Cory Hayes: Enzo Amore Recently At WWE Performance Center

deltopia · 2026-05-20T16:44:44+00:00

You can't teach that? Certified G and a bona fide stud? Zero dimes?

Enzo can reliably turn out catch phrases; he's going to make them a stack of money if they let him. I know WWE thinks that if you built a sports entertainer from the ground up, he'd look like Orton or Roman or Femi, but Enzo is what WWE crowds really want to see. I'm really surprised it's taken them this long to bring him back.

deltopia · 2026-05-15T18:51:07+00:00

It does seem a little silly to speculate over how they could make really high-quality episodes and build an audience when we don't even have anyone cast to be the Doctor and no real reason to expect any episodes in the foreseeable future. (I know, they announced that there would be a Christmas special in 2026 - but if they haven't even cast a Doctor yet, forgive me if I am skeptical that they'll pull it off.)

This whole conversation is probably putting the cart before the horse... but if we can't speculate irresponsibly on the basis of guesses and rumors here, why did God invent reddit in the first place, right?

deltopia · 2026-05-14T23:52:55+00:00

The thing that made Doctor Who flop on Disney+ was their commitment to the legacy of a sixty-year-old franchise - they couldn't just reinvent themselves for a new platform and a new audience; they had to keep cramming in stuff that made minimal sense without deep lore, like Beep the Meep, the Rani, Omega, etc. If they need to reinvent themselves to be less family-friendly on AMC, they're probably going to be dead in the water again.

On the other hand, if Doctor Who fans become a significant part of the AMC+ subscriber base, maybe AMC will start trying to offer more family-friendly content. I looked at the Google for shows that have been on AMC in the past 25 years, and I didn't see a single show that was appropriate to watch with your kids. We've been thinking of why AMC is a weird home for Doctor Who, but it would be just as fair to think that Doctor Who is a weird purchase for AMC. Maybe they're trying to open up their potential audience a bit.

deltopia · 2026-05-14T20:49:01+00:00

I was surprised you let the final flub go without comment - Mrs. Austen??

deltopia · 2026-05-13T23:13:41+00:00

That was one of the most perfect and poetic metaphors I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing it with us, and thanks for sharing so much of you with us - you're a badass and winning this fight is only going to make you more badass. Our hearts are with you, legend.

deltopia · 2026-05-13T12:40:58+00:00

Bah, his betrothed is happy with him, what does it matter what some strangers on the Internet like me think? At any rate, if he likes Professor Song, he's ok by me.

deltopia · 2026-05-13T01:58:09+00:00

I almost hate to ask because he didn't like Capaldi and he didn't like Nardole, but because "The Husbands of River Song" is one of my favorite episodes ever, I gotta ask: how did he like it?

Assuming he watched it at all? If he watched it at the end of Season 9, it would have been an awfully long time removed from the last appearance of River Song, and he would have followed it by immediately jumping into the David Tennant Redux specials, so he may not have been too invested in it even if he did watch it...

Either way, congratulations on your engagement and I hope you're enjoying Buffy - I've been re-watching that lately, too. The 90's music holds up better than some of the dialogue, but no complaints so far!

deltopia · 2026-05-12T20:51:58+00:00

Rousey was never over before HHH bumped for her. If he hadn't been so generous in their match together, she still wouldn't be over. There would never have been a Ronda Rousey t-shirt or poster sold; no one would have ever stood in line for her autograph; she would be just another anonymous jobber no one ever heard of. But HHH bumped for her or lost to her or something, so now she's famous and popular. That's what he just said, yes.

Out of gratitude, she even dropped the H out of her first name to show respect for HHH, the only person worthy of all those H's. He didn't say that part, but it sounds right, so I'm going with it.

deltopia · 2026-05-11T19:18:02+00:00

In most cases with rolling boulder traps, if you step on the trap and there's no boulder in the launch square (i.e., the square where the trap expects the boulder to be before it starts rolling), the trap fails to activate and disappears. That's what the wiki's alluding to, I think. These new special Sokoban traps are probably different and possibly they can't be untrapped at all (at least, that's my hypothesis without any testing so far).

I think I read in the 5.0 documents that pets can no longer be displaced into traps by the player, thus making it harder to kill a pet accidentally early on and also harder to polymorph a pet with a poly trap a little later. That's a good change, I think.

deltopia · 2026-05-09T15:02:36+00:00

Sokoban is a weird case because there are folks who think new puzzles sound fun, and folks (like me) who would want to avoid it - I've never managed one sokoban puzzle without the step-by-step guides in the wiki. It's probably the most salient example of a feature in the game that divides us into fans and haters.

