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Post by Kyzer on Aug 2, 2018 10:19:50 GMT -5
I like the Hall of Champions idea because it isn't subjective unlike the Hall of Fame (RIP) and obviously there won't be any bums like Yukio in it. I'm still going to keep the objective superlatives in, so our longest reigning champions (of the modern era-batch, because the table just looked sad with only two titles), Triple Crowns, Grand Slams, etc. can all keep their little ego boost. We could all go back and forth about the fallacies of booking power and non-defenses and all that, but numbers are tangible, so at least we can have some sort of recognition without it being too far up for debate. If I were any sort of smart, I'd have made @kingrichius wait another two shows before executing his first abuse of power totally kayfabe and mutually agreed upon coup of the International title so as to scrub Thunder's reign from the top spot, but ultimately, his exertion of executive power the right booking decision for the frame of time won out in the end. All said, I've got a secure hold on the second longest International Championship reign, and come Mexico, I'll have seized the second longest World Championship reign to boot. Pair that with the fact that I personally consider myself the singular reigning tag-team champion with a record breaking 689 day (and counting) reign, and my ego is sufficiently Flaps-sized for the foreseeable future. But you won all your titles before your rise to power so it is acceptable.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 2, 2018 9:59:48 GMT -5
I'm going to be putting together a proper sort of "Hall of Champions" soon to reintroduce the recognition owed to our longest reigning champions. I fully expect this to cause the exact same sort of headache that the Hall of Fame did, because the previously held record for the longest reigning tag team champion(s) has been technically shattered, but there's an obvious in for traditionalists to disagree, but facts are facts, and if you really want to try and Orwell these numbers, then you're Fake News. Spoiler: it isn't me Also - Drakz's historic reign as WFWF World Heavyweight Champion should totally be recorded as 850.9 days, because jdfranchise held the title for less time than it'll take most of you to read this post. I may just do that because I'm obviously power hungry and need to protect my boys at all costs. It's not like anyone's crushing 504 anytime in the near or distant future anyway - is 850 even really that big a leap at that point? I like the Hall of Champions idea because it isn't subjective unlike the Hall of Fame (RIP) and obviously there won't be any bums like Yukio in it.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 1, 2018 22:50:28 GMT -5
He got into our hall of fame (RIP) because he had this crazy cult of ass kissers from the days of his tenure as owner. Drakz was one of his clowns until I broke him out of that sh~t. CBT, Ganador, "Man of the Hour" Josh. Talk about people who are unoriginal and uncreative. Talentless little sh~ts. I'll fully cop to having been pretty level with him back in the day. I also first jumped in here when I was 18 and living at home with my folks, so I ain't about to hold Drakz liable for crimes I'm just as complicit in (though, for the record, I've never, not even in my capacity as owner, been granted any say over who is or isn't worthy of the hall of fame ). My biggest beef with Flaps is he shot down so many ideas for angles and storylines with me because he would say it was too much of a mismatch. I still remember he wouldn't let me enter that New Breed tournament or whatever it was called because I was would have been the favorite. He would never give me anything to work with.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 1, 2018 21:39:59 GMT -5
Yukio is the single biggest knob I have ever dealt with in my life. Drakz and I buried and humiliated him on every show and even left him off of major cards and he still thought he was the top face in the place. I was away for most of his reign, but I'm still baffled by his inclusion in an otherwise perfectly interwoven multiman match in the main event of the last SuperBrawl, wherein he handed in what amounts to slightly less than a participation piece. Baffled isn't the right word. I know how it happened, I know why it happened, and I know why it was considered bad form to respond to it with anything less than wide mouthed, willful, verbal Felo-de-se, but god damn, what a mark on an otherwise fine match. I don't understand why anyone humored that asshat. It was a sad thing to see that when everyone else busted ass.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 1, 2018 21:37:55 GMT -5
Talk about a two faced piece of sh~t. His existence needs to be wiped from the internet. You mean a guy whose entire gimmick was postured so that he could literally write plagiarize any preexisting pop culture property week to week for lack of any actual creative output isn't a surefire first ballot hall of famer? What an obnoxious gimmick. He got into our hall of fame (RIP) because he had this crazy cult of ass kissers from the days of his tenure as owner. Drakz was one of his clowns until I broke him out of that sh~t. CBT, Ganador, "Man of the Hour" Josh. Talk about people who are unoriginal and uncreative. Talentless little sh~ts.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 1, 2018 21:29:08 GMT -5
