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Post by Markw on Mar 19, 2014 13:25:14 GMT -5
Cool hopefully the new interview will be a lot more interesting. The fake one was boring.
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And this is yet another huge episode of Inside The Mind. This week we will feature a very special shoot with the current WFWF owner... L.L.L.B.D! POW. BAM. FIREWORKS...wait...wrong document. I like fish sticks. Thanks for having me.It's our pleasure. Now before we get into the hard stuff, let's do a little intro: how did you get into this hobby called E-Fedding? I know Kyzer and Drakz are probably going to flip their sh*t at this, but I credit Justin Tyger for getting me into it. He and I chatted about NASCAR, and he recruited me to another fed. I came and went there a couple of times which I will get into later, but his original recruiting got me into the game.What made you come to the WFWF from the other fed? It was not just one. I got hooked on the game and went to a bunch of different places, all of which sucked. I found out down the road that WF had a place, and I decided to give it a shot. The talent level was above anywhere else I had ever been, but I stuck it out and, well, here I am.You came in as The High Horror, what was your initial idea on creating that character? Did you think it would've led to where you are now? Hell no. I had no intentions on ever leaving if I liked it, but I did not think that character would STILL be around years later, albeit under a different name. I was filling out the bio and I saw these weird ass names that had just signed up, so I thought the place was gimmicky. I, therefore, went with a gimmicky name with a super tall guy. Looking back, I PROBABLY should have chosen a less weed smoker name but, you know, whatevs.I swear, High Horror has to be one of the greatest e-fed names I've ever seen. What are some of your favorite obscure names you've seen while E-Fedding? How much time ya got? Just in the WFWF alone: Pink Flloyydd, The Cursed Eagle and Obo come to mind as the weirder ones. Flloyydd was actually my first ever PPV opponent here, Eagle was my first opponent ever here, and Obo...well the name may have been different, but the guy more than made up for it with his talent.You've obviously been around for some time to be here and know all those guys, all while being able to poke fun a bit, how did you become the owner of this place? I did it for Da Rock. Seriously though, how I became owner has become stuff of very pissy stories. Me and Thunder had become good friends over the years, and he along with Trace, were stepping down under immense pressure from the WFWF. The place was starting to cave in, but NOT for the reason you would think. We had a major attitude here that was beginning to really make the environment toxic, and that same ego was fully expecting to be named owner. Well, me and Thunder had agreed months prior that I would be taking his spot, and just never told anyone except for Trace, who kept it quiet. We had to wait for the right moment to create the least amount of drama. So Thunder taught me how to do the ownership stuff like results, cards, etcetera and when SuperBrawl came around, the men announced they were leaving, and I was taking their place...to MANY pissed off people.Who was said ego that was making the place toxic? This is a shoot interview, don't be afraid to pull some punches. I avoid saying his name as much as possible, but I suppose for the sake of those wanting to know the full history, good old Alex Sean. Now, I suppose you are going to want the backstory on that, aye?Of course I would. Ok. Schneider mentioned in one of his shoots his opinion on Sean, and Schneider is hardly one to pull any punches. The fact that he and I agree on something should show you how bad this guy was. There were three things he strived for here. Those were power, attention and respect. If he did not have the power to control the place, he was miserable. If he was not the center focus of everything, he was miserable. If he did not have the respect of his peers, he was miserable. His whole issue with me was really two seperate things. Shawn, the RPr and Shawn the owner. He felt me the RPr, was not someone who respected him. If the guy would have gotten his head out of his ass, he would have realized I had more respect for him than anyone, talent wise. I have said from day one, there are two guys who are better than everyone. EBR, and Alex Sean. But the guy was so convinced I did not respect his talent he made it his mission to make me and my group miserable. So when I became owner, the biggest gripe everyone had was that I was too inexperienced. I could agree with that. Seans complaint? I did not give my spot to him. I did not respect him. And since I was not a better RPr than him, I should not have been owner. And when of all people, his buddy Calvin Lee stepped up in my defense, well...Lee has not been seen or heard from since. But the guy was afraid of me, I am convinced of it. He was blind to the amount of respect I had for him, because he had such a f*cking complex. Thunder did not put up with his sh*t and did not respect him at all, and he was convinced I was the same.Let's do a little fantasy what if scenario... Alex Sean returns to the WFWF, what do you see going down? Honestly? Not a thing. He is free to return, as is anyone. I am not one to hold grudges, as I am not without sin myself and therefore cannot cast any more stones. But I am comfortable where I am right now. A majority of the roster is here in the WFWF as either a favor to me, by my recruitment, or has no qualms with me. I am comfortable that if he came back and tried to get anywhere, I have enough backing here that he cannot do a thing.As you said you are not without sin, mind explaining to us your "Rocky" history? Ah, good old Rev. There are actually a couple of parts to this. I will give you the funnier side first, then the deep, heavy sh*t. The first part of the rocky history is that I was an absolute toolbag when I first got here. Everyone has followed along with the Andrew Carter debacle, right? Well...Thunder came to me a while back when Carter went at it the first time and was nice enough to say at least I was not THAT terrible when I started out here. When I came to the WFWF, I was still a kid. I was 13, and I felt I was better than I was. But, admittedly, I wanted to be in-the-in. I wanted to be noticed, I wanted the older guys to like me. And because I tried too hard, they treated me just like the kid I was and I felt so sh*tty about the place that I almost quit. I felt bullied. But looking back at it, I understand that I was stupid. I deserved worse than I got. So when guys ask why did I step up for Carter and why did I step up for Prog his first run, it is because I was the same way. I felt for them. I wanted to be the hand to guide them, the hand that was never there for me. Somewhat worked for Prog, and he latched onto some good people himself. I failed with Carter but, you know, whatever.I appreciate everything you did for me, yeah I just broke character, mind going into the deep stuff now? This is a story only a couple of people know the whole story about. Please, keep in mind, I was still 13 at the time. About a year into me being here in the WFWF, I really, really hated what I was writing. I could not understand why I was not getting better. So over on the e-fed Tyger had originally brought me into, I wanted to try to get an unfair advantage. I stole RPs from WFWF and used them as my own, over on the other site. I stole from Josh Dean, Thunder and Mikers. Well, EBR busted me after the Dean one, I was blackballed from the other site, and by all means I probably should have been from here too. But here is where my true character shows. I know E knew about Dean, and I am pretty sure he knew about Mike. I do not think he knew about Thunder. But I went to Thunder, and I told him what I took, why I did it, and still appologize to him to this day. I went to Mike, I told him what I took why I did it and I still appologize to him to this day. Dean on the other hand, I bent over backwards to contact the guy, as he had already left the WFWF. He got back to my first email after I told him who I was and what I did and that I was sorry. He asked me which RP I took, and I told him, and did not hear back from him for eight years, until he came back a few days ago. I was not sorry I was caught. I was glad I was, because I knew it was wrong, but my confidence was absolutely shot. E finding out forced me to get my ass in gear and with little guidance, I fessed up after initally being called on it. I felt terrible, and I still do to this day. I still hate that I did it. But I did, and there is no going back. But Kyzer said something a while ago on the subject, it was over and done with. I fessed up. I took my lashings. I appologized. But more importantly, the little child learned. The little child learned to keep trying and to not be that jackass. That was one of the most important lessons I ever learned in life, and it was thanks to Josh Dean, Thunder, Mike and EBR on an online e-fed. That should tell you what this place has done for me as a person. And I will always love them for that.The WFWF has shaped you into a person. Is this why you take a liking to newer guys? To help them? Yes and no. As I said about you and Carter, I am a sucker to help anyone who needs it. Just in my character. But if I can help anyone with confidence issues through writing...hell yeah I am going to help them express themselves. That is why I went to bat for Constantine last year. When it came out that he ripped his RP from somewhere else, I made mention to what I did and that I could not be a hypocrite and kick him for the place. I fought for him to have one more shot. He and I had a talk, I told him what I had done and that after coming clean and appologizing to everyone I was eventually welcomed into the fold. Well, he agreed to do the same. And then he ripped