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No screenshot for this because it reveals the special feature but it's too cruel not to share what happened. I decide hey it'd be fun to shake it up and have 7 events in a week. Day 2, TCW loses all but 12 of it's roster to the event. Day 3, those 12 die in another event. Ouch! If no one buys TCW in the week I might play them and rebuild. Day 5 SWF loses most it's roster. Day 6 all but Justin Sensitive die. He's the loan employee. Good thing he didn't get called up a day earlier or he would have been riding with them.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Matt Shannon" data-cite="Matt Shannon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41191" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just to show how spot on Genadi and the Mod Squad got the Golden Age mod, here's a screen shot featuring the Iron Sheik and B. Brian Blair. <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/IWm7IZr.jpg</span></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's right Sheiky make him humble.</p>

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ACrappyJob.jpg Wow CHIJIRWA with crappy booking like this I can see why I only appeared on one show in a whole year. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/NoWinner.jpg A short romance. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/DatingSpongeboob.jpg

Which part of it? I'm working on bringing it up to date but if it's just the crazy things wrestling then that's already it's own database which can be imported into any database easily. Just don't expect them to have much skill being inanimate objects and all.

<p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/TommysEarBeGone.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/TommysEarBeGone.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> It's all fun and games until someone loses an ear.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/YESYESYESHardcoreCupcakes.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/YESYESYESHardcoreCupcakes.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> Yes! Yes! Yes! Hardcore cupcakes.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/CookingWithMichaelMyers.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/CookingWithMichaelMyers.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> I'm not sure what Michael was cooking that included that particular body part but it's not a good recipe.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ObamaDiss.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ObamaDiss.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> Dissed by the Prez.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ToiletPaperCourt.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ToiletPaperCourt.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> To be honest would you really want to shake Toilet Paper's hand? Does he even have hands?</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/PleaseDontBeWhat.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/PleaseDontBeWhat.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> Please don't let it be "What?"</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/NoDollsInTheLibrary.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/NoDollsInTheLibrary.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> Tommy Doll is from a promotion in Japan based on Saitama Pro Wrestling Company where crazy things like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp464vKKu5g" rel="external nofollow">tables and ladders</a> wrestle. Same with toilet paper. So year he's a doll and I'm not sure who left him in the library or how it happened but I'm guessing a bookshelf fell on him.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/JohnnyWontJob.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/JohnnyWontJob.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> Shot in the chest and still won the match. John Cena ain't got nothing on Johnny Martin.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ThomasRiordan2004/media/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ICantBearToBeWithoutCreativeControl.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/Random%20TEW%202016%20Stuff/ICantBearToBeWithoutCreativeControl.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> Who is gonna deny a bear creative control?</p>

Yeah but unlike John and Roman, Lizzie actually sold the gunshot.

I wasn't going to do any more Walking Dead and was actually stopping today to actually play TEW for a change. But with flattery like that... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading43.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading44.jpg

Spent the morning doing these. Figured I'd share a few of my favorites from the set. More available as a ZIP or on Photobucket. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading3.jpg So sit down in your room filled with head-filled aquariums, pour yourself a nice glass of iced tea and enjoy. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading37.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading31.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading32.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading33.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading25.jpg Remember not to trust anyone who tells you to look at the flowers... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading22.jpg And keep an eye out for another less violent project coming soon. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading24.jpg A new look at the flowers not in the zip. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading39.jpg And since I saw the post above mine. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading42.jpg And I can I will... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading40.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/loading41.jpg

