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Post by ICW on Apr 10, 2024 15:49:05 GMT -5
Cool that you guys have such deep connections here. Yeah we used to be on this forum everyday and talking on AIM as well. I was around in the twilight of the board's activity (it had relatively died down but people still posted and reviewed shows regularly). I think it had been mentioned previously by ICW, but I think the downfall of the activity stems from other forms of social media and online gaming. When I was around between 2005-2007, online console gaming hadn't exploded yet and neither had social media. So a lot more teenagers and young people, who actually have the time to be engaged in reading and writing wrestling shows, were on here and other forums compared to now. Hell, that's what ended my stint on here. As I mentioned I was ten years old when I joined (obviously lied about my age to sign up and lied about my age to other users --although it was obvious how young I was)...I had a ton of time on my hands. Then when I was 12 I got an Xbox 360 and Live, went into high school and rest in peace message forums and fantasy booking lol ICW and I joined around the same time I believe and we're both good friends who were often fighting (mostly due to my immaturity). WCWA was already established here and was our wise mentor. DCW was also around as well. Remember that other forum we all migrated to for a little bit that replaced BOOK? I miss BOOK for the short time I was part of it. I wish BOOK would make a comeback lol
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Apr 14, 2024 7:41:49 GMT -5
Yeah we used to be on this forum everyday and talking on AIM as well. I was around in the twilight of the board's activity (it had relatively died down but people still posted and reviewed shows regularly). I think it had been mentioned previously by ICW, but I think the downfall of the activity stems from other forms of social media and online gaming. When I was around between 2005-2007, online console gaming hadn't exploded yet and neither had social media. So a lot more teenagers and young people, who actually have the time to be engaged in reading and writing wrestling shows, were on here and other forums compared to now. Hell, that's what ended my stint on here. As I mentioned I was ten years old when I joined (obviously lied about my age to sign up and lied about my age to other users --although it was obvious how young I was)...I had a ton of time on my hands. Then when I was 12 I got an Xbox 360 and Live, went into high school and rest in peace message forums and fantasy booking lol ICW and I joined around the same time I believe and we're both good friends who were often fighting (mostly due to my immaturity). WCWA was already established here and was our wise mentor. DCW was also around as well. Remember that other forum we all migrated to for a little bit that replaced BOOK? I miss BOOK for the short time I was part of it. I wish BOOK would make a comeback lol When BOOK went down, Afterlife came up under it. it was supposed to be MUCH more than it was. Afterlife was supposed to have a main site with wrestling news, columns, and probably most importantly, an area to actually host shows. There was talk and work to fix the largest issue of BOOK, in that the pictures on the site hadn't been updated since 2002 or so. I had written a script that'd import pictures via bbc code, but automatically resize them to whatever the uniformed squared image size was. the catch on it is, the image had to be square to begin with. so the WCWA roster images (funny how that works huh?) would've imported flawlessly, but if someone just tried to drop in a full blown studio promo shot, it'd end up super squished. not going to throw people under the bus because it's been almost 15 years now, but the main site never came to be because of personal issues from the other admin, who quickly faded away from the scene as a whole shortly after Afterlife launched. Tenn took the mantle, but had no background in web development and at the time, I was 16 or 17, and while I could write the code, I had no business trying to be a sysop for any scale of a website. that's why Afterlife never truthfully moved past the stage of "message board that occasionally has columns". I remember our friendship with Kamala was going to play a role in Afterlife at one point, because Kamala was very on board with producing content for the Afterlife site, until the site itself fell apart
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Post by ICW on Apr 16, 2024 14:37:43 GMT -5
Remember that other forum we all migrated to for a little bit that replaced BOOK? I miss BOOK for the short time I was part of it. I wish BOOK would make a comeback lol When BOOK went down, Afterlife came up under it. it was supposed to be MUCH more than it was. Afterlife was supposed to have a main site with wrestling news, columns, and probably most importantly, an area to actually host shows. There was talk and work to fix the largest issue of BOOK, in that the pictures on the site hadn't been updated since 2002 or so. I had written a script that'd import pictures via bbc code, but automatically resize them to whatever the uniformed squared image size was. the catch on it is, the image had to be square to begin with. so the WCWA roster images (funny how that works huh?) would've imported flawlessly, but if someone just tried to drop in a full blown studio promo shot, it'd end up super squished. not going to throw people under the bus because it's been almost 15 years now, but the main site never came to be because of personal issues from the other admin, who quickly faded away from the scene as a whole shortly after Afterlife launched. Tenn took the mantle, but had no background in web development and at the time, I was 16 or 17, and while I could write the code, I had no business trying to be a sysop for any scale of a website. that's why Afterlife never truthfully moved past the stage of "message board that occasionally has columns". I remember our friendship with Kamala was going to play a role in Afterlife at one point, because Kamala was very on board with producing content for the Afterlife site, until the site itself fell apart Yeah this sounds familiar to me (I think I remember who you're referring to). A modern BOOK would be something incredibly, incredibly fun to have.
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Post by cage on Apr 17, 2024 13:05:47 GMT -5
Cool that you guys have such deep connections here. I think I was around the fantasy booking board in it's various forms for around 15-20 years before I moved onto booking real wrestling. WCWA's first show was July 4th 2004. and I had 3W for about 8 months before that. we'd be coming up on the 20 year anniversary of WCWA if I hadn't quit like a big ol quitter. ....I actually work an office job now where I have a ton of downtime. I theoretically could write shows again if the motivation came to me. What is 3W and what is BOOK?