another one next show, which is why he is no longer here. I learned my lesson, and I am willing to give anyone a second chance. I love this place too much to not try to give anyone a second chance. But then he burned the place again and there was not much I could do at that point.You give second chances, ever given out third chances? Would a Andrew Carter be able to get one? Sure. But I would not be going to bat for him like I did this time and he will come with an advisory sticker. If anyone works with him, it is at their discression. I see talent in the kid, but I see immaturity in the kid. If he would grow up a little bit, he would have been fine.New to Inside The Mind is a flash question portion, here we ask you a name and you answer with your fully opinion. To start off let's go with Yukio Blaze. Respect. The guy has a HORRIBLE rap here in the WFWF due to his time as owner, but I think the reason why I respect him is because he fessed up, like I did. When he was owner, he admitted at the end that he did not read RPs. He judged on what he felt was best for the stories. And, honestly, the guy was blackballed for it for a long time. He had lost any respect anyone had left for him, and it was a crying shame. I get why people were pissed with him. I got why people were pissed with me. But like me, he was sorry. He deserved a second chance, which was why I brought him back two years ago. He was hesitant, I backed him up, and I do not regret a f*cking thing about that.Next person: Trace Demon? I had always been indifferent towards Trace. He and I never had any encounters before he became owner for a second time with me. I know the stories I was told by people who had worked closely with him, but I did not allow that to formulate an opinion. I waited until I found out for myself. The guy is cool. He is opinionated, but he and I balance out nicely. I will allow just about anyone to do anything here story wise if they have the permission of all involved parties and they promise to keep up with the workload. Trace gets to play the rational owner, he and I talking out the ideas that were presented and coming up with a middle ground that works for everyone. Good guy. Good owner.Next... EBR. My sexy Canadian Evil Black Rifle. E is truly a character himself. Guy is crazy nice, but can be incredibly serious when he has to be. He taught me an important life lesson as I said earlier, which I doubt he really knew how important that was to my whole life until now, but in the WFWF sense he taught me how to be a good owner. I WAS inexperienced when I became owner. Thunder and I had kind of ripped the nose to spite the face. I was not the best choice. But I was dependable, and even after low balling his best e-fed buddy Alex Sean, he still agreed to become owner again. Admittedly, I think part of it was just to make sure Sean was treated fairly which not even Thunder knew I fully intended to do, but he would have found a way to throw me out had he wanted to. He saw something, that I was not this tyranical, unexperienced monster I was being made out to be. And now, next month I hit five years as owner. I would not still be here without him, for completely personal reasons and the owner thing.Thunder. F*ck that bitch. No one likes him. ...I kid. I think everyone knows about me and Thunder at this point. The guy is legitamately my best friend in the entire world. He HATED me when I started up in the WFWF, but when I came to him with what I had done, I guess he respected me coming to him instead of him having to find out some other way. He saw I was trying. We got to know each other and became friends. The more we talked, and due to our love of our home city, we grew closer and there is not anyone on this planet that knows more about me than him. Just, yeah. Love him.He's the Cheech to your Chong. xD Next up: Reverend Shadow. **shrugs** I understand his opinion on me. I have nothing against him, and respect the hell out of him. He and I agree on nothing, but I could never hold anything against him. The guy was my RPing inspiration, and part of the reason why I took Malakai in a religous direction a while back. Again, anything there is nothing from my end really. Much respect.Next up: Obo. Who? He has not been around for like, years, right?Next up: Phillip Schneider. This is going to surprise just about EVERYONE, even him, but I REALLY like the guy. To anyone who was around when I first started, they can tell you that Schneider and I were oil and vinegar. Just...volatile. Could not work together even if we wanted to, which we did not. Because we were bitches in the others eyes. But when he came back a couple of years ago, we had both changed. I had matured, and I could tell he legit wanted a run here, so we played nice. But the more I find out about the guy, the more I find out how much he and I agree on stuff. After years, it seemed like we finally at least had civil ground, which was all I ever wanted. We were actually even going to work an angle together before he left at Psycho Circus, but when he lost, he was burned out and I understood completely so I started feuding with Quinn. I still want to work with him at some point, because our characters just clash. So...yeah, keep me in mind after Drakz beats your ass at SuperBrawl...oh...Progs, Dave Demento, Solomon, Eric Adams, Randel Bejamin.. Whatever he is going by this time of year. Pretty sure he was Raiden Takahashi too. I like the guy. He wants to help, and that is all as owner I could ever want. I wish he would have listened to me before Trace, Brennan and Drakz had to rip him a new one. I told him all of that, he ignored it and kept going. Glad he finally listened, but it could have been avoided had he known I knew what I was talking about and knew it was coming, just a matter of when. But he is moving on now, and for the better I think.... King Kraig. Jesus, what a blast from the past. I am going to tell you now. As me and Thunder got closer, he finally told me who was Kraig, and who was Napoleon. He told me a couple of months ago too when I asked again. I still forget. King Kraig and Napoleon Weisgarber are truly two of the greatest gems in the history of the WFWF. Of course it would come from Thunder and the sexy Black Rifle.Any guys now that you think will rise and become huge in the future? Hard to say. In theory, anyone can come from no where and become tops. That High Horror character was probably never thought to be the longest reigning owner in WFWF history. That Demento cat was probably not thought to ever be one of the main blocks for this place to rest upon. But, just coming out with it, I swear to God if Jayson Garrett does not become WFWF Champion before I forget this place exists, I will consider my entire life a lie. That guy just SCREAMS mega deal, and I intend to make sure everyone knows it.Any favorites of yours that just fizzled out before they hit the big time? Joe Bishop. He and I have a long history here in the WFWF. Love Mark to bits. He had the chance to be something amazing, and I still think he can. He just needs to find that fire he used to have, otherwise...well...nothing is going to happen on that front and it is a damn shame.Biggest surprise fed-wise in the past year? Thunder. The guy has literally been the most obscure motherf*cker since I beat his ass last SuperBrawl. And now, all Scars and Stripes came out of absolutely f*cking no where and blew me away. So, props.What's your most anticipated match, RP-wise, for the upcoming SuperBrawl? I should go with the cliche Drakz/Schneider, which will be a barn burner, but I am going for Dex and ZMaster. ZMaster has made no bones about it. This will be his last match ever in the WFWF. Dex has the opportunity of an absolute lifetime here, and I am geeked to see what ZM does for his swan song, and if Dex shows to everyone what I have seen in him since day one: the ability to be great.As we look to finish things off, ever think you'll hang up the ownership boots? How many more years do you think you can own this place to the best of your ability? I have yet to talk to anyone about this yet, but I know I do not have a ton of time left. Honestly though, I would give up RPing to make time for being owner. It has been a long time since we have had a true owner, someone who just runs the place with no stakes in th RPing world. If time started running out for me, I would give up RPing to make sure I could give the ownership spot everything it deserves. If the time comes for that to end too, well, I will make sure there is a person there ready to fill my shoes. It really just comes down to school. If I get too overworked, my future is one of the few things I put above this place. But I will make sure I leave this place in a better spot than I found it.To finish things off, what's your best piece of advice on RPing? And on ownership? To RPrs...I beg you to ask for help. It might sound stupid, but the only way to get better is to take the advice of others seriously. We only want to help. Do not let yourself get frustrated and go to desperate measures like I did. Asking for help can go a long way. And as for becoming owner...I will just say this. NOTHING I can say can prepare my replacement for what they are getting themselves into. You really have to learn on the job and roll with the punches. I had people who were willing to help, and I will help whoever is next get situated but expect the unexpected, but just try to not take it too seriously and have fun with it. You were chosen for a reason, show everyone what I saw in you.And with that, we'll finish this interview. Any last words for our readers? Understand something. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I continue to do so. No one is perfect. But I have fessed up to my past and only look to build a better WFWF. This place has changed my life for the better as I have mentioned how many times. But know that there is a human behind this screen. I fail a lot. I swear. I trip over my own feet. I am not a fan of my job. Just...human.
