I wish I had the box. You’ll have to settle for the leftovers.
Didn’t occur to me until just as I was uploading this thing that I used the old SGT intro with dearly departed Sacha rather than the new intro with still sleeping Maya. Miss the ol’ girl.
Even our lovely park critters can be a caricature and this one intrigued me enough to turn into a video… and potential B-roll for future videos.
Before anyone asks, yes, this was going to be last week’s episode, but there would have been something extra on there. Now it’s its own thing. Bonus “proper” episode coming later tonight.
In case Hangman needed a reminder as to why Swerve has beef with him to this day. This is something that doesn’t go away, bro.
Apparently, there is/was an AEW PPV yesterday/tonight. To be honest, I haven’t been keeping up. That’s on me. Not enough snowflakes to keep me interested, I guess… also been busy with other stuff.
In other news, Kurt Angle still hasn’t got his 5-star match. Might I suggest a run at the Tokyo Dome?
Technical issues, last minute edits… such is the folly of doing yet another video on everyone’s favorite punching bag, Fester’s Quest.
To be honest, I’m not quite sure how I feel about this one. I didn’t quite like playing the game all that much and yet didn’t dislike it as much as I feared. There’s ideas that I like and yet the execution is rubbish… typical licensed fare this is not, but no hidden gem, either. Eh.
So if things go according to plan, no more NES games this year. I’m saving those for next year and that’s when some notable games on the bucket list finally get the spotlight. In the meantime, we’ve got other crap from other consoles to visit. What fun.
Well, a day before it was set to renew, I ended my year-long relationship with Antstream… by which I mean, the annual subscription is not being renewed.
The reasoning was quite simple; I simply wasn’t using it as often as I would have liked and while I’ve gotten some mileage out of it, the simple truth was that there were a lot of games on there that either didn’t interest me. And with all the recent news surrounding Antstream’s recent controversies, as it were, I felt as though maybe we should walk away for a bit and figure things out.
Maybe some day, I’ll hop on that train again… but for now, it won’t be happening.
New review later tonight… and it’ll take an old punching bag for some retro enthusiasts or something.
Apparently someone on Twitter was bitching about ol’ Kurt Angel never getting the coveted five snowflakes from Uncle Dave and true to form, Meltzer popped up and blamed Chris Van Vliet… that charming fellow who interviews a bunch of wrestling people as well as a fellow Canadian. (He’s a Toronto native. We won’t hold that against him.)
Anyway, this stems from a clip from years ago that featured Vliet asking Meltzer about this very issue, to which Dave gives a gaslighting bullshit non-answer… and CVV pushed the issue further. And to compound this stupidity further, Meltzer claims that interview was done minutes after his son’s dog passed away… yes, Dave. Not only blame Vliet for asking a question people have been asking for years, but also blame the dog for dying. I guess the dog wasn’t a fan of AEW.
No, seriously… why do people still care about whether Kurt Angle has five stars or not? Doesn’t the scale go up to infinity? Does five stars mean anything when you can go up to infinity?
Besides, he’s no Will Ospreay and his eighteen-star matches… meh.
New review tomorrow night.
Another year, another annual Bound For Glory PPV from the fine folks at Impact Wrestling, who were about to get a bit of a boost in viewership thanks to parent company Anthem purchasing AXS TV, which had been hosting weekly episodes of a New Japan highlight show. Earlier in the year, Impact had moved from PopTV to one of Anthem’s smaller channels that very few people had, but there was also a live stream on Twitch of the program, which was kind of nice of them. Impact would move to AXS following this PPV, so this would be something of a first chapter to a(nother) new era in TNA Impact Wrestling history.
I’ll say this much. This is not something you’re going to pass off as same old shit because the roster has seen a bit of a shuffling in between BFGs. Some folks are still there, while others are long gone and then you’ve got… stuff.
A crippling injury couldn’t stop me from uploading this piece of business… okay, it’s a sprained ankle that might heal in a couple days, but still… I had to get out of bed to post this.
Better late than never… the battle continues, I guess.
TNA held their annual Bound For Glory show this past weekend and aside from being a decent, if unremarkable show, it did feature the TNA debut of one Max Caster. That kid from AEW who did the raps and stuff. His contract expired and he debuted in TNA as a special challenger to Moose, who beat him promptly.
And then as soon as he debuted, Max Caster is gone from TNA.
Max Caster came out and did his opening rap, which was a thing he did in AEW. During said rap, he mentioned something about dropping bombs and not needing to go to Riyadh… which is probably not the smartest thing to say shortly after the city had been the target of an attack. Needless to say, people were pissed, TNA was embarrassed, and a statement was quickly put out apologizing for the incident. All ties with Caster were cut and the segment was scrubbed from all replays.
I didn’t see the show; I was under the weather. Nor did I see the MiTB show… which happened on Saturday. Funny how I wrote posts for two PPV events that took place this past weekend and I’ve watched neither. I’d imagine when I do get around to watching the BFG show later down the road, that whole segment and the subsequent match will not be included… but a friend had offered to loan me his DVD recording for the purposes of a future musings, so that I can watch the complete, unedited show.
In any event… I don’t know what the guy was thinking. In isolation, the line was kinda eh, but there is such a thing as too soon. And this was definitely too soon. Not sure where Max goes from here. I can’t imagine WWE wanting to give this guy a shot, especially considering where they’re holding Mania next year. And if AEW wanted him, they would have re-signed him and not let his contract lapse.
Maybe he should go into rapping full-time or something. At least then, when he says something offensive, people will see it coming.
I’m done for the night. Review should be up later tonight or tomorrow… or however this works. Certainly not in the afternoon…
So I had to postpone a Sunday Gimmick Table to next week due to sinuses acting up, which affects my vocal delivery and thus affects my coughing fits… which sucked. On the bright side, I sat down and wrote a bunch of stuff. Stuff for potential video fodder of the Rambling variety.
Some of this stuff is retreads of old Bite commentary material, but almost all of it is designed to push back the Video Of Bad News another month. I’ve got some material recorded for that one, but not as much as I’d like and it seems like there’s a new wrinkle that has me revising or outright redo certain dubbing bits in the process.
Good news is that the day off resting means I can get back to working on these videos, since it’s Thanksgiving and that’s a day off work. Other than family dinners, I’ll be on my own for most for the day, so I can just spend the day doing quick video stuff as well as some bits of clean-up.
The review schedule is more or less set in stone, though what comes up is another story entirely. I do have an idea on how 2027 kicks off, but that’s for later down the road. We’ve got a lot of work to do before long.
Later.
