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Considering the crap that HC would post the "Settle down..." part did initially confuse me but I do remember you starting it.  Then from there it just seemed like a weird interpretation that like you said took on a life of its own.  But aside from a couple slip ups I'm thankful that hasn't happened to me much.

Also wanted to thank @Dolfan in NYC for the clarification about Shayna.  Had to look up the term to make sure I got it right but I do remember the interview that was posted.

Oh, and Piranesi is an absolute treasure.  I love that a Batista picture is kind of like a bat signal or sorts for him and the fashion watch is always a delight.

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Cibernetico was officially banned in the 2/8/16 Raw (Daniel Bryan's retirement speech) thread for claiming that Brie only came down to the ring to leech off her husband's heat. Stro got banned in the same thread for his insufferable "I hate the fans" schtick.

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9 hours ago, Jiji said:

That story about him refusing to come to a Nitro taping because he was laying down a new driveway is a thing, right? I'm not just making up Scott Norton stories or my Scott Norton dreams aren't leaking into my consciousness are they?

I remember that story too so you're not imagining it.

I completely forgot Josh Barnett was on puroresufans around that time.

That was a fun site.  When I first became a member, Stu was really connected to NJPW and would post updates about backstage goings-on and contract negotiations in addition to the usual results and recaps.

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7 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Also, for the record, I'm still trying to figure out which one of you is the grown up Krone Meltzer

As Tom K used to say "If I haven't met them, I assume they are a Ganc sock puppet"

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"DEATH VALLEY DRIVER... MESSAGE BOARD, SHOULD BE SPELLED B-O-R-E-D!"

Wasn't Krone Meltzer someone Twitter now?

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I don't think anyone necessarily wants to hear this from me, but in the midst of all of this nostalgia, I think this place has still really served a positive purpose in 2020. This has been my first and foremost home on the internet since 1999, give or take a year. That's more than half my life. Just the message board structure offers something that things like Facebook and Twitter and podcasts can't, a breadth and depth of community over multiple topics, where the commonality is more normative than topical. This has been a year of pandemic and scandal and recession and upheaval, both within our chosen hobbies and in the greater world. And you people are running around on each other's Animal Crossing islands or leaning into DEAN's resurgence in watching matches or listening to 1,001 songs together and suggesting supplements to one another or starting to put together the movies of the 2010s. 

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6 minutes ago, Log said:

When did the DVDVR board start?  Like the very beginning?

This is where my old many memory is a little hazy.

Nov 1999 is a mile marker since that is when the first 500 came out.

So the "latest" the board started was Nov 99 in conjunction with the 500. But I am 99.9% it was around earlier than that.

Most likely it was sometime in 1998 because Schneider and I were both recent college grads who had way to much free time and we convinced Dean to go along

I really should apologize for that.

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I've also been here since '99. I thought the "half my life" comment from Matt meant he was a youngin' until I did the math and realized that at 43 and 21 I'm about there too.

Anyway I like it here even though as the biggest minority on the site (a Republican) I kinda have to shake my head and move on from time to time when things get political...

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I have fond memories of "heads on a stake" and the short period of time where, I think Dean?, busted out "defend your life" where the person could defend themselves and if found worthy they would avoid a ban. I don't think the few people made to defend their lives avoided the ban.

The other thing I remember was when Winnipagan or someone started the photos thread. We jokingly had glitteratti vs team beafy. Anyway, I could swear a rule was created as a result of some folks body shaming and fat shaming others that if you didn't in turn show that you looked any better then you would get banned. That stopped the body and fat shaming pretty quickly.

My stupid ass dumb brain has such a hard time remembering stuff, but I for whatever reason remember a lot from this board going back to 1999 or 2000. With the original board, I always wondered what would stop someone from posting as someone else because it's not like you had an account or anything. You just entered your name with your post or reply. I'd like to think everyone stuck to the honor system pretty well.

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9 minutes ago, Craig H said:

I have fond memories of "heads on a stake" and the short period of time where, I think Dean?, busted out "defend your life" where the person could defend themselves and if found worthy they would avoid a ban. I don't think the few people made to defend their lives avoided the ban.

I remember when this happened. I thought, "Shit, I better start adding to the conversation." Years later and I'm still working on it.

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Yeah, 38 going on 39, so.....

Anyway, the touchstones I have are tricky, because I'm not sure if I was reading Workrate Reports (which I gravitated towards more than the actual DVDVRs since I have more of a point of reference at that age) in 98 or 99. I know I went to a Nitro in late 98 and read it but it might have been going back and reading t later. I went back and read through all the archives so it's hard to place. What I can place is that in my sophomore year of college (Fall 2000), I had to create a website for compsci2a and I compared ratings of PWI vs DVDVR 500 for Benoit/Rock/Sid and TAKA. I just looked at this thing for the first time in twenty+ years and it's pretty mortifying. So I'd been here for a bit by that point at least.

