Pardon The Lariat Podcast

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[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Are you into pro wrestling? Do you run a fed? Operate a CAW? Do a unique thing apart of the wrestleverse? We want to hear from YOU. #wwe2k25 guests can sign up to be interviewed now on Discord.

Bring the chairshot and we will bring the good vibes.💪🏻🍭

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[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Let's pull up bar stools and discuss this.

[The CAW Chronicles Podcast @CAWChronPodcast]

We needa make a Caw Endgame PPV at this point

Team Caw is not Dead vs Caw is Dead

Shoutout @GAshtonComet for kickstarting this week long-ish discussion LMAO this has been nuts

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

The funny thing about the discourse about CAW being dead is that it's brought up yearly.

CAW for us was 2001 or just before that point.

If your current favorite creator or fed is on break. Why not look up new folks to try?

There is more then one flavor of ice cream.

Yep!

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

@CrispyWrestlin Yes?

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

@ChandranTheMan He's a journalist who reports on sports. Should reports only lean positive to a company? or cover it with the good, bad and the ugly.

Reporters cover all sports. Wrestling events can be booked poorly or booked Solid. Reporters can call that out in the report.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

@PrinceMartyM @KarnageSUPREM2K The thing we keep thinking is the black walls really needs changed to give this arena character. Like a bar setting on one side with a wall of torn band posters on the other wall. Sometime to make the arena unique and interesting. The size seems right for an indie.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

@WWE2K26Fan Variants that were once behind a pay wall in a mode in previous versions.

Some years are more feature packed and other years it's that fresh smell of new paint to cover the old.

Time will tell that tale.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Now...wait a darn minute!!

If this is cream of the crop edition. We may change the edition we get.

It's a bit interesting to see b roll of the 90's, but no peculiar visuals on modes, CAW stuff or other important features.

[#WWE2K26 @WWEgames]

It wasn’t just wrestling, it was war. #WWE2K26

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

We are going with this edition this year. Excited to drop some @GRPPLWrestling designs for 26.

Let's Rumble!

[2K @2K]

Put the word out. The Attitude Era is back 🔥

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

_____ Made

Something to look forward to in 2026.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Dig this adjustment. Think a nose adjustment to help that blank space where the mouth is would be our next suggestion.

Like a upside down triangle to add a bit of extra to it.

Overall, the CAW has a solid look. Be proud you hit a home run.

[ƎWIᴚ⅁ (グライム・ペレス) @_GR1M3_]

One more mask edit added teeth to the bottom and it looks a bit better too me but Im still ehhh on on since Im use too the regular mask showing part of da face lol

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Thinking whiskers or something on the chin/mouth area.

Like the design a lot.

[ƎWIᴚ⅁ (グライム・ペレス) @_GR1M3_]

Testing a mask edit looks great but ehhh kinda not feeling it

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Appreciate the clarification.

Enjoy your evening.

[Portia Page, probably @OMGPortiaPage]

@PardonTheLariat This is a reference to a tweet from someone, don’t worry I’m not one of those people 😭

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Heads up,

With the many tools at our disposal these days. Doing promos in a CAW's native language or even the creators language.

Translation is out there. It's not a big lift.

A side note just to add to this.

We loved the Parasite movie. Subtitled and all.

[Portia Page, probably @OMGPortiaPage]

Heads up if you’re going to do a back and worth tweet for a rivalry please only speak in English!
I don’t know or understand any other language than English!

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

New day with thoughts.

The current timeline I'm simply going to say this.

Thanks for what you do here. You may not get the pat on the back often or at all. Proud of what you do and how you carry yourself.

Thanks for being apart of the work.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

It's pretty strange seeing the timeline debating if CAW is dead and there is no quality shows out there with storytelling.

We all live in a silo for the good or worse of CAW. Outside the bubble, down the block, and past Mr. Serious's house is content you may just love.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

AI logos is something that keeps me up at night. I'm not mad at individuals, but offering them a different path to help enhance that CAW.

Reason @GRPPLWrestling exists period.

Want a logo? Hit them up and boom you got a logo that feels legit and no ai family was harmed.

[⚜🧛‍♀️SIN CITY SAINT ⚜🖤 @calibxcook]

BEING MAD AT A 13 YR OLD FOR USING AI LOGOS IS LAME ASF

SIM SHOWS WITH NO STORYTELLING ARE BORING

FED OWNERS WHO PRESS TALENT TO PARTICIPATE ARE UGLY

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Wanted to put a thanks to CAW post here to balance my posts.

Because of CAW / E-fed experience. I make content as career now.

Now I'm investing into becoming an illustrator with online courses.

Any courses you reccomend? I work in Procreate/ Adobe Fresco.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Think we will disagree, but would love the opportunity to talk more about this issue/topic on the pod.

Interested?

[WRESTHINGS2K @WRESTHINGS2K]

@PardonTheLariat I'll be real it's defo ego alot of the times.

Permission/No permission. Credit/No Credit. Perception is the most important thing to alot of CAW creators and theyve let RPing as a caw get to their head.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Crediting creators should be bare minimum when grabbing a CAW off CC to then produce an edited universe league for Youtube.

Creators spend countless hours to make a difference in appearance or moveset. Creators here are badass.

It's not ego. It's supporting each other.

[Pardon The Lariat Podcast @PardonTheLariat]

Using a caw offline in universe mode is fine as well any match type.

When people want to produce edited content using a downloaded CAW. The being kind is giving heads up to creators or even the right thing is collaboration with the creators to create video content.

[WRESTHINGS2K @WRESTHINGS2K]

Hmmm I see where you’re getting at but we’ll have to respectfully agree to disagree. I don’t think it has anything to do with being kind.

Rule of thumb should be that if you don’t want random people using your caw then simply don’t upload them on a CC