Indy show tonight. Booed the faces, cheered the heels. Popped huge when this guy came out to Cult of Personality.

geoffevans · 2012-05-26T04:23:14.431589+00:00

Booed the faces and cheered the heels, eh?

Allow me to go completely off-topic for a moment, if you don't mind.

When I just started watching wrestling, I cheered the faces and booed the heels, because I wanted the good guys to beat the bad guys. The bad guys did some pretty terrible stuff, like Tori and X-Pac, Kane's girlfriend and best friend at the time, gettin' it on behind Kane's back and then rubbing it (and a chair) in his face. They made me so mad, and I was happier than Jake Roberts in a swimming pool of Everclear when Kane chokeslammed them both straight to hell.

Then, I started becoming a "smark". I read the show reports, the backstage gossip, learned that Vince McMahon is more insane than his character and that the wrestling world outside of the WWF was HUGE AND FREAKIN' AWESOME. Japanese wrestlers were just so much better than those steroid freaks that were on TV every week, and if Christopher Daniels would just get signed, he'd be the best thing to ever happen to the Fed. Boo the heels! Cheer the faces! Fuck the system, man, I go against the grain 'cause I'm in the know! I cheer WORKRATE, not the stupid face/heel garbage that's shoved down my throat!

Then, I trained to become a pro wrestler. [I don't want to sound like one of those assholes who suddenly is the end-all authority on wrestling who knows more than any of those "dumb fucking marks" just because they put on a pair of boots and had a match in front of 7 people in a high school gym in Buttfuckerton, Pennsylvania, by the way. That's not my intent, and I don't believe it's true] I had a couple matches. I learned firsthand that as much of a cliche as it is, the crowd IS part of the show, just as much as anyone in or around the ring. My goodness, the feeling when you pull some heel bullshit and the crowd boos, or when you make a fighting comeback as a babyface and the crowd is with you on every punch, IT DOES, I swear to you it does, affect the quality of the match.

So now that I don't have the time or the energy (or the talent, I ain't gonna lie. I wasn't exactly Shawn Michaels) to look good and get booked and wrestle, I go to shows as a fan. I cheer the faces, and I boo the heels, because even if you think the heel is the better performer or the face is a douchenozzle, "playing the part" of the wrestling fan truly impacts what happens in the ring.

OK, sorry. Rant over.

dragonsky · 2012-05-25T14:04:49.869972+00:00

Wrestler spends a minute talking about how his name is G-R-E-G-O-R-Y-[space]-I-R-O-N-[no S]

Gets called 'Gregory Irons' by someone who just watched the video

Also, yeah. He has cerebral palsy, which he made into his gimmick. He calls himself the Handicapped Hero and has sweet ring gear.

Also, when a heel spends the match working his crippled hand, it's damn cringeworthy.

Shitfuckshickity · 2012-05-25T13:28:41.928353+00:00

Gleaning what I can of attitude and personality from these pictures, I would hate absolutely everything about this girl, and want her to be hit by a bus every time I saw her.

Her tits are nice though, so carry on.

amadea56 · 2 days

HEY EVERYONE! THIS PERSON WANTS YOU TO STOP CARING ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY.

TheTurner · 2 days

Having played pretty much every wrestling game that's been released since Wrestlemania for the NES, No Mercy is my favorite. Good purchase!

amadea56 · 2 days

Here's an example of something that I do not accept as intuitively true:

Everything you wrote.

amadea56 · 2 days

HEY EVERYONE! THIS PERSON IS A GIRL AND WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT.

mr-dogshit · 3 days

I understand your statement, and it's a true one. The 'relationship' between white Americans and black Americans is different that the relationship between white Americans and Native Americans(/First Nations/"Indians"/etc), for example.

I'm confused about the point you're trying to make though. Is it "Oh, how we treat the Aborigines doesn't count, just look at how we treat immigrants and ignore that little bit of accepted racism"? That doesn't make much sense to me.

mr-dogshit · 3 days

My experience with Australians included nearly-constant commentary about how "those abbo cunts" are ruining the country.

