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I don't have an issue at all but maybe it would be smart to just have @Beketov take over VHL Playoffs regardless of the normal rotation if Toronto's in, to avoid the optics of it? By that point no roster movement in VHLM so doesn't really matter, can still do the regular season rotation.

Why didn't we think of this sooner? This will solve everything. @DilIsPickle is a beacon of integrity and trusted by all. Plus him and SimonT will get along great as neither can speak proper English!

You could apply all the criticisms in this thread to any simmer that has a player in the league Automating simming isn't realistic so our best option is having trustworthy people sim

I'm sure we could put something together.

go away

There's probably quite a few tbh remind TMR and I'll run a db query

I mean I think there's some distinction between stats and attributes, I was referring strictly to attributes in the BoG and my point was nobody has the right to claim unfairness if everyone is decreased relatively. Of course nobody wants their stats to go down, although I would propose that on this version of STHS we could probably reduce attributes significantly and still see similar stats with the same level of 'randomness'..just do the little weight this version puts on attributes vs sliders, but there's here nor there. I see what you're saying, but at the same time we can't just cater to people that are upset with their player performance lol. The fact is, and this was my point in BOG, if you want to move to an engine where top TPE players always perform like top TPE players than attributes have to go down. That's a fact. There will be a group unhappy about it, but the reality is there's nothing unfair about it. Also, I would argue vehemently against the notion that we lose many members due to how their player performs, I think that's quite a bit of hogwash and literally can't recall anyone leaving citing their players performance. In fact I would suggest we'd be worse of if peoples players performed exactly how they hoped 100% of the time.

Wow what unfortunate timing. Josh and I discussed this the other day and player names are going to be limited to 20 or 30 characters in the next update.

I saw it and threw up in my mouth. Dany >

No shout out for being your #1 mentor and role model skank

Madness STZ, madness

idk man i always kinda felt the loudest people on the interwebs were likely the quietest people in RL..

IDK my take.. have always been pretty moderate on this issue The fact that there was a time when he was a good contributing, albeit strong willed, member...i think shows something changed once before so change is not necessarily out of the realm of possibility. Who knows maybe he was having personal issues at the time. But more likely, I think it was just regular Boubabi - but exacerbated 100-fold by the culture of the league at the time. Looking back now at the hatred that existed between the different sides was pretty deep - i dont even know how it started but in hindsight i dont think any amount of warnings/chances was going to end it.. it was a constant cycle of provoking, playing the victim, then the warnings and the suspensions, then a few hours later do it all over again. I think it likely became inevitable pretty quickly someone was going to banned to break the cycle, though I didn't know that at the time. For everything boubabi did wrong he wasn't randomly attacking anyone that walked by, he would lash out at people who chimed in to disagree with him and whatnot, but i think if you look at it..pretty much every instance started between boubabi and the same people over and over again. I had a spent a lot of time trying to help him avoid a ban and cool things down. I don't know why he refused to take my advice but he didn't and that's ultimately what led me to be comfortable with the decision to ban at the time. I saw no other options. But, I said up to the day he was banned, many things were his fault entirely - there were others that certainly shared in responsibility for some of what happened but skirted the line of 'going too far', and i continue to believe that some of those people operated with the clear goal of provocation. Take from that what you will. Also, I'm not sure why people are referencing that award vote as what makes Boubabi crazy. He went about it horribly, no doubt, but his argument was valid. It looks silly when he won by a margin is acting like a fool but as someone said in the thread, if that was actually a close award then he would have lost it due some voting that him, me and everyone else knew to be 100% bias. That vote literally led directly to the Award Committee being established; so yeah he acted like an idiot but it wasn't some conspiracy theory. ^ Edit: I actually thought we were taking about that one Award Ceremony thread, not a public Slobo vote.

Total witch hunt. Sad!

Winter came.

Correct. There'll be a post when options are picked up as well.

You always catch me.....

@Quik @Beketov I will claim the TPE reward in exchange for making the necessary adjustments to let you change bot names. Thanks

I have to give @Beketov some credit for coming up with the basic look and feel: Im very design-challenged. Bootstrap is a godsend.

Wow who knew this comment would net me some shade exactly 1 year later I have nothing against you southerners, at the time my thinking was more so that we should stick to more traditional/realistic areas..but now that we've already done some more traditional expansion I could likely live with something non-traditional.

@Josh has set up an API for some things but presently it's only used with the Discord bot. Where we're just using a simple front end, Django's views/templates can handle what we need, including AJAX requests, more simply than via direct API (at least IMO but I'm far more comfortable in Python than JS/jQuery so I'd rather do most of the work there). If we ever decided to move to a full JS front end like Angular we'd definitely need to go full API.

Backend is built on Django (a Python web framework if you aren't familiar) Frontend is just Bootstrap and jQuery

Some people into weird things I guess.....

now that I got my STHS license renewed i could add the 'β' to VHL bot names and solve the problem....if im feeling generous