Disappointed by Victory Road? TNA Gives You Free Access To Their Archive

Source article here.

So I guess I didn’t miss much at the PPV if TNA was going to pull off this kind of deal.

In hindsight, I wish I had purchased the PPV this past weekend if I knew there was going to be a deal like this. And quite honestly, sending a receipt for a PPV whose main event ripped off everybody to get six months to their video vault ain’t too shabby. It takes huge grapefruits on the part of TNA to admit that their show wasn’t up to snuff (even though I enjoy parts of what I say outside of the main event squash) and an even bigger set to make up with an offer this generous.

Hey, remember when WWE gave us that December To Dismember PPV back in 2006? Remember them offering you six months of free OnDemand service following the abysmal response? Yeah, didn’t think so…

It’s one of those rare instances where I can’t slap the Total Nonstop Morons label onto this post because it’s actually something positive…

Go figure.

RAW (March 14th, 2011) – RAW Bites… And I Mean Bites

No more insta-videos here. Time for some quick RAW notes:

– The opening promo with Rock and Cena was excellent. I wonder how John Cena will respond… oh wait, I know how he will respond – with another nursery rhyme. In the war of words, Rock is dominating this ten times over. And on top of that, he treats Miz like a viable threat as opposed to a joke. Nice rub.

– So wait, John Cena gets Alberto Del Rio… and the Miz gets the Great Khali? Really? What, is Giant Gonzales unavailable?

– Sheamus is YOUR new US Champion so, maybe he won’t be treated as a joke… maybe I should change the Juan Cena episodes… nah, I’m not gonna bother. Regardless, these two had a great match and I was impressed, even if the stipulation made the end result a dead giveaway.

– Wow, they’re really bringing back all the old-timers, aren’t they? Last week, it was JBL. This week, it’s Brian Christopher… and man, does he look… not good… I mean, what? They couldn’t get Miss Kitty on the show? Just… WOW. I feel old.

– Oh yeah, JR is back to get his ass kicked. What a surprise.

– So Randy Orton managed to do what John Cena couldn’t; kill the Nexus. Actually, that’d be stretching it. Nexus was already dead by this point; all Orton did was cut off the life support. It just seems sad and unfortunate that what started off as a surefire winner in 2010 became an absolute joke and non-entity on the mangled, broken road to Wrestlemania.

– Miz dressed up as the Rock? Not bad, missing darker skin and the huge-ass tribal tattoo. Miz beatdown on Cena, however? Excellent stuff. If this doesn’t sell Miz as a threat, I don’t know what will. In fact, I’m amazed by Miz’s dominance over Cena in the build-up. This is how we push a champion, folks.

And another thing…

So yeah… RAW was actually entertaining. Good episode, in fact. So that’s nice.

Two 30 Second Ads For One Thirty-Second Video?

Beastly In 5 Seconds is 30 seconds, with the WORST Plinkett impersonation ever… and that warrants sitting through a minute’s worth of ads?

Fuck you, Noah. I hope those viewings of Impact… well, actually, no. I’d never hope that on anybody, to be honest.

Except you… yes, you. You know who you are.

Abandoned Ideas: The Dragon Warrior Chronicles

So tonight, I started playing the original Dragon Warrior for the first time in years. And much like I do with most of my gameplay, I’ve been recording my progress to DVD archive. I want to be able to chronicle my progress, but I don’t want to do it in a typical Let’s Play format because it would take too damn long. Anyone who has played the first Dragon Warrior (or Dragon Quest, if you prefer, which I do not) will recall that this is level-grinding at its most tedious – battles are always one on one. Don’t get me wrong – I’m loving every moment of it and the game is every bit as enjoyable as it was when I first played it as a kid, but the grinding does take a long time and grinding does not make for interesting videos.

So what I had in mind was to do a usual playthrough, but rather than record every grinding moment, I’ll keep in the more notable moments – level upgrades, new spells, purchases – and possibly less-than-notable moments, interesting observations, and just random stuff. It’s probably not much of an original idea, but it’s something different in regards to my usual output. This is presently all in the planning stages and it’s hard to tell how long this is going to be… likely depending on how long the game holds my interest… which, these days, is rather hard to do. In either case, it should be an interesting experience for me, anyhow.

More to come when it comes available.

Until then… thou hast died.

(2024 Update: This was one of those ideas that I had trying to come up with some interesting video ideas, because when you’re new to the whole video making process, you usually like to experiment with stuff to see what works and what doesn’t. In the end, the plan fell through and I never got around to playing Dragon Warrior until years later, where that footage would be used for a review… but that’s another story.)