Victator Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 This barnyard guessing game is tearing us apart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I just started reading more of the replies in the Chikara101 forums and I'm kinda hoping some of these guys aren't truly buying into it this much and are just working the board. If not, wow... EDIT: It also looks like some of the people who are posting the most are being "targeted" with the DVDs, one person who looks like they post a fair amount had the DVD on her car after a Wrestling is Fun show. Sounds like they are using their "loyal" posters as pawns to push the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Well, that last Chikara show did have a dude that shoulderblocked himself through a glass door in a fit of anger at the ending, so who knows just how deep the rabbit hole is for them. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Jae, I have been to a couple Wrestling is Fun! Shows, and it us very much like Chikara circa 2005 or so, where the emphasis was on goofy stuff and arm drags and not long term story telling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I can't believe I've been reading through this for the last half an hour but here we are, this is the "conspiracy story": http://chikaralives.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/chikara-is-it-really-dead-3-01.pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domino_Not_Deuce Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 If you didn't read that Chikara PDF and get completely excited about the professional wrestling as a true high-concept art form then I have no time for you, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 If you didn't read that Chikara PDF and get completely excited about the professional wrestling as a true high-concept art form then I have no time for you, sir. What if you didn't read it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 (edited) If you didn't read that Chikara PDF and get completely excited about the professional wrestling as a true high-concept art form then I have no time for you, sir. Well, there's exciting, then there's ... whatever it is that Chikara is doing. It was intriguing when it all started out ... about three months ago. But the more I saw all the secret shenanigans going on, and all those forum fans with their "PM me that address" and secret language kind of stuff, and nods to posts that had been deleted that might have added some clue to what they were talking about, I came to a monumentous decision: If I have to stay attached 24-7 to a message board, several Twitters, at least three separate websites, and research every odd word/name/location in a blog post, compare every show title to the names of songs on some random CD, right-click every image and follow it back to its source, and actually go to fucking Philadelphia from hodunky-podunky low-country SC to get some holy grail DVD that provides just one more clue to the whole thing ... it's less like "exciting" and more like "work," and I already have a "job" that pays me very little for all that I do, I don't need "leisure" to treat me the same way. And that last show, Chikara was treating it like a "jumping on point" for new fans to get involved in their brand of wrestling. If I had JUST found out about them, and this was going on, that would turn me completely off. I wish we were already a year down the road, so I can look back on all of this and be impressed with how it was all set up. THAT's when I might be more excited. Maybe Chikara "ending" just hit me at a time when I didn't want to be fucked around with by something I enjoyed ... [insert personal, kinda sad recollection that I had already spent a long time typing but decided nope, none of you jerkwads deserve to know more about nate gizzle]. So, the quicker we are back to getting regular King of Trioses, the happier I guess I'll be. Edited September 7, 2013 by nate 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 I'm kinds of like you but I don't really care enough about the super secret language stuff enough to turn me off. I'm just indifferent to it. My official stance on Chikara is: Call me when there's wrestling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 The Raw DVD set will supposedly include 20 episodes, so those 11 listed will be joined by 9 others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Library Dude Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 According to Da Meltz, Mark Henry has been cleared to return. Hmm... Maybe I'll give them another week. It's a shame they already turned Mark face because they could have re-done this (probably one of my top ten Raw moments of the last ten years) http://youtu.be/RTcWdrcJsIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 According to Da Meltz, Mark Henry has been cleared to return. Hmm... Maybe I'll give them another week. It's a shame they already turned Mark face because they could have re-done this (probably one of my top ten Raw moments of the last ten years) http://youtu.be/PzyMc16x1OU Mark Henry trained a Bulgarian and did a promo for his fans saying that he was going to WWE... on Raw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 According to Da Meltz, Mark Henry has been cleared to return.Hmm... Maybe I'll give them another week.It's a shame they already turned Mark face because they could have re-done this (probably one of my top ten Raw moments of the last ten years)http://youtu.be/PzyMc16x1OU Mark Henry trained a Bulgarian and did a promo for his fans saying that he was going to WWE... on Raw?That's what he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 This Chikara stuff is pretty stupid. who has time to find some secret DVDs and