Mar 20, 2023 18:46:51 GMT Big Pete said:

By watching every show, do you get more out of it?Or is it just an indulgence and you'd be better off just watching the odd episode of RAW or Dynamite here and there?

I'd definitely be better off just watching the odd episode whenever I feel like it TBH.

The main problem is the method of watching them here. The only way to watch the weekly WWE shows is on a sports TV package which costs about £40 per month (about 73 AUD). That's a pretty big cost for me, so (when I have the subscription) I feel the need to get my money worth by watching every show every week. Then the WWE Network is another £10 on top of that.

AEW shows are on free TV, but none of them are live - they air days later, by which time I already know what happens, so don't really see the point. The only way to watch them live is with a Fite subscription - it's a lot cheaper than the WWE option, but it still has the same "problem" for me.

Compared to America where all the weekly shows for WWE and AEW are on channels with other stuff pretty much everyone would want to watch anyway, it kinda sucks.

I know there are..."alternative" ways to watch all this stuff, but it's more effort than I can really be bothered with

I used to use "alternatives" just to see segments for people I like. It was a chore. If I only care about Asuka... why am I wasting time here? Just because she's the GOAT I need to find better things to do. "Hey don't you just shitpost on PW all day and eat funny fruit snacks?" - I didn't say they were good things, just better. And anything is better than obsessively watching rasslin'.

Mar 20, 2023 18:27:57 GMT Ed said:

Well, Big Pete these days, I sometimes watch all WWE stuff weekly at 1 time. Or sometimes, I'll watch Raw or Smackdown the morning after. I've started binge-watching AEW since they don't have a PPV every month. I can binge or watch Impact Wrestling weekly depending on my mood. Indy wrestling is pretty cut & dry. I like GCW but I'm not invested in it. So I can watch an entire show if it catches my attention or skip most of the card & focus on 1 -3 matches. I try to find other matches or interviews on Youtube, save them, & watch them when I'm ready. I've been a fan of a U.S.-based promotion called AIW since 2013. I used to buy VODs at the end of the year. Since they have a partnership with Fite.TV now, I can watch it at a great price.

I like to watch it on my own time as well. Do you find you just get the wrestling itch and just need to check out WWE or AEW to get it out of your system? It seems to hit me a couple of times each week so that's usually when I'll chuck on a show once or twice a week.

The only way to watch the weekly WWE shows is on a sports TV package which costs about £40 per month (about 73 AUD).

I'd be watching Main Event too if I spent over $90 a month to watch wrestling! Sunk cost fallacy is one of the most powerful motivators.

I used to use "alternatives" just to see segments for people I like. It was a chore. If I only care about Asuka... why am I wasting time here? Just because she's the GOAT I need to find better things to do. "Hey don't you just shitpost on PW all day and eat funny fruit snacks?" - I didn't say they were good things, just better. And anything is better than obsessively watching rasslin'.

I'm not an expert, but how was it a chore? Aren't there websites that have every show imagineable available to download? So you grab the episode and skip forward either on VLC or just fastforward with the hard drive plugged into the TV.

Again, I'm not an expert but I'd imagine that's what an expert may do...

Where's the chore? Maintaining ratios? Storage? Finding these mythical websites?

Big Pete with WWE, it's more of a system thing, in a way. I always enjoy watching The Bloodline & The New Day, KO & Sami. I find myself looking forward to watching AEW more in totality. From a presentation standpoint & a universe-building standpoint, I enjoy AEW more. Although WWE has become more diverse with their storytelling under Paul's watch.

Big Pete it's a chore needing to find the shows, endlessly scroll to find segments of the people I wanna see and after a bit it's just not worth it. I reached a point where if I wasn't interested in at least a good chunk of performers that I just stopped watching entirely. Miss a few weeks of Kairi and Asuka... why not keep going.

I think it's just a case of only having a faint interest so going through these hoops to watch it just didn't feel fun.

I know Kairi is long gone but the pair of them was basically the last time I truly cared.

Mar 21, 2023 18:22:21 GMT Big Pete said:

I'd be watching Main Event too if I spent over $90 a month to watch wrestling! Sunk cost fallacy is one of the most powerful motivators.

They don't even show Main Event! All that cost and they don't even give us all the content!

Mar 21, 2023 18:22:21 GMT Big Pete said:

I'm not an expert, but how was it a chore? Aren't there websites that have every show imagineable available to download? So you grab the episode and skip forward either on VLC or just fastforward with the hard drive plugged into the TV.