 

 

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I didn't decide I wanted to start posting about wrestling until around 2003 I think,  that's probably when I got a higher speed internet connection.  So that's probably around the time I made it here, one of the previous versions of the board.  I was so young then. 

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It saddens me no one has reminisced about DVDR IRC.  So much time killed at work hanging out in chat - no wonder that job from the late 90's no longer exists.

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Shit...I guess I have been here since ‘99, then (found my way from Shootangle, which I think was Zach Arnold’s site). And still do far more “lurkin’ and learning” than posting. I’m just glad I’ve never said anything dumb enough to be turned into a board meme. Just dumb enough to be ignored. Heh. 

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4 minutes ago, EVA said:

So, um, does anybody else remember when we had a porn subforum?

Reminder that that forum only exists during the period I was on hiatus

As did the sleaze thread.

Y'all are fucked when I am the moral compass around here

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1 hour ago, Matt D said:

I don't think anyone necessarily wants to hear this from me, but in the midst of all of this nostalgia, I think this place has still really served a positive purpose in 2020. This has been my first and foremost home on the internet since 1999, give or take a year. That's more than half my life. Just the message board structure offers something that things like Facebook and Twitter and podcasts can't, a breadth and depth of community over multiple topics, where the commonality is more normative than topical. This has been a year of pandemic and scandal and recession and upheaval, both within our chosen hobbies and in the greater world. And you people are running around on each other's Animal Crossing islands or leaning into DEAN's resurgence in watching matches or listening to 1,001 songs together and suggesting supplements to one another or starting to put together the movies of the 2010s. 

Yeah, there's a reason I've been here for most of the last 20+ years even though I only really followed wrestling for about 5 of those.  Not being active during the sleaze thread/porn forum era probably helped my longevity.

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24 minutes ago, Matt D said:

Yeah, 38 going on 39, so.....

Anyway, the touchstones I have are tricky, because I'm not sure if I was reading Workrate Reports (which I gravitated towards more than the actual DVDVRs since I have more of a point of reference at that age) in 98 or 99. I know I went to a Nitro in late 98 and read it but it might have been going back and reading t later. I went back and read through all the archives so it's hard to place. What I can place is that in my sophomore year of college (Fall 2000), I had to create a website for compsci2a and I compared ratings of PWI vs DVDVR 500 for Benoit/Rock/Sid and TAKA. I just looked at this thing for the first time in twenty+ years and it's pretty mortifying. So I'd been here for a bit by that point at least.

 

 

The actual DVDVRs were VERY important for expanding my fandom beyond WWF/WCW.  I learned about so many Japanese wrestlers from that.

My first exposure to a lot of 'other' wresting was the 3rd and 4th Schneider Comps.  I am always so happy to own all of those comps now.  I've cleared out a lot of my tapes and dvds, but I will never part with those.  

I think I've been around, off and on, since near the beginning of the board.  I was probably here very infrequently from about '01-'04, but I know I read the green board a ton when I moved and started a new job in 2005.  

Around '96-'97, I frequented some wrestling board, but can't remember which one for the life of me.  I'd always assumed it was this one.  On that board, I met these two brothers.  I can't remember their real names, but they posted as Tazplex and LaParka.  I went to a couple of IWA Mid South shows with them. One was here in Louisville seven or eight years before I'd move here.  They also made me my first tapes of ECW.  I nearly wore those things out. 

Things are slow at work today.  Thanks for taking me on this trip down memory lane.  This is fun.

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12 hours ago, Matt D said:

WWE has two ways of turning people. They do it with an angle or it just happens. Everything just loses its sharpness in the end. Kabuki Warriors were heels a few months ago. Bliss/Cross were heels before that, etc. Part of me is morbidly curious what happens if they don't turn Sasha face on Bayley and the act, in its current incarnation with Karen/Bayley, just sort of ends up as a face act by attrition. 

Not that you’re wrong, but they do some the groundwork for those out of nowhere turns on the YouTube backstage interviews. For example, Nikki Cross laid the groundwork for teaming up with Bliss on those, but since it was never on TV it appeared out of nowhere. That said, it seems more like the talent use that avenue to set things up rather than something actively used by the writers/producers.

Other DVDVR memories include sponsoring a MMA fighter and my former DVDVR Law posters Sven and DevinIntervention.

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So basically RIPPA is the George Bailey of the DVDVR forum. Without him Bedford Falls is all dancing girls and chaste single librarians.

I've been lurking the DVDVR for a while now. I never did figure out what that whole Foghat thing was about.

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