A great many people really like OSX; its been a long time since i’ve daily driven it but there’s stuff about the way it works that feels more efficient than windows, and easier than linux. That’s not something that appeals to everyone but its obviously worked for a lot of folks.

So back in the day it was about getting to use OSX (and in other cases apps that were OSX only, or just ran better in OSX) but not having to pay so much for the hardware. That’s a calculation that to me really only made sense for desktops; as for quite a long time Apple’s laptops weren’t actually massively more expensive than a similarly spec’d windows laptop.*

Overtime i’d argue that linux desktops have caught up to a lot of what made OSX feel good; but they’re not like for like even now. Though take that with a grain of salt as I spend more time in cli/tui nowadays across my macbook, work windows laptop and various linux boxes i’ve got running :)

*The thing was that the average windows laptop was under-spec compared to a Macbook Pro so the latter always looked way more pricey.

Sorry - I’m a bit late to the party, is squaredcircle moving?

Nah I think they were main characters; the story revolved around Hanger & Kenny for sure - but remember all the early part of that was about them & Hangman. And his initial beef was about the Bucks not coming out to support him, the problem with Kenny really began later when the shenanigans with FTR began.

I think the whole arc with Hangman and Kenny, probably an epic storyline getting a bit lost to history now, is up there with some of their best work in their TV age - i’ve not seen much of their indy, NJPW or Impact runs so can’t comment beyond that.

That long line is totally overblown as there’s just as many stories about talk about the relationships between some of the vets and some of the youngsters.

And in defense of some of those at AEW, it was setup to be something different to WWE, and the top of the card had plenty of folks who had got over and made money outside of the WWE. I think there’s a reasonable case that they might not have needed to learn as much. And any WWE vet coming in may well have needed to pick their brains; at least in the early days anyway.

I think you’ve missed the joke; so to respond to some of your post at face value.

Assuming you’re talking about the apparent beef Punk had because Page said he didn’t really take advice much. Should Page have to? At the time he said that he was 14 1/2 odd years into his career, if you exclude the 7 years where Punk did something else, Page has only wrestled for about 3 1/2 years less than Punk.

In any case, i’m pretty sure Page said that with tongue firmly in cheek anyway, and what he was getting at was that you can’t just do what someone tells you and assume its going to work, you have to take the chance and figure out how to do it yourself, your own way. Which I think is a pretty reasonable take for a guy who’d been wrestling for more than 14 years at the time, including 6 years since he’d first started on NJPW shows, and 3 years of wrestling on AEW TV.

He wasn’t some fricking n00b especially given he was after all the champion at the time that all went down.

Just make sure you have a secure basement garage for it, if you live in a region prone to F4+ varnados.

Its a monester of a mystery.

Well ideally it’d be someone that everybody can tell is a scumbag heel except Sting, so maybe that would actually work, lol.

Win tonight, retain against the Bucks, and then have Sting retire and pass his spot on the team to someone else to be Darby’s partner. They’re made from the start and can then betray Darby like all of Sting’s friends betrayed him over the years :)

Hard disagree on the future show announcement. If, like it was for All In, a major show for a major AEW market, then it deserves a major announcement, not a brief throwaway. You want to sell lots of tickets to shows like that you have to start by making them seem like a big deal.

edit: not that I think a foreign show is the likely announcement :)

I barely follow WWE news, and haven’t watched anything since switching to NJPW in 2017, and then AEW when it launched; but I always thought from what i’d heard of big news that Rock v Roman was a match that was always going to happen, and assumed that the only place it would ever happen was Wrestlemania.

So as a mostly disconnected, not even casual fan, I figured Cody winning the Rumble and picking Rollins was always the plan, otherwise they’d what, wait until next year for Rock-Roman?

I wonder if that only changed once Punk imploded, got himself fired and then became available for WWE again?

With a wild Statlander showing up too; though i’m surprised Silver could tolerate being around her.

The copium on reddit is amusing. Apparently its only the roided up guys in AEW & WWE that can still go if they’re old and tearing something every other match is just what we should expect from 45 year olds.

Clearly hasn’t seen Suzuki or Nagata!

Its an interesting thought, notwithstanding the WWE fan base have in the past been extraordinarily forgiving… WWE’s own curated mythology is that since the 80s, Wrestling = WWE, and WWE = Vince. Most of their documentaries lay the entirety of WWEs financial and creative success at the feet of Vince’s “genius”. Essentially the WWE is built on a cult of personality that is a little Stalinist in terms of Vince being the godfather of everything big and successful the company has ever done.

Will they need to break down that myth, or will their audience just forgive it, or not even really believe it? I think you could make an argument that a large part of WWE’s audience is proudly not very woke so I can kinda see it not being a very big deal for many of them. So long as Vince is gone I suspect they won’t bother doing anything more, certainly not without anybody painting the WWE = Vince over & over. I guess they’ll have to pull and/or edit basically every documentary type product they’ve ever produced though!

"Puttin’ this in my bank account, i’m not the only name on that.’ 5:50

BTDO has been killing it on this takeover run; almost as good as the Daily’s place era version, so much fun.

Given the amount of backtracking from Hausman and that as of my last check here were no allegations, and the whole Kylie emoticon thing seems a bit overblown, I wonder if this should be taken down until there’s actuall something more than rumours?

Is she really that inexperienced? In terms of pro-wrestling merchandise pre AEW she was running probably the biggest game outside of WWE, and maybe NJPW.

I dunno that the mouthpiece of Punk is necessarily a reliable source on what Dana Massie was making, but even if accurate, given the wins AEW had merch wise on the retail side of things it might not be a surprise. Apart from the snow globe that never actually shipped, most of the complaints about merch are more around not having enough at live events; and that’s a factor of the partnership with PWT as much as anything.