Jingus

I tried C2 the other day, and pretty much agree with Marvin's assessment. It doesn't have that barely-there nontaste of diet drinks, it's almost as sweet as the real thing, but it feels a lot thinner and more watery than regular Coke. Not horrible, but I wouldn't go out of my way to drink it instead of regular or diet.

Ya know, I was watching Chosen (still hate its fucking guts, what a generic crappy finale), and an odd question struck me: what is the badass hierarchy of the Buffyverse? I mean, if we made a list of "Top 10 Toughest People in Jossland", who would be on it, and in what order? Buffy would obviously be #1, that's kinda the whole point of the series, but after that it gets ambiguous and interesting. Would you rank Angel over Spike? Who's tougher, Caleb or Hamilton? Would Evil Willow kick Ilyria's ass? All kinds of intriguing arguments there.

I second the nominations for Something Positive, Scary-Go-Round, and especially 8-Bit Theatre, which is officially the greatest fucking webcomic of all time. Sexy Losers and FLEM are really good too, if you can stand the ridiculously over-the-top sex and violence that they're so chock full of. Queen of Wands and Bobbin are a couple of other decent girly type comics I've read as well.

Hart vs. Styles has already happened a couple of times, out in some indy fed in Hawaii. I've seen the matches on tape, and they gave the feeling of "this is pretty good, but give these two some more experience working with each other in the future and it'll be fucking great".

Flair doesn't bump on his ribs; nobody does that, it's just asking for trouble. On his side-back bumps, he takes the majority of the impact on his hip, with his forearm and thigh helping out a bit.

I still can't believe that people actually liked Queen Margot. Isabelle Adjani is quite possibly the single most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life, but that wasn't enough to save Ishtar, and it's not enough to save this incredibly overhyped piece of crap either. The lead male hero was executed OFFSCREEN, for chrissakes. Tarantino isn't entirely repetitive. If you didn't know anything about the man or his films, I think it would come as a surprise that the same guy directed Jackie Brown and Kill Bill. (Oh, and Tarantino had nothing to do with Killing Zoe, it was made by his Pulp cowriter Roger Avary.) Personally, I'd throw my votes in for Exotica or Heavenly Creatures, just to be a cool-hip-edgy nonconformist.

Damn... an axe murder or the gnomes is all I could come up with.

I still don't understand the ban on after-parties. Now, my knowledge of the Australian legal system is a bit shaky, but I'd assume it's the same basic rules as the English and American versions. How in the world can the SCHOOL officials bring down IN-SCHOOL punishments for actions which did NOT take place at the SCHOOL?

Probably so, baron, probably so. I wasn't the biggest fan in the world of FF VII. I thought IV, VI, and X were all much better overall games. But the level of hate it gets from some people is simply ridiculous. It's far from "OMG worst game EVER it suxxxors!" like some people paint it. (The people who say that obviously never played FF: Mystic Quest, or any of the Gameboy FF Legends titles.) It is repetitive, sure, but it does involve some strategy. Unlike what the 411 review said, you certainly won't win the game if you run away from every random battle and just mash buttons to attack.

If you're lacking in funds, just do what I did: go sit down in a bookstore and read your way through the whole series whenever you've got a few hours to spare. But Sandman is definitely one of the best comic series of all time, with only similarly godly works like Watchmen providing any competition.

As for all this spin-off talk, I think the most obvious route (in terms of story as well as marketing demographics) would be a Connor & Faith show. Imagine THAT coupling. (Hell, just imagine the earthquake-like sex they'd have.) Put Dawn in there, and have her get pregnant, or turned into a vampire, or whatever, something to just finally give her something to do. Spike gets his own five minutes per episode to just show up, kick someone's ass, and crack wise. And have Ilyria fall in love with Andrew along the way, just to officially provide the weirdest couple in Buffyverse history. James Marsters as Romeo? Marsters is way too old for the part, Romeo is supposed to be only 15. The list of "choices" in that contest looked more like a sick joke than anything, although seeing Spike and Dru as the star-crossed lovers would probably be amusing as hell.

Etrigan? Wow. The heirs of Batman: The Animated Series certainly are getting inclusive in their old age. Who shows up next, John Constantine and the Endless?

Oof. Shit, Kotz, that sucks, sorry mang. If it's any consellation, I'm not doing that great myself. No job, no prospects for any job better than McDonald's, dad giving me until the end of the week to find a full-time job or move out. And my car seems constantly on the brink of collapse, which makes driving 'round the state to wrestling shows a dicey proposition.

Westerns are cool, as long as I'm in the right mood for them. Pretty much anything starring John Wayne or Gary Cooper is usually worth watching. Dama's right, they just don't make good westerns like they used to; when Shanghai Noon is the best movie of the genre to come out in the past few years, that's pretty sad.

I guess he meant the "original story" about Ed Gein, but TCM's plot and characters bear no resemblence whatsoever to the real life events. Oh, and the original pisses upon the remake from a great height indeed.