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Apr 18, 2024 9:26:03 GMT -5
3W was my original series here back in 02 or 03
BOOK was another fantasy booking site. Book.otherarena.com. the sysops for otherarena.com abandoned the BOOK project long before people actually stopped using it. There was a bug in the code though that caused the entire website to essentially implode on the turn of a new year, where you could no longer create new shows. Now the BOOK side is completely offline (and has been for presumably more than a decade) even though the URL still works and there's still a wrestling booking link on the main page
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Post by ICW on Apr 18, 2024 10:53:04 GMT -5
3W was my original series here back in 02 or 03 BOOK was another fantasy booking site. Book.otherarena.com. the sysops for otherarena.com abandoned the BOOK project long before people actually stopped using it. There was a bug in the code though that caused the entire website to essentially implode on the turn of a new year, where you could no longer create new shows. Now the BOOK side is completely offline (and has been for presumably more than a decade) even though the URL still works and there's still a wrestling booking link on the main page The best part about BOOK for me was the formatting. Here's a look via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20040518214648/http://book.otherarena.com/This is Part 1 of one of my favorite shows ever: Tenn's CWF WrestleMania XV.
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Apr 26, 2024 21:13:42 GMT -5
Views have been unusually high since I posted Project: Wrestling Ep. 3…you’re welcome 😂
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Post by WCWA Online on Jul 10, 2024 19:14:56 GMT -5
so, surprise. I'm back. at least for a limited run series. I've got a lot of free time at work to write. I actually did a dry run on a new series that didn't work out, I needed the WCWA lore. hopefully making it 2024 doesn't change too much while at the same time changing everything
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Post by ICW on Jul 12, 2024 9:21:39 GMT -5
The best fantasy fed around is back!
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Post by The Masked Superstar on Jul 13, 2024 0:21:18 GMT -5
The best fantasy fed around is back! I havent posted in a while, are you high?
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Post by WCWA Online on Jul 14, 2024 15:48:59 GMT -5
The best fantasy fed around is back! I havent posted in a while, are you high? been a while since I've been around here
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Post by ICW on Jul 16, 2024 8:54:24 GMT -5
WCWA was how I was first exposed to guys like Tommy End, Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston, etc. I often joke it was AEW before the thought of an AEW ever existed.
As for myself:
I had high hopes for WCW/nWo: Reimagined but it's permanently on hold for several reasons: 1). I do not have the time to sit down and write, especially in the style I've adopted over the years; 2). I do a ton of research into that time period and that in it of itself is exhausting; 3). I was inspired to start a 90s-based fig fed after listening to the FWF series on the Major Wrestling Figure podcast and have been spending the better part of a year collecting figures and materials; 4). I am expecting my first born in September and that will obviously take all of my free time, so much so that I doubt I'll really get the ICW fig fed off the ground but will try.
The nucleus of WCW/nWo: Reimagined was that the nWo would grain complete control over WCW with Bischoff ultimately making an ultimatum: join us or be fed to us. Bischoff would've also had the WCW loyalists and the WWF "outsiders" (for lack of a better word) at each other's throats for most of the year before the cracks in the nWo begin to form, ultimately leading to a Starrcade main event of Shawn Michaels (nWo leader after Hogan would be outsted following his loss to Lex Luger at Nitro) vs. a returning Sting, who obviously emerges as the winner. There would've been an uneasy alliance between WCW and the WWF, who agreed to the alliance on one condition: the WWF would return as its own separate brand. I'd do a talent draft between the WCW/WWF brands with the nWo guys eventually having to earn their way back to the roster.
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Post by WCWA Online on Jul 16, 2024 10:47:28 GMT -5
Picking WCWA up in 2024 and trying to connect the dots to the past has been unbelievably difficult. Tommy End, Claudio, Eddie Kingston being the obvious examples as to why.. but there's people who are still wrestling and not under contract anywhere who I just won't touch because they're craphumans now, like Necro Butcher. One of the biggest archs I never got to tell in WCWA was the rise of the Young Bucks. They came in under Lacey but were going to be guys k built the future around. Obviously in 2024 eyes, that's not possible. Oh and ![](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/wfcensored.gif) Marty Scrull.
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Post by WCWA Online on Jul 19, 2024 13:46:34 GMT -5
So I'm not sure exactly how long I'll be around for, but I can assure that at least this cycle of shows will be posted, within a timely manner. "Episode 2" has actually been done since before Surprise Drop was posted, a timed release for July 4th to align with the anniversary of the first WCWA show, and I've got a decent start on episode 3. The more I write, the more I feel like I'm getting back into a groove. I'm deliberately keeping my roster small at first, and I think everyone involved in shows 1 & 2 ends up with an angle blow off on show 4 (tentatively named "the big show", a work in progress title)
Hopefully my creative spark can reignite the board. If not, it's good to blow off some creative steam while at work on slow days.
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Post by cage on Aug 7, 2024 1:20:24 GMT -5
I can't lie. I've been doing pretty terrible and I am extremely far behind. I need to put aside an hour or something per day to work on this and keep up with it. But, I also ambitiously have so many projects on here that I want to do. Plus, I'm also on BeTheBooker, so it can eat up time like crazy, but I really enjoy doing this, so..
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Aug 8, 2024 11:24:57 GMT -5
Currently trying to figure out how to rip off Raven without just making the character Raven 😂
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Post by ICW on Aug 29, 2024 11:18:12 GMT -5
My first born should be here next week!
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Aug 30, 2024 13:51:07 GMT -5
My first born should be here next week! Congrats dude!
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