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Post by Dan White on Jul 7, 2012 9:53:56 GMT -5
Like, the reasons that you ever stopped e-fedding here, either for an elongated time or for good?
I recall in late 2006ish I stopped e-fedding for a while, after the MASAKI character. had a brief non-wrestling role as commissioner and with the Entourage in 2007 but was largely a non-active member for like a year. The reason for this was in late 2006 I had a nasty break up which made me stop wanting to write, and then this cumulated in me finishing school, so I spent a lot of time with my friends.
Then I had another period after I won the world title in 2009. I had a pretty terrible reign after years of trying but it coincided in my last year at uni and I was often on days-on-end short deadline projects, meaning I didn't really have time for ACW. Unfortunately I had a weird habit where the longer I stayed away from the boards, the more I wanted to stay away. Eventually came back in early 2010 after the revamp but again, I didn't really stay long and the same syndrome hit and I stayed away until OE 6.
Then I became mod, but I think the lack of activity here killed it off for me. It's silly but the less people here, the less I wanted to write, which I guess is the same for many people but also a bad reason to not write.
It's a shame cos I had so many stories I never got to say, but that's the nature of e-fedding. I guess it's a lot easier writing when it's a small dedicated bunch of folk like we had at times like in late 2005, than when it was dying.
For what it's worth, nothing would have saved ACW. Not rebranding completely on a new board with new mods and a serious attempt to bring in new folk as opposed to keeping/bringing back old folk. ACW ultimately had served its time and it was best off ending the way it was. The fact that we were unable to sort out some kind of spinoff this time last year said it all.
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Post by Jason Freeman on Jul 7, 2012 13:23:41 GMT -5
INB4 somebody somehow blames me.
So are we talking just about when the interest died in general or specifically what killed it? As for when...Hm...I dunno it was certainly before Omega Effect VI. Looking at that card, I honestly don't remember any of those matches, and there are barely any to begin with. I didn't remember we even had an Omega Effect VI despite reading every show since I joined till it died....and I don't remember Phenomenal vs. Mainer at all (Which isn't really a knock on those two guys...I dont remember my feud OR match either...I didnt remember I ever feuded with BK London and I don't even remember who won the match or what the heck we were feuding about though IMO it could have been good had it happened earlier.)
Going back further I see Winter's Discontent had only THREE matches scheduled only one which seemed very important, and I likewise dont remember Jefferson ever being world champ (though I do remember the match for some reason I remembered that being a Shadow defense rather than a shadow win)
Going back further I remember loving the BK London OCW reign, and loving Jay Zero's title reign afterwards, and the whole Commisioner Zero angle...
Id have to say for me it was Omega Effect V that was the final peak of ACW. My peak for sure with a feud and match with AK that I loved, and which featured IMO my best stuff in ACW, and I consider that match my best piece of ACW writing personally just out of being most proud of...and Id say the resulting controversy after the Senator/Steele/TK main event ended a hot ACW year with a huge deal...the SLA thing etc, everything got more clicque-y than ever after that even when everybody came back, and then I think Rep was around the same time and ACW never fully recovered its sense of community after that whole deal.
I also believe having CP as practically the only mod with full power since Senator was barely on and nobody else cared did a huge number on the fed, but I wont go into much detail since everybody's going to blast me about it despite the shots they constantly take at other mods I'm going to be the devil for mentioning it and CP will bring up the radio show again that I barely had anything to do with any more than Thunderkiss did, but regardless no mod should ever be all powerful, and CP IMO didn't have the maturity for it, not that I would have any better most likely. That was a sour experience for me but the actual loss of interest I don't blame him for there probably wasnt anything he could do.
So yeah, Omega Effect V as the true turning point
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jul 7, 2012 13:30:13 GMT -5
multiculturalism.
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Post by criminal on Jul 8, 2012 15:53:42 GMT -5
my life just took a major turn. i found it extremely hard to try and keep up with what was going on here, and what was going on throught my life. i did leave for a couple months, and when i came back, it just wasnt the same. there was no more interest. not just with me, but with anyone. peoples lives just took a different turn, and the lack of new competition didnt help much either. you can only fued with the same people for so long before it sseems repetive.
thats just my opinion.
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Post by Dan White on Jul 8, 2012 20:30:43 GMT -5
criminal, you were cursed with a great talent at the wrong time. two years earlier you would have had the world at your feet. at your peak though it was all "criminal and folk will sort it out, it's fine". you were a great RPer, just at the wrong time and that's a massive shame.
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Post by Commissioner Zero on Jul 8, 2012 21:29:52 GMT -5
You're damn right you loved Commissioner Zero, you didn't have a choice!
I honestly forgot how long ago it was since I really stopped. I had to go into my profile to check when I was champion and that ended in February 2009, so I was only a junior in high school. I just remember I overloaded myself with the whole Commissioner Z angle with Jake Steele and I planned it out a little too much where it got to the point where I just couldn't handle all of it along with running indoor track / school / friends, ect.
Quickly after I just found it hard to even find any motivation to continue writing at all. There was that point where BK London convinced me to come back to run a tag team championship angle during the summer where I felt like it was purely a chore to even just edit my lines. I just lost the focus especially going into my senior year as ACW was really dying down.
It's crazy to me that it was 3 years ago now that I stopped writing regularly. Doesn't feel like it at all.
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jul 8, 2012 23:25:05 GMT -5
I truthfully was never the same after OE5. I nodded in agreement when Freeman said that for the whole of the fed. Mainer and I just discussed this week that was the peak of ACW and everything was downhill from there.