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Post by jdfranchise on Mar 19, 2014 18:40:04 GMT -5
Shawn, I love ya like a brother first off. I actually didn't know or forgotten about the rp rip. I'll be straight up with you that seven years ago, I would've been pissed and it would've degenerated into big steaming pile of sh*t. That actually had no bearing on my leaving in 2007, but rather more or less a a bidding war between WFWF and BQWA, the other place I was fedding. I was also very young at the time, I think I was 20 or so at the time, so for selfish reasons I went mistakeningly went to who promised me more. I am just glad I wasn't blackballed and welcomed back years later. Looking on it the rp rip now, I actually feel honored that of all the people that you could've picked to rip off, you chose me. Another awesome interview Progs.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Mar 19, 2014 20:55:37 GMT -5
The last two have been better reads. I'm glad my taking the reigns on vol. 2 has helped you find your niche and improve. I've watched more shoot interviews than any logical person should and feel like I have picked up a thing or two
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Post by sonstuds on Mar 19, 2014 22:58:35 GMT -5
That's because his body is buried in MetLife Stadium's east end zone. The issues people have with Alex entertain me immensely. That says a lot about me, clearly.
I appreciate the love and admiration, but I gotta be square with you; I never busted you for plagiarizing and I'm confident of that because I certainly never signed up to another fed to expose you. I never even know you plagiarized anything until people brought it up and you admitted to it at the time. That "tough love" life lesson should be replaced with his "honesty" life lesson so that I'm still incredibly influential. Heroic, even.
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Post by bad guy™ on Mar 19, 2014 23:12:09 GMT -5
That's because his body is buried in MetLife Stadium's east end zone. The issues people have with Alex entertain me immensely. That says a lot about me, clearly. I appreciate the love and admiration, but I gotta be square with you; I never busted you for plagiarizing and I'm confident of that because I certainly never signed up to another fed to expose you. I never even know you plagiarized anything until people brought it up and you admitted to it at the time. That "tough love" life lesson should be replaced with his "honesty" life lesson so that I'm still incredibly influential. Heroic, even. ...you have GOT to be ing kidding me. Who the hell was it then?
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Post by CM Poor on Mar 20, 2014 5:50:29 GMT -5
That's because his body is buried in MetLife Stadium's east end zone. The issues people have with Alex entertain me immensely. That says a lot about me, clearly. I appreciate the love and admiration, but I gotta be square with you; I never busted you for plagiarizing and I'm confident of that because I certainly never signed up to another fed to expose you. I never even know you plagiarized anything until people brought it up and you admitted to it at the time. That "tough love" life lesson should be replaced with his "honesty" life lesson so that I'm still incredibly influential. Heroic, even. ...you have GOT to be ing kidding me. Who the hell was it then? "It's me, Austin! It was me all along!"
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Post by Rated R on Mar 20, 2014 5:58:57 GMT -5
That's because his body is buried in MetLife Stadium's east end zone. The issues people have with Alex entertain me immensely. That says a lot about me, clearly. I've got to say I chuckled my way through the entire Alex Sean bit, as I did when Schneider brought him up. I've worked with Sean here and over in the XWA and I've never had so much as a gripe with him.
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Post by CM Poor on Mar 20, 2014 9:49:17 GMT -5
I very much enjoy these glimpses into the perspectives of my fellow writers, and would gladly accept the opportunity to offer my own if the chance ever arose.
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Post by Thunder on Mar 20, 2014 11:18:52 GMT -5
That's because his body is buried in MetLife Stadium's east end zone. The issues people have with Alex entertain me immensely. That says a lot about me, clearly. I've got to say I chuckled my way through the entire Alex Sean bit, as I did when Schneider brought him up. I've worked with Sean here and over in the XWA and I've never had so much as a gripe with him. Gotta disagree with you on this one, man. While we were owners, we did with problems with Al. He was third owner for a little while, if you recall, and when he wasn't getting stuff done we mutually agreed to drop him from that position. The only reason why you might not have personally had a gripe with him is that the task of telling him he was out got dumped on me. Whether or not he laid into you I don't know, but unleashed hell on me for that and accused me of some pretty ridiculous and somewhat awful things. Maybe I personally absorbed all the hate because I told him, but we did have problems with him.
