gorlab

For anyone who thinks I made this thread to 'drag' Beketov. That is not the goal or aim. I'm not saying he's cheating (well, I am because I personally believe he is, but obviously have no 100% way to prove this) but the intent of the thread is to change how we do things so questions/accusations like this can't arise. Thanks for everyone who's been supportive of adopting a change. Everyone else, meet me in the discord. Im hungry for another temp mute.

then go do your own analysis and fuck outta my thread

I'm no data collection expert, sir. I will retort your fuckery with the age-old adage: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Also, for anyone who thinks this is all coming from a place of inter-personal-conflict between Beketov and myself. I want to clarify that this is not the case. This has nothing to do with the relationship between Beketov and myself. I would be making this post and assertion for change if you replaced Beketov with any other VHL member, in the same scenario.

From a non-biased user perspective, something needs to be done with how simming is handled in the VHL. Specifically with @Beketov and the historical trends of his player dominating the VHL when he is simming the season. I'm sure this thread, like every other time I've pointed out this obvious anomaly in the past, will just be brushed off like usual, because for some reason the VHL can't wrap it's head around figuring out an unbiased simming system. Here is why I am making this thread, and suggesting things need to be changed. Let's look at Beketov's simming history for the duration of his current player's career: As you can see, there is a very very very very stark increase in his player's performance when he is simming the VHL season. This is not an opinion, this is not a conspiracy, this is a cold hard fact as denoted by the numbers highlighted in red above. For comparisson, lets break down the goal/point leaders in each of the past 5 seasons: S76 - Beketov Sims. Lahtinen leads the league in points, and scores 11 more goals than any other player: Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Mikko Lahtinen (MOS) 61-60-121 Andrew Su (VAN) 47-74-121 Ola Vikingstad (HSK) 50-60-110 Kris Rice (MOS) 40-65-105 Thomas Landry II (PRG) 38-67-105 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Mikko Lahtinen (MOS) 72 - 61 Ola Vikingstad (HSK) 72 - 50 Kyl Oferson (CHI) 72 - 47 Andrew Su (VAN) 72 - 47 Ray Sheilds (RIG) 72 - 46 S75 - Devise sims. A respectable season for Lahtinen where he dominates nothing and isn't even in the top 5 goalscorers AKA a very likely season outcome for a high tpe player. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P John Merrick (TOR) 45-62-107 Andrew Su (VAN) 43-63-106 Chris Hylands (MAL) 44-56-100 Mikko Lahtinen (MOS) 36-63-99 Dagmar Havlova (WAR) 28-69-97 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Guy Lesieur (DCD) 72 - 47 John Merrick (TOR) 72 - 45 Chris Hylands (MAL) 72 - 44 Aleelee Kiak (CHI) 71 - 43 Andrew Su (VAN) 72 - 43 S74 - Beketov sims. Lahtinen dominates the league and scores a considerable amount more goals than any other player. Goal scoring lead comfortably, narrowly misses out on point lead. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Patrik Tallinder (RIG) 53-74-127 Mikko Lahtinen (MOS) 61-62-123 Brock Louth (VAN) 53-58-111 Condor Adrienne (MAL) 28-82-110 Vladimir Pavlov (MOS) 20-88-108 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Mikko Lahtinen (MOS) 72 - 61 Brock Louth (VAN) 72 - 53 Patrik Tallinder (RIG) 72 - 53 Kyl Oferson (RIG) 72 - 47 Chris Hylands (MAL) 72 - 46 S73 - Devise sims. Non-factor season Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Sigard Gunnar (LAS) 60-59-119 Hunter Hearst Helmsley (WAR) 45-68-113 Jeff Downey (VAN) 32-74-106 Brock Louth (VAN) 46-59-105 Scott Greene (SEA) 30-75-105 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Sigard Gunnar (LAS) 72 - 60 Brock Louth (VAN) 72 - 46 Guy Lesieur (DCD) 72 - 46 Hunter Hearst Helmsley (WAR) 72 - 45 RJ Jubis (CGY) 72 - 45 S72 - Beketov sims. Lahtinen's 3rd VHL season, where one would expect a player is getting to a tpe-level where they can be effective and POSSIBLY HAVE A CHANCE of dominating the league... Beketov leading all goalscorers, only 4 less goals than HOFer Freeman, who I can only guess during this season was probably 500-800+ tpe ahead of Lahtinen. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Condor Adrienne (MAL) 35-65-100 Jet Jaguar (DAV) 37-60-97 RJ Jubis (CGY) 38-55-93 Lewis Dawson (MAL) 36-57-93 Scott Greene (SEA) 32-61-93 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Julius Freeman (NYA) 73 - 45 Mikko Lahtinen (CGY) 72 - 41 Owen Nolan (NYA) 72 - 40 Jerry Garcia (DAV) 72 - 39 Ambrose Stark (SEA) 72 - 39 S71 - Devise sims. Lahtinen's sophmore season. 7 goals, 22 assists, 29 points. No sophmore is dominating the VHL, so S71 and S70 are basically irrelevant. Regardless, device simmed and Lahtinen was a non-factor. S70 - Beketov sims. Lahtinen's rookie season. 6 goals, 14 assists, 20 points. This is the only piece of statistical evidence that supports Beketov not rigging sims, but we are all familiar with VHL rookies not performing, and a VHL ROTY trophy having 0 barring on a HoF induction, and if I were manipulating my player's results, it's only logical to not have him lead the league every single season you sim. S69 - Beketov has no player in the VHL and device sims. Now, let's carry this statistical observation over to Beketov's last player, Matt Thompson. S68 - Beketov sims for Thompson's final season of his career. League completely dominated once again. 