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There already have been a couple threads about that. It's still funny. Anyone else mess with RPG Maker? Or play the sequel?

Just picture it: The WWF had Chris Fucking Benoit and the rest of the WCW jumpers tearing up the scene, HHH was the greatest fucking wrestler alive, Kurt Angle was gonna become the greatest fucking wrestler alive, Mick Foley wrote damn good books and had damn fine retirement matches, Shane McMahon regularly tempted death for our pleasure, Edge and Lita weren't fucking, the Hardys were still amazing, the Dudleys were still cool, even Brian Fucking Christopher was involved in something incredibly entertaining. Aside from that, you had: -WCW. Yeah, it sucked. But watching it fail at EVERYTHING was goddamned entertaining, and there were some good matches hidden in there too. There was no darker day than when we woke up and realized it was gone. -ECW. Yeah, it kinda sucked around this period too. But, shit, at least it was STILL THERE and gave us awesome cruiserweight & hardcore action that the indies are still copying today. and gave lots of wrestlers a payday when they otherwise would've had to get real jobs. -And then you had everything else. The indies, where the ECWA Super 8 Cup was a big deal, Scoot Andrews was a "good worker", and there were these guys like Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles who you kinda heard of. American fans caught in the jetlag between continents hadn't yet realized that Japanese wrestling was getting really bad. Dumbass ideas like Women Of Wrestling not only got a TV show and a PPV, but was somehow bizarrely entertaining and not completely worthless. Ah, for the days when the economy was good and the Twin Towers still stood...

I agree with all of those. I think Page, Shamrock, and Blackman as HC champ were all accepted Ditto. My main like: Jim Fucking Ross. I'm sorry, but I do think that he's still the best play-by-play announcer in wrestling (especially since Joey Styles is basically retired). I like heavyweights. I think that Hogan, Taker, Kane, Albert, Abyss, Buchanan, and Big Show all get a bum rap just because they're kinda clumsy and don't do many highspots. Shit, I was watching a tape where Big Show bumped over the top rope straight to the floor. I can't do that, and I've been thrown out of rings again and again for years.

Supposedly the meth labs really are deathtraps. They produce some really nasty chemical side products that are less than healthy and tend to infest the entire house that the lab is in. Plus I heard an interview with a nurse who worked in a burn clinic who claimed that literally half their new patients are from meth lab explosions. Maybe that's why the authorities are coming down on it so hard.

Yeah, they did, for one episode at least. He kept possessing people, and Galvatron kept shooting them trying to kill Starscream again, it was kinda funny. I seem to be the only one on earth who feels this way, but I actually liked the 2005 version of Transformers more than the original series. Maybe it's just because I thought Rodimus Prime looked cooler than Optimus, I dunno, he also seemed like a more interesting character because he was always so insecure about following in Optimus's footsteps. Anyone ever read the comics? I still own a bunch of those. They were kinda cool, but they seriously suffered from Marvel Syndrome where no character that got killed ever stayed dead.

Fucking idiots. Pseudoephedrine is what goes into meth, and they've already started restricting that. Seriously, is the meth problem that bad in this country? It seems like half the drug stories on the news are about it, but I'm not sure if I could name one person I know who does it. I'm wondering if it's just the new Scare Whitey drug, like crack in the early 90s or exstacy a couple years ago.

RPG Maker, damn, haven't heard that game's name in quite a while. While I loved the concept of a build-your-own-RPG, I thought the game's engine left a lot to be desired. It was just too friggin complicated to set everything up from scratch like they made you do, especially when there was really no guidebook or anything to help suggest how to make your game not suck. All of the tricky stats-balancing stuff that takes months or years for real programmers to do was left for you to just guess at, invent some numbers, and hope it came out okay. It was way too easy to make your characters too strong or too weak, to make magic spells that were useless or omnipotent, to make monsters laughably easy to defeat or impossible to beat no matter how strong you were. Really really frustrating, which is too bad, cuz if the process was easier I would've wasted years of my life churning out endless RPGs. Plus the Genesis-like graphics were really fucking lame considering that it came out at about the same time as FFIX. I heard there was a sequel to it, did anyone play that?

