Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

So we got Argentina vs Colombia for the Copa America final and Spain vs England for the Euro. I am rooting for Colombia (would love to see their winning streak continue) and England but I have a feeling Argentina and Spain will win.

I watched the Copa America semi final just now between Uruguay and Colombia and it was a great game. Very foul heavy but that's to be expected with two South American teams but over all enjoyable.

I really need some new blog ideas, but I also really need to go to bed

@Scabzilla dream blog

Thought I'd roam Nintendo Life for a little before I get sleepy. I nearly deleted a forum I made on accident, but I canceled the deletion before it went through, so it is still up! I was so relieved to see that it was still there.

I played more of Perfect Dark Zero earlier, specifically its multiplayer modes despite already completing the main story campaign. I never really paid a lot of attention to the multi, but I had so much fun with it despite dying constantly to bot players. I'll probably play a bit of Smash tomorrow.

I am thinking of changing my avatar on here soon, maybe to yet another Conker avatar, but I think I've only had this Banjo avatar on for maybe two weeks, so I'll maybe wait a little, though I already have an idea for what I'll have my avatar be in October. I don't know what it is, but I love changing profile pictures a ton! It is a good way to show people your interests and tastes in games here. As a random question, how frequently do you guys change your avatar pictures here?

This basically echoed all my sentiments. I have little to add except not wanting this to be left ignored. (Although halfway through writing this I realized I should’ve pinged you in the PS footie club, whoops).

Uhh… since it’s easier to bring this up in an off topic thread, I may as well ask before I forget. You’ve been keeping up with the Triple H era lately? I’m only now catching up and there’s a lot to unload in the past four months I’ve been off the product. (To be completely honest, I’m primarily waiting for the Netflix deal to be complete because I don’t wanna watch WWE in Shahid, which is the arab steaming servers we have here, to be honest it’s quite bad but I don’t wanna write a sidebar within a sidebar while I have this headache).

Cody and Punk been great. Nice to see Braun and Awesome Truth together, did not expect them to have so much tv time, Damien being champ is like a dream come true for me, judgement day are great, Dominik is good, cool to see Rey still got a lot left in the tank, Sheamus 15th anniversary was quite sweet, the Wyatt stuff is a little iffy but I cannot complain about my man Bo Dollas eating well, he completely deserves it after everything. Oh, and Joe Hendry’s debut was cool.
Huh, I said his name. You know what comes next…
Say his name, and he appears!
I believe in Joe Hendry. 🙌

@Yousef- I haven't really followed WWE in years. I just got tired of their same old crap. Basically let's elevate one Superstar and hold everyone else back. I was happy when Cena finally left only to see that they did the same crap with Roman. I heard with Vince gone and Trips in charge now it's gotten better but honestly with AEW and NJPW that's all the time for wrestling I have in my life and even then it's hard to keep up. I am about 2 months behind with AEW, thank God for DVR, and about a month behind on NJPW. Next week I am off from work so hopefully I can catch up on some.

@Tasuki that’s understandable. I’m following WWE and TNA and that’s enough for me but I still miss some so getting invested in other promotions is currently a no-go (although I would love to do it in a perfect world). I happen to like the talent more and can also somewhat verify that since Vince’s departure, the company has been on a perpetual state of course correction. So far so great. (Wrestling with Wregret and CVV also been helpful in catching up).

Though now feels like a good chance to elaborate on my earlier sidebar and why I had to take a dip from pro-wrestling. Shahid (literally translates to “Watch” in Arabic) has been phenomenal compiling all WWE stuff for us here but man oh man is it terrible for live viewing. Thing is, I’m not even interested in rewatching old stuff so that’s one selling point off the table (not to mention the service being incredibly pricey because it packages so much other stuff with it look footie, American football, other sports, some American dramas and a lot of Arab dramas).

If I wanna watch old stuff, I’m fine with YouTube clips and shoot interviews. I almost never find the urge to revisit an entire Raw or Smackdown episode (not to mention they’re pretty annoying to look up due to how crappy the search system is).

So I’m only left with live viewing and man, it’s bad. First off, it’s stuck at 480p unless you switch to a different monitor. Bad start. Secondly, it’s a giant lie. It says only English commentary is available but that’s not true, it’s the opposite. It’s actually only Arabic commentary and English commentary becomes available 24 hours later which is really frustrating for so many reasons because it’s dishonest or at least negligent, the waiting period is painful and you may as well just forget about it entirely, the Arabic commentary is inferior to Arabic commentary in other sports like footie and basketball (seriously, mounting against the announcers but they sound younger than high schoolers and they’re pretty amateurish. No quality assurance) and…. That’s about it. Not much more to say. Or my headache is catching up to me.

Netflix deal will hopefully amend some of my issues. I don’t necessarily think it’s a faultless service, in fact I quite dislike it, but it’ll be a lot more manageable. Since I’m on the road quite often due to my hospital job and all the traveling, I have to watch wrestling on my phone. My tv is not always an option.

Well I hope this is interesting cultural knowledge at least. Christian Cage is the reason I might start watching AEW. He’s hilarious.
I swear this is peak wrestling. Captain Charisma strikes once more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ6mtnm_1Q4&pp=ygURQ2hyaXN5...

@Yousef- It's been even longer since I followed TNA lol. I want to say 2010 to 2012 is when I mostly watch it and then a bit a few years ago when AEW and TNA had a cross promotion going on when Kenny Omega was the belt collector. The only thing I keep up with on TNA is some of the talent, like The Hardys for example, and I only do that cause I heard that they left AEW but wasn't sure if it was true or not. I googled it and sure enough it was and they were back in TNA. Same thing with Santana. I think that's why I gravitate towards AEW they have alot of my favorite people from both WWE and TNA now. Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose) Christian, Adam Copeland (Edge) Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, Sanjay, Chris Daniel's. Don't get me wrong TNA and WWE still have a few I like but like I said before time.

That's understandable why your limited to what wrestling you can follow. That's one reason I stopped following TNA. Here in the US it was hard to find because of their network deals, it seemed they were always jumping networks so I couldn't find what day or time it was. Then for a short time they weren't on TV at all here!! I believe Wrestling with Wregret just covered a PPV of TNA where they had to set up everything on the PPV because they didn't have a tv deal at the time.

Speaking of WwW one of my favorite YouTube channels to watch! I need to watch his latest videos but I don't miss a video of his for long.

@Sunsy I did watch the linked video. Looks like there was a ton of work involved! Some high production values too, being an official event. I'm sure it was stressful to make something like that experience come together, but it looks like it paid off in spades! I would have enjoyed working something like that. I really liked the reporter lady, from her slight Jersey accent to her "I'm wearing this Poppy hat for you guys" bit at the beginning. XD

I sometimes wake up at night, and it's usually 50/50 whether I fall asleep again. It was worse when I was dealing with acute insomnia. I'll try to get around to posting a couple food-related pictures this weekend. The ramen restaurant was especially awesome since the only way to get any nearby is the packaged stuff; I randomly searched on the way home, and the closest ramen place is in a college town over an hour away. There is a local Japanese steakhouse, but that's mostly hibachi and sushi. My friend and I had an amazing trip and honestly didn't really want to return lol. Sadly, we both had to face reality sometime.