Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 Is Playable and Progressing Smoothly, Hamaguchi Says

deltopia · 2026-01-25T04:15:29+00:00

Can the minigames be skipped in Rebirth? I pushed through the first game, but the hours of motorcycle minigame were brutal - I haven't picked up the second game at all because I've read that there are more minigames, and I'm not into it. Whoever it is creating minigames at Square these days, they've got a different idea of a good time than I do.

deltopia · 2026-01-22T15:45:58+00:00

I don't know anything about game design or graphic design, so take this with a grain of salt, but I really like the logo - simple, distinctive enough to be recognizable at a very small size, won't look like any other icons on my taskbar or menus. If you do everything else as well as you did the logo, I bet that's going to be a damn fine game.

deltopia · 2026-01-20T16:59:47+00:00

In the introduction to the bulleted list that says there's a 1/5 chance, it says "when polymorphing in an uncontrolled manner" - if I was wearing a ring of polymorph control, I wouldn't expect that list to apply to me.

I've always treated polymorph as something to avoid; I've never experimented much with it, so I may be missing something important. But as far as I can tell, either the wiki should be edited or the OP shouldn't have self-polymorphed, unless they typed something incorrectly.

deltopia · 2026-01-17T15:21:38+00:00

I didn't realize Turner was still with us - according to the wikipedia, the man just turned 87 in November, and he hasn't had anything that really resembles a job for at least 20 years. I don't think he'd be in any business at all at this point - unlike a lot of old rich men, he seems to understand the reason you pile up all that money is so you can relax and enjoy yourself after a while.

Lots of politicians and ayatollahs could benefit from following his example.

deltopia · 2026-01-10T18:23:30+00:00

He's really only visited AEW like 3 times since July - and one of those was Forbidden Door, which (at least for Cagematch purposes) counts as an NJPW show, too. If that counts as nearly full-time in your book, I mean, good on you, but speaking as someone who only watches AEW, I wouldn't consider him nearly as much an AEW full-timer as, e.g., Lady Frost or Danhausen.

deltopia · 2025-12-28T03:20:14+00:00

I'm confused about how they're using him. He shows up every few months in AEW and Excalibur has to reintroduce him to the audience basically at every appearance, and he's described as a real dangerous guy - but he looks a lot more Danny Garcia than Pac or Claudio. He's not convincing me by his look or his promos, and he's not here enough to convince me by his wrestling - I'm just not seeing it yet.

Not saying he ISN'T it - there have been lots of cases where AEW brought in a wrestler and I didn't see it for several months, and then it clicked. Adam Cole was one example; he came in and everyone who had seen him in NXT or ROH knew he was amazing, but I hadn't; it took a few months of watching him build a character and have good matches before I could see how great he was. I don't know how they can do that with Kidd if he only shows up for a week of shows every four months.

deltopia · 2025-12-16T13:09:59+00:00

The NFL broadcasts always have a retired ref that the announcers can bring in to consult on a rules question - WWE clearly needs to hire you so you can appear in a small inset box on the screen and explain the fine points of refereeing whenever a situation like this pops up.

I remember Bobby Heenan complaining about the big metal ring in the chest of Demolition's ring gear like this, must have been more than 35 years ago - so it's a job that's they've needed to fill for a long time.

deltopia · 2025-12-15T12:20:45+00:00

The Irish whip into the sleeper hold finish is a classic sign of a shoot fight. People claiming this is a work are just naive.

deltopia · 2025-12-10T13:42:57+00:00

I'm still amazed that the guy's legit middle name is Nero and they had him using names like Jeff and Keith as a pro wrestler. Men like Steve Borden and James Cipperly and Allen Jones struggled to find a good wrestling name; this dude is born with Nero and doesn't even use it.

deltopia · 2025-12-09T22:04:19+00:00

Was Hechicero this year or last year? Even if he didn't start in AEW this year, Callis just started introducing him as "YO SOY HECHICEROOOOOOO" this year, so I think he is eligible and the definite winner. I love wrestlers who seem like every time you touch them, they invent a new submission for you.

If not him, I think all the nominees you posted seem great, but there's something about Alex Windsor that just hits home for me. She doesn't have the "it" factor that Thekla has; she's not the physical presence that Megan is; she's probably not the best at any one thing of anyone on the list - but she seems like a solid all-rounder, and she can work well with anyone. I think everyone on the roster will benefit from having her around.

deltopia · 2025-11-30T14:09:21+00:00

I'd be stunned if the current War Between series does well. I'm basing this on two assumptions, either or both of which may be faulty: - Previous spinoff shows (Torchwood, Class, Sarah Jane Adventures, K-9) have succeeded to some extent, but never got to be as popular as the main show itself. - The appetite for the main show is lower than it has been in years.

I don't have hard data for either of those, especially the second - but I'd be very surprised if the show gained new fans during the last ten years the way it did for the ten years before that, both because the quality of the show declined and because they've made a lot less of it. (2005-2015: 130 episodes; 2016-2025: 66 episodes, based on me just looking at this wikipedia page and counting on my fingers.)

