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re: jardy @ moon you definitely spit on yourself the harassment case line was too soon

@N0HBDY I never want to hear a word about writing more than 500 words on a VHL.com when this motherfucker, @JardyB10, records 44 minutes and 25 seconds for a VHL.com RADIO piece. Not a squeak. Also I'll listen to this one, seems especially juicy with the inclusion of a DQ visit.

1. I refuse to answer this question while we're still in the playoffs. I'm not superstitious, but I'm stitious for sure. No jinxing this run! 2. If we're just becoming an existing superhero, I'd think being Thor would be cool. At this point in his MCU arc, he's all about beer and lightning and he upgraded his weapon. I dig that. 3. I'm hesitant again to comment too much, but I think that this team was built this way for a reason. Our offseason acquisitions have all been fantastic, Rara, Glass, Johansson, Walker and our rookie call-up Markov have all been playing solid hockey and contributing in just about every game. I think it's unrealistic to win out from here, we're in the semifinals right now. The competition has to be tough to have gotten to this point. 4. We've got 8 players at a point per game or higher, all their stats are ridiculous and key to getting us to this point. But Rara @Victor has a ridiculous .950 save percentage and a 1.83 GAA. Absolutely insane goaltending, has to be our MVP thus far. 5. I love the one handed tuck in chel, it's one of my favorite breakaway moves. 6. Absolutely. We're going to have to replace Walker on the back end, and Rara will be moving on to greener pastures since we have Papa ready to take over the net. The rest of our core is sticking together, we just have to see what will happen with a couple pending UFA's and if we'll be able to bring them back, or if we'll have to find other ways to replace them.

Loose concept was that as of M playoffs starting, there were like 8 forwards, 3.5 defensemen and 1.5 goalies per team if you were to evenly allocate all the rostered M players across the M teams. Not that close to the M's goal (last I know) of having teams run 9-6-2's. Had spitballed reducing number of teams in the M to increase people per team which would also reduce the skewness of M rosters inherently, and add teams to the E if necessary. I'd only think it's needed if the average E team is running more than 9-4-2's tbh.

Unless you can amass 50 uncapped tpe beyond the normal uncapped stuff in a season, not likely. I'm at 326 right now with about a week or two left until cutoff, and I had max recreate TPE and participated in every uncapped opportunity and did about average.

yikes, GG ottawa. Nicky do be the best goalie

Lolllllll, a small hill to die on. I'm not OCD, but I don't like when things aren't visually structured. Hence why Moscow names/roles/colors are the way they are, styled and organized enough that they all fit a theme. If the role emotes were standardized and meshed with the normal name/text font size, I'd probably be fine. But they're all different from each other and that's like if nails on a chalkboard was a visual stressor lol. Fwiw we only have these roles because we're at level 2 for boosts, not a tier we've had before for longer than a month iirc. I think that the color coordination in the main server is pretty easy to get used to over time, and that's really what people should be familiar with than these emotes. But if we maintain level 2, good for us lol, some good perks for everyone outside the role emotes. As for GM tag, good luck on those open positions!

We have color coding, and role titles though. It's worked for a while, the extra emotes are unnecessary and look dumb as hell since they're all different sizes and designs, especially when compared to people's names right next to them. Roles for teams is fine, that's optional. I really don't like a random GM emote next to my name that is twice the size of it. We have a sidebar for people to know what roles are correlated with the color, and you can also click onto someone's profile to see all their roles. Discord has existed for years without this feature, and people have been fine. Just my two cents with role emotes.

especially the emotes in roles idk ask Josh who nuked it

1. Nuke emotes in roles 2. Bring back forum chat 3. Move all discord activity to LR's instead of the monstrosity that is gen chat

Of course, you also want to see clear action. That's probably where your perspective as a member of the league is most important. You've seen twice in as many weeks how a media spot criticizing lacking areas of the league fosters discussion and shines a spotlight on issue. Once by yourself and now by Sam. Just putting stuff out there in public is great, it gives topics the attention they deserve if they aren't receiving them already.

A cautious note, you don't have to be a girl to understand that being a dick isn't ok. While I'm sure that you're less than pleased that there isn't someone that identifies as a girl on the staff team, it'd be unfair to say that they don't care about a girl's perspective or experiences and take them seriously.

