The Doctor's Office

[The Doctor]

She needs to do Playboy




(lulz)

 

[Ferbian]

Yes please.

 

[The Doctor]

and Lacey von Erich

 

[Ferbian]

Seen her, before the boob job however. So yeah I guess I would want to see the girls all grown up, or blown up? Grown up sounds better.

I would probably buy the Lacey edition more than Nattie if it was released at the same time, or I only had the money for one.

 

[DirtyJosé]

Thought this would be appropriate around these parts.

So, my buddy texts me yesterday to tell me he was playing Chrono Trigger for the first time. Mind you, he had been bagging on a JRPG I've been playing, and I had pointed to the game for a couple of examples. Apparently, he had avoided it this whole time even though everyone he knew loved it and raved about it when it was new.

I'm not used to getting texts from the guy very often, he's not that type of person usually. I get these last night and this morning:

im playing chrono trigger for the first time. my mind is blown

ok im ready to say this is the best jrpg i ever played. and def on the top 3 [ever]. im up at 4 am playing a snes game... and i can't stop

Later on today, just as I got home and started putzing around here, I get these gems:

got the mo fuckin masamune!

followed quickly by:

nevermind its fuckin broken...fuck

This amuses me to no end. The only other time I can recall enjoying someone else's experience playing games, it was my ex's best friend who randomly got into Metal Gear Solid 2, and was up until 3 AM playing it until it got to the part where it gets all screwy, and it asked her if she was playing alone in the dark, and she flipped the fuck out.

 

[Remix]

Very, Very true about Lacey and Nattie needing to do playboy.

 

[The Doctor]

That's awesome, Jose.

Remix! Have you seen SCW Episode 2 yet? If so, I'd love a review.

(And that goes for everyone!)

 

[The Holy One]

I haven't had experienced with e-feds but I guess I could give a review a try. Also, I think Samurai Champloo is an underrated anime.

 

[Барбоса]

Doc, if you are still looking for something to do, you could try cleaning up this old image up with your technical wizardry

 

[Ferbian]

"Carry On My Wayward Son", lovely song, ever heard that one Doc?

 

[The Doctor]

Heard it? That was my tag team theme in WZCW!

I'm working on that image right now for you, Barbosa.

 

[The Doctor]

Sam's viewing my thread. Hello, Sam.

Barbosa, I tried, and this is the best I could do. Not great, I'm afraid:

 

[Барбоса]

Thanks, Doc.

The original actuallys looks really well on my iPhone but it blurs badly when I use it as a desktop background.

Once I get back on my desktop, I'll see it your good work helps

 

[The Doctor]

Good, I hope so. though depending on your screen resolution it may not. You might want to try finding a bigger image.

 

[Stormtrooper]

Hey Doc, quick thought on SCW. I still haven't read episode 2, but I have a hell of an idea. Invasions are all the rage, be it Nexus or a bunch of guys from a Phily 90's promotion. SCW needs an invasion, and call the group "invaders from a promotion we can't tell you about," Why do you do this? So you can have the fans chant for them.

PRO-MO-TION! PRO-MO-TION! PRO-MO-TION! PRO-MO-TION!

 

[Pepe Silvia]

What's the Promotion chant from, anyway?

 

[Stormtrooper]

What's the Promotion chant from, anyway?

the HardCORE Justice LD.

 

[The Doctor]

The TV Tropes entry for the NXT Invasion gives me chills. It's just amazing, even better than the actual event.

Spoiler

June 7 2010: At the end of a three-hour "Viewer's Choice" Raw, WWE Champion John Cena is facing off against the opponent that fans chose for him, CM Punk. A few minutes into the match, NXT Season One winner Wade Barrett (who earned himself a free title shot against any title holder on an upcoming PPV) comes out onto the entrance stage and starts making his way to the ring. Not altogether odd. But then the camera cuts to NXT rookie Michael Tarver, who's in the crowd and jumping over the ringside barricade. And then the other NXT Season One rookies, including Daniel Bryan, jump the barricade...and all hell breaks loose. The Nexus (as the group was officially named a few weeks later) start by taking out the Straight Edge Society, then they all get in the ring and deliver a Horsemen-style ass kicking of epic proportions to John freaking Cena. And after making sure he couldn't fight back, the Rookies leave the ring and start causing chaos at ringside, wasting announcers and other personnel before destroying the announce table and the ring itself. Then the Rookies return to the ring and make damn sure than Cena isn't getting up on his own, continuing the beatdown for a few more minutes before finally leaving the ring and heading to the back, leaving Cena lying in the ring for medical personnel to stretcher off. The "NXT Riot" was the one of the most chaotic and unpredictable segments in years, and even in the very post-"worked shoot" age of wrestling, it still felt very, very uneasy to watch...even to a Cena hater.

