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Why didn't WWE restart Nitro like they did for ECW?

Why didn't WWE restart Nitro like they did for ECW? They restarted ECW after they bought it, but they didn't restart Nitro. Why? Rizosome (talk) 16:23, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Primarily, there was nowhere to put it. The main thing that sunk WCW wasn't so much its famous turn to crap, but that the new heads of "Turner" had absolutely no interest in continuing Nitro, Thunder, Saturday Night, Worldwide or any such Pro. From a roster standpoint, the big WCW stars were still locked into prohibitively expensive contracts, and by the time they weren't, most cheap talent WWE had branded as WCW guys were good and buried, by the invasion angle, the revisionist history DVDs and McMahon's overall Right to Censor philosophy toward "friendly" competition.

Five years later, when SyFy was young and desperate enough for a one-hour ratings block, ECW had had two recent successful and entertaining PPVs, but WCW guys like Booker T, Flair and The Giant were now generally considered WWE properties (nevermind Sting, Nash and Jarrett in TNA). After that ECW famously turned to even bigger crap, the nostalgia outlook was even poorer, and now that the WWE Network streams near-exact digital copies of WCW repeats 24/7, there's simply no point in trying to match it on TV with memorable older guys who could be helping the red, blue and yellow brands not famously turn to crap (relative to the real WCW-style reboot on TNN, at least). InedibleHulk (talk) 14:07, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

There were plans to continue Nitro after WWE bought it, but when WWE shopped it to other networks nobody would pick it up because of its public failure. Later in July, after the Invasion had started there was a plan to give WCW its own show, and they tested the concept by having the last two segments of Raw that week be WCW-esque, with WCW announcers and two WCW wrestlers facing off in a match for the first time, instead of the WWE vs WCW battles. However, the match (Booker T vs. Buff Bagwell) received a bad reaction from the crowd, including "boring" chants. After that, Vince McMahon canned the plans for WCW to be a separate brand with its own roster and show and they simply became a stable in the WWE. By the time the real WCW stars came off their Time Warner contracts, as InedibleHulk notes, the Invasion was long over and the ex-WCW midcard guys had either just become a normal part of the roster, or were already gone. Pinguinn 🐧 00:07, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Understanding the Nintendo 64

The NES and SNES have been kept alive in 2 different ways:

1. The "Classic Edition" of each console.
2. The "Nintendo Switch Online" version of each console.

The Nintendo 64 never went either way. What's special about the Nintendo 64?? Georgia guy (talk) 17:45, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Nintendo didn't decide that the market for such an endeavor was enough to justify the expense of reviving the N64, or at least they haven't yet. Maybe some day they will, maybe some day they won't, but not every possible thing a company could do gets done. Sometimes, companies don't think of even doing it, or sometimes they consider it and reject it because it is not worth their while. There are literally almost an infinite number of things that don't happen on a daily basis, and a similarly bewildering array of possible reasons why those things didn't happen. It's quite hard to find references for things that never happened, especially given the near limitless capacity of the human mind to come up with counterfactuals. --Jayron32 17:51, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, except that this particular topic has been covered extensively as it's been highly anticipated. A few refs: Forbes, Nintendo Life, Screen Rant, etc. Nintendo's official statement is also included in our article about the Super_NES_Classic_Edition. Matt Deres (talk) 20:26, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, there is the answer. It's right there in the article. --Jayron32 11:50, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Question about Australian actor

I have a question about a Australian actor named Zoe Terakes who is on a Australian show called Wentworth. On Terakes' Wikipedia page they are listed in categories Transgender and transsexual male actors and Australian non-binary actors. I'm not sure but is it possible to identify as a trans male and non binary?. 2001:569:7D98:E00:2D3E:D622:6D0F:B1E4 (talk) 23:14, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

It is not unusual for an individual to initially identify as non-binary and later as a (gendered) transsexual, examples being Shiki Aoki and Miles McKenna. Simultaneously self-identifying as non-gendered and gendered appears contradictory to me, so "non-binary trans" comes across as an oxymoron. I can imagine someone as being on the fence, though, just like individuals may be on the fence between being cis and non-binary. (The second-level binary choice: either you're non-binary, or you're not.) There may be some confusion also because the character they play in Wentworth, Reb Keane, is a trans man. Several reliable sources state, however, that the actor identifies as a non-binary transgender man.^[1][2] In a tweet they call themself "one lucky boy".^[3]  --Lambiam 07:04, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

If they identify that way, who am I, or anyone else, really to tell them that they don't. --Jayron32 11:49, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

What would you say to a man who identifies as bisexual and, moreover, as sexually, emotionally and romantically exclusively aroused by or attracted to women? I would be speechless indeed.  --Lambiam 08:31, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

I wouldn't say anything, not because I was "speechless", which implies that I have some kind of expectation that they have confounded, but because it is not my place to have any feelings about it. It's that person's identity. I don't get to decide it for them. --Jayron32 11:54, 27 August 2021 (UTC)