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Matt Hardy reminds me of Australian runner Jana Pittman, serial whinger.

Someone who has media attention at the drop of a hat, and uses it to complain about injuries, diets, sports politics, fellow team mates, constant "my injury has ruined my chances of competing" and "my injury healed faster than expected, I will be competing", "I'm running slow because of my injury", "I'm running slow because of breast implants I got to make myself feel more feminine, I'm getting them removed now".

Shut the fuck and get on with business, we do not give a fucking shit.

20 minute time limits on PPV matches...TNA stikes again.

It was only made for like $20 million though. For an independent movie, it's a huge success.

Not relevant now!? The first person shooter genre needs Duke now exactly how it needed him in the mid 90's. The genre is just taking itself far too seriously, with everyone jumping on a "me too" bandwagon. Now we're swimming in average releases like Singularity, Wolfenstein, Metro 2033. It's mirrors 15 years ago where to go with Dooms you had Hexens, and Heretics and Rise of the Triad (which is also getting a reboot).

Even all the top tier release like Call of Duty, Halo, and the ever missing Half Life - take themselves seriously. The only one that dared to be slightly different is Bad Company, but it's no Duke. In the age of the FPS characterless protagonist, the genre needs Duke Nukem.

He wasn't relevant in the mid 90's when he hit store shelves, he'd only starred in two pretty standard side scrollers. He was more 80's action hero, going against the seriousness of the early to mid 90's when everything was blood and grunge music. Much like what Sam Raimi did with Army of Darkness at the time, it went against the trend in films at the time and became a cult hit...and Duke steals a quote of two from Ash.

The market is saturated in superhero properties because Sam Raimi (once again) made Spider-Man a massive success at a time when you couldn't get funding for a superhero film, they weren't relevant. Now there's an endless supply, but even in that market Matthew Vaughn couldn't get a studio to pick up Kick-Ass. It wasn't relevant, a superhero black comedy, it's not what audiences wanted - it's a massive success

And that's my thesis on saying something isn't 'relevant' is completely ridiculous. If it's good, you can make it relevant.

ps I like Chinese Democracy.

Aaaaand it's been premanently banned from sale is Australia, that was quick. There's now a cheaper way to do it though with USB development boards that aren't banned.