Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

What Happened To Jack Swagger?

Once upon a time, there was a former All American American named Jack… who did a period in WWE before he did a trip to MMA… and then he appeared in AEW with Chris Jericho’s Inner Circle before fucking off to do shoot interviews where he called Tony Khan an idiot.

And then he participates in Concussions R Us (a.k.a. Power Slap) where he slapped a dude hard and that made him a winner, at which point he celebrated by shouting out “FACK DEE TONY CONZ!”

And then he lost his next fight against a former Ring Ka King guy… and then he lost another fight against a guy who ruptured his eyeball.

Moral of the story? Don’t Fack With Dee Tony Conz!

And also, Power Slap is for retards losers.

Absolutely worthless “sport.”

Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

(And of course, it’s age-restricted… Thanks, mainstream monkeys.)

From reputable news outlet The Onion comes this report about Sony’s plans to release another shitty doodad that doesn’t do the thing it’s fucking supposed to.

Wait, what do you mean this is a parody video?

Hold on, what do you mean this video is SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD?!

I thought this was relevant.

Still is.

Oh well…

Tomorrow’s a proper vid… but not THAT vid. Tomorrow will explain why.

Who Wants A Breast Implant?

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/40384279/wwe-legend-missy-hyatt-sells-boob-implant/

Yes, former first lady of wrestling (there’s a bunch of those, allegedly) Missy Hyatt recently engineered a sale of one of her old breast implants… you can pretty much figure out the rest for yourselves because I ain’t got shit.

If I still did WTF labels on this blog, this would certainly qualify.

A. I. Who And Other Stories

Someone sent me a link to something that has been causing some concern within the Doctor Who fan circles – a fan-made episode of Doctor Who that was crafted entirely with AI. It opens with David Tennant’s Doctor on the verge of regeneration and turning into a completely AI-Generated actor named John War or something like that.

I only caught glimpses of it here and there before shutting the video off and making a note to watch it later… only to discover that the video had been taken down. From what little I’ve seen, this AI thing may have done a better Doctor Who story than anything to come out of Marble Mouth Davies’ second stint in the Who chair.

If you find that response concerning, you should… and I can say that just from watching a few minutes of clip here and there.

Yeah… we might as well have THAT talk, too. Why not?

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Much Adieu About Nothing

Source: https://geektyrant.com/news/disney-pulls-the-plug-on-its-power-rangers-series-over-reported-budget-issues

We haven’t touched on this ’round these parts because I didn’t think it was worth talking about. And, really, what is there to say? Reports of Disney’s interest in developing a Power Rangers show lead to periods of silence before last month’s report that Disney backed away due to budgetary concerns. Is there any real surprise that this wouldn’t hold water?

Disney had dropped Doctor Who shortly after that run was completed. What made anyone think that they were going to go from spending money on one sci-fi property to spending money on another sci-fi property with a relatively smaller footprint? Not to mention that Disney, once upon a time, had Power Rangers as an intellectual property and largely treated as an afterthought before selling it back to Saban. If the Disney of old – long before they owned Marvel, Star Wars, 20th Century Fox, and other things – didn’t want to give Power Rangers the time of day, what made anyone think things were going to be different the second go-around?

As much as people want to believe otherwise, Power Rangers is this extremely niche thing that can never be anything more than what it is. They tried to turn it into broody teen angst superhero film almost a decade ago and not enough people cared enough for them to develop a sequel, during the days when everyone and their grandmothers thought that they could launch a cinematic universe full of puppy dogs and kitty kats. Turning it into generic superhero fare isn’t gonna work because that’s not what it is.

Developing a new PR series that isn’t just splicing in old Sentai footage for the action bits and building everything around that is not an easy process. At the same time, you can’t just do what the old show did and call it a reboot. If that were the case, there wouldn’t have been any reason to cancel the original run. I hate to say it, but as it is, the only sustainable means of getting new PR stories is through the ongoing comic books… and even those tend to be hit and miss.

I guess the wait continues… though I can’t imagine there be any solid movement towards a new show any time soon…

Should I go back to fanfiction? Has it come to that?

Eh.

Later.

TNA Bound For Glory 2015

Am I being an asshole for reusing the banner I whipped up for this show a decade ago when I did the musings for this thing shortly after watching it? Probably – especially considering both guys are in better states of mind nowadays than they were back then… but on the other hand, it’s pretty much the perfect picture for the state of TNA at the time of this particular piece of programming.

My original thoughts can be found here. A lot of this musings (especially for the early portion of the program where I really have nothing new to add) will just be copied-and-pasted from the original post, but there is enough new stuff towards the end that it’s not a complete cop-out… only a partial one.

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This Day In History… WCW Shitcans Steve Austin

September 15th, 1995 would be the day when Eric Bischoff called Steve Austin to tell him know that he was being fired from WCW. Austin, who had been nursing a tricep injury suffered during a recent tour in Japan, would subsequently make a brief stop at ECW before eventually signing with the World Wrestling Federation. Not sure what happened to that guy, but I’m sure he did okay.

Gotta keep engaged somehow, brother.