Conversation about eFed "status-quo" and Endorsement: CWE 23XX

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Conversation about eFed "status-quo" and Endorsement: CWE 23XX

In my ongoing belief and advocacy for changing the eFed community's mindset about what is perceived as "norm," aka the status quo, I do come across places that attempt to change the status quo. Now the status-quo has been defined by me as basically really a systematic set of norms, even amidst "alternatives" that do exist (such as angle, competitive RP, turn-based, WWE 2k*)- although the mechanism to express ones self has varieties- you are still doing the same thing such as existing in a natural world aligned to our real world with very little wiggle room for unnatural ways which lead to limitations.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when I started up CreatureWrestling in 1999, as I mentioned before, I had 0 exposure to eFeds.... I made it up as I went. Sure, there were failures and experimentation (which often pissed off people who did not quite understand why that was so important to do...)- but ultimately we landed on a revolutionary concept: an environment that has very few creative limitations and PLAYERS GET TO DECIDE THEIR OWN OUTCOMES.

From time to time, I may come across an eFed that breaks the status quo- even by a little bit, and so I came across this Reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/efeds/comments ... ?context=1

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It sets the environment 300 years in the future and explores creating characters that do not need to be anchored to real-life humans. I am very glad that this exists and all hope for them, but I must still point out that they still align with certain elements of the status quo, such as RP word cap limits and the way wins are judged.

What I am pointing out here is: why are there any limitations at all? One of the biggest reasons is to have equity and some sense of order and fairness- I do get that; however, those things can still be accomplished if it were promoting collaboration. Collaboration is the keystone which tends to be a problem moreover with many eFed wrestlers- because what I have experienced first-hand is that people like to be the gods of their writing and trajectory - but they must also embrace differences and accept that not everything has to be a certain way all of the time such as not having images in their RP writing or on a pay-per-view *cough*


Anyway, all power to these guys. I hope they succeed.
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