ShawnGlade

i thought we were gonna do some sort of competition, not a popularity contest like the VHL normally does. smh

this vote is rigged. i want a recount.

Even when I'm inactive I find ways to win cups. GG Wolves & Titans

I like being the underdog. Nets more money for the people who betted on me

they can either claim it for that current week or the next week, its the same TPE regardless

are you forgetting about the trade deadline and freeze? i had less than 6 weeks to prepare, and considering i was aiming my team to be an upcoming team with talent, yeah it fucked me over pretty badly

*literally disregards my post about me telling you i wanna do it at the end of the week*

you told me to recruit for a season? you literally told me to hold off because we had enough players

ok fine, my memory failed me. but i still think it's pretty bs that expansion was thought of for over a full season in advance and i was told 2 weeks before

im aware, in fact you were one of the people i apologized to. I made efforts to fix my image. I did everything I possibly could to fix myself and all i was met with was endless shit for months. no fucking wonder i stopped caring

you read it wrong

im fucking dying ?

LOL this guy thinks I was serious

um, except i didn't know a full season before Quik I'm not even joking when I say I knew about Malmo 12 hours before everyone else. That's why I was so pissed off about it, because I had no time to prepare because while I appreciate the effort of letting people know ahead of time, in practice that's not how it went down

I was gonna deconstruct this, but nah. I tried to help dil, I really did. We very clearly have different thoughts on how to run shit and at the end of the day hes the GM you admitted yourself that you've never liked me or my GM style, but now you also looked up to me? which one is it dude

Wait hold on I didn't get my "personal attack" yet. Nick, your my homie I'm so sorry, your chances of HOF are looking brighter by the player, don't be sad, embrace something nice and happy find a hobby. Only petty people talk shit behind peoples back; I should know. Your friend; ShawnGlade.

I like how you posted this for shock factor, but didn't mention any of the behind the scenes. Our BOT TO HELP US RECRUIT was broken so I did each of them by hand because I cared. You told me I sucked at what I was doing so I stopped and became boring. I told you I preferred to do things at the end of the week but threw a fit when I did and demanded I do things your way (fine, you're the GM I get it) but yeah, you had me do everything. I did PCs, recruiting, trivia, even gave input on trades, and moderated the discord server because you were busy playing Civ 5 or whatever. Yknow, we had a rocky start, but I warmed up to you and started liking you. Please don't make me hate your fucking guts again

Ok ok. I agree the league has it's niches and groups, unfortunately the majority make it not fun. And Quik, my guy, I literally found out about shit the same time the community did. It would've been real helpful if I had some sort of knowledge on wtf was going on

i just read my own post. I was talking about the boxing national tourney, not hockey. my fault i admit, but still fuck you for being a prick

wtf? when did i even mention college hockey? and if you can, then please do it. I'd love to see you get your shit rocked by some 35 year old accounting plug

I agree, we can absolutely be both. I'm not interested in some weird LARPing server or whatever, but at what point is it not even a VHL server anymore? And I agree there could be more channels, this is an example of a good response paragraph. And this is an example of a stupid response. You see I find it kinda funny how you skipped over the part where I mentioned that having that second BOG job was pretty necessary to doing my GM job. I know my words are "just a GM" but please don't tell me you think that I think GM is "just a job." I'm fully aware GMing is a prestigious job that people would kill for. You seem to think I like blaming others or whining because I don't get an updater job or whatever, but my whole point was I should've at least been involved in BOG discussion as yknow, it pertained to my fucking job. I won't shit on this, if you like expansion then whoopy doo. I personally don't like it nor care about setting records or whatever. expansion isn't fun to me its funny because the origins of this are actually me joking around. It was after last expansion I joked about this. The funny thing is, this legitimately is a joke. I don't think I'd be given a GM job, nor would I want one right one. I fucking hate expansion, but would at least hate it a little less if it was in AK or CO. We can hate expansion, and we can also love having a team in our hometown. In your words, "we can be both" if i cared about being shit on then i wouldn't have posted this? literally nobody is stopping you

You're active and I had no idea you existed until today. accurate good on spartan then. I haven't contributed much that we can see today, so it'd be more of a failure if you haven't contributed more than me thats good, then stick around and enjoy the league im 19 2/10 Formatting was good but the content was all over the place and was hard to follow and read what you were trying to say

Before I delve into quoting specific replies because I will, no, this wasn't a joke. I wasn't even meaning it to be overly malicious (GM maybe excluded) but It was 2AM when I wrote it and I was tired and blah blah. But since people wanna be personal and then say "ItS NoT PeRsOnAl" it really irks me and if people wanna give brain dead replies instead of legitimate thoughts on what I wrote, fine, two can play at this game

