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July Wrasslin |OT| The Rings a Field, the Field of War, Thats Where We Lay the Law
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Mr. Enigma
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Jimmy King
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Damn right, teaching her who the real Queen is
real_slime
Banned
played it a few years ago. enjoyed it quite a bit but be warned the start is very boring, looks like another boring shit shooter set in the middle east, but it quickly changes locations and becomes more deus ex in story structure than mass effect although superficially it is more mass effect.
it's better than mass effect.
think i'll play through it again and see how it holds up actuallt.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
For no particular reason, I watched the Goldberg/Raven 98 match for the US title. The commentators were FLIPPING THE FUCK OUT for most of the match. They sold every tiny movement Goldberg made like he moved a mountain or punched God
Macho Madness
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hey daniel bryan fans, i gotta chant for you fella
18 seconds
clap clap clap clap
18 seconds
clap clap clap clap
fella
HarryDemeanor
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Is the UFC Women's division as bad as the Divas division?
Macho Madness
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Is this a shoot?
Lambda Pie
Banned
worse. meaningless division.
HarryDemeanor
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I was watching some WCW GAB 1990 earlier when it was streaming on the live network page. What the hell happened to the Freebirds in 1990?
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
What are the buyrates on these UFC PPVs in 2014? One of the fights was a no go and another was 15 seconds. And some people complain about the network being bad value.
It has gone down year after year. Ufc 173 had 200000 buys and there are rumors that the more recent ones have done way worse.
Macho Madness
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It depends on the card. A good card can be close to or at a million, a bad card will do really bad.
They are still doing consistently better numbers than what the WWE was doing.
PPV is just becoming an outdated model
Most are doing circa 200k recently. But the big hyped up cards still do a lot, a couple of times a year. Their December one cracked a million.
They're hurting for big stars now.
They say that, but boxing just set a new PPV record (over 2 million buys) just last year. All it takes is the right attraction.
They say that after the one or maybe two big fights a year, but the other 10 months a year every company is averaging below 250K
That's one of the problems boxing has been in lately, and UFC is following them.
I appreciate what they were going for with this PPV, but it was not fun to watch for the most part.
I would be remiss not to mention the surprisingly enjoyable Nick Bockwinkel/Dory Funk, Jr. match, though. Maybe it's because the likes of a sickly Baron Von Raschke preceded it, but I liked it nonetheless.
I started a wrestling column on my own blog at TheWesker.com. I call it Tops & Flops, what will likely be a look at the tops and flops of pro wrestling through my eyes.
Appreciate any feedback given.
I dig the idea and think you executed it pretty well. I especially like the graphic. Just watch your punctuation. If you use "However," you need a period or semi-colon before it if you're starting off a contrasting point.
I like cheese. However, I don't like how expensive it is.
OR
I like cheese; however, I don't like how expensive it is.
And you may want to edit your profile at the bottom. You wrote "Where it's..." when it should be "Whether it's..."
Good luck!
Macho Madness
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I dig the idea and think you executed it pretty well. I especially like the graphic. Just watch your punctuation. If you use "However," you need a period or semi-colon before it if you're starting off a contrasting point.
I like cheese. However, I don't like how expensive it is.
OR
I like cheese; however, I don't like how expensive it is.
And you may want to edit your profile at the bottom. You wrote "Where it's..." when it should be "Whether it's..."
Good luck!
Thanks.
Why is Titus' tray nearly empty? He's clearly putting Batista over in this photo.
Dr Duncan Steel
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FINGER PAINT FINGER PAINT
Professor Beef
Banned
I think it's because more people ate Titus' dish than Batista's.
Showing who's food was preferred.
Jimmy King
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I saw CM Punk retweet this:
I've heard him say as much as well.
Am I crazy or is this as dumb as I think it is? Let's hear it, PhilosophyGAF.
I've heard him say as much as well.
Am I crazy or is this as dumb as I think it is? Let's hear it, PhilosophyGAF.
¡HarlequinPanic!
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Can't remember the last time I heard the term "Sidewalk slam" from wwe commentary...
I saw CM Punk retweet this:
I've heard him say as much as well.
Am I crazy or is this as dumb as I think it is? Let's hear it, PhilosophyGAF.
I'm not philosophygaf, I'm an Irish dude, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and coincidences.
If luck was real, Vegas wouldn't exist.
Jimmy King
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in other words... luck
coincidence: a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance.
luck: the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities.
they're different.
"I'm not lucky, I'm just fortunate enough"
I think, in life, more things are out of your control than within it. So, for both good and bad stuff that happens, there's a lot in there you just didn't deserved it.
In the end tho, very few things have a single cause; stuff that happens in your life is often a mixed bag of what you did and what it was done to you.
I think, in life, more things are out of your control than within it. So, for both good and bad stuff that happens, there's a lot in there you just didn't deserved it.
In the end tho, very few things have a single cause; stuff that happens in your life is often a mixed bag of what you did and what it was done to you.
¡HarlequinPanic!
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as someone who lives here currently; just being someone who is freezing in brooklyn means you're still making some good cash~
You can use luck to describe a set of forces out of your control that you have no way to grasp rationally, but that, nonetheless, exists; say, social forces. You meet the right person at the right time. The string of causality needed to explain why two human beings are at that exact place, at that exact time and both with enough motive to talk is too much to grasp. So, we take that immense X and call it "luck".
Jimmy King
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Coincidence/chance is very similar to luck, though. Aristotle differentiated the two essentially saying luck is the product of some agency whereas chance is random. Both play into life to varying degrees. If you work hard, you can take advantage of that.
you described a coincidence, not luck
luck is a made up superstition.
A Rabbit's foot will ward off bad luck and is thought to bring good. Worn as an amulet, the older the foot the better. I should be able to wear 45 rabbit's feet and win in Vegas then.
A Black Cat which crosses your path will bring bad luck. Every black cat owner is screwed.
The number 13 is considered bad luck. 13 year olds around the world would be screwed.
Breaking a mirror is 7 years of bad luck
etc
That's just superstition, i.e., bad attempts to manipulate forces we call "luck".
Edit: I'd say coincidence doesn't carry the moral and ethical connotations of luck. It's not just about stuff that happens, but also stuff that happens that impact your life in ways you consider particular good or bad.
lovely ladies
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Grisham just made a Matt Hardy reference when describing a J.J. Hardy defensive play on Sportscenter. Other anchor either was clueless or didn't give a shit to the sound bite.
Professor Beef
Banned
You know who doesn't need luck?
Cena.
Cena.
This is what I mean when I say "luck". That said, Dinklage's quote (if it is his quote--this is the Internet) is idiotic. "I'm not lucky, I'm fortunate." He's splitting hairs and it does nothing but make him sound defensive.
Jimmy King
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I agree, and will chalk up Dinklage, Punk, and zychi's repudiation of luck as a result of them being egomaniacs.
only kidding zychi <3