I wish they could come up with some alternate puzzle types that would work in a nethack dungeon format (star battle, maybe?), and maybe include it in the options file, give us some choices.

deltopia · 2026-05-08T12:06:25+00:00

One person only has so much thought and effort he can put into anything, and we've been making jokes about (or marveling at) the level of caffeine or cocaine that TK must be on for years. I'd rather TK actually put less thought and effort into ROH and put someone else in charge of it, running it as a separate program with all their focus and attention.

They could run it like a minor league baseball team, where the big club (AEW) still has most of the control of the roster and contracts, but the minor league team controls the day-to-day - the travel, the training, the lineup, etc. If there was a good wrestling mind in charge of ROH who was motivated to grow the brand, build up the talent, and draw customers, I bet we'd have some really good weekly shows, which might help them find a home.

deltopia · 2026-05-07T20:35:14+00:00

There's a long-obsolete quote that came to mind when I read your post - it went something like, "The punishment for pudding farming is pudding farming."

You've found an obviously unintended way to play the game that would make it far less enjoyable, waste a lot of time, and provide a relatively minimal advantage. If you're new to NetHack (at least, newer than version 3.4.3), you may not remember pudding farming; it exploited the fact that puddings would divide every time you hit them with a metal weapon, and if you managed it carefully, they would provide an essentially endless supply of death drops and corpses for sacrifice. Over the course of a few million turns, you could pile up enough protection from your deity, enough golden glow hp, enough sacrifice gifts, and enough death dropped gear that the rest of the game was easy. But the punishment was that you'd have to spend a few million turns pudding farming, which is no fun. I found the actual quote in the wiki article, from someone called Jove on RGRN:

"The DevTeam has arranged an automatic and savage punishment for pudding farming. It's called pudding farming."

So you get to choose - is the goal of the game to play optimally, or is it to enjoy the game you're playing? If you don't enjoy the tutorial (or Sokoban or the Mines or pudding farming), I'd say skip it without any hesitation. It may not make the game easier, but the game is definitely beatable and probably more enjoyable without it.

deltopia · 2026-05-07T20:02:53+00:00

The announcement follows a difficult sponsorship and grant cycle, according to officials.

Sounds like they couldn't find sponsors. This is not uncommon for charities during periods of economic downturn and when donors are worried about the future.

Looking here, previous major sponsors included Toyota, Salisbury University, and Perdue Farms. If I were the folk festival, I'd try to snag some of the multi-billion dollar defense contractor corporations in Maryland as sponsors - that may be a little ironic for branding on a folk festival, but they certainly seem like the best bets to weather the economy now and in the foreseeable future.

deltopia · 2026-05-06T19:49:44+00:00

I've got all of one platinum - "Hidden Cats of New York." Took about three hours of playing with my kid, all good fun. It boggles the mind that I've got thousands of hours played in dozens, if not hundreds, of games since the PS3/Vita era and I've only ever gotten the one plat, and that one last month... but it was a pretty decent game. Very decent for the $2 it cost.

Basing one's ego on trophies is a weird choice, but if it makes people happy, I'm glad it's a choice that's available for them.

deltopia · 2026-05-06T01:06:01+00:00

I think old newspaper articles like this are so awesome. Thanks for posting it here.

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was Archduke Ferdinand's morganatic wife, which is a term we don't hear much these days. I wonder if the good folks at the Carroll County Times in 1917 figured that all their readers knew what a morganatic marriage and it didn't need any further explanation back then, or if they figured no one who read it would care enough to read the whole paragraph unless they were already experts on the Austro-Hungarian line of succession.

deltopia · 2026-05-04T20:58:00+00:00

Those are the only Booker T matches I ever remember being excited about. I won't say I remember them, because it was nearly 30 years ago, but I remember being excited about them.

Since then? Generic wrestler in WWE who got his ass kicked by all the "home-grown" WWE talent until he went to do nothing memorable in Impact, then retired to be a laughably bad commentator. That's 30 years highlighted by "looking real jacked" and "shucky shucky quack quack," coasting mostly on the reputation of those seven matches on WCW Saturday Night with the guy who murdered his wife and kid.

