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Sami Zayn's theme says hi.
Vince does indeed like to push talentless sacks of shit, he has been doing so for close to 30 years but hey if they sell merch we would only have ourselves to blame.
With the Wyatt family and Shield both gone I think that's probably true, actually. The full tag team division (that I can think of) is
Miz/Mizdow - Comedy act
Dust Bros - Technical wrestlers I'd say
Usos - High flyers
Lost Matadores - Lucha, I guess
New Day - Jobbers
Cesaro/Kidd - Balanced between power and technical
Ascension is going to (poorly) fill the gap left by the Wyatts and Shield.
Maybe in a universe where Sami Zayn, Charlotte, Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Rusev, and Jack Swagger don't exist.
I still don't understand why no other tag team has ever done the powerplex as their finisher. It looks cool and is safe enough that WWE would allow it today. The Usos already do the splash part why not have the other do the superplex part.
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Like I said, everything about Sami screams "weenie" especially that happy go lucky shitty ska theme.
As ska goes it's fine. But ska is shit and its fans are weenies.
...cism. The one thing they have NOT being doing is jobbing.
Bálor, Zayn, Paige, Itami, Owens, Rusev, Swagger, Ces-just kidding, and Breeze are all superior CFO$ creations.
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CFO$ does god's work. Jim Johnston needs to be ousted. WWE is putting out the best entrance music in its whole lifetime lately. Every theme is a smanger.
+CJ Parker
Jim Johnston themes, maybe. Guy feels like he's kind of on autopilot right now.
I actually really like Parker's theme. It works so well for his character.
I also actually think Sasha Banks has good entrance music too oddly enough.
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Vince, you know me. I love the big guys and hosses. The Ascension just don't have the body type like that. Spent the time bulking and training incorectly.
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YES. I love it.
Konnor's on it, but Viktor just doesn't have the genetics. Konnor's still a hoss.
Everything they've done on the main roster this year has been rubbish save for Rusev's. Whatever direction they're getting up there, it sucks.
They've been churning out hits for the NXT guys and girls nonstop.
Pretty much all my favorite tag teams are big ol hosses beating dudes up or big ol hosses throwing dudes around. Rowan and Harper had potential to be(even though I thought Harper could stand to bulk up a little more but he made it work by just being convincing in the ring), and I saw it. Ascension don't at all.
I don't see a strongly booked intimidating to make up for meh wrestling like Road Warriors or Kronik, I don't see huge terrifying dudes who are fat but you can tell they'd fucking kill you like Natural Disasters, I don't see brawlers who look like they'd leave you with bruises like Brody and Hansen, and I don't see guys who look like they'd throw you into the next state like Vader and Bam B am or the Steiners(who aren't really hosses but if the Ascension are hosses in 2014 then the Steiners definitely are). Shit I would rather watch Knox & Abyss team up and find that more compelling than Ascension.
I don't see a strongly booked intimidating to make up for meh wrestling like Road Warriors or Kronik, I don't see huge terrifying dudes who are fat but you can tell they'd fucking kill you like Natural Disasters, I don't see brawlers who look like they'd leave you with bruises like Brody and Hansen, and I don't see guys who look like they'd throw you into the next state like Vader and Bam B am or the Steiners(who aren't really hosses but if the Ascension are hosses in 2014 then the Steiners definitely are). Shit I would rather watch Knox & Abyss team up and find that more compelling than Ascension.
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Fair point.
This just makes me sad as I don't have the genetics to be a boss like that :/
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Even as a kid I never ever took the Natural Disasters seriously. They were too goofy and too fat to be scared of beyond being sat on.
And DiscoJon ain't playin with nobody
Fuck around and he gon catch a body
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HONKHONKHONKHONKHONKHONKHONKHONKHONKHONKHONK
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One of my favourite tag teams that just beat people to a pulp.
Didn't know about Meng prior to Faces of Fear, and I'm glad that was my first exposure to him because I didn't think I'd like him as much if I knew about him as KOTR or whatever. Even when Faces of Fear was on the C show I thought they were badasses as a kid. Like before I knew about who was 'real' badass and who wasn't, I just knew those two dudes would uproot my whole family tree.
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That was serious Quake though, Natural Disasters were happy folks. I blame Tugboat.
Well yeah. Natural Disasters was just a platform for Earthquake to be awesome. I thought that was obvious because Quake always got the pin and Tugboat always took the beatings. They had a pretty good match with Road Warriors in Japan. Now if it was Shockmaster & Quake, we'da printed money
You might have thought them happy folk, but they were one of the very few tag teams people bought into as being on the same level as the Road Warriors at the time. Mostly because of their size and Earthquake being a cold hearted killing machine.
'The Dark Ages'
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Wish I had chosen Meng as my avatar lottery avatar now.
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Yeah...And when I was younger, I hadn't seen the Real Ass Earthquake. My first exposure to him was Jolly Natural Disasters Quake. I didn't have the true fear to build off of.
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I have no doubt that they will be multi tag team champs, wouldn't be surprised if they win it on their debut PPV.
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Hulk Hogan has always looked like a 40/50 year old man.
Does that mean Hogan is a TMF now?
I think that's more Flair than Hogan. To me Flair has always looked old.
Hogan I always thought looked respectably young during his 80s run, but it felt like between WrestleMania 7 through 9 he aged like 10 fucking years.
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We are in the Dark ages right now
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Friends, since the year is coming to a close, I want to express that Wolfenstein: The New Order was the best game I played all year. I hope everyone here got a chance to play it, it truly is wonderful.
Runner-up is Banished. Euro poverty sims are one of my favorites.
What's yours?
Runner-up is Banished. Euro poverty sims are one of my favorites.
What's yours?
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haha yeah I can see that.
I want enormous dudes throwing bombs, so I watch WWE.
if I wanted tiny dudes flip flopping around like shitty male gymnasts, I'd watch Young Bucks.
Best game this year for me is Mario Kart 8 hands down.
Runner up is Bayonetta 2.
Secondary runner up might be Shadow of Mordor. The nemesis system and the combat outweigh the really bland story for me.
I've heard fucking great things about The New Order though, I need to try that shit out.
Wasteland 2. CRPG at it's best.
Full top 10: http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/xater/lists/best-of-2014/91590/
South Park and Gridiron Fight because I played that this year, and me and my friends probably spent 2 hours playing it at the arcade/'museum'
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Alien: Isolation
Though that pick is heavily influenced by a touch of the fanbois towards the entire Alien Franchise. It's the first game in a long time that has 'got it right'.
Though that pick is heavily influenced by a touch of the fanbois towards the entire Alien Franchise. It's the first game in a long time that has 'got it right'.
Man, I don't know if I could actually make a top 10 list this year. I didn't actually play that many 2014 releases (a lot of backlog catching up was done). To me this felt like a big down year.
I need to start playing that again. I wont lie, I took a massive break from it because that game got into my fucking head.
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Fire Pro gets it
It was a down year, but I always play a lot of games. A lot of the games on this list would not have made it on it in some other years. I am only real confident about my top 5.
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Forgot South Park was this year too! Only game I've felt was 'too short' this year too though looking back it was probably the correct length to keep the funny bits from becoming overwhelming and blunt.