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Xenoletum posted:The free network was only meant for new subscribers. They've blatantly said this numerous times. You made the choice to purchase all 6 months at once, you get six months of service. This is how things work. You don't buy a year of PSN/Xbox Live and then yell at Microsoft because you only used 2 months of it, do you?
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Astro7x posted:I'm not a fan of Wrestlemania matches that are clearly a way to get everyone on the card so they get a WM payday. I kind of agree with you as far as match quality goes but for some of these people this is the only real PPV payoff they'll get all year and I'd hate to see that taken away.
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Nov 18, 2014 19:37
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So are Canadians who don't have cable just kind of hosed, or did I miss something?
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Nov 18, 2014 19:44
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I really like the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royale and I generally hate battle royales. It was good pacing, told a fun story, and getting to see Cesaro win the way he did was great. It's a shame what happened afterward, but that's really the fault of Vince McMahon's ADHD and doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the match at the time. The Divas Invitational, on the other hand, was complete garbage. Baby Babbeh fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Nov 18, 2014 20:07
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revtoiletduck posted:So are Canadians who don't have cable just kind of hosed, or did I miss something? Nope, we're hosed unless you want to use a VPN to get the US Network.
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Nov 18, 2014 20:11
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Xenoletum posted:The free network was only meant for new subscribers. They've blatantly said this numerous times. You made the choice to purchase all 6 months at once, you get six months of service. This is how things work. You don't buy a year of PSN/Xbox Live and then yell at Microsoft because you only used 2 months of it, do you? It's totally not the same thing though, he has a point... he's stupid for prepaying for the entire 6 months up front, but it's not his fault for not knowing they were going to go month-to-month so quickly within the first year, and be retroactive for existing subscriptions. You should be abel to get a credit card statement credit for remaining months. And for those complaining about not getting November free, sorry, but that's sort of what happens when you are an early adopter. These services typically give you one free trial, and they've already offered a couple of them so far. You certainly don't think that you can keep canceling and resubscribing to Netflix and get a 2 week free trial each time, right?
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Nov 18, 2014 20:13
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triplexpac posted:Nope, we're hosed unless you want to use a VPN to get the US Network. I'd be open to that if it works. I already use one with Netflix and NHL Gamecenter.
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revtoiletduck posted:I'd be open to that if it works. I already use one with Netflix and NHL Gamecenter. It does for many of us  goons! Give it a try this month while it's HASHTAG FreeFreeFree.
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Nov 18, 2014 20:16
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revtoiletduck posted:I'd be open to that if it works. I already use one with Netflix and NHL Gamecenter. Yeah it totally works, I've been using Unblock US with the Network since it started.
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I'm sort of in the same boat, in that I bought the network out of the gate. I'm still not very upset — the Network has mostly met my expectations for wrestling content, and at the price it's still a terrific bargain for me. That being said, if you think that the WWE hasn't handled this in pretty much the worst way possible when it comes to its most loyal fans, I don't know what to tell you. This launch was botched on almost every level, and the desperation plays they're making now to get their subscriber numbers alienate the existing subscribers. It broadcasts a pretty clear message that once you subscribe WWE is done thinking about you, which, honestly, is exactly the wrong sort of strategy for something that is billed month-to-month. Between that and the continued sluggish pace of new content being added, I wouldn't be surprised if they saw a lot of cancellations once the lock-up period is done.
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Nov 18, 2014 20:31
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Astro7x posted:It's totally not the same thing though, he has a point... he's stupid for prepaying for the entire 6 months up front, but it's not his fault for not knowing they were going to go month-to-month so quickly within the first year, and be retroactive for existing subscriptions. You should be abel to get a credit card statement credit for remaining months. I actually did that with netflix for like a year.
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triplexpac posted:Yeah it totally works, I've been using Unblock US with the Network since it started. I'm not Canadian, but I use Hola with mlb.tv, BBC, and ITV, and it works fine and has the advantage of being totally free.
