TNA Bound For Glory 2010

Quick note before we begin today’s scheduled musings… so, for the month of October, we are foregoing the weekly PPV Musings and when we return in November, it’ll be covering this year’s Bound For Glory PPV. Bound For Glory is TNA’s flagship PPV event, similar to a Wrestlemania or Starrcade… okay, that might be stretching it nowadays, but you get the general idea. Anyway, this’ll be the first Bound For Glory show that I’ve watched live since… ages. And given how good the TNA product has been this year, I’m sure they’ll be delivering a fine enough show for the ages… which is more than what I can say for today’s subject matter.

As a matter of fact, I had gone ahead and watched the TNA Victory Road show from a couple weeks ago and that was a great show, probably one of the better TNA outputs I’ve seen in this new era. The smart side of my brain suggests that I talk about this show before taking the break from musings to focus on the October marathon of reviews… but sadly, I’m not listening to the smart side of the brain today because soon afterwards, I jumped into the TNA archives to watch the Bound For Glory show from October 10, 2010.

Yes, the 10-10-10 edition of Bound For Glory. Otherwise known as Vincent “Big Vinny V” Verhei’s birthday… yeah, not quite a happy birthday for him, I’m sure.

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TNA Impact (September 19th, 2024) – I Swear, They’re Doing This As A Gag

With TNA’s Victory Road event in the back-burner, we begin the road to Bound For Glory, which should be an interesting show if nothing else. All I know is that you better believe that I will be watching… though I respect that you don’t believe my genuine anticipation for an upcoming TNA PPV from 2024.

Anyway, on with the show.

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CGR In Regression

Remember earlier this year when Classic Game Room made its return with another season of CGR 2085? That went on for about five episodes before Mark decided that the whole thing wasn’t worth it and pivoted towards a CGR podcast… and then that fell off the wayside? Did you catch the new CGR shows? If not, would you like to watch them again?

Well, tough shit… you can’t. Because CGR has made those videos private… on Youtube, at least.

For those not in the know, Classic Game Room turns 25 this year. CGR 2085’s second season was supposed to be a celebration of that milestone, but sadly, the numbers weren’t there and creator Mark Bussler didn’t think it was worth continuing. Fine, I get it. He wanted numbers to justify the cost and he didn’t get them. But to basically pull the new stuff offline (or make them private) to prevent further views? Isn’t that a bit extreme?

Well, only if you watch stuff on Youtube…

There’s always going to be those salty few who complain about someone not producing enough content. Those people don’t matter unless they’re paying for a product you’re selling. From all indications, nobody is buying anything that Mark is selling; they’re watching freebies on Youtube and complaining about not having enough freebies. Hey, dumbass. You’ve got more than enough vintage CGR videos to fall back if you really need your fix. They come in a variety of flavors and who knows? You might enjoy the older stuff more than the more recent stuff, which has been somewhat polarizing.

But that newer stuff… you can only find that on ClassicGameRoom.com.

Seems as though things have not been so swimming on Youtube for ol’ Mark, who decided to move all his stuff back to his own website and host all the videos from there (via what I presume is Vimeo). So while there’s no more new CGR stuff on your popular streaming platform of choice, you can go to the creator’s own website and watch some of this new stuff along with some of the older stuff. Now before anyone asks… YES, they tried this sort of thing before and it flamed out. But that was a much larger operation. This feels a bit more contained and is at least supported by other ventures that are doing a much better job of earning Mark a steady income.

Yes, it would be nice if this stuff were still being posted on Youtube, but at least, you can still watch the stuff elsewhere. I’ll take what I can get and be done with it, thanks.

Terminator’s Future – Toss It All Out And Keep It Out

Source: https://bleedingcool.com/movies/terminator-james-cameron-has-a-plan-for-franchise/

James Cameron wants to make another Terminator movie… but this time, it’s going to be a reboot that’s not reliant on what came before. So, basically, tell the same story again, but with different characters and stuff. Isn’t that what they’ve done with all these other Terminator movies?