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Post by Rated R on Mar 20, 2014 11:31:33 GMT -5
I've got to say I chuckled my way through the entire Alex Sean bit, as I did when Schneider brought him up. I've worked with Sean here and over in the XWA and I've never had so much as a gripe with him. Gotta disagree with you on this one, man. While we were owners, we did with problems with Al. He was third owner for a little while, if you recall, and when he wasn't getting stuff done we mutually agreed to drop him from that position. The only reason why you might not have personally had a gripe with him is that the task of telling him he was out got dumped on me. Whether or not he laid into you I don't know, but unleashed hell on me for that and accused me of some pretty ridiculous and somewhat awful things. Maybe I personally absorbed all the hate because I told him, but we did have problems with him. It's probably a mixture of it being years past and it never coming to even heated words between me and him over that, which as you said was likely because you told him, but aside from that I've still got little but good things to say about him. From an owners point of view then he definitely wasn't near the top of his game owner wise at the end of that run, but from a personal point of view? I've worked with him on angles numerous times, spoken to him outside the fed and he helped me immensely to the point that I probably wouldn't still be here if it wasn't for him. So yeah, my two cents.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2014 8:34:53 GMT -5
And this is yet another huge episode of Inside The Mind. This week we will feature a very special shoot with the current WFWF owner...RATED R! Happy to be here man, figurativility of course. In reality I'm reading a Hannibal Buress AMA while trying to edit some scripts. One is funner than the other I'll tell you that.Busy man. Let's start off with the start of your WFWF e-fedding career, mind going into some details on your first couple years? Well let's start by saying that they were terrible. Well, not my fedding experience, but my writing itself. I kind of just turned up because I was on the sims board and thought it'd be interesting to combine creative writing and wrestling in another way, and suddenly here I was. I started off down on the house show's, the newer guys won't realize exactly how important that area of the fed was back then. Most of the top guys we've got now got started down there in one way or the other. That's where I learnt all the basics about fedding, angles, match writing, the lot. Of course what I remember most about all that wasn't what I learnt, but rather how utterly ridiculous my plots were. Like hilariously bad.Full of terrorists, church burning and government science experiments, right? Exactly, I mean I started out with Trace being some religious fanatic as part of a cult, then I got a match against Schneider (then Obo) and he did some house burning scene or something like that. So I had to top him and burn a church, which is only natural, right? From there I kind of just wrote whatever I felt like writing whether it made any sense from a fed perspective or not (and before you ask, no it did not, like, at all). The government conspiracy science experiment bit was thankfully the end of all that because I got ripped into by Alex Sean and I think EBR and that kind of made me realize that if I wanted to be taken seriously I needed to take my plot seriously. So I've kept all the conspiracy and terrorist stuff to my screenwriting and treated my RP's like real life, which has obviously not done my any harm. Thank god for retconning though, I basically waved away my first two years of plots by saying Trace was a drug addict and I've never looked back.Mind telling us about you being one of the longest tenured RPers today? I saw that long pause, you totally looked up how to spell tenured, right? I'm laughing right now, you can't see it but I am.
Seriously though I never intended to be here this long, like I never started with the WFWF and thought to myself I'm going to make myself a fixture here, it just kind of happened. I've been to other feds and I've had brief periods of inactivity, notably when I was owner the first time and I had to focus on running things rather than writing, but I've never seriously considered leaving because I just love the character of Trace Demon far too much and the WFWF is the only place I'm ever going to get a chance to write his personal life and actually get people to read it. It helps that I love all the other aspects of fedding but that's the key part of me still being here, I just can't give up Trace Demon as a character.I did look it up, pardon me having pains from my root canal and also having only a few hours of sleep. Why do you hate everything you write? Man, now you've made me look like a jerk for mentioning it. Tuche good sir.Me hating everything I write isn't limited to when I first started, I can't go back and read my last RP without hating it. I hate everything I write AS I write it. I can't even claim it's some self-loathing thing because I've got a massive ego. I think the thing is I'll write something and immediately I'm looking for ways to make it better, I think everything can be better. The modern masterpieces of every single media could be better in some way or the other. I don't like the thought that anything I write is great because then I'm going to be thinking "if that was so great then where do I go next". If I ever consider something I write perfect then I may as well give up because that's when you get complacent. You go back to my pay per view RP's the past couple of years, the ones that won me the big matches and that people praised. I hate all of them too because I know I can write something better.If you hate everything you write, why do you stick around? For the exact same reason. See I might hate everything I write but I love trying to top myself. The fact that I know I can write something better means that I'm going to keep trying to do exactly that. If I left then I'd just come back in a couple of years to check things out and I'd read one my RP's and I'd think "damn, I was rubbish back then, I bet if I stuck around I'd have written something so much better than that" so that's why I stick around. To write something so much better.Do you have an ego? Do you think it makes you a better fedder? Oh yeah, definitely on both counts. I think I'm lucky in that I can kind of control my ego, I know that it's not always appropriate to just go round singing my own praises. I guess my problem is I've got an ego but I'm not an ass, I'm kind of arrogantly modest which makes no sense but I'm running with it. And of course I think it makes me a better fedder, I think all the top guys have egos. I might hate everything I write but I still believe it's better than whatever my opponent is going to write, and that's not a knock on them at all, it's just that if you ever think your opponent is better than you for a moment you're going to lose. In both fedding and in my everyday life I go about believing that I can get anything done, I've got no doubt at all in myself. Actually thinking about it I wouldn't say having an ego makes you a better fedder, I'd say having confidence in yourself, and having confidence that you CAN be better than everybody else even if you're not right now, that's what makes you a great fedder.Has this ego helped you branch out to other feds? Oh yeah. I mean I've only ever been in two feds outside of WFWF, and both of them are called XWA because originiality in initials is totally dead. If I didn't have an ego I'd have probably just kept to the WFWF and been happy with success here, but as anyone with an ego will tell you you've got to keep feeding it. I wanted to prove to myself that I could be the top dog elsewhere, that I was good enough to be on top in more than one fed at one time. Turns out I can do it in three, which did my ego the world of good but my modesty none.Personally, I've been to both XWAs and here in the WFWF, what fed do you think has the best community? I mean it's hard to judge, because it depends on when you've been there. I think the WFWF is great because I've known some guys here for years now and I'm pretty comfortable with them, but we're not always the most active community outside of shows. I'll cut out the XWA(U) right now because that place is chaotic, there's a lot of bad attitudes there and while I kind of fit in because I can hang with them I wouldn't recommend it to newer guys. The XWA though, the one that a lot of guys on here have been a part of I'm talking about now, that place is just as cool as here and I get on with them just as well, but they're traditionally a bit more active because they've got their own forum, they're not limited to our board. So yeah, the WFWF and XWA are pretty close, it depends on whichever one is the most active at the time.As owner/GM of both feds, would you rather have a fed with it's own forum or just a board of a big forum? They've both got their advantages. If you're active across the entire forum then the way we do things in the WFWF is perfect, but I'm not. I keep it strictly to three boards most of the time and that's the WFWF, the Sims board and the Indy board. I've dipped into other boards but I don't have that much time to do that anymore. The XWA, having it's own board, has a tighter community in a way because of that, you don't have to deal with a load of people not interested in fedding. For my that way works because I'm limited on time, I don't come to WFigs to talk about my day or about sports, I come for the boards I enjoy and that's about it.You've had two runs in office, so to speak, do you enjoy being owner? Oh yeah, I love it. I love planning out angles and booking shows, that's why I'm over on the Sims board as well, so being owner is a perfect fit for me. I mean don't get me wrong, I like the writing part as well, but I'd actually say I enjoy planning out angles more than I do writing my own RP's some of the time.You've had co-ownership with four different members: Alex Sean, EBR, Thunder and now Shawn. Mind going into details on how the four men work differently? That's a difficult one because I worked with EBR very briefly before he left the role, like blink and you'll miss it brief. Me and Alex worked well because he was the guy who taught me about being an owner so I was still learning all about the cards and results and stuff. Plus we get on well and that always helps. Alex gets a bad rap from some guys but I think he's a solid owner, he knows how to book an angle and he's better than almost anyone at that so he brought a real creative mind to our ownership team. Thunder, well Thunder never felt like the most involved owner to me. Like he was perfectly fine at everything but I always felt like it was something he was doing because he loved the fed, not because he loved being owner. We didn't have the best run either, cards and results were delayed all over the place.
