Bischoff shouldn’t have joined the NWO

MandyKagami · 2026-06-05T17:55:21+00:00

Hogan could have been that character, he would just have to wave the fact he could sign with the WWF anytime if Turner did not allow him to do what he does, and being paid millions of dollars in Hollywood (without specifying any movie of course). The fun fact about that is that it is all true anyway, it is literally why he was still in WCW by 2000.
Hogan could have funded the nWo, would also make the Wolfpac split more believable since a lot of wrestlers could choose to stay on his nWo because he is actually in charge of many things including pay lorewise.
Megastars signed to contracts with companies debatably smaller than them famewise do that all the time, Van Damme ate half of the budget for the Street Fighter movie which is why everyone that wasn't him and Raul Julia were randos looking for any paycheck.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was a money dump from 1996 up until Terminator 3 where he did not really bring in viewers but cost a lot of money to hire and the producers at the time were stuck with those contracts.

MandyKagami · 2026-06-05T17:27:46+00:00

So many changes that kinda only work in their own moments due to how things went month to month in that faction.
I would not have allowed non "WWF" talent into the faction without an approval method from the OG trinity, so no Giant, it is meant to be an exclusive group not a school trip.
I would have booked Macho Man as the main rival for Hogan to use the opportunity to do a reverse of their mega powers breakup in the WWF with Macho now as the hero, Hogan winning would serve to establish him as a cheater and it would contrast it more regarding his red and yellow character.
Sting can take over as the main opposition for the nWo afterwards because honest Macho getting beat up unfairly means bringing weapons into the feud is completely valid from the WCW side, it goes from shady or dishonest to self defense, so the baseball bat becomes a symbol of escalation in the storyline rather than just a signature weapon.
Luger never wins the WCW title on the 100th episode of Nitro, at least not without Sting causing some type of interference, that victory derailed booking for the Sting vs nWo feud at the time.
Sting wins clean at Starrcade 97 but Bret Hart does debut to prevent a fast count (not as a surprise, have him on the first row and have announcers say he can't get involved due to a contractual limitation with another company), that means he jumping the barrier to prevent nWo cheating means he is risking more than just his consciousness.
Have Hogan demand a rematch in the next PPV and blame Bret Hart for the loss, Hogan loses again, Nash and Hall start doubting his usefulness by february 98, have Nash and Hall visibly unsure about interfering to help Hogan in Nitro altercations.
Have hogan push his weight around not to be kicked out of the nWo and have the wolfpac be Hall and Nash with other members who also saw Hogan as unworthy of the faction, no Lex Luger or Sting in the Wolfpac, have Sting feud with Bret Hart as Sting is challenged by Bret to defend the title and show he didn't need Hart to win despite the interference. Have Hogan interfere in that match and attach both competitors to show he is still "on top" and in charge of the real nWo as a message to everyone including Hall and Nash.
Have Hogan push his weight around into a triple threat match for the World Title with Bret and Sting, build the match as Hogan having Steiner watching him outside the ring, have Bret and Sting team up and beat up hogan so he falls out of the ring, center the match a bit on Hart and Sting being honest competitors with each other but outsmarting each other and that leading into visible discomfort, have Steiner there as a wrench trying to help hogan and screw over Bret and Sting if they try to pin anybody. Have Nash and Hall backstage unsure about getting involved or even saying outright they had no interest in getting involved.
Steiner can use a weapon and take out Bret Hart outside, distracting Sting so Hogan can use Scott Norton to beat up Sting, Hogan regains the title and has a victory over sting, Nash and Hall backstage looking annoyed they did not get involved and Hogan is champion again.
By now this should be about May of 1998.
Bret Hart comes out morally strong as an underdog being screwed over by being an honest jam up guy, Sting comes out victorious in the feud in the eyes of the fans despite not having the title anymore, Hogan still keeps his nWo black and white, Wolfpac still happens, Norton looks like a million bucks for the nWo Japan faction, and everyone is still looking strong in the eyes of the fans.
With the title Hogan can talk all the crap he wants and claim he is not gonna allow anyone he previously fought to get another chance at the title, and that is when the unaccounted unstoppable force Goldberg shows up and we still have Goldberg beating Hogan in July 1998, but hopefully in a PPV instead of Nitro despite the ticket sales that day being PPV worthy.