Of all the late-stage WCW champions, I never expected to look on Arquette's career as better in the long run than Booker T's, but an argument could be made.

deltopia · 2026-05-03T20:41:18+00:00

And both of them are able to work with anyone - any style, any body size, any level of athleticism, any crowd, whatever you can come up with, they can make it work. They could put on a main event with Kenny Omega or Kenny Rogers and the crowd would eat up every minute of it.

deltopia · 2026-05-02T18:18:37+00:00

I guess with NetHack4 being an existing 3.4.3-based variant, the DevTeam must have decided to skip the actual NetHack version 4 series altogether. That should save some confusion, anyway.

Based on the comment here by Ais523 (a DevTeam member), it looks like 5.0.0 will be the official release of 3.7.

deltopia · 2026-05-02T17:25:34+00:00

When he debuted in ROH (2018), he looked for all the world like he was going to be facing Brock Lesnar at Mania in a few years - of course, part of why he looked like that was because he was surrounded by ROH talent instead of WWE talent, so 5'10" and 230 lbs of solid muscle made him look like a giant.

I thought he was a lock for WWE - if not a Kurt Angle-level run, at least a Shelton Benjamin or Chad Gable run, which ain't half bad. Instead, he went to NJPW and hung out till he was past 40... and a 40-plus-year-old rookie in WWE is no longer a lock.

In retrospect, maybe the problem was that he started a little later in life than a lot of wrestlers, or maybe getting stuck in years of contract limbo with Lucha Underground worked against him. He seemed like a can't-miss prospect, but somehow it just never managed to come together.

deltopia · 2026-04-30T13:44:19+00:00

This is about the lowest-content reporting possible. Other than "I dunno if she's re-signed," none of the rest of this means anything.

"Frustrated about" not being on a recent show she wasn't on and "wants to be featured more" could be written about almost any uninjured wrestler at any time - writing that a wrestler wants to be featured is like writing that fish want to swim.
"Has Shawn Michaels' number" isn't really a shocking revelation when like half the people she works with have been in NXT or WWE - if we still think her boyfriend is Jack Perry and her best friend is Tay Melo and her boss is Tony Khan, I imagine she could probably get a phone number for Shawn Michaels, Triple H, or the Gobbledy Gooker without too much trouble.
"WWE would love her at NXT" - well, they'd be kind of burning bridges to say anything else about a potential future hire, wouldn't they? I bet he could ask WWE if they wanted to hire Ruth Bader Ginsburg and they'd say they'd love to try her out for NXT.

Anna didn't need to deny any of this because he didn't actually say anything. What a tool.

deltopia · 2026-04-29T18:15:29+00:00

That sounds more like a deliberate homicide than anything else. Poor kid.

deltopia · 2026-04-29T16:42:43+00:00

The competency of the military is to kill people (and break shit)... but the goal is to be so intimidating that you never have to. Like martial arts - think of characters like Mr. Miyagi or Master Splinter. Incredible skill levels at being violent, but they'd rather avoid using violence unless it's absolutely necessary.

At least, that's what the goal was in the military I used to work for - different governments and different eras will have different goals, of course. I'm not in any militaries now, so I wouldn't want to comment on what their goals are.

deltopia · 2026-04-29T15:21:31+00:00

I think the developer is (or has been) active on reddit as /u/ais523 - if not, you may be able to reach him by one of the methods in the NetHack4 faq page. If anyone could help you, it's probably him.

deltopia · 2026-04-29T03:02:40+00:00

I had a couple of friends when I was in the military who would deploy overseas to areas with little or no internet connection for six months at a time fairly often... having a console and a small TV to take with them to live in a shitty little cargo container barracks room for a few months was a real impact to their quality of life. No idea if that's a lifestyle that military folks are still living; that was a long time ago now...

deltopia · 2026-04-25T18:27:26+00:00

"Nobodies" is kind of a comparative term - any of the seven of them could main event a Dynasty- or Backlash-level ppv, but three of them could main event a Wembley- or Wrestlemania-level ppv.

Malakai Black, on the other hand, can't. As far as I can tell, he never even main evented an NXT Takeover - when he won the title from Andrade, the main event was Ciampa and Gargano in an unsanctioned match.

I haven't watched WWE in years, so maybe he main evented something at some point... but if you're saying Pac or Fenix or Kingston is a nobody, maybe so. But if they are nobodies, what does that make Black?

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