10 goals more than any other player, and coincidentally enough 60 goals was needed for him to hit 400 career goals/points? Amazing how things worked out just right for our best people. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Matt Thompson (MAL) 60-62-122 Rauno Palo (RIG) 50-55-105 Ryan Sullivan Jr (MAL) 33-70-103 Jake Davis (DAV) 44-54-98 Julian Borwinn (HSK) 46-50-96 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Matt Thompson (MAL) 72 - 60 Rauno Palo (RIG) 73 - 50 Julian Borwinn (HSK) 72 - 46 Jake Davis (DAV) 72 - 44 Mikko Aaltonen (DCD) 72 - 40 S67 - Device sims. Matt Thompson has a good but not dominant season, leading nothing and winning nothing. 5 less goals than the leading goal scorer: Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Rauno Palo (VAN) 46-64-110 Podrick Cast (MOS) 46-58-104 Beau Louth (VAN) 40-58-98 Veran Dragomir (TOR) 48-49-97 Jake Davis (DAV) 41-48-89 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Veran Dragomir (TOR) 72 - 48 Podrick Cast (MOS) 72 - 46 Rauno Palo (VAN) 72 - 46 Matt Thompson (HSK) 72 - 43 Jake Davis (DAV) 72 - 41 S66 - Beketov sims. Matt Thompson wins goal scoring race. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Julian Borwinn (HSK) 51-63-114 Jake Davis (VAN) 38-66-104 Matt Thompson (HSK) 51-50-101 Sebastian Ironside (CGY) 36-64-100 Edwin Preencarnacion (RIG) 43-54-97 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Matt Thompson (HSK) 72 - 51 Julian Borwinn (HSK) 72 - 51 Shane Mars (SEA) 72 - 46 Beau Louth (VAN) 72 - 45 Edwin Preencarnacion (RIG) 72 - 43 S65 - device sims. Matt Thompson 10 goals behind league leader. Not in top 5 points. This was Thompson's 5th season, aka final season before depreciation kicks in. 51 snipes, very respectable for a high-tpe player, but not dominating the league by any means. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Oyorra Arroyo (TOR) 62-63-125 Veran Dragomir (SEA) 55-65-120 Sebastian Ironside (SEA) 43-66-109 Beau Louth (VAN) 53-53-106 Vyacheslav Smirnov (SEA) 46-60-106 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Oyorra Arroyo (TOR) 72 - 62 Veran Dragomir (SEA) 72 - 55 Beau Louth (VAN) 72 - 53 Matt Thompson (SEA) 72 - 52 Rylan Peace (DAV) 72 - 51 S64 - At this point it get's shaky as to who the simmer is, but I'm going to guess it was Beketov because Thompson dominates league. Leading points and goals. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Matt Thompson (SEA) 56-54-110 Oyorra Arroyo (TOR) 56-53-109 Sebastian Ironside (TOR) 34-74-108 Robert Malenko (SEA) 21-85-106 Podrick Cast (RIG) 48-54-102 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Oyorra Arroyo (TOR) 72 - 56 Matt Thompson (SEA) 72 - 56 Podrick Cast (RIG) 72 - 48 Beau Louth (QUE) 72 - 45 Edwin Preencarnacion (RIG) 72 - 44 S63 - This is definitely where it gets wonky as to who is simming, between Draper, Bek, or Device. Thompson performs and scores but doesn't lead the league in anything. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Gabriel McAllister (SEA) 55-84-139 Sebastian Ironside (TOR) 56-59-115 Jasper Canmore (CGY) 40-75-115 Joseph Bassolino (RIG) 21-89-110 Podrick Cast (RIG) 50-56-106 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Sebastian Ironside (TOR) 72 - 56 Gabriel McAllister (SEA) 72 - 55 Matt Thompson (SEA) 72 - 51 Podrick Cast (RIG) 72 - 50 Keaton Louth (CGY) 72 - 45 S62 - Don't even get me started. I'm going to assume Beketov simmed this season but it's possible Will did. Either way, Thompson beasts tf out and scores 76 goals and 150 points in his sophmore season..... LOL. 2nd in point, 2nd in goals.... as a sophmore. Top 5 Points Player Name G-A-P Podrick Cast (RIG) 79-95-174 Matt Thompson (SEA) 76-74-150 Vyacheslav Smirnov (SEA) 63-86-149 Jasper Canmore (CGY) 46-96-142 Edwin Preencarnacion (RIG) 65-76-141 Top 5 Goals Player Name GP-G Podrick Cast (RIG) 72 - 79 Matt Thompson (SEA) 72 - 76 Keaton Louth (CGY) 72 - 68 Edwin Preencarnacion (RIG) 72 - 65 Vyacheslav Smirnov (SEA) 72 - 63 S61 - Thompson rookie season. Doesn't look like he simmed, and therefore gets stomped out in rookie scoring. Non-factor. ===================================================================================================================== There we have it. Almost two full seasons worth of what is, to a logical and unbiased viewer, a substantial amount of evidence that something is clearly being manipulated during Beketov's simming seasons. We have plenty of very active/committed VHL members who earn tpe at the same pace as Beketov, have been in STHS sims for as long as Beketov, and have had very good seasons.... but the consistency of dominance is just too much to be ignored, especially when it's coming every second season when Beketov is simming. This cannot and should not be argued or ignored and despite being INTELLECTUAL EVIDENCE and not EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, it should be more than enough that something should be done/changed, for peace of mind for the VHL community at the very least. The answer of "too bad." doesn't cut it anymore. Now I'm going to do a FAQ section for anyone who somehow has no problem, or is not at all skeptical after reading the above information. 