Category: Musings

Earthworm Jim 1+2 Compo Cart From… YOWIE WOWIE!

Source: https://store.iam8bit.com/products/earthworm-jim-1-2-25th-anniversary-edition

Those whacky iam8bit guys are at it again. This time, they’re releasing a limited run of an Earthworm Jim multicart thing for the Super NES containing the first two games and issued in either udder pink or cow-print cart shells for the incredible low price of $134.99 USD. Yowie Wowie! That’s a bargain!*

* It’s not a bargain.

For those who want original carts, they’re both relatively cheap loose for twenty bucks a pop in either SNES or Genesis varieties. You can also bring up other versions, but they’re not relevant to today’s latest braindead offer. It’s one thing to issue repros of really rare or obscure stuff that’s hard to get, but Jim is the farthest thing from “hard to get.”

If this is what modern physical media has come down to, then it needs to die a death and never come back. When people want to buy physical media for the sake of PLAYING THEM and not having to DOWNLOAD anything EXTRA, then I’ll start giving a shit again.

Ey Eee Dubya on Tee Enn Tee

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/aew-tnt-announce-tv-deal-live-weekly-matches-begin-year-283816

So that’s it. TNT is back in the wrestling business, AEW has a TV deal of sorts, and Jamie Kellner is nowhere to be found. No real details on when the show will begin, what it will entail, and anything concrete, but give them credit. Four months in existence, they got a pretty sweet gig.

Now I don’t know what happens next, but hopefully, they will do well.

Bit The Bullet, Gave 2K (Some) Money

So I finally bit the bullet and bought that WWE 2K19 game off Steam… primarily because I could grab the deluxe version for forty bucks and be none the wiser.

Look, here’s the thing. The first couple WWE 2K games I bought because they came out months late and only cost about 50-60 bucks for the full release plus all DLC. Then after a while, it fell into the same practice as the console releases and it was just too much for me. Money is a thing, especially for a game that I might not see myself get too much mileage out of unless there’s something I like.

In any event, whenever I get the chance, I’ll probably give it a shot. Don’t expect anything to come of this from a “content” standpoint. Sometimes, I do things for a lark and that doesn’t always translate to consumable digital entertainment.

As for the Holy Grail special… yeah, I’ve seen it. Thoughts on it tomorrow.

Da Man Versus Da Phenom… In Dat Country We're Not Supposed To Talk About

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/wwe-announces-goldberg-vs-undertaker-saudi-arabia-283666

So, from what I’ve gathered, WWE has been doing whatever they could to get people to care about their Saudi shows aside from the somewhat controversial nature of the shows… you know, the stuff about women not being allowed to compete or that one time when WWE went ahead with their second Saudi show despite the murder of that one journalist.

The first time around, it was a fifty-man Royal Rumble event that was won by Straw the Braunyman. The second time around, Shawn Michaels wrestled with three old guys while Shane McMahon won a World Cup Tournament To Determine The Best In The World… fun fact: I have still yet to watch that show. And now, for the third go-around, dubbed the Super Showdown, Saudis can look forward to the dream match that was teased at a Royal Rumble years ago.

Bill Goldberg going one-on-one with the Undertaker… what’re the chances that the entrances last longer than the match itself? Also on tap for the show is Triple H going one-on-one with Randy Orton… again… as well as a FIFTY-MAN BATTLE ROYAL.

Oh yeah… I’m really excited for this thing…

Actually, no… no, I’m not.

A Word About [REDACTED]

2025 Prescript
The following post was written in regards to the controversy and allegations surrounding Youtuber Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer. Months after this post was made, Jared would post a video disproving a lot of what was said about him up to that point, which renders this post invalid as it was based on what has since been proven to be false information. I never did a follow-up post because I generally don’t touch on this sort of stuff, but in hindsight, I wish that I had because, again, this post was written when all the facts weren’t available or misrepresented.

Regardless, I’ve decided to keep this post up as is save for this opening statement because the fact is I’ve said these things and there’s no point in trying to hide it, but none of what is said here reflects my current thoughts on Jared, who continues to do his thing on Youtube. Maybe some day, I’ll give him another shot or two.

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WWE Attempts To Boost Sagging Ratings With MOAR TALKING

WWE has two taped episodes of their weekly programming and have attempted to answer their recent rating woes by announcing MOAR TALKING SEGMENTS.

In the case of tomorrow’s edition of Monday Nitro, there will be an interview segment with ROMAN REIGNS AND THE MIZ, as well as a double contract signing between Becky Lynch, Baby Flair, and that other girl whose name I don’t remember; the one with the military background who plays dress-up for some reason no one on the television show has bothered to explain to me. Meanwhile, over at Smackdown, Kevin Owens invited pancake-tossing Kofi Kingston (your reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion if you’ll recall) to his talk show segment because sure, why not?

As for matches… well, how about another Baron Corbin match? A couple four-ways that means nothing? A nothing tag match between the two Joshi with the Brit girl against the other two girls that the one Brit girl used to manage, but stopped for reasons… actually, I wouldn’t mind any match with Kairi Sane or Asuka in it because they’re awesome. They should invent new Women’s Tag-Team championships and let ’em run with it for a good long while.

Wait… what’s that? WWE have tag champs for the ladies? And it’s a geek tag-team?

Oh, yeah. Those are some prestigious and important belts… much like the other tag belts held by MOAR geeks… and also another set held by… The Vintner and Daniel Bryan Danielson?

This company confounds me with its booking sometimes… but hey, Money In The Bank should be a fun show at least. Maybe… kinda… sorta…

When’s Double Or Nothing again?

WWE Network To Air The Long Lost Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee Match

Source: https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-most-infamous-lost-match-has-been-found-bret-hart-tom-magee-wwe-network

So this is a match where Bret Hart wrestled a strongman named Tom Magee and somewhere along the way, the match was lost until it was found and now everyone wants to know about it because it’s a thing that happened. So, naturally, WWE Network is going to do a special about the match… maybe even show the match.

I expect this to do better numbers than RAW.

This Week Has HEAT! …literally.

Those WWE folks need not worry about getting some heat because this week, we’re getting a whole bunch of week. We’re already hitting the high-teens to low-twenty degrees (celcius) this week, which gives way to a rather scorching summer in the coming months. Even in a work place that is normally cool, the heat is being felt and the A/C isn’t quite keeping up. So, try to keep cool this week, folks, because it’s a bit of a HEAT wave.

So, in other words, keep that Corbin fellow off my TV and we’ll be fine.