Author: Padraig Fahy

  • WWE Royal Rumble 2017 PPV Predictions – Part 2 [UPDATED]

    Welcome everyone to the 2nd part of my WWE Royal Rumble 2017 Predictions. If you missed Part 1, click here to see it.

    In this part, I run down the rest of the card for Sunday night’s 4 hour PPV beginning at midnight Sunday 29th January on the WWE Network.

    (C) = Current Champion
    | BOLD = Winner of match | RAW = Monday Night RAW | SDLive: SmackDown Live | 205: 205 Live

    Non-Title Matches

    SDLive: Becky Lynch, Nikki Bella & Naomi vs Alexa Bliss, Mickie James & Natayla in a 6-woman tag match. PREDICTION: I can see shenanigans happening with this match which will end up with Alexa beating down Becky along with Mickie James. Alexa, Mickie and Natty to win!

    RAW: Sasha Banks vs Nia Jax (Kick-off Show) PREDICTION: Nia Jax. Simply put; Destroy Sasha Banks ASAP.

    Title Matches

    205: Rich Swann (C) vs Neville for the WWE Crusierweight Championship PREDICTION: Neville to win. This guy has been deserving a belt since he was brought to RAW. He is at his peak right now and we need him to win!

    RAW: Cesaro & Sheamus (C) vs Gallows and Anderson for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championship (Kick-off Show) PREDICTION: Cesaro & Sheamus to retain through DQ. I’m predicting a chair shot will end the match from Gallows & Anderson with a beat down and a few Magic Killers. Should be a good match!

    RAW: Charlotte (C) vs Bayley for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship PREDICTION: Charlotte to retain. I don’t think that Bayley is ready for this championship. Give her another 6 months and then put the belt on her (Maybe Wrestlemania)

    SDLive: AJ Styles (C) vs John Cena for the WWE Championship PREDICTION: John Cena to break Ric Flair’s streak! John would love to go to WM33 as the WWE Champ against a rubber match against AJ. This would be a good fight and I would like to see Big Match John get the win!

    RAW: Kevin Owens (C) vs Roman Reigns in a No DQ for the WWE Universal Championship (with Chris Jericho suspended in a shark cage above the ring)

    PREDICTION: Kevin Owens to retain. It’s kinda hard to call this. Roman has a good shot because Vince loves Roman but at the same time Kevin is a good champ. With Chris Jericho in a shark cage, he might have a couple of items in his pockets (Think back to NXT Toronto where Paul Ellering was in the Shark cage) but I would like to see Roman getting killed by chairs.

    And that is my predictions, for the Royal Rumble. I will have a 3rd Part for NXT TakeOver: San Antonio with a quick predictions…I don’t watch NXT but I’ll do a simple “X v Y – PREDICTION: X.” with no explanation.

  • What is on my Mac? Q1 2017 Edition (X/Post from TechTalk.Blog)

    I recently done an article on “What is on my Mac” over on TechTalk.blog – Here is the full article below:

    Just as a foreword, this would be my first proper Apple Mac. I had purchased the 2014 Mac Mini and I was honestly disappointed by it. It was only used for web browsing and nothing more.

    At Christmas 2016, I was thankfully gifted a Late 2016 MacBook Pro from my parents after I failed to purchase one locally. It would be the base model of the 13″ MBP without the TouchBar. I will be doing a review of my experience of the MBP on TechTalk soon!

    Anyway, it’s time for “What’s on my Mac!”

    I will not be commenting on everyday tools that I already use on Windows (Discord, Spotify, Steam…everyone knows that already)


    Adobe Photoshop CC 2017

    When I got the Mac, I figured that I would be doing some web graphics and I figured that I need Photoshop. I was going to “obtain it”, but for the sake of €12 a month, I decided to buy it from Adobe. It comes bundled with Lightroom which I have never used and I probably won’t be using it.

