Dawn

The match never officially ended, Aldis got sick of the interference and made the 4 Way...

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Noooooooooo not Maxxine, Cathy, Sol and Axiom

Me likey this usage of Brian Pillman. He should win everything! Dangerous Alliance formation looks sick now and the Blondes slot in perfectly to replace Arn & Bobby eventually.

There is weirdly a lack of current or even modern era WWE diaries right now, so color me intrigued. I'll be reading!

Yes, please. And depending on conflicting personalities the mentorship could go an unplanned way for a curveball, perhaps.

That is a very good question that I'll do my best to answer. Bear with me because it'll probably be quite long but again I hope it helps. As an actor I do due dilligence to consume as much media as I can for study and that ends up helping with my writing. My opinions aren't perfect and I deviate from the norm a lot but I do believe I do an ok job at knowing what works and what doesn't for the style of writing, so with that in mind I first come up with the big idea and then try to take elements from a little bit of everything that I think would work within a wrestling context to spice that idea up. Series, movies, plays, animes, games, diaries from this very forum, even missed opportunities from real life wrestling itself etc etc. I'll first tell you how ample my inspirations are and then try to do a step by step as to how I do my long term planning. In the particular case of my current diary there's elements from Game of Thrones with different stables vying for power with the central conflict stemming from the one main group commanded by those who already hold it. Eisenverse's old SWF diary where he had Eric Eisen start acting as if he was literally God after a spat with Vengeance had me write my own character from that vein (won't spoil who it is, it's already been revealed on Discord but not here) and for the feud that I'm slowly building up that'll end the current overarching storyline the diary is written around I am taking elements from Game of Thrones again, but also Naruto and his relationship with Orochimaru, plus a sprinkle of what I think the major idea was for one of the characters who didn't get to realize their full potential in real life. Even the way I portrayed Cheshire Cat in an Alice in Wonderland play IRL has inspired a character in the save. Mix in the things you like and put your own spin in them. I have been at this save (at the very least the idea of the save had its first version created around then) for about a decade now, you can take that in a good or a bad light for sure. On the bad side I am owing that to a ton of bad luck with my hardware and it's put me off from a consistent schedule in posting my shows many times before, but on the flip side it was actually a blessing in disguise since growing up I could add a lot more depth to it and now it has equalled my longest save as I'm currently in 2015 (began in 2013). Just the fact I want to tell the story keeps drawing me back to the save and that's why I have bent over backwards to keep the game file alive even through much hardship with hard drives and bad luck. It's just human instinct to do that, right? Me and my friends would hold on to memory cards for dear life as kids. Another reason why I take so long to advance with the save and write sometimes comes down to seeking consistency. If I find that I wrote something that makes no sense for the character I've been building for years now I will be quite peeved by it and turned off from writing for a bit so I try to think about consistency for every single character and their decisions in each segment/match but that isn't a trait I recommend you share and it's mostly a me thing as I do enjoy reading simple saves/diaries. Writing them is just not for me. By comparison, my younger self's longest running save was a 91 to 93 WWF save where I don't think I strayed away from the real life characters much or cared for consistency at all. Direction wise, sure, building up Rick Martel and giving him the world title could be seen as bold. But storyline wise I wasn't really challenging myself by keeping things simple all the way through and I wouldn't have brought something to the table that I would look back on as interesting had I presented that save in here as a diary. Simple can be good, but you've got to take some risks for the save to stand out. The point is, mix in a sprinkle of everything you like with your own ideas and you'll end up writing more complex stories than before. I'll be separating the two posts I promised you because this is already quite huge and I was kinda winging this one but I'll want to leave no detail behind with the step by step for longterm planning so I'll need some time to think about and write that.

Just a solid if unspectacular Raw to kickstart the year. I don't think Priest looked very smart just sitting by the barricade when Rollins had gone through hell while Priest got hit by a single Claymore. Wonder if they pivot to making Cody chase again quickly after finishing the story if Rock isn't threatening that direction.

Why not both? Pretty hype Awesome Truth reunion tonight.

I fear it's a work. They've kept Andrade's up and Tony confirmed he's gone.

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The thing that I found helps me keep invested the most (having struggled to find my footing with a save for years) is having a major overarching plotline that my entire company will revolve around for multiple years. Much like the nWo or the Bloodline or utilizing an example from a legendary diary in these boards, The KoW from Beejus' WCW 94 masterpiece. I simply cannot just start a random save without any long term planning and just mess around, see what happens. WWF/E is the company I play the most and for my ongoing diary (paused in here, ongoing on Discord) save I have the full next WrestleMania card written down, and the next two have rough drafts planned in advance. I then write how we're going to get to that point through the year and make the appropriate changes based off of injuries or an unexpected overperformer (I gave Curtis Axel the WWE Championship because he got so popular and would not stop giving me cracked ratings) but I try not to lose the overall vision. The game throwing curveballs at you such as injuries and forcing you to change these plans on the fly is fun, much like realizing your longterm plans, so either way works. You may end up happening upon a breakout star necessitated by an injury replacement. But it's simply impossible that ALL of the wrestlers involved in your major storyline will suffer such a fate, so once again I reiterate that having a big storyline for the roster to rally around is the way to go if you're struggling to stay invested in random saves you create from every mod in the book like I used to. Even if you'll take a while to get through, when you come up with a big story that you want to tell, you will keep being drawn back to that save. I hope this tip helps anyone.

Also, late to reply to this one but I've recently been replaying Arkham Asylum and it still holds up. Arkham City is one of my favorite games of all time top to bottom so I'd wager it still hits the same as well. I'll obviously do that one after I'm done with Asylum but not sure about Knight just yet since I remember my expectations (damn you expectations) being sooooooo skyhigh for that game back in 2015 (NINE YEARS AGO, GOOD GOD) I bought the best edition in the preorder, and once I finished the game my hype plummeted down to the center of the earth. Hoping I have a change of heart like you did but I very much doubt it'll ever surpass City for me even if I do.

I was rereading older stuff in this thread and found this gem. If anyone doesn't get the context, MW3 is a blatant repaint job of the previous game with the shortest and most haphazardly put together campaign in the series. The same friend I played MW2 with got that one and I am not touching it with the longest feet wide pole in the world. But I guess the joke's on me for having any COD related expectations in the first place.

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The injury bug really is biting this save a ton huh. Surprising as I'm usually relatively lucky on that end even on highest frequency. Love repurposing Xplosion as a Knockouts show, by the way.

Hell yes, feed me more 90s WWF/WCW diaries!

Did you mean Aces n' Eights? That was actually a really good storyline up until the reveals started happening and it was one underwhelming reveal after the other.

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Some do, others are that broken page icon with just the image's url by its side.

Very enjoyable show to read that popped me for the ending with Beer Money. A shame the forum flubbed up your images 😭

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