Cort Marshall

OCW's newest superstar, and he's totes natty... http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/017/461/1294146410148.jpg

Let's pretend it was an intentional heel move and not that I'm just a stupid motherfucker, k

I'll start a gofundme for your recovery

Did you fall down a flight of stairs or something, old man?

I like the music that was playing during the Dupree/Matsumoto bit, what song is that? Nice vid Jay. :)

Management is corrupt! That's why we indiscriminately beat people up.

That's coming out of the paycheck, ya know. Those cameras are supposed to last longer than most people's careers!

Those better be Flinstones vitamins, sir.

Yeye. Good writing and good comedy. Always need more faces. Seems like a good, honestly likable character setup.

In the midst of all this heated discussion, I would like to assert that my fragile anus can in fact survive losing at a videogame. Not to be antagonistic, but at some point complaining about people is futile. If they're submitting shit, they're submitting shit. That's good, isn't it? It isn't like we get paid for this. As for the show, I really like that kidnapping thing going on with Crowe and Crew. It's different and feels higher-stakes than regular rassling stuff without being, well... http://media.ifunny.com/results/2016/10/28/xy761kz2vi.jpg

i cannot belev dis jay i am suing yuor company for emotional damagea nd leaving forever goodby

All I have to say is it definitely won't be Denny doing all of the RP work. I usually do a lot of the writing for stuff I'm involved in. I guess compared to half the roster we're not "established" 'cause we ain't been here for a decade, but I've been consistent enough to trust. As for the faction itself, I mean, the idea is hardly original. But neither is Hulk Hogan, brother, and he's still going over.

Well, Mix, I can't say your ideas aren't interesting. Can't say I really agree either, though. - Having the TV title as a segregated title seems, I dunno. Your propositions would probably stop it from being valuable, as it'd end up on people who may just up and quit, and is relatively low-hanging fruit. I like the idea of having a gimmick for the title, like the SMW TV Championship. You had to defend every show but got $1000 every time you did, and if you won five times in a row you surrendered it and got another $5000. Of course you can't really gimmick it like that in a competitive fed, since it'd likely just be traded back and forth constantly and wouldn't mean much. But I do think there is a place for some kind of television-centric gimmick for it, or else what is a TV belt? Just a shitty version of the Int or whatever. It'd be WWE's US title, just a thing that people sometimes have. Maybe a time limit for matches or else they'd be ruled a draw? Like in the old days where you'd get tons of "almost got him" finishes to build for that Wacko Babybladder vs. Slick Dick Jackson match at the Hogpen Invitational. - Adding to that, I do think less is more in some ways with titles. Think of a mountain range. You have a few, very high peaks, and they stand out. Cresting them is an achievement. You add a bunch of lower ones around them, and they don't look as majestic. Everybody's been on that mountain. It's like Madison, but instead of a peak it's... Anyhoo, I don't like titles that just get battered back and forth unless that's the intention, like the WWF hardcore belt being an excuse to do dumb funny shit. It's a catch-22: Having someone hold a belt for a long time makes it valuable, but also less attainable. The more attainable it is, the less value people perceive it to have. In the end it's a balancing act, and since we can't really book people to lose here, it's just up to the wrestlers to shape narratives with and around who wins and who doesn't. Lower card titles are hard as hell to do when you can't decide who wins. Like, if I was full control booking this fed, H2O/Baker would have beaten me either in the singles or in the tag. But they didn't, shit happens. It's a consequence of the format that stories may not have a rise and fall as natural as a well-booked real fed, and I can't really think of a way to ostensibly make an "undercard" title that would make the undercard itself any more interesting. We all want to win, and hell yeah, belts feel good. But they feel better the first time, not the 6th. See WCW in its dying years. - I also don't think rookies should be expected to beat DB. Nor should they expect to grab a new title because the guy who's holding it is too hard to beat. Like I said, that gives it more value, no? But I understand the frustration to come into the fed and be like "I can beat half the people here and the other half just bend me over and squeeze oranges into my anus. Help me." Essentially ya gotta learn to write a character with more defined motivations, or just more personal feuds, than the average real wrestling show. Make your own goal to grab, because there isn't really steady direct progress up the ranks. You get opportunities by being good at what you do, and that ain't necessarily winning. I got a shot at DB's TV title after a record of like 3-5, haha. On real TV you can have guys put on great showings during random title opportunities so you can give that feeling of rising up the ranks, but in OCW it ain't that easy. Giving out random title shots is exciting, but what if the challenger wins? He doesn't have momentum or build, he just has the belt now. And he's gotta be someone you can trust to run with it. I dunno, Jay's job is hard. Probably why he gets the grumpy bumpies. ;) - A third show? Now that's the real ballsy option. I like the idea, but I'm not sure we really do have enough people--after all, I'm not insulting you, but we have a problem with people just up and leaving. If I was 100% sure y'all were gonna hang around here for the foreseeable future, I'd be all for a sort of "developmental" show or ECW subbrand craziness. But since I can't be sure, what most people I think would fear is a show that has 800 dropped gimmicks and angles because the guys just left. It's like Sid Vicious. He's just gonna leave, stop building that title match dammit! There he goes playing softball again. I'd like to say I know your ass is staying because you're here writing reviews and giving opinions to grognards, but people do that and THEN leave, after getting over. It's baffling. - The only idea you have I'd say is categorically bad would be pushing people down to the rookie show as punishment. That is not a good plan. That would generate lots of salt from the vets/regulars who do get put there (and we are very sodium rich here already), and it would change the tone of the show from giving rookies a platform to stand out to "the worse show for the people we don't like." The salty vets would steal the spotlight and probably kick the new people's butts. I don't really think we need a show for rookies to stand out. I mean, you've already stood out on shows. It ain't easy to write this stuff, man, but it is easy to get people to pay attention to it. You can read? Better than most randoms. You last more than three shows and you're a promising rookie. You keep doing promos and believing in the character you create, and you can be like me: A gigantic xenophobe who relies on a large, sexually aggressive retarded man to injure his enemies. Wait, this is a bad moral... In summation, I think the belt situation is fine. No perfect balance of titles will fix everything that's broken here. It is a bit hokey that Riot has no generic midcard title, as a title is an easy-bake motivation for a character and can add some spice to feuds needing an extra kick. In the end, though, it's not a damaging blow. If you wanna blow the roof off this unlicensed massage parlor we got going, you can do it without a belt. And blow enough roofs... or people... and you might just get that belt in a better position to use it right than when you started. Or you'll just get buried by someone who looks like an escapee from the mime prison.

