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In what ways if any does having promotions under your control via Developmental conflict with having them a part of a user-created Alliance? Is there any conflict in gameplay at all? I'm trying to set a game world up to my liking with the backstory being that my character after 15+ years in the business had finally built their company up to a respectable product capable of being a solid alternative to the WWE. Wanting to ensure that the future of pro-wrestling remains strong however the owner secures the purchases of several wrestling companies and has them all operate under their own alliance banner similar to the NWA, while giving each child-company a slot on the parent-company's wrestling network to ensure they receive adequate exposure.

Can't seem to find the answer in any of the past TEW help guides, but what's the order of worker relationships from most positive to most negative? I would assume Married/Loyalty are tied for top-most positive and Hatred/Family Feud being tied for top-most negative, but what about in between? Can't tell if Best Friend really outweighs Strong Friendship in the game.

I swear it seems I'm the only promotion out of my alliance that makes use of the Alliance Titles. I have the frequency on each title set to Often yet I'm three months into playing and no other member of the alliance has bother to book the alliance champions except me. Is this normal??

A question from someone who has never played as WWE before in RW mods: wouldn't the WWE Network conflict with other broadcasters? Like say I have Monday Night Raw airing on USA Network, TEW 10 and TEW13 wouldn't have allowed another broadcaster like the WWE Network for the fact that they both air in a similiar region.

I forget, does it incur any expense if you own a developmental company? Not including any developmental workers I send down myself, what are the expenses if any of owning a developmental?

I felt the main thing that held the film back was it's length. If it were given maybe an additional 30-45 minutes of runtime I feel that would've been enough to fully flesh out the plot and its character development to a satisfactory level. I'm sure Disney wasn't discouraged that much by the first film though, as it did manage to make gross over its production budget by a $100 million (total global gross of $335,154,643, reported budget was in the range of $150-$200 million). I think the fact that it hadn't made up for the gross domestically in the States was a bit disappointing to them, but surely they still see the international potential in such a potential franchise.

