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Was scrolling up to see your BOLA thoughts and bumped into this. Chris Bey made his debut on Impact a month or so ago. He's mostly looked good but they tape a few months at once and he busted his lip in his first match so he's had a droopy thing going for him the entire time. They also paired him up with Johnny Swinger, my favourite gimmick at the moment As far as I can tell, Tony Deppen's gimmick is that he's a cartoonishly angry Irish Ginger but without the Ginger and without the Irish

PWG BOLA Night 3 2nd Round Matches I'm pretty sure I had the tourney winner spoiled way back when it happened but I don't know who made the finals, so the third round will still be partially interesting 3rd Round and Final

Fire Emblem: Awakening. I restarted the game after hitting around the halfway point, getting my ass kicked and realizing where I'd slipped up in developing my party and not understanding the mechanics. Only had one marriage at the time, a few units massively overleveled, didn't use Robin all that often (holy shit), didn't train a competent healer up, too many units specializing in Lances etc etc. I'm a few missions away from where I was before, have about 6 or 7 marriages, Robin was a regular in the rotation, primary healer can use weapons and have a few secondary healers available, only a handful of characters haven't been class-promoted, a good mix of weapon types, been training secondary weapons in secondary missions. Now the difficulty I'm having is that all these cool next-generation characters are showing up from the marriages and I don't want to use any of them because they're massively under-leveled compared to my main party ? Got Xenoblade Remaster coming by the end of the week, oh boy

PWG BOLA 2019 Night 2 was probably a better wrestled show, but not as much variety. I liked what I saw of Mick Moretti, mourning the loss of Jake Atlas from the indies (especially to WWE, RIP his career, long live his wallet) and I think I hate Tony Deppen. Orange Cassidy vs David Starr is easily the best OC match I've seen and probably the best way to do OC matches realistically

We back, baby!

Been in a new york state of mind (I guess technically he could be anywhere) (I guess technically he's not anywhere anymore)

Eric Young, Drake Maverick, EC3, Guns n Gallows, Mike and Maria and Rusev via a Bulgarian Flag were all promoted on Impact's Slammiversary video with the idea that it'll be the first show after that big wave of releases that they're all available and at least some of them should be there

Sword Art Online - Ordinal Scale Expected it to be throwaway plot because anime movies tend to be, instead got Aincrad lore and events and pretty fight scenes ;_;

BOLA 2019 Night 1 This was a really good show, lot of different match styles represented so even the worst parts of it didn't feel like it dragged too much A-Kid vs Lucky Kid was probably the best match of the night, if you mix in Daniel Bryan Danielson bullshit I basically love you Caveman Ugg impressed me, Brodie King is okay (I'm familiar with him from RoH) but annoys me because he's doing lucha shit and he's way too big for anyone to really base all that well for him when he does lucha shit Dragon Lee vs Rey Horus and Mexablood vs Lucha Bros was good lucha shit and you more or less knew what to expect there Blake Christian/Tony Deppen vs Joey Janela/Alex Zayne was a bad wrestling match that had some cool spots in it Darby Allin vs Black Taurus was a weird match on paper but fun Gresham vs Artemis Spencer was shaping up to be a bad match but they got it back by the end. Spencer looked pretty green or maybe nervous Jeff Cobb vs Daisuke Sekimoto was a good wrestling match without many cool spots in it. I love Big Japan slugfests but I think they play better in front of Japanese crowds

I just found out that Ric Flair is 10 years older than Arn Anderson. What the fuck?

Fire Emblem: Awakening Chapter 13. Chrom, Sumia, Kellam Master Seal'ed, Frederick max level'ed, I think I have another Pegasus Knight approaching 20 and everyone else in my main party is hanging around level 10-13.

