We asked for no “hey pick this person” type of posts and that goes the opposite way as well. We’ll decide who we think is best for the role, please keep the opinions out of it.
I don't know what was more surprising, realizing that you were Streetlight and that you were here, or shortly after realizing that you haven't gone by Streetlight on this website whatsoever.
EDIT: Wow that previous statement was so incredibly false. But at least I know I've not gone fully insane.
yeah @solas already said this but i've been listening to Punisher basically non-stop it's so good.
Other stuff I've been listening too recently is In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Little Fictions by elbow, and Somebody that i used to know.
We need a thread with both the VHL and VHLM playoff brackets that get updated after each sim, combing through the portal to see what each series is at is a mess and I don't even think one exists for the M.
Something similar to this:
Forgive me if something like this already exists on the forum lol
I just submitted my final paper for school. I am done with college now. It’s a really weird feeling, knowing that I’m not going to have to figure out my school schedule on top of practice and games. It’s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, and I couldn’t have imagined how good this was going to feel.
Wildly enough, it’s also the end of the season. Chicago got knocked out of the playoffs after getting swept by the LA Stars. My teammates were pretty disappointed, and I, for obvious reasons, can’t blame them. It would’ve been absolutely incredible to win the cup two seasons in a row with a group of really great friends. I also maintain that Chicago was the strongest team in the league this season based solely on TPE, but we all know that STHS doesn’t care. Chicago learned that in season 75 when we accidentally were very successful.
Having said that, I can’t say that I expected to make it to the finals. I’m sure that’s disappointing for people like Elsby and Jungkok to hear, as they weren’t around to hoist the cup last season. Sucks for them, I guess. Having wild success two seasons in a row would’ve been, in my opinion, somewhat detrimental to the league. It gets dull when the same people/teams are winning everything all the time. That’s how I’ve felt about Adrienne and Lahtinen (in recent memory, at least) - predictions weren’t too difficult since you knew that there was only a small handful of players that were going to win awards. The same can be said for franchises that consistently perform really well - it’s boring. We need some spice, some rotation in top contenders.
I’m somewhat glad that LA was the team to knock us out. This is really their first season actually getting to play the game after sitting at the bottom of the standings for seasons straight. They deserve something good to happen, and I’ve been rooting from them (quietly). We expansion teams have to stick together. At this point, I think all of us, London, Warsaw, and LA, have now had a chance to establish credibility. I hope that LA’s success continues for the rest of the season - they’re a good squad, and I have hope that they’ll be able to pull off something really amazing.
While I’m here, I guess now would be a good time to start a conversation with myself that I’ve been wanting to have for a while - the “it’s just a sim league” argument. I see it come up a lot - when someone is upset about something not going in their favor, especially relating to TPE, the rules/enforcement, having to resim, etc., you are almost guaranteed to hear, “well, I don’t really know what the big deal is. VHL is just a sim league, it’s really not that deep.”
I hate this argument. This is, in my opinion, the absolute worst argument that you could use in any situation because it completely invalidates other people’s feelings. That is super lame. VHL fulfills a different need for everyone here. Some people joined/stay because they want something to do in their free time, because they just can’t get enough hockey, or because they love the community.
Yes, the VHL is, in fact, just a sim league. I can’t refute that. We are all here, doing our silly little tasks for our silly little TPE to apply to our silly little players so that we can win our silly little games. We’re here in our free time as a recreational activity. I’m not trying to say we’re not.
What I am saying, though, is that you can apply that to everything. “Oh, it’s just a law. Oh, it’s just a sport. Oh it’s just this or just that.” Calling something what it is and throwing “just” in front of it doesn’t make you a big brain.
Do I think that, sometimes, we get really caught up in things that, in the grand scheme of things, don’t really matter? Yeah, but if you look at it that way, then nothing we do matters. We don’t matter. I take that as a challenge to choose what matters to me in order to be as fulfilled in this life as I can. What I choose to matter is up to me, and one thing I don’t think anyone wants to hear is, “hey this whole thing doesn’t matter.”
For me, it’s all about keeping things in proportion. Sometimes it’s justifiable for me to care a lot. Sometimes it’s not.
Who knows. We’re all just out here trying our best, and sometimes our best is still not very good. We live and learn.
Welp, the season didn't end up how I thought it would go, thus what was mentioned here has happened as I lost the bet :https://vhlforum.com/topic/101415-yukon-declares-war-on-san-diego/
In short summary, both Yukon and San Diego had a bet on whoever lost the season series between eachother would have the GM get pied.
So with that being said, I present my end of the bargain:
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solas reacted to gorlab in application drama
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solas got a reaction from fishy in VSN Doesn't Present: The S77 Jeffrey Pines Memeorial Draft Lottery Tournament Most Valuable Player Trophy
solas got a reaction from rory in VSN Doesn't Present: The S77 Jeffrey Pines Memeorial Draft Lottery Tournament Most Valuable Player Trophy
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