What the what?

Here's what I logged in to see today:

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• WAS 2 Beauty Ichigaya vs Chris Morgan - (RyonaKing)

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So, uh. I don't get it; I'm not really sure what community guideline this is apparently violating. Nudity? Is one-piece bathing suits nudity? Violence, because there's barely-animated wrestling moves? Is this a Chris Morgan hater who's mad that she lost? Well, if YouTube upholds this COMMUNITY STRIKE, I guess there's nothing to stop people from flagging all the other WAS and WAS2 videos, which should get my account terminated. Since they're, uh, against some guidelines? Needless to say I appealed this, but I don't really have much to go on since they don't actually tell you which one of the guidelines it violated, so I don't even know what horrid content it supposedly has; Hard to say more than "lol what does this violate" considering how vague the guidelines are and how little information I've been givn. Anyway, I don't have high hopes of the video getting reinstated, but we'll see. Stay tuned.

** Update **

Gonna post this on Viddler as part of the sadly growing Too Hot for Youtube collection:

Irene, you cunt!

Now a super quick service advisory: The Ryona Kingdom is located in beautiful upstate NY, so we're in the path of Irene, although by the time it gets here it should be down to Tropical Storm levels and not actual hurricane strength. We're not supposed to get hit until Sunday morning, so the last WCW Backstage Assault should be up on time, but if your good pal RyonaKing isn't seen or heard from after that, well, I'm probably cursing loudly by candlelight. (More likely, nothing's going to happen, which is what I'm hoping for, since I have exactly zero preparations in case something does go wrong.)

** Update **

Well, it just rained a little. Now I feel bad I called Irene a cunt.

It's Hideous WCW PlayStation Wrestling Game Month!!!!!!

Oh, fuck. Here we go. Yes, it's WCW playstation wrestling game month! The card is:

August 6th: WCW Nitro

August 13th: WCW Thunder

August 20: WCW Backstage Assault

August 27: WCW Backstage Assault again

Now I'm gonna be really honest here: Nitro and Thunder are garbage. I'm sure these were more impressive when they came out, and I'm willing to forgive the graphics since every polygonal game on the PlayStation that isn't Final Fantasy VIII is hideous, but the gameplay - my god, the gameplay. I've been spoiled silly by Smackdown's sensible and easy to use controls where you have a button to lock up; Nitro and Thunder have WWF Warzone-style moves where you press < O O or v X X or whatever to do a piledriver, and everybody has the same moves and god damn it is bad. And that's leaving out the insanity of having random wrestlers do run-ins (the first trial match I wrestled, Rey Mysterio ran in to beat up one of the Nitro girls).

Backstage Assault I perversely actually like the best, even though it's a mess of a game. I'm just gonna come out and admit it - I kind of love Backstage Assault just for the novelty value. In this era of PG-rated WWE games where DIVAS can't use weapons at all, it's just downright fucking weird being able to boot this game up and make Stacy Keibler kill Torrie Wilson by repeatedly hitting her over the head with a ceramic sink or iron bar.

So that's what you have to look forward to; I await with baited breath your angry comments and annoyed emoticons. This is truly going to be the greatest month in the history of our sport('s hideous decade old WCW wrestling games)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August is a surprise month!

Big news: Next month -August, assuming I live that long with this heat wave - is going to have a special theme. No Rumble Roses videos on Saturday; All four Saturday videos are going to be very, very special. What is it, you ask? It's not Game Boy Boxing Month (still working on recording those). So what then? Well, let's just say that these four Saturdays may very well be the greatest nights in the history of our sport. And if you enjoyed Hideous Playstation Boxing Game Month, you're really going to enjoy this, and you should also probably get your eyes checked.

Have I said too much? All right, more than that, you'll just have to wait and see. Cherish the next two Rumble Roses XX videos, they're the last ones you'll be seeing for a while. Stay tuned - the announcement will go up on the 5th of August, with the first video on the 6th. w00p

Well, I gotta admit I didn't think it was going to happen, but Chris Morgan finally lost, and in fact not only lost, but gave up. And who finally vanquished her? Well, if you can't tell from the image there, yes, it's Migiri. Although you now already know who won, if you haven't seen it yet, I recommend you check it out; It's quite a match, and I really thought it was all over once Migiri got hit with that second piledriver, but she really does have the heart of a champion.

