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Writer Cath posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohyB8V7Na_0 Thanks for posting. Love his work, and hit up his donation link right away.
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Oct 10, 2015 16:02
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MonsieurChoc posted:Well, that depends. Pretty often the movie is very different from the books, making it hard to judge which one is "better". There are also some garbage books that were turned into great movies. So it's not always the case that the book is better. I dare you to try to enjoy Jaws the book. I double dare you to try to even make it through The Towering Inferno. Especially the parts from the POV of the building.
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Oct 10, 2015 16:03
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Hell Mario Puzo's book The Godfather is a mess of subplots, and removing them was great for the film.
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Oct 10, 2015 17:06
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Barry Lyndon is a decent book, but the movie is a masterpiece.
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Oct 10, 2015 17:56
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What's the deal with Todd in the Shadows right now? He stopped updating at Channel Awesome like two months ago and now seems to be putting his videos on youtube or something?
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Oct 10, 2015 18:00
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Many people jumped off CA because the management is full of dicks and it's essentially your username.
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Oct 10, 2015 18:13
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Sinking Ship posted:What's the deal with Todd in the Shadows right now? He stopped updating at Channel Awesome like two months ago and now seems to be putting his videos on youtube or something? Do you know that blip went down?
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Oct 10, 2015 18:17
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e X posted:Do you know that blip went down? I think I heard about that at some point or other? Does that have something to do with it? watho posted:Many people jumped off CA because the management is full of dicks and it's essentially your username. I see, now I'm sort of curious what exactly happened but I imagine it's boring endless internet drama. At any rate thanks - I can stop checking CA now at least.
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Oct 10, 2015 18:36
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Is Chez Apocalypse coming back at any point? It's been down for a few weeks now, and a few of the contributors have been putting stuff out since then.
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Oct 10, 2015 18:38
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Sinking Ship posted:I think I heard about that at some point or other? Does that have something to do with it? Mostly it was just that the Channel Awesome setup no longer works best, particularly now that Patreon is a thing, so people with established fanbases are free to just leave and do their own thing without having to deal with CA's silliness. The real drama happened with Lupa. ETA: WRT Chez Apocalypse, I heard they're basically stuck waiting for Maker or whoever to pay attention to them. 
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Oct 10, 2015 18:43
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Puppy Time posted:ETA: WRT Chez Apocalypse, I heard they're basically stuck waiting for Maker or whoever to pay attention to them. Blip is dead. Long live blip.
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Oct 10, 2015 22:01
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Cyron posted:it hard to say, the history of wrestling started off as people saying it was a sport. When Vince said it was not real in the 80's the promoters from other territories was coming to the WWF shows with guns wanting to kill him. wrestling is very carny, and it kind of it charm. Honestly... do any of us really want wrestling to be real? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afr0xwde0Aw
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Oct 10, 2015 22:05
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Yes, I want Sting teaming up with Robocop to be real.
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Oct 10, 2015 22:12
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Gianthogweed posted:https://my.mixtape.moe/pvsjgv.webm Yeah, this guy is genuinely entertaining and definitely not a horrible shithead. This is what I wish GG had been rather than the misogynistic hate train it is. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Oct 10, 2015 23:29
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:Honestly... do any of us really want wrestling to be real? There was also that time where Scott Steiner actually threatened the evil doll Chucky in a promo and told him to get to the ring so he could kick his rear end. Or the time Scott Steiner had an epic war with HHH which involved an arm wrestling contest, a posedown and a push up contest that had Jim Ross the announcer try to sincerely hype up a man doing push-ups as this intimidating beast. OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Oct 10, 2015 23:31
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OldTennisCourt posted:There was also that time where Scott Steiner actually threatened the evil doll Chucky in a promo and told him to get to the ring so he could kick his rear end. It was Rick Steiner actually, but now I'm envisioning a promo-off between Brad Dourif and Scott Steiner and it's glorious. Do not even ask fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Oct 10, 2015 23:40
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Gianthogweed posted:https://my.mixtape.moe/pvsjgv.webm That guy isn't GG though... unless you mean that the detractors to the movement can make fun of them in funny and creative ways.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:57
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Once you've reached the point where you're posting music videos about the GG controversy, you're part of the GG controversy. Roll in that poop.
