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| Up North |
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70 | 41.92% |
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21 | 12.57% |
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12 | 7.19% |
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18 | 10.78% |
| The XXX Porno Wrestling on the Other Channel |
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46 | 27.54% |
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Edit: Nevermind I can't math.
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Man, the on-screen stuff is funny stupid garbage. (Comparatively) The off-screen stuff just makes me think 'all of this has contributed to making them a global entertainment superpower, they seldom suffered any consequences for any of it, none of us can do anything about it and it makes me wonder if there's any point to actually being a good person'
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Dec 6, 2018 07:13
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El Gallinero Gros posted:A lot of the on screen stuff isn't funny. I get no laughs from women, gay people and black people being humiliated because Vince's sense of humor is hosed. I've not listened yet but hopefully Vince essentially humiliating Chris Kanyon into suicide makes it. That is a good perspective to take. But for me, listening to the podcast. Listening to MRT and Epistasis list down the 32 backstage offenses WWE has done makes this side of the bracket actually look like MST3K in comparison. Which is the real point I was trying to make. Which is hosed and sad. I can't even enjoy wrestling on an ironic level anymore. WWE has ruined even that for me. I just want to see the fuckers responsible suffer consequence. But that won't happen because we're being devoured by an amoral void. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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Dec 6, 2018 18:39
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Went with Snuka in a close one. Exploiting the war feels like a lower seed all things considered. Even if it makes 'Tribute for the Troops' after that feel utterly hypocritical.
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Dec 8, 2018 04:21
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Went with the Bryan thing as I will likely go with the worker's rights issues almost everytime as a reflection of our grotesque Oligarchic society. As awful and needless as the Hogan thing is it didn't directly gently caress up somebody's life/career. I don't think. And at least it led to the glorious schadenfraude moment of Hogan doing his whole bullshit crowd pandering thing to dead silence at Crown Jewel. I'm certainly not going to be mad if Hogan wins though.
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Dec 9, 2018 22:35
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Not sure who is more to blame for the Hogan thing. Hogan for being a huge racist. Or HHH for going out of his way to enable him. I mean if not for HHH, HH would just fade into obscurity and irrelevance. Good thing nobody can be arsed to hold WWE to any kind of moral standard.
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Dec 9, 2018 23:01
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Davros1 posted:I remember some people were happy that they did that to Bryan, since it prevented him from killing himself in some other promotion I feel like at some point WWE became so onerous that our attitude shifted towards 'better to die in New Japan than live in WWE' The fact that he's been medically cleared and has been wrestling without dying for the last 8 months is another mind changer.
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Dec 10, 2018 00:29
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Voted for developmental abuses because gently caress Bill DeMott and gently caress HHH for enabling him. If Harley loving Race is pissed at you for abusing people under the name of being a hardass, then you are an apex shithead. HHH probably heard a bunch of gross road stories from Flair (and others) and just thought it was the coolest poo poo ever and saw Demott as a callback to that. "Haha, he put lighter fluid in the asthmatic's inhaler, what a card" Is 'WWE trying to name a battle royal after an alleged sex trafficker' gonna make the NIT? ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Dec 10, 2018 20:29
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(wondering what the odds are that HHH has brought Demott back again but we just don't know it)
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Dec 10, 2018 22:13
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HHH: Ha ha, jelly donut stinkface. Hilarious, so old-school. I wonder if I can get away with hiring Demott back yet. "You already did" HHH: Fantastic.
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Dec 11, 2018 01:49
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Warrior award in a walk. Just Gods, say what you will about Hogan, at least he got 'suspended' for his bullshit. Warrior's been lionized for even worse behavior. Rename it the Bruno Award please. Just, loving hell. Oh and let's not forget Stephanie's tweet, which was corporate lingo for "Everything we do that could be considered philanthropic we only do for the publicity" ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Dec 11, 2018 04:57
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Can you imagine a world where Vince went down in the steroid trials? WCW could have devoured WWE in the aftermath and still collapsed due to their own lovely mismanagement. We'd have no national wrestling brand friends. That beautiful reality. gently caress you Kevin Wacholz. loving idiot. (I may have conceived a TEW fantasy mod under those exact circumstances) ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 12, 2018 |
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Dec 12, 2018 02:51
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And of course, beating Booker cleanly with a single pedigree wasn't enough. No...no...the pedigree had to be for a loving 20 count because HHH intentionally sandbagged and dragged rear end to make the pin. Oh and let's not forget that they destroyed Goldust's heat during this span by giving him the dumb stuttering gimmick, just to make sure the earth was completely salted on Booker's popularity.
