Category: Musings

"Because The World Was Clamoring For An XPW Revival," He Lied.

Original source: http://www.wrestlenewz.com/wrestling/wwe-news/vince-congratulates-cena-xpw-returning-divas-dressed-up-last-night/

The newsbit of particular note and facepalm worthiness is as follows;

The infamous Rob Black will be bringing back his XPW promotion on October 31st in Los Angeles. The event will feature a 12-man tournament for the XPW Title with names being announced soon.

For those who don’t know, here’s a very brief and very truncated primer; X-treme Pro Wrestling was a wrestling promotion that was first started in 1999 by porn producer Rob Zicari a.k.a. Rob Black. Apparently, Black presented XPW the same way he allegedly presented his porn: it was garbage, bullshit wrestling with plenty of nonsensical violence and plenty of trash in both the literal and figurative sense of the word. You know how some people liked to refer to the old ECW as Extremely Crappy Wrestling? XPW lived up to its moniker as X-tremely Putrid Waste. The company “supposedly” got better in its later years when it moved to the East Coast and Shane Douglas was champion, but from I saw of one of the XPW compilation discs released in recent years when the footage was under the control of one of those DVD companies, I saw nothing of the sort to confirm that conception. It was still pretty crap.

Somewhere along the way, Black got busted for obscenity charges and XPW was subsequently shut down in 2003. Black served his time and is now back to restart the company and run regular shows and stuff…

So… yeah. XPW is coming back, huh? Um… yeah, color me uninterested. Oh, I’m sure there are some mutants that’ll be happy to see this crap come back. But… bleh. No thanks.

VIDEO – No Bouyah For Ashens…

So famed self-proclaimed “idiot in a suit” Dr. Ashen got his hands on an Ouya… After watching this vid, I think I might be saving myself a hundred bucks as a result… or at least furthered the possibility of spending it on the other Android-based machine that I’ve been considering. Anyway, here’s the video for those wanting to check it out.

Technicolor Tommy Challenges CM Punk To A Fight… WHAT?

Source: http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/288203/Original-Green-Power-Ranger-Challenges-CM-Punk-to-MMA-Fight.htm

Yeah, so Jason Frank wants to challenge CM Punk to a MMA match. Just digest that for a minute… and then let’s follow that up with this.

Boy, oh boy, talk about your delusions of grandeur. Seriously, man, what the fuck is wrong with you? Jesus Christ, man, why don’t you just shoot a challenge over to Bozo The Clown or something?

I guess this clip sums up my feelings on the matter.

And he SPEAKS the truth.

Xbox 180

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/19/xbox-one-80-microsoft-reverses-xbox-one-drm-features/

An excellent decision. Where’s my imaginary chef puppet?

Seriously, Microsoft made a good move here. Especially if they want to continue the pretense of actually having customers.

To those who wanted DRM-loaded digital content and are pissed by the setbacks of Microsoft’s decision, there’s a really nice platform you can go for that does all this and more. It’s called your computer. See also iPhone, iPad, Android, iDontCare, iThis, iThat, iWhat, etc. etc. etc.

Interesting Site: Reality TV Revisited

Source: https://www.realitytvrevisited.com

Do you like them Ramsay shows with kitchens from hell with plenty of nightmares? Have you ever wondered what happened to the people involved? Well, I’ve got the site for you.

Actually, I don’t got the site. Somebody else does… but I’ve got a link.

For those who like to know what happened to the people and restaurants who have felt the Ramsay wave, this site does a good job of tracking these things down. Even does updates when there’s a status change, which always nice. Simple, straightforward, functional and clean.

If this sort of thing interests you, then go check the site out.

Mega Mang

A friend of mine inquired about the whole Mega Man in the upcoming Smash Bros game and the only thing that crossed my mind is… “Okay, that’s kinda cool. Is there any new Mega Man coming up? This is supposed to be the 25th Anniversary of Mega Man here.”

I’m feeling a bit iffy about the whole deal here, actually. Other than a Mega Man fangame being endorsed, a few rereleases of the NES games here and there, and a Smash Bros. stint, what else is Capcom doing with the 25th anniversary of their Blue Bomber character that put them on the map? Where’s the new Mega Man game? I don’t care which version comes out. Just a new Mega Man game would be nice.

So far, this 25th Anniversary is something of a bust for me… oh well.