Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

RAW (Nov. 21st, 2011) – Much Better Than Usual…

Managed to watch last night’s RAW and I have to admit that the show is far better than it has been in recent weeks. If anything, the wrestling is certainly a notch above what they’ve been doing… but then again, if there were two guys you could put together and get a top-notch wrestling match, it’d be CM Punk and Dolph Ziggler. I’m certainly happy that Punk is getting another go-around with the strap (even if he doesn’t get around to dumping the piece of shit and bringing a new title belt in) and Dolph Ziggler is certainly earning my interest every time he works a match. Here’s hoping he gets a shot at main event status somewhere down the line because I have a feeling that they haven’t even scratched the surface of Ziggler’s potential.

As far as the other couple matches on there, Zack Ryder continues to lose matches (but I’d be lying if I said he wasn’t entertaining in his losses), the Barrett/Kingston match was alright, and the Cody/Santino squash was nothing to write home about. If there was one thing I must compliment the booking on, it’s that all the finishes were clean here. Nice to see the creative team pull the reigns on nonsensical stunt bookings and just let the wrestlers tell the story.

Low points? Well, Johnny Ace is a bore, Johnny Cena is a whore, and no more Awesome Truth… because Truth got suspended… oops.

Overall, a stark improvement over previous weeks worth of RAW. Well done.

Capcom to release Super Street Fighter II on Virtual Console… AGAIN

Source Article: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/12/super-street-fighter-ii-coming-to-virtual-console-with-online-mu/

In a nutshell, Capcom Unity announced that they would port the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version of Super Street Fighter II over to Nintendo’s Wii Virtual Console at a future date. I find it pretty laughable that Capcom would consider releasing ANOTHER version of Super Street Fighter II onto the Virtual Console, especially a port of a game that has already been on the VC for a couple years already.

Oh well, I guess if you care about the possible inclusion of online play, it might be worthwhile… but then again, there’s already a very good fighter on the Wii with online play. It’s called Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom.

Just saying…

PETA Targets Mario For Murder… Two Decades Late

Source article: http://www.lensoftruth.com/peta-targets-mario-for-murder/

Animal rights group PETA claims Mario promotes skinning of animals with his Tanooki Suit.  Here are a few quotes that speak out against Nintendo’s legendary trademark plumber straight from their website.

“When on a mission to rescue the princess, Mario has been known to use any means necessary to defeat his enemy—even wearing the skin of a raccoon dog to give him special powers.  Tanooki may be just a ‘suit’ in Mario games, but in real life, tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur.”

“By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur. Play Super Tanooki Skin 2D and help Tanooki reclaim his fur!”

To us, this seems to be a bit silly to say the least.  I mean of all of the problems in the world that they could address, why bother with a fictional game character that has been harmless to their cause for well over a decade?  Are they hurting for publicity so bad that they actually have to make ridiculous spins on such pointless topics just to get attention?

Is it a valid complaint? What are your thoughts?

Facepalm Central indeed… I think animals would rather die than be represented by a bunch of whackos. The really sad thing is that they waited two decades to piss on Mario for Tanooki slaughter; Super Mario Bros. 3 was the first game to introduce that ability, as well as frog slaughter… wait, dude. Don’t give them any more ideas.

However… according to this article, PETA claimed that the dig was a joke… right. The only joke in this thing is the organization that came up with it.

Foley Defends "This Is Your Life" – Not Buying It

From wrestlenewz.com;

– A fan wrote to Foley on Twitter last night saying that the point behind his RAW segment with John Cena and The Rock was for people to hate it. Foley replied: “Exactly – the segment with @JohnCena was so bad it was good, and @TheRock put it out of its misery. Mr Cena was CLASSIC though!”
No, Mick. Just no.
The segment wasn’t “so bad it’s good” bad. It was “Jesus H. Christ, where’s that gun at so I can blow my brains out?” bad… okay, a bit stretching, but it was pretty bad. The 1999 Kennel From Hell match between Al Snow and Big Bossman, a match that came about because Bossman kidnapped (then cooked) Al Snow’s pet Chihuahua and is the only match of its kind for a variety of reasons? That’s an example of “so bad it’s good.” This was just bad and only served to remind me of days gone by.