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That's some major up hauling, looking forward to it!

Well, like Andrew said, E3 is suppose to showcase what you have to offer to the 'in crowd' of E3, journalists and the nerds (us) who watch it. What have the announced that, say, would get you, for example, a multi format games magazine writer excited about? Is there anything there you'd tell your friends about and create excitement for the Wii? No. Now imagine that from the point of view of the die hard fans, who want titles they know, at the least HOPE are coming out. No news. Its on par and beyond the Bungie Announcement being canceled. Its as if the Bungie Announcement was canceled several times over, on every hope you had of a good game coming out for the Wii that was novelty based. You know there's something there, you know there's ideas there, you know, you just hope that they'll have them coming out - yet, no hints, no references, no secret smiles. So what is coming out in the next 6 months that will help sustain the Wii's unbelievable growth since launch? The surfboard game?

That's ok, just build on it, or I'll be calling... I know where you live, Houston can't be that big of a place to find a Browns fan... I'M ON TO YOU!

10. I'm in. Sorry, Chriswok. No worries just do the Browns proud dammit! Put me on injured reserve in case there's still something free at the end, please.

I swear to god I listen to more then just Muse... honest. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome Absolution (2003) http://musewiki.org/Stockholm_Syndrome_(song) If this song had been released a few months later, when downloaded songs were counted as Chart entries, this would have been the groups highest entry into the UK Top 40 at #3. The song itself is pretty 'fast' and furious, taking some influences from System of a Down's fast riffary. UK Video I'll be the first to admit that Matt Bellamy's lyrics aren't the most ground breaking, but his guitar work, style and the overall sound of Muse just work for me, probably the first band I could claim as my own, seeing them on their pretty low key Showbiz tour here almost 10 years ago. When the band started to break out in America around 2004/2005, the same time they left Mushroom and signed with Warner, they had to change the Stockholm Syndrome video to show their faces a bit more. They also cut the song down from 5 minutes to around about 3 mins, claiming that US folk just weren't into all that 'bridge' stuff - wankers. US Video The song live was the epic closing song for their Absolution tour, which usually resolved with the end riff melting down into a riff of doom as Bellamy starts to trash or rape his Orange Amp. Live Video from Wembley 2006

Bugger - guess not.

Well there's attacking people due to being a thug, and protesting and actually trying to remove them from the club through vocal protesting and action like Liverpool have done.

N'Gog, I remember the name, but that's probably from Football Manager - he's a WONDERKID, that'll be a right signing if its true. As for Alan Smith, seriously, I wish I could... I'm more worried that Dennis Wise seems to have all the say over the coming and goings of our transfers.

Nice stadium, shite supports worse atmosphere - and you know that's true if Roy Keane even has a go at them. However, if you're choosing it just as a stadium without the often quiet (despite the amazing football) supporters, then that's a good choice. If I had to pick one for Supports, I'd have gone with Anfield, despite being a Geordie, as I feel their are some of the most vocal, passionate and dedicated fans to their club - look at the stands they've taken this season towards how their owners have treated the club. Man U were in a similar circumstance when Glazer took over, and they basically rolled over and accepted it, apart from the few guys who went and formed FC Manchester (Power to them to be fair).

Aye, I mentioned it earlier, I feel the same way. If they actually did more head to head stuff with their champions or even the brands, then maybe then I'd buy into more.

Hopefully this won't put an end to the current madness, though, it might just make it continue!

Hot prostitute ... well kinda... at number 8!

In like crazy world, they sort of look like Colt Cobana and Christian Cage rip off stunt men.

But what makes its credible to have TWO different tag champions when either pair don't really have much competition? They should throw down the gauntlet by the end of next year, to see who the best Tag Team is between the two and unite the titles - whoever the champions are at the time. With two World Titles and a WWE Champion, is there any interest from the general crowd towards the IC and US title at the moment? I don't think there is that much, certainly not since the MVP/Hardy program ended. OK, so you can argue that those titles aren't the draw anyway, but they're the titles the create your future stars and if no one is interested in them, how can you do that?

So hard to say what might have happened, since the draft was looming around the corner as well. Its possible Kennedy could have got fired only to be drafted back onto Raw (assuming he was hired by Smackdown as the biggest Free Agent in wrestling or something). I think it was heading towards a Regal/HHH program, as from what I've read over the years, it had been planned for a while. I think it would have been one of the more different title programs we've had in a while, both men have a lot of talent in the ring and an air of credibility about them. So, I don't think it'd have been the standard face over coming the odds type of stuff. The King Regal character was interesting, but at times it was a bit over done - the rating didn't agree either, but was that more of an Orton/HHH thing or Regal? I think the WWE got away with it, with the draft being so close to the incident of Regal being fired - actually, I think it worked VERY WELL and if drugs wasn't such a sour point at the moment, I'd have said it could have all been the best super work in the world to set up what's going on at the moment - but it isn't.

hehe He'd have a Hogan Friar's hairline! Is that irony?

Evening Chronicle - local rag here in Newcastle - claim that Newcastle United/Dennis Wise turned down Frings as he was too old for Newcastle new policy... what the fuck?! He's 31! Dennis Wise, worse Newcastle signing ever, worse the Gullit, worse then Salvio Maric, worse then Marcelino, worse then Luque...