Blame @Brewins15 and @N0HBDY for this existing. topics (exactly how sam asked them): 1. thoughts on vhlm state and realistic changes that need to be made 2. n0hbdys dumb moments 3. why did you write an article on the wrong person? 4. pancakes or waffles 5. best moment in vhl 6. feelings about the vhl scavenger hunt 7. why halifax is better than mississauga 45 minutes, maybe I'll claim it, maybe won't. 3 weeks anyways.

burn it all down, Best people here but socially distanced included

Good luck next season KC, Tessier is still a very strong player. I'm sure he'll have a bounce back season, and I'll be expecting to see him break out soon enough! Too talented not to

rainbow flavoured unicorns edit: this forum and league sucks

We do have minor tasks here as well, 150 word VHL.com is 2 TPE, and 2 reviews of like 100 words each is 2 TPE. Add in a press conference with another total of about 100 words, another 2 TPE. 6 TPE for like 350 words. So really, it's 850 words for 12 TPE if we're getting that detailed . And I'm being generous with the word counts of reviews and press conferences. This is also a very, very important point. For people like you and me who have jobs in our main leagues, we don't necessarily need to write as much. Half of my cap in the VHL comes from being a GM and updater. I don't have to write those extra 350 words from minor tasks. I also just don't have the time to take up jobs in the SHL. I GM'd the WJC this past season, and I realized it took more time than I had to offer, so I won't be pursuing more jobs in the future. We all have finite time, and our commitments are ultimately to one type of league. For you, your pain point is to do extra writing here in the VHL that seems cumbersome. For me, it's writing one massive article in the SHL every so often to be able to afford my basic training. However, specifically to the pay-to-win point, sure there is a significant benefit to donating. 11 TPE per $10 donation is not insignificant, but I don't think many people do it consistently. The folks who are absolute tryhards (such as myself) donate before we get drafted so that we can maximize our draft position. We're all a bit egotistical in that manner, there's competition to be the best earner in our class. However, as someone who was consistently 100 TPE behind the top two players in my S72 class, that 100 TPE did not stop me from enjoying a career as good as, if not better than, those top two players in my class. I won an MVP award, neither of those two players did. While it seems significant, and seems so from an rainbow flavoured unicorns point, it is absolutely not essential to having a great career.

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I am in both the SHL and the VHL, and I can easily say I much prefer writing here in the SHL. I had to write 3k words or so to get $3 million or so in the SHL. Maybe that's not the exact number, but I definitely wrote over 2k words. That $3 million got me three weeks of training at 5 tpe each. Significantly less bang for my sim league buck. In the VHL, I know my 2K words will get me 24 tpe total. It got me 15 in the SHL. As for word vomiting, I definitely word vomited more in the SHL than I do here. Part of it can definitely be attributed to the fact I am much more involved and active here, but even in the SHL, I've resorted to word vomiting season recaps to try and cough up the money for training. At the end of the day, people will find it easier to write in a league they are more involved in. If you just do your tasks for the sake of doing tasks in either league, you will find them more difficult to complete. I word vomit in the SHL, I'm sure an SHLer will word vomit here. Extra edit: In August, I wrote 3.1k words recapping my junior career in the SHL. I was paid out 3.4 million. To me, writing 500 words for 6 tpe is easier than getting 5 tpe for three weeks from that 3.1k word article.

I did "bigal Halloween"

@Beketov

the best n0hbdy podcast yet

Claim 2/4, Week Ending 11/7

You know who I am 1. I'm generally on Discord, or have quick access to it for this time. I'm in EST so active hours are normal people EST hours I suppose. I check forums quite often as well. 2. I have 2FA and respond to pings relatively quickly. Depends who's pinging me 3. 21 4. I am a GM, but consider myself able to handle conflicts of interest. It is part of the requirement to be an updater as well, to treat all teams and players fairly. Additional things: 1. I'm not very active during this time range at this time, but my schedule is pretty variable based on the day of the week. 2. Yeah, modded various servers in the past. 3. Worked a quasi-HR job in college which also provided sensitivity classes/trainings. 4. Pretty objective in disputes outside when I make it obvious I will abandon rational thought for the sake of (lighthearted) humor. High tolerance to BS and the ability to de-escalate situations well. 5. I think I handle all situations well. I escalate situations to the appropriate personnel when necessary, or when I feel that I could not adequately or impartially handle a situation.