Everything Flaps started should be Old Yellered. I've spent far too much time in the archives lately for those Rose colored glasses to have any lingering effect on my viewpoint of that time anymore. Eh. I mean, I've had my problems with him, but I was never under his rule. I came in at the ass end if Kyzer and Drakz so I only knew the stories. I just liked the idea when Yukes brought it back and it kinda stuck. I can see why some people don't like it though. Yukio is the single biggest knob I have ever dealt with in my life. Drakz and I buried and humiliated him on every show and even left him off of major cards and he still thought he was the top face in the place.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 1, 2018 21:27:21 GMT -5
Nah, doesn't upset me. It's just that when I became owner, it'd been a yearly tradition at that point. Flaps started it, Yukio picked it back up, then Thunder did it every year, as did I. I liked it because it let rookie writers have a chance to step out of their comfort zone (which is never a bad thing), and at the time a lot of our guys were still in college and that's smack dab at the end of mid terms so it was nice to either not have a pressure filled show, or to just take the show off. Drakz offered me last year the opportunity to write a Nightmare Before Christmas special. Let's face it, our turnout is always crap around Christmas and New Year's for obvious reasons, and it's something to keep the place active besides the GD because the rookies ALWAYS jump on it becsuse it's a show, and occasionally a vet or two with nothing better to do will toss their hat in. I don't think that's necessarily a bad idea. No one wants the added stress of competing at a high level those couple of weeks, but it's still nice to use the creative juices. I just couldn't ultimately do it because I had gotten very ill, and I was also given a six week online course to teach very, very suddenly. Everything Flaps started should be Old Yellered. I've spent far too much time in the archives lately for those Rose colored glasses to have any lingering effect on my viewpoint of that time anymore. Talk about a two faced piece of sh~t. His existence needs to be wiped from the internet.
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Post by Kyzer on Aug 1, 2018 21:25:54 GMT -5
I've read a few of those shows....this fed has changed SOOOOOOO much, it's cray cray.
I know my way around Photoshop as well so if any help is ever needed for show posters/ etc. I'll be happy to help.
It's had its iterations. The fact that it's around at all close to seventeen years on, is impressive in its own little right. E-fedding is deader than dead, and I've got no problem pedestalizing the folks we've got around here a bit. More than a few times, I've gone off looking for a place where I could just write for a bit, unencumbered by the inevitability that every word I write will be compared to my last character or every bit of input I offer up would be somehow tied back to my salty rep, and the feds out there that are still above water are harboring hot garbage for writers. I'd sooner fall back on the likes of Tommy Staxx and Andrew Carter than go and invite them here. I do enjoy coming up with a unique name for each show, though. For a while, the rule of taking over for some reason dictated that each new administration had to a) rebrand the show name and b) Bischoff/Russo scrap the entire title scene. That's why we're the only fed in the history of e-Feds that has the stain of a weekly called "Felo-de-se" on the books. "Quick, CBT! We need a show that sounds pretentious, has a tinge of edgelordness to it, that could always be easily construed into a fellatio joke!" Drakz and I named our weekly show the latin word for hatred just to be pretentious. CBT used to come to me with all sorts of douchy ideas when I was mod here and I shot down every one of them. I am honestly surprised he didn't suck more as an owner. I figured naming him my replacement would be my own personal joke on the fed.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 31, 2018 22:00:05 GMT -5
Nice, haha. One of my favorite's of his is "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". It's a novella, but nonetheless entertaining. By all rights, I should at least take a stab at it one of these days. I'm an unabashed theatre nut, but I take great pride in doing my homework (because every great stage production draws its roots somewhere). I kinda fell backward into "Great Comet" - I was at a discussion panel where the host's "Hamilton" playlist bled over, and she just let it go. I was hooked from the opening number's blatant self awareness in the refrain - "'cause it's a complicated Russian novel. Everyone's got nine different names". You are a weird guy.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 31, 2018 13:19:51 GMT -5
I have it on good authority that the card for Japan will be going up sometime tomorrow morning. In spite of the slight delay, I'm still very much excited to see this one play out. I'm particularly intrigued to see who among you relative newcomers will be the one to fan the spark into a flame and run the entire gamut to be crowned Ham Shank yet-to-be-named Champion. If it goes up tomorrow, what will the deadline be?
