Post by johnmwhite on Mar 12, 2013 9:30:35 GMT -5
So, it looks like NEWA lasted all of one and a half cards. The latest attempt to resurrect REW resulted in precisely one quality post (and it certainly wasn't mine). Even our own boss couldn't remember to get herself here on time for her match. Are we done yet? I get that I'm sounding increasingly negative but there have been so many times when players and managers continually promise things will be different that it is starting to get very frustrating to watch the exact same pattern play out over and over. Some of us try, and it is unfortunate that often we don't all manage to summon the will to try at the same time, but for the most part players keep popping in for one post and walking away. We just cannot hold people's attention anymore and some people just do not have the time or the energy to make the effort. Some of these people, I must say, try to run things regardless.
People like Trash, myself, KC, Sirius, Sung Ho, we want to play the game and we want to play it our way. There are countless feds out there we could drop ourselves into but many of us have noted that the whole 'wrestling' thing seems to have gone out the window with the latest generation. Creative writing and zany concepts have always been part and parcel of the game, but at least somebody like Hammy J remembered to do a suplex once in a while. For the most part, the game has turned into a platform for writing soap operas and comic book characters, a self-indulgent delve into the mind of the author through their avatar who 'shows up' by writing a 3000 word treatise on wandering through the streets of LA killing zombies while looking for a decent priced toothbrush. Then they lose because the opponent they were booked against posted 4000 words on his intriguing potted plant collection. Nobody touches anybody and the whole back and forth post-for-post game is gone, and with it our approximation of the ebb and flow of a real-world wrestling contest.
I'm not sure I have much of a point beside lamenting for what was enjoyable in my youth and is no longer easy to find as the world changes, but I suppose I cannot let NEWA and REW go unmarked. I have enjoyed the game and I am grateful to all my opponents who made engaging fun and rewarding. I am sorry that my numerous efforts to drag the company back from the brink, or start somewhere new and invigorating, did not seem to work. I am glad I was able to meet many interesting and talented people and even clash with a few stubborn, passionate souls who dared to not want to do things the way I thought they should be done. I am proud of my numerous accomplishments, including being the longest reigning REW World Champion in history, and having a reasonably successful run as commissioner before we lost too much of our roster to be viable. None of that would have been possible or enjoyable without REW's members.
I have retired so many times before; I've even died in character twice. Of course those deaths were always obfuscated enough that realism could be maintained through a little judicial ret-conning (he wasn't dead, he was just in a coma!), but the point is I've never really quite been able to extract myself from the game. As I've said before, just when I thought I was out, they drag me back in. I would be surprised if I don't RP as the loathsome lawyer again someday, somewhere, but for now it really seems like the end. There's nothing left here, and it's going to take a sizeable miracle to get me back in the ring with the likes of Trash, Sirius, Holiday, and co. again.
Sorry, REW, but I think it's over. We gave it a shot, but too many people ran out of steam. Until the boiler's lit again, I'm out.
People like Trash, myself, KC, Sirius, Sung Ho, we want to play the game and we want to play it our way. There are countless feds out there we could drop ourselves into but many of us have noted that the whole 'wrestling' thing seems to have gone out the window with the latest generation. Creative writing and zany concepts have always been part and parcel of the game, but at least somebody like Hammy J remembered to do a suplex once in a while. For the most part, the game has turned into a platform for writing soap operas and comic book characters, a self-indulgent delve into the mind of the author through their avatar who 'shows up' by writing a 3000 word treatise on wandering through the streets of LA killing zombies while looking for a decent priced toothbrush. Then they lose because the opponent they were booked against posted 4000 words on his intriguing potted plant collection. Nobody touches anybody and the whole back and forth post-for-post game is gone, and with it our approximation of the ebb and flow of a real-world wrestling contest.
I'm not sure I have much of a point beside lamenting for what was enjoyable in my youth and is no longer easy to find as the world changes, but I suppose I cannot let NEWA and REW go unmarked. I have enjoyed the game and I am grateful to all my opponents who made engaging fun and rewarding. I am sorry that my numerous efforts to drag the company back from the brink, or start somewhere new and invigorating, did not seem to work. I am glad I was able to meet many interesting and talented people and even clash with a few stubborn, passionate souls who dared to not want to do things the way I thought they should be done. I am proud of my numerous accomplishments, including being the longest reigning REW World Champion in history, and having a reasonably successful run as commissioner before we lost too much of our roster to be viable. None of that would have been possible or enjoyable without REW's members.
I have retired so many times before; I've even died in character twice. Of course those deaths were always obfuscated enough that realism could be maintained through a little judicial ret-conning (he wasn't dead, he was just in a coma!), but the point is I've never really quite been able to extract myself from the game. As I've said before, just when I thought I was out, they drag me back in. I would be surprised if I don't RP as the loathsome lawyer again someday, somewhere, but for now it really seems like the end. There's nothing left here, and it's going to take a sizeable miracle to get me back in the ring with the likes of Trash, Sirius, Holiday, and co. again.
Sorry, REW, but I think it's over. We gave it a shot, but too many people ran out of steam. Until the boiler's lit again, I'm out.