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  • Birthday 22/06/1987

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  1. is this where we talk about X-Men 97? Watched the first two episodes last night, and really enjoyed them. The tone of it all feels perfect. I watched the original cartoon religiously, and was starting to read comics at the time, so it's all powerfully nostalgic and feels like "my" X-Men. The direction of the story feels fairly obvious for someone who was reading at the time, but I imagine there will be some fun timey-wimey twists to come.
  2. Skummy

    WWE 2K24

    For people not currently under contract with WWE, they have to negotiate each appearance/royalties fee separately. So it's a matter of 2K either not being able to get Finkel's estate to sign off on it, or not trying, rather than WWE themselves blocking it. They should just replace every person they couldn't get rights for with The Enforcer from 2k16.
  3. has PS Plus gone weird for anyone else? If I try and sort the available free games by "Recently Added to PS Plus", it's just a ton of old games that have been on there for months at the top, not the most recent ones.
  4. I never got into Dragon Ball, but it's hard to argue how iconic and influential his artwork was, and Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger alone would be one hell of a legacy even without DBZ. I'm currently playing the remaster of Secret of Mana, and his influence is on everything in that game.
  5. I've bookmarked this, as it sounds right up my street. Apologies if this is already mentioned in the video, but the other thing that always comes up when people try and use Native cultures' stories to support the existence of Bigfoot, UFOs, or anything else along those lines, is that these are often oral traditions, and the stories are adapted and evolve over time to fit in new information and reflect people's prior knowledge. So even if stories being told today sound like they are about Bigfoot or UFOs, it's because those things are in the zeitgeist and have been folded into newer versions of the story.
  6. I land in pretty much the same place on most of those - the new Idles is incredibly dull; the song with LCD Soundsystem is better than anything else on there, but it's still boring. I'm a little higher on the new Sleater-Kinney, but it doesn't hold up to how good they used to be. I was disappointed by the new Hurray For The Riff Raff - they kind of came out of nowhere for me and I loved what I first heard from them, but there was nothing that jumped out to me here. There's not many albums I've listened to this year that I've flagged as good, let alone great or potential album of the year, and there's been a fair few disappointments. I enjoyed the new The Smile album, and the new Dead South is good for what it is, but mostly it's been things that I was looking forward to and didn't quite land for me, like the new Laetitia Sadler, which is nice, but nothing special, or the new Pylon Reenactment Society, which has some high points but is mostly a bit patchy. On the heavier side of things, the new Obsessed has one or two decent tracks but nothing that holds up to their best work, and Ihsahn's newest is good but nothing I can see myself going back to.
  7. Skummy

    WWE 2K24

    also, the title of that Pigsx7 song is a Brodie Lee tribute. Pigs and Colter Wall are some out of the box choices for a wrestling game soundtrack, but not much else really jumps out at me.
  8. yeah, "Daddy Lessons" from Lemonade was a better avenue into "Beyonce does country", particularly the version with The Chicks, than Texas Hold 'Em, which feels too contrived.
  9. Skummy

    WWE 2K24

    similarly, watching the newLegacyInc stream of it, one of the things they were most excited about was being able to throw and catch weapons which, while fun, is once again something that we had in the first two games. Same thing really with the 40 years of Wrestlemania stuff - based on the artwork, it gives us Hogan, Andre, Rock, Austin, Bret, Undertaker...all people who have been in these games countless times already.
  10. didn't he basically pivot all the way back later on, though? He was a big Trump guy, IIRC. Toby Keith was one of the many people Jarrett tried to convince into buying or bankrolling TNA over the years too, and put up some of the money for GFW. I listened to the (mostly excellent) album of Willie Nelson's 90th birthday concert, and remember thinking that Kris Kristofferson sounded really frail on it, and then realised that he's 87 years old.
  11. I think this week's episode put paid to that criticism, some absolutely brutal work from the Gladiators. I'm not feeling what they're doing with Viper at all, I just don't buy him as a heel, there's no personality there, and it feels forced. It's for kids to have a baddy to boo, though, so that's fine. I hate the backstage dressing room camera stuff. Skirts the wrong side of kayfabe for this show for me.
  12. Depends if you have the option of going back into retro games - aside from the games already mentioned, I think Smackdown vs. RAW 2010 was the first WWE game to not allow you to play intergender matches. Any of the main series WWE games prior to that on Playstation and subsequent equivalent generations of console would allow for an intergender Rumble.
  13. Skummy

    WWE 2K24

    it's pie in the sky stuff, but just thinking in terms of likely rights agreements and so on, I'd think a genuine 40 Years of Wrestlemania series could look something like this: That's 39 matches, mostly main events and some semi-main events, that they could choose that involve people that have already been in the games in recent years, and allows for some variety in terms of different variants of the same characters, and a few different match types. I'd love something more wide-reaching, with people not in the games previously, and some weirder midcard matches, and varieties of gimmick match, but just to keep it simple in terms of the range of people involved, it's surprisingly easy to come up with a feasible list of matches from every Wrestlemania, and it's surprising which are the harder ones to find something - Wrestlemania 2000 especially.
  14. Skummy

    WWE 2K24

    it's classic WWE games that so many of the new features they're promoting were already in games twenty years ago - better backstage brawls with interactive elements, special referees, casket matches; these are all things we had on the PS1! There's some stuff for MyGM that I've never played, but have heard specifically requested by Youtubers and podcasters who do, so that's fair enough, but so much of these games always feels like you're expected to be grateful for stuff that should be the norm by now. The 40 Years of Wrestlemania mode doesn't sound meaningfully any different from previous showcases; that it's 21 matches means that there's not going to be something from every Wrestlemania, which is what the name implies to me. At the very least, I hope you can unlock every 'Mania's arena. From the AI art poster, it's not like "40 Years of Wrestlemania" is allowing us to play as stars that haven't made it into the games before - again, we've been able to play as Andre, Hogan, Bret, Austin and Rock in WWE games for 20+ years now.
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