21 Years Ago In TNA #11 – Oh Wait… Never Mind. (August 28th, 2002)

This PPV was a taped show, having been taped after the previous show, which I thought was actually pretty good… enough, at least. This is readily apparent in that the crowd isn’t as enthusiastic as they were in the last show… in fact, they were quite dead.

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Switch Security (Allegedly)

Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/08/denuvos-switch-emulator-protection-is-now-available-via-nintendos-official-dev-portal

Denuvo – the PC security company fucking up PC games with their security methods designed to curtail software piracy but actually hurting the people who buy the games and forcing them to pirate their purchased software… GREAT JOB, LADS.
So yeah, they hooked up with Nintendo to prevent Switch emulation. Now Switch owners can not only complain about subpar ports of AAA games because the developers couldn’t be bothered, but now they’ve got questionable security gimmicks that could potentially fuck up their games even further, prompting the people who buy their games legit to find ways to be able to play them properly… which usually entails – wait for it – PIRATING THEIR GAMES OR RESORTING TO EMULATION!
Why does this fucking company exist? Who gives these fuckers money? Their methods do nothing to curtail piracy and do more harm to the people who actually buy the games legitimately, which forces them to pirate their games or find patches to circumvent that nonsense. And they’re not the only ones guilty of this.
If you want to fight piracy and curtail emulation of your products, Nintendo, then maybe consider doing things to discourage such behavior. This is only going to boost that further. Morons.

21 Years Ago In TNA #10 – Oh Sh!t! It’s A Genuinely Honest-To-Dixie Good Show Ya’ll! (August 21st, 2002)

You know what, kids? I was ready to call it quits on this experiment… I mean, there was no reason to go on. I already saw Truth win the NWA Title and as happy as I was to watch it, the stuff that followed was less than stellar. These shows were getting bad. I had no problem jumping off the train at number 10. In fact, I was dreading this show because I’m expecting more of the same and all I needed was that one push off the edge to call this whole thing off.

And then an amazing thing happened as I was watching this show; something that seemed almost impossible given what I had witnessed these past few weeks.

The show was good… not just good, but REALLY good.

In fact, I may go so far to say that I actually LIKED this show.

How ’bout that, huh?

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21 Years Ago In TNA #09 – No Buys. No Money. (August 14th, 2002)

So I am going to be up front about this. Today’s musings will be focusing primarily on the main story that plays out during the show and less so on the undercard stuff, which only has one thing worth mentioning and that’s the triple threat X-Division title match that sees Low Ki defeat champ AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn to win the title in a pretty good match… and then there’s more crap with Disco and the Dupps. Monty Brown cuts a interview with Mike Tenay and then gets attacked by Elix Skipper.

None of that shit matters, m’kay? Because there’s the main reason why I was looking forward to this show and part of it contributes to the overall bullshit of this show.

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WWE Summerslam 2023

So this was a thing that happened, right? The 2023 edition of Summerslam from FORD FIELD.

WWE likes to call Summerslam the biggest party of the summer or something like that. That’s the tagline for as long as I can remember. I don’t know about the biggest, but I can sure tell that this was the longest… or at least, it felt that way. And here I thought All In was going to be the most trivial thing coming up despite all the hype behind it and here comes Summerslam to sort of… well, let’s get into my thoughts on the show.

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