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Post by K.C. James on Apr 4, 2013 18:16:06 GMT -5
Any clones...lol
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Post by Trash on Apr 5, 2013 21:53:28 GMT -5
Sure, Rainbow Dash and Daring Do are clones... Or palette swaps of each other...
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Post by Trash on Apr 5, 2013 21:53:55 GMT -5
Well that was a bigger image than it was on Google image search
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Post by johnmwhite on Apr 12, 2013 9:38:24 GMT -5
Here's my plan: a tag team three-way dance in a triple cage in the Hammerstein Ballroom. We dress up in our finery and go down like the rich and powerful on the Titanic. You can sort the teams out amongst yourselves but I thought something along the lines of JMW/Icy vs Sung Ho/Trash vs Holiday/James might work. I thought Hammerstein might be a good location to set an anything-goes atmosphere and to go with the ball theme. I feel like dancing. Also, this is not an attempt to resurrect the fed. We know it's done. It's just a suggestion of a one-off match for us all to have a little fun if we can manage to throw together a post or two each.
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Post by Trash on Apr 12, 2013 10:10:55 GMT -5
Your plan sucks and you should feel bad.
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Post by johnmwhite on Apr 12, 2013 11:01:33 GMT -5
I do.
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Post by johnmwhite on Jul 4, 2013 21:55:10 GMT -5
I have been scouring the Internet for the past two weeks, since I got the itch again and miss the game. I'm not going to bother trying to flog this dead horse any more, but I noticed that a couple of people still pop on the forum now and then, so I imagine I'm not alone in missing the back and forth fun of e-wrestling. I have looked up all sorts of databases and run google searches till my fingers were raw, and I have found a grand total of two feds that seem to operate somewhat in our style. Two. That's really it. I asked around on forums and just about everyone had no idea what I was talking about. They kept thinking I wanted to write my own matches alone, or I wanted to play in a chatroom. The concept of back and forth RP where you actually get to grips with your goddamn opponent in a goddamn wrestling match seems to fly over the heads of today's e-wrestlers. Grumpy old man rants aside, I thought it would be nice to let people know where they can continue to play something approaching our style. These days they call it "turn-based match writing", which apparently is a very niche thing, since I guess we wouldn't want too much wrestling to get in the way of endless vignettes about zombie apocalypses and magic ponies. Anyway, enough bitterness, here's the links. If anybody knows of anywhere else, or is playing somewhere currently, let us know. Might be fun if a handful of us can get together somewhere again, but we know this place isn't coming back. I haven't made a decision yet as to where I'll go. z10.invisionfree.com/PRW/index.php?showtopic=13607thewrestlinglegendsforum.com/forum/Forum-GETTING-STARTED
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Post by johnmwhite on Jul 10, 2013 16:08:59 GMT -5
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Post by johnmwhite on Jan 19, 2014 22:48:55 GMT -5
It has been over a year since our last card that actually happened, and I was thinking about the old e-fed days over the holidays and decided to check in and see if there had been any activity on the forum. I notice a few people log in on occasion or make a remark on the cbox, and we even get people still signing up for some reason, but nothing's really happening. So I thought I would have another try at looking for a few for a few of us to saddle up and head for, and delved into the RoughKut.com top e-feds.
RoughKut is an e-wrestling community that's pretty active and has a lot of discussion about the game in general, so it seemed a good place to start. In the summer I tried asking around their forums to see if any feds like ours were still in existence, but for the most part they couldn't get it through their skulls what we actually do, which was troubling. If the paradigm of "wrestlers write their own matches through alternate posts" is so alien to them, it seems our style must be very rare indeed. I've already complained enough about the plethora of feds where you cannot touch your opponent, but I came across the links above, though that didn't work out.
This evening I had a look at Fed X, which I'm sure a few people who used to frequent here will be familiar with. It wears its Cyberslam heritage on its sleeve, and even has a sim, but it is in the process of dying. From what I can gather, a few months ago it contracted into just a single fed and activity's pretty low with open talk on the forum of it ending soon. I also found VWF, the Viking Wrestling Federation, which has been around for 15 years and has something akin to our vibe... and is in the middle of its final show. Ever.
That's not heartening news, I know. I wish there was more I could offer, but in my digging that's the best I could come up with. But I don't know all the nooks and crannies of the Internet and I didn't keep in contact with anyone from the old days, really, so maybe somebody out there is playing merrily somewhere, or at least knows about a fed where we could roll up and have some fun.
It's just peculiar to see the way we play dying. I understand things change, but there are always a few who don't like it and stick with tradition. Some people still use Windows 2000. You'd think there would be an enclave of the old guard somewhere, keeping the lights on, but it seems the Internet has essentially rejected e-wrestling as we know it and ejected it into outer space. Is it really just KC James, Trash and JMW that are left trying to keep the embers from dying?
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Post by K.C. James on Jan 19, 2014 23:20:39 GMT -5
Your efforts at digging are very much appreciated JMW. I have come across the same results in my search. It appears to be a dying breed in the internet. Unfortunately.[/i][/font]
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Post by johnmwhite on Jan 20, 2014 15:59:52 GMT -5
Thank you, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one looking, though it's a shame neither of us have come up with positive results. While searching I came across this thread at FedX: fedx.freeforums.org/e-fedding-history-t16006.htmlIt's interesting to see that in 2011 or so, people there were noticing how hard it was to find feds that did it our way, and how so many of them remember CSlam and Wrassle. It's a pretty long thread talking about the old days and I wonder how many of these folk could be approached to band together. Unfortunately as we've seen with my various attempts to resuscitate REW over the years, organising people to do stuff isn't my strong suit, and they probably don't know me from Adam, but perhaps the few of us here could coordinate something? Also, it's probably worth keeping an eye on FedX and VWF's forums for the time being to see if perhaps something will coalesce out of their deaths.
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Post by K.C. James on Jan 20, 2014 16:38:26 GMT -5
Was a pretty good read going through the forum. Makes you miss the old days quite a bit.
If we were to rally here, I wouldn't even know where to begin.
And sometimes, just because you shake old bones, doesn't mean they're gonna shake you back.
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Post by Trash on Jan 20, 2014 18:28:16 GMT -5
Wrestling by itself is less popular among young adults (who are more likely to be interested in E-fedding) these days too. The main audience of the WWE, IE, kids, wont understand or know what an e-fed is. We're lucky if they know what a forum is.
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Post by johnmwhite on Jan 20, 2014 20:32:22 GMT -5
Maybe we need to get that generation interested in the game somehow. I started when I was about 13, and I got the hang of it fairly quickly. I guess the kids don't hang out at forums anymore but maybe we could hit facebook or wherever they are with ye olde advertising. A struggling modern e-fed might be a place to float the idea as well, and between the three of us we could probably put on a sample match for newcomers to get the gist of how it works.
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Post by Trash on Jan 21, 2014 22:12:01 GMT -5
Maybe we need to get that generation interested in the game somehow. I started when I was about 13, and I got the hang of it fairly quickly. I guess the kids don't hang out at forums anymore but maybe we could hit facebook or wherever they are with ye olde advertising. A struggling modern e-fed might be a place to float the idea as well, and between the three of us we could probably put on a sample match for newcomers to get the gist of how it works. Doubt that's gonna happen. Its the "dumb-us-down" gen, that's responsible for the dumbing down of popular media like video games and etc. Just compare FF9 to FF 13. A short span of time, but greatly dumbed down.
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