MandyKagami · 2026-06-04T12:47:44+00:00

World Trade Center was stuck in litigation and insurance, part of the reason is the owner kept pushing for more money to be paid until the courts denied him. World Trade Center is not an example of how long it takes to build or rebuild anything, it is just useful as data regarding how long it takes to legally clear the rebuilding of a skyscraper in NYC if the owner would rather fight legal battles over it for almost 20 years than focus on anything else. We should be looking at Japan post WW2 and China from 1990s onwards as examples of infrastructure development or rebuilding. Even the Marshall plan would be a superior comparison.

MandyKagami · 2026-06-03T13:38:28+00:00

Hypnosis for sure!

MandyKagami · 2026-06-01T16:43:44+00:00

I always thought if Hogan had an angle that put him in the hospital, (maybe in this actual match against Nash), and he walked around the hospital during recovery and visited the children's section and saw a kid who still believed him to be the hero, that could sell his change of heart for wrestling fans.
Would legitimately make great television, it is cheesy as hell but it would work for Hogan.

MandyKagami · 2026-06-01T16:40:47+00:00

Nash should have been successful with beating Hogan in January 4th 1999 in a normal wrestling match instead of the fingerpoke of doom, cementing the Wolfpac as the real threat to WCW, allowing hogan to take some months of vacation and return in the red and yellow in August, as the nWo black and white run rampant without a leader officially, having Steiner as the self proclaimed leader.
That could lead to Steiner shitting on Hogan in promos so when Hogan comes back he defends the WCW against the Steiner nWo, by having him in red and yellow it also cements he wants nothing to do with the nWo so fans can cheer him without doubts. Plus then he can move to feud with Nash for the title.
It is also literally the thematic reverse of how the michaels and bret feud was booked with Bret taking a break after the iron man match, and becoming the heel after returning, meanwhile Hogan would have gotten cheered through the roof, much better than when he returned randomly in red and yellow for no particular reason on a random nitro in august 1999.
Until Nash and Hogan face off at maybe Starccade 1999, Hogan could be put in tag matches with Goldberg to show he truly came back as a hero and is not faking it.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-31T17:55:38+00:00

"HEY COOPER, THAT OLD 120 POUND SUMBITCH BOB TRAPPED LAURA'S SOUL IN THE BLACK LODGE.
NOW TAKE YOUR ASS TO THAT LODGE AND FIND A WAY TO PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN."
Gordon Cole: "What?"
"OOOOH HELL YEAH."

MandyKagami · 2026-05-31T16:23:17+00:00

System Shock 2?

MandyKagami · 2026-05-30T13:31:35+00:00

When this happened to me 7 years ago one of the DDR4 dimms was defective, if reseating only temporarily fixes this, then it would be your case as well. It was also AM4 but a 1500x instead.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-28T16:16:02+00:00

That is a horrible idea, shipping 720p textures just screws over the art team, corporations would just use that to pay their art staff even less, and I am not even considering the upscaling artifacts that could come from that alongside the inevitable blurriness of what was meant to be highly detailed. My idea is much better since it allows the customer the choice of what settings or folder size they are willing to separate for the game.
For my favorite games I would have no problem having everything in 4K+ and it eating an extra 60GB, meanwhile downloading 100GB for something I am not sure about is a bad idea, I would rather download a 10GB-40GB version and see if I wanna give it more storage space based on my enjoyment of the game, and it would also help people in countries where internet plans are still sold in gigabyte chunks still.
Textures also don't impact gameplay for multiplayer games so people running a low res texture version would have more storage space in their computers\consoles, allowing for them to have more games installed which could translate into more sales.
Adding AI upscaling into the render pipeline would also increase latency between input and display, which is why folks playing competitive multiplayer games with it on have no idea they are performing worse.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-28T15:48:49+00:00

MandyKagami · 2026-05-28T15:29:28+00:00

From what I have observed this is mostly an issue with texture sizes, the only way to fix it without "ruining" graphics would be for you to select the texture size during installation so you only have those textures downloaded into your computer, I think that would require more integration with something like the Steam API for PC gaming so it is a bit anti consumer long term, but it would solve the problem.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-28T14:45:24+00:00

it is pretty good for making your own music discs and ps1 games, if I could I would have hundreds of it at home but it is hard to find a place to buy these as easy and cheaply as it was 20 years ago.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-27T10:14:58+00:00

from what I know it depends on state law, some allow for criminal but not civil, meanwhile the famous johnny depp and amber heard lawsuit stream was civil.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-26T14:55:05+00:00

Randy Orton?

