Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

ECW Barely Legal (April 1997)

Ramblemania has been delayed again… because I still haven’t got around to seeing the entirety of the four-night “buy one, get one free at the buffet line” or whatever Punk called it months ago. However, I did see the first ECW PPV from 1997. Yeah, Barely Legal turns 25 this year and to celebrate the occasion for a show that I have no personal nostalgia for, I’d figure it’d be appropriate to give it a PPV musings of sorts.

Just so we’re clear on where this is coming from: my exposure to ECW was largely relegated to the occasion mentions in wrestling magazines and such until they started airing ECW PPVs in Canada in around 1999. By the point, ECW had a show on TNN, but most of its big stars were jumping ship to greener pastures in the WWF and WCW. Even during the twilight years of the promotion, I was fascinated by the more rough-around-the-edges style of production and wrestling that I made it a point to try and expose myself to as much ECW as possible, whether it’d be on the stray ECW VHS tape I’d find in stores or some of the later DVD compilations that WWE would put out.

So long story short; I wasn’t an ECW fan during its prime years, but I have a weird fascination with this promotion that I got some of their DVDs and stuff. So now I’m watching the first PPV they put out in 1997, which had its own interesting backstory.. that I’m not going to tell here because it’s been told better elsewhere.

Let’s just get this over with before I start rambling about other shit.

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Old Tommy Interview Ages Poorly (And It's Not JDF!)

Source: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/interviews/intellivision-amico/

Came across this old interview that Tommy Tallarico did when he was still the head of Intellivision. Naturally, he was talking about the Amico and bringing up points about family and such. One thing I noticed he did was slag on Stadia and Atari. With Stadia, he brought up that Google had a multi-million dollar campaign that failed to get people interested in Stadia… of course, it should be mentioned that Stadia was a largely worthless piece of shit, but we’ll let that slide.
He also brought Atari’s various attempts to bring Ataribox to life, calling out their stumbling efforts at crowdfunding and pointing out that Amico has more pre-orders than Ataribox. I’ll admit that Ataribox got off to a rough start and we all mocked the thing as it kept getting delayed and news about people leaving the project got out. But here’s the thing; Ataribox did eventually make its way into the hands of those who ordered the thing. It may not be the new hot thing on store shelves, but there are videos of people actually in possession of the machine and have showcased the machine to be fully functional PC boxes.
Amico, on the other hand? All that’s come out is an unboxing video to show that it exists and talks that it might not even see the light of day because Intellivision doesn’t have any money and could be on the verge of bankruptcy. It seems almost humorous that years ago, everyone thought Atari was the big joke and Amico was going to be the more likely to materialize.
Not trying to rail on Tommy or anything; I just find it funny that he would bring up shit about Atari and Stadia and yet both products are out on the market while Amico’s future is uncertain. Hopefully, things turn around for them and they’ll get Amico out sooner or later.

The TNG Cast To Reunite In Season 3 Of Blunt Talk: The Next Generation

Source: https://blog.trekcore.com/2022/04/star-trek-picard-beams-up-entire-next-generation-cast-for-season-3/

The question now is not whether these beloved characters will somehow get ruined or killed or both, nor is it whether this talk of a “proper send-off” is eventually countered with the response that we already had a “proper send-off” called All Good Things… Nor is it wondering why you’re building up hype for the following season when you’re not even done with the current one. I’m sure all these are vital questions but they’re not the most important question.,

The question now is whether Worf will look like Worf.

That is the question that pre-occupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room!

Earth, Hitler, 1938…

I beg your pardon?

*shrugs*

As far as Wesley not being included, well, he is included… in the after show.

And I, for one, am more than pleased to see him stay there.

Shill Sheaton indeed.