I shouldn't have either. Goddammit, when will I learn to resist the sinful temptation of spoilers?!

*yawn* Kotz's sig is kinda funny. Not hilarious, but kinda funny.

You GOT to be kidding me. Well, it is Chikara... if anyone would try it, it'd be those wacky bastards. When did it happen, and who did it involve? I vaguely remember hearing something about this... didn't it take place on an island or something? Cuz it seemed stupid to create a new thread in a "real" folder just to bitch about some match that felt like it's still being wrestled today.

Ah. Then I would suggest going the PS1 Chronicles route. FFVI and Chrono Trigger are too good a combo to miss if you've never played either.

When did friggin' pirates become trendy? I know that movie did big business, but I haven't heard of anything coming from it except a sequel.

The preferred method is playing it on the good old SNES, of course. But if you don't have the hundreds of dollars it'd take to buy a working machine & copy of the game off Ebay, and you don't have a PS2, well then fire that there emulator up.

Kotz, give the kid a break, this is starting to get obsessive on your part. Kinda like the No Homers club.

Well, if that's the case then he's on his own.

...pirates? You mean the actual pirates who lived hundreds of years ago? I've been reading about them all my life, used to be a pirate mark of sorts. You mean the classic NES game Pirates!? I'm a fucking encyclopedia on that game. You mean the movie Pirates of the Carribbean? Yeah, I liked that too. You mean an obscure reference to the dominance of pirate comic books within the fictional universe of Watchmen? I enjoyed that as well. So if you wanna talk pirates, IDRM, step up and we'll fucking talk PIRATES. ...but seriously, I don't understand what you were saying, could you clarify?

The longest match in the modern era on TV or PPV? I think the honor goes to Shawn vs. Bret WMXII at something like 62 minutes. All of the companies have had hour-long matches, but that is the only one I can remember than went past an hour in the big leagues. Of course, the longest match for maybe the last thirty years goes to CM Punk & Chris Hero's 93-minute match, which was a hell of an athletic exhibition but is a cure for insomnia to watch.

My favorite party was always Sabin, Gogo, Edgar, Umaro. Fuck all that pantywaist magic shite, all you need in life is Bum Rush, Mimic, Chainsaw, and an NPC that never stops kicking ass.

Damn, wrestling used to rule. Whatever happened to all these women? Some of them were downright talented, and most of them were pretty hot. Any other Jacklyn Hyde fans out there? Whoever that woman was, she played the "I'm CRAZY" gimmick better than just about any female wrestler I've ever seen. Victoria shoulda watched tapes of this chick to get her performance right.

Once again, who the fuck are you people talking about? I've never even heard of this chick.

Pro wrestling... in Iowa? I've been to Iowa. I have family there. It is the flattest, dullest, sanest, most perfectly ordinary & boring place on earth. A great place to retire, if you don't mind the cold. But... wrestling? I know they have a great amatuer tradition at the university there, but that usual REPELS pro wrestling from being popular in such an area.

...who the hell is Melina? And if the answer doesn't involve a pair of sais, I'm gonna be pissed.

I saw Transformers: The Motion Picture in the fucking THEATER. I proudly wear that metaphorical badge. Looking back at it now, that is one weird movie. Really uneven and inconsistent in terms of quality. At moments the animation seems better than anything Disney or Japan ever created; at others, it just looks like jerky stop-motion shit. Sometimes the dialogue is Joss Whedon good; at other times it's Resident Evil 1 bad. The plot was all over the place, too; it's unafraid to brutally kill off half of my childhood heroes, but not one human dies in the entire movie?

Mutoh seems to have the unerring ability to hire some of the worst guys to ever be fired by the WWE. Do these guys actually draw in Japan? How are All Japan's TV ratings? How've they been doing business-wise since they started pushing the clumsy gaijin?

It can be done, but it takes a shitload of effort (pardon the pun). You have to be able to kinda start & stop at will, and some people just don't have that type of control. Ever have one of those shits that feels like a pregnancy scene from a movie? Ya know, "Push! Push!" "Oh GOD it hurts!". Those suck. Wow, this reminds me of a random conversation me and two wrestlers had one time standing around in a driveway at 2AM, all about shitting. And of course that Chappelle Show skit.