1) How would Beketov be able to manipulate the sim, as a simmer, to allow his player to perform at such a higher standard than all other players? Well, I don't really have much experience with STHS, but the clear and obvious answer is: - Beketov loads the VHL sim. Sims the games. Looks at his player's performance, and decides if he likes it or not. If YES, sim results get published. If NO, STHS program is exited without saving, re-loaded from the initial "sim day point", and re-simmed. Repeat process until result = YES. This is just the most clear/obvious answer to how it can be manipulated, without talking about any potential sim setting/slider tampering. This means of "rigging" also supports the wide variances between Beketov's player and the rest of the VHL's players on his sim seasons where he's dominating. The non-beketov players don't have the luxury of potentially re-do'ing a bad sim. 2) Gorlab, you're clearly just a crybaby. Why do you ~ALWAYS~ accuse simmers of rigging? Great question there, first-gen member who's been here for 6 seasons. This train-of-thought is far more meme-worthy than me complaining about rigging, because I've only ever accused two people of rigging sims; Beketov and Molholt. Both of these accusations were made because of, what is in my opinion, a staggering amount of statistical evidence showing a wild degree of inconsistency when it came to their players performing during seasons where they were the simmer. If you look at the evidence presented in this article and think there is nothing questionable, well, I have significant doubts about your critical thinking ability and suggest you take some time to do some self-improvement in that area. 3) Who cares? Even if he is rigging, this is a fake hockey sim league. The fact you just took 30 minutes to make this thread just shows you are a loser and taking things to seriously. I mean, we have a community of hundreds of people, who make considerable effort to engage in this league/community on a daily basis. Whether it's through making graphics, compiling written media, doing podcasts, running fantasy drafts, streaming VHL/VHLM drafts, recruiting and mentoring new members, etc. If taking steps to ensure all of this work done by the community results in a FAIR and UNBIASED "result" (aka the sims themselves) is "hardo" or caring too much, well, I guess you're right about me. 4) Beketov is a great member who's been on the VHL a long time and IMO would never do anything like this, to jeopardize the credibility of the league, just so his own imaginary player gets the most awards and success possible. I'd love to live in a world where this can actually be considered and taken at face value. Unfortunately, this is not reality. There are many examples of individuals abusing their power/status in an unfair manner to manipulate a league/community/group for their own benefit, regardless of what that benefit is. If this is the stance you're taking, in the face of what IMHO is a staggering amount of statistical evidence that does raise questions, well, I really hope you get to continue your blissfully ignorant existence, because the real world does not work this way. SOLUTIONS: There are numerous, very simple solutions to the complaint/problem that I am bringing forth with this thread. Literally off-the-top of my head, there are two very simple and easy solutions which Beketov can take to defend himself against any accusation of cheating/manipulation. This isn't the first time I'm suggesting these solutions, I've suggested them many times in the past and been met with no cooperation. Solution 1: I've specifically asked Beketov to live sim his regular season sims, with Discord 2-factor authentication (aka he shows the discord in the live sim, showing timestamped messages, or some interaction with literally any VHL member who's online, so we know the results of the sim are the ones that get published). This is an extra step to the simming process, and may incur a total of ~1 extra minute per SIM to execute. I understand it's an extra step, but it's a bulletproof way of assuring sims at least don't get re-simmed if performance isn't in the simmer's benefit. My most recent suggestion of this solution received a reply of: Yes, because we all see the strife and horror that Device goes through for his playoff live sims. Oh, the humanity of that extra 30-60 seconds to stream the sim to discord. I really should be permabanned on-site for suggesting such a cruel and unusual itinerary for our fearless commish and simmer. No, I should actually be put before a firing squad and killed for such a senseless ask. Solution 2: Simply remove Beketov as a simmer. Device has simmed the same amount of seasons in recent history as Beketov. He gets paid the same simmer tpe pay as Beketov. He's never dominated shit (like the majority of VHL players). Again, I've suggested this numerous times over the past ~16 seasons, and have gotten nowhere. Most recently, this was met with a swift negative response: Yes, why do anything in the name of fairness, when it involves training someone on the very intense and robust process of clicking 4 times to do a STHS sim. It's not like the VHL has a community of dedicated members who would be able and willing to do their part to ensure fairness in the league. I will personally purchase an STHS license every season for whatever new simmer needs to be "TRAINED" to sim, so it will not negatively impact the VHL's budget in any way, pretending that's even a problem/concern we have with how the donation system works. Thanks for taking the time to read my complaint. I'll see you in S78, when Beketov is once again simming.

