And she doesn’t look happy about it…
I don’t see a death glare; I see a glare of someone who doesn’t want to be here.
Maybe this WWE thing will have her learn how to do more facial expressions beyond just this blank stare of nothingness.
Still, good for her. She deserves the honor, I suppose.
Not an MMA guy, so I wouldn’t know.
Welp.
So, as an obvious show of weakness, I decided to cave and check out some of the E3 coverage for the purposes of mild amusement. As a whole, I don’t expect a whole lot of stuff here to be of relative interest to me personally, but I’d figure this would be a nice way to kill a few minutes. I’m going to be a couple days behind on these posts if I decide to do more of them, but it shouldn’t be much of an issue since nothing I say here outside of whatever personal inflections might come about hasn’t already been said by others who follow this stuff more closely.
Regardless, here’s Part 1 of… something, I guess.
Former pro wrestler and now former UFC celebrity fighter CM Punk once held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship for 434 days, having defended the title 141 times before losing it to the Rock to set up a needless “Twice In A Lifetime” rematch with John Cena.
As of today, Brock Lesnar holds the record for the longest reigning WWE champion of the modern day, having defended the Red Belt title throughout this time a grand total of ten times.
Ten times.
TEN FUCKING TIMES.
If you fuckers want to believe that there is some semblance of so-called prestige in this toy belt that is supposed to be on par with the WWE World championship in the fictional universe of WWE, then I’d very much like to know what brand of drugs you’ve been shooting so I can avoid that stuff like the fucking plague. This belt is a joke, it has been a joke, it will always be a joke… it’s almost a farce at this point.
First champion had to relinquish the belt because he got a boo-boo.
And then you have Kevin Owens, a heel Quebecois. I barely remember anything he’s done with the belt and that’s sad because his was the most significant.
And then we have Goldberg, who broke two records in not only being the first American to hold the belt, but also being the oldest champion in that lineage, who held it for a couple weeks before dropping it to Brock at Mania and 435 days later, here we are.
Ten. Fucking. Times.
And now Roman Reigns is rumored to be getting another shot at Brock… at Summerslam no less. Because THIS TIME FOR SURE.
Actually, you know what? Maybe CM Punk should tuck his chin and go for another UFC fight… and then THIS TIME FOR SURE, he might actually win.
Yeah, it’s that kind of post.
Our old buddy, our old pal Chick Magnet Punk has had an interesting couple weeks. He had the big trial against the Z-Pak Doctor and won. And then he had his second UFC fight and lost. And then Corey Graves decides to start a Twitter thing because that’s what you do when you want to come off as “cool” and “hip.”
Listen, I don’t care, either way. I will cherish the good memories Punk has given me through his wrestling endeavors and if he never wants to go back to that, then that’s okay. Whatever makes him happy going forward, I wish him all the best. And as much as we rail him about his UFC failures, he tried at least. And he should be applauded for trying… and I can say that with full confidence and full sincerity because I did not pay a single cent to buy a UFC show for the sole purpose of watching Punk fight… or flail… whatever the case may be.
Because believe or not, contrary to what a lot of the wrestling industry or whatever seems to believe, not everyone who watches wrestling also watches MMA. So trying to make wrestling more like MMA or vice versa is not going to make one like the other automatically.
That having been said, I feel like this should be his last fight. I don’t need to hear news of him trying again and chasing that elusive first win. He’s got money, he’s got other stuff to do that isn’t physical, he’s got a lovely wife, he’s got heart and tenacity, and he still has a head. I’d rather he lived his life than try to risk it in another lopsided endeavor. And besides, I don’t think the UFC world wants CM Punk to be the equivalent of the Roman Reigns “THIS TIME FOR SURE!” running joke that WWE audiences had to endure all these years.
So that was a thing.
Source Article here.
I’m a little late to the party and quite honestly, this revelation or pointing out of the obvious (if you prefer) may either sour you on the project going forward or it will not affect you in the slightest. If there is one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that that one game being played that isn’t Tempest or an old Atari game is apparently a remake of the 2600 classic Yars’ Revenge.
