Shaka

Now that @Shaka , @Yman, and Soapwart are in the fold, our depth should improve significantly. Although I admit I thought we had Soap for an extra season, but whatever. Once everyone's added to the sim, I'll rework the lines.
 
GOOD TO BE BACK!

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She's the gas station chick @Streetlight is after.
 

I have a new favorite breed of dog.

I would just flirt and keep things non-friendly and wait to see if they break up.
 
But don't be the one that is "always there for her" at this time. Otherwise you'll just friendzone yourself.

Robert certainly could have saved himself and the realm a lot of trouble if he could have just gotten along with Cersei. But the truth is basically every king in history except Aegon I, Jahaerys I, and Daeron had some sort of fatal flaw. It sucks because Robert ended up being a bad/average king, when he easily could have been a good or even great king. There's been plenty worse than him though.

Eh what gets me most about his reign, is how connected his generation was to past atrocities, and crazy things for that matter. To him, and his era like Ned, Jamie, Jon and Stannis, the idea of a Targayen controlling a city on the power of Dragons isn't just something out of a fantasy book. They really sell early in the series/books the kids of these families when they get to King's Landing digging through all this history. Robert and his generation were part of that history. So how could they be naive enough to assume none of it would ever come back? They hear the rumors and mumblings of Dany and Dragons and they wave their hand. This is a generation that KNEW that stuff was real. It just feels like his generation was the turning point you know? His reign really contributed to what we see now, and I think that is part of the reason why he was a poor King. 
 
It's one of the key reasons I think Dany NEEDS to meet up with Jon Snow. Yeah she has Tyrion, but nobody other than Jon seems to really "get it" yet. White Walkers are going to kill you all you don't stop with your petty family squabbles and work together to build a bloody empire of defenses. That isn't debatable, that is a fact. In order to do that you need to work on getting people to work together. It felt like Roberts idea of getting families to work together was to just marry daughters to random houses and be like "meh good". It's intentional but everything about his reign screams lazy, ignorant, entitled. In a lot of ways Robert mirrors actual politicians from on our worlds. He's worked his way to the top and doesn't give two shits about anything or anyone. He's going to enjoy his time. And he did, and I hope he's enjoyed it well because his lack of dedication and ignorance has left all of Westeros unprepared and Ned Starks bastard with a bunch of Wildings and a very damaged daughter of his as the only people trying to you know, actually prepare this continent and it's people for the hell that is coming down from the North. 

People are stupid as fuck. I wish they were smarter but I also wish all these lottery tickets I buy would be winners. 

Spoiler Alert:
 
She's the gas station chick @Streetlight is after.
 

Spoiler Alert:
 
She's the gas station chick @Streetlight is after.
 

Eh, I can't really agree with any of this. Most people in this society were perfectly fine with the level of peace they earned, especially after such a big war in the first place. I mean really the only "good time" during Roberts reign was post war when he gets the Throne, until his death. So only his generation really got this level of peace. And was it really because of him? Or was it more, we just had a war, but still regardless all these houses have all these issues boiling under the surf and lazy ass Robert can't be bothered to deal with any of it. In a lot of ways, had he of been a better more diligent ruler, something even Dany has struggled with, half the wars going on now may not of happened. I mean let's be real, most of the larger conflict in this series is started, motivated, and pushed by smaller groups of very self important royalties, all from notable families. Lannisters, Freys, Boltons, etc. And it's not like horrible shit still wasn't happening during his reign, it very much was...just not on an official level. I mean the Lannisters had years to basically plot and set up their entire take over of the Throne, all under Roberts nose. 
 
Yeah, he was a bloody awful ruler truly. So I disagree. 

Today was in fact of Tywin nostalgia. Fuck this man was terrifying.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
More importantly, I love the fact Jaime is now wearing his armour.
 

 
Whole conversation with Blackfish definitely had undertones of Tywin and Jaime tbh. That generation (Tywin, Brynden, Randyll Tully) is savage.

Littlefinger and Lysa killed Jon Arryn. 
 
Cersei is a shit show however. She is good at being vicious and using her feminism to manipulate people (Sansa, Lancel, Jaime even), but those are her only cards. This season is showing what happens when those two cards are taken from her, which is why she's falling apart. 
 
In other news, BotB tomorrow GET HYPE PLZ DON'T LET TORMUND DIE

This is going to sound dumb, but trust me. 
 
Rub one out and see if you are as interested in her immediately after. 

If you believe in fate, then ride it out bud. If it's meant to be it will happen regardless, if not we'll it wasn't meant to be

Madden sim leagues have always been doomed by their own Catch 22. The idea of watching your own player play is incredibly enticing, but it comes with much more work. It seems you're already aware of stat-keeping which is the biggest headache of them all. I'd venture to say you would need more than just one stat keeper. Past leagues employed 4-6 member who each had a position. You'd also want more than just you presenting games, which takes not only owning the game but the desire to tie your computer up simulating decade old game between two terrible teams on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night. If the simming, updating and stat-keeping doesn't kill you the last obstacle is dealing with the fucktards who liter the Madden sim community and drag it down. You know... the guys in every madden sim league who never make it to any other league(I don't count, i'm special).
 
With that said, it's not impossible to do. 4 teams would require 52 players to fill the necessary positions. That's a reachable number for the first season, but an unlikely number to sustain at. That means you would also have to be willing to maintain the league at roughly 30 updating players(the average of the past 5 football leagues) which is just enough to cover the very important positions and leaves the remaining positions for inactives. That is unless you decide to let 1 offensive and 1 defensive player per member. It's never been done before, would answer your long term roster situation but create twice as much issue with updating and stat keeping.
 
Being that it's endorsed by the VHL it JUST might convince the several members who refuse to join new leagues until they are 6-8 seasons in. That's always been a circle of death for football leagues. League created, Member X doesn't want to join until league is established, league struggles to established without guys like Member X, league fails, repeat. Grabbing the holdouts and fringe members would be important if you didn't go 2 players per member.
 
All of that comes with one final side effect..... The simulator is awful. Players make horrible decisions, glitches all over, balls gliding through the arms of defenders, balls bouncing off face masks of 90 rated receivers, left tackles blocking the ghost of Derrick Thomas giving up 6 sacks a game, kickers missing chip shots and the dreaded madden comeback in every. single. game.
 
It's a lot to deal with. Not impossible, but a lot to deal with.
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A PFS(or draft day sports now) league, like the one Molholt and I tried to get off the ground 2 years ago ironically also called the USFL, seems to be the only logical future sim engine for a football sim. Unlike Madden, it offers the convenience of a league report and postable box scores. That seems to be something fairly important to the only 3 active and successful player sims around this community(VHL, SHL, SBA). Standings, Stats, Records and more kept on a uploadable league report. The option for players to play two-ways if you decide against 2 players per member. Easy to post PBP. The problem in the past for those leagues is that a major group of members refuse to join a football league that isn't Madden. If they were to come around and be interested in a PFS league it has way more potential for longevity.
 
Anyways.... I own both games. I know Madden well and know PFS like the back of my hand. Whatever happens I'll join and likely help out if needed.

Yeah, it definitely sucks. My idea was to have 2 people work on updating the file each week so I don't get burnt out. I haven't heard from anyone who is decent at editing Madden custom art either, that's another thing to worry about. 
 
I do have a roster editor downloaded, which will make things easier from a roster creation and updating standpoint.
 
The only other thing I can think of is statistics, which could be tricky. I thought of maybe having a league statistician who gets paid full cap (i.e. 9/9) to just do statistics after each sim. Having 12 game seasons instead of 16 might help with that too.

Player Name: Landon Roberts
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