<p>A hell of a great article from TNAsylum, worth the long read.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://www.tnasylum.com/2014/05/we-are-all-wrestlings-biggest-enemy.html" rel="external nofollow">http://www.tnasylum.com/2014/05/we-are-all-wrestlings-biggest-enemy.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TNAsylum" data-cite="TNAsylum" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25170" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Saturday, May 24, 2014<p> <strong>We Are All Wrestling's Biggest Enemy</strong></p><p> </p><p> By Mortimer Plumtree</p><p> </p><p> "Are people serious with these comments?" </p><p> </p><p> "I'm afraid so." </p><p> </p><p> "And you wonder why wrestling is looked at the way it is"</p><p> </p><p> This was the mini conversation a good friend and I had via text messaging after he read some of the Facebook comments under TNA Wrestling's post of the new faction of MVP, Kenny King, and Bobby Lashley. This friend, a wrestling fan of the 80's and 90's who occasionally watches pro wrestling today here and there, was actually intrigued by the group. He's usually indifferent to all products. A blossomed fruit of wrestling's past fandom, he'll get hooked in for periods and to any company if things are interesting enough, but doesn't share the overwhelming passion that most of us on this site do.</p><p> </p><p> "Maybe this faction is a good thing. Maybe it does draw in casual fans", I thought to myself. After all, he tuned in on a random Thursday night with most network television wrapping up or done for the season, and had legit interest in returning for next week. He seemed excited bout the product. This had to be a positive, right? </p><p> </p><p> "No offense bro, but hardcore wrestling fans are the worst type of fans"</p><p> </p><p> "Non taken" </p><p> </p><p> Ouch. I love being a pro wrestling fan. It's who I am. "Non taken?!" Of course I take offense to that! He doesn't get it. We're the most passionate fanbase there is.</p><p> </p><p> Then it hit me. He's absolutely right. 100% right. Damn, he's completely correct! Only in pro wrestling do fans watch a program with such judgement and cynicism. Only in pro wrestling do we intentionally look for plot holes, logical gaps, and seek explanation of reoccurring or similar story lines. Only in pro wrestling are we so locked into comparing everything to another product, brand, or time period. Only pro wrestling fans volunteer - willingly - and gladly give negative feedback to deter others on products and brands they have no interest in. </p><p> </p><p> We tear down our love too much. We tear our own genre down too often. We keep others away from this passion which we all love so much because of our silliness and overbearing and outrageous passion. </p><p> </p><p> After all, no fan of "24" watches and says, "They did this last year". No fan of (fill in your favorite band or artist here) willingly makes an attempt to launch an all out assault on other forms of music - they simply don't listen to it and ignore it (Huh, imagine that?). No fan of films and movies complain that Movie A is a blatant rip off of Movie B, even when said movie is a remake. No fan of a TV show dissects the entire product or its overarching story line by each specific show. No fan of a sports team finds it to be an issue when their team goes with younger talent for the future. </p><p> </p><p> Look, I get pro wrestling is the happy medium among all of those outlets mentioned above. I really do. In my opinion, it's what makes it enjoyable. But why are we, a group of fans already behind the eight ball in terms of ostracism and stereotypes by mainstream entities and society, furthering that by hurting the growth of what we love so much?</p><p> </p><p> From the ridiculous comments left on fanpages to the thinking we've developed, it seems that we as an overall fanbase are terrible in sharing, attracting others, and promoting this love. Regardless, if it is the "IWC" or whatever, whomever, those comments wholly represents us all as wrestling fans. Even MMA fans, who share a similarity in the aspect that their niche genre has multiple companies - large, small, independents, and international - do not reach to the depths of negativity as we, wrestling fans do. And just look how their sport has evolved and flourished because of that support, especially among casual fans. </p><p> </p><p> I fully expect many to disagree with this, or even find this piece to be that of myself getting up on a soap box right now, but bear with me and further assess afterwards. </p><p> </p><p> Somewhere along the way, when we all learned about the insider terms and all of the secrets that were protected in pro wrestling, we narrowed our thinking, shrunk our imagination, and developed this weird fixation of thinking from the other end of the entertainment vacuum. I know what you're thinking, blame the writers, bookers, creative, etc. for pro wrestling's recent position, right? While a valid argument can be made for that, as a fanbase, we've become conditioned to using that excuse to complain or gripe about, well, everything. We've become conditioned about pro wrestling negativity and what we expect from it because of this reverse thinking. </p><p> </p><p> We consistently ask said companies to innovate and create, yet, we seem to complain about little things that rub against the traditional ways in which wrestling is presented. Again, being honest, it drives me nuts when others claim what a "heel ought to do", or a "face should do", or "how a current feud should play out", or even why a gimmick match HAS to be the last match in a feud? By staying along these lines, aren't we staying in line with the norm, thus promoting the norm and eliminating the chance to be different? Aren't we asking for essentially the opposite of what we're begging for as a fan base?</p><p> </p><p> This of course crosses over into our latest phenomenon of comparing everything. Everything is copying everything. Rather than focus on the uniqueness that makes each faction, each storyline, each wrestler, and each product different, we seek what looks, feels, or might be a stretch (or a huuuuuuge stretch) in being similar. "They're copying..." is often heard and read these days in reviews, point of views, and comment sections. Again, such reasoning leaves little doubt to why when we see three wrestlers who happen to be black form a group, our narrow mindedness and conditioning immediately hearkens to the last time black wrestlers grouped together in pro wrestling. Of course, "they're copying...".