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 30, 2018 8:09:49 GMT -5
I had an apartment in Center City Philly that decided to go condo. First problem: no way was I paying over $100k for one bedroom apartment (this was the late 90s so inflation adjust that by another $50-100k for today's prices). Second problem: the as of yet non-existent condo committee had somehow already decided no pets. F*** that. I wasn't giving up my cats for those greedy shmucks. Third problem: it would have been one hell of a commute because I took a job in Boston a few months later. I really liked our condo for about six months. It was a two story townhouse with a spam basement and a good sized deck. Problem is, at the time, I was way less adept at navigating the property records in my city than I am now, so I signed all the deeds unaware of the fact that I was wedged between two investment units. Not so much a problem until about six months in on one side, when a horde of Lowell-area rejects moved in and made Friday-Sunday a weekly living hell. Those monthly fees on top of your mortgage? I never saw much out of 'em, and they sure as hell weren't put toward enforcing any sort of rules the rest of us were expected to adhere to. We stuck it out for a long ass time, trying every last avenue short of pumping sarin gas into their vents to try and quell the matter, before the nice folks on the other side also moved out, making way for another band of folks who apparently got priced out of the Mill City, adding an additional layer of fun when it was mutually discovered between the two groups that they were each of opposite sides of some unwritten cultural feud that to this day still reads Greek to me. With a kid now in the mix, the time had come to just give up. Home ownership is chock full of reasons not to, but after one condo and four different apartments throughout time, it'll be cold day in hell before I ever share walls with someone outside my own household ever again. I have never lived in an apartment or a condo so I have no horror stories there. I did have three college kids live across the street from me in a house back in the South Carolina days. Their lives were like an episode of Jerry Springer. There were always fights and arguments on their lawn. It made for some fantastic television. I would sit on my porch with a beer and a joint just blatantly watching their white trash drama unfold in public view. I miss those days. My neighbors now are uptight and socially conscious of everyone else.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 29, 2018 20:45:26 GMT -5
It is, but it's the trade off. It's also temporary. Presumably, you don't buy a house without some sort of base level nest egg to cover for when sh*t like that happens, so the $250 to have the drain guy snake the line out to the street stings a bit but you just kinda gotta figure it's coming. In the interim, I don't have a landlord, my "rent" is fixed, and you get to learn cool sh*t, like Dawn dish soap kills earwigs almost immediately upon contact. I stand by my position on home buying. You aren't making a strong argument.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 29, 2018 19:05:52 GMT -5
It's stuff like this that makes me glad to be young and single. It's a trade-off. I love having my own space. I love having my own yard. I like the sense of knowing without question that where I live now is exactly where I'll live at whatever age I'm deemed worthy enough to reach. It's just sometimes your space is where the city water line decides to backup and your yard becomes infested with earwigs when the summer gets particularly soupy and you can't just say f*ck it and break your lease 'cause you're locked into that sh*t for thirty years and even if you did decide to just cut your losses, buyers expect sellers to disclose these sorts of things and failing to do so can come back to bite you in the ass. I have owned three houses in three different states. If I didn't have kids I would have never bought a home. They are a money suck. I much rather pay rent and have a landlord who has to drop $10k on a new roof or a new A/C unit. I only bought the house I am in now because it is close to the beach and a great school district. F*ck buying a house. Not worth it.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 28, 2018 13:48:02 GMT -5