Ended up restarting Fire Emblem because I didn't like how my party was shaping up + understand the mechanics of it better now

I've seen a few players grumble on social media that the excuse for not having the NHL in the olympics was so that they don't get injured in non-NHL games but then they keep trying to hold the season during a pandemic. At the time I thought it was pandemic grumbling but now I'm wondering if that was olympics grumbling instead

I bet it has something to do with ad rates. They may lose money running the playoffs, but they'll probably lose less overall than if they didn't run them because they can make back some advertiser money that would otherwise probably be pulled. Also with players there's only so many shots at a Championship. If it was just the regular season, I bet they don't give a single fuck, but getting your name engraved on the cup might be worth the risk. That's the only explanation I can come up with because otherwise if you're the player's union, I'd stop that shit because my players are getting paid regardless and this doesn't potentially risk their careers.

NHL announced that for the purposes of record-keeping, the NHL regular season is now officially over. If they can figure out a way to get the playoffs going, they're going to hold them in a few hub cities. 24 teams will make the playoffs, the top four teams of each conference will play a mini-round robin against each other to determine seeding, the other 8 teams will play a traditional top seed vs bottom seed best of 5. East (City 1) Round Robin for Seeding in First Round (regular season overtime rules apply): 1. Boston Bruins 2. Tampa Bay Lightning 3. Washington Capitals 4. Philadelphia Flyers East (City 1) – Best-of-5 Qualifying Round No. 5 Pittsburgh Penguins vs. No. 12 Montreal Canadiens No. 6 Carolina Hurricanes vs. No. 11 New York Rangers No. 7 New York Islanders vs. No. 10 Florida Panthers No. 8 Toronto Maple Leafs vs. No. 9 Columbus Blue Jackets West (City 2) – Round Robin for Seeding in First Round 1. St. Louis Blues 2. Colorado Avalanche 3. Vegas Golden Knights 4. Dallas Stars West (City 2) – Best-of-5 Qualifying Round No. 5 Edmonton Oilers vs. No. 12 Chicago Blackhawks No. 6 Nashville Predators vs. No. 11 Arizona Coyotes No. 7 Vancouver Canucks vs. No. 10 Minnesota Wild No. 8 Calgary Flames vs. No. 9 Winnipeg Jets I was assuming the players union was gonna shut this shit down, but it sounds like they're on board with trying it. I have zero hope that this is going to play to fruition though. The Mexican soccer league just tried to play a season and just cancelled it because 8 of their players came down with covid. From a pure play standpoint, everyone's going to be relatively healthy and not very sharp, so this might be one of the highest quality postseasons we've seen in a long time.

Rewatched Godzilla - Planet of the Monsters It's more like an Alien movie mixed with Attack on Titan. Really good bleak set-up, a lot of sci-fi analysis shit (the 3D effect really works with this) Thing I loved best about it

Gleipnir's been up and down in quality and intrigue, but it's kinda got it back now

My Infamous 2 and Second Son Platinums are mostly gonna hinge on beating the hard modes (there was some stunt that you had to perform with all three power sets in Second Son that I was having problems with though). Infamous 1 had a stunt list where one of them was basically impossible to complete if you didn't do it in a specific story mission, which necessitated replaying the game and re-doing all the other stunts that made me and not bother with it at the time, but it's probably been long enough that I can get with it. Speaking of Lost Legacy (never played), I know I had a bunch of do-able trophies sitting there in the Uncharted games too

That trophy list is such trash, multiplayer DLC trophies destroying even decent percentages. I'm at 44% overall, 61% on the main game, 81% on Left Behind, and then three sets of multiplayer DLC at 0%. Speaking of trophy lists, after Xenoblade Remaster I might just try to Platinum Infamous Second Son and the two PS3 ones because those trophies seem do-able and they're starting to annoy me

Great coming out party for both in the ring The poison-rana on the apron should be banned outright though

This Undertaker Last Ride docu-series is really good

I wish DoN was 2 1/2 hours instead of 4 and only the major matches got the big high spots. I was tired by the end of Cody/Lance

Which is what a hole is

After finishing off Final Fantasy 7 Remake I'm mostly just gonna play a bit of Fire Emblem Awakening here and there, don't really want to start anything new because Xenoblade Remaster's out in two weeks

A tunnel isn't a tunnel without a hole at both ends