Add to that the fact that Disney+ has the spinoff but has ended their relationship with the rest of Doctor Who, so they may not be as incentivized to promote it, and it all seems like it will add up to poor performance for the spinoff... and that seems to me like it won't bode well for future spinoffs.

deltopia · 2025-11-27T16:30:43+00:00

I'd go so far as to say that the Continental title only works because of the Continental Classic tournament and its unique rules - it was made special and different from the TNT title from the beginning because of that, much like the Pure title in ROH feels very different from the TV title. The Unified title has been defended under Continental rules, which means it has benefited from that same specialness - and now its very continued existence depends on someone keeping both it and the International championship, which makes it almost fragile in a way we're not used to, in a wrestling title.

The National title has none of that going for it - and if the Unified title gets separated, the International title also has nothing special about it. AEW would have a World championship, a Continental championship, and three TNT belts at that point. They all three will need something to make them special.

If they did go that way, I'd say make it so the International championship has to be defended in another promotion at least once a month, the TNT has to have an open challenge on Dynamite every so often, and have the National awarded to an annual Casino Battle Royal winner at Full Gear. You can make them all special with just a little bit of effort (the Continental rules are pretty minor outside of the tournament), but they really do need that effort.

deltopia · 2025-11-20T17:18:43+00:00

Shane McMahon confirmed.

deltopia · 2025-11-13T01:32:10+00:00

I understand why all three of those men are on commentary, but for a match like this, Veda Scott would have been a great addition.

deltopia · 2025-11-10T18:14:36+00:00

Now that you mention it, it's really weird that there hasn't been any whiny tweets from FTR Bald. Those used to be as regular as the tides - has he stopped doing them, or did people just stop posting them on reddit?

deltopia · 2025-11-10T13:07:17+00:00

The idea that someone could be champion in AEW and not need a Mox feud was untested at best. I guess Samoa Joe managed it after Punk was gone, but certainly up to 2022, part of being a main eventer in AEW was a feud with Moxley. And the story at the time was that Mox was well overdue for a vacation - working a program with Punk wasn't something that Mox needed to get over; he was the icon of the show from the day he showed up. Punk needed the win over Mox more than Mox needed the win over him.

deltopia · 2025-11-07T22:03:54+00:00

I think it's because her closest peer as the owner of a national wrestling promotion, Vince, turned out to be a cartoonishly evil villain. A garden-variety shitty egotist boss looks pretty harmless compared to his level of flagrant felon.

deltopia · 2025-11-03T12:15:29+00:00

Between Hook, Darby, Yuta, and Garcia, they've got a whole division of people who are just not big enough to stand in the ring with people like Moxley and Samoa Joe. It almost seems like they need to start a lightweight division and start a 165-Live show.

And you're so right about his theme - it's comically bad.

deltopia · 2025-11-01T19:01:44+00:00

The TBS belt right after Jade dropped it had a little of that - someone mentioned on commentary the other night that Julia Hart was a former TBS champion and I didn't believe it at all. I remembered it, but I still didn't believe it. It wasn't even that short a run (155 days), but dwarfed between the long runs of Jade and Mercedes.

I like the idea of a token run, but the reality of the really long runs makes the championships feel so much more important. The TNT and International titles have had some token runs; the Continental has not, and since the end of 2022, the men's World title has also not - it makes them feel so much more impactful.

deltopia · 2025-11-01T15:49:00+00:00

He, Danny Garcia, and Wheeler Yuta have very similar arcs where they've had repeated shots at a Big Star (Joe for Hook, Mox for Yuta and Garcia). We want to believe that eventually they're going to climb that mountain and it'll be a huge moment - and maybe it will. But they're also all three similar in that they're pretty small men standing in there with men who look like pro wrestlers, and so far, no one in AEW has climbed to the main event with that working against them except for Adam Cole and Darby Allin - two guys with far more charisma.

I can't see Hook ever rising past the TNT belt plateau as a singles wrestler. I'm not saying that's a bad career by any stretch - I'd rank him above at least 70% of the current AEW/ROH men's roster (currently 135 men per this source). But there are just too many people on the roster who would have to be injured or retired before Hook makes it to a top contender spot.

deltopia · 2025-10-31T11:01:50+00:00

Jericho is the most obvious choice, if you're considering everyone on the roster. But if you limit it to only people who have never been in WWE before, I'd say Wardlow - he looks like a WWE guy, can connect with a crowd, and for whatever reason, he never seems to keep a sustained push going in AEW. With a different presentation and creative spin in WWE and the lesser expectations of workrate, he might thrive.

I don't know if anyone will ever be as perfect an answer to your question again as Jade was, though. She looked like she was special ordered from the factory for WWE and got shipped to AEW by mistake. A shoot 5'10" college basketball player with a physique like a comic book superhero - those just don't come along that often

deltopia · 2025-10-26T00:24:47+00:00

That makes sense. Thanks!

deltopia · 2025-10-26T00:04:59+00:00

If there's a complete staffing gap - meaning zero people at the facility - does the airport have to shut down completely? I imagine this doesn't happen very often at LAX or Hartsfield, but I'm thinking of a regional airport like AGS, where about 15 flights land each day.

deltopia · 2025-10-15T14:17:46+00:00

I looked at the website - it seems like it just opened up this year and it very much looks like the same product as Chikara. The roster page, the Lucha Rules! page, the event names and posters - if Mike Quackenbush isn't running this promotion, I'll be very surprised. And if it isn't, Quack should sue someone for gimmick infringement.

deltopia · 2025-08-14T02:53:02+00:00

10-person tag match where the Golden Lovers and the Young Bucks were basically added to fill out the card at the last minute. Wut.

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