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Post by sonstuds on Apr 16, 2014 0:58:56 GMT -5
Tag teams are awesome. I'm still disappointed that Game of Thrones inspired angle fell through last year so we never got around to doing Kyzer/Drakz vs. D and I for the Tag Titles (even though I'm not sure if they actually had the titles).
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Post by jdfranchise on Apr 16, 2014 1:01:13 GMT -5
I always like tagging with people that I can play off. The situation with Kyle and Apollo Ivan Gunn is the reason that people probably like being a solo act.
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Post by Kyzer on Apr 16, 2014 1:30:59 GMT -5
Tag teams are awesome. I'm still disappointed that Game of Thrones inspired angle fell through last year so we never got around to doing Kyzer/Drakz vs. D and I for the Tag Titles (even though I'm not sure if they actually had the titles). Apparently Drakz and I won the titles and then I broke his back. I didn't remember winning the titles, just the breaking of the back.
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Post by bad guy™ on Apr 16, 2014 1:41:49 GMT -5
Tag teams are awesome. I'm still disappointed that Game of Thrones inspired angle fell through last year so we never got around to doing Kyzer/Drakz vs. D and I for the Tag Titles (even though I'm not sure if they actually had the titles). Apparently Drakz and I won the titles and then I broke his back. I didn't remember winning the titles, just the breaking of the back. You beat me and Raider for them. Ace quit, I took his spot, you killed us, then Drakz.
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Post by jdfranchise on Apr 16, 2014 2:50:00 GMT -5
You know all this tag team talk is gonna end up reviving the tag team division.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Apr 16, 2014 4:44:08 GMT -5
Tag matches are fine when I'm working with someone that a) I've worked with before and enjoy working with b) isn't just some other guy who didn't have a match so we threw this team together to pad the card. My first character interaction with Carter Contra, at all, was this slapdash tag match we were thrown into together than I wound up carrying because Carter decided he needed to write the SNL/Jimmy Fallon/Jay Leno version of my character in his rp.
I don't feel like shouldering someone with a random ass tag partner is methodical in getting them to think outside the box or take them out of their comfort level in regard to their writing - it's just setting them up for inevitable disappointment.
As for Dixon (Dean stole my joke and now I'm bored with it wah wah), he's got all the warning signs of someone that needs to be dropped like a bad habit and/or Andrew Carter. There are guys here who have worked through their writing for every last thing they've racked up here, whether it's accolades or titles or shots at titles or whatever. This kid debuts, pisses and moans because without any effort on his part, a storyline was written for him to have his flat, boring, unoriginal character do something, and gets thrown into the mix of a title match and has the gall to not only bone the people who put forth the extra mile for him, but bone his partner, who, in spite of being new and relatively green, has stuck around and taken all the critiquing us curmudgeons can throw at him in stride and maintained a pretty positive attitude.
Mason wants to piss and moan that people are soon the leg work for him? Have fun wallowing in nothingness if you decide to stiff us all and stick around here. You've had, what? Two matches booked? Two matches and I wouldn't work a program with you even to give you the Tommy Staxx treatment.
It's 5:43am and my stupid cat has had me up since 3:30. F*ck you, I'm David Brennan.
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Post by jdfranchise on Apr 16, 2014 5:04:24 GMT -5
Good morning to you sunshine.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Apr 16, 2014 5:06:28 GMT -5
with tag team roleplaying, you really have to know and trust your partner for it to work. You have to know they're someone you can rely on and that they're going to be there for you. Los Hobos worked for this reason, because even now Percy is one of my best friends. Being thrown in with a random person you don't know only seems appealing as "oh, I have a title shot on Superbrawl this way".
Look at it this way though, only one team out of four managed to have both people roleplay.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Apr 16, 2014 5:11:48 GMT -5
also, I like that Andrew Carter is now the be all/end all of shitheads. Does no one remember Tyger? Shane O'Riley? Joe Kessen? , we've had a bigger shithead since Carter left.