Mind you, a Yars Revenge remake from 2012. A remake designed for mobile devices and web browsers… as demonstrated here in this very old blog. Hell, you can play that very same Yars Revenge remake from 2012 featured in that Ataribox trailer right here… provided you have a good working version of FLASH!
Soooo… we’re about a week in, the campaign has garnered less than three million, and there’s already potential cracks that may lead some to believe that this thing might not be all it claims to be. You can tell how inspired with confidence I am at the moment.
So add another bit to the big ol’ Ataribox video… and maybe let’s do that joke video along the way if possible.
Ataribox’s IndieGoGo campaign has so far accumulated $2.7 million, just shy of surpassing the 3 million mark… well, that’s rather anticlimatic considering the somewhat strong start. However, if recent Youtubers are to be believed, apparently Ataribox might not be on the up and up. I’d elaborate on this further, but I’m still trying to find a source for this information before I comment. If that’s the case, then… welp.
Still, I might have a little fun with this thing via a video this week, while I save the other video that I wanted to get out for a while now for when the campaign terminates at the end of the month (or earlier). I thought this was going to be a quick thing and it turns out to be a potentially huge video that I need to split in half.
As a bonus, I thought of the idea to try and keep track of this campaign’s progress, by recording how much it made at what times. Stuck with the idea last weekend for the most part before I promptly forgot about it, because apparently I had better, more important things to do during the week like produce a stool test or something. So this is what I recorded:
As you could probably tell, it wasn’t a huge, colossal leap and I was so certain that this thing would surpass 3 million by this point that I was ready to announce that there were new paddle controllers on the way. So maybe that gag video might be worth a damn after all.
As for that other piece of news… well, more on that later, I suppose.
So Boom Studios recently announced another Power Rangers comic book and wouldn’t you know it; it’s yet another Tommy-centric comic book written by Kyle Higgins. Oh boy, because clearly we haven’t had enough of the Tommy Wankfest from Mr. Higgins, what with the alt-universe “Evil Tommy” bad guy that reeks of unoriginal fanficcy tripe (we’ve all done that bit, even me).
I was fine with the focus when the book started because the transitional period of the Green Ranger and the addition of a new member of the team was something that was never really touched on. And then you toss in an alternate universe ruled by an evil Ranger that everyone knew was an evil Tommy because of course it was. And then we had to find a way to keep that worthless character around and make him the central villain of a major comic event.
Look, I’m going to reserve judgment on the whole Shattered Grid thing until it reaches its eventual conclusion and I’d imagine I’m probably going back to the beginning of the series and giving some quick thoughts on each chapter. And this older Tommy comic might give me a couple chuckles here or there (though to be honest; I’ve been that road as well, so that’s not quite original territory, either.)
But I’m warning you folks; if the end of Shattered Grid isn’t Kyle Higgins inserting himself into the story and giving Jason Frank a blowjob, then all the hype would’ve have been for nothing.
A piece of troubled teenhood, when my days in high school were spent doodling quick little comics with such silly concepts and ideas as a crossover between Street Fighter characters and Power Rangers characters. The artwork, as seen above depicting Ryu freeing a Ranger from Bison’s energy tube thing, is crude and the story is perhaps more so, but it’s not a far-fetched idea from what’s being done with the phone game now.
And then I went ahead and turned it into an absurd fanfic that was eventually posted to the world and stuff. The funny thing was that at some point, I actually did try to piece together a more “serious” story that crossed over the universes of the Street Fighter II animated movie with the first MMPR feature film in a situation that allowed for a little more leeway than trying to work within the constrains of the bloated universes the source material became, but it never really went beyond the first couple chapters and even then… not much there to go on.
Maybe someday, I might post those up here if I still have them. I doubt that I do, but hey, something extra for the blog, I suppose.
Says it all, right?
Then again… maybe he should save a couple for the weekend.
So apparently, Baron Corbin was made the Constable of Monday Night RAW in order to keep things orderly… I suppose if you need a way to impose Nipple H’s will without showing Nipple H, this is about as good a way as any, but really, if you needed a constable, you should have went for this guy.
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