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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.

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)