Grape

One of the greatest members and teammates. Rest in peace to a true legend

I'm too fuxkin faded to even attempt this goddamn

I guess I should probably do my fnaf stream at some point...

Now now, let's not be too hasty : )

Welcome back!

Where's Lichtenstein?

Can someone describe this in SBA terms?

Welcome!

The VHLE gets a lot of hate, and most is rather deserved. Majority of experiences appear to be negative, with the stopgap to the majors being overly draining to both engagement and enjoyment. First gens go here to die, and recreates simply plug their ears and chug along to get through this brief stint. The work of the GMs is iffy, with scouting being rather poor and drafted players in some cases sitting around with no communication from their new bench boss for multiple weeks. While the TPE range it covers is typically where people fizzle out naturally, the league does not do the best job attempting to remedy that. With the vast amount of inactives sitting between 200-400 TPE, why not do something with that. With more consistent recruitment and the VHLM continuing to have life injected into it, a minor expansion (bring back Yukon) and shifting of the TPE caps to cover the empty space provided with the removal of the VHLE from active player usage and to take in everyone who’s still kicking would fix it on that end. It’s been shown that it’s possible, and that the VHLE is overall redundant. But I am not someone who likes to waste resources. We have all these assets for now defunct teams, so why not do something with them? Introducing the VHLI, or the Inactive League. Using the now defunct team logos, we can assemble a league focused purely on GM development. People coming into the league wanting to learn how to become a GM or just want to do some team playtesting can become a GM of one of the inactive teams. These teams will be granted access to the pool of inactives ticking all the way up to whatever the VHL minimum cap would have become. Throwing on all the bells and whistles, like a draft, free agency, and a trade deadline, it will have the same feel of regular leagues, except the locker rooms are dead, although not much of a change for the VHLE and some M teams. It would provide a more casual experience, meant for learning and not necessarily pure competition, and is there to build proficiency in STHS and team building, as well as test out and learn possible new strategies that can be implemented in other leagues. An addition that could possibly be made is a player editor as well, in which GMs can be given access to their players’ and tinker with them, although that might be a step too far. The league will be made up of eight teams, with the six current VHLE teams making up the main bulk of it. Adding onto it, we will see a return of a long defunct team in the Madrid Thunder, with a logo of a charging bull with it’s back half morphing into a sort of lightning bolt. Two completely new teams will be birthed from this as well, with a team in France, either in Paris or Bordeaux, filling a long standing hole in the European sector of the VHL, as well as a team in the Netherlands, likely Amsterdam, dotting up Western Europe which has been somewhat lacking in league representation. (534 words)

I can't believe how little I actually remeber from way back then. I knew we were in the same draft, I just never knew where and when you were drafted. Based on what you've become, I would have never penciled you in as going so late (especially not 10 picks after me). I always pictured you as more like a 3rd round pick, definitely not a 5th. I also don't ever remember you being on the Bulls, although that's probably because I was moved halfway through the season. At this point, S65 feels like a distant memory, and I guess five years later it kind of is. I look forward reading each installment. Our paths have crossed a fair few times, enough that there'll be plenty of shared memories within each article that I'll be happy to remember and reminisce.

Time to embezzle funds to recoup the financial losses

Can you add me to the ping list so I know whenever you get around to it?

@Mysterious_Fish Please do your job

@Spartan I think I'm worth a conditional 4th now : )

I'm suing for emotional damages. We WILL get a lawsuit out of this

I joined the VHL five years ago. So much has changed within that time that looking back, it feels like it was longer. It was a packed half decade, covering the latter half of my high school years and taking me pretty much completely through university. During that time, I’ve had varying degrees of activity. I was pretty much a pure clicker with my first player, skipping weeks here and there because I really didn’t like the manual claiming on the forum. While the forum changed to be a little more streamlined, my activity increased, becoming a consistent clicker to actually becoming active and contributing, and now with this player, doing my damndest to max earn each and every week, to some success. With the amount of time spent, either working on tasks and just being here in general, burnout does start to take place. Motivation begins to dwindle. The grind for high TPE players is especially grueling and demotivating. I mean hell, my player is in their 4th season and each week of work equates to two ratings boosts. It’s tough to stay dedicated to the grind without something there to keep things entertaining, without something to keep me coming back week after week, day after day, to not just pop in and do my tasks but to actually be a part of this community. I will say, @Spartan has done a damn good job of making the Moscow discord entertaining and engaging. I haven’t been as active in a discord like that one since probably the S60s Houston and Ottawa LRs, back in the beginning. The ability to jump in there and shitpost every now and again while also, at least attempting to, contribute to the team as an advisor and also just a player who cares about their build for once. Even still, I needed something just a bit more, one little cherry on top to keep me chugging along through the late claim slog. What started as a passing comment during an “argument” by @twists soon became something so much more. Now, contrary to popular belief, I am not a weeb. I have not watched much anime and don’t know many shows. I simply find some things funny and attach myself to the few shows I’ve watched, and even some that I haven’t (like my forum pfp). That doesn’t mean that I’m a weeb, just that I’m probably autistic, although the test says I’m not but who knows these days. Nevertheless, that comment spiraled into something more, and Moscow for a moment was blessed with custom gifs relating to current happenings and discussions like the one below: It fizzled out somewhat for a bit and it seemed like it was going to pass, with the only one being made and updated is the one above to remain accurate with the TPE gain. That changed pretty quickly when @badcolethetitan jumped on the trend and made some of his own, reigniting the gif spark within me, leading to new gifs to be created, and now they have leached from the Moscow LR into the VHL discord, blessing the sometimes stagnant channels with much-needed activity. Are they stupid? Yes. Repetitive? Also yes. Is it fun though? Definitely. Sure it can be annoying at times, however, it creates both entertainment and interaction within the channel. The most important thing it has done though, is get me involved. Going through the triple slog of late stage TPE claiming, searching and interviewing for jobs, and senior year classes would lead to the burnout of most hobbies, and I’ve dropped a couple due to real life stress, but I enjoy the VHL, and don’t want to just up and leave it, and so long as I can have this fun thing going on for me, I feel as if I can stick with it until my workload decreases, and I can contribute more. (651 words)

I've been sending the league bribe money for sims for the past 3 seasons! No wonder the sims haven't been rigged in my favor!

Spartan the rebuild is over stop acquiring more picks

Week 3 of claiming

More undeniable proof that Obuz is the MVP of Moscow