Bonafide_Bluffa posted a template on the first page. Start with that in Gimp. For the skewed pictures simply paste a picture into the template as a new layer, rotate it with the rotate tool, layer scale it and alpha to selection, select grow selection by 5 px (or whatever you want the border to be), add a new layer below the picture file with the border color. If you need to move you can click next to the eye on the layers tab to link the layers so they act as one. This is a little better than merging layers since you can come back and make changes more freely later. When selecting you can also use border in place of grow selection but it puts the border 5 px into the picture instead of outside of it. It's a preference thing. For a single picture background make your image 1014x699 and simply paste the picture into the template as a new layer below the filling layer. Export. For easier work with multiple loading screens change the keyboard short cuts for paste as new image cntrl+V and paste as new layer cntrl+shft+v to be opposite since you want to paste as a new layer more than new image in most cases. Then you just use BIMP to batch convert all your pics you wish to use to the right size. Open them as their own image and then it's just a matter of open, cntrl+c, cntrl+c, switch to your template, cntrl+v, export, repeat. Anyways since I whipped these up while I was writing that. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/BalorLoading.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/BalorLoading_4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/BalorLoading_3.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/BalorLoading_5.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/Balor_title_screen.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/Balor_title_screen_2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ThomasRiordan2004/TEW%202016%20Loading%20Screens/Balor_title_screen_3.jpg LOADING SCREENS TITLE SCREENS Both zips contain the Gimp xcf so you can modify them to your liking. Thanks to Bonafide_Bluffa for the template and Togg for the skin starter pack used for the title screens.

It still was fully expected last night though. Everyone was saying WrestleMania or the RAW after he'd cash in. To be truly unexpected they would have had to do it at a random house show and it wouldn't do much for Ziggler if he cashed in that way either. It's really hard to do the completely unexpected these days but they could have done a much better job with this cash in rather than using the same storyline they always seem to end up with. Heel takes advantage, wins the title. They've done it too many times before that it doesn't even have the impact that it should. It's like they get hooked with one idea and keep running it over and over and over to the point that you know the ending before the story starts. Just look at how many times they've run the heel goes under bottom rope in a battle royal, gets forgotten, false winner, heel comes back and throws them out. Or even the number of times they've run two guys hate each other forced to team win the titles, they've run that numerous times with Cena, and they've done the same thing with Kane and Daniel Bryan with the only original idea in the storyline being the anger management bits. If you watch the same movie a thousand times you know the ending then the excitement is gone, and that seems to be the problem WWE has had for the past five years or so. Sure they might be able to pull the same old stuff off for the kiddies but the adults who are actually the ones buying everything it doesn't work as well because they're smart enough to remember that they've already seen this movie a thousand times. They just could have done much better with Ziggler cashing in rather than do the same thing they've done over and over again.

It doesn't really make much sense with his character being an egomaniac. Why would he not cash in in front of a crowd of 80,000+ only to do it the next night for a crowd of 20,000 or less. Had they had him cash in at WrestleMania it would have blew the roof off of the MetLife Stadium if it had a roof. They could have done something really original to make up for the fact that 90% of the people in the stadium had no clue Swagger had even come out. They give him this grand entrance being driven in with no music and no one is looking. I have a picture that tells the story perfectly. Swagger and Colter driving around the corner and most of the crowd is looking the opposite direction. So he got a jobber entrance and then the crowd was supposed to give a damn about a title match and believe he could win. But they could have had Ziggler come out and cover one of them after knocking each other out, they could have had him covering Del Rio as he applied the crossarmbreaker to Swagger as AJ tried to seduce Colter and Big E. threatened a retreating Ricardo. But they went with what even Michael Cole said he did what everyone before him has done cashed in on an injured champion. I just made no sense for the Ziggler character to cash in last night but I guess they needed something big to make up for Rock and Brock being injured. WrestleMania had it's share of confusing moments for the live crowd like Swagger who many people had no idea he was even out there until they started talking. Then it was like where did Swagger come from. The National anthem being cut confused the crowd as well and from the looks of things Lillian Garcia. The National Guard came out and was waving flags and Lillian was in the ring and everyone was rising for the National anthem and then the National Guard just heads to the back and Lillian is standing in the ring like what's going on? Like they never told her it had been cut because she went over to someone later on like she was asking them what the hell happened. The worst one was the main event. A lot of people had got up to go to the bathroom thinking it was the tag match next and then Cena's music hits and it's the main event.