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Dec 12, 2018 04:39
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Of course HH came back. HHH must love him and also HH if you get my drift. The Booker T thing was by several orders of magnitude the worst thing HHH did during his 2003 run.
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Dec 12, 2018 05:01
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Just think, if Vince had done the right thing there might not be a WWE today (The screwjob was the catalyst that ignited the spark of the attitude era) Might explain why he never does the right thing.
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Dec 13, 2018 03:26
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Going with Melanie in a walk with this one. The Reid thing was extremely distasteful, but ultimately it was just a gross comment and it wasn't made a day after Reid's death.
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Dec 13, 2018 04:49
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My mindset towards this tournament is more or less two things. Deeds > Words and Business > Personal. Hawk was tasteless, but unless you want to directly trace it to Hawk's demise (I wouldn't blame you if you did), it was ultimately just words (and a dumb bump). Beyond the words, HHH actively damaged two careers (Booker and Goldust) because he's an rear end.
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Dec 13, 2018 06:39
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I think they went the same way with Chuck Palumbo, Motorcycle Enthusiast in the mid 2000's. He feuded with Jamie Noble. Chuck was cool and strong and had a hot gf, Noble was the creepy twerp. But then Chuck became more verbally abusive and Noble became more sympathetic. ThePariah posted:Similar to that, there was also a miscarriage angle with Terri where the twist was that she was never actually pregnant. Russo sure loved his "lying woman" angles. I just thought of a Kevin Dunn/Vince Russo night on the town. Does anybody have a way to get this cursed concept out of my brain?
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Dec 14, 2018 01:21
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Needs to be the HHH NIT to honor the future head of the company and how things will not change at all with him in charge I would have liked to think at least the television would be better, but Baron Corbin is his idea so... Also, I really do not give a poo poo about that right now. Thanks WWE, stuck with you my whole life. Some of these things I didn't know, some of them I had to shelve because no ethical consumerism, separate the art from the artist blah blah blah but I'm struggling to think of one good thing your company does that isn't a bald-faced publicity stunt. You'd THINK you would have stumbled upon SOMETHING by accident. Can't even enjoy this anymore. On any level. Just kinda want you to fail and die now. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Dec 14, 2018 02:09
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Is the Moolah Memorial Battle Royal on the NIT list or is that scrapped because they were actually stopped from going through with it?
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Dec 14, 2018 02:16
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This was a windmill slam vote for GRR. GRR could easily walk away with the whole thing for me. Taking money to air propaganda for one of the world's most disgusting governments. The notion that people weren't executed for treason on this one is one of the world's great injustices.
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Dec 14, 2018 02:50
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Didn't the Saudi Propaganda also have an anti-Iran element in it? WWE could have a hand in INSTIGATING A WAR!
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Dec 14, 2018 02:59
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This is one of those moments in my life where I sincerely wished I held the lance of perdition. One of the other times unsurprisingly also involved a McMahon.
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Dec 14, 2018 03:03
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If you compound the independant contractor status with not paying road expenses and paying them pennies on the dollar for my money it might beat both. Simply because in some way these three things have royally hosed with every single performer to ever work for this company and it is the absolute foundation on which this whole lovely company is built.
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Dec 14, 2018 15:26
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Kane/Lita gets it for me because of all the poo poo I couldn't give about Linda. The flip side of this feud is much worse and I will likely be voting for that. Went with Crown Jewel partially because duh and partially because Ole is a gently caress and I feel no sympy for him. What would anti-trust proceedings against an entertainment monopoly even look like?
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Dec 15, 2018 05:04
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That was the segment.
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Dec 15, 2018 22:56
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This is the first I've heard of the equipment actually be lovely and wrong and it not just being a freak accident. So...an instance where somebody should have gone to jail for criminal negligence if not outright manslaughter. And didn't. It's really hard to ever vote against a company getting blood on their hands because of criminal stupidity. It really comes down to do you think in terms of individuals or in terms of demographics.
