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STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Yeah, half of all college sophomores who have read a couple of political books for the first time and now think they've figured out the world like no one before them is a "libertarian" for a minute.

Unless they're a "young republican"... and then run away.

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njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


This rule also applies to people who read one Richard Dawkins book on atheism and think they're master theologians.

fatherofmustard
May 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/RantsWrestle/status/1246127710264573955

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Jesus some people just can't see women without needing to gently caress them

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
Part of me just goes "why the gently caress would you want your wrestling to be lovely softcore porn when actual porn made by professionals is more easily accessible than ever?"

But then I realize it's just people begging companies to make them feel like they were when they were teenagers before their lives loving tanked.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Nyla Rose becomes first women's wrestling champion to have short fiction published in Playboy.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Playboy doesn't even do nudes anymore. If you're really that desperate to crank it to lady wrestlers then Instagram is right there buddy.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

MassRafTer posted:

Nyla Rose becomes first women's wrestling champion to have short fiction published in Playboy.

:hellyeah:

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Venomous posted:

anarcho-capitalists, aka the Paedophile Normalisation Front

Val Venus sells by screaming "you're breaking the NAP"

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

Benne posted:

Playboy doesn't even do nudes anymore. If you're really that desperate to crank it to lady wrestlers then Instagram is right there buddy.

Isn't Pornhub completely free right now, too?

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

y'all not acting like onlyfans is where the real action is.

oh Tony Deppen's twitter. zowie

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Benne posted:

Playboy doesn't even do nudes anymore

They don't do anything anymore

quote:

In March 2020, Ben Kohn, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, announced that the Spring 2020 issue would be the last regularly scheduled printed issue and that the magazine would now publish its content online.[18] The decision to close the print edition was attributed in part to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic which interfered with distribution of the magazine.[18]

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!


its funny that they are blaming the coronavirus, they were doomed long before that

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


There's a whole lot of businesses who were inevitably going under who've used the virus as a convenient cover to finally give up, it's quite entertaining.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
I said that the internet would be the death of print media but not like this

Not like this... :negative:

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

there is always the forest

Trying
Sep 26, 2019

MassRafTer posted:

Nyla Rose becomes first women's wrestling champion to have short fiction published in Playboy.

I feel that Nyla, Cody and both Tonys have probably written erotic fan fictions.

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


Orange Cassidy has an erotic novel, called Lorem Ipsum

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Sammy Guevara has an 80,000 word fic about himself.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Lamuella posted:

Sammy Guevara has an 80,000 word fic about himself.

Please don't doxx my FanFiction.net account

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

njsykora posted:

There's a whole lot of businesses who were inevitably going under who've used the virus as a convenient cover to finally give up, it's quite entertaining.

I remember in like 2003 seeing businesses STILL going,"Well we didn't hit our profit goal this year, obviously because of 9/11" and people would be going,":hmmyes:" even though they were like paperclip supply companies or something.

fatherofmustard
May 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/GeneralKenobi32/status/1246486234496667649

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Truly the problem with WWE is too much empowerment of their women.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012


I don't know what the worst part of this is, thinking the problem with modern WWE is too many women's matches or thinking Mania 29 is better than 30

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



5 matches is not half of 18 matches

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





A Wrestlemania sized rant for Wrestlemania weekend.

reddit user (deleted) posted:

Anyone who talks about "WORKRATE", "selling", "psychology" etc but clearly have no clue what they're talking about - so 90% of related posts on here -!should be banned.

Douchebags lying and saying a whole bunch of second hand info that doesn't make sense in the context people here use doesn't make sense and is therefore detrimental to discussions.

Or if you want to talk about those things - ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THEM. Go back and look at that Bucks/Page & Omega "best match in US History" Meltzer, WOR, 2020) and you can clearly see people on here have zero clue at all.

People pointed out how it lacked psychology, selling and was just like every single other Bucks Match.

The geniuses here argued against that because Page done Omega's finisher? And they'd explain the storyline instead of the story. Were completely clueless about what Psychology is. "it's about making it make sense" - exactly, yet half of the match didn't. I'd ask about Matt Jackson selling his back then suddenly stop to hit all his MOVEZ~! So what's the point of him getting his back hurt if it doesn't hamper his abilities? How does getting your back attacked for half an hour then it suddenly not matter enough to hit every move and even consecutive multiple northern lights with 0 issue, other than "stumbling a bit on the last one".

And that's just one small example of the lack of psychology and selling from one dude during one spot. I'm not going to get into the rest or the match, it'd take all day.

But the point remains. That's one example of this place's sheer ignorance on what is actually entailed in Wrestling. The people here just spout random lies and bullshit like they're insiders despite what they're saying being total horseshit.

This wastes discussions because ignorant people spread stupidity and we're left in most threads with the majority being ignorant neckbeards who post trash and think it makes sense. The volume of uninformed ignorant neckbeards spouting lies infects newer fans and turns them into one of those things.

