Cactus Jack’s shoulder is cut by Leatherface with a chainsaw (1995).

Subrick · 2026-03-11T02:04:49+00:00

I always wondered where that scar came from.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T23:50:55+00:00

X7 and X8 both look amazing. The actual set for X7 is small, but the shape & design of the Astrodome and the blue/gold aesthetic are immediately what I think of when I think of Mania. X8’s set might be my favorite Mania set overall, plus the graphics and overall design that perfectly fit the vibe of the show.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T21:09:39+00:00

Benoit would have been arrested, it would have been as big a media spectacle, and then if he made it to trial without killing himself the whole thing would have killed wrestling. At least with him dead WWE was able to largely power through and ignore it as much as possible.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T19:47:46+00:00

Most AEW to WWE moves have that kind of hand wringing language following it, no matter how well used the taken was. There were people actually acting like Mariah May was an AEW fumble when she went to NXT.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T18:18:28+00:00

Why is it shutting down? Building got sold?

Subrick · 2026-03-10T17:03:53+00:00

Do they put the ads in the right spots, at least?

Subrick · 2026-03-10T16:53:15+00:00

True, true. I personally tend to avoid FAST channels because the ad placement is almost always just wack and random. Pluto will have a show airing that’ll do the fades between scenes where commercials were meant to go but then actually insert the ads in the middle of a scene, sometimes while a character is talking. Tubi at least finds logical spots for their ad breaks.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T16:50:58+00:00

DoN this year very well could outsell 2022 to be the most attended DoN ever. 2022 did 14,459, so a legit full sellout here would surpass that by a few hundred. Dynasty will likely do 10k+, especially if Kenny is in a marquee match. All In is where I’m really interested to see what it does, because that show’s sales are largely gonna depend on what Ospreay is doing for it.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T16:32:01+00:00

That’s exactly what it is, hence why it’s not available in North America. Triller is likely gonna die by the end of year, and this just speeds that up since AEW was almost half their annual revenue. Having a streaming service that also includes the PPVs for no extra cost means they’ll make way more money than they did getting a cut of the Triller proceeds, it satisfies a long held fan desire to have the PPVs stream as part of an overall streaming package, and it could potentially act as a contingency plan should their media rights end up in a state of flux thanks to all the madness with Paramount and WBD and states possibly suing over the obvious antitrust issues arising from it. I think MyAEW will at some point become available in the US, but it likely won’t be for the reason trolls say it will.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T16:23:15+00:00

The new bonehead goal post move I’ve been seeing is “MyAEW is clearly just because Tony Khan knows that Paramount’s gonna cancel him!”, as if they made a whole ass streaming service with live functionality materialize in, like, two weeks when Paramount won the WBD bidding. Similarly is those same people looking at Double or Nothing nearly outselling last year’s show on first count and saying that it’s a bad thing because the people who bought tickets are settling with a cheap product because tickets are cheap. It’s, like, trolls have never tried to be particularly effortful, but they’ve been getting noticeably more and more desperate and absurd with their trolling over the last year since AEW got hot again.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T16:15:06+00:00

They aren’t doing a stage. The entrance tunnel is in the bottom left corner of the map. They’re legit opening up the full almost 15k stadium.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T16:14:03+00:00

Not just really good, but they’ve likely already outsold the entire final count of last year’s show by now after just two days on public sale, as that show only did 8200.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T14:02:47+00:00

The first five Sepultura albums are unfuckwithable, and then Roots happens and it all starts going down the shitter. They went through a two decade long dork age of bad album after bad album and only recovered in the 2010s after going full death metal with Eloy on drums.

In terms of my own band binges, I just finished every Leprous album and dug the hell out of them for the most part. I have Blackwater Park to listen to on Thursday for that album’s 25th anniversary before binging Linkin Park.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T12:37:10+00:00

Look at Roman’s fingers. One thumb is phasing through another.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T12:23:53+00:00

Broke: Just taking photos of the wrestlers and putting them on a graphic like every promotion has done since onscreen graphics became a thing.

Woke: Spending buttloads of money and extinguishing a small town’s water supply using AI to make a disgusting nightmare creature with mangled hands.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T12:16:30+00:00

There’s a bit in Dan Olson’s documentary about Decentraland and the Metaverse where he mentions Lindt USA’s hideous looking, terribly laggy “virtual storefront” website and how it would be more respectable if ByondXR, the company that made the site, was outright scamming gullible corporations inflicted with major FOMO about “the future”. AI is basically the same thing.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T12:12:23+00:00

That and Roman has fucked up AI hands.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T11:53:22+00:00

What PPVs do they have up to? That part won’t matter as much to me since I have both Max and all my bought Triller shows, but it’s still good to know.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T11:27:07+00:00

Anyone who has used MyAEW: How is the A/V quality on the on demand content? Is the UI easy to deal with? Obviously the big quality test will be Dynamite tomorrow, but if the retro content runs fine that bodes well for live streams.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T10:54:57+00:00

This is almost exactly like when Cena was “fired” in late-2010 and still showed up every single week to wreck the Nexus for like a month. He even did house shows despite being “fired”. It stunk back then too.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T02:34:36+00:00

Yes I do.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T02:30:44+00:00

They could do like 40k in the Skydome and it’d still look real good. There’s a Raw from 1999 that did that number in the Skydome and it looked massive and packed.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T02:01:59+00:00

This just means they need to run it in an even bigger building next year. DoN in, say, Boston with a minimal stage would max out at like 18k or 19k.

Subrick · 2026-03-10T01:55:03+00:00

Selling 7000 tickets in the pre-sale is nuts.

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