It also doesn’t help with all the fairly truthful NASCAR / WWE comparisons. When they go to someplace like Talladega they play up the “big one” then will show 1000 replays of the giant demo derby. NASCAR has had a few amazing finishes this season where 1st-3rd finished thousandths of a seconds apart.
When NASCAR took that car to Le Mans last year they impressed everyone with the fact that it could keep pace. Even the pit challenge impressed when they won. Instead France is like McMahon and making an embarrassment of the sport because he wants to run it his way. They should focus on what sets them apart as the selling point. It’s not just “rednecks turning left” it’s three wide full throttle 190mph+ for 500 miles and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg to go see it.
What made the all star event worse was that NASCAR’s social media was hyping up the fight even as they were saying fighting is unacceptable.
I know F1 has its own problems but they treat each GP like it’s a big event. While they occasionally show the crowd a lot more emphasis is placed on the location and track. Meanwhile NASCAR tv loves to emphasize fat shirtless drunks. F1 claims they are the pinnacle of motorsports then go and act like it is. NASCAR flops between pandering to the modern diverse audience and to a caricature of what Hollywood thinks southerners are.
NASCAR needs to follow the same rules as the food industry. It’s not racing it’s Automotive Entertainment Product. Look at some of this year’s highlights. A fist fight in the pits at your all star race that NASCAR posted all order social media then penalized people. The #3 just driving like a 12 year old playing Gran Turismo and just spinning and right hooking other cars for the win. Then I would also add the Chicago street race. I have always argued that NASCAR drivers were just as talented as F1 or Indy. But watching most of the field drive like kids playing GT and just driving into corners full speed and taking out someone like SVG who was showing what those cars can actually do. I don’t think they are among the world’s best drivers. They are a fair ground attraction that for a brief period were at the top of American sports. Now the stands are mostly empty… well the stands they didn’t rip out.
I made the switch this year to F1 and have enjoyed that a lot more. I will get up early to watch the Grand Prix live. I’ll turn on NASCAR… if I remember.
Remember when people that had interesting life experiences wrote fiction? Ian Fleming never pretended spying was like his novels. But that’s the point. It was supposed to be fun and ridiculous escapism. The people that made this game are bereft of any creativity or imagination. Their entire existence is about one specific thing. They have put so much into believing it that their entire existence hinges on their transformation making them happy. They don’t want the high of this fetish to wear off and being forced to realize they are Frankenstein’s monster. That is why you must celebrate them at all times.
Remember that idiot from the new G4 that went on her rant that brought them down. She bitched about attractive women not being there for your enjoyment meanwhile was thirst tweeting about Megan Fox. Of course they hate it since progressive women are frumpy and lumpy while the trannies are just wearing a female skinsuit with an open wound.
Andrew Breitbart used to say politics is downstream of culture. We need to change the culture not just who gets elected in DC. Progressives have been working on this for a century. They infested colleges to indoctrinate the next generation. With music and movies they presented their opinions as the counter culture. They were fighting for personal choice and freedom against the stuffy conservative establishment. Each time the right just shrugged their shoulders “at least I have X”. Now progressives have taken over video games, D&D, comics, sports. All the while the prevailing conservative attitude was “wait till those whiny liberal college students get a job then they will understand.” That day never came. The progressives just took over HR departments and force everyone out guilty of wrongthink. You want a future then you need to court the next generation to view modern progressives like they made conservatives look back in the 60s & 70s.
If Trump wins it won’t really matter. If he passes strict immigration laws blue states won’t comply and the GOP is to weak willed to hold them accountable. You will have the governor of California or New Mexico meeting with Mexican officials on how orange man is bad. Leftists have shown time and time again that if they don’t win the riot, protest, complain for as long as it takes. The right will just let them be and talk about the “red wave” that never materializes. Even if Trump does win he is out after four years. The next president can just go in and instantly wave the magic pen and reverse everything. Democrats and some Republicans know this and they really only have to drag their feet for four years.
Kamala is the perfect puppet for the left wing political machine. She is a hack who owes her entire career to others good graces. She knows that so she will just do what she is told. But you are right about the house and senate. They need that more. She will just rubber stamp anything progressive that comes along and she is too stupid to lead that’s why they need the lifelong grifters in the senate to have power.
Ubisoft games are like Will Ferrell or Jack Black movies. Once you have played one you have played them all. It’s just the same worn out formula with new backgrounds. They are a creatively bankrupt company that churns out the worst fast food style games.
The biggest problem with people like McMahon, Cornette, Bret, Tony Kahn, CM Punk is they are carnies and can’t let go of the carny mindset. I am so tired of hearing everyone’s take on things like the Montreal Screwjob since it’s such a stupid thing to fight over to begin with. I do appreciate Bischoffs take though since he usually comes across as someone who understands entertainment and the business side of wrestling and had success beating WWF.
First off I want to say Dragon Age Portland looks pretty authentic. Don’t worry though the dev team will be out there soon with their games unrinalist allies claiming that a tiny minority of Trump supporting incel racist bigots are sending them death threats. They will say the vast majority of gamers support this. Then cry when it barely breaks even if lucky when it goes live and can join Concord, Assassins Creed Blackwash, Dustborn, and Saints Row on the monument to hubris.
Are there people on the right surprised about this?The media when it comes to candidates on the right is Lucy holding the football for Carlie Brown. Every. Single. Time. Does no one remember JurnoList? The media roaches gladly campaign for the Democrats while the Republican candidates are stupid enough to continually fall for it.
There was an interesting part in the book Masters of Doom I think applies. It was laying out John Carmack’s sprawling D&D campaign that he had been working on for years with its own encyclopedia. One thing it pointed out was that Carmack was absolute in that his game abided by the established rules of his fantasy world so you accidentally destroy the world it’s destroyed. I think that’s what made older fantasy work better. Current ThingTM trash just invents as it goes and advances the writers and producers own ego. The Acolyte is a perfect example of that. LotR worked because it had real rules and history that grounded the series. Modern writers are just hacks who don’t know anything and their worldview is just their little LA/NYC bubbles and self insert.
I know it’s not old but Midsommer Murders is good. Also if you have never seen Monty Pythons Flying Circus I’d check that out. It’s a million times better than the movies. Look up The Bishop on YouTube. I’d watch that show if it was real.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought the original American Top Gear wasn’t that bad. Was it as good as the original. Not even close. But Adam, Tanner, and Rutledge were pretty good together and their challenges were just one for one copies of the British show.
I think the biggest problem with urinalists is that too often more emphasis is placed on attacking the news outlet itself. People get mad at the Washington Compost, CBC, CNN, Kotaku, etc. but outside a few higher profile people most names fly under the radar. Since the whole industry is incestuous the roaches just move around constantly unchecked. What is it they say about making enemies uncomfortable? This is not some glow post saying people should commit violence but those journalists act the way they do because they feel safe. They would gladly print any of our personal information to try to get us fired and destroy our lives for wrongthink. Same should apply to them.
Make urinalists unemployed again.