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Post by jdfranchise on Apr 16, 2014 5:14:15 GMT -5
Hey DB, I only stole the joke because it could be a great running gag around here. Aside from that the points you made are very well put. He sh*t on Kyle pretty badly of all the guys in the tag title match, and I don't blame him for dropping him like a bad habit. I think all of us giving him grief about having an unoriginal character probably contributed into him flaking. If he does stick around, he pretty well landed on everyone's sh*tlist, so I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't come back tbh.
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Post by jdfranchise on Apr 16, 2014 5:17:20 GMT -5
also, I like that Andrew Carter is now the be all/end all of crapheads. Does no one remember Tyger? Shane O'Riley? Joe Kessen? , we've had a bigger craphead since Carter left. You talking bout that guy that was the reason like two pages worth in this GD got deleted? Ace is probably still pissed about having to do that.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Apr 16, 2014 5:47:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I've pretty much taken a contiguous dump on Mason Dixon since he debuted over that name. The fact that he was allowed to compete still baffles me, as I'm pretty sure we have a pretty strict "original characters" rule here. No name is going to be 100% unique (okay, maybe Justa Mazing, since I've never met anyone in my 28 years named Justa), but when you pull 'Mason Dixon' and then add "The Line" (which yeah, just about everyone into pro-wrestling wishes they though of), you can't even try and hide behind the notion that you just "didn't know". I don't care where the name comes from - if I debut a new character tomorrow named Heisenberg, I fully expect everyone to sh*t on it and call me out and make jokes about my kid eating breakfast or some sh*t. The difference is I'm usually pretty up front about what I'm hijacking from week to week. If I'm not sticking stupid song lyrics right into my dialogue (which I do on every rp. Seriously. Go look.), then I'll be the first to tell you that from the point I decided to use Jack Nicholson as Jack Brennan's pic base, I was pretty much writing my own little spinoff of The Departed.
There's a line though, about as long as the Mason-Dixon, between inspiration and unoriginality.
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Post by Revvie® on Apr 16, 2014 6:02:44 GMT -5
Personally; I don't care what his name was, nor his "gimmick"....nothing was fleshed. A name is a name...and doesn't mean much to me. The idea of originality in fictional writing is dumb to me....everything we do is somewhere between all the things we have done, and media we have encountered. New writers cling to safer waters, or more comfortable notions...but it is all just rehashed versions of the same things.
I dont condone blatant stealing of work, or character designs.....but this wasn't that....it was a name.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2014 11:16:23 GMT -5
Tag teams are awesome. I'm still disappointed that Game of Thrones inspired angle fell through last year so we never got around to doing Kyzer/Drakz vs. D and I for the Tag Titles (even though I'm not sure if they actually had the titles). Apparently Drakz and I won the titles and then I broke his back. I didn't remember winning the titles, just the breaking of the back. Kyzer should return with a Bain gimmick.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Apr 16, 2014 11:38:06 GMT -5
Apparently Drakz and I won the titles and then I broke his back. I didn't remember winning the titles, just the breaking of the back. Kyzer should return with a Bain gimmick. Kyzer is gonna have Mitt Romney help him manage his hedge funds?
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Post by jdfranchise on Apr 16, 2014 12:11:44 GMT -5
Somebody should have a Bill Clinton gimmick.
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Post by Kyzer on Apr 16, 2014 13:15:35 GMT -5
Kyzer should return with a Bain gimmick. Kyzer is gonna have Mitt Romney help him manage his hedge funds? That is an awesome idea. Then have him mingling with GOP top brass.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Apr 16, 2014 15:21:40 GMT -5
also, I like that Andrew Carter is now the be all/end all of crapheads. Does no one remember Tyger? Shane O'Riley? Joe Kessen? , we've had a bigger craphead since Carter left. You talking bout that guy that was the reason like two pages worth in this GD got deleted? Ace is probably still pissed about having to do that.
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Post by Dex on Apr 16, 2014 15:28:22 GMT -5
Someone posted a Shaggy song, couldn't resist.
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Post by Sleazyness on Apr 16, 2014 15:51:42 GMT -5
Just curious, when will the show be posted?
I cant wait to read it!!
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