Hunting For Ghosts Y'All – The 2015 Ghost Hunt 2.0

Before WWE gave us NXT 2.0, the Irate Gamer brought us Ghost Hunting 2.0… but with less colors.

Back in 2015, Chris Bores wrote a book about ghost hunting. Somehow, I got a copy for my reading device and the end result was a couple experiments documented in a couple vlogs. Those vlogs has been assembled into a single video, along with some additional audio blurbs.
This is what passes as a Halloween special in 2021, kids; a couple old VLOGs and some audio bits. The special effects have been redone, however, so that’s something?

AEW Dynamite (Oct. 27, 2021) – Proton Pack, Protein Pack, Glass Of Milk, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE?!

Well, it’s the Halloween edition, apparently, which means the Elite are in costumes and stuff. Anyway, said costumes are a source of contention for some reason, so let’s get into… something or other.

Quick comments and bits and bobs after the break.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (Oct. 27, 2021) – Proton Pack, Protein Pack, Glass Of Milk, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE?!”

Smackdown (October 22nd, 2021) – It’s A (Supposed) New Era

I’m experiencing some audio problems at the moment, so we’re doing these wrestling TV musings in the interim since they’re easier to cook up. There might be more “phantom posts” being done of this ilk.

So apparently, I had Smackdown on the ol’ DVR and decided to give it a whirl, since it’s a supposed new era and all that. And whenever I would try to jump onto a first show of a new era, I would’ve liked to go through the whole thing and bring up some good points, bad points, or whatever. And I was hoping to do the same here.

WWE just did their draft a while ago and this episode of Smackdown was supposed to be the beginning of a new era where the RAW and Smackdown rosters wouldn’t be crossing over. Except we got Survivor Series coming up and we need to start building up to our annual “brand supremacy” stuff that only a minute group of people outside the WWE bubble would actually care about. But still, it was a new era and with a new era – allegedly, there is a new freshness.

As it turns out… that’s not quite the case. Because at the end of the day, it’s still WWE. And a new era may as well be another coat of paint over the same aging table that’s starting to crack. A lot of the stuff that irked me about the show relates to production; the awful 3D graphics used for the entrances, the constant camera cuts, the insufferable commentary that spews out many words and says absolutely nothing, and the main event angle was fucking stupid. We’ll get to that.

Continue reading “Smackdown (October 22nd, 2021) – It’s A (Supposed) New Era”

AEW Dynamite (October 23rd, 2021): Fade To Rhodes

The show opens with Bryan Danielson and Dustin Rhodes just beating the whole hell out of each other in a fantastic wrestling match that ended with Danielson trapping Dustin in a guillotine and causing him to pass out, thus winning the match and advance in the World Title Eliminator tournament for a World title shot in the future. Good to hear that this Danielson fellow is keeping his promise of providing excellent professional wrestling because I’ve been enjoying his stuff. As for Dustin, the fact that he did all that stuff in his early-50s proves that age isn’t a detriment if you can still go… and boy can that SOB still go.

Continue reading “AEW Dynamite (October 23rd, 2021): Fade To Rhodes”