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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on May 8, 2013 9:46:03 GMT -5
Because doing just 100 is so 2008.  Before I kinda understood it because it had passable writing and a few standout talents. Nowadays the writing is bland, boring and often confusing. The roster is filled with sloppy rookies and cruise control vets there's just nothing there for me to really get excited about. Then you have the 'ironic, hipster, wrestling is dumb but play along and maybe we can be comedians' fans. Its just tiring. I dunno. I hate their whole "ZOMG Aren't we so ironic and clever!?!?" vibe. I'm far from some stuffy purist and I've liked a whole lot of "wrestlecrap" gimmicks over the years. I think things would get boring in a hurry if everybody was a serious business Johnny Bootandtights type of wrestler but Chikara goes overboard with it. Like it's all some big stupid ironic hipster joke. I went to two shows on a whim just because I liked going to see live wrestling whenever possible. The first was a Tag Tournament a long time ago where the Swiss Money Holding wrestled Quack/Hero and the second was that Trios tournament Team FIST won. Those two shows were enough for me. Alright, so...whatever. Roll with it. 1. Growing beards and haircuts like the cones worn by Los Ice Creams. 2. Getting back tattoos of Icarus getting his back tattoo 3. Wearing lucha masks everywhere else in life...except at CHIKARA shows. Keep going. Or not. Whatever, I don't care. |
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 8, 2013 12:10:50 GMT -5
4. From now on, you can only get their shows one thumb drives deposited in Swiss toilet tanks, they give clues on their website but no one uses them because clues are too mainstream.
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Post by Brainbustaaah! on May 8, 2013 12:24:30 GMT -5
4. From now on, you can only get their shows one thumb drives deposited in Swiss toilet tanks, they give clues on their website but no one uses them because clues are too mainstream. GDit Claudio... 5. Writing their masters' theses on the deep philosophical and intellectual subtext behind the history of FIST. |
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 8, 2013 13:01:19 GMT -5
4. From now on, you can only get their shows one thumb drives deposited in Swiss toilet tanks, they give clues on their website but no one uses them because clues are too mainstream. GDit Claudio... 5. Writing their masters' theses on the deep philosophical and intellectual subtext behind the history of FIST. It's okay because... 6. They encourage piracy now! |
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on May 8, 2013 13:20:43 GMT -5
7. Arm drags are called by new names every week, usually named after Mexican dishes. Most people don't know what they're really called, anyway.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on May 8, 2013 18:12:52 GMT -5
I AM NOT A HIPSTER!!!! I just have a mask fetish.
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on May 8, 2013 18:20:06 GMT -5
I AM NOT A HIPSTER!!!! I just have a mask fetish. 8. Salon.com's newest columnist: Frito Cottonbelly, Sex Columnist, CHIKARA fan. It can be Salon or vice.com, whichever. |
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on May 8, 2013 18:30:24 GMT -5
They actually talk about hipsters, because nobody has talked about hipsters for like five years.
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on May 8, 2013 23:44:03 GMT -5
9. Everybody hates on Johnny Gargano when he's in FIST but when he leaves they will all say he was the best member of the stable.
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Post by "I'm Batman..." on May 9, 2013 0:42:46 GMT -5
How is Chikara hipster?
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 9, 2013 0:54:14 GMT -5
Read the OP. 10. Tom Waits albums substitute commentary because if you play CHIKARA shows and Tom Waits at the same time, they totally sync up |
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Post by ________ has left the building on May 9, 2013 6:49:12 GMT -5
11. When wrestlers are cutting promos, music from the hottest independent alternative artists is played in the background. Only once because no one likes commercialized music from sellout bands.
12. Eddie Kingston drinks PBR post match.
13. Darin Corbin not only slows down time but space itself. Also he's dressed like the 6th Doctor Who.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 9, 2013 7:08:15 GMT -5
14. Wrestlers start playing their own themes on acoustic guitars, well, they carry them but never get around to playing because they're explaining the emotional context of the song instead.
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on May 9, 2013 14:39:03 GMT -5
15. CHIKARA fans start coming to shows in tweed blazers with elbow patches & glasses to look like Wink Vavaseur, but never actually admit that they're doing it to look like Wink.
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on May 9, 2013 18:42:37 GMT -5
16. They were into Los Ice Creams before they were cool.
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Post by ________ has left the building on May 9, 2013 18:53:36 GMT -5
17. Wear vintage Chikara t-shirts.
18. Stop watching the Podcast-A-Go Go because no one cool watches them.
19. Get a Gekido tattoo for the irony.
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Before I kinda understood it because it had passable writing and a few standout talents. Nowadays the writing is bland, boring and often confusing. The roster is filled with sloppy rookies and cruise control vets there's just nothing there for me to really get excited about.
I hate their whole "ZOMG Aren't we so ironic and clever!?!?" vibe. I'm far from some stuffy purist and I've liked a whole lot of "wrestlecrap" gimmicks over the years. I think things would get boring in a hurry if everybody was a serious business Johnny Bootandtights type of wrestler but Chikara goes overboard with it. Like it's all some big stupid ironic hipster joke. 