Frank you back on your bullshit fr fr this is dope af

aiight just keep me on the reserve list then. I won't be active enough to do the game justice.

the above post was made strictly a personal favour to eagles

I'll play if you absolutely need members to fill the game, but I won't be active and will be doing stupid shit that is not meta.

1. Was the theme week theme of vacation easy to write/talk/make a graphic about? It wasn't overly difficult, I think it was broad enough that you could really do any usual PT and smudge it a bit to be vacation-themed. Not the worst theme week I've ever seen. 2. Valentines day has passed but what are your thoughts on Valentines day? Some say it's a corporate ploy to make things more expensive? Definitely a corporate ploy that exploits human emotion. I personally have no problem with it though. Let the couples do their thing. 3. If you could build your team around one NHL/VHL player, who would it be? I think I'd build a team around a goalie tbh. For the sake of the question, I'll choose JP Camus. Goalie is the most important position on the ice. 4. Should we sign Christian Mingle to a new contract? Yes but only pay him the minimum salary because he's blue so he's clearly funneling VHL money into his account via some commish means. 5. Would you want your VHL friends to follow you on any social media platform? I think a few do. STZ follows me on snapchat if I'm not mistaken. Would I want my social media to be exposed to the VHL public? Not particularly, but I wouldn't care if friends followed it. 6. What's a skill that you want to learn? I want to learn how to find and invest in up-and-coming businesses so I can increase the size of my portfolio and eventually become rich enough to not have to work a job.

