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Penguin Patrol posted:for anyone who wants to see it: What does this have to do with anything and why is it censored???
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just a stupid joke about names, thank goodness i didn't snipe the page with it 
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Aug 3, 2022 01:21
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Well, it's still on top of the page and I'm not ashamed.
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For God knows what reason I decided to scroll down and read some comments on an article with some Tony Khan quotes about WWE(which were largely reasonable and sportsmanlike, but that doesn't matter) and of course it was a cesspool. This poo poo jumped out at me though lol I just cannot imagine uncritically adopting the idea that the mythical casual is someone who demands long-term booking(which AEW absolutely does, but for argument's sake), which is something you need to watch regularly to appreciate, but the stupid smarks just love flips and cheap pops and killing the business despite watching all the time and having seen all that stuff before Especially funny to me personally because I convinced my cousin(who hasn't followed wrestling since we were teenagers 2 decades ago) to watch Forbidden Door with his wife very easily just by saying "well it's a big supershow where a US promotion and a Japanese promotion are going to fight each other" and they both loved the poo poo out of it, but it's been difficult-to-impossible to convince him to watch Dynamite weekly because he's got other poo poo to do and just wants to see wild PPV poo poo and doesn't feel like watching builds e: also big lol at "Starks is a natural heel" like at least pretend to watch the thing you're talking poo poo about
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casuals will only start watching when every complaint I have is addressed. i may spend every moment of my life posting online about pro wrestling, and have constructed a personality entirely around hating people who actually enjoy pro wrestling, but that just makes me The Most Casual Viewer.
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Aug 3, 2022 02:06
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I too wish the Hobbs turn had played out for a month so instead of being shocking and a genuine surprise it was so telegraphed that we got bored waiting for it to finally happen.
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Aug 3, 2022 02:25
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"Disco Inferno said..." isn't the argument ender they think it is.
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Hammond Egger posted:I too wish the Hobbs turn had played out for a month so instead of being shocking and a genuine surprise it was so telegraphed that we got bored waiting for it to finally happen. Also Hobbs has been clearly getting sick of Ricky losing when it counts.
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Testekill posted:Also Hobbs has been clearly getting sick of Ricky losing when it counts. Yeah that's the other thing, if you've been paying attention there were hints being dropped about this for at least a month. And anything more protracted would have inevitably drawn critical comparisons with Wardlow. Of all the angles to complain about, picking one that was timed to perfection and logical while maintaining a strong shock factor really betrays the bad faith these knuckleheads are arguing in.
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edogawa rando posted:Why the gently caress would anyone want to wrestle a sausage? I'm sorry I caused a weird tangent. I didn't notice how this post sounded until well afterwards.
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Aug 3, 2022 05:15
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Some people without a developed theory of mind confuse "I didn't know this was going to happen" with "this wasn't built up at all"
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Testekill posted:Also Hobbs has been clearly getting sick of Ricky losing when it counts. For me, the only "out of nowhere"-ish aspect of Hobbs turning on Ricky was that Taz wasn't involved, based on him getting frustrated with Ricky calling out challengers for another match.
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Aug 3, 2022 07:21
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The fabled casual viewer was someone like my mom who would sometimes watch if my dad and I were watching it and occasionally go to shows but didnt think about wrestling if it wasnt immediately in front of her. She knew the name of a handful of wrestlers she liked the wwe fans think a casual viewer is....what exactly
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Aug 3, 2022 08:08
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They think it's someone that hates flips. Which is wrong because my partner has no interest in wrestling but loves the Lucha Bros and Young Bucks. Also it's someone that hates storytelling through matches and wrestlers that "nobody knows". These casual fans want moments and stars.
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Aug 3, 2022 08:21
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Casual fans love 20 minute monologues from people they’ve heard about in coffee shops
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Aug 3, 2022 08:26
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The times where I've been able to capture the interest of a casual fan have always been Cool poo poo. Orange Cassidy wrestling with his hands in his pockets? Cool poo poo. Young Bucks doing a thumbtack superkick? Cool poo poo. Kenoh setting his leg on fire and then kicking The Great Muta? You'd best believe that's Cool poo poo. Character and stuff come later, but the quickest visual hook is still spectacle.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Casual fans love 20 minute monologues from people they’ve heard about in coffee shops The only wrestling gifs I share in the slack I’m in with some old friends are of promos and backstage segments and not at all ones of Bandido orbiting Black Taurus like a moon that got too close to its planet and things of that nature.