    Link: Adobe


    iTerm2

    After using the regular terminal on Mac, I decided to try out iTerm 2 which appears to be the most popular alternative and I love it. While I have only used it just to connect to the servers; opening tabs, splitting windows is just so handy and simple to do. I will play about it a bit more before I give my full recommendation on it.

    Link: iTerm 2


    Puush

    (Contradicting to the above where I wouldn’t cover daily use applications)

    While there might be better screenshot, upload and copy URL applications out there (ie. ShareX for Windows), puush has always been the “go-to” application for myself. I have been using the service for many years now (I think about 5 yearschecks – 6 and half years) and I use it because it is so simple to use.

    Link: Puush


    TextWrangler

    There is plenty of text editors out there for Mac. You have Sublime, Atom, TextEdit and then you have TextWrangler which I would compare to Notepad++ for Windows. Throw anything at it and you can work with it. The nice thing which I have used on it was the FTP option. Connect to your FTP server…open a file, edit it and save it back! Fantastic.

    TextWrangler is as simple as it gets. While I love Brackets, I can’t get away from TextWrangler.

    Link: TextWrangler


    While this list might not seem that “great”, please be aware that I have had this laptop less than a month and thus I am still finding my feet with it.

    I will hopefully come back in the spring with a more expansive list.

  • WWE Royal Rumble 2017 PPV Predictions – Part 1

    Hi everyone and welcome to a special 2 part Royal Rumble Prediction post. In this part, I will be predicting the Royal Rumble participants and in Part 2, I will be predicting the titles match such as the WWE Universal Championship and WWE Championship matches.

    If you want to see my predictions for last year’s PPV, click here for 2016’s Royal Rumble Predictions.

    This post will be updated when new people have been entered into the Royal Rumble on RAW or Smackdown Live.

    Currently Known Entrants for the 2017 Royal Rumble Match:

    1 Goldberg
    2 Brock Lesnar
    3 Big E
    4 Kofi Kingston
    5 Xavier Woods
    6 Chris Jericho (Currently “WWE United States Champion”)
    7 Braun Strowman
    8 Baron Corbin
    9 Seth Rollins
    10 The Undertaker
    11 Dean Ambrose (Currently “WWE Intercontinental Champion”)
    12 The Miz
    13 Dolph Ziggler
    14 Cesaro (Currently 1/2 of “WWE RAW Tag Team Champion”)
    15 Sheamus (Currently 1/2 of “WWE RAW Tag Team Champion”)
    16 Bray Wyatt
    17 Randy Orton
    18 Luke Harper
    19 The Big Show
    20 Sami Zayn
    21 Mojo Rawley
    22 Big Cass
    23 Rusev

    Predictions:

    • Finn Balor
    • R-Truth
    • Goldust
    • Aidan English
    • Simon Gotch
    • Neville
    • Brian Kendrick
    • Apollo Crews
    • Bo Dallas
    • Erick Rowan
    • Jack Swagger
    • Kenny
    • Mark Henry
    • Titus O’Neil
    • Tyson Kidd

    Surprises:

    • Kurt Angle
    • Jeff Hardy
    • BROKEN Matt Hardy
    • Hulk Hogan
    • Kenny Omega (lol)
    • Wade Barrett
    • Scott Steiner
    • Shelton Benjamin

    Predicted Winner: Finn Balor!

    It would be a huge win for Finn to come back and win the RR and go on to Main Event of Wrestlemania to reclaim the belt that he never lost.

    See you in Part 2

    WINNER: RANDY ORTON

  • LEGO Star Wars R1: Krennic’s Imperial Shuttle

    Last night, I built a LEGO set (75156) and here is pics after each bag!

    Bag 1
    Bag One
    Bag 2
    Bag Two
    Bag 3
    Bag Three
    Bag 4
    Bag Four
    Bag 5
    Bag Five
    Bag 6
    Bag Six
    Bag 7
    Bag Seven (Opened)
    Bag 7
    Bag Seven (Closed)

  • WWE Roadblock: End of the Line PPV 2016 Predictions [UPDATED]

    This train don’t stop…2 PPV in 2 weeks. It’s a RAW PPV this time round and it’s "Roadblock"

    This is very different from last time we had Roadblock as it was a "mini-PPV" that was only on the WWE Network between Fastlane and Wrestlemania 32 earlier this year. Now this one is happening before the Royal Rumble PPV.

