Gustav

Monank Patel drinking Canadian tears after a half century in both matches:

Agree on not repeating a position. You may or may not want to consider forward as well after this draft class--but you earn well enough that lots of people going to one position won't hurt your chances anywhere.
 
Something I really appreciate about defense is that hits and (especially) SB mean a lot more. Maybe you won't put as many points on the board as a forward, but you also have more numbers to care about.

Me on my way to nerf goalies the second Vandelay retires

Art Vandelay

Not sure if his stats are available any more but I've always felt like Patrick Bergqvist is a good candidate. Also Kohler and Holik seem like the obvious choices for this if you haven't gotten to them (I think you might've written about Kohler already).

Art Vandelay

What I like: Art Vandelay when he beats my rivals. What I don't like: Art Vandelay when he beats my team!

What I like: Gustav writes very well thought out and researched forum posts.  What I hate the most is he doesn't always agree with me.

Hi!
 
GM jobs become available as GMs leave their positions. Generally, this happens during the offseason, and while we hate to see people go, the VHLM is usually hiring then.
 
Applications are open to everyone, but we'll hire who we feel can make the most difference (new members can make it too!). You can make a great impression on us by earning well, participating actively on the forums and Discord, and being positive and supportive to whoever you come across.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing where you can go, and maybe you'll be a GM someday!

I really liked that hits/SB became a marker of a good performance rather than just an "oh hey, that's cool but what about my points" thing. You can get zero points in a game but still be really proud of your performance. So I think that by itself (especially with SB) adds another dimension to your player that you wouldn't necessarily care about with a forward. I haven't played defense since S71 and all I'll say is that I'm looking forward to doing it again 👁️

That's actually not abnormal. I'm sure you're aware that the league has had its varying eras of scoring and that Gritty played in a really dead one. The same is true for the M--Garcia was (I think) 2nd in SB with (I think) 120 in S65 and that would be nothing today. Hybrid attributes are part of it, but it's all relative.
 
We've had weirder. At least the M leaders aren't breaking 200 points (yet) like they've done a few times.

Hands up if you'd like me to reopen this thread   ✋
 

Hands up if you'd like me to reopen this thread   ✋
 

And then 18 years later came "We Built This City". At the risk of sounding like a YouTube comment, what the hell happened?
 
Awesome song though. It's short and certainly has 60s-level production but still manages to express a lot in a bit of a creepy way.

I got responses to a survey in my freshman year by leaving flyers about it in random buildings. When the first one hit a couple hours after I printed the first few I was so happy.
 
This is something that gets brought up a lot but as far as I'm aware no one's ever done it. I don't think whoever makes these things should be able to claim recruitment TPE for them (as there's no one-on-one interaction, and also in case it really ends up working), but if you care about the league itself, whether you get a kickback on it shouldn't make a difference either way in whether you want to do it.

Hit me up next week about this! I'd design it if you're serious.

Spartan IA

You do have a HoF player, though

@Nykonax as someone who witnessed this firsthand…I hope you can look back and realize how funny it was. I was also an idiot at 16 who definitely would have done something just as dumb had I been online much then. 

when i was 16 i found a thermometer in my bathroom medicine cabinet and thought it was a pregnancy test. i then posted to the vhl discord and got flamed by everyone for being an idiot.

I played Wolfenstein:ET, I enjoyed playing the "sniper"-class as one of the perks is that you could steal the uniform of the enemy and run around undercover. Some maps were high in pace and action, so it was not always easy to spot who is undercover and doing something "odd". I would sneak behind the enemy lines and stab people in the back with a knife. Then I would use the public voice commands to mock the enemy I just took down and run away with their shirt and pants. Sometimes I would just stand there and look at the chaos, in the middle of the enemy - undercover.  Sometimes I would do something useful like open the door to my teammates, so they can get into some restricted area only easily accessible for the enemy. Good game, good times.

weeb

weeb

I did the same exact thing for my 1000th back in the day and got laughed at. Congrats anyway though!

You currently have exactly 2000 rep points