Shawn is Shawn, he's probably the best out of the four simply because we've got a great balance. Shawn deals with the people side of things a lot more than I do because he's built a rapport with a lot of people here. I tend to deal mostly with guys like Drakz, EBR when he was back, Mike and Rev when he was around as well, people I know and people I tend to have a similar mindset to. So while Shawn deals mostly with the people side of things I tend to be the rational one, I'm the guy who thinks practically about the ideas and the one who has to poke holes in things if they don't work for whatever reason. It works because we're both good at our side of things and we've got no problem mixing it up when we need to, it's a great way to do things.Why do you keep your moth shut in regards to happenings on the board? Are you more toned down then you are in real life? I'm considerably more toned down on the board, yeah, but that's the thing about the net, you can never really tell what someone else is like. In real life my friends and my family, they know all about me and they know what I'm like to I can be a bit more open there. In real life I'm constantly joking around, I'm chilled out but I'm also quite excitable and very lively when I want to be. On the board there's never really a need for any of that because I'm not planning on going out drinking with guys in the fed, I'm not going to go watch the Hockey with them so I don't need to think about any of that and that's generally when I get lively.
In terms of keeping my mouth shut, I wouldn't say I do that exactly, I just tend to hang back unless I feel like I've got to step in. I get involved in the light hearted conversations all the time because that's what I'm like in real life. When stuff gets serious and we get arguments I'll either deal with it via PM or I'll step in if it's getting too bad. I don't enjoy drama so I don't put myself in the middle of it.How do you do all of this e-fedding while also having a busy life? I've got mad time management skills, no jokes. Tie that in with being able to type quickly and it's not too difficult. I think the thing about me is I'll always find time to get stuff done, so if I've got to head out to work on location and I've got a lot of editing to do or I've got a big RP to write then instead of driving up there I'll catch the train instead. Sure it'll add on an extra half hour to my journey but that's an extra hour or three to write and edit and deal with everything I need to do. That way I've still got time to have a social life, work on my own personal writing and my girlfriend won't get pissed with me for focusing all my time on fantasy wrestling. It's very much about finding these little hacks and these little twenty minute windows like writing on your tablet while you're getting coffee or something like that.Now, it's time for the weekly special of you get a name and tell us your opinion. *buzzers and confetti fall* God I'm dreading this, I've got a big mouth and I'm probably going to piss at least one person off. Should be a good time all round.Mike. I love the guy, always have and always will. We've worked on stuff outside of the fed, along with Rev, and he's just a great guy and he's got a really creative mind. We talk about wrestling, especially things like Shimmer which not a lot of other people watch, and then just like that we'll be running through story ideas. He's one of the few people I'll go to for advice if I'm stuck with something I'm writing because I trust him when it comes to all things creative. Probably the guy I'm closest to in all of fedding, no doubt.Reverend Shadow. Great writer, great fedder, great guy. He's one of the people that I've brought back to the fed twice now, and tried on more occasions than that, just because I love to read his stuff. He's got such a Gothic mind creatively, it's so different to everyone else and it means that whenever he's writing something you know it's going to be good. Like Mike I've worked with him elsewhere and I read most of what he writes and posts publicly and I'll continue to do so because he's so damned good at it. I intend to bug him to return repeatedly until he gets sick of me. And then I'll just keep doing it because I want to keep reading what he's writing.Alex Sean. The guy gets a bad rap from a lot of people and I'll never really understand it. To me he's one of the best this board has ever seen not only when it comes to writing but also his plotting of angles as well. From a personal perspective he's a good guy and a good friend, I speak to him quite often and we'll just talk about random crap, mostly wrestling and fedding. See I get that Shawn and Schneider have had run ins with him but to me it's a case of them letting those issues stain the canvas, like they've had one or two problems with him and from that they consider him trouble or something like that. Maybe it's because we're pretty similar in that we both think highly of ourselves but I'd happily work with him in any capacity if he comes back.Shawn Malakai. Like I said he's a great guy to run the fed with, so I won't repeat any of that. On a personal level I like him, we don't always see eye to eye because we've got different ways of thinking but we'll always find a way to compromise and come to some agreement which is always a sign of a good guy. He cares about the fed a lot which I respect. But, and this is a big but (really wanted to make a crude joke there but I'll resist) he's one of the great examples of untapped potential. He could be a champion but something's holding him back and I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is. Like you'll always see him near the top or circling the main event but he's never managed to crack through and I think it's a shame. I'd love to see him manage it and have a world title run, I think it'd be great if he pulls it out of the bag at Superbrawl. I don't know why because I'm far too young and we started at the same time, but it'd be like parental pride to see him manage it.The New Epoch. You're going to bunch those three guys together, that's tough man. It's hard to really say much beyond the fact that they're awesome writers and they seem like really cool guys whenever I've spoken to them. Me and Drakz had probably my favourite feud in my WFWF career and he pushed me to a whole new level entirely and it's fantastic to have him back. I've probably had the least interaction with Kyzer but he's always been cool with me and I respect that, plus his RP's are always a lot of fun. Brennan as a writer is another guy like Shawn in that he's got all the talent to be the top guy but unlike Shawn Brennan's issue is just timing and I think now he's back that this will be his time. Plus on a personal level he tells it like it is, he's not afraid to call you out on your crap and he's willing to help the new guys out, all things that get the thumbs up from me.Progs, Proggy. Or whatever the hell he goes by now. He's got a lot of potential and he's totally willing to throw his hand in to help out behind the scenes, which I always appreciate, but he needs to figure out how to be original. We've all been there when we're trying to get established or even just when we're trying to get started, we draw on what we know and evidently what he knows is CM Punk and Bray Wyatt. It's great to have your influences but you've got to make them your own and you've got to make them subtle. You can look at Trace now and I feel safe saying that you wouldn't really be able to tell what my influences are, that's the level Progs should be aiming for, he needs to find his own voice and he needs to scream with it. He does that and he'll be just fine.Jayson Garrett. I don't know him all that well but from what I've seen he's got all the raw talent to be someone important to the fed. He's a solid writer, he's more than willing to help out where he can and he's happy to take criticism and learn from it. I can't give you a personal touch here but from a professional one he's one to watch.Ace Bennett. I like Ace, I know I'm nowhere near as close to him as Shawn and Thunder are but I've thought he seemed like a good guy, eager to improve and eager to write. He had a solid run as owner with Shawn and he's gone out of his way to help the board out by keeping the mod spot which is dedication a lot of people wouldn't have. It was a real shame to see him leave just before he got his breakthrough, hopefully he'll turn back up in a couple of months and pick up from where he left off.Ready for the last one? Might be a barnburner. I've got a feeling I know what's coming.Andrew Carter. Okay, so maybe I didn't know what was coming. Sure you want to waste your last one on this, or maybe I'll give you one for free as an extra?Swerved! Last one will be Phillip Schneider. Now that's what I was expecting, save the best for the last, am I right?By now everybody should know that me and Schneider have history, I'm not going to go over the specifics because they've already come up in his interview and I don't like repeating things. See the thing about Schneider is, and this might surprise you, I kind of like the guy. Not in a personal way or even a friendly way, we're never going to be tight and we're never going to talk about anything other than fedding, but Schneider is like that one guy you know who is just a little bit nuts. Everybody has one in their social circle, that guy who is totally batcrap crazy but in a "I can't look away" kind of way. Like you never know what's going to come out of Schneider's mouth, be it in his writing or just in a day to day post. He's entertaining and he's fun to watch.