decode cryptic messages. I barely have time to watch a fucking 3 hour DVD, even when it is shipped directly to my house. Chikara: Hey....go find a DVD in a parking lot that someone may have left there. Me: I have a job. Go fuck yourself. I think it's more... Chikara: Hey go find those DVD's we left behind You: Fuck off Typical Chikara fan: ZOMG~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SovietShooter Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 So, the quicker we are back to getting regular King of Trioses, the happier I guess I'll be. My official stance on Chikara is: Call me when there's wrestling. Word. There is a difference between being "involved" as a fan, and needing to be a 33rd degree LARPer to get what's going on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 So, the quicker we are back to getting regular King of Trioses, the happier I guess I'll be. My official stance on Chikara is: Call me when there's wrestling. Word. There is a difference between being "involved" as a fan, and needing to be a 33rd degree LARPer to get what's going on. I swear I don't mean to insult anyone with this sentence, but some of the posters on reddit have been borderline Asperger's status about it, and I really don't see the huge deal. I actually (quite embarrassingly) laughed at loud at work when I read a post suggesting that the whole angle would "change the game" like the NWO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Library Dude Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 According to Da Meltz, Mark Henry has been cleared to return. Hmm... Maybe I'll give them another week. It's a shame they already turned Mark face because they could have re-done this (probably one of my top ten Raw moments of the last ten years) http://youtu.be/PzyMc16x1OU Mark Henry trained a Bulgarian and did a promo for his fans saying that he was going to WWE... on Raw? Goddamn, I've changed the link now (embedding still isn't working for me though)- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 This Chikara stuff is pretty stupid. who has time to find some secret DVDs and decode cryptic messages. I barely have time to watch a fucking 3 hour DVD, even when it is shipped directly to my house. Chikara: Hey....go find a DVD in a parking lot that someone may have left there.Me: I have a job. Go fuck yourself.This is the best post since Jae unleashed the steel davey richards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 According to Da Meltz, Mark Henry has been cleared to return. Hmm... Maybe I'll give them another week. It's a shame they already turned Mark face because they could have re-done this (probably one of my top ten Raw moments of the last ten years) http://youtu.be/RTcWdrcJsIE Besides the fact Orton sold the hell out of his presence, by that time Mark Henry was leaking so much charisma he would LITERALLY conduct the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRV Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 The CHIKARA thing is virtually impossible to follow, for me, but: A) It's a deep, deep storyline There are dedicated psychopaths summarizing everything for us in bomb ass PDFs C) Archie D) Don't knock CHIKARA and then go to complain about how superficial and short-sighted TNA booking is 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRV Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 okay fuck that smilie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie20x6 Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 The CHIKARA thing is virtually impossible to follow, for me, but: A) It's a deep, deep storyline There are dedicated psychopaths summarizing everything for us in bomb ass PDFs C) Archie D) Don't knock CHIKARA and then go to complain about how superficial and short-sighted TNA booking is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 As has been noted to me on a few occasions: People generally don't watch wrestling to THINK. They watch to see the good guys beat up the bad guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Big E Langston @BigELangstonWho would've thought I wouldn't be the one to start a gang? #SmackDownA.J. @WWEAJLee@BigELangston We’re PMS. You can be Meat. Which reminds me, I’m gonna need that Pamprin on my desk asap.Big E Langston @BigELangstonI'm in. That is, only if you call your group finisher "The Red River" & scream, immediately before, "There will be blood!" @WWEAJLee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 If you didn't read that Chikara PDF and get completely excited about the professional wrestling as a true high-concept art form then I have no time for you, sir. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed reading the PDF and am planning on watching the 2013 shows to see the build up to all of this and follow the PDF but like everyone pointed out, this is an east coast thing that you can't follow unless you are: A.) On the east coast and B.) Following the message board 24/7 (See what I did there with the B? ) I want to see footage and follow the storyline but if some of those posters aren't working that message board, I'm worried we might see a bunch of random nerds getting the shit getting kicked out of them by the police because they think they're standing up for Icarus and beating up "Condor Security". It is one thing to create a very interesting storyline and another to engulf a bunch of dudes lives with it and not expect some of them to react as if they are living in this Chikara universe and do something, well, stupid haha. EDIT: P.S. I also asked Icarus where I could get one of those "I Am Chikara" shirts and he never responded. East coast bias 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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