im going to try and be as brief and informative as possible, and i think this CNC applies to all of your sigs so maybe being aware of this dark technology will help you overcome it. Besides the horrific text (which could be fixed btw with adjusting the kerning/tracking, especially with script.... see how in walker the a l k e dont connect, when they clearly and obviously should? (like the bottom right loop of the "L" should transition into the upper loop of the "k") this can be fixed by changing the TRACKING value in the Window > CHARACTER panel/tool. You can highlight each individual letter in your font layer and adjust the TRACKING value to lessen/increase the distance between it and the next character........ ANYWAYS Im getting off-topic here. Based off of memory and this sig and ur signature sig, a problem with your stock work is a very common one, where people will just overlay a stock image over the canvas, set it to lighten, erase/mask the face or other areas, and call it good. In this specific tyler walker sig, I am referencing the pink flowing lighting stocks. What I would have done is applied the stock like you did, and looked at what I liked about how it interacted with the render. In this case, I like how it looks over his arm/above the 7, and maybe under his left shoulder... So I would - DUPLICATE the stock. make the duplicate invisible, apply a layer mask to the original stock layer, and erase (black brushed) the entire layer except the streaks over/under his arms. - reveal the DUPLICATE, and noticed "hey, this one streak way above the render kind of flows with his back/silhouette." I would then duplicate the duplicate stock layer, make the 2nd duplicate invisible, and then dragged/transformed/rotated duplicate#1 pink light streak layer down to line up with the render's back. Then I would apply a layer mask, and mask/erase/black brush everything on that duplicate#1 layer except for the pink streak over the render's back. - reveal DUPLICATE#2 (3rd pink light stock) and noticed "hey, these swishes over to the right of the render can kind of line up/interact with the render if I were to just move them over a bit." much like I did with the flying pink stock in duplicate #1. So I would then go about dragging/transforming/rotating the Duplicate#2 layer, so those pink stocks lined up with the render more on the right side. Then, once again, I would add a layer mask and black out/erase/mask everything except for the pink stocks I've placed to the right of the render. So basically this is how you truly cook a stock image. You don't just have the 1 layer of the stock. You have the stock duplicated several times (I've done it up to like 5-7 times) and repositioned/transformed/rotated in different areas across the sig. Hopefully you found this helpful/informative and will consider this technique/idea when making sigs.

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why dont u pave a new lane instead of trying to jankily copy the style of graphics that others do your name is domino draws which tells me you might be able to draw stuff, so why not try to do some original hand drawn art (or tablet/phone drawn) and submit it as your PT. IMO you could very well cause a renaissance in VHL graphics meta and make a new lane for yourself and others

k so there is this technique on the internet when u upload an image and it gives you w/e link you're getting right-click (or press hold) on the image itself, it will usually present the option of OPEN IMAGE IN ANOTHER TAB or OPEN IMAGE or something along those lines this will open the IMAGE FILE itself in a new browser window, and present you with a URL (website address) in your address bar of your browser that ends in .jpg or .png or .gif or whatever your file extension of the graphic is. If you post THAT link, it will embed in your post, as so: I've simply posted https://i.gyazo.com/88cb3eb5472367a8a8ac89cab5bb42fc.jpg in my VHL reply post, and hit enter or space and it auto-embeds this image. THis should count as a review and if I need to, I will claim it as such. 3/10

Bruh the summary almost as long as the OP

Let's see a couple candids of Mrs. Thad.

frank

can we get a summary?

1. We're poised to top the North American standings if we can stay hot, do you think we'll be able to end the season as the 1 seed? Yes, I don't think any NA team can match up with us member-for-member. We have a very strong core with a powerful aura. NA will be Chicago's for the next several seasons minimum. 2. How much of a trivia buff are you? Do you think you could hold your own on Jeopardy!? I am a self-proclaimed trivia god. I thought I would lay solas into a casket, but he's actually pretty good too. Anybody else is going into a bodybag though. 3. Word has spread that a new VHL newspaper might be in production, what do you hope they cover in some of their articles? I hope that the new VHL newspaper can be as successful as it's spiritual predecessor, the VHL MAG.... I just hope nobody hires me to do any graphics for it. 4. Gotta ask the tough question- who's your FAVORITE teammate and why? Tough call as I've had a lot of fun with all of my chicago teammates.... if I had to choose one...... it'd have to be....... kyl..... jk it's blazzy. They are just fun to chat with and always make hilarious observations imo. Kyl is a close second. 5. Going with this weeks theme of vacations, what would you consider your dream vacation? Do you plan on going through with those ideas? Back in the day, Amsterdam was always my dream vacation destination, but since Marijuana has been legalized in Canada, it no longer has the same allure. I think my new dream vacation spot is, uhh, maybe Sweden or some other small European country like that? No, I will likely be too old and feeble by the time covid travel restrictions are lifted, so I won't be realizing my dream. 6. What's one thing about yourself that most people don't know? Probably that I'm not as charismatic and popular IRL as I am on VHL.

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