No argument there. I think the awakening of thousands of Slayers all over the world was probably the ballsiest plot point in that entire season. First of all, it's Wiccan. I don't know why BTVS always got magickal terminology so terribly wrong. And secondly, I don't think that's really a point per se. Willow's sudden orgasmic blast of happy white cosmic energy came out of absolutely nowhere; there was no good reason why her magic wasn't still dark and evil, other than, well, It's The Finale. No he didn't. Buffy lied when she said "I love you", and he knew it. Spike got buttfucked seven ways to sunday in Chosen. (And hell, does even Spike know what he REALLY wants?) Yeah, she can kick Angel's ass in a fight, always could. But once again, how is that some kind of series "point"? Angel is a much more mature and proactive character than Buffy (when he's not Angelus of course), he's just not as strong as she is. No big deal, cause nobody else is either. Now you're just trying to make Anyanka cry. Come on, Anya was the easiest character to chose to kill off in the finale: not one of the original cast members, her storylines having been mostly dropped, but her death still held enough weight for some shock value. Let's face it: compared to great finales like Becoming, The Gift, and Not Fade Away, a plothole-ridden tribute to deus ex machina like Chosen can't possibly compare.

Ew. Xander and Cordy look kinda sorta like their real-life counterparts, but many of the others are way off. Giles, Joyce, and DAWN especially, those drawings don't look a damn thing like the actual actors. But I gotta admit, just having Dawn in the show at all is a ballsy idea, since her involvement means that at least some part of every episode never really happened. I did FINALLY see Not Fade Away. My main thoughts? This was the Anti-Chosen. Seriously. It's like Joss sat down and tried to make this finale as different from Buffy's as possible. For example: -In Chosen, the show ended happily (and kinda lamely) after the huge apocalyptic battle in the Hellmouth. In NFA, the show cut to black right before the (probably suicidal) last fight in a dingy back alley. -Buffy was fighting a very specific, easily identifiable group of black hats: the bringers, ubervamps, and of course The First. Angel on the other hand never had his enemies hand-picked for him; he basically went out and killed anything evil he could get his hands on. -Joss made the safe, numbers-friendly approach towards killing main characters in Chosen; only Anya and a could of anonymous slayers got killed. (Exactly how Andrew and Dawn got to be such badasses that they could fight the ubervamps was never explained.) But in NFA, he made the logical choice, killing off some major characters in a way that had the feeling of inevitable fate. Wesley and Lindsey (and probably Gunn) were so stained by their own sins or depression that pretty much everyone assumed that most of them would die. -Buffy didn't beat the First, because of some bullshit about it not being corporeal and thus invulnerable to harm. Angel didn't beat the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart simply because he's a common foot soldier in the war against evil, not some god or Higher Power; and Joss was just being realistic in showing him kill the middlemen instead of the top bosses. -Buffy was just handed all the super-gadgets she needed to win the big fight: the slayer axe, Spike's medallion, etc. Team Angel had nothing more than a few ordinary nice shiny weapons (and Angel didn't even need those to beat Hamilton). -Finally: Chosen's message seemed to be "Evil is defeated; it's over." NFA's was more like "Evil will NEVER be defeated; it's NEVER over; but we're going to at least try to kick its balls inside out before we die."

The Muta scale came from a match that Great Muta had against Hiro Hase sometime around 1992, I believe. Muta did bleed a lot, but Keith was wrong in calling it the nastiest bladejob ever. Jericho's from NoL was worse, and technically the Mass Transit incident was kinda sorta a bladejob, not to mention dozens of various deathmatches where guys have bled much more.

So I wasn't good enough to make it into the contest, huh, bitches? ::Grabs the Race Card, spray-paints it white, and then sets it on fire.::

I'm With Jingus: a naive young smart mark is sent out on the road with Jingus as he makes the rounds of various indy wrestling shows across the Mid-South reason. Most of the episodes involve the smart mark getting hit with a chair, and Jingus hitting on various ring rats and failing to score. The show is rated TV-MA for violence (Atlanta traffic in rush hour), adult language (also Atlanta traffic in rush hour, plus Jingus' inability to keep his fucking filthy mouth shut), and rampant drug use (aka "wake 'n bake"). It will be shown on Fox in the nine o'clock spot on Wednesday, thus guaranteeing that almost everyone I know (who are mostly still down at the fairgrounds for NWA-TNA) will never see the show.

I believe you are thinking of King Slender.....I could be wrong though No, it was Giant Panther who had the clawhold, and headbutt. King Slender was the pale hippy dude who had the backbreaker. (Which was, by the way, the BEST move in the game, since it did so much damage and was so easy to hit. Hit ANYONE with six backbreakers in a row, and the pinfall becomes inevitable.)

Rall comes off kinda like a lot of guys I know; the ones who simply have no idea what the words "restraint" or "subtlety" mean.

It has been a long, long time since I lost a round of Street Fighter II, to anyone. For whatever reason, my knees and thighs are flexible enough that I could actually fall asleep in the butterfly stretch position. And unless you're friends with Dan Wilson, I'm probably the best indy ring announcer you all know.

I tried playing this game as an emulated ROM a couple of times, and just gave up. The controls and hit collision are absolute crap, which is par for the course for an NES wrestling game, as they were almost all horrible. Pro Wrestling (Starman~!) > Wrestlemania

North is one of those movies where it's hard to pinpoint just one reason why it's so bad. It's not that the acting is the worst of all time, or the writing, or the directing. It's just that all of them are pretty damn bad, and they somehow combine into a worthless movie that's even worse than the sum of its parts. Why the hell are so many people naming movies from the last 10 years as the "worst ever"? bps, I don't understand why you hate Ransom so much, but shit, at least they kept the camera lens correctly focused during that movie, which is a claim that Manos and various other old B flicks can't make. Anyone who thinks that a movie that came out recently is the worst film EVER desperately needs to watch more MST3K.