The RAW crowd was amazing last night. I really wish I had stayed and went to RAW rather than heading home right after WrestleMania because those were a lot of the people I spent the weekend with and for the most part except for a few bad apples at the Hall of Fame the fans were amazing. I don't take the time to interact with a lot of people normally but I interacted with people from all over the world this past weekend and they were some of the nicest people you could want to meet. By the end of WrestleMania we were fist bumping the people around us and saying goodbye like we were the best of the friends and we didn't even know each other's names. Those fans truly made the experience more amazing than any other event I've been to and made me view wrestling fans in a more positive light. Unfortunately, there was this one group at the Hall of Fame that made me downright ashamed of being a wrestling fan. This will probably never make it to the air and probably will be edited out of the DVD (and right it should be) but this is what really happened. Michael Cole had come out twice before it started and told us that this was a special night for the legends and that you will be respectful of them or you will be removed; no cat calls, no foul language, etc. This group about 2 sections to our left was chanting "get off the fPGking stage!" at Maria Menounos. To be honest I didn't know who she is or what her relation with Bob Backlund was and had no real interest in listening to her, but I respect Bob Backlund so I respected her enough not to be disrespectful like this group were. Then they continued to disrespect Bob Backlund who was the most interesting speaker of the night. Had they been sitting behind me it would have been well worth getting thrown out and spending the night in jail for punching them in the mouth. It made my skin crawl that much and made me embarrassed to be in a crowd of people who would disrespect someone who built the sport they love that much. Worst still is security did not remove them. We could see security down on the floor looking for them and people pointing at them but they were not removed although they did settle down after awhile. Sure there were chants throughout the night like "we hate Ron!" at Trish's husband, but she was feeding off of it and acknowledge it so people kept doing it and it was done in a playful manner of interacting with the crowd. This was not playful and security really should have removed them. If you truly are that classless then stay home from the Hall of Fame. It's presented as a classy event, and for the most part it was but why come and do stuff like that on a night honoring the people who built the sport you love? I could see if it was children or teenagers doing it, but there were very few of them at the Hall of Fame, these guys were old enough to know better and should be ashamed of themselves. Axxess was a bit of a let down and I've sent this experience to WrestleZone and WWE but I waited in line for 2 hours for Paul Heyman, was told that our row was the last 5 people he was gonna sign for before leaving and then he tells the two people in front of him that he has to go do a handicap signing and then he'd be back to sign for us. Heyman said himself he'd be back in three minutes because we were on the steps going up to him, 2 people in front of me, we were within 10 feet. Then he doesn't come back after event security told us he was too. They bring out JBL who I did get an autograph for, but I did not wait for two hours to meet JBL. I passed up a lot of other people for Paul Heyman and they basically pushed him out the door right in front of me. It's upsetting as an adult to have that happen but imagine had they done that to a child waiting to see Cena only to have him tell you he'd be back and then push him out the door replacing him with some jobber (and I'm not saying JBL is a jobber or a lower superstar just that he was not who I was there for and sacrificed for). That child would be heartbroken and you'd probably lose them as a fan. It was just a crappy thing to have happen and it's not Paul Heyman's fault, it's not JBL's fault, it might not even be WWE's fault, but it doesn't make it suck any less. The signings for the second session you couldn't even get to them because there were already lines from the previous signing still waiting because this is exactly what was happening. They would keep pulling Paul Heyman out of the booth to sign for the handicap. So he'd sign 4 or 5 autographs and then he'd be gone again. There were only maybe 60 people ahead of me so it wasn't like he couldn't sign his name 60 times in 2 hours, but the line barely moved at the rate they were going because they kept pulling him out every time someone rolled up. I understand they have to accommodate for the handicap too but they shouldn't have handled them like they were more important than everyone else in the building. They should have had the superstars signing for the people standing or sitting in line, and then had them go out and sign for the handicap after or even before the event started they could have took the handicap in for their signing. But sign 5 autographs, yank him because one or two people roll up just does not work. If I was in a wheelchair I could have met everyone in there in the 4 hours we had. Legally, I am disabled. I can walk and I don't use my disability to get special treatment simply because of the fact that I can walk and don't want to take something from someone who truly needs it. But damn this really made me think of going up and asking what they count as handicap enough to have them cater to you like this. WrestleMania could not have been a better experience or planned any better on our part. We decided to check out of the hotel, skip the second day of Axxess because of the Heyman incident, getting back late