Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Let’s Try This Again…

So here we are… trying this again and hopefully, this will stick. Daily postings will be a thing again; whether it’d be something worthwhile or just random shitposting… and even the shitposting will have some substance to it. I also said features would be coming back, but not all at once. Slowly, but surely, we’ll be getting some material onto the blog soon enough.

– Video reviews (and by extension) will be coming along when they’re ready. If all goes well, I might settle with a typical Tuesday-Friday video upload routine… but plans can change when needed.

– PR Reflections will resume on Monday, March 30th and will kick off the next batch of bi-weekly (every other Monday) . I’ve got six of these things primed and ready to go, with possibly two or three almost getting there. Some of these will be lightweight stuff (synopsis and five points of observation), but a couple (such as our first entry) will be old-school “recap” segments. The best part is that they’re all new write-ups; no more recycled bits, because I’m all out of them to begin with.

– As mentioned on the program yesterday, DTM-Cast will be taking a hiatus throughout the month and will return Sunday, April 5th… just in time for some show that’s taking place from Tampa. I want to use the time I’ve got to work on other stuff and the lack of a DTM-Cast along the way could possibly open up the possibility of the Ramble videos making a comeback.

– Mega Man Maker runs will continue in a couple weeks. I’m putting together a quick little video depicting all the bosses and this involves a bit of practice to try and not suck at some of these boss battles. Once the boss video is up, I’ll follow that up with a new level and some news on future levels being a thing.

– Expect another House Show or two in the coming months. There’s also a couple other video projects that I’d like to get off the ground while I can.

That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head.

AEW Revolution (Feb. 2020 PPV)

How odd was it that I was more looking forward to a PPV event from All Elite Wrestling than I am the next Wrestlemania, which is supposed to be the biggest deal of them all?

In a way, not so odd… because in the preceding three months, I got a weekly wrestling show in Dynamite that was not only entertaining and fun, but also got me invested in wrestlers and personalities that I had either never known about before or at one point, disregarded as former WWE guys. Hell, this last week’s episode was probably the perfect go-home show for a PPV I’ve watched; because it had a main event angle that pushed forward not one, not two, but three matches primed for the card, it had a couple really good segments to build other matches, and there was also a really sick Ironman match that set the tone for the rest of the night.

And so, I watched the Revolution show… they missed a trick by not calling this show Lethal Leap Year or something like that. And the last time I saw a wrestling PPV with the word “Revolution” in it, it was a largely bad show whose only high point was Edge cashing in a briefcase to win the World title. I guess calling it Lethal Leap Year is out of the question because that’s a Southpaw thing… but in any event, silly name aside, how does the show fair?

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Own A 3DS? Get Mega Man Legacy Collection For A Few Bucks…

Source: https://www.siliconera.com/mega-man-eshop-sale-covers-almost-major-entry/

So, for the next couple weeks and in light of the Mega Man Zero/ZX series getting their own Legacy Collection, the Nintendo eShop has discounted lots of its Mega Man titles on the Switch… but the most notable is that the 3DS version of Mega Man Legacy Collection is now $5.99 for a limited time, down from its original $14.99. Now, honestly, that’s a way better deal than buying each of the individual Virtual Console releases, which aren’t discounted.

For what it’s worth, the 3DS doesn’t have any of the updates that the console and PC versions got; the controversial Rewind feature as well as the Turbo function, which eliminated all the slowdown. However, there is amiiboo support or whatever it’s called… so that’s something.

That Bandwagon Is Heavy

It’s another controversy at Saudi Arabia… what happened this time? Another international incident? More propaganda gone wrong? Too much female skin was exposed?

No, the controversy is that 527-year-old Bill Goldberg made his return to WWE and beat Bray Wyatt for the WWE Blue Belt… apparently, people are upset by this, so much so that they’ve threatened to cancel their WWE Network subscriptions.
Cool story, bro.
This is WWE’s Seniors Tour, where Undertaker shows up at a gauntlet match as the last entrant and wins the match without ever taking off his hat and coat. This is where Miz and John Morrison are once again tag-team champions. This is where the old guys will have the most spotlight because they’re the bigger stars and everyone else on the roster are a bunch of geeks who look like idiots in comparison.

I read the results for the show and I’m laughing my ass off at all the fake outrage. People upset by Brock Lesnar squashing Ricochet or Undertaker winning a thing at the last minute or Goldberg beating the Fiend? Why? I find out all these things and I shrug; none of these things surprise me. Ricochet is a geek that was disposed of as such, Undertaker/AJ might be a match at Mania and this could be the first step towards that, and Goldberg winning the title gives us Take 376,275,371,879 of the Roman Reigns coronation as the “main guy” at Wrestlemania because THIS TIME FOR SURE!

I’m not upset by this turn of events, I’m not going to cancel the Network as a result of this turn of events, and I’m certainly not going to join the latest trending bandwagon on Twitter to post some fake outrage just so I can get a bunch of likes. This is why I don’t take Twitter seriously, because more often than not, the outrage is genuine; it’s just a bunch of dipshits parroting the popular opinion for them likes and then they move on to the next fake controversy while all the genuine issues get overlooked because I’m twitting on the twitter like a fucking twit.

Bray Wyatt will be fine, kids. Sure, he lost the belt to an old guy. So what? Sooner or later, you’ll forget this happen and he’ll be back to his usual red light district self in no time. He doesn’t need the title for that sort of thing.

They want to build up Wrestlemania as a big deal and so they bring back all the old stars who were big stars because nobody gives a shit about their current ones. It’s a harsh reality that a WWE fan who has been watching this company for years on end needs to come to terms with because it’s going to be a thing for a good long while. The current main event scene that populates your weekly programming are talented individuals who are saddled with horrendous material that presents them more as geeks than big time stars. It’s been like this for years and it will continue to be like this. And on the one chance they fluke on a good idea, it’s only a matter of time before they ruin that too.

It’s largely why I kept away from modern WWE programming; it’s too easy to be cynical about their storytelling and presentation. It’s quite telling that we’re about to roll into March and I’ve yet to watch the Royal Rumble in its entirety. Hell, it’s perhaps even more telling that I’m not really all that excited for Wrestlemania. If anything, I’m more hyped for the next AEW PPV – whose top programs comprise largely former WWE guys – than I am this year’s Wrestlemania; a scenario that I didn’t think was fathomable.

In any event, that’s over and done with. I’m sure WWE will find a way to give this latest Mania card something worth looking forward to… but I gotta be honest. I don’t like their chances.

Maybe what this show needs is more Shane McMahon…

Never mind.