That being said, I'll repeat that we're never going to be tight. We had a pretty public falling out, or should I say he had a pretty public rant about me because he thought I wronged him. But I want to clear the air about the whole "I refused to work with him" stuff. I never agreed to work with him in the first place. One of the owners at the time came to me and asked if I wanted to work with him, this was back when he was on top form and I was still... well I was at the top of the card but I wasn't near my best or anything like that so you could definitely say it was a big opportunity. But I had a lot of personal stuff going on in my life, stuff that doesn't need going into, and I basically said that I didn't want to work anything with anyone because I didn't know if I was sticking around.
So while Schneider was writing all these angles trying to build a feud between us I simply wasn't even aware of it, like I wasn't checking my PM's from anyone not named Alex or EBR, I wasn't reading the shows beyond checking if I won and I wasn't reading other roleplays. So the first I was aware that I was feuding with Schneider was when he started ranting at me. After that I got a chip on my shoulder about the whole thing and went out of my way to antagonise him in a roleplay, something I've since admitted probably wasn't the best idea with someone like him, and hence this whole bitter feud was born if that's what you want to call it. I'd like to think we're both over it now and maybe down the line we'll work together again but yeah, there's a lot of history there and I could probably talk a lot more about his work and stuff like that, but I feel I've gone on for far too long and you'll probably think I'm a crazy stalker or something.You crazy stalker you! We're appraoching the end here, so a few closing questions. How long do you think you have left in the fedding game? Honest answer is I don't know, I'm at that point now where I'm taking it one day and one show at a time. I know that it's unlikely that I'll still be writing here five years down the line. Right now I'm balancing everything well enough but in my life all I need is one thing here or there and I'd have to make a choice. So yeah, honest answer is I simply don't know.Any final words before we wrap this up? If you've not got an ego then become good enough to deserve one, if you're happy with your work then great but you'll always be able to do better. And most importantly chill out and enjoy it, it's a game, a hobby, we're all here for the same reasons and whether you write three paragraphs about an enemy that isn't really an enemy guess what, it doesn't change the fact that everyone wants the same thing and that's just to have a good time.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Mar 29, 2014 8:51:48 GMT -5
but Schneider is like that one guy you know who is just a little bit nuts. Everybody has one in their social circle, that guy who is totally batcrap crazy but in a "I can't look away" kind of way. Like you never know what's going to come out of Schneider's mouth, be it in his writing or just in a day to day post. He's entertaining and he's fun to watch. I threatened to stab someone with a box cutter at work yesterday. This person laughed, while someone else looked on with horror. "dude, he's not joking, he's completely ing insane". Best summary of me in one sentence I've ever seen.
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Post by Markw on Mar 29, 2014 9:41:54 GMT -5
I love these.
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Post by Revvie® on Mar 29, 2014 19:59:15 GMT -5
Another great interview, and a big thanks to Trace for the kind words.
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Post by Sleazyness on Mar 30, 2014 13:18:30 GMT -5
Pretty cool interview. Cant wait to see what's next!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 15:01:54 GMT -5
And this is yet another huge episode of Inside The Mind. This week we will feature a very special shoot in this trilogy... PHILLIP SCHNEIDER!
Let's kick things off talking about this wonderful feud you just had with Drakz. From start to finish, this has been one of, if not, the best feuds I have ever seen here in the fed.I think a lot of people don't really understand when it started, either. Drakz and I neither one were ready to come back at Scars and Stripes time, but we had been talking for a few weeks and laid out a general idea of what we were going to do. We laid out the idea, Drakz returns, he calls out Schneider.. I've kind of been around the fed since I took my sabbatical so it wouldn't be a foriegn concept that I'd just return on a whim. But it was booked from the start that the first match was going to be a non-match. It was an idea I wanted to do with the World title, but I couldn't politic enough to tie the World title up into a 2-3 PPV feud for one feud.
When we really got going, I threw the idea of bringing back Chaemo at Drakz. It was a bit off of the script that we laid out but I think it worked, if only to pop the few people who remember Chaemo and the very few who knew he was Drakz. It's really funny that Drakz and I both did a mask gimmick with plans to unmask eventually, and neither of us did end up unmasking, leaving these odd mask gimmicks as singular stand alones lost to history, him with Chaemo and me with Dead Idol. I should point out, Dead Idol: former WFWF Hardcore X Champion.
I actually started writing the match for Superbrawl around Scars and Stripes. I had a few spot ideas and with Drakz coming out of the back injury I had the psychology for the match handed to me on a silver platter basically. I originally wanted to do Drakz being broken with the back injury and Schneider being hurt with concussions. I touched on the concussion issues briefly in my roleplay, but I never really worked it out entirely and I don't think the match really used the head injury storyline at all.What was the idea of having Samantha being part of your entrance at SuperBrawl?EBR. Solely. He commented on my tongue in cheek reintroduction, saying I should use "I Am A God" as my entrance music. I already had it in my head that I was using "Paint it Black" as my new entrance music and had it as my phone's ringtone for the months going into Superbrawl. It was to get me so familiar with the song that I could listen to it and picture Phillip Schneider entering to it. When EBR posted that, I was plotting out my roleplay already, with everyone leaving Schneider hanging. It was a play off of the Kyzer roleplay, in reverse. But Samantha was ultimately the last one left standing, with Percy. So she stands with Schneider at Superbrawl. Naturally, here I have a song I'm EXPECTED to use, so why not plug it in as Samantha's entrance?Any future plans of bringing in Samantha as an in-ring character? Like Scarlett/Wayne?No. It wouldn't work the way Mike did it. He wrote Scarlett as such an in depth character and Samantha just isn't. She exists to get Phillip from point a to point c. Plus she's too young in timeline. She's only 15 and she was like 4 in 2007, still semi-baby talking, so I've already fudged her age a bit.Mind explaining the origin of the name Phillip Schneider? Why is he such a hot dog?In 2006 or 2007, I had a moment where I quit WFWF and went looking elsewhere. I found out Death Valley Driver message board had an efed, DVD-WF. So I introduced the Obo character, exactly how he was in WFWF at the time, the start of the King of Gore, to this federation. This federation was nothing like WFWF and they basically wanted everyone to be exactly the same, not character driven at all (which is weird for an efed). I stood out like a sore thumb because here's this character who curses, hangs out in graveyards, all the cliches that people from WFWF do. I also got into fights with a couple of people who were not as good of writers as I was at the time but thought they were and had no idea how to constructively criticize and before one show, I had left this fed.