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Dec 16, 2018 02:24
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I'd feel better about this if somebody was punished for this. Any of this. But no. They're (mostly) rewarded for it. Remember kids; karma works in reverse. A good deed never goes unpunished, a sin never goes unrewarded. So shed your worthless socializing instincts and gently caress over the world in your rise to relevance.
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Dec 16, 2018 04:52
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There's an argument to be made that maybe it could have been a legitimate heel tactics if the guy coming up with the bright idea wasn't the goddamn millionaire boss. You don't get to pass it off as just heat when you have the power to make people do things. Actually; I wonder if that counts as sexual assault. Probably not, somehow.
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Dec 16, 2018 08:33
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Oh Gods it's like if Penn State let Jerry Sandusky back on their premises. Oh well, time to vote and bitch about more bullshit we can't do anything about. Can the national media please shine a loving spotlight on this instead of treating wrestling as an rear end in a top hat quarantine zone so they have SOME level of accountability. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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Dec 17, 2018 01:41
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Suplex Liberace posted:Tweet this tournament to reporters? gently caress that's a good idea. Unless it's a bad idea. But I think it's a good idea.
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Dec 17, 2018 02:50
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sticklefifer posted:Akeem vs Saba Simba would be a fun non-tourney vote. Does Tony Atlas actually being black make it better or worse. And kudos to Roddy Piper. Undoubtedly he's done his share of lovely things, but he nuked that gimmick the second Atlas walked out.
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Dec 17, 2018 05:45
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I voted the wellness policy because it cast a bigger net, but there are no wrong answers on this one.
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Dec 18, 2018 00:41
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Goldust was as much product of its time than an explicit sin of WWE. Society as a whole was still adapting to the notion of homosexuality being genetic and not a choice. 'Gay Panic' and 'Toxic Masculinity' were social concepts that were at best in the fringes of the collective social conscience. Things started to chill out after the first year or two. I say 'started'. I still voted Goldust mind you. Having a character reinforce the notion of gay=evil was still very hurtful regardless of social attitudes. Katie Vick was just gross and stupid, I'd go as far as to say that this should have been NITed. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Dec 18, 2018 03:55
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GRR is going to massacre the Titan bracket except for Maaaaaybe OTE continuing. And I will mash the vote button on it until it's out. Warrior Award and Melanie Pillman are going to get into a knife fight and I think Melanie will win but I hope the Warrior Award will win. Owen and Crown Jewel are destined to fight in The Stamford Bracket with Owen probably winning. Personally I want "Independent Contractor Status" to beat both, but that's probably not happening, as I lean towards systematic issues over isolated issues. I would be surprised to see the Ring Boy scandal get under 70% of the vote in any of its matches in Greenwich bracket. Usually I would favor "Talent getting paid pennies on the dollar" here but Jesus, it's like if Penn State rehired Sandusky. Either Owen or the Ring Boy Scandal will win. I want either GRR, Independent Contractors or Getting Paid Pennies to win, but that might be a hot take.
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Dec 18, 2018 08:10
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All throughout there was a subroutine in my brain whispering 'At least Katie Vick wasn't a real person...was she'? Katie Vick has now graduated to 'Childish' ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Dec 18, 2018 10:38
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Oh, and just in case it doesn't happen in the finals. For me GRR is worse than Crown Jewel. At least with Crown Jewel, WWE was forced to downplay the Saudis and nix the propaganda, which I'm sure from MBS's viewpoint was the really important part anyway. And Crown Jewel sounded like such a lovely show it could almost be mistaken for protest art.
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Dec 18, 2018 16:19
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El Gallinero Gros posted:He insisted that any territory that wanted him not book any other black wrestlers. I'm sorry what?
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Dec 19, 2018 04:09
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One on hand: Ugh. Social Media trolls. On the other: Oh good. The signal has been boosted.
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At some point I think to ask 'where's the line between 'heat' and 'tasteless and disgusting' Not because I'm defending any of this. But because I'm wondering if the very notion of professional wrestling is irredeemably toxic.
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Dec 19, 2018 06:59
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