Vic Boss

1. Lost Odyssey 2. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (Hero Mode) 3. Mega Man 11 (Normal Mode) 3a. Mega Man 11 (Superhero Mode) 4. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings [Dark Mode] 4a Easy Mode/Roche Path 5 Pokemon Sun 6. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD 7. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 8. Berserk and the Band of the Hawk *Platinum Trophy) 9. God of War 1 (Platinum Trophy) 10. DuckTales Remastered 11. God of War II (Platinum Trophy) 12. God of War: Chains of Olympus (Platinum Trophy) 13. Shadow of the Colossus (Trophy Clean-up) 14. Final Fantasy XIII (Platinum Trophy) 15. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Platinum Trophy) 16. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Platinum Trophy) 17. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 18. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 19. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe 20. New Super Luigi U Deluxe 21. Kirby Star Allies 22. Super Smash Bros Ultimate 23. Luigi's Mansion 24. Link's Awakening 25. Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn 26. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon 27. Pokemon Sword 32ish hours, 201 Pokemon. I did technically beat it (including the post-game final quest). I'm not finished with it yet because I do want to collect'em all and do other things in it, but it's being relegated to the game to play while listening to podcasts and not the game I'm principally focusing on. Besides the obvious complaints that long-time fans have (THEY LEFT OUT KROOKODILE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE), it was otherwise a solid-ass Pokemon game. Catching and collecting is always fun, I fucking loved the gyms (GYMS ARE BACK) and the focus on Pokemon Battles as a competitive spectator sport. The UK-ish backgrounds were pretty as fuck. The quality-of-life additions were welcome. I think the main villain/storyline could've been more fleshed out, but it accomplished what it meant to. Team Yell was weak as fu as far as Pokemon teams are but I guess they served their purpose. Pretty good generation as far as designs go, but super-weak when it comes to the starters.

Almost 4 minutes of Jim Cornette swearing from his podcast

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Dominate? - Rhea Ripley won via cheating with interference against heel Sasha when the crowd was ready for her to straight up win clean and make her an instant star the way they want Lacey Evans to be + Roderick steals a win (that's okay, he's a heel) - Roderick had to steal a win off of someone else's finisher, doesn't win strong when most of NXT doesn't win strong over the course of the night - Roderick's entrance gets cut off before the BOOM + Adam Cole BAYBAY (BOOM) and Pete Dunne got to do their thing at least - Walter eliminated early like a fucking chump + Riddle pins RKO - Riddle pins RKO with a fluke roll-up - - - - - - - Riddle RKO'd and eliminated immediately right after - Ciampa, the top babyface of the brand, is not the last elimination of his team - Keith Lee also still loses + Shayna wins strong - In a dead match - Doesn't even kill Becky, just heel Bayley Even though they upgraded the minor league to an equal brand, it was still pussy booking to protect the "main" roster from the "minor league" roster.

Dat Eizan massacring Survivor Series

My man Vinny Mac trying to hand AEW the Wednesday Night War

E19 OH MAN

Subtract Gargano, add KO @Blackjak

190ish Pokemon, in the Champion's City now

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Takeover 1. Ripley 2. Undisputed 3. Balor 4. Dunne 5. Swerve B1. Johnny Gargano B2. Dane B3. Yes B4. Ripley B5. Johnny Gargano Survivor Series 1. Brock 2. Becky 3. TUE 4. Raw 5. NXT 6. AJ 7. Fiend 8. Cole B1. Bianca Belair, Io Shirai, Mia Yim, Candice LeRae B2. Gargano, Ciampa, Dijakovic, Riddle, Keith Lee B3. Kendo Stick B4. Bayley B5. 1 B6. 5

This is p. fun.

Do not want

Two or three albums or songs that you've been listening to lately Actually I haven't been listening to Judas, but it's pretty much just been the "Only good wrestler theme songs in AEW" collection the last little bit

Stopped in front of the fourth gym (want to wait until nightfall to get the Lemon Cream version of the Pokemon I'm evolving). 142 Pokemon caught. Team's rounded out to be Rillaboom, Toxtricity (I always read it as "Toxicity"), Malamar, Centiskorch, Bewear, and whatever Milcery will evolve into tonight. Fire-types are an issue with my team though, Bewear might get replaced at some point to cover that.

I've been using PSPrices.com lately to keep track of digital sales on console platforms. Shit's handy as fuck.

Wait, why'd they take away the GTS? o.O

They're not unrealistic expectations in that Game Freak has for the most part delivered these exact features and standards for 22 games now (not counting the five Game Boy games). Pokemon has always been like Smash Bros, kid-friendly but there's nerdy underbelly you can push your glasses up at if you want to.

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There's very few games that got people's imaginations going like the first legitimate mainline console Pokemon game, and Game Freak is not the company you expect to under-deliver up until they do. It's still Pokemon so it's still fun, but it's also still definitively the worst mainline Pokemon game for features. Pokemon Sun/Moon removed some features but kept more than it didn't, and the last game that removed Pokemon was Ruby/Sapphire in the move to the GBA, and they rectified that by re-releasing Red/Blue(Green) remakes, and the generation itself added and redefined modern Pokemon mechanics that are still used today, whereas for the most part, Sword and Shield have subtracted. Now I'm a heavy-duty fan of Diamond/Pearl so if they release those and add a lot of the Pokemon they left out, I'll probably look on this generation more favourably.

