

     

    That said, I’m not going to go into the metaphysics of inter-dimensional time travel, wormholes, or any of the technical crap we might’ve seen on Danny’s blackboard. Everyone else can do that. I’d get the science part wrong anyway, and discussing the theory itself is much more interesting. I’m also not gonna point out the ultra-cool painting and origins of the Black Rock (which I loved by the way), how Penny’s dad needs to buy the ledger in order to track it to the island, or the really great scene between Desmond and Penny that was a much-welcomed relief from all the Sawyer/Kate/Jack stuff. You all saw the episode, you all noticed it too.

     

     

    Good night, future-boy!

     

    The Lawnmower man is one hell of a pilot. I barely hold my heading over the Long Island sound on a clear day but Frank’s laser-locked onto 305 through towering thunderclouds culminating in a nasty time storm. But it’s not the storm; it’s the dusk-to-day landing wigs Sayid out. Looks like 31 minutes is out the window here. When Sayid finally does get the chance to speak with Jack, they’re speaking live but about a day apart (island time). It seems the definitive answer is that time does move slower on the island than in the real world. But is there a day-to-day (relative) difference? My gut instinct is no. I tend to think that no matter how long they spent on the island, they would’ve arrived back to the freighter at about the same time they left. Watch the crewmember’s reaction after Frank exits the chopper: “What are you doing back?” – almost as if the chopper team had just departed. Which makes sense, because looking for a black island against a black ocean (which was when the Naomi’s team showed up) would be a lot less sensible than launching such a mission in the light of day.

     

    In either event, Desmond goes Marty McFly, and that’s the real story. This time we get to see a reverse trip as a very confused past Desmond is launched into his future situation. The “only the consciousness goes” part was extremely clever, but even more revealing. If examined closely and open-mindedly, this one phenomenon can decode almost every inexplicable part of the show. More on that in a minute.

     

    The biggest shock to me was how innocuous the freighter turned out to be. The crewmembers weren’t bristling with guns, nor were they even overly hostile. In fact, there seemed to be a complete lack of discipline or direction on the ship. My opinion of Minkowski turned from evil overlord to strapped-down radio operator in the blink of an introduction. I saw no chain of command. You’d think if someone from (drumroll…) The Island had made their way back to the ship, there would be some kind of serious interrogation. Instead there was a perfunctory examination of Desmond’s pupils and a general dismissive feeling overall. Even Lapidus seemed to get into it, tossing an obligatory Baghdad reference along with the satellite phone to Sayid.

     

     

    One point twenty-one gigawatts!!!

     

    Desmond and Elouise aren’t the only ones trapped in a time fart. Daniel himself is skipping around, as foreshadowed by doc Ray’s exclamation that “Faraday can’t even help himself!” Later on we learn that excessive radiation (or electromagnetism, how convenient) lends to the problem, of which zap-happy Daniel has no shortage. Eventually we see that he’s even got an entry in his own log referring to Desmond as his constant, which means that up until he came to the island he was still searching for that one thing or person (wonder where he got that idea from?) to ground him. He found that thing upon meeting Desmond the morning the chopper took off, and was pretty sure that would be the end of his ‘problem’… but upon playing cards with Charlotte that night he still hadn’t made any progress. Perhaps the act of helping Desmond reach his own constant, Penny, will finally ‘unstick’ Danny once and for all.

     

    Also skipping through his lifetime is Mikowski, who’s virtually an expert by the time they find him. I found his “I was just on a Ferris wheel” line interesting, because like everything else in LOST a Ferris wheel goes round and round and always comes full circle. Mikowski threatens the same thing will happen to his crewmates when they “go back to that island”.

     

    And you know who else got a nasty case of the jump-through-life crazies? Rousseau’s entire crew. This could very well be the ‘sickness’ she referred to so early on in season one. Look at how bat-shit nuts Desmond went in the chopper – now imagine Danielle’s entire crew acting like that while she’s trying to “shhh!” them as the smoke monster stalks the jungle and the Others pick off whomever they feel are on Santa’s list. Kinda puts a new spin on that whole scenario.

     

    While we’re at it, let’s think back to Juliet’s arrival by sub. Was it coincidence they knocked her out for the trip through the time barrier? Or by relieving her of her consciousness as she passed through did they save her from any of Daniel’s so called ‘side effects’? As Ethan said, it’s a hell of a ride. Totally Jauntish, if that’s the case, but then again I’m a firm believer you can draw a Stephen King reference to your morning stool if you looked hard enough.

     

    But hey, let’s lock a really misshapen piece of the puzzle into place: Hurley’s friend Leonard. Could it be that he time-skipped his way into the mental institution after being stationed a little too close to the island? Imagine him living pieces of his life over and over again, in loops that get geometrically (Daniel’s wording, not mine) smaller. Now picture those loops getting smaller and smaller… until all that’s left is a tiny 10 or 15-second flash of time he has to relive over and over again: the radio transmission. The numbers. 4,8,15,16,23,42… hiccup!... 4,8,15,16,23,42. Wow, shoot me now.