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Oct 11, 2015 00:13
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If you were wondering where Mattewmatosis went for the past couple of months, boy are you in for a treat.
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Do not even ask posted:It was Rick Steiner actually, but now I'm envisioning a promo-off between Brad Dourif and Scott Steiner and it's glorious. oh my god Scott Steiner and Brad Dourif recreating Exorcist 3
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Oct 11, 2015 00:57
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Mad Lupine posted:If you were wondering where Mattewmatosis went for the past couple of months, boy are you in for a treat.  Youtube lets you do that?
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OldTennisCourt posted:There was also that time where Scott Steiner actually threatened the evil doll Chucky in a promo and told him to get to the ring so he could kick his rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkzjX_GA8Qg If Scott Steiner isn't legit then I don't want to live in this world anymore Testekill fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Oct 11, 2015 02:21
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Triple H is Max Landis's favorite wrestler? That's... oddly appropriate...
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Oct 11, 2015 02:24
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Mad Lupine posted:If you were wondering where Mattewmatosis went for the past couple of months, boy are you in for a treat.  BigRed0427 posted:
I've watched enough 24-hour "He-Man sings What's Going On" marathon videos to know that yes, yes it does
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Oct 11, 2015 02:32
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Professional wrestling is "fake" in the sense that it's scripted and matches are typically planned out, but all the bumps people take are real. Hulk Hogan's had to have like 3 spinal fusion surgeries because leg dropping people took a toll on his body. Mick Foley can't even tie his own shoes anymore because he can't bend down far enough, due to all the insane injuries he's gotten over the years. New Jack's been blind in his right eye since like 2000 because he fell 20 feet headfirst onto concrete in a botched spot- I'm not sure if you can see it in the PPV where it happens (I'm frankly scared to look) but he was reportedly leaking loving brain fluid out of his nose afterwards. I have an immense amount of respect for professional wrestlers, because they're expected to be both good actors and good athletes at the same time, and that's a hell of a tall order for anybody.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Professional wrestling is "fake" in the sense that it's scripted and matches are typically planned out, but all the bumps people take are real. Hulk Hogan's had to have like 3 spinal fusion surgeries because leg dropping people took a toll on his body. Mick Foley can't even tie his own shoes anymore because he can't bend down far enough, due to all the insane injuries he's gotten over the years. New Jack's been blind in his right eye since like 2000 because he fell 20 feet headfirst onto concrete in a botched spot- I'm not sure if you can see it in the PPV where it happens (I'm frankly scared to look) but he was reportedly leaking loving brain fluid out of his nose afterwards. Also if I recall that New Jack thing right, he beat the absolute poo poo out of the dude who hosed up the spot for real the next time he saw him. Wrestling is a really interesting subject as well from a backstage perspective, like The Death of WCW is a legitimately great book to read even if you'd give a gently caress about wrestling and just wanna read about a company that was run by total morons. This is also typified by the Bash in the Beach 2000 WCW show that ended with the head writer making the boneheaded decision to get into the middle of the ring and call Hulk Hogan a 'bald son of a bitch' on live PPV, pissing him off so bad he sued the company and quit which hosed up the main storyline for the company for the next year. OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Oct 11, 2015 04:24
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Don't forget the mass transit incident where new jack just cut deep this kids forehead like a stuck pig.
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Oct 11, 2015 04:31
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New Jack has deliberately killed multiple people. That's not even a rumour, it's something he's upfront about. It's happened during his work as a bounty hunter, making his homicides legally justified, at least if Beyond the Mat is anything to go by.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Also if I recall that New Jack thing right, he beat the absolute poo poo out of the dude who hosed up the spot for real the next time he saw him. New Jack's been known to stab dudes in the ring for loving up. There was that old guy who No-Sold him too. New Jack legitimately attacked him with a baseball bat of memory serves. That, and to be honest, Vince Russo (the head writer in question) is a fascinating guy. A sleazy Brooklyn stereotype who doesn't actually like wrestling, yet somehow led professional wrestling back into the mainstream. He then proceeded to spend the next 15 years crashing and burning. To the point where people still debate how that boom period happened, with WWE producing their official narrative of what actually happened. Hell, there's even a conspiracy theory about Russo being a WWF agent sent to destroy WCW from the inside. Hulk Hogan too for that matter. Dude's a pathological liar who more or less lied about committing murder just to make Wrestlemania III sound more impressive. Although, Russo is technically an Internet critic, so talking about him is still technically on topic.
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Oct 11, 2015 05:46
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Don't Get In The Ring With New Jack
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Oct 11, 2015 06:24
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Don't Get In The Ring With New Jack Yeah, this dude is just scum. The Mass Transit incident is just disgusting. CaligulaKangaroo posted:That, and to be honest, Vince Russo (the head writer in question) is a fascinating guy. A sleazy Brooklyn stereotype who doesn't actually like wrestling, yet somehow led professional wrestling back into the mainstream. He then proceeded to spend the next 15 years crashing and burning. To the point where people still debate how that boom period happened, with WWE producing their official narrative of what actually happened. Hell, there's even a conspiracy theory about Russo being a WWF agent sent to destroy WCW from the inside. To say Russo led WWF into the Attitude era and the boom period is so ludicrous it's laughable. The last 15+ years have proven that there was more to it than that.
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Oct 11, 2015 06:50
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New Jack beat the poo poo out of a concession guy at a show for offering him a sprite because they were out of mountain dew (it might be a different soda)
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Oct 11, 2015 06:58
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OldTennisCourt posted:Also if I recall that New Jack thing right, he beat the absolute poo poo out of the dude who hosed up the spot for real the next time he saw him. I can confirm this is true, because that was me when I read it.
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Oct 11, 2015 07:08
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The only thing I know about New Jack is that someone watched Grunge leg-drop him through a press table.
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:That, and to be honest, Vince Russo (the head writer in question) is a fascinating guy. A sleazy Brooklyn stereotype who doesn't actually like wrestling, yet somehow led professional wrestling back into the mainstream. He then proceeded to spend the next 15 years crashing and burning. To the point where people still debate how that boom period happened, with WWE producing their official narrative of what actually happened. Hell, there's even a conspiracy theory about Russo being a WWF agent sent to destroy WCW from the inside. There could be some merit to that, considering Hulk Hogan's run in WCW. Sure the NWO was hot and all, but there was a lot of crap there. Uproxx's pro-wrestling section has a recap of Monday Nitro starting from the first episode, and it's hard not to see where all the problems WCW had sprouted from.
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The only thing I know about Vince Russo is that he wrote for TNA and those were some godawful shows that made no sense on a fundamental level.
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Tae posted:The only thing I know about Vince Russo is that he wrote for TNA and those were some godawful shows that made no sense on a fundamental level. Vince Russo is so bad that one of Spike TV's biggest contract sticking points for TNA when they were on their network was to NEVER be associated with him. Then TNA hilariously got outed working with him as a writer when he accidentally e-mailed story ideas to the wrong person and Spike dropped them like a bad habit. TNA is another company that deserves a book on how fundamentally insane they are but here's a good overview: http://taimapedia.org/index.php?title=LOLTNA_History
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This wrestling derail is worse than all the other ones because it actually makes me want to start reading and watching all the backstage drama and possibly even actual wrestling. It just sounds like such a convoluted, drama-riddled trainwreck spanning decades and involving dozens of people and millions of dollars, which is my favourite kind of trainwreck.Mad Lupine posted:If you were wondering where Mattewmatosis went for the past couple of months, boy are you in for a treat. ... but I guess I could do this instead. It's not like I'm supposed to be spending Thanksgiving with my family or anything.
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