You know, we can blame this and that, but the truth is very simple: you all grew up. Remember I did this for like 7 years before I even came to ACW. The same thing that happened in that federation happened in this one, and I told everyone the end would come eventually and it did. It's been 15 years since I stopped playing with that group and I have lost contact with all of them. It started out with a few dropping away due to college and then in a few years I was lucky to even see any of them online.
When you have a grouping of kids in high school and college, most are living during a great time in their lives that has few responsibilities associated with it. The older you get the more people you meet, the more time demands from you and you finally learn what life is all about. E-fedding is the first thing to go, and for many of you, it was. I noticed Ben gone at first. Then it was Chris. Then I hardly saw Mark online. Finally Andy vanished. Soon I realized that I was stuck with Freeman and I followed suit.
For the record, after I stopped roleplaying I had two failed comebacks and it was then I knew for sure I no longer have the heart to sit down and write for efedding. I can't remember the first one, but it was a traditional type efed that CP was in. The last one was APW which also had CP in it, and Sir Dan Bundy. I pretty much tainted my reputation but, you know, you stop caring about that stuff at a certain point.
The only thing I do with efedding anymore is once and a while visit this board and check up on Dan Bundy's efed career. I also do write, but it is more in the political and social realm now. Some probably think I am crazy, but if that is the label I endure to disassociate myself from these abnormal times, I gladly accept it.
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Post by Mark on Jul 8, 2012 23:33:19 GMT -5
Lack of trying, online spats, dedication to college... A lot of things contributed to my declining interest in ACW, but I mostly blame myself for not giving a shit towards the end. I tried fedding again in December 2011, but my heart wasn't into it anymore and I just stopped.
I've made a promise though to not lose touch entirely with my ACW cohorts, which is why I still keep them on my Facebook (even though I don't post much, sorry guys). Although interestingly enough, I got in touch with my old KWA chum a couple of weeks ago. Not much has changed for him...
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Post by Jonny Spade on Jul 11, 2012 0:32:08 GMT -5
I cant really remember what it was that did it for me. But one thing that definitely didn't help was taking over the show postings. Doing it here and there at the beginning wasnt so bad. What sucks is organizing the segments into a specific order is tough, especially when you get boatloads of pm's from people who are in a story lines and they are suppose to go in a specific order but nobody can get that order straight, so I used to add extra posts intentionally so I had wiggle room.
But after doing that I had no more energy to write anything and then on top of that I believe college was starting or something so I thought it was a good time to call it quits fully.
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jul 11, 2012 14:01:44 GMT -5
YOU WANNA KNOW SOMETHING, SPADE.
YOU WANNA KNOW WHY YOU AIN'T (ebonics lolololol, dumb!) IN ALPHA PRO WRASSLIN' ANYMORE? WELL, I'LL TELL YAH WHY YOU AIN'T, BROTHER! IT'S BECAUSE BENJAMIN BUNNY DROVE THAT THERE FIERRO CAR INTO THE BURGER SHOT AND GOT YOU ALL HOT AND BOTHERED, BROTHER! THAT'S WHY.
WHEN THE GOIN GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET ROUGH!
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Post by Commissioner Zero on Jul 11, 2012 21:58:14 GMT -5
Oh dear god I just started cracking up thinking about our stupid GTA sessions.
Man I miss those hijinks. Hey Ken remember the time you were smashed playing CoD and you couldn't say a word because you were just laughing so hard at everything Rattlesnake and us all were saying. I think that was the debut of the Awesome Cowboys of Wrestling
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jul 11, 2012 22:12:11 GMT -5
Oh dear god I just started cracking up thinking about our stupid GTA sessions. Man I miss those hijinks. Hey Ken remember the time you were smashed playing CoD and you couldn't say a word because you were just laughing so hard at everything Rattlesnake and us all were saying. I think that was the debut of the Awesome Cowboys of Wrestling I don't remember that ... and probably for obvious reasons >.> Dude, I've been playing recently and they have modded that game to high hell. Thus far I've seen giant hot wheels inspired ramps at the airports, people riding dinosaurs, piles of dead people, people flying in the air. It's insane the stuff they have done to mod it. I sure hope they do have Burger Shots in the next rendition, though. HEY! WHICH ONE OF YOU ORDERED A CHEESEBURGER?! HUH?! HUH!? *drives car into Burger Shot* WHERE IS THE DRIVE-THRU?
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Post by Jason Freeman on Jul 11, 2012 22:20:32 GMT -5
When I think of CoD with TK I just think of KUUUUUUUUUUUUUDOOOO YASUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDAAAAAAAAAA for some reason
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jul 13, 2012 18:31:51 GMT -5
HEY GUYS, I WANT TO HOLD THE BELT FOR LIKE, FOUR-FIVE MONTHS AND I DON'T WANT TO LOSE! SO WHO CAN I GIVE TITLE SHOTS TO THAT ARE GOOD ROLEPLAYERS, BUT THEY WON'T WIN BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ACTIVE ENOUGH?! OH, THAT'S IT ..... SOMEBODY GET ME -
KUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDOOOOOOO YAAAAAAAAASUUUUUUUUUUDAAAAAAAAAAA & SCOOT ANDREWS!
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Post by Thunderkiss on Jul 13, 2012 18:33:10 GMT -5
Hey which one of you assholes put Prince Adam as my icon?
MAINER. FUCK YOU.
YOU DESERVE BRITAINSTAN. BECAUSE COMMUNISM IS DAMN SEXY IN BRITIANSTAN.
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