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Lamuella posted:The times where I've been able to capture the interest of a casual fan have always been Cool poo poo. My big sisters favourite wrestler for the longest time was Goldust because he was a gold and black weirdo. Now her fave is Dalton Castle.
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I love Claudio because he happily swings people around and uppercuts them into orbit. That's cool. I love Mox because he'll do something cool that looks painful and will say a swear, like butt or darn. That's cool. I love ZSJ and Bryan Danielson because they'll fold some poor fucker up to look like a pretzel, and Zack in particular will probably talk poo poo about the Tories. That's cool. I love Okada because he has a cool clothesline as a finisher and makes it rain money. That's cool. I love Penta Oscuro because he's all like Ciero Miedo! and stuff. That's cool. I love Rey Fenix Jr because he does cool flips and poo poo. That's cool. I love PAC because he's an angry goblin man. That's cool. I love Jade Cargill because she's all like "I'll kick your rear end" and does exactly that. That's cool.
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Tampa Bae posted:The fabled casual viewer was someone like my mom who would sometimes watch if my dad and I were watching it and occasionally go to shows but didnt think about wrestling if it wasnt immediately in front of her. She knew the name of a handful of wrestlers she liked It's a cargo cult where everyone agrees that if they got rid of all the stuff the people who like wrestling like than it'll suddenly become 1998 again and wrestling will be mainstream popular, rather than just accept that wrestling was a fad for three years and everyone moved on.
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For years I didn't really know wrestling existed beyond being something dumb giant babies watched. And I was correct, except a few years after that AEW was invented for intellectual dumb giant babies, with added cool stuff.
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I was literally showing a friend of mine the DVD spot from the Toru Yano vs Tom Lawlor match from yesterday and she loved it. I then proceded to show her clips of OC vs PAC, Minoru Suzuki vs Sanshiro Takagi in the baseball stadium match, and the Ricky Starks and Nick Jackson simultaneous rope walk spot from the tag match a few weeks back. She loved all of them. I know for a fact she wouldn't feel the same about a long rambly promo, although I reckon she'd enjoy an Eddie Kingston one.
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Aug 3, 2022 11:51
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:casuals will only start watching when every complaint I have is addressed. i may spend every moment of my life posting online about pro wrestling, and have constructed a personality entirely around hating people who actually enjoy pro wrestling, but that just makes me The Most Casual Viewer. Hahaha perfect
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History Comes Inside! posted:Casual fans love 20 minute monologues from people they’ve heard about
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https://twitter.com/phenom_13/status/1554529971397283840 https://twitter.com/eightyseven__/status/1554613464693235712 https://twitter.com/phenom_13/status/1554691225663311872
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I don't think that person knows how excursion works
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I can believe that a guy who is under contract to a promotion in Japan who is currently on excursion in the US who has the look and the size and the in-ring talent to back it up who is getting a lot of high profile matches and people are calling the future of the business is not on anyone's radar.
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When he said "no one else" he meant WWE
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there is absolutely no way trips is not trying to scout takeshita. they would be dumb as hell to not try to put out feelers. the issue is people think WWE can just sign whoever they want instantly and everyone would be happy to go. so if they're not already in WWE, WWE doesn't want them.
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I mean it's not a coincidence that WWE got the DDT roster their visas when they came over for WM weekend...
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Takeshita on AEW and indie shows. WWE fans: I don't know who is this jobber" Takeshita signs with WWE. WWE fans: "Akira Takumi has always been a great sports ennertainer, well known around the WWE universe and other companies I fail to name"
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Guillermus posted:Takeshita on AEW and indie shows. WWE fans: I don't know who is this jobber" Akira Takumi is too normal a fake name for WWE
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that is art.
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https://twitter.com/B4Bayley1991/status/1554701063302926338 now THIS is revisionism
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1glitch0 posted:Everyone will forget about the Hardys run in a few... now. But Tony now has him doing an awesome swanton bomb on the concourse in their tape library! The one person who benefits most from Jeff leaving? Nyla, because she'd added a swanton to her moveset shortly before Jeff signed up. https://twitter.com/NylaRoseBeast/status/1501745987802574848
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