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Thauros posted:I'm not Canadian, but I use Hola with mlb.tv, BBC, and ITV, and it works fine and has the advantage of being totally free. I use Hola and pay the five bucks for it. The premium service seems to play nicer with the Network for me.
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triplexpac posted:Yeah it totally works, I've been using Unblock US with the Network since it started. Excellent. Unblock US is what I already use. I take you sign up using a US address and pay with paypal?
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Nov 18, 2014 20:44
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Nov 18, 2014 20:55
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Also resume feature.
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sportsgenius86 posted:the watchlist feature is now available via computer for the Network YES. Daniel Bryan posted:Also resume feature. DOUBLE YES.
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Daniel Bryan posted:Also resume feature. loving finally.
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I'm glad the real network is finally launching after we paid to beta test it for them for nine months.
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triplexpac posted:Nope, we're hosed unless you want to use a VPN to get the US Network. I really need to stop procrastinating and figure out this VPN bullshit. Canada isn't likely to get any less lovely about these things with Rogers/Shaw/Bell/Telus running everything.
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BGrifter posted:I really need to stop procrastinating and figure out this VPN bullshit. Canada isn't likely to get any less lovely about these things with Rogers/Shaw/Bell/Telus running everything. There are free alternatives that have been mentioned (like Hola) but personally I've had no problems with Unblock US. I like Unblock because you set it at the router level, so it works with any device on your wifi. Phones, laptops, tablets, whatever, it will all work and show whatever region's Netflix you want.
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OldTennisCourt posted:From watching Judgment Day 2000 to Fully Loaded 2000 I totally forgot how long T and A was a tag team, also how loving over Lita was. I also must have blocked out the sheer amount of male on female violence The worst is the face male on heel female violence, with the crowd & announcers cheering them on
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triplexpac posted:The worst is the face male on heel female violence, with the crowd & announcers cheering them on JR's seething hatred of heel females comes very close to eclipsing King in his worst moments. I mean in the 3 PPVs I've seen so far I've seen: Dudley's being cheered as heroes for smashing a woman through a table, Jericho forcibly kissing Stephanie and getting a huge pop, Bubba Ray nearly shoving his tongue all over a woman's face, JR using the term jezebel like 600 times and just straight up calling Trish a bitch, Albert throwing Lita around and Undertaker getting a mega pop for nearly chokeslamming Stephanie. Holy poo poo WWF.
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The Attitude Era was a dark time for gender issues in wrestling. But you could argue that at least the women who could wrestle were allowed to do so.
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Maybe I'm weird, but within the context of wrestling it doesn't bother me too much. In more realistic settings, seeing a guy hit his girlfriend is pretty uncomfortable, but wrestling is fake enough that seeing Stephanie Mcmahon take a rock bottom or something doesn't bug me. The Two-Man Power Trip beating Lita with a chair may have been pushing it. I could do without some of the poo poo the commentators say, though.
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triplexpac posted:I guess my thinking is that whatever 1 v 1 lower midcard match they throw in there instead of a battle royal won't be very good. So I'd rather it be some kind of multi-man affair than yet another midcard 1 on 1 match in a 4 hour show. They could do something novel like pay the people guaranteed money and not this dumb carny system that requires ten guys to show up to do one bump apiece or otherwise "Oh well I guess we can't pay you."
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:They could do something novel like pay the people guaranteed money and not this dumb carny system that requires ten guys to show up to do one bump apiece or otherwise "Oh well I guess we can't pay you." I wasn't really speaking to how WWE divides the Mania paydays, I was just saying that having a random multi-man match makes the card pacing better for me, since the rest is pretty much 1v1 matches.
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triplexpac posted:I wasn't really speaking to how WWE divides the Mania paydays, I was just saying that having a random multi-man match makes the card pacing better for me, since the rest is pretty much 1v1 matches. Did you see Wrestlemania 2000? It's all multi-man matches.
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projecthalaxy posted:Did you see Wrestlemania 2000? It's all multi-man matches. It's also a really bad show
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OldTennisCourt posted:It's also a really bad show It has two good matches slathered in what feels like 37 hours of nut-stompingly bad wrestling and booking.