I suppose I should give Cameron credit for not making it another Terminator sequel. Honestly, it’s probably what they should have done with that Dark Fate movie that skipped over “some” of the movies, but not all of them. But even so… who the fuck is asking for a new Terminator movie these days? Every time they do another one, it’s a matter of dimishing returns. Each one not only sucked more than the last movie that came out, but it even made less money. You’ve got nothing left to say with these movies. They’re a product of their time and place. If you want to invent some new concept based on old ideas… THEN JUST MAKE THE NEW CONCEPT AND NOT USE AN OLD NAME.

Ah, but that’s the catch, isn’t it? Create something new and there’s no guarantee that it’ll be a success. Regardless of quality, there exists the possibility that it could be overlooked. But tying it to a legacy franchise? Calling it a new entry that continues the story or offers a new take? Now you’ve got some guaranteed money to work with. Now you’ve got the attention of those fans who should know better, but so desperately want their chosen love to be number one that they’ll stoop to any low to support this thing… and then it’ll come out and they’ll turn on it because it doesn’t respect the old material or whatever the case may be.

There are some franchises that can evolve and change with the times while still keeping the course tenants true. And then there are some franchises that, no matter how hard you try, are a relic of a bygone age. Terminator is one of the latter. We tried the reboot thing (twice) and it didn’t work. Nobody bit.

James Cameron had the right idea in jettisoning what came before. Maybe after doing that, he can move on to something else.

I mean, if Ridley Scott can’t make a decent Alien movie these days…

By the way, this isn’t the first time I’ve touched on Terminator outliving its usefulness as a movie franchise. I’ve touched on this ages ago and you can read that here.

Review #1100 – Tron: Solar Sailer (Intellivision)

It took eleven hundred reviews to get to a game where I have to write down things that a computer told me to write down. Can I go back to playing BEE SEVENTEEN BAWMBEHR?

Screw it. No reviews next week, but the week after begins the October marathon. Quality stuff there, I promise you… not really.

Quick Youtube Note

I posted this on the YouTube page, but I figured that it bares mentioning here.

New review will be published later today. Next week will see a pause in the review output before the eventual October marathon that doesn’t actually start in October, but fuck it, that’s what we’re going with. The marathon is going to be a random selection of stuff with no real theme behind it, but you’ll get your 5-reviews -a-week offering. The back end of 2024 reviews for November and December are pretty much locked in place, so this is really the place where odds and ends are featured… though since this is October, after all, there will be some spooky stuff to be spookily featured or something.

In other, less exciting news, the secondary “DTM Archives” channel has been renamed into the less-pretentious-but-equally-nondescript “DTM’s Extra Bits.” While I made a somewhat lighthearted jab on the channel just being a place where I dump a bunch of Mega Man Maker stuff on there these days, I do want to try and add some other stuff that maybe wouldn’t fit the main channel… which is funny because when I first conceived the Youtube thing in the first place, the idea was to have EVERYTHING on there. Now the extra bits is for the extra bits that the “hardcores” can check out while the less than hardcores can watch the main stuff, decide they don’t like it, and go back to [INSERT POPULAR YOUTUBE TREND HERE].

Whatever comes of this… eh, it’ll be business as usual ’round these parts. But please… look forward to… something ’round these parts. It’ll be fun. Promise.

Mega Man Maker Level 569426 – DTM35 – Needlewood

Click here to play:
https://megamanmaker.com/?level=569426

A remixed Woodman-style level with Needleman needle gimmicks peppered throughout. Not terribly exciting, but at least this one has checkpoints. Also uploaded before the update to 1.9, which looks very exciting to dive into before all the bugs and crash reports pop up. In any case, enjoy.

In other blog-related news, today’s scheduled review (#1100!) on Tron: Solar Sailer (groan) has been pushed back to tomorrow since there’s stuff I want to keep working on there. But don’t expect the greatest gameplay because this game (spoilers) isn’t very good.

WCPW Refuse To Lose 2016

Haven’t had enough Kurt Angle, have ya?

Well, here’s more anyway… actually a bit of a bonus musings as we kill two birds with one show – the now-defunct  UK-based WhatCulture Pro Wrestling promotion, which later became DEFIANT Wrestling, which later became defunct, held a show in 2016 called Refuse To Lose, which featured some silliness, yes, but its main event – which you can watch online for free – is the legendary match between Olympic Gold Medal Hero KURT ANGLE and Local Hero JOE HENDRY.

Yes, that match exists… and you can watch it for free here.

But what about the rest of the show?

Well… that’s another story entirely…

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