Vic Boss

In an AEW world Non-weekly Japan/Indies: New Japan: Still watching everything, including most of the backstage comments All Japan: Still watching important Heavyweight and Heavyweight Tag matches only PWG: Slackin a bit, probs should do this on weeks when Japanese tours are off AAA TV Tapings: Also stopped doing this, but might check it out again now that Rush is on one of their big shows (but I'll see it on their Sunday shows anyways) Monday: WWE Raw: I fast-forward through probably 95% of it. Main-roster WWE has a way of making me not care about pretty anyone, so it takes a weird match-up or an interesting looking promo to get me to stop and pay attention. CMLL Puebla: Haven't been watching as much as I probably should, usually just the main events and/or title matches these days. CMLL losing Rush (and therefore the Los Ingobernables), Dragon Lee and Atlantis winding down has left their main event scene heel-heavy and a bit drained, and they rebuild slow. Tuesday: CMLL Nuevos Valores: Same as Puebla, haven't been watching as much as I probably want to, mostly just main events/title matches. I'm more likely to check out other matches on this because at least it's Arena Mexico NWA Powerrr: I usually watch all of this. Their roster isn't very good but the matches don't last long enough to expose that anyways, and I think Studio Wrestling crowds might be the best for cutting promos, there's an interplay between wrestler and crowd that you don't really get even on indie shows. AEW Darrrk: I'm more likely to skip these matches because the lower end of AEW's roster are not very good and the matches can get way too sloppy. Wednesday: WWE NXT: High Quality but I also find this show really skippable. Sometimes I watch all of it, sometimes I only watch a few matches. The week-to-week storylines don't matter tooooo much since the booking is so simplistic that you cant basically catch up on everything in Takoever packages. I think this also has the wrong combination of corporate PC/PG-ness and looking low-budget for a WWE product. AEW really exposes them on both fronts, watching Dynamite first really hurts my enjoyment of NXT and I tend to not want to put off watching AEW if I can help it. I really miss this being a 1 hour show too. AEW Dynamite: This is the show to watch for me. Production-values, brightness, characters, promos. They tightened up on a lot of the indie-ness and lack of rules last week, which I think is their biggest weakness, so here's hoping it gets even better. Thursday: WWE NXT UK: Super-skippable unless certain guys are on it (Imperium, British Strong Style, Zack Gibson, Wild Boar, and I think might be forgetting someone) Friday: WWE Smackdown: Like Raw but even less likely to watch it now. Weekends are so wrestling-heavy that I hate starting it off with a WWE main-roster product where I don't care about most of it, so I tend to not. WWE 205 Live: Shit's dead to me but if they're in Full Sail again then maybe I should give a look. CMLL Super Friday: I watch more of this than the other CMLL shows, but I do skip more of this than I probably should. Saturday: NOTHING Sunday: RoH: Rush matches, maybe Marty Scurll or PCO matches. There's only one or two full matches at most on RoH every week, this promotion should probably just die at this point. Impact: Rarely ever skip a segment, still the best non-Japanese show at recycling their roster and building new stars from scratch. 2 CMLL Shows: Mostly only title matches or rare singles matches, weekends can be so full of wrestling that this and RoH are the sacrifices if something else is on. AAA Worldwide: I mostly just watch this instead of their TV tapings now, usually the full show but once in awhile I'll skip an opener.

Digging this year's World Tag League so far. All 16 teams are in the same block so very show is 7 tournament matches and then a Wrestle Kingdom main event build-up match. It's a skippable tour regardless, but I like that least almost every match on almost every card matters for something.

Just beat the first gym, have 60 someodd Pokies on my Dex I guess this is the upside. Makes it easy to train lower-level Pokemon that you wouldn't otherwise play with during the game because your main team is too overleveled

Movie's probably extremely rewatchable for me too. The unreliable narrator and all the body-language shit (he walks with a limp and his head down, which we're supposed to believe came from his injuries at the beginning of the movie, but when he becomes a clown, all of that disappears, implying that most of what he does as Arthur is also an act. Shit like that)

Grookey. I had to look up the final evolutions and that's only one that was half-decent looking.