</p><p> </p><p> Furthering my point, is our need to over think, over-analyze, and dissect this love of ours. Again, maybe I'm different or just out of the loop from many, but I watch pro wrestling for the complete opposite of serious logic. I look to be entertained. I enjoy the wackiness once in a while just as much as the seriousness it provides. I want to suspend my disbelief for a few hours and let my imagination roam that a wrestler can invade another person's home, or that he or she can be punched repeatedly in the head for a ten minute match, or that these folks only settle their differences every Thursday night at 9pm on Spike TV. Sure, like many of you debate frequently, I want things to at least be coherent and somewhat make sense in the mix, but I'm not looking for a Schindler's List or a Shawshank Redemption experience from pro wrestling. After all, using that thinking, no one should ever believe an Irish whip is a useful tactic to defend themselves in a fight or contest. </p><p> </p><p> We've seen child custody battles in pro wrestling. Men thrown in jail for the night for losing a match. Girlfriends put on the line in a match. C'mon, there are proverbial "wrestling weddings"! And numerous other silly things that make pro wrestling, pro wrestling. </p><p> </p><p> This all lends to the "booking" sinkhole we all fall into. Again, someone needs to clearly define "good booking" because everyone, every single one of us, touts their mighty fists in the air proclaiming this golden diatribe against wrestling today with no - none whatsoever - substance at all. </p><p> </p><p> But again, we're so conditioned in what "should be". We're conditioned at this point to a certain mode of thinking. And, again being honest, there are some who are so deep in this line of thinking that they enjoy complaining about pro wrestling moreso than, well, pro wrestling! The classic goalpost movers. I truly believe that. You know who they are. We all do. They're very easy to spot.</p><p> </p><p> Others simply head into any wrestling program with this negative and often cold mindset that prevents them from truly enjoying the product, or at the very least, part of the product. </p><p> </p><p> It's time for us to look in the mirror. It's really time for us to figure out what we're truly arguing, bickering, and complaining about in pro wrestling. Why do we attack the very genre we love. Why do we attack the companies within it? Heck, why do we attack one another?! Really, what is our cause in all of this? What are our reasons? What defines our issues with pro wrestling? The time is now to understand the damage we do to our fanhood, the industry, and to those who ay want to join in on the awesomeness that is pro wrestling which we all already can be offered. Let's find a solution to the real problems that irks us all and cease our continued and pointless attack on the very thing we all claim to love. </p><p> </p><p> "I think that's drastic. Hardcore wrestling fans are passionate"</p><p> </p><p> "Are you kidding me? They are the only fanbase that consistently promotes and tear down their interest on their own. One minute, something is awesome, the next they are complaining about out what should've happened instead" </p><p> </p><p> "ahhh, true" </p><p> </p><p> True indeed. He's right...again.</p><p> </p><p> After all, as I learned from stepping back from it all for a different perspective, we are indeed the worst thing going in pro wrestling. Again, we consistently complain for change, yet criticize when companies deviate from the norm. We watch programs awaiting for the first moment of disgust so we can gripe about it. And we can't seem to get out of our own way in comparing everything, thus devaluing what a company is attempting to create - for us to enjoy - in the process. </p><p> </p><p> We are worse than any terrible gimmick, story line, or company you can imagine. We are worse than Shockmaster's debut, than Vince Russo's perceived reputation, than a Punjabi prison match, than Robocop's debut, than the Aces and Eights, or anything else we can complain about. </p><p> </p><p> It's often said, we, the fans, are wrestling's lifeblood. </p><p> </p><p> Yet, what we've become is also, the pro wrestling industry's biggest enemy. </p><p> </p><p> How scary is that?</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Random Rhetoric</strong></p><p> </p><p> Anyone else find it insanely hilarious how many assume TNA was going for an all-black faction gimmick just because all three men are of color? </p><p> </p><p> With that logic, is the Managerie an all-white faction gimmick? And with that said, how ridiculous is our logic? </p><p> </p><p> Speaking of logic, I'm no ROH hater,I actually enjoy it, but what's the deal with ROH fans throwing stones at TNA lately? </p><p> </p><p> I thought everyone says TNA should worry about themselves and not WWE. Shouldn't this logic apply to ROH in pursuit of #2, TNA? </p><p> </p><p> Okay, enough with the logic stuff...</p><p> </p><p> Isn't heel MVP so much better? </p><p> </p><p> And hasn't he been tremendous since coming to TNA? </p><p> </p><p> How great is Kenny King's latest deal as a loose cannon? </p><p> </p><p> And with the talk of Money, Power, Respect, wouldn't it be great if TNA somehow got the licensing rights for their theme song to be that of "Money, Power, Respect" by The Lox? </p><p> </p><p> How about TNA squeezing, twisting, crushing, and wringing the sponge that is now Frankie Kazarian before he heads to ROH? </p><p> </p><p> Anyone else ready and excited for a Wolves vs. King/Lashley match? </p><p> </p><p> How great was Austin Aries' return? </p><p> </p><p> Alot of wrestler perform the spear maneuver, but isn't Lashley's one of the best since, well, possibly Goldberg? </p><p> </p><p> Doesn't Bram pull off the whole "crazy" thing without having to shout, act weird, or be over the top, really well? </p><p> </p><p> How AWESOME was that Eddie Edwards/Kenny King fight? </p><p> </p><p> Don't you love how everyone seriously just wants to kick everyone else's ass right now in TNA? </p><p> </p><p> Well, except for Gunner and Shaw. Are you perplexed by this as well?</p><p> </p><p> Maybe it was a mistake or a run-of-the-mill comment by Taz, but isn't "big ass elbow" a pretty funny and catchy name for his elbow drop finisher, which probably is the best in wrestling right now? </p><p> </p><p> How dominant does Lashley look after tonight's show? </p><p> </p><p> And finally...</p><p> </p><p> Wasn't there a great deal of energy in tonight's show that really had a "next level" vibe to it? </p><p> </p><p> As always, your comments and appreciation is well appreciated. Feel free to follow me over at </p><div class="ipsEmbeddedOther"> <iframe data-embedid="c61cee8b92ee5e8ea0c1a467f0a89374" allowfullscreen="" data-embed-src="<___base_url___>/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=embed&url=http://www.twitter.com/domepondering"></iframe> </div> to discuss wrestling or just about anything else.</div></blockquote>