Fuckkkkkkk, Dynamite was awesome

All I really know is that we're getting Nick Jackson vs Rey Fenix on AEW and it's the go-home for NXT Takeover (I didn't watch much NXT last week so I dunno if they announced anything). Edit: Oh, we're getting reDRagon vs The Revival

1. Lost Odyssey 2. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (Hero Mode) 3. Mega Man 11 (Normal Mode) 3a. Mega Man 11 (Superhero Mode) 4. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings [Dark Mode] 4a Easy Mode/Roche Path 5 Pokemon Sun 6. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD 7. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 8. Berserk and the Band of the Hawk *Platinum Trophy) 9. God of War 1 (Platinum Trophy) 10. DuckTales Remastered 11. God of War II (Platinum Trophy) 12. God of War: Chains of Olympus (Platinum Trophy) 13. Shadow of the Colossus (Trophy Clean-up) 14. Final Fantasy XIII (Platinum Trophy) 15. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Platinum Trophy) 16. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Platinum Trophy) 17. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 18. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 19. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe 20. New Super Luigi U Deluxe 21. Kirby Star Allies 22. Super Smash Bros Ultimate 23. Luigi's Mansion 24. Link's Awakening 25. Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn 26. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon YOSHHHHHH. First Fire Emblem game I've played the full way through. I did make a few save states (there was a mission I probably spent at least an hour on and I had set it up to be beaten but I was paranoid about the power randomly going out) but the only time I ever used one was on the last level, moments before fighting the boss, just so I didn't have to waste a few extra turns positioning my army (I'd already saved just before him legit anyways). I enjoyed how the DS version of this game kind of set it up like a puzzle, each map you have to figure out the optimum way to win . Or at least early on I did. In later levels, I'd turtle using my two promoted generals (Draug and Roger) with Lena healing, Hardin/Paladin, Jeorge/Sniper and Beck/Ballista back-up while waiting for the enemy reinforcements to peter out. Except in Chapter 24, where I took Tiki from level 1 to about level 20 something by OHKO'ing Dragonkin. Got kind of annoyed by the last mission. I don't think I'd like playing any more of these games without the ability to train units at least. Permadeath wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (with in-chapter save points at least), but later chapters were super repetitive with endless waves of enemies and really only a few units being useful, I'm not sure if I'd play this or casual mode in future games.

I watch a lot, but the asterisk or caveat is that I watch nothing live. Everything is DVR'ed or VOD'ed, I skip commercials, down-time between matches, most post-match brawls, most entrances, and matches or segments that I know are going to be bad or feature a people I'm not interested in. Non-weekly Japan/Indies: New Japan: I try to watch every match of every show, and have even tried to keep up with the subtitled post-match comments. All Japan: Generally I just watch Triple Crown, Heavyweight Tag Title matches, and a handful of Heavyweight tournament matches. I try to watch other matches involving the Heavyweight Division but don't always get around to it. PWG: Usually around BOLA time I feel the need to catch up on them, but they only run like 8 shows per year and five of them are on two separate weekends, so it's never too much of a chore. AAA TV Tapings: Sometimes I'll check out the TV tapings on Twitch, only show I watch live, they generally last 3ish hours, but that includes them always starting 30 minutes late. Monday: WWE Raw: Can take as much as 2 hours if I don't skip anything, as little as 20 minutes if it's a bad show. It's been closer to two hours ever since Heyman came on board. CMLL Puebla: A CMLL B-Show in a C-building. Generally only 20-30 minutes, the main event or semi-main if the right combo of people are in it or titles are involved. Tuesday: WWE SDL: About an hour and a half max, 20 mins minimum. I've been hitting about an hour lately, still too much Elias and Shane McMahon and they are maximum skippable. WWE 205 Live: This is more an honourable mention because I maybe watch one or two matches from this show per month. It's a comatose brand that they need to pull the plug on and then transfer the talent over to UK and NXT. CMLL Nuevos Valores: Generally only 20-30 minutes again, sometimes a little more. A C-show in an A-building that's meant to feature midcarders and younger talent higher up the card than normal. Usually the worthwhile midcarders are in the semi-main or main event only. Wednesday: WWE NXT: I think I'm around 30 mins with this. I feel like the second boom period is slowly declining and my interest in it is too, but I also think they're going to have re-tool this because you can't challenge AEW with half of a developmental roster. WWE NXT UK: 20-40 mins, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. This is a show where I highly prefer some acts and then don't even bother with the rest. AEW TV (Future): I'm predicting that I'll be watching less UK and NXT because of this. Thursday: But then again, nothing's on here and nothing will be on Tuesday when the Fox switchover happens, so I might just do NXT here too. Friday: WWE Main Event: I maybe watch two or three matches per month on this (and they're usually 5-8 minute matches at most), every once in awhile there's someone I like on the Raw roster who's underutilized on this. CMLL Super Friday: Rarely the whole show, on average between an hour and an hour 20. CMLL's A show in their A building with their A effort, usually watch 3-4 of the 6 matches. Saturday: NOTHING Sunday: RoH: Probably a match or two every other week. They're down in the dumps. Impact: About an hour 20, rarely ever skip a segment. Consistent favourite week-to-week show over the last few years. 2 CMLL Shows: Thecubsfan will upload a weekend show and sometimes a Guadalajara show from the previous Tuesday about here. I treat these shows as skippable because weekends are ridiculous for wrestling, but on a quiet weekend I'll probably check out a main event or semi-main. AAA Worldwide: If I miss that specific TV taping on Twitch, I'll watch their youtube show. I'll skip some opening matches but it's such a different style from everything else that I tend to watch the whole thing. Nacion Lucha Libre: Alberto Del Rio started up a promotion to try and challenge CMLL and AAA. I usually at least keep an eye on the match lineups because guys like Bandido will show up on it. I've probably watched two matches over their first month of TV.