Da Trifecta

Thank you @Ricer13 for joining the Mod team!

The ideal individual should posses the following traits:
 
1) Online availability throughout the day to be checking into the forums and discord and respond to staff pings promptly. (Please note in application your most active hours) and how often you are on forums/discord.
 
My availability is from 7am to 11 pm MST. I response fairly quickly to any pings throughout the day and my activity on both of the discord and forum are quite high.
 
2) Be able to respond to discord pings and be verified via 2fa.
 
Responding to pings is no issue. I am often very quick to respond throughout the hours posted above. Being verified is no issue.
 
3) Older than 20 years (or demonstration of maturity and judgement) 
 
I am 34 years old. For the most part I am mature and have good judgment but am by no means a perfect person.
 
4) Not hold other league jobs or associations (GMing) that may pose a conflict of interest (exceptions apply) 
 
I do hold a couple jobs in the league but would likely step back from one of them if given this opportunity. They wouldn’t affect my attentiveness to this job regardless.
 
Additional things you may add for consideration:
 
-Can be on as late as 2 am on weekends but that’s as late as I can be on. 
-I care about the well being of this league and the safety of the people in it. I do not have previous moderation experience but am eager to learn. 
 
Any other questions for me please let me know.

So boobies are OK again?

This thread caused me to drink excessively. 

I guess I'm back? Well sort of. Not quite sure the activity levels that I will be showing but something is better than nothing right? It's been quite awhile since I've actually enjoyed the VHL and with a much needed break, maybe it will be good for me going forward. My penchant for retiring early has been defeated so maybe that will translate over to here. Honestly whether it be on one team or multiple, I just want to be able to check one thing off my sim league checklist and that is a full career in the VHL. Many times I've had great players lined up and finished them off way too early and it hurt me badly to watch and to do. Some regrets but you live with them and you can only hope to rectify those mistakes going forward with whatever endeavors come your way with the next set of hurdles. Honestly it may feel good to slow play it rather than give it more effort than I think I can give to it.

I'm happy to consider second chances as well, and I would hope the mods would be as well. But when there's a clear disregard to following a ban appeal process and breaking another rule regarding ban evasions, it doesn't show that much has been learned. Breaking rules is not being reformed.

no u

some might say this was AJ's Achilles heel

Thanks for the easy talks, Champ. @Ricer13

Congratulations on the milestone and the life you've built for yourself and family. Thanks for the work you do here Bek. 

This league wouldn’t be what it is without you Bek. I am grateful you stuck it out and made it what it is today because it’s become a place outside of my chaotic life that I can come and enjoy. 🍻 

Good job Bek.  And I thought I was old.

It's crazy to think how long the VHL has been a part of some of our lives. I love our community. Thanks Bek

Made me look for GMing the Bears (being a day ahead now helps lol) but am at 2,497 days with Seattle.  

lol ur such a loser
 
To be less serious for a moment though, it's been a pleasure to have shared a random online community with you all these years. Your dedication is unmatched and probably unhealthy, and we love you and all others who have supported this community throughout the years.  

Ah but did you consider leap years though?

We're old, man. ❤️

This post kind of makes me understand why I still sign in to update my player even though I pay zero attention to what's going on and haven't posted anything in months

Hello everyone,
 
Not gonna bother with a members tag on this, if you see it then great, you will be rewarded for that. If you don’t then…. Well why am I writing this because if you don’t see it how can you read this part?
 
Anyway, today marks 5717 days (that’s 15 years, 7 months, and 26 days if you’re curious) since the VHL opened its doors. What a random number you might say, why does that matter? Well if I do the math, and I have, I was born 5717 days before the start of the VHL. Given that I joined on day one and have been here ever since that means today marks the official day that I have been in the VHL just as long as I was outside of it. Is that a stupid thing to celebrate? Probably but that won’t stop me; so please let me indulge in a bit of sentimentality for a moment.
 
When the VHL started I had not yet completed high school, I had never had a girlfriend, hell I had never kissed a girl. I was a lonely nerd turning to the internet to find something to do; and I found it. The VHL was not my first sim league, wasn’t even the first one I joined ran by the people who ran it, but it was the first that felt different and felt like it had a good chance of surviving which so few at that point had done. I found a community here. I cannot honestly say that everything went perfectly or that my start in the VHL was without fault; I very nearly left for good within 2 months, but I stayed. I have now not only finished high school but university and going on 10 years working post-schooling. I have now not only had a steady relationship but a wife and two children, a life. All the while the VHL has been there, constantly evolving with the times sure but present. Over 5 years ago I took up the mantel of commissioner. I did it not because I thought I was necessarily the best person for the job but because I thought the league needed something, it was in trouble and I didn’t want to see it fail. I like to think that in these 5 years of growth I have at least stalled that failure.
 
5717 days likely means nothing to any of you, just as that paragraph likely means nothing to any of you, but it means something to me. This league, this place, this community has been a standard in my life for longer than most anything else. I’m not going anywhere right now, that’s not what this is, but I did want to mark the occasion because this league does mean a lot to me.
 
So if you’ve made it this far feel free to take 5 uncapped TPE for your troubles, on me. I’m not sure the insane total I’ve had over the years (probably over 10k by now) so 5 for everyone that I bored with this story should suffice as a thank you for being my weird extended internet family.

Despite the weird changes for the attributes, it seems like I am heading in the right direction with this player. I know the season wise early and things could change but my numbers so far have been where i want them to be roughly. I have a long way to go before the pros but the minors has been treating me right and I am more than content with this production. I have been having too many hot and cold nights and it can be frustrating but when I'm hot, I can go for four to five points a night which may not seem like a lot from a second liner but I enjoy it. Honestly I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the season plays out and what my end stats look like. I haven't put in place any season goals so I am just going to wing it when it comes to what I want to achieve by the end of the year. Maybe next year will be the time when I put down those goals.

1. I feel great, it's a rush
2. Keep improving my scoring
3. A little behind what I want to be at
4. Myself because I need it more lol
5. Spaghetti and meatballs
6. I slept a handful of hours

1. I feel great, it's a rush
2. Keep improving my scoring
3. A little behind what I want to be at
4. Myself because I need it more lol
5. Spaghetti and meatballs
6. I slept a handful of hours

Despite the weird changes for the attributes, it seems like I am heading in the right direction with this player. I know the season wise early and things could change but my numbers so far have been where i want them to be roughly. I have a long way to go before the pros but the minors has been treating me right and I am more than content with this production. I have been having too many hot and cold nights and it can be frustrating but when I'm hot, I can go for four to five points a night which may not seem like a lot from a second liner but I enjoy it. Honestly I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the season plays out and what my end stats look like. I haven't put in place any season goals so I am just going to wing it when it comes to what I want to achieve by the end of the year. Maybe next year will be the time when I put down those goals.

Could you please update the title. The open parenthesis and the lack of many is just too much.

Couple of GOATs @Frank @STZ