InfectTheWorld · 7 days

That's true, and a good example. Saints' (singular or plural? Unsure) Row and GTA are different games in the same genre, like Halo and Call of Duty.

This game seems a bit TOO similar to Pandemic for my liking though. The disease traits, the world map, the costs to get new symptoms, et cetera. The vast majority of the features and gameplay seem to be copied, almost verbatim, from Pandemic.

Granted, the developer makes mention of the "cause natural disasters!" feature in his posted image. If I made a Mario game that had a new flower item that let you shoot ice instead of fireballs, it would still be a Mario game ripoff.

And come on...if you have to say "Now before I get downvoted to death for copying Pandemic..." in the ad for your game, you already know the similarities are too big.

InfectTheWorld · 7 days

Considering the (deserved) hate that Zynga got for their shameless rip-off of Tiny Tower, do you feel that you are hurting the makers of Pandemic 2, which is currently being ported to the iPhone?

Edit: Actually, Pandemic 2.5 is already on sale in the App Store right here

stfnotguilty · 7 days

I spent a lot of hours playing through Borderlands as Mordecai, and I play Medic almost exclusively on TF2. Just felt like trying it. I had a full Medic costume that I wore to a convention last year, which is being dismantled for this one. Merging the two lets me be a bit more creative, instead of just trying to match every inch of a character model.

politicaldan · 7 days

Is that a bronze star? Damn.

Let him know that a stranger on the internet that he'll never meet wishes that he could give him a firm handshake and thank him for his bravery.

LittleWall · 9 days

Aw, that's actually really lame.

Billie Joe is worth $55 Million, and the band makes well over $100,000 per performance.

Don't get me wrong, I realize he's giving away a concert-played guitar for free, and hoping for a better guitar is the worst kind of looking a gift horse in the mouth...but the fact that he changes to a cheap guitar just makes me shake my head. Keep your vintage 1950's stuff, but at least let the fan have a real Gibson Les Paul! Basic ones are only a few hundred bucks more than an Epiphone!

chenosauras · 10 days

Cool as hell, man.

MonkfishPrincess · 10 days

Love that song! It reminds me of Come Sail Away, for some reason.

MonkfishPrincess · 10 days

The US Army spells it backwards:

Yes,

My

Retarded

Ass

Signed

Up

MonkfishPrincess · 10 days

You know, you can turn off the green underlining that Grammar Check does by clicking on...

Oh.

OHHHHHH.

Never mind.

gopaulgo · 11 days

If he can handle it, more power to him. I think that if I were in his position, I would never even want to go home. Living the dream, you know?

I just hope he really CAN handle it. I don't want to turn on the news and see a eulogy talking about how he was on 15 different anxiety and depression meds and decided to misuse his Bowflex like Benoit.

choobakka · 11 days

There used to be a downright FANTASTIC online WWE card game called With Authority. It was pretty damn fun.

The company that ran the game went out of business, but I remember there being a server set up by some players a few years ago.

Jesus_was_a_Panda · 11 days

That was a point of politeness.

SRS is accused of organizing and perpetrating these actions as a group.

This is a fact.

matthandlersux · 11 days

My mother has had debilitating migraines for a couple decades, and currently takes Maxalt (a prescription drug) to treat them. It doesn't work all the time, and I'm very interested in hearing more about your mom's experiences.

When you say smoking "completely cures" migraines, do you mean that the pain is absent while high? Does she not get a migraine for several days after the fact? Has she never had a migraine since smoking for the first time?

Any info you can give me would be appreciated, I hate to see my mom in pain =/

EdwardNygma · 11 days

"Have A Nice Day!" by Mick Foley is one of the best books I've ever read, wrestling-related or not.

Strike_Gently · 11 days

'sup /wooo/.

stfnotguilty

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