TBH, I didn't realise how easy it was nowadays (but I am now fully aware of the situation!)

I used to know someone who downloaded Raw every week on torrents or whatever (in like, 2004) and it just wasn't worth the effort. It all seems much simpler now!

Mar 21, 2023 18:03:21 GMT @ness said:

Big Pete it's a chore needing to find the shows, endlessly scroll to find segments of the people I wanna see and after a bit it's just not worth it. I reached a point where if I wasn't interested in at least a good chunk of performers that I just stopped watching entirely. Miss a few weeks of Kairi and Asuka... why not keep going.

I think it's just a case of only having a faint interest so going through these hoops to watch it just didn't feel fun.

I know Kairi is long gone but the pair of them was basically the last time I truly cared.

That makes sense, as talented as the Kabuki Warriors were, settling down to watch one short backstage segment and one match/promo would be really dissatisfying. Especially since they were never the focus of the division and played the foils for the IV Horsewomen.

At least you got a taste of what WOW posters had to go through!

I'm curious though, how did you not get into AEW? I would have bet money on you being a massive OC mark, getting invested in the Elite melodrama etc. It seemed like a show that was tailor made for you?

Mar 22, 2023 9:25:15 GMT Big Pete said:

Mar 21, 2023 18:03:21 GMT @ness said:

Big Pete it's a chore needing to find the shows, endlessly scroll to find segments of the people I wanna see and after a bit it's just not worth it. I reached a point where if I wasn't interested in at least a good chunk of performers that I just stopped watching entirely. Miss a few weeks of Kairi and Asuka... why not keep going.

I think it's just a case of only having a faint interest so going through these hoops to watch it just didn't feel fun.

I know Kairi is long gone but the pair of them was basically the last time I truly cared.

That makes sense, as talented as the Kabuki Warriors were, settling down to watch one short backstage segment and one match/promo would be really dissatisfying. Especially since they were never the focus of the division and played the foils for the IV Horsewomen.

At least you got a taste of what WOW posters had to go through!

I'm curious though, how did you not get into AEW? I would have bet money on you being a massive OC mark, getting invested in the Elite melodrama etc. It seemed like a show that was tailor made for you?

During the early formation I think it was simply when I had long stopped really caring about wrestling. We saw so many upstarts over the years that I just tuned them out. Honestly initially I just saw it as another Global Force vanity project, penning Cody and Jericho as money marks leeching off the success of Bullet Club. On paper it would be something I'd be interested in and you are correct that of all the names I would def be considered a big OC fan. Of course he is a great wrestler for gifs, tiktok and vines style short clips... all of which doesn't require me to watch fully.

I dunno somewhere when Omega had fully transitioned from comedy guy into Best Bout Machine I was just not feeling the guys I used to care about. And then as AEW was embracing a new generation of young talent that I hadn't really been following for a bit despite ties to the socal scene I just found it hard to get attached. As I've posted elsewhere I really think absent of my time on PW, wrestling might have been another former interest of mine like say vidya and pogs.

I would say if AEW was a few years earlier I would have definitely been #allin, but in a way they ended up being on the same wavelength as Ezekiel Jackson winning the WWECW title on the last show. That's cool I guess, but it didn't matter in the end.

I did like a few things I'd see here and there (DMD actually getting over is one of those) but other than short clips and BaM segments (the vidya signs is peak cringe but kinda endearing) it's not something I felt I needed to seek out.

But what about the CUTIES @ness?!

Mar 23, 2023 20:47:06 GMT @papaya said:

But what about the CUTIES @ness ?!

Let's hear about these cuties.

Nov 18, 2022 2:32:51 GMT @ness said:

Let's hear about these cuties.

Well there's Riho.

I guess there are some others too, but Riho is the main one!

Mar 23, 2023 21:18:23 GMT @papaya said:

Nov 18, 2022 2:32:51 GMT @ness said:

Let's hear about these cuties.

Well there's Riho.

I guess there are some others too, but Riho is the main one!

Shall declare Riho as Captain of the Cuties. >CC<

Mar 23, 2023 21:18:23 GMT @papaya said:

Nov 18, 2022 2:32:51 GMT @ness said:

Let's hear about these cuties.

Well there's Riho.

I guess there are some others too, but Riho is the main one!

You must be Tony Khan.

You keep forgetting about SHIDA!

Mei Suruga, Yuka Sakazaki, Maki Itoh...

Who am I forgetting papaya?

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