     

    And finally, let’s consider what a genius intellect with a rational approach would do with the near-infinite knowledge gained by such looping trips through time. Is Ben the ultimate product of the island’s abilities? Instead of being stuck like Dan’s mouse or quantum-leaping around at random, is it possible Ben was taught how to harness, control, and utilize these gifts? If so, are all his well-laid plans merely nothing but him molding and shaping future events the way Desmond did to prevent Charlie’s death a few times?

     

     

    Yeah, well history is going to change!

     

    This brings me to my own personal conclusion: LOST history has got to be alterable. Because if it weren’t, Ben (and now Locke) wouldn’t be going through all this trouble to finally get the event scenario correct. If whatever happens is truly going to happen anyway, regardless of what is done to prevent it (course correction), then wouldn’t Ben just grab some a box of Dharma wine and go fishing? I mean why bother, right? If the future can’t be changed, just what the hell is Ben doing?

     

    I’m going against Ms. Hawking here, and maintaining that things CAN change. The very nature of her meeting with Desmond seems to prove this. Why’s she trying to convince him so adamantly that he’s got to dump Penny and head on over to the Swan hatch? According to her own course correction theory, wouldn’t the button still get pushed by someone else? But her insistence and general pissy attitude make me think she’s worried. Look looked hella-worried, and to me that translates into one thing: Desmond can mess things up. In a way, he’s not a constant at all – Desmond is a wild card.

     

    Why don’t you make like a tree… and get outta here!

     

    Dan’s reference to his mouse being ‘stuck’ this episode was extremely important. Desmond and Mikowski might’ve been stuck too (well, maybe not anymore), but the one person who’s really, really stuck is Jacob. His creepy “help me…” was an otherworldly call from beyond (Time? Space? Does it matter?) with his cabin representing the epicenter of some sort of temporal disaster that stranded him where he is now. Remember his magically re-constructing lantern? “Time is broken here” – Lara Croft.

     

    Tearing a single page out of Dan’s book we now see mention of three events: A, B, and C. I’m willing to bet that two of those events pertain to both times Desmond failed to push the button; once at the crash of 815, and once when he turned the failsafe key. The third event we don’t know about or it hasn’t happened yet (the end event?)

     

    I believe each event triggered an alternate timeline, and is responsible for the ‘rebirth’ of everyone involved (physical and spiritual healing included). This is hinted at multiple times throughout the show with “See you in another life”. But now, when we begin to factor the time hiccups into the equation, we’re not only looking at concurrent timelines. We must now also consider timelines where someone’s consciousness (and only their consciousness – that part’s important) is derived from their past or even their future. From the beginning, the producers have hinted that where flight 815 crashed wasn’t nearly as important as when it crashed.

     

    Taking this into consideration, what if the plane crashed before September 22nd 2004? We’ve seen time differentials of 31 seconds and even a whole day now – who’s to say it couldn’t span a week or more? As we saw with Desmond, the consciousness is transferred but the body stays the same. So what if (and get ready to be totally creeped out here…) what if the plane crashed during a period in time when Christian Shephard was still alive?

     

    What if the only place his consciousness had to go was into his current body, tucked neatly away in the coffin that turned up empty on impact? Could this explain why Jack kept seeing him? Could this explain why Jacob looked like him for that brief instant, yet still looks like an embalmed corpse? Yikes.

     

     

    I guess you guys weren’t ready for that, yet… but your kids are gonna love it.

     

    Okay, listen - I’m 99.9% sure I don’t subscribe to the Christian-corpse-consciousness theory I just hammered out. It’s 4am and I’m getting pretty loopy. Looking at it again, it kinda sucks. It was just something that occurred to me that needed to get thrown out there, because I can’t see any other logical reason for Hurley seeing Jack’s dad in that chair – especially since Hurley has never seen Jack’s dad before (unless it was in a time loop, and I’m not taking that ride again just now).

     

    But it sure would pave the way for the LOST zombie season.

     

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    I just had one of the best matches so far in fire pro, It was Misterio vs Mistico for the Cruiserweight title i created. Match went back and forth with big move after big move. Ending came after misterio gave me the 619, i thought it was over. He covered me but only gets a 2.9. Misterio picks me up and goes to give me a hurcarana pin combo and i reverse it to the sunset flip and win the match. I'm gonna have to buy a video recorder so i can start recording some of these matches.

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    Last night I had a Match with Hayabusa and Shinzaki, it was back and forth through the whole match, the ending sequence was amazing. I gave him a falcon arrow he kicked out at 2.9 he got up, gave me a praying powerbomb i kicked out at 2.9. He picks me up gives me the praying ropewalk and goes for a second praying powerbomb I turn it into a small package and win the match. My pulse was racing after the match.

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