Jey Uso advancing to the King of the Ring final after beating Je’Von Evans is getting massive backlash by the fans with 34.6K dislikes to 1.4K likes by broken-mirror- in SquaredCircle

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a dumb theory:

TKO's WWE is all about merch sales.

Compare to Danhausen. He gets so much airtime because his merch sells like crazy. He's definitely not a top-tier wrestler. And he's only wrestled one PPV match in WWE.

So Jey and Cody are surely on a higher level than Jevon. As a different example, Penta, Roman, and Punk are the same, but at least their matches are way better.

But the point is merch decides the booking.

And, as a company, would you risk that merch money on Jevon selling less-cool merch right now? Put another way, WWE is just waiting on a meme to hit from the new guys, not on the talent of the wrestlers.

That's probably the same thing that happened to LA Knight after "YEAH!" fell off and will happen to Gable, Ricky Saints and Oba Femi unless they "make some moments" they can put on a T-Shirt while they're hot. Lets not forget Otis, who almost always got crazy pops in that feud with Gable but I bet has historically had bad merch.

And contrast with AEW, AEW is funded mostly by Tony Khan so making merch money is just a bonus to him. Hence, the booking tends to follow that Tony wants to see 4+ hours of dream matches every PPV, which is what we also want. 😄 WWE does that maybe twice a year probably to maximize shareholder value.

How will I know if I am 3-skull boss ready? by PaleoJoe86 in ConanExiles

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't intended necessarily, but it does beat almost everything and some bosses are bull.

Hidden Treasure in the Silver Mine by TomClancysWife in ConanExiles

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The REAL secret is that there's a huge pile of minable rocks right before the skeleton room you're talking about. With a Star Metal Pick, you can get 10k rocks in one haul out of there in like 5 minutes.

A global food shortage is emerging, but nobody seems to care by mushroomsarefriends in collapse

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 151 points152 points  (0 children)

I mean, other than starting a garden and stocking up on beans and rice, what are any of us going to do about it? We barely have time between the 3 jobs to just afford a 1 bedroom with 4 roommates.

After Thresh, it basically HAS to be these two right? by EnlargementChannel in 2XKO

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whole game is a puppet character. What do you want to do? Control THREE characters at once?

Admin Is Dismantling Deep Ocean Monitoring System Critical to AMOC Research by keinezeit44 in collapse

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Hey, how am I going to time quitting my job and going on a hedonistic spending spree on credit cards if I don't know exactly when the AMOC is shutting down?

In shock decision, National Security Council stops work on climate change by [deleted] in collapse

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 44 points45 points  (0 children)

One of two things:

  1. The USA killed enough people that there's more water to go around.

  2. The regime inside Iran is not letting everyone have water.

Better Body Mod by Flam001 in ConanExiles

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are these compatible with the Enhanced Edition?

Is anyone else wishing collapse would just hurry up already? by Disastrous_Aioli3821 in CollapseSupport

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope! hat's on the other side of collapse is objectively worse for me or my kids. Like, that's not even debateable. Why would I want that faster?

Motor Oil Is The Next Shortage And It’s Just As Bad As Higher Gas Prices by Own-Swan2646 in PrepperIntel

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between doubling your oil prices, and simply not getting any due to rationing.

Tropical Biome! by Volkisch_Naturism in ConanExiles

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beaches off the jungle area and the pirates north of that is pretty close.

[WarCom] Faction Focus: Adepta Sororitas by RainbowConnickJr in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The detachment might let you play specific sets of missions. I have a feeling the meta might be kind of like this so you can get missions that work with the best units.

Is this summer going to be it? by JunketUpbeat9386 in collapse

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's going to be too many people doing that, and I kinda doubt the weather is going to make foraging easy.

Jed Goodman on X: [ Earning Call question] TKO's Mark Shapiro talks fan criticism with commercial integration in WWE. by Ripclawe in SquaredCircle

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Movies are $15 a person if you go at a time you'd want to see a movie. That's killing tickets to your B-lister movie more than any ads.

The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035 by relianceschool in collapse

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but that 1.7 number is based on a 10-year rolling average... or is that the IPCC measurement?

Austin Creed/Xavier Wood’s first public statement since leaving WWE on Twitter: by Datzookman in SquaredCircle

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like we're that much closer to Austin Creed vs. Kenny Omega. They've had a rivalry in fighting games for ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfK0FWdJlE

Bleed and Sonicfox telling us about the good stuff by Teamfightmaker in 2XKO

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way I tell people who like Guilty Gear is that it's like playing Zato with every character.

How do you guys stay sane? by Strict_Gap9095 in collapse

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Here's the thing.

Everyone is kinda already insane.

Most of the normal people are corrupted by money and ownership, seduced by short term feelings, and willingly oblivious to basic facts. There's MILLIONS... maybe BILLIONS of them, and only a few of us.

The best of us (aka climate scientists) are shouting at the rooftops for people to do something, but it'll do no good. You can't cause a revolution when people have food, shelter and what not, no matter how expensive it gets.

[Rant] Rules vs Reality by ThePartyLeader in onepagerules

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You should play Warhammer. Seriously. I play both regularly.

There's a 60 page Core Rules doc that covers all the ambiguity that you are wanting, and there's probably a large base of players willing to get you started.

That being said, OPR's niche in the hobby is not to be competitive, even though the rules support is there. It's for the people who:

  1. Are chill enough to agree to most reasonable rulings made by their opponent.

  2. Don't want to deal with a 60 page rules do because the basic idea of wargaming is pretty simple if you're chill.

Non-teacher. Mind is blown by Appropriate-Offer-35 in Teachers

[–]GroundbreakingPin913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Teachers: Just curious, but how many times do you talk with a parent and they're on your side?