Starting to watch the anime "Attack On Titan" after hearing about it for the past year. Never read the manga so I was completely unprepared for what I was getting myself into... HOLY S**T. I'm usually numb to any violence, blood and gore of any sort from movies and tv shows; be it animated or live-action, it rarely EVER fazes me. After watching Attack On Titan however I'm just so unsettled though... I gotta keep watching though, this anime has received critical praise for a reason after all. The storyline and the atmosphere just captures you! An excellent mix of what 18th century gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe defined as horror versus terror: "one is physical, making you want to look away, and the other is intellectual, making you want to know what's going to happen next."

<p> </p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QIdl7_a3_q4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business Trailer"></iframe></div></div><p> </p><p> I've got to be honest, can't recall the last comic/graphic novel I picked up and read but this one has really piqued up my interest. It'd be great if they brought this to the live action big screen in a future Amazing Spider-Man sequel; Peter Parker having an older sister with government connections and what-not certainly seems pretty cool.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJygxDnlEo" rel="external nofollow">#IMPACT365 Rockstar Spud Bickers with a Little Kid</a></p><p> </p><p> I'm finally seeing what it is about Spud that so many people love about him. The guy is gold! Like someone else said, give this guy a faction where he can be their mouthpiece.</p>

I'm confused, a few months prior would mean before, this documentary shows footage of the Montreal Screwjob and the aftermath however. Even shows some footage backstage where Bret's wife confronts HHH to see if he was in on it the shortly after it had happened. Near the end of the vid at the 1:32:20 mark it says "Bret now works for Ted Turner's WCW", so that seems to clarify he was in WCW at the time of documentary's release. Maybe there was something in his contract we were not aware of between Bret and the WWE that allowed the footage to be released despite his departure. Nonetheless, still the best wrestling doc I've watched by far, I can't think of any others where the wrestler allowed you to get such a deep and personal look into his/her life.

<p>Hands down this has to be the best wrestling doc I've seen so far. Was this really released during Bret's time in WCW? I find it hard to believe, considering all of the WWF/E footage, it shouldn't have seen the light of day if Vince had a say in it.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQm5dhyPKv4" rel="external nofollow">"Hitman Hart Wrestling With Shadows</a></p>

A couple of notable full-length matches that have been added for viewing on TNA's Official Youtube channel: Sacrifice 2005: Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles in the 2005 Super X Cup final Sacrifice 2006: Christian Cage vs. Abyss for the World Heavyweight Championship in a Full Metal Mayhem Match Watching Styles and Joe, I don't understand why TNA didn't give the ball more often than they had to the both of them. :/

<p>Cool find I stumbled upon; I sincerely thought The Rock had no territorial experience whatsoever before joining the WWE in 1996. Can anyone tell me what year this was? :/ I have a hunch it happened in the same year he debuted but who knows how long he sported that haircut. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="150" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Y0SEitEkK98?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="The Rock's first TV pro wrestling match"></iframe></div></div>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="24Wrestling.com" data-cite="24Wrestling.com" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> At Thursday’s WWE investor conference call, Vince McMahon made his first public comments about CM Punk’s status with the company, noting that Punk is on sabbatical.<p> </p><p> According to sources in WWE, the general feeling backstage that Vince McMahon will eventually be able to talk CM Punk into returning.</p><p> </p><p> While it’s unlikely that Punk will be back on television by the March 3rd episode of WWE RAW from Chicago, it’s very possible that Punk will attend the show and meet with Vince.</p><p> </p><p> - Rener Gracie posted the following photo on Instagram of himself and CM Punk hanging out after last night’s UFC 170 pay-per-view from Las Vegas:</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://distilleryimage7.ak.instagram.com/3408cb289c5811e38a3712f5df62fd43_8.jpg</span></p><p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> Ahhh, that smile is great to see. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> The ball is obviously in his court, Phil will let Vince know when the Second City Saint is ready to return or not and I think McMahon actually respects that despite how close WM is. J.R noted how Punk contrasted with the docile and non-competitive current-day WWE locker room and how he would have fit in perfectly with guys during the late '90s and early '00s with their driven and bold attitudes. McMahon and Punk haven’t always got on. Even last year Punk and Vince had a clash over the way the Taker feud was handled. Yet Vince has always liked this passion; much like Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin would just directly speak to Vince and make demands, Punk is much the same, and Vince respects that. Only Punk and Cena really have this relationship with Vince and ability to talk to him on a level. It's common knowledge now that when Punk first came in he wasn’t much liked at all, but from pretty early on he built up a relationship with Vince where he wasn’t fazed to speak to the boss and be honest. While at first this may have caused friction, in the long run it has opened up a level of communication and ease that has served Punk well. In 2013 CM Punk and Vince McMahon were on the same wave length, atleast for the most part, and this hopefully means an inevitable and exciting WM30 CM Punk return.</p>