So what now? I dunno; I like Migiri a lot, so I guess this is an excuse to put her in more videos. And I guess there's no need to keep the Chris challenge going; After the beating she took, she probably needs a few weeks to recover (if nothing else to ice her face after Migiri hit it with the dreaded flying ass smash).

So that's that - if you got any Migiri requests, hit me with 'em; She's earned her place in the spotlight.

Schedule musings

I've been thinking a bit about the video schedule; I'm pretty comfortable the way it is now with 2 a week, but I'm wondering if we're reaching the point where that's too many and it's just becoming numbing. Now don't get me wrong, I love Rumble Roses XX and it's basically custom made for people like me (and you, I'm assuming, if you're reading this) - but I wonder if it's getting over saturated; The fact that the customization is so bare-bones really limits how much you can do, and I feel like I've explored messing with the sliders/costumes almost as much as I can. This doesn't mean that RRXX videos would go away entirely, but maybe they might be cut down to one a month so they don't all blend together after a while.

So what then? Four WAS2 videos a month, one Rumble Roses XX video? I don't know; Then you risk overloading on WAS2, I think, although that game has so many charecters I think it's going to be quite a while before that happens. What I'd really like to do is maybe switch to a one video a week format; WAS 2 - Rumble Roses XX - WAS 2 - video from another game. (Maybe that's a little complicated, but what the fuck; You people are smart, you'll figure it out.)
Of course that leaves the question what "video from another game" entails. What I'd like to do is track down every sports game with ladies you can pair up in existance and see if I can make videos out of them. The downside is that videos like this take much longer to produce. Put aside the difficulty in getting the game and unlocking the ladies in the first place (which is annoyingly applicable) - there's still technical issues, and more troubling to me, the actual playing of the game. After grinding for money for 400+ hours in Rumble Roses I can probably play it in my sleep (it got to the point where I could literally win a tag match with my eyes closed). It's not so bad if there's a CPU versus CPU mode, but if there isn't - here I'm casting a sidelong glance at Wade Hixon's Counter Punch - I'd prefer to actually display a tiny amount of skill, if only enough so that the game doesn't look like indiscriminate flailing.
All that being said, the method I prefer is to present a bunch of games, and whichever one strikes a cord I can record more of (so make sure you leave comments/send requests if you see a game you want more videos made out of).

So that's what I'm thinking of doing. If you have any comments, by all means let me know - I tend to lean towards whoever I'm hearing from at the moment, and I doubt most people have read this far, so your opinion will probably have some weight. I'm still thinking this all over, so I dunno when this switch is going to take place - probably pretty soon since I'm running low on Rumble Roses videos. I might, if I can find any spare time, record Gameboy Boxing Game Month, and then when that's over go into the new schedule. Or, of course, this could happen
and I'll be sent to prison for bitches for the rest of my life; We'll see.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Chris Morgan?

Chris Morgan, female Hulk Hogan, is almost unbeatable. Chris - which is a boy's name!!! - despite having her power turned down to one, has cut quite a swath through the ranks of wrestlers so far. She's cruelly stomped Suzumi Ishikawa, Win Mirror, Ledy Cody, Rose Hewitt, Dynamite Rin, Beauty Ichigaya, Panther Risako, Anny Beach and most recently destroyed Giantslayer Noel Shirashi even though Noel's birthday present to me was trying to win =[

So what to do about it? Well, since the Giantslayer herself went down to birthday defeat, I'm aching to see someone capable of beating Chris. Like I said up at the beginning, I've been turning her power down to 1, but WAS 2's power settings for some reason have almost no effect on forgein wrestlers; I assume in management mode you can build up a wrestler to give Chris the beating she so richly deserves, but in exhibition mode, she's an unstoppable beast.

Now you might be surprised to hear that Chris actually was defeated - squashed, no less! - by of all people Shinobu Echigo way back in WAS 1. The only wrestler who's been able to defeat her in 2 is Dark Star Chaos. Suggested wrestlers to try are Migiri Ozora, Thunder Ryuko, and Bunny Bomber; Migiri's bigger than Chris, Ryuko's very tough, and Bunny Bomber has bigger boobs than Chris, but I have my doubts that any of them are going to be able to defeat her.

However - whoever can defeat Chris will not only have endless bragging rights, but also, I don't know, I guess the right to appear in more videos? I already used up my commission fund for this year, so I can't afford to have her immortalized in art, but she'll probably be appearing in more videos. Chrislayer whoever. Stay tuned, although don't hold your breath that Chris is going to stay down for the 3 any time soon.