from the Hall of Fame and deciding to go home rather than go back to New York paying another $200 in fees and getting back to the hotel late only to have to check out by noon with little no sleep which none of us had over the weekend. We got to the stadium around 2 due to leaving early to give ourselves time for traffic which was terrible coming into New York City. I was navigating and wasn't even driving and 20 minutes in NYC and I wanted a drink, if I had to live there I'd be a full blown alcoholic. So we thought getting out thru the tunnel would take a long time and we ended up getting to the stadium in 20 minutes. There were already people tailgating which was a negative people experience. There was this one guy and kid who were throwing a football back and forth at cars and the kid is a lousy catcher. Now another father and son were tossing the ball long ways across the parking lot which made a little more sense and the kid actually had an arm and could catch the ball. But the other kid actually ran into the back of a stopped car and he hit hard enough that we could hear it. We said something to the police on the way in because they were throwing the ball at the car while we were in it and we know they could hear us talking about them. The police just said they're allowed the throw the ball and if they break something they're responsible. Yeah, right. They're throwing the ball with us in the car, you clearly don't give a flying flock of geese enough to be watching them. So how are they responsible if no one sees it if they break a window? Walking up the the gate there was a line across the parking lot and another 3 hour standing in line session was not something we were in the mood for and in a dumb stroke of luck as we were walking up they opened another gate and we were the first 10 people in the line. Going to your first WrestleMania is awesome enough, but we were among the first 1,000 people in the building. WWE was actually filming us as we came up the escalator to our seats. And then coming out of the tunnel we see this breathtaking site. For not knowing where our seats were other than the 100 level we really lucked out on views. We ended up in section 126, row 16, seats 5,6 and 7. So we were in the end zone facing the stage and damn near everyone around us had a title belt. There was a couple in front of us with a Canadian flag which I thought for sure would ruin many pictures during the night due to them holding it up. They didn't. The ones behind us who we thought were going to be like the Hall of Fame idiots weren't and actually made the show better and we talked with them most of the night. The cold didn't really become a factor once the show started and the rain thankfully was a little shower here and there and didn't last long. That was the biggest threat to the night. Everything up to that point could not be a better experience but then to have it downpour on us for 4 hours in the cold night would have really turned WrestleMania from awesome to completely sucky. We thankfully did not get an obstructed view like so many who paid so much more than us ended up getting. We had two ends of the spectrum during the night; going in everyone was pumped chanting "yes! yes! yes!" and coming out everyone shuffled down the ramps. Yes! ramps! thank you, Jesus! I am so glad there were ramps because if I never see another step in my life I'll be a happy man. We must have climbed 5,000+ steps over the weekend between Madison Square Garden which was a good 10 flights of very short windy stairs, to the subway where we literally would go down to go up to go down to go down to go up to go down to go up. It was like the zombie apocalypse as everyone shuffled down the ramps to their cars. We sat in the parking lot for a good hour without moving which I thought would be a problem but the police actually said it was a good idea to sit there and let it empty out a little before leaving because the traffic was like the Heyman line, it was going no where fast. We made the drive home and pretty much were out as soon as our heads hit the pillows. It was tiring and we had some bad travel incidents like being trapped in New Jersey while the person who had our train passes was bound for New York thanks to a train door closing damn near sandwiching him, and spending an hour trying to find him when we got to Penn Station which seems to have a Dunkin' Donuts and Hudson News on every corner and level and no directories that we could find, then getting an express subway train that didn't say it was an express until it was skipping over the stop we needed so we got lost in New York City for a few hours. I'd say the Hall of Fame and WrestleMania was worth it and I would go again but Fan Axxess needs to be handled better in the future or that's a now go. I've typed a lot so I'll leave you with the luckiest picture of the night since I had been trying to get the fireworks and kept failing. This one I had turn to take a picture of my uncle reacting to The Undertaker winning and just happened to catch this on the way back around.

No problem. It took me awhile to find it after watching the first one and being completely lost because he never explained how to do any of the really cool stuff like getting it to look shiny like a belt. After watching the full tutorial my first belt really was starting to look better than it really was meant to until the program crashed. Save often is a valuable lesson when you're putting an hour or more of work into something one I had to learn the hard way unfortunately.

I figure this might be helpful to those wanting to make their own belts since the video on You Tube is only part 1 (10 minutes) of a 35 minute tutorial with no more parts available. Payne's complete tutorial can be found at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5260105466987440333&hl=en#