Welp, guess I am playing it The Wild Area's kind of fun and kind of aggravating at the time same time. The rest is more of the same. Love that gyms are back, kinda like the Dynamax Raids, the fucking faux-English countryside is beautiful <3 I'll probably try to complete the Pokedex (but not keep everything in the case of Legendaries) so if anyone wants to trade for shit when they get to the post-game, let me know

Two or three songs or albums you've been digging lately

My thoughts exactly Dat Chrome

Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn. I only have a few stages (and their medals and collectables) and apartment missions left, already 100%ed the Dedede and Meta Knight mini-games. Not gonna bother with Devilish Mode, that's too much aggravation for a Kirby game even if it will leave the collectables out. Also hopped on Smash Bros Ultimate quickly to collect the Fatal Fury/KoF Spirits and try out Terry. Still in Chapter 2 in Dragon Quest IV. I liked this about DQ9 as well, DQ games feel kind of like an anime does, each new town or area gives you a monster-of-the-week to fight and heroically save the day, all while a long-term evil is lurking somewhere. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is probably going to be next. I've never played a Fire Emblem game fully, just the Awakening Demo on 3DS and I emulated the GBA game a bit once. I did buy the virtual console version, so I am gonna stick through playing it this time.

I think the controversy was that it made the incel killer potentially sympathetic, and normies think that stuff like this can inspire incels to copycat. Mebs some of it about gun violence, but I dunno about that one, there's like 800 movies that feature that released every year.

(It was 10/10 great btw)

Smash Bros Ultimate, beating New Game Plus on World of Light Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon on Virtual Console. First Fire Emblem game I've played. I'm thankful for being able to soft-reset and for save points (I haven't used emulator restore points at all), it makes the game feel a lot like a puzzle game, figuring out how to solve each map. I think I'm somewhere around Chapter 17, starting to worry that I haven't saved enough G to properly equip my army in later levels, and also somewhat worrying that I haven't been leveling up my individual units enough. I've mostly been focusing on Knights, Cavalry/Paladins, Pegasus Knights and a single Sniper and Cleric. Dragon Quest IV. Think I'm approaching the end of Chapter 2.

I think NXT still mostly suffers from the same problems it has since Ryan Ward left the creative team/Dusty passed away before the Gargano era started: the week-to-week show is high quality, but skippable.

Man, Dynamite was so great this week

WALTER murdering fools on Raw

I saw people say things on the internet (so it must be true) that Game Freak's passion project that the A development team is on is Little Town Hero, and the B Team is on Pokemon Sword and Shield just treating it like a job. I'm generally fine with things like Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves and generation-specific traits or features not being in the game, and maybe even region-specific forms, but every version or generation should come with eventual access to all Pokemon and/or backwards compatibility with the previous generation somehow. Tbh I bet they were taught this by Sun/Moon. Sun/Moon didn't have the National Dex, you couldn't trade with X/Y even though it was the same platform and you had to pay for the Pokebank instead. They'll probs make you pay for DLC Pokemon packs the same way you do fighting game characters, or a National Dex or something.

Pokemon Gun Pokemon Axe Pokemon Fist Pokemon Pen

I'ma sit this one out (acks gonna watch the anime so not totally) until either a) Third version or b) Confirmation that there is no third version

I think it's the pre-show. Only match that was on it was Bea Priestly vs Britt Baker (with the flu).

Link-kun Fuckkkkk, there's a lot happening. Without even reading anything, I've already got: - Pokemon (As always) - One Piece (As always) - Black Clover (Assuming it is continuing) - Vinland Saga - Dr Stone - My Hero Academia Season 4 - SAO Alicization Season 2 - War of Underworld - Psycho-Pass Season 3 (Been simul'ing S1 and 2) - High Score Girl Season 2 <3 (For real this anime is good shit, I barely ever played arcades and just fucking loved this deep dive into the Japanese arcade history) - Enen no Shouboutai/Fire Force (I might drop this one)

Rush and Dragon Lee joined AAA. Dragon Lee definitely has an avenue to AEW now.

2 or 3 songs of albums you've been listening to the last week.

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 23:46, 88%. I missed some pieces of Fabric somewhere and only did about 5 or 6 Devilish Mode levels before deciding not to do the rest. Definitely the best version of the game. It got flack back in the day for not allowing you to die but the challenge is more in not getting hit and losing your beads. Devilish Mode added death and an enemy who pops up and dogs you throughout the level, so that little bit that was missing from it is now here (I didn't do it because in order to collect everything, you have to beat every level without getting hit in this mode, Kirby in some ways and the UFO transformation in particular don't control well enough to bother with that). I ended up really liking the Dedede and Meta Knight Mini-games and kinda wished they included more levels in both. The space-shooter levels reminded me that I'm getting old as my hands start to hurt if I have to rapidly tap buttons (especially such a small device). There's a lot more in this game than I remember there being, cute and good music and a good-ass game but not really a great-ass game. It does make me look forward to playing Yoshi's Woolly World and Crafted World, which I do plan to do in the near future. Fire Emblem next, though.

MJF was on colour commentary on AEW Dark this week. I like how he's basically Young Jim Cornette and hating all the things Cornette does just because he knows it'll get him heat with that crowd. Also JESUS CHRIST as the end