I think this may be the last season Belichick is there. He is still bitter about not being able to ship Brady to SF instead of Jimmy Garopollo. Yeah, that's sort of the general consensus on the less "in Bill we trust" side of the radio programs. I'm inclined to agree. To be honest, the whole Bill vs. Brady thing has me just totally deflated as a fan. I'm also in the minority (at least in these parts) that subscribes to the "Brady is least Brady without Belichick" line of thinking, and so if shipping Tom off to San Fran was the trade off needed to preserve our potential in the QB position, I'd have been all for it. Assume the last SB was a loss either way, I'd happily trade off one final year of Tom and Bill and maybe 3-4 years of Tom and McDaniels in exchange for X number of years of Bill and Jimmy G. Belichick leaving the Pats will hurt more than Brady leaving. Belichick has proven he can make bad quarterbacks look good (Matt Cassel). I don't like McDaniels but my opinion is tainted by how sh*tty of a job he did with my Broncos.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 28, 2018 6:09:46 GMT -5
I guess if there's a silver lining to all this, it's that it has made me slightly less mad about Belichick's sh*t this week. They need to drop that "e-sports" moniker like, yesterday. I think this may be the last season Belichick is there. He is still bitter about not being able to ship Brady to SF instead of Jimmy Garopollo.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 27, 2018 22:44:23 GMT -5
My youngest son is into this stuff and has been glued to the television. I don't get the appeal of it but the money in esports is insane. It is going to rival the NBA and NFL before too long.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 26, 2018 8:31:11 GMT -5
Guys, I've been a bit deflated over this place lately. It had been seeming to me like King Richius and I had really spiked things to begin with, and then the status quo just came back to rear its ugly head. We've run multiple, multiple three-match cards, and while they've been fine enough shows that I've been proud to put my stamp on, I always felt a bit "day late, dollar short" about them, because I always had said that in the tremendously unlikely event that I ever got handed the reins here, I wanted to do something that would really give people a reason to be here. Between all that, my first stab at making some changes around here getting the old Big Brother kibosh, my integrity being questioned two weeks into my tenure, my complete lack of interest in my own character, and the overall state of the place, I felt like I've just been treading water since the very start. That being said - if all of y'all pull through this go 'round and everything goes the way it should, Under the Dome stands poised to be our biggest, most high stakes card (across the board, now!) since Back to Basics. Hopefully you'll have all seen by the time you read this what's in store for this tour - this is a very real opportunity to spread some of the high stakes action that populates our main events down throughout the card, and I'd really like to see people step up and make the most of it. I've already been candid with my partner in crime as to who I think is gonna take this one, but I'd so, so love for someone unexpected to just blow us all out of the water and prove me wrong. That, and we'll finally see the payoff for a handful of segments that ran earlier this year and, perhaps more interestingly, see who was paying any mind to them at all. Don't worry puppet. We will get you re-inflated like High Horror's girlfriend. I am really excited about this string of shows and that excitement goes beyond just what I have going on.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 25, 2018 13:29:25 GMT -5
Pretty sure we doing Drakz vs Zmey this show. I shouldn't have to deal with any bullsh*t from work this time.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 24, 2018 11:09:24 GMT -5
I have know a few guys who go looking for hummers from another guy despite being in a long term relationship with a woman. So yeah, it does count. Well, in that case, are either of us really in a position to deny that the High Horror was hard up for either of us to begin with? I concede that you are right there. High Horror definitely had/has a weird fetish for those who obviously don't like him.
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Post by Kyzer on Jul 24, 2018 9:23:18 GMT -5
Are you trying to get High Horror's d*ck hard? I actually don't think this one counts - I had to leave the house, the screening was held in a public place, and I was accompanying a female with whom I've been in a committed relationship for close to fifteen years. I have known a few guys who go looking for hummers from another guy despite being in a long term relationship with a woman. So yeah, it does count.
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