Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

What Did You Expect?

On July 13th, 2019, All Elite Wrestling will present its Fight For The Fallen event, in which all profits will be donated to victims of gun violence. The main event for the show (or at least, the one match heavily promoted) is a tag-team match between The Young Bucks and Cody & Dustin Rhodes. It will be broadcast for free on Bleacher Report Live.

Some time ago this week, WWE announced that they would air the EVOLVE 10th Anniversary show live on the WWE Network on, you guessed it, July 13th, 2019. This has caused some fans of AEW as well as AEW executive and top star Kenny Omega to cry foul at a move designed to hurt the upstart promotion’s showing.

To these people, I would like ask… what did you expect?

For all of their talk about competition being good for business, the last thing Vince McMahon or anyone within the WWE power structure would want is the presence of viable competition that has the potential to compete on their level as far as product goes. This sort of tactic dates back to when Vince was counter-programming against the Crockett shows back in the 80s. Why do you think events like the Survivor Series and Royal Rumble exist? For the explicit purpose of fucking with Crockett. I need not go into details regarding their tussels with WCW or TNA when those promotions were vying for a piece of that particular real estate.

Surely, the folks at AEW (and their fans) should’ve known that they’d have an uphill battle. Not only in trying to do what others have failed to do, but do so while fending off any potential attacks against WWE on that particular playfield. If anyone honestly thought that WWE would let AEW become a thing without resorting to underhanded tactics to undermine the whole thing, they’re more naive that I would’ve thought.

In any event, it should be an interesting night of wrestling on July 13th. And one has to wonder if this is going to result in a split in the audience… or maybe, just maybe, both shows might gain their own individual audiences. People cry foul when Nitro debuted… and then it turned out both Nitro and RAW got its own audiences. And really, if that ends up being the case, doesn’t everyone win?

In any event, I’m looking forward to the Fyter Fest show this Saturday… and even the FFTF show is piquing my interest… the EVOLVE? Not so much, but I’m not familiar with them… and it’ll be on the VOD anyway, so…

Thing are definitely heating up.

HEAT!

Full-sized C64 Clone Coming… Talk About Bad Timing.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/a-commodore-64-clone-with-a-working-retro-keyboard-will-1835836875

You know… they were selling the C64 mini things for thirty bucks and I picked one up. And then news broke that they’re coming out with a full-sized C64 clone with functional keyboard and a better joystick. Apparently, this new version also includes BASIC for the older Commodore VIC-20, which would be right up my alley…

But yeah… plenty pissed now. I could’ve waited for this thing instead of buying the flippin’ Mini.

Oh well. Should be interesting to see how this goes.

WWE Stomping Grounds 2019

So a three-day long weekend meant that I was somehow able to find time to watch WWE’s incredible Stomping Grounds PPV that was widely anticipated by the masses… okay, that’s a lie. It’s a card featuring a bunch of rematches from a show nobody watch, with pair-ups that nobody in their right minds could honestly care about.

Just as a bit of a primer, Sunday night was busy and when I got back, I flipped through Apple TV and logged onto the network, where I discovered that the show was still on. And what did I see? Baron Corbin making his entrance and cameras cutting to the shot above quickly before cutting back to Corbin. This amuses me enough to take a picture (no screenshooting device at the moment) and plaster it on my Twitter soundboard for the lulz. Turns out it’s gotten quite a response and I’m not quite sure why… but hey, somebody liked it. I just hope they don’t follow the channel because nothing of value pops up and I like that there are no followers on there.

But I digress… on with the show. Unfortunately.

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Limited Run Previews Its 8-Bit Star Wars Re-Releases… And They Suck

Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/limited-run-games-to-re-release-star-wars-for-nes-and-game-boy/

So the first wave of Limited Run Star Wars re-releases come in the form of three games; Star Wars: Bounty Hunter for PS4 (basically a disc version of the PS2 emulated game you can get on PSN) and the Star Wars 8-bit game for NES and Game Boy. While Bounty Hunter is getting a basic game case like most PS4 disc games, the cart games are being re-released in these action figure-like packages… which seems really, really stupid.

Here’s the deal, kids; both games are available for dirt cheap in their original cartridge formats. And while the NES Star Wars is a pretty decent game despite a few flaws, the Game Boy version of the same game is an unmitigated disaster. Still, if you wanted these games to play, you can still easily find them for 20-30 bucks… slightly more complete in box, which includes, among other things, a genuine honest-to-god instruction manual that taught you how to play the game.

No such thing appears to be included with these things… but I guess we’ll have to wait and see when the order goes up.

And I get it. These are “collector’s items” for the collectors… the ones who want to display these on a shelf, unloved and unopened… but even in that regard, this is just lousy. Whatever happened to the good ol’ fashioned cardboard box with paper instructions?

I don’t know… we’ll see on Friday and maybe I’ll lose my mind and pick one of these up.