This is a long winded explaination to lead in to a deeper explaination! Death Valley Driver primarily is a video review board. The Death Valley Driver guys are uber-smarks. If you've been on the WWE board on WF and you think that is what "the IWC is" you're completely mistaken. Go to DVDVR. You'll see the dark world of the IWC and how absurd it really is. Without going into extensive detail, the head of DVDVR is a guy who's real name is.. you guessed it, Phil Schneider. His username is Phil_Schneider. So for me, for personal giggles, when I'm seeing all these DVD-WF guys talking about how much of a prick, a dick, an ass hole (all true) Obo is, I thought it'd be absolutely hilarious to make Obo's real name Phil Schneider. Except I don't like the name Phil Schneider. It doesn't have enough syllables. So I went with Phillip Schneider.
A while back, actually heading into Psycho Circus, Phillip Schneider was supposed to face off against David Brennan. Now, two years later, both of you are back in the swing of things around here. Mind going into detail on the events that were suppose to transpire in the feud?
So what little Brennan and I did was a very brief shell of what we wanted to do, for a number of reasons. I was still running the Schneider & Meg/Alexis angle and I really wanted to actually blow that off with a PPV, but it was Survival of the Fittest time and dammit, we had to do a battle royal to determine the next champion. I'll get back to that and it's problems in part two. So when SOTF was roleplay period, I was talking to Meg a lot. She was bouncing ideas off of me, I was telling her what I thought would work, what I thought wouldn't, because I REALLY wanted her to win SOTF, so that we could do Schneider/Alexis at Psycho Circus. Unfortunately, Alexis lost SOTF to David Brennan.
This set up a number of issues in reality. Schneider is a top heel at this point. He's just finished murdering Hutton Brown in cold blood. He's the most vile son of a bitch on the planet so for him to be facing a heel character forces any other heel into a babyface role. It's kind of the Schneider/Kyzer storyline in reverse though in hindsight, even there I think Schneider took the heel role from Kyzer. I explained this to Brennan, he agreed. Schneider almost had to be the heel. So we're now in the position where we need to make Brennan the temporary babyface, and put more heat on Phillip Schneider.
The feud was supposed to launch with the Schneider/Alexis match. After losing SOTF, Meg decided she was leaving again. I'm not sure how much of it was personal issues, how much of it was a creative burn out, and how much of it was "well , our angle just got squashed and it's my fault, so I'll just leave". I don't know that I'll ever know, because Meg's kind of gone ghost again. When Phillip Schneider and Megan Werner, the characters, were dating, I was talking to Meg, the real girl, on a daily basis pretty much. We'd talk about every minor aspect of our characters, which is why I could handle Alexis without issues and she could write Schneider and Percy without issues, because we both understood each other's characters very well.
So we did the Schneider/Alexis match. It'll probably go down in history as one of the most offensive matches in WFWF history. But the end of it all is David Brennan, this ugly nasty heel, Kyzer's righthand man, and he makes the save for Alexis. This is the set up for our feud, since I'm not willing to do a feud with "welp, you won SOTF so now I hate you". But after that, before the next show, Drakz went on his hiatus and Kyzer quit, which had EBR leave and then Brennan leave. So within two shows, Drakz, Kyzer, Brennan, EBR, and Meg all left. Five of the legitimate best in the fed. I had already turned in the gift basket segment, which effectively ended our feud since there was no where else to go with it with Brennan leaving and Schneider getting redirected.
Had Meg not left and Brennan not left, the feud would've seen Schneider basically spiraling downwards, the start of the Decaying Society to Meg's chagrin, leading up to where we actually did, the Schneider/Alexis match with Brennan making the babyface save. Then Brennan has the morality conflict of "I am bad, but what he is doing is very wrong and I have to stop him.". I think I touched on that concept very briefly in my short Mason Dixon promo and it's a cool concept, but that's what we basically lost with the David Brennan feud.Let's talk about someone who has stepped on everyone's toes during and after his tenure here, you know who I'm talking about.So I don't know how much I can actually say here, but since the silence order has already been broken (wasntme.gif) I'm going to say what I feel like saying and what happens happens. I know I made a post in Horror's WWE board post, that I removed because it was just going to cause problems, but it explained exactly what happened with him. What few people actually realize is, when this guy FIRST returned, before the cage match stuff, before the attitude, before the fights.. I told Horror I didn't want him around. I said I didn't like him, I said he's trouble, I said he's a terrible writer and I said he has no idea how to book anything. But, I said I wouldn't say anything and I'd let things fall the way they were going to, and if he said anything to me I'd rip his head off and crap down his throat.
So I sit back quietly as I watch this guy who I already do not like. He's caused problems for me elsewhere on WF for years. I've had insane arguments with him for years. He's like that Milincoln idiot who briefly appeared in WF as Lincoln Dina, in that everything has to be an argument. Except he also wants to creatively apply himself. Except he's terrible. And uncreative. And can't take criticism. And thinks his opinion on anything doesn't stink. He's done everything there is to do on WF and literally everything has been poorly done and crappy for one reason or another. He did customs with thick sloppy paint and poor parts. He did poses with a crappy camera and visable string. He did a long running text fed that constantly changes it's name and theme and roster. He tried a fantasy booking federation until he was told in no uncertain terms that the bookers hate him and to go away. He and HE ALONE, with no other exception, is the reason WF still have both a text fed and a fantasy booking board, because when Jack was wanting to merge the two boards, the fantasy booking people absolutely refused to share a board with that idiot. This isn't breaking news to the admins, but during that debate, I had access to ICW, the Fantasy Booking mod's account, and would log into the mod board to help him argue to not merge them, because I hate this idiot so much. When karma was around, I smited him literally every hour, on the hour, for weeks at a time, with both ICW and my own account, to destroy his karma, just because it irritated him and if I can't slap him in the face face to face, then I'll pick at him emotionally.
SO, all of that said, the fact that he joined WFWF (again) and failed huge, again, and is hated by pretty much the entire federation, without me ever saying a word about him, really speaks that he IS the piece of canine fecal matter I've always known him to be. I never said a word about him or to him, as I promised to Horror and just as the silence order calls for, I said my piece without saying his name at all. This was all about Justin Tyger.Tell us about the Justin Tyme/Yukio feud heading into Battleground.So the Drakz feud was interesting because it was fresh. But it wasn't my first potential feud. I had sent an idea to Justin Tyme wanting to work with him. We feuded in 2005 as a tag team, but this would be 2013 and we've changed so much since then that it'd be super interesting. But he was already committed and had questions if it'd work. So I started talking to Yukio. Yukio is someone I'd like to work with because he's ALWAYS been a babyface and is a good babyface. I like to think I'm the best heel in the federation, so I think a feud between us would've been really interesting, but we couldn't get it going. And when I couldn't get a feud I really liked, I continued to sit out. That's what I tend to do.With the recent influx of new guys coming into the fed, and needing extensive help with their RPs, would you like to see the return of the developmental system? If so, who would you want to see run it?Only if the developmental system stayed as the developmental system. The problem I had when I ran into it was that rhe "developmental guys" were also being booked on the main shows and in regular feuds, so developmental wasn't special. Yeah, when someone really good shows up like Pierce Deville (we're going to ignore WHY he was really good), he should pass through, but when you've got these brand new guys learning to roleplay, it wouldn't hurt for them to be under the magnifying glass in the developmental system for a few shows. And developmental feuds could still blow off on PPVs, but it'd have to be contained.