    So let’s gooooooo!

    (c) = Champion Bold = Winner

    Kickoff

    • Big Cass vs. Rusev – PREDICTION: Rusev. Cass doesn’t need to win this match as it should be a revenge match for Ru Ru. Should be a quick match

    Non-Title Matches

    • Seth Rollins vs. Chris Jericho – PREDICTION: Seth Rollins. It would be nice for Seth Rollins to be back on top and looking strong going into the Royal Rumble and thus Wrestlemania. Seth to win.

    • Sami Zayn vs. Braun Strowman – PREDICTION: Braun. Braun is a brute and how this match was even thought of in the first place is beyond me.

    Title Matches

    • Sasha Banks (c) vs. Charlotte Flair in a 30-Minute WWE Iron Man Match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship – PREDICTION: Sasha to defend. This belt has been hot-potato’d between the two of them over the last few months and this should be the end of the fued between the two of them for now. Should be a good match.

    • Rich Swann (c) vs. TJ Perkins vs. The Brian Kendrick for the WWE Crusierweight Championship – PREDICTION: Rich to retain. TJ and Brian are in a fued so they are going to be distracted by brawling against each other but I could see some tag team action if Brian decides to turn face, but who knows.

    • Kevin Owens (c) vs. Roman Reigns for the WWE Universal Championship – PREDICTION: Roman. If Roman does indeed win on Sunday, he will become a WWE Universal Champion AS WELL as WWE United States Champion. Hmm, where have I seen this before?? – As we have discovered in the last few weeks, Kevin wouldn’t be able to defend the belt on his own and needs outside interference in order to keep the belt, Chris Jericho will probably interfere and cause a DQ, but I hope that doesn’t happen.

    A swerve to all of this at the end of the night, is that Chris Jericho will interfere, but also Seth Rollins (Remember, they fight earlier in the evening) and they will defend both Kevin Owens and Roman Reigns respectively. Perhaps a small Shield reunion?

    As I typed that, I knew Sami Zayn wanted to go to Smackdown and Mick Foley was to do a deal…Perhaps, Smackdown can trade Dean Ambrose for Sami and thus re-unite The Shield on RAW. Not unlikely, but probably not going to happen.


    Before I go, Smackdown LIVE is on tonight and James Ellsworth is going to be facing AJ Styles for the WWE Championship…I honestly think that he could do it…he might get the belt, would be nice though.

    See you on Sunday on Taima.tv/r/sc 😉

  • We Are Number One but every one is replaced with CRUNCH [Video]

    I am not a video editor by any stretch of the imagination, but yesterday, I pulled out my Adobe Premiere Pro and started to work on a "We Are Number One" video.

    But what is a "We Are Number One" video, Padraig?

    We Are Number One (WANO) is a internet meme based of the song of the same name from the Icelandic Children’s show LazyTown in which Robbie Rotten (The antagonist) recruits clones of himself to be a villian.

    YouTubers were already making edits to this song as they would have with other songs like this Cooking By the Book song feat. Lil John – Yup, that is a thing that exists.

    Anyway, back to WANO. In September 2016, It was revealed that Stefan Karl (The actor who plays Robbie Rotten) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A GoFundMe page has been set up for people to donate to him. At the time of writing, he is sitting at $81,300 of $80K goal.

    But this would be thanks to the countless edits of WANO from various YouTubers such as MrMrMangoHead being the most prolific one. Each video being different from the last and each one contributing to Stefan’s cause.

    So I decided to make one.

    WARNING: LOUD NOISES. Turn down your volume…especially at the start!

    It was fun to do and I thought it turned out great. I don’t know if I will do another one, but if I did, it probably wouldn’t be for WANO, but we’ll see.