Yes, I am crying because a league I once loved dearly has gone downhill. Good response bro

Not even a clickbait title For those that don't know me, allow me to give a brief introduction of myself. I'm ShawnGlade, member since 2018, GM'd Halifax and Davos before going MIA on the league for the last 9 months or so, popping in and out. Developed a toxic personality, apologized to everyone I beef'd with, and now here we are. So recently I've been on and off with the VHL. I made SG3 and was super active, for about a season until I went semi-inactive again, which is where we are now. I've been planning a grand VHL return for any day now, but let's be honest, I've been saying that for months, and It probably won't happen soon. There's a lot of reasons why I do what I do, but I wanna list a few of them here. I really want to come back to the VHL full time, but it's just not enjoyable in this state anymore. - The Culture Change. When I joined the league, it was addicting because you were so immersed in the world of the VHL. People used your player name when talking to you, and there were numerous interesting articles on players to watch or how good the second round of the draft would be and debating who goes where and shit like that. Then in late 2018, early 2019 the "meme" crowd joined and it marked the turn of the VHL from a hockey sim, to a big circlejerk. Pop in the discord for 5 minutes and you're bound to see a few dick jokes or some weird inside jokes you dont understand. It feels less like a hockey sim league and more like a group of friends who happen to be in a sim league. It's gotten so out of touch with actual hockey, that there are chatrooms in the discord server that are VHL-talk only. Not just discord either, the forums too. Stuff like the roast threads or the town of salem games. Now, I'm not the fun police and I don't have an issue with these things, they're cool and people enjoy them. My issue is I'd see discussion about a random comment in a random thread rather than people talking about the Game 7 that just happened or whatever. Idk, maybe I'm yelling at clouds but it doesn't feel immersive anymore. - You ain't entitled to shit. I mentioned this in my "2 years" post a few months ago, but tenure doesn't mean SHIT on this site. Just this past summer, I was fully active for about 2 months without a job, and I got passed up on for an updater job in favor of someone who came back to being active THAT WEEK. I'm dead serious when I say I'm not convinced they don't just pick names out of a hat for jobs. The commish and BOGs hire people who are not cut out for the job and then pull a surprised pikachu face when they crash and burn. When I was a VHL GM, I was one of two GMs that wasnt a BOG. Every other GM was a BOG. Aka, I was the last to know about stuff pertaining to the job I had. I didn't know about expansion, until a full 2 MONTHS after it was approved. I would find out that we were expanding a mere 12 hours before the rest of the league knew. I was also the only GM without a second job. I'm not saying I have to have jobs or anything, but it gets ridiculous when everyone else is responsible for something important and I'm literally just a GM, and apparently not an important one either as I was always the last to know stuff. People who joined months or even years after me had better jobs than I did. I get people have skills, but fuck so do I but I was never approached for something nor given an outlet to showcase my skills. Fun fact, I'm proficient at Excel and I do VFX for money. - GMs kinda suck at what they do. There, I said it. I've been in almost every VHLM locker room and none of them make me wanna continue playing on the site. I'm not firing shots at VHLM GMs specifically, but fuck, those LRs are dead and I was not once convinced that I should definitely stay. VHL GMs are no different. Beaviss and Banakcock are very good at retention (Beaviss will not leave me alone until I claim welfare :P) but nobody else is. Davos practically begged me to leave, and some of the GMs now I knew from the VHLM and they are no different, just bland, boring robots. Iunderstand this is a bold claim and someone will have something to say about how their GM is the greatest so they get more ice time, but I seriously not seen less effort anywhere more than the GMs on this site. Also side note, did you know VHLM GMs make their AGMs do everything? The recruiting messages, the PCs, the Trivia, the locker room set up, good chance it's your AGM doing the work and the GM reaping the rewards. - League expanded too much. Part of the whole culture change, 16 teams in the VHL isn't even fun. I understand that it was a numbers issue, but holy fuck I've never seen my interest decline faster than when I see an expansion thread. Part of the reason I liked it was because 8 teams is a small, nice community. No matter what team you played for, it had history and almost felt like you were in a clan fighting against other clans. Now it just feels like the Be A Pro I could play on EANHL, but less developed and more amateur. This is one of the main reasons I left tbh. Now like I said, I hate the idea of expansion HOWEVER I'd be willing to look the other way for an Alaska or Colorado team as I'd most likely return to full activity just to GM the team. But 16 teams feels dishonest to the league's original culture, and I can never for the life of me understand why having people on the fourth line fighting for ice team is so much worse than forcing teams to field 2 lines of CPU players that fuck everything up. /rant