I'd be best if it'd be run by someone with not only roleplay knowledge but also booking ability and the ability to write multiple scenarios for every feud. Tell us your thoughts of the WFWF having a booker.With no offense to Horror and Trace, they aren't bookers. They're owners and matchmakers. There is a difference. If the WFWF had a booker, I think it'd be a much better ran federation. Someone to sit back and play with the characters in the federation. "You know, this guy said this, it'd be interesting if he faced this guy" and then propose a story for them. Then the characters and the booker can lay out the feud between the three of them. It'd have to be someone who is completely done as a competitor so they'd have no engagement to try to give "the best" stories to their own character/s and also someone with a good mind for booking. You can't have one of the boys with the pencil.Well, we only have one fan question for you, coming from a guy who sounds like he's scared of highs, "What's your true opinion of Shawn Malakai, the guy behind the character."Dick.That's it?It's funny how far he's evolved. When I was running developmental, I would've called him "most likely to fail in WFWF". He just had nothing going on. Then there was the thing he touched on in his interview with the plagerism, which I wanted to have him blackballed for. But he's done so much for the federation, so much time put in. It's not like the owners of WFWF are paid or anything so it says something when you're willing to put so much time into the fed. He's developed really well as a writer and an owner. I just wish he'd absorb himself more in wrestling booking. Listen to some seminars from good bookers and try to develop some stronger booking ideals and philosphies.With that, do you mind going into detail on your own booking philosophies?This could be an interview all of it's own. This is the "second part" of the interview because it doesn't relate directly to WFWF but it does.
When you're putting together an angle, you've got to know where the characters are starting, where they're going to end, and have a booking idea with both scenarios ending. And you've got to be able to hit every plot point along the way. If there are matches from both characters, you've got to be able to write a branching story with the idea that your character may in fact lose along the way and with ideas for both. You can't stay on a linear path with this.
But with that said, I'm not into what I consider "lazy booking". Stuff like Survival of the Fittest. It's tradition, but tradition stinks sometimes. Having the big battle royal once a year and the person winning pushed into the top slot just doesn't work. Because you kind of need a face versus a heel and with anyone winning it isn't a face/heel. There's no built in psychology to the feud. You look at Me vs. Hutton Brown, both times.. Our characters worked well together. Me and Kyzer, it worked. The Psycho Circus "Phillip Schneider has three opponents for this weapons filled cage match"? Didn't particularly work... But Phillip Schneider vs. Scarlett Quinn, probably would've worked.I was told you have a special treat for those who've read this, in which it is the alternate ending to your SuperBrawl masterpiece against Drakz. It'll be a good thing to end with.When I write my own matches, I write two finishes to every match. It's so I'm NOT told until results go up if I'm winning or losing. And on matches like the Drakz match, that are so psycology heavy, the two finishes can be drastically different, but can also play up the psycology a lot. Not being egotistical, but I feel like the "proper" ending is the Schneider win, because I feel like that's how the psycology leaned. But this is competitive writing first and foremost and the better ending to the worked match doesn't always mean it's the ending.Finish #2: Schneider wins
Schneider is screaming in pain and stuck tight. He's trying to flip himself over to escape the hold, but Drakz has it locked and locked tight. Drakz lays in a kick to the chest of Schneider. A second. Schneider is leaning up and bleeding everywhere. He's trying to turn and in doing so, he's turning his arm in a horrible way. But he's able to turn and plant his feet. Dead lift from Schneider. He's got Drakz up. He runs across the ring and buckle bombs Drakz into the exposed steel buckle. The arm bar is broken.
Samael Ahriman: Buckle bomb leads to an escape from that arm bar..
Alecia Matthews: Buckle bomb into the exposed steel buckle..
Drakz stumbles out of the corner. He's hurting badly. Schneider swoops behind him. Inverted double chicken wing lift from Schneider. He's pulling at the back. Schneider walks to the center of the ring with Drakz hanging in the rack, slowly. At the center, Schneider slides Drakz up and over, planting him into the mat with the Beverly Kills 90210. Drakz' head and neck behind in a horrible way upon impact. Schneider rolls Drakz from his stomach to his back and makes a cover, 1.....2....3.
Alecia Matthews: Schneider got him
The bell sounds. Schneider immediately rolls off of Drakz. The referee goes to the ropes, retrieving the WFWF National championship and bringing it into the ring.
Samael Ahriman: What we just seen isn't a potential Match of the Year.. It's potential “Match of the Decade”. Ten years this one bubbled and boiled and I don't think anyone's going to walk away saying “man, Schneider and Drakz disappointed me.”
Alecia Matthews: That was without a shadow of a doubt the craziest thing I've ever seen.
The desert sun has set. Schneider is handed the National championship belt and the high angle shot shows just the night sky behind Schneider. “Paint it Black” by Rolling Stones begins to echo through the arena. Suddenly, fireworks explode high over head, lighting up the sky and the arena. There's a deafening boom, but the crowd still cheers over it. Phillip Schneider gets to his feet, blood in his eyes, and slings the championship belt over his shoulder. Drakz is slowly to his feet. Drakz extends his hand.
Alecia Matthews: This started before Scars and Stripes simply in the name of sportsmanship, because Drakz knew that this would be the greatest match anyone had ever seen.. Are we going to get a handshake after all of that?
Schneider looks at Drakz's hand, drops to the mat, and rolls under the bottom rope. The crowd boos. Drakz is left standing alone in the ring.
Samael Ahriman: No handshake here..
Schneider makes his way towards the backstage area as we cut away.
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Post by sonstuds on May 10, 2014 17:51:59 GMT -5
But with that said, I'm not into what I consider "lazy booking". Stuff like Survival of the Fittest. It's tradition, but tradition stinks sometimes. Having the big battle royal once a year and the person winning pushed into the top slot just doesn't work. Because you kind of need a face versus a heel and with anyone winning it isn't a face/heel. There's no built in psychology to the feud. You look at Me vs. Hutton Brown, both times.. Our characters worked well together. Me and Kyzer, it worked. The Psycho Circus "Phillip Schneider has three opponents for this weapons filled cage match"? Didn't particularly work... But Phillip Schneider vs. Scarlett Quinn, probably would've worked. Word, and that someone agrees makes me feel validated about not doing Scars & Stripes before SuperBrawl V for the various reasons.
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Post by CM Poor on May 10, 2014 18:51:32 GMT -5
I had forgotten a lot about where we were going to go with that angle heading into Psycho Circus. It's funny to look back now on how you (Schneider) essentially came up with the idea for Brennan (who at the time, you still thought was a white supremacist) to come rushing in as sort of rough around the edges knight in shining armor, because wasn't Alexis Chevante's pic base a Filipino chick?
It's a shame I let getting pissed off at the owners drive me out, 'cause that would have been a really fun angle to run. I still didn't have any business in the world title picture then, nor would I now, but story wise, it would have been a hoot to write.
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