Muse - Assassin (Grand Omega Boss Remix) Black Holes & Revelations - Knights of Cydonia (Single) http://musewiki.org/Assassin_(song) My all time favorite band... ever! The reason I learned to play guitar and screeching like a girl when I tried to sing. This song is an alternative version to the album version on Black Holes & Revelations (2006). Truely awesome. It starts off with a simple lonely riff so electronic and basic it could be mistaken for a line out of Road Rash - hell the whole fucking song sounds like something from Road Rash, its what I like about Muse, sometimes I'll listen to a song and go, hey that sounds like a computer game I played as a kid. So why do I like this version more then the album version? Well, for pure out there pace and blistering fuckage to the face, the album version rules, but this version is the LIVE version and brings back memories of seeing them countless times, plus it has the funky middle 8. Besides Dom, (the Drummer) looks like he has so much fucking fun playing this song. Studio Recording: http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=5d0...640280d0ebd3e03 EXTRA!: Here's a little crazy video of all the crazy riffs Muse pull out during gigs - ok so its like them jamming, but there fun to go apeshit to. War is overdue

I love Redheads, and I'm not even a Ginger myself. I think I'm ill - I think it stems back to my love affair of Apirl O'Neill in TMNT, then Gillian Anderson in X-Files, then Willow in Buffy and now to present day. I wonder if there's a self help group I can find online.

I think back when each brand had their own PPVs it made sense to have separate copy titles (tag titles, and now diva title) as well as a WWE Champion and a World Champion on each brand. Now that the PPVs are shared? I don't think theirs too many titles for how their spread across the brands, just how many titles are on a PPV. OK, so people will say that people buy PPVs due to title matches, but with so many titles around doesn't it devalue them? There's two 'World Champions' in WWE, two Diva Champions, two Tag Team Champions - who's the best out of them? Are they equals? I think this goes back to me just not liking the brand split idea but treating it like the same show still (though trying not to). Its still WWE, but they have 2 people basically sharing the same spot and never really tease as to who the best champion is. Now down the line if they had Diva Champion v Diva Champion match, I could get behind that to see who the best Diva Champion was at the time - though it could be argued they'd be making one champion look weak and lessen that title with the defeat. As for the IC and US title, I don't mind those, I like them, I'm a fan of midcard titles, however, I would really like to see them distinguised from just being the World Title reserve. They don't really mean much at the moment, they're just there to be there at times - what happened to the classic feuds over the IC title ala Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels and in recent years Morrison/Hardy, or the US title, the title that helped establish MVP, Eddie G and Chris Benoit as contenders? WCW had a lot of titles too, but they were all a bit different. World Title was the for the Main Eventers, US Title was for up and comers, Cruiserweight Title was the work horse title tag titles were teaser titles. If WWE wants to have so many titles then they'll have to start distinguishing which title is which, which champion has which belt, and what it means to have a title. As at the moment, up until CM Punk got the title, you could probably interchange who had what belt and it would just be the same thing - though maybe that's more about the WWE style and presentation at the moment, then it is about the titles themselves.

Again I point to the movie thread as a good example of how people manage to talk about movies using spoiler tags and still give a good insight without blow major parts of the movie out of the water and spoiling it. I say we give it ago, create the topics, give your thoughts and ideas and whatever and if its going to spoil something use the spoiler tags, its what its there for. I don't think we'll have walls of spoiler text, and if there is, and someone doesn't want the PPV spoiled for them, they'll leave before they read on (hopefully join the discussion later and renew the interest).

They are all good ideas for posts, which begs the question, why haven't you posted a topic about them? If people start to post stuff I'm sure others will follow and take part, like with the Round Table discussions for PPVs and when Kamala did his weekly Town Hall thing (which disappeared). I think sometimes people put some of the questions like you suggested above into the megathread such as the random comments - as in essence they are a bit of a random comment. I think this is what the mod types are trying to draw a line on - what is and what isn't a random comment and what deserves their own thread.

Have people really dropped in their interest at the last hurdle?

If they get no reply they'll simply drop off the 1st page anyway, right? Most boards have admin options to auto delete posts that have no activity for x amount of days, so that shouldn't really be an issue. I think it just comes down to common sense and putting a bit of effort into what you post. If you post a one liner, then yeah, you won't get much back and it probably should go into the random comments thread. I mean look at the movie/tv section of the forum: http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showforum=12 There's endless amount of topics in there, ranging from many pages of responses to a few replies to no replies. Its easy to find a show you might want to talk about a few weeks/months after everyone else has using the search feature, and I don't believe its cluttered at all - surely its what internet forums are for? I'm not saying I think the WWE forum should have a thread for every wrestler and every tidbit of news, but to clump all in one mega thread does seem a bit pointless. Especially when you have people like Enigma who chain copy and paste news into the mega threads and then it gets lost in the mix amongst Test's third nipple and The Rock sneezed and someone thought he was coming back to wrestling. So far we have our weekly TV show threads, that get pinned to the top when they're new, which is handy. Then we have the odd post about something else, but it does look like we're not discussing much wrestling. There's times where I'll come back to the board after work, maybe not being able to check it for 12-24 hours, and it doesn't look like much has been discussed, but then you look at the mega thread and its gained 3 pages or more. Personally, I can't be bothered to fish through all of that to see if there was something decent worth responding to. Also what happened to those round table posts discussing events over the last few years and what people thought? They were pretty cool to read and something different.