The entire segment was so amazing, that each of the rookies got their own moment (some even more than one) amidst the chaos.

• For instance, who would've thought that the crazy-haired "South Beach Party Boy", Darren Young, could be capable of plowing through the ringside barricade, grabbing the timekeeper by the scruff of his shirt and yelling at him menacingly, then punching him right in the face without a hint of remorse?
• Heath Slater took one of the darker turns of the night when he picked up the detached middle ring rope and proceeded to choke Cena with it, a moment made all the more sinister when it was punctuated by a few high-pitched shrieks from the audience. Slater's response? After standing up, he walked over to the ropes and gave the crowd a "Try doing something about it" look.
• "A-List" David Otunga's moment is a little harder to place due to the camera angles that were used. Some might say that it was when he cold-cocked the referee, or when he flattened Cena with his spinebuster finisher. There was, however, one more thing that some missed. Whenever the other rookies were taking care of other business, like tearing up ringside, beating up WWE staff, or subduing CM Punk anew, Otunga was left in charge of keeping Cena down and out in the ring, which of course meant that there were about two whole minutes where "A-List" was free to toy with the champ, no doubt releasing pent-up frustration from having lost quickly to Cena a few months prior on RAW.
• Michael Tarver, the rookie who got arguably the biggest hosing on NXT, redeemed himself by having two. First was the moment the camera cut to him, wearing a kickass bandanna over the lower half of his face, jumping the barricade, and looking like an attack dog, just waiting for the go-ahead, the moment most point to as being when they realized that some serious shit was about to go down. The second came after he pulled up the mat surrounding the ring. He climbed back in, measured his target, and after months of bragging about how he could end a match in 1.9 seconds (a reference to his finishing move, a knockout punch to the face) and never getting the chance to follow through, Michael Tarver floored John Cena. Let me put that in perspective. The first person in WWE that Tarver knocked out with his finisher WAS THE WWE CHAMPION. THE FACE OF THE ENTIRE PRO WRESTLING INDUSTRY.
• Skip Sheffield established himself as the bulldozer of the group by single-handedly taking out Luke Gallows. Cena, Punk, and even Jerry Lawler were multi-person efforts, but big bad Skip was able to take out the Detoxified Disciple by himself. Many also took note of how frightening Sheffield was when barking out orders to the other rookies, like when he made Slater take the chairs out from behind the ringside announce table, so that he could flip it over and break it with his bare fists. Skip was also the first person to assault a non-wrestler, when he booted Matt Striker out of nowhere. It was at that moment that the segment went from a gang attack to an all out riot.
• Justin Gabriel, the flashy high-flying face of NXT, the only face who never seemed to show a hint of a dark side, even after elimination, was probably the most unexpected turn, making his crowning moment all the better. Despite not being the leader, the bruiser, or anything like that, he was the one who got the last shot in on Cena, by hitting a viciously beautiful 450 Splash. But the the emotionless look on his face before hitting the move, while perched on the turnbuckle, and afterward, on his knees staring at the fallen WWE Champion, was so striking and memorable, so unexpected from such a cheerful guy, that it earned him the nickname of "Dark Angel" on several forums.
• Wade Barrett, the leader of this army, had more subtle moments, but this troper feels they were among the most powerful. First was when the rookies surrounded the ring. They just stood there, until Barrett nodded at the others, at which point the all climbed onto the apron, and again waited for his signal to enter the ring. This troper only realized how powerful a moment this was when the rookies trashed ringside and destroyed Cena and the WWE staff at ringside. The rookies had become a furious group of savages, and Barret had control over them. It's a fierce group, and they answer to Wade freakin' Barrett. This was cemented when, during the final series of vicious attacks on Cena, one rookie might irish whip Cena at another for a clothesline or lariat. For Barret, however, he went to pick Cena up from the mat, but stopped at Slater's insistence. At this point, Slater, Sheffield, Otunga, and Bryan, (that's half the damn group) volunteered to lift Cena onto Barrett's shoulders so that he could hit his finisher. Now that's power.
• And finally, we come to Daniel Bryan. The first moment for him came when, during the ringside pillaging, Bryan took down Justin Roberts, sat on the hapless ring announcer's back, spun Roberts' necktie around, and proceeded to choke the air out of him with his own tie. The sight of Roberts clawing at his neck and Bryan pulling back with a violent look on his face has quickly become the most memorable image of the whole assault. But Bryan wasn't done. Back in the ring, after Sheffield leveled Cena with a lariat and Slater choked him with the ring rope, Bryan proceeded to belt out three consecutive Crowning Moments, back-to-back, in one glorious sequence, a greater Crowning Moment. First, he repeatedly yelled at the top of his lungs to the grounded Cena "YOU ARE NOT BETTER THAN ME!", a declaration that no doubt pleased smarks watching around the world. He then waited for Cena to slowly work himself onto his knees, and disrespected the champ by spitting right in his face. Then he topped the whole thing by measuring Cena, and delivering a buzzsaw kick right to the head. Unfortunately for Bryan, everything that made his involvement in this storyline so awesome backfired due to Executive Meddling, as his choking of Justin Roberts with the tie and the subsequent spitting on Cena was deemed too violent for PG WWE, and was let go that same week as it was reported that a WWE sponsor felt it was too violent. However, one might think that means that Bryan is too awesome for even the Nexus, which is arguably the best storyline the WWE has done in years.

There was quite a lot of motivation for the Rookies to do this assault as well. Perhaps if William Regal had not referred to Skip Sheffield as a moron on the Season One Finale of NXT, he might not have been there. Or if the audience had not booed Darren Young out of the building when he gave his classy elimination speech, he may not have took part in the riot. What about Michael Cole and his borderline libel of Daniel Bryan? Or the decision to disqualify Bryan and Michael Tarver via a last minute rule change? David Otunga probably got sick of the accusations that he was only there because of his fiance at about week 3. Heath Slater had as a good of a winning record as anyone in NXT, and it was insinuated that he got eliminated because Pros such as Chris Jericho held grudges against him because he scored upset victories against them. Even Justin Gabriel, the nicest one of the bunch, was ragged on for being a one-trick pony. With each of the rookies unhappy with their treatment on NXT, it stands to reason that the winner, Wade Barrett could get them on the same page to bring the fury to the WWE machine.

The page on the Nexus is also freakin' awesome, talking about some INCREDIBLE foreshadowing all throughout NXT and even on the episode it happened! Check it out.

 

[The Doctor]

Hey Doc, quick thought on SCW. I still haven't read episode 2, but I have a hell of an idea. Invasions are all the rage, be it Nexus or a bunch of guys from a Phily 90's promotion. SCW needs an invasion, and call the group "invaders from a promotion we can't tell you about," Why do you do this? So you can have the fans chant for them.

PRO-MO-TION! PRO-MO-TION! PRO-MO-TION! PRO-MO-TION!

YES. Well, that'll have to happen after the invasion of- Well, I can't tell you about that...

 

[The Holy One]

Damn that was so detail that it makes the person seems like he was in on the creative process of Nexus just scary brilliant

 

[The Doctor]

It gets even scarier when you realize just how much foreshadowing there was leading to the formation of The Nexus:

From one of the Rookies wearing an "nXt" shirt in the vein of the New World Order shirts, to almost every eliminated Rookie saying that their elimination was not the last the WWE Universe had seen of them, the foreshadowing of the NXT Riot/The Nexus was very subtle - but not many fans even considered a post-NXT group like The Nexus was in the cards.

If you rewatch the Viewer's Choice RAW in which the NXT Riot took place, if you look closely in the crowd, you can see a group of fans wearing Michael Tarver's RUN NXT shirt. This shirt was never for sale at any point in time.

 

[The Holy One]

I doubt you can such a dissection of any invasion angle like that even the NWO

 

[The Doctor]

I love this whole angle. I'm so excited for Summerslam. I hope Daniel Bryan really is the seventh member, but if not, oh well. I doubt it will be.

 

[The Holy One]

When is Beth Phoenix set to return?

 

[The Doctor]

Soon, I hope. She says she's healed from her leg injury.

I love Beth phoenix.