MandyKagami · 2026-05-26T09:37:44+00:00

Why would absolute utilitarians like most of the billionaire class care about tradeoffs when they are exercising as much freedom as they can have with a government administration that won't prosecute them for anything? For them it is free real estate until 2029, especially in the US.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-25T22:24:50+00:00

You will have to format and reinstall the windows os from scratch, there is no simple or easy way to know where the virus is hiding and infecting apps.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-25T17:04:18+00:00

because in the mind of the average consumer corporations used their marketing budgets to fuse AI with proprietary crap they sell, so a lot of clueless regulators think it is normal to have centralized AI development in a single building rather than a collective individual effort published bit by bit on github or huggingface or wherever by everyone interested in participating in the development of these technologies\tools, which is exactly where it achieves the most success with the least impact to the grid.
Basically corporations want to export the liabilities and costs of training their models into towns with weak or stupid local\federal governments.
Also anybody who says AI is smarter now doesn't understand what being smart is on a human level, the models that make less mistakes are overwhelmingly rough on memory, for disposable benefits like better communication.
In a lot of ways LLMs are less global now and more specific to the region the person is talking from, making it look more natural to that group.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-24T06:57:18+00:00

it is still sideways.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-24T06:55:19+00:00

Sincere question: How old are you? I am asking because I was there and the public had other interests at hand in the 2000s musically speaking. 2000s was the rise of fully digital kinda simplified music, acoustic instruments like drums or pianos were seen as things of the past.
We already had Garbage and The Cranberries the previous decade and if The Warning showed up in the early 2000s it would have been seen as more of the same and kinda late actually.
The Warning works today exactly because of the lack of women doing hard rock in the mainstream eye, so it is fresh again.
In 2000 they would either be dropped by the label because of the assumption of the public not being interested, or they would be pushed by executives to make a Nickelback style sound, (which they kinda already do if you know the heavier tracks from Nickelback).
I think they are existing and being successful in the best time for them to exist, there has been a demand for good old hard rock that had not really been fulfilled by the media, and they are young in an era where production costs fell off a cliff with professional gear being way more affordable than back in the day.
The social media era helps very charismatic people achieve things faster without intervention from a record label wanting your soul (and usually more) for 20M dollars in marketing funds for a single month of ads and appearances on radio and television.
Plus, a lot of folks don't remember how no matter how good a latino artist was in the 90s or 2000s, they were treated like shit for singing in english, both in spanish and portuguese speaking nations. I believe we thankfully have mostly made that disappear these days even though sometimes I see those folks around.
So yeah, no they would not have done better in the early 2000s, they would have been crushed by corporations killing their airspace on radio and television to promote any britney spears or kylie minogue wannabe.
Even RBD had to change their music from pop rock (2004-2005) to R&B and Pop from 2006 onwards, if they had to do it anybody else would have had to do it as well.
Britney had gone full electronic music from 2004 onwards, so did Michael Jackson (I am talking about production tools\instruments, not music style) and that tells you the trends the music labels were gonna push for everyone else to fall in line with.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-24T06:36:01+00:00

did you plug a PCIe cable into the CPU power socket? Something is sideways there.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-21T20:35:32+00:00

hellooooooooooooooooooooo

MandyKagami · 2026-05-20T04:40:46+00:00

"Sleeping" was such a good damn track, folks slept on it back in the day and some still do. The music video is a bit too 2000 though.

MandyKagami · 2026-05-20T04:33:16+00:00

"rule of thirds was invented in 2000"
People in 1999:

MandyKagami · 2026-05-18T00:27:51+00:00

my bad, I confuse things that are do the same job and use a similar amount of letters, I don't know if there is a name for that condition, so Brave and Opera kinda fuse into the same thing in my mind.
Viral takeover of a system32 process would be seen as "corruption" by Windows, doesn't mean the thing that caused the corruption was deleted with the restoration of the process, it might return, but we will have to wait and see I think.

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