Ban everyone who incorrectly uses insider words and phrases, they've been told by so many people, including Wrestlers, that they're full of poo poo - but refuse to acknowledge their idiocy.

Banning people will Smarten people up. Either know what you're talking about or you're banned.

This goes the sane for all the people pretending to be Doctors, Lawyers, TV Executives etc you're not, and you know you're not. Pretending to be one and acting like you know what you're talking about because you have a sad empty life doesn't help anyone. It only breeds ignorance and those people should be banned.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Do the people who complain about hE sToPpED sElLiNg not know that, like, adrenaline is a thing

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





Benne posted:

Do the people who complain about hE sToPpED sElLiNg not know that, like, adrenaline is a thing

Psychology is when you sell a body part and the more you sell a body part the more psycologyier it is.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
I imagine these people watching an MMA fight and acting aghast that the guy who escaped a kneebar is up and walking again instead of pretending that his leg got shot off

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money

reddit mark posted:

People that are complaining about Wrestlemania being in front of no crowd and it being ruined need to remember one thing

It's incredibly lucky that we are even getting a Wrestlemania due to what is currently happening in the world. The fact they are choosing to go forward to entertain us deserves respect and not ridicule.

And honestly, there are a lot worse things that this virus has done than "ruin" Wrestlemania.

So just sit back, relax and escape tonight into the crazy world of WWE for a few hours, forget the reality and enjoy the fiction just for a few hours.

same reddit mark posted:

Can't cancel everything or people will have nothing to do, leading to higher suicide rates.

Takuan
May 6, 2007

Dimebags Brain posted:

Psychology is when you sell a body part and the more you sell a body part the more psycologyier it is.

Limb work is the only valid form of wrestling psychology. Watch this match from 1976 that has 45 minutes of working the arm then ends in a double-count out if you want to see true pro wrestling.

IceAgeComing
Jan 29, 2013

pretty fucking embarrassing to watch

Low Desert Punk posted:

[dumb Mania rants]

The thing with this is that its not really escapism is it?

Like I've watched a lot of empty arena wrestling recently (some of the WWE stuff just to see how they handled it; AEW, NOAH, DDT, Stardom, Ice Ribbon, TJPW, Gatoh Move, Hard Hit etc; basically everything but Dragon Gate and the GCW shows, the first I just never got to) and with very few exceptions the lack of a crowd was a reminder that other stuff was going on in the world and it didn't really work as an escape. The promotions that worked the best were probably Ice Ribbon and Gatoh Move: they ran familiar buildings that were small (the Ice Ribbon dojo and Ichigaya chocolate square) and which don't have large crowds to begin with; they had people out there making noise that filled the room; they worked the matches specifically to cater for the empty arena format and with those I could forget that there wasn't a crowd and that it was new. But for everything else - like that NOAH Korakuen show which was great and had one of the matches of the year on it - there was a gaping hole there which just acted as a reminder that we are not in normal times and while I can deal with that personally it certainly didn't act as an escape.

WWE though are bad at handling it generally: the shows format stinks anyway and they didn't change anything up; the matches are still worked assuming that there's an audience there which, well, there wasn't and its just so apparent that there's something missing there.

Takuan posted:

Limb work is the only valid form of wrestling psychology. Watch this match from 1976 that has 45 minutes of working the arm then ends in a double-count out if you want to see true pro wrestling.

I'll not take this slander of 1976 All Japan Pro Wrestling; that poo poo is great

ShootaBoy
Jan 6, 2010

Anime is Bad.
Except for Pokemon, Valkyria Chronicles and 100% OJ.

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





In so much that America is a Hell Country that I desperately want to die, yes.

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Oct 30, 2009

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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





I mean, I wasn't too keen on the Bucks vs. Omega/Page match either because it was largely spectacle for the sake of spectacle, but (a) there are a lot of people on this forum who like that and I don't want to poo poo on peoples' parades by saying that everyone else is wrong when they're not, because everyone's tastes in art are subjective (b) the guy in that reddit post sounds like a fuckin whiny nerd who deserves a wedgie

Venomous fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Apr 5, 2020

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Crapple! posted:

His issue is that people's movements are being monitored via their cellphones to see if the stay at home order is being abided by. He doesn't disagree with the stay at home order itself

Nah, Kane dumb

Gaz-L
Jan 28, 2009
Yeah, dude is a massive dweeb, but... he's not wrong that we're at a point where Matt Jackson selling the back is less psychology and more a filler spot. It used to at least stop them hitting the Meltzer or More Bang, or make it easier to get out of the Scorpion deathlock, but now all you get is him wincing a bit during a suplex.

davidbix
Jun 14, 2016

Wow, Bix. First K.Rool, then Steve and now SEPHIROTH? Your dream game is real!

Benne posted:

Do the people who complain about hE sToPpED sElLiNg not know that, like, adrenaline is a thing
If they're complaining about "realism" then yes.

But it's not about "realism," it's a genre convention. How am I supposed to care about you being hurt if you're not showing me that you're hurt?

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Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012



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