The hashtag long awaited thread. Anyway, just state some things that in hindsight, would have been the better choice for you or someone else in character or out.


I'll start, in hindsight, I shouldn't have left EAW back in 09. 


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Where do I start?   

In hindsight I should have joined EAW in 09 when I had the chance instead of constantly worrying what others thought of me or said to me. If I had the mind set I have now back then I would have been a very loyal member here and I would have been exposed to many great people that isn't here anymore.

Ryan Savage wrote:

In hindsight I should have joined EAW in 09 when I had the chance instead of constantly worrying what others thought of me or said to me. If I had the mind set I have now back then I would have been a very loyal member here and I would have been exposed to many great people that isn't here anymore.

I didn't know you were around so long.

In hindsight, I should've heard about and joined EAW back in 08 after AWF closed.

In hindsight, I shouldn't have let Hurricane Hawk piss me off so I wouldn't have been fired.

That's it, though, as I'm the type of person to move on and move forward.

In hindsight, I should have stuck around last time.

In hindsight, I should have left EAW exactly like I did in 2012. It helped a lot in the long-run.

In hindsight i prolly shouldnt have left EAW after P4P. I shouldve stayed and ran shit as a world champion, even if it woulda added to my ''you can never retire'' stigma. Odds are I prolly woulda retired with Banks at PFP 5 though, depending on how satisfying my reign was.

Not that I dont wanna be here now or anything, and to be honest I was probably way too stressed out at the time to stay anyway so it did me a lot of good to retire. But from an e-fedding standpoint it woulda been nice if i had stayed for the 2011-2012 year and even joined Bane of LEGION with Robbie, Jay and them. Ah well.

Alex Anderson wrote:

Ryan Savage wrote:

In hindsight I should have joined EAW in 09 when I had the chance instead of constantly worrying what others thought of me or said to me. If I had the mind set I have now back then I would have been a very loyal member here and I would have been exposed to many great people that isn't here anymore.

I didn't know you were around so long.

Yes, I was quite the stalker. But I knew I was going to join EAW one day reading most people's promos back then I knew I wasn't really ready because also at the time I was only doing one or two promos and that was my limit. So before then I joined other feds and improve myself well enough to get by and now that I'm here I feel like im improving every time I promo.

In hindsight, I should have found this place earlier.

I should have went for the tag titles when I was an active Extremist.

In hindsight as VP I shouldn't have shown that new unreleased roster pic to RRS back when he was an EAW GFX person anymore, I forgot how it came up between us for me to give it to him, but it was my only mistake as VP and he kept it in his pb and gave Banks his password and he forgot it was there, supposedly. Either way, as VP, there was no reason I should of gave it to him.


In hindsight I shouldn't have annoyed Scott Diamond so much about forgiving RRS, especially since our match still never happened, but at the time it was annoying enough I was getting snubbed from my world title because of RRS, so I felt I was at least owed the match. My bad though.


Then there was that whole DDD letter stuff he sent to writers, tbh I didn't fully understand he was actually plotting to send it to people to derail DDD or some massive big deal. He just asked for my opinion on the manner and my opinion was it didn't really make sense for someone from another brand to be world champ especially since he closed off fpvs without the world title anyways. I didn't think he was making some petition.


In the end, all my hindsights are I shouldn't have trusted or dealt with RRS. But then again I'm bipolar when it comes to RRS, he alongside HBKF and MVP Hancock are like my first E-Fed friends and he's the last one left so I tend to go from very annoyed by him to very friendly and trusting due to nostalgic reasons, I'll probably be buddy buddy with RRS again soon enough.

In hindsight, I shouldn't have necessarily argued less, but I should have argued in favor of different goals that actually had meaning and purpose aside from a lot of things that accomplished nothing at all. Don't get me wrong, I stand by a lot of the things I've debated and argued for, but I'm mature enough to acknowledge that my opinions aren't absolute and not always correct.

In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have hidden the fact that I was Kaneda during the WHW 2011 era. I shouldn't have told Ronn that I would only come back to EAW if I did return to another e-fed during my 2011 retirement. It doesn't really matter what type of person you tell that sort of thing to; ultimately, you just have to deal with the fact that you lied, apologize, forgive yourself, and move on. With that said, I felt like my time away from e-feds after that point allowed me some breathing room and helped me develop into a more relaxed and mature individual, but I wish I had done so on different terms.

In hindsight, I should've joined LEGION as Kaneda sooner. I loved all of the promos I did as Kaneda in LEGION, with my only gripe being that shows were very infrequent and I couldn't quite develop my character in the way that I wanted to. I felt the guys there were challenging for the most part and inspired me to one-up them in whatever way possible. I wouldn't have joined LEGION at all if it weren't for Robbie's constant suggestions to do so, so s/o to Robbie.

In hindsight, I wish I had been more reluctant to use the term "retirement" and went with "leave of absence/hiatus" instead. I feel like my indecisiveness regarding when I would retire in 2013 led to the untimely demise of The Quintessential Trailblazers, a team that probably could've flourished for a far more extensive period of time than it did. I shouldn't have chosen Scott Diamond as my opponent at House of Glass 2013, the guy who was supposed to retire me. I don't think it succeeded in doing anything for either character considering I beat him a month later in an AWC defense. 

In hindsight, the EAW writers in 2013 should have made The Quintessential Trailblazers vs. whoever the two World Champions on Showdown and Dynasty were at the time a major match at an FPV or supershow. This would've been a marquee match-up, and it was something I really wanted to happen but that I knew probably wouldn't materialize. You have two members of the GOAT Circle vs. the two World Champions at the time, who would walk out with the victory? If you want to establish the Tag Team division as a serious and integral aspect of EAW, what better way to do that than to pit the best in the tag team division against the World Champions? I'm not sure this can be done at the present moment with three brands, but I continue to believe that this is a seriously awesome idea with loads of potential just dying to be fulfilled.

In hindsight, I should've stuck around until Reckless Wiring in 2014 and not bitched about Demon so I could potentially remain champion or at least remain on the brand. That way, I would get a super awesome poster and remain a headlining main event extremist without all of the unneeded commotion, turmoil, and arguments.

In hindsight, how the hell did I lose to Methuselah in my hometown at PFP 6? I mean, I know it's Match of the Universe and all bets are off, but one would think that the major superstar in his hometown would walk out with the victory. That said, he did a great job and the crowd was really live for that match and I'll never forget the atmosphere, the build, or our general intensity. This is an example of people brushing off or not acknowledging a feud for what it actually was; DDD and I were at each other's throats. Moreover, I strongly feel this was the rightful headlining match of PFP6 if match stipulations hadn't been a factor.

In hindsight, I should have taken my LEGION character more seriously. I don't know how I did as well as I did there because for the most part, all my promos were fucking stupid. Granted I was playing a character, but it was a stupid character. 

In hindsight, I should have stuck with EAW when I first heard of it. I liked the EAW site, but I didn't like the atmosphere of the chat. I had a lot of fun in CWF and LEGION, but I wish I would have juggled both EAW as another fed because obviously EAW was the one that was built to last. 

In hindsight, I shouldn't have ever started Synergy with Tyler Parker. The things I was doing in my real life outside of e-feds were never going to allow me to be the e-fedder I wanted to be/should be, especially to be successful in EAW. I almost feel like I wasted Tyler's time but fuck Tyler so I don't feel bad.