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Red posted:It has two good matches slathered in what feels like 37 hours of nut-stompingly bad wrestling and booking. The hardcore match being completely hosed up and then Hardcore subsequently calling Cole a shithead on air with JR calling him a "classless individual" are also funny as gently caress but not in a good way.
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triplexpac posted:There are free alternatives that have been mentioned (like Hola) but personally I've had no problems with Unblock US. I like Unblock because you set it at the router level, so it works with any device on your wifi. Phones, laptops, tablets, whatever, it will all work and show whatever region's Netflix you want. Yeah that looks pretty simple and it's nice you can do it at the router level, being able to use my Apple TV for the network/American Netflix is very appealing. I think I read they're unbundling HBO Go from a cable subscription in the states too, would be fantastic if I could buy that outright. Thanks for the suggestion!
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OldTennisCourt posted:The hardcore match being completely hosed up and then Hardcore subsequently calling Cole a shithead on air with JR calling him a "classless individual" are also funny as gently caress but not in a good way. Other than the TLC, Wrestlemania 16 is a pretty good episode of Raw. Then Backlash finally had the Wrestlemania 16 main event.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Other than the TLC, Wrestlemania 16 is a pretty good episode of Raw. Then Backlash finally had the Wrestlemania 16 main event. Judgment Day was pretty great too. Then King of the Ring was worse than Wrestlemania 2000 by having the most obvious King of the Ring winner ever and a...Hardcore Evening Gown Match. My only comments for Fully Loaded 2000 so far is it has possibly the worst Titantron setup. Who the gently caress thought flashing the card for two matches for the entire show on huge screens next to the main screen was a good idea?
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The year 2000 had a lot of really good WWF PPVs. Odd that the flagship show was so lackluster.
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Wrestlemania 2000 was the first wrestlemania season I experienced as a new WWF fan. I got into wrestling in 1996 when my brother showed me Nitro and watched Saturday Night with my grandma, but never got into WWF until 2000 for some reason. Though I do remember my brother showing me Undertaker and Kane breaking Vince's leg. In late '99, Wrestlemania 2000 came out and I rented it. I loved it. For Christmas, I got the "Best of Raw Volume 1" VHS. Those two things made me want to watch the show. So I came in when Mankind was basically playing top babyface. WWF LiveWire was a recap show on Saturday mornings on USA, and I'd try to catch it at least once a week to stay on top of things, and I'd watch Raw when I could. With Foley playing top face, I so badly wanted him to beat that piece of poo poo Triple H. He kept failing. Then he lost his retirement match and I almost gave up on wrestling. The Rock was cool, but he didn't have the great matches Foley had. When Linda came back and added Foley to the Mania match, I was beyond hyped. I couldn't buy the PPV because my parents wouldn't let me, but I did wait excitedly for the next Raw when surely Mick Foley would rise above it all and finally beat that dastardly Triple H and claim the title that was rightfully his. I didn't have the internet to check who won and none of my friends were watching at the time. What I'm saying is Wrestlemania 2000 sucked. But The Rock became the coolest thing ever afterward.
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Baby Babbeh posted:The Attitude Era was a dark time for gender issues in wrestling. But you could argue that at least the women who could wrestle were allowed to do so. There were pretty much zero women who could wrestle during the Attitude era. The women who could (or sort of could) came after except for Lita who sort of could.
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Both the Watchlist and the Resume functions work beautifully. It's neat that you seem to be able to add a whole series (I guess like all of Countdown or all of Nitro) to your list at once, but I haven't tried that part yet.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Both the Watchlist and the Resume functions work beautifully. It's neat that you seem to be able to add a whole series (I guess like all of Countdown or all of Nitro) to your list at once, but I haven't tried that part yet. Yeah, if you add the whole series of Nitro and Hardcore TV, then the Watchlist menu just pops up a link to each of them. It's just like browsing the Network normally, but with the list cut down to what interests you. You can go in and search by year, but it doesn't seem to do any sort of "play next" feature...
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