I’m a horror-loving wrestling nerd. Oh, and cats. Gotta have cats. And Animal Crossing. My day to day is spent doing IT-related stuff for a video game company. He/Him.
Anyway WWE is using the wrong parts, the pieces don’t fit, and they’re hurriedly trying to cover all the imperfections because the teacher is already walking over to their desk. And this one isn’t feeling generous.
If you didn’t use the right parts and the fits were all wrong you crumbled in three books for a C or even worse two books, in which case you had better hope the teacher was feeling benevolent enough to allow a re-do.
This Mania build is like one of those plywood bridges people my age had to make in high school. You had to perfectly cut all the beams and glue them together and let the teacher stack books on top to see how many it could hold.
What happened to Spring Baking Championship? Where’s the pastel colors and Jesse cracking jokes and Nancy hinting at problematic drinking? What is this “Master Baking” schtick?
If Tony Khan would just stop catering to the “sickos” who will always be there regardless and started listening to the podcasters who know the business maybe AEW wouldn’t be dying.
For whatever reason my LinkedIn feed has reverted back to the day I was laid off so I just keep getting notifications about colleagues announcing they'd been affected.
The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.
I was live in the second row for Kenny/MJF 1 and they put on an absolute hell of a match (my favorite I've ever seen live). Now they're main eventing a PPV? This is going to be *insane*. #AEWDynamite
Jericho cutting his first name off and going just be his last, coupled with his bringing back the List gimmick, is a staggering meta-commentary on the nature of the WWE sports entertainment product vis-a-vis the purer wrestling-focused nature of AEW. By emulating the worst excesses of WWE, Jeri
The only thing that's weird about the list being back is that Jericho always talks up how he reinvents himself. Going back to a gimmick he ran with for a decent chunk of time in the other place feels... a little like a step back? I mean, it's still entertaining, but I'm surprised he's doing this.
I know there are plenty of folks who hate MJF as champ, but I respect the hell out of how he gleefully trolls WWE/TNA at every turn. Petty? Sure. But he's a heel and can get away with it.
I know the world’s on fire but I’m going to get quiet joy from CM Punk throwing away the best thing that could have happened to him (AEW giving him basically anything he wanted INCLUDING his own show) to go back to a place where he has to go off-script to complain about booking and ticket prices.
Are they wacky enough that if the stadium doesn't look sufficiently full they'll try some AI bullshittery to fill in empty seats? Like, it sounds insane but also... it's WWE. Laurinaitis already showed that someone could be lame enough to try it, albeit poorly.
It's like the Mania PR is so bad that WWE is attempting some meta bullshit to lean into it by generating as much of it as they can. Like they think by saying their product sucks it'll incentivize people to watch it out of morbid curiosity. It has to be intentional. Even they're not this dumb.
Pokopia is great but I keep bouncing off it because there is no functional map and the game is huge. Right now it wants me to locate a hot spring (which it showed me… very quickly) and I have no clue where it is. Argh.
So I won't get to see The Mario Galaxy Movie until it hits VOD but I really, really don't care if it is has a particularly deep or compelling story (yes, I know that movies aimed at kids are fully capable of both!). I really just want it to be shiny-shiny with a lot of references and cameos.
Cody is the biggest heel in AEW and he's not even part of the promotion anymore. And I mean... dude deserves it. And please... for the love of God, the next time an interviewer asks you about AEW just say "thank you for the question but I'm focused on the awesome event we have for you".
My bother in Christ you're building to the biggest show of your annual cycle. If your own product isn't embarrassingly tired just focus on that. Oh wait.