Beketov

It was my final season with Beketov so maybe like 2009 at most? I think I went 4 seasons with Sharpe and I know I went 6 with Beketov so that would be ~20 months so yeah, early 2009. I think you