I like! He sort of looks like Big Bubba Rogers but much fitter and greasier. Not sure rookie training would be more popular than the NFL, but I really like that you do crowd interactions and catchphrases. Helps a lot to get people interested when you portray that the crowd gives a shit and the guy is already established. Classic fin as well. I might turn down the body oil and turn up the text size, but nice intro that sets up all you need to know about the character.

If you get fucked hard enough you can even form a tag team.

B-17 looks a guitarist from a hair metal band who stumbled into a time machine in 1987, came out in 2017 and hasn't noticed anything's changed yet.

That was off a reversal. Totally okay to do a move, no? I was gonna charge my fin but they just popped roight up so I was trying to bop them. Was I supposed to give up a reversal bar because the animation knocked 'em down?

Really enjoyed the match with Ding. Didn't enjoy 2k's collision detection. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2981291/gotta_want_it.gif

We got sponsorships now? Damn, it's big time bizness! Where's my overdue paychecks, Dixie? Also, I love how one of the first posts below the sponsor guy contains "shut it, whore." It's best to set expectations early.

Is this the prison from Hard Times?

This time we'll be there on schedule...

I see what you did there. http://38.media.tumblr.com/195c6dc767f892d2f720138f7d1ad21a/tumblr_nc4xbhv2Z61s763k2o4_500.gif

*Teleports behind u* It's nothing personnel, brother jack dude

You post any more overused DBZ reaction vids and I'll retract my markout for the good writing

That CAW is amazing. Great outfit. All these new guys makin' me look bad. Ya even had perfect grammar! There are already a few "I'm gorgeous/I'm gay" gimmicks in OCW (Dupree, Larkspur) but the outfit easily stands out. It strikes that nice OG Goldust line between flamboyant and outlandish but still cool.