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Post by themagi on Sept 24, 2016 17:48:53 GMT 1
Kwasi, good catch for K-1. Tournament just received an injection of Chico.
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Post by themagi on Sept 10, 2016 1:11:10 GMT 1
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Post by themagi on Sept 6, 2016 21:08:07 GMT 1
About 50-ish games, maybe more. I've got a burned copy of Half-Life, which I don't think was ever released. 4 wheel Thunder is a fave of mine and I hate driving games. Fire Pro Wrestling D. That shooter which is a spoof of James Bond. UFC. A lot of sports games. House Of The Dead. 18 Wheeler. Carrier. Bootleg of Unreal Tournament. Both Crazy Taxis. Headhunter. Soldier Of Fortune and a few more.
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Post by themagi on Sept 6, 2016 20:44:25 GMT 1
About fifteen years ago a friend of mine gave me a bootleg copy of a Japanese scrolling shooter for the Dreamcast. I'd never heard of it and he thought the game was, in his words, "a pile of fox shit". I was in no hurry to play it and finally got round to doing so a few days later. I played it, thought it was near impossible and just filed it as part of my collection, probably to be never placed in the console ever again.
Months later another friend, a hardcore gamer type, mentioned that he had heard about a Japanese shooter that was said to be extremely difficult to complete but near impossible to find in Europe. His feet almost came off the ground in the vain of St.Francis of Assisi when I told him that a copy of Ikaruga was sitting on a shelf at my place, gathering dust and merely taking up space. I think I could have got away with charging him an hourly rate, if I had the heart to do so, so he could find out for himself how difficult to play, he was so keen.
On the subject of the DC, it's amazing how that when it and it's games where available to buy in stores it was considered something of a joke and pretty much flopped but now it's seen as an exceptional console with a whole host of excellent and underrated games. The PS2 blew it out of the water, but I still have mine and all my games. Shenmue stands out as a really incredible game along with AJPW Giant Gram 3 which probably still stands today as the finest pro-wrestling game ever made. Bloody shame that K-1 Dream, that was going to be a DC exclusive title with a whole new look from the K-1 games available on the PSX, PS2 and Saturn at the time and was said to have looked awesome, was one of the first games to be killed off (along with UFC 2) when it was announced that production of the DC console was to stop.
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Post by themagi on Sept 2, 2016 21:01:16 GMT 1
To me, he is a straight up unlikable fellow. Not that it matters of course. His belittling/trolling of fighters on social media (that has been highlighted on the MMA sites I look at, I don't use social media one iota personally, so there's every chance he's just as gregarious to them as he is douchey and it's just the negativity that gets highlighted, but I doubt it) is akin to a pre-teen, his fights are generally boring AF, whilst re-watching the UFC event that included Kennedy's bout with Roger Gracie, I fell asleep twice whilst attempting to watch it, I thought it was so bad (admittedly that's nothing to do with this particular issue) and now this. Being a military man, he should really know that just as he hasn't been affected by PTSD that enough people and families have been so. He may very well have served alongside men and women that have been.
In my experience, (I don't know much about my father, who was in the services, but I do know that he was shot in the lower lumbar when his back was turned whilst at his post. He survived, but would only talk about what he saw and did during his time in the Army with his fellow squaddies, never with his family) it's the people that have served on the front line that are the least willing to discuss it, at least in a public forum, so it's kind of surprising in a way that he has done so, so graphically. But then with his form in just talking general assholery, it's kind of not.
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Post by themagi on Aug 23, 2016 19:49:20 GMT 1
I hope I'm wrong but I'm beginning to think that one of the things going forward with WME-IMG coming in and Zuffa going out is compliance when it comes to big names testing positive and a sudden change in USADA's handling of cases. I can almost hear the phrasing of some of them now: A) "We are of the opinion that due to the circumstances of this particular positive test that education rather than punishment is the correct route to choose."
B "We welcome and applaud Fighter X for informing us of his ingestion of this banned substance ahead of a random test, this gives both ourselves and Fighter X the opportunity to adjust the date of his USADA enrollment to avoid any violation of the anti-doping program. We would like to thank Fighter X for his honesty in this delicate matter."
C) "Our independent review panel has decided that they will take no further action in the anti-doping violation case of Fighter Y and he will not face any sanctions of any kind, whatsoever. Fighter Y supplied us with sufficient proof that his training camp was held in the exact same location in Sierra Leone that was subject to a very rare and unprecedented sabotaging of white bread that had come into contact with a very high concentration of the banned substance Nandrolone. We are of the opinion that his positive test was due to his coming into contact with a contaminated loaf. Therefore his scheduled PPV main event will go ahead as scheduled. We wish to thank Fighter Y for his honesty and apologize for any embarrassment caused by this false positive."
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 23:53:58 GMT 1
Former Bellator commentator Sean Wheelock and John McCarthy have spearheaded some big changes into how MMA fights are being scored. Commissions have been encouraged to start bringing these changes into effect now, but it's not law until 1/1/17 and even then it's not concrete that each individual state will have to abide by them, but the major ones such as Nevada and California have said that they welcome these changes with open arms. Basically they want to get away from the boxing led ways of scoring fights with a more liberal use of 10-8 and even, IMO mistakenly, 10-7 rounds. I was hoping to bring this up in the next Fightcast but I know that I will have trouble framing it verbally and it won't come out as intended.
Three major points must be taken into account for the 10-8/10-7 rounds they are impact (originally damage, but a rep from the New Jersey commish voiced disapproval so it was changed), duration and dominance. If two of those are in place during a round then a 10-8 round must be considered, all three 10-8 is a must. A 10-7 round is if one fighter is said to be in such control that a stoppage could possibly be warranted, but isn't. There was also crazy talk of things like blood loss and visible depletion of spirit being taken into consideration. That is just utter BS, it's unreal.
I get that change happens, sometimes for the better, sometimes not but my take is that without some kind of judge valuation and review process then these changes are going to wreak havoc on scorecards most definitely in the short term. The possibility of drawn bouts will increase especially with some of these judges on the MMA scene and they don't help anybody in a situation without an extra round. Early going with these new policies seems to be that if you can take your opponent down and keep him there without causing a great deal of damage the chances of getting a 10-8 round are amplified, and I f'n hate that style of fighting. I have yet to watch the whole UFC 202 card from start to finish so I'm not sure how things laid out over the weekend but I will do that over the next couple of days.
For what it's worth I thought that round 1 of McGregor-Diaz II was worthy of a 10-8 round as was round three to Diaz but not as defined as the opener. My tally watching the fight live was 48-46 or 47-46 to McGregor.
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 1:27:31 GMT 1
Hopefully someone will alert Dana White to this and maybe, just maybe that c*nt will get smoked out and banned from the UFC, because that twat truly deserves such a thing.
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 1:20:34 GMT 1
Final Medal Table
Uzbekistan 3 GOLD - 2 SILVER - 2 BRONZE =15 PTS
Cuba 3 GOLD - 3 BRONZE =12 PTS
France 2 GOLD - 2 SILVER - 2 BRONZE =12 PTS
Kazakhstan 1 GOLD - 2 SILVER - 2 BRONZE =9 PTS
Russia 1 GOLD - 1 SILVER - 3 BRONZE =8 PTS
Great Britain 1 GOLD - 1 SILVER - 1 BRONZE =6 PTS
USA 1 GOLD - 1 SILVER - 1 BRONZE =6 PTS
China 1 SILVER - 3 BRONZE =5 PTS
Brazil 1 GOLD =3 PTS
Colombia 1 SILVER - 1 BRONZE =3 PTS
Azerbaijan 1 SILVER - 1 BRONZE =3 PTS
Netherlands 1 SILVER =2 PTS
Mongolia, Morocco, Finland, Mexico, Venezuela, Germany, and Croatia 1 BRONZE =1 PT Each
Val Barker Trophy Winners (Best Boxer)
Male: Hasanboy Dusmatov (Uzbekistan)
Female: Claressa Shields (USA) *First time the award has been available to female boxers.
And that concludes the boxing at the 2016 Rio Olympiad.
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 0:59:33 GMT 1
Super Heavyweight:
GOLD: Tony Yoka (France)
SILVER: Joe Joyce (Great Britain)
BRONZE: Filip Hrgovic (Croatia)/ Ivan Dychko (Kazakhstan)
*Man, the decision in the final was very poor, I thought Joe Joyce won and won well and to see him take it on the chin as well as he did was almost hurtful. The complete opposite of Michael Conlan's much publicized sulkathon last week and his loss wasn't as bad as it was painted out to be. I saw a lot worse robberies during the games than Conlan's, yet because he gave the judges the finger and gave a foul mouth post loss tirade, his was given a lot of media attention. It pays to be a bad loser in the social media age, I guess.
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 0:53:17 GMT 1
Light Welterweight:
GOLD: Fazliddin Gaibnazarov (Uzbekistan)
SILVER: Lorenzo Sotomayor Collazo (Azerbaijan)
BRONZE: Vitaly Dunaytsev (Russia)/ Artem Harutyunyan (Germany)
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 0:51:05 GMT 1
Flyweight:
GOLD: Shakhobidin Zoirov (Uzbekistan)
SILVER: Misha Aloian (Russia)
BRONZE: Yoel Segundo Finol (Venezuela)/ Jianguan Hu (China)
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Post by themagi on Aug 22, 2016 0:48:43 GMT 1
Womens Middleweight:
GOLD: Claressa Shields (USA)
SILVER: Nouchka Frontin (Netherlands)
BRONZE: Dariga Shakimova (Kazakhstan)/ Qian Li (China)
*Second successive Gold for Claressa and she's only 21. Hopefully her commercial career will take off now. After winning her first at 17 her sponsorship and endorsement deals have been virtually zero. That should really change.
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Post by themagi on Aug 21, 2016 18:13:06 GMT 1
I would imagine that it's really a sub-division of the UFC. They are promoted on just about every single UFC show at some point during the prelims and they've been going heavy on the gym side of things for a number of years now, and it's telling that Evolve, who are doing a similar kind of thing with gyms in Asia where the UFC are looking trying to break into with their UFC Gym, who have a huge number of world class instructors at their disposal are pretty much banned from being mentioned on UFC broadcasts. That kind of blows the "independent from UFC" argument out of the water. I can't imagine the ownership of the UFC does not profit in some way from the UFC Gym enterprise. Add the fact that McG wanted the gym in return for doing press for 202, which doesn't benefit UFC Gym if you take things at face value, but yet it was they who stepped up and supplied the gym.
Rafael Dos Anjos is an Evolve member, but you would never guess from his UFC fights, all the credit from the commentary teams and promotional vidoes goes to Rafael Cordeiro and Kings MMA.
The relationship between UFC and Conor is very cosy, right down to Conor's manager, who is able to extract very sweet deals for his clients on a regular basis which include Bisping and Weidman, especially when you think back to Dana White storming out of his meeting with Nate Diaz whilst he was trying to put together the rematch. Nate made $2m for the fight and that's small change for the amount the UFC banked, yet management hated the fact they had to shell out that amount to him.
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Post by themagi on Aug 21, 2016 16:41:45 GMT 1
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