Beaut of a show today. Cole/MJF at All In, while historically not a match I’d have had much interest watching in that slot, works perfectly given the story they’re going for. I suppose this means that we’ll have CM Punk’s off-brand world title being a separate entity longer than All-In, which is perfectly good, that story’s got some legs on it for sure. I’ve had an inkling this eventually ends with Cole betraying MJF and validating everything he’s always felt about not trusting people, which is a compelling story, but the concept of them actually staying friends after and proving to MJF that there’s good in the world is equally compelling, could be fun.

So happy for Shida, she deserves a run in front of fans and the division needs a shake-up. I wasn’t sure whether they’d be willing to do it tonight so it was a pleasant surprise.

Swerve getting the promo we’ve all been waiting for him to get. A true mega-heel promo that makes him look legit as hell. This is how you start getting his character to the levels we’ve all wanted him to get to.

And a win for Trent? Over Moxley/Penta? That’s a heck of a win, glad for him.

The first bits of All In hype levels are starting to set in, and that’s good.

This is pretty much it. They need to be willing to commit more time slots to the division. Right now it’s like they’re afraid to give the division any more time because it has historically got lower ratings than the men’s, but it’s a chicken and egg situation, since they’ve always been shucked off to the worst timeslot and never given investment. So of course people are going to become accustomed to tuning out for that section.

Make a concerted effort to allocate more of the show’s time to the division and better booking and more focus will inherently come, since they’ll have a larger portion of the show ‘on the line’ depending on the division being good television. It was a rough transition at the start for WWE too - the first women’s rumble was weak because the division was tiny, and it felt forced to give a women’s version of every big match. After a couple years though, it was the norm and the strength of the division started to shine through. They’ve still got a ways to go on their side of things as well on the main roster nowadays, but it’s in a better state than AEW for sure.

Now’s the best time to do it with the brand split - there’s more television time to go around than ever.

Wonderful news! They’re the heart and soul of the company and it would be a gigantic hit to lose them at this stage of their career and AEW’s lifecycle.

Crazy good show this week. MJF and Adam Cole are obviously the highlight, and not much to say there that hasn’t already been covered. Best storyline they’ve got right now by a country mile.

The CM Punk stuff is interesting, I’m a fan of any belt defacing and/or duplicate belt angle, so this is right up my alley. Pleased to see they’re finally making strides toward All In.

The ladder match was crazy, they put it all out there and created a hell of a fun match.

The upcoming dynamite card is weirdly un-exciting for a special dynamite 200 in my opinion, outside of Storm/Shida which should be a banger. But sometimes the best shows are the ones with the least exciting cards.

I’m here, I just don’t watch shows live personally so I pop in for the post-show comments

I found this week’s to be a bit of a step below the last stretch. They’ve been on a real hot streak though lately so a down week one of these days was sure to come. With all of The Elite getting the week off though and them holding significant MJF/Cole developments for Saturday this was bound to happen. The in-ring action was really good though, as always. Swerve/Darby is such a good pairing that you can never complain about a Wednesday when you get to see them do what they do.

That sign about the Women’s division says it all though regarding them. I can’t help but wonder what the root cause here is, is it a WBD thing by any chance or just a Tony thing? You’ve heard scattered reports over the years about how WBD does have an influence on who gets screentime and whatnot and in ROH you’re seeing a much better booked women’s division. I can’t help but wonder if it’s a WBD directive to limit their minutes due to historically lower ratings for their segments and to focus primarily on the marketable women like Britt/Jade/etc which is hurting the division at large.

Now that Pac is about to become remembered by gravity, Andrade will fill the role as The Man Announcers Forgot

I’d second this, provided they’re interested in the role. They’ve been doing a wonderful job kick-starting activity into the magazine and taking the reigns in getting all the threads started, much better of a job than I could dream of doing.

I think it was entirely real, and I vaguely recall Tony Khan himself acknowledging it, it’s just that it’s more of codifying rules they’ve informally had for a long time and that there’s no shortage of exceptions made for the talent they trust. Anyone thinking it would significantly affect the on-screen product like a night and day difference was out to lunch for sure.

It was a fun show, but dare I say the blood and guts match didn’t quite match my expectations, mostly due to production errors. It felt like the cameras were missing lots of important spots, which took it out of it a little bit. I get it, it’s a tough match to get everything right with how chaotic it is, just a bit unfortunate. The storyline within it was good though, BCC losing because their extras weren’t fully invested in the relationship whereas Elite is all close thus sticks together, Mox surrendering to save Yuta, showing his first ounce of humanity since joining BCC.

The tag match was fun though! My fiancé got a huge kick out of the dance-off, I appreciate how MJF is intimately familiar with the special secret disco button. Very interested to see where things go from here.

Hook/Jack was interesting. The match itself was good and Hook will seemingly always impress me, Perry needs to keep tweaking his heel persona for sure but he’s getting crazy boos in the arena so the fans are responding well to him which is good.

All in all decent show, I’m excited to see how they start to build towards All In now that we’re past Blood & Guts.

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I think most everyone else has covered my thoughts, what with the rules as they stand being pretty good.

I’ll echo the sentiment of a meme Thursday or something being a good way to fill the gap on a day where there aren’t any prominent shows going on.

It’s probably a matter of how Kbin and Lemmy interact. On Kbin I see two moderators listed.

I find it particularly interesting how MJF translates so well in both our cases. I always would have thought that he would have been much more of a ‘smark hit’ than someone who would come across well to brand new watchers. Exact same thing here, without having any idea who he is and even his history as a massive asshole (given her first exposure to him was when he was already into the ‘fake babyface’ role last week), the moment he’s on screen her interest is at 100%. His natural charisma and ability to work in any role (be it comedy, reluctant temporary face, serious heel, etc) must be really translating really well and it says a lot about just how special of a talent he is that he can capture new fans right off the bat while keeping his stuff interesting to the hardcores as well by backing it up with great in-ring psychology and whatnot.

I’ve found that the encounter builder is usually fine, but I would spend lots of extra time setting up encounters using it only to find that the things I plucked haphazardly were only about, say, 20% less balanced on average.

At the end of the day it became a question on if it was worth it to run every encounter through that for being only marginally better than just grabbing and going. For some, they have the time to spare and it is worth it, and that’s perfectly great! For myself I found that the extra variance just made things interesting and that 20% extra imbalance could be made up by the odd sneaky adjustment on the fly if I was ridiculously off base in where I expected the fight to end up in difficulty.

I found long ago that trying to balance my 5E encounters in any way, shape, or form is just a hopeless endeavor.

I just throw things at my party and kind of let 'er rip. Some end up hard, some end up easy, after a while you get a general gist for what they tend to be able to handle.

Just wanted to pop in and say that the improvement on the list view over the initial release is huge! The quick updates and improvements across the board have quickly made it my go-to lemmy app to hold me over until Kbin-specific ones come out.

Thanks for the work you’re putting into this!

https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp Been in the works for a while

Game development times are getting completely out of hand at this point. I really hoped that the advancement of game creation technology and more advanced engines, we would have seen sped up game development, but for the past decade we’ve seen nothing but the opposite go the point it’s just ridiculous now for some games.

This also poses the other question - who thought it was a good idea to show an ES6 teaser if the game was the better part of a decade out at the time of the teaser?

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I’m glad it exists but I think I’ll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I’m personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn’t quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it’s a bug. I signed in with Urnchos@sh.itjust.works and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I’m not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?