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YEP

"@Spartan , what are we? I mean, I know we never said we were exclusive or made ourselves an item or anything, but just, just seeing you with other people, it hurts. I mean, you don't even look at me the same way as you used to or spend time with me. Always with the excuses. I just, just feel so alone now. This relationship feels more and more hollow by the day and it makes my heart ache. I thought what we had was special. I thought... I thought you were the one. And now, you don't do anything with me anymore. You're just always so caught up in something else you never take the time for us anymore. I, I guess I was wrong about you, about us... I always thought you would change. I knew who you were when we first got together, but I was willing to look past that, to build a better future for us, and hopefully with that you'd become the man I thought you'd be. But I guess I was mistaken. You'll never change, and I just need to accept that." - Leaked message from Bocage to Leonidas after seeing Moscow draft a defenseman at 2nd overall in the most recent draft.

999 words, no mentions, no formatting, no outlining anything, no structure at all. Oh yea, certified classic

There comes a time, for me at least, when you hit sort of a wall with your player mentally. You earn and you build up and you create the player you want to be and at some point, you just kind of stop caring about them that much. May it be you’ve reached the desired point with them or you get lost in the process. For me, it’s two blows. Firstly, when you reach the point in the build where the diminishing returns on TPE hit HARD, like, pouring 50 TPE into a stat just to bring it up by 1 point hard. Sure, I get it. Somewhere along the journey you have to ramp it up. Can’t be ticking up stats 3 TPE at a time since you’d simply run out of things to upgrade fairly quickly. But that doesn’t make it any easier. Sure, going from 95 DEF to 99 should take a lot of TPE to get to, but goddamn almost 250 is just painful and overall just not worth it. So you go and pivot to the next thing until THAT costs a ludicrous amount, and rinse and repeat until you want to blow your head off. In a way I sort of lucked out with forcing myself to stay down in the M for a season, which helped me avoid hitting that cycle as hard as I did. Even still though, it’s pretty unmotivating to jump in and max earn for a week and that TPE simply not doing anything. ON TOP OF THAT, now the first round of depreciation has come and I was woefully unprepared for it since I thought I had one more season and Spraytan didn’t tell me about it till we got eliminated in the playoffs. I got my blockers and whatnot but seeing it get tanked by a nice 160 TPE is a bummer since I was like 20 TPE away from reaching my final build. So I start reapplying and building back up but NO I need to bank for next depreciation. It’s all just so tiresome. Just being stuck in neutral with this player now, earning every week just for progress to be shoved back down. Late players feel like Sisyphus. With Moscow while for this season I’d still be numero uno on defense, holy shit is Woods growing like crazy. He will most definitely pass me by the end of the season. Then we got a 1A/1B situation going into next season but another youngin in Harrington will likely be sprouting up like crazy. My final season is a big question mark for me, since I don’t know what dark salary cap magic needs to be done to keep me there. It would be stupid to trade someone else to make room for me, since I’m gone after that season anyways. I’ve also said that if I get traded I’ll straight up retire, and I am not someone who goes back on their word. If I know that trade is coming too you bet your ass I’m not buying blockers or applying for that final season. Even then, I’d hold off on recreating until I edge into the S100 class. A big thing is just waiting. I’m just kind of done with this player. It’s hard to be motivated to earn and claim. I’ve had some struggles just having the time and inspiration to do the big tasks for this current player. There’s no lore building or personality. I’ve got like what, 5 more months of this guy? I’m stuck building up Borecoge till like late February. I really just want to jump right into my next player. I’ve been working on and planning for my next player for a very long time now. Hell, I made their build pretty much immediately after I made my current player. I have media spots lined up and ready. If people found my antics this season annoying or stupid, oh boy they are in for it big time with this next one. The big kicker is, this is gonna be a player for S100, and if I decide I’m done with Bocage now, I gotta do something for those 5 months leading up to it. I could make some rando shitter player that helps Ottawa for a bit but ehhh, not necessarily something I’d want to do, mainly since they’d have to go through the draft cycle (unless I do the dyl thing and just recreate again) and probably make some stupid or new GM pick me because “hey look at their last player” and then I’d feel bad and invest too much time into them. I don’t really know. I’m just rambling on and putting my thoughts out. Not going to bother formatting this. Enjoy the block of text and I’ll enjoy the 6 TPE. I could stretch this out to 1000 words to get the yummy two weeks but, just like my current player, I just want to be done with this and not come back to it. I’m happy that I’ve built an actual good player for once and am winning awards, but it’s not really me. The meme builds are fun. Shawty was a goofy player at a goofy time and I loved that. Vladovechsenkchushkin (didn’t even look it up or copy paste. Might of gotten it wrong but if I didn’t, subtle flex) started out as a pure goon and then the hybrid attributes came out and I already put in the legwork to figure out how that worked that I just decided to go with a good build, and they were a good player. First player to hit depreciation for me as well, and I remember I retired pretty much immediately after. Motivation just drains away. I’ll probably write up some decent little breakdown of personal life changes correlating with my players, since it’s kind of interesting how it works, but I’m gonna end off here so I’m edging 1000 words perfectly.

Could be worse. Warsaw is right there

@Pifferfish I feel you may have some choice words regarding the results

Bocage has always been a podcast guy, as well as someone who enjoys topical, currently humor. When the Hawk Tuah girl blew up all over FaceBook, Obuz could not contain his enjoyment. "This might quite be the greatest meme of all time, hands down.” When he heard that the woman behind it had started a podcast, Coined as the Talk Tuah Podcast, Bocage was elated. Finally, his two favorite things, merged into one. Obuz listened immediately upon release and was overcome with pure ecstasy. Hearing Hawk Tuah every five minutes, seeing people dab and refer to memes in the 2018-2020 period was practically sensory overload for the veteran blue-liner. As a somewhat well-known hockey player, Obuz thought that she might have him on the next episode if he asked. Thus, he sent her a totally appropriate, above board, professional, not at all creepy or desperate DM on Instagram asking to be on the Talk Tuah podcast. Apparently, she did not take this request seriously and saw it more as a joke than anything else, as she screenshotted the message and posted it on her Instagram story, tagging Bocage and stating “Look at this goofy ahh dude tryna slide on the Pod! ”. Bocage was flooded with mentions and DMs brutally criticizing him for his actions, absolutely lambasting him every which way. Bocage has since turned off mentions and notifications and has made all his socials private in an attempt to let the storm subside. This instance, however, is something that Bocage may never live down.

Holy fucking weeb

Moscow is so ass not even the GM wants to play there

trading the entire VHL for a player is crazy work

Making room for Bocage and Richmond

Yea gotcha. I use a pretty unusual body type which doesn't work for most clothing items. Whenever you release them I might try to make my own that'll fit

Who would be the Ottawa Senators equivalent? Need to know who's first round pick to make void

Will the jerseys work with every body type or just the base?

Add an author's note to milk out that TPE

Guys @Spartan won his ring you don't have to keep feeling bad for him and giving him top 5 picks

You might need to file a restraining order. Gus can be a bit obsessive

M and E brackets saved me

1. Moscow did not make it into the finals this year - why do you think that is? Offense dried up a fair bit I suppose. Hard to blame really any area of our game since they were all really close games, with 3 in OT. Sometimes the coin flips onto tails four times in a row, despite how unlikely it is. 2. Our friendly rivals Riga won the championship, how do you feel about Riga winning? I mean, if it wasn't us, it was gonna be them. Really the 2nd best team on paper behind Moscow, so it makes sense that they'd be able to put together a run. 3. It appears there is bit of cycle going on, EU teams have now won the championship twice in row, before that NA teams won 3 in row, before that EU teams won 3 in row, does this mean EU team will win next year again before dark times come for EU teams. Looking at the rosters, I'd say the EU has at least a couple more seasons I their favor. The only really threatening team in the NA is Vancouver. 4. Moscow has 3 picks in the first round, what kind of players is Moscow looking to draft? (what position for example?) We're kind of in a position to just go Best Player Available. First round of regression won't hit that hard. I guess I'd have to say look at wingers. Defense and centers should be solid for a fair bit, whereas it seems we always end up needing to upgrade the wings every season. 5. Can Moscow keep the current roster together or are we once going to see a off-season full of moves? The only piece that won't really be able to fit will be Syko. I think Reed is more than capable of holding down the starter role, and I suppose he'll have to be since we also need to add a winger to flesh out the roster. 6. When looking purely at TPE, in the top-10 for the upcoming draft only 3 forwards are ranked in the top-10, for next year same number is at 2, is VHL heading towards ultra low-scoring due to so many of the elite prospects playing in defensive positions? It really just makes those forwards all the more valuable. Defensemen can and have chipped in on the offensive side of the puck so, league-wise, I don't think there'll be too much of an impact there.

Claiming week 4/4

Would love this. I already have email notifications on for new players created. Adding on the retirement notifications as well would be pretty overwhelming for my inbox. Simple quick singular notification would be so simple and easy

While Bocage has never come close to entering free agency, resigning with Moscow twice on fairly long term deals, locking him into spending his career with the Menace, that does not mean that the contract negotiations were easy. Behind closed doors, there was some rather harsh contract negotiation talks between the veteran blue-liner and seasoned General Manager @Spartan . This most recent contract had some delays between the original agreement time and Obuz actually signing the contract, and there was a fledgling belief that the defenseman may actually end up going to free agency. As per the contract agreement, Moscow’s general manager needed to be submitted to some form of psychological stress. This has been a constant requirement for Bocage, as with the first contract, the Moscow GM had to be submitted to watching an avian-human hybrid give birth to an egg with the assistance of her caretaker. For this contract, while not as grotesque, had the GM subjected to a different form of mental pain, through condensed brain rot regarding a highschool-girl loving teacher and nonsensical occurrences condensed neatly in 15-20 minutes. While Euron delayed his viewing of this for a handful of days, eventually he gave in and subjected himself to it, and thus, Bocage inked his final contract.