Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Tony Khan Uses Black Magic To Ban Joe Hendry From Ever Appearing In AEW

They say that if you say his name, Joe Hendry will appear.

Already making waves in his current home promotion of TNA Wrestling, the Scottish sensation and former Local Hero recently made waves by appearing on WWE’s NXT television show on Tuesday nights, much to the delight of the crowd. Not only that, but it seems that Hendry’s appearances have had effect on the ratings and overall television product.

Hearing about this and fearful that Joe Hendry’s magic might effect his own promotions, AEW president and ROH owner Tony Khan had administered some black magic hocus pocus to prevent Joe Hendry from ever appearing on AEW television for the foreseeable future. Not even saying his name would cause the former WCPW Champion to appear at either AEW or ROH events for the foreseeable future. While Khan considers Hendry to be a great wrestler, he’s nowhere near the greatness of his many big wrestling stars like Jumpin’ Jack Perry or the Warhorsemen. Hendry’s appearing in AEW could invoke some much needed energy and enthusiasm into the show, something Khan clearly doesn’t want to detracted from the main event angle of the Elite running roughshod in AEW ever since they attacked the AEW head… even though he’s back in the office.

Morale in the AEW locker room is said to be at an all-time low, but Tony Khan promise that they have all the talent they need right here… before announcing the signing of ten more free agents from some obscure Japanese wrestling promotion that nobody outside of the hardcoriest of hardcore fans could honestly give two fucks about.

Also in other news, Drew McIntyre played a game of Pong against a vacuum cleaner. He was on the verge of winning until that fucking asshole Phil came along and distracted Drew, allowing the vacuum clean to mount an incredible comeback for the win.

Across The Grid: The Other PR Comic Written By PR Actors

Source: https://morphinlegacy.com/2024/07/power-rangers-across-the-morphin-grid-1-announced/

So BOOM! Studios announced a one-shot Power Rangers comic called Across The Grid, which will be an anthology of stories written by various Power Rangers actors, including David Yost, Walter Jones, Steve Cardenas, Nakia Burrise, and Meghan Camarena (the Strawburry person of Hyperforce fame.) The issue will see release in late-October and who knows? Maybe if it goes well, it could invite other actors to come in and share their own stories if they have any to share.

Now that I think about it, considering David Yost is one of the contributors to this thing, what are the odds he decides to take his Quantum Continuum thing and turn it into a comic book series? I know some would prefer it to be a television project, but honestly, you could do so much more with the comic book medium and not have to worry about budgetary limitations or the like. Amy Jo Johnson proved such a thing is possible and can turn out great. Maybe Yost could consider the same avenue?

For what it’s worth, I’ve read the two scripts that he put out… I have no qualms about saying that it’s not my sort of story, but there is some potential for a compelling series here should he want to develop it further. All I’m saying is that if TV isn’t a viable option, then maybe consider the comic route because I feel it might work best there.

AEW Dynamite (July 17th, 2024) – I Said His Name And He Didn’t Appear…

I guess Tony Khan doesn’t believe in Joe Hendry.

He probably should; guy’s been doing great numbers for NXT lately. Wouldn’t surprise me if TNA pulled the trigger on him – not that I would expect them to.

Alas, we’re not talking about Impact – even though we probably should – but rather it’s this past Wednesday’s Dynamite show, which is the last show before next week’s big Blood & Guts match, which is a regular annual thing we do rather than something that’s needed to raise the stakes in a hot feud. I’ll be honest with you, folks; I am not feeling this Elite Vs. Team AEW thing that’s going on. The whole thing comes across as totally lame and also confuses me; so the Elite take out Tony Khan so that they can take over AEW, but now that he’s back, they… still have power and we have a limp dick commissioner in Christopher Daniels. Meanwhile, we’re trying to make the former Jungle Boy into a big time heel act and we even gave him the TNT title, but he comes across as such a wannabe tough-guy sounding geek that I can’t help but laugh. Then there’s Okada, one of the New Japan greats, who’s more than content to phone it in while racking in the dough. He must have learned a thing or two from Shinsuke Nakamura.

Just about the only guy who feels like a major heel is Hangman, who’s only in this match so that he can continue his feud with Swerve, who also happens to be the only major face on the AEW side of the match. Making up that group is Mark Briscoe – a guy that people actually like, but hasn’t done much of anything on AEW television… the fact that he happens to be the reigning ROH World Champion seems to be more of an afterthought than anything. And then we have the Acclaimed – good tag team, but not quite a major force for this type of match – and the returning Darby Allin, who seems to be perpetually punished for his wanting to climb Everest by suffering enough injuries to put off said climb and on top of that, going from one crazy match to another where he will undoubtedly try and kill himself to get more time on the injured list.

Right now, this Wargames, er, I mean, Blood & Guts match has no reason for existing beyond “it’s a thing we do every year.” It’s become the new “Hell In A Cell” where every year we do a Hell In A Cell match whether the matches warrant it or not. Hell, WWE stopped doing that with their Hell In A Cell match, but then turned around and turned Wargames into a Survivor Series thing. I mean, can we not just have these matches happen when we need them to happen to further the story? Must we have a match for the sake of a match? Do we have to pick up every discarded and hated WWE trope just so we could be the alternative to the other company that’s doing all the stuff we used to do? You know, the stuff that made us worth watching?

As far as the rest of the show goes… eh…

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Last Weekend Enforced My Lack Of Faith In Humanity

I very rarely lean into real world, serious stuff, but I figured that I’d chime in a quick thought on what happened this past weekend involving Donald Trump. I assume you know the details by now, so I won’t repeat that here. I do wish to offer my prayers and best wishes to the families of the one attendee who was killed and two others who were injured.

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AEW Full Gear 2023

Remember the good ol’ days of Being The Elite, when Full Gear was a running gag referring to Hangman Page roaming about in his gear until someone asked him why the fuck was he in full gear? So he decided to go on the “Full Gear Challenge” to whip himself into shape or something? Those were the days.

What does that have to do with this Full Gear 2023 PPV? Probably nothing. I just needed an excuse to bring that particular image back because it evokes so many warm, fuzzy memories… and let me tell you something; warm, fuzzy feelings is precisely what I’m not feeling with this PPV… which explains why I skipped it… but here we are. Better late than never, I suppose. Or is it?

Let’s find out, shall we?

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2000 Games By 2025?

Took a trip to a local store that sells retro game stuff… first time I came across this place and probably the last time I’ll be stepping foot in person. A bit of a shame, because it’s a nice looking place, got quite a bit of haul, and the people there are quite nice… but the parking in the area is quite shit and on top of that, this is near one of the major roads in Montreal and that road seems to be in a constant state of being under construction.

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Gamecube Has Achievements… But Only In Emulation. (So It Really Doesn’t.)

Source: Time Extension article

So the Dolphin emulator – that thing that lets you play Gamecube and Wii games on computers and other things – has introduced an update that adds achievements to Gamecube games. So you can earn little “trophies” or “achievements” in Gamecube games much in the same way you can Steam, Xbox, and PS titles. Good for those who emulate this stuff, but kinda useless for those who play actual hardware, which is quite a few people, still.

I don’t know; I’ve never cared for achievements in the first place. There’s a nice optional thing to have and give the player some extra incentive, but beyond that, it’s not like you get anything worth a damn for achieving these feats in the first place. Still, if you care for such things and you emulate Gamecube, this might be worth pursuing until Nintendo comes along and extinguishes all the dolphins on Earth or something.

Gimmick Tables are delayed a week. Stuff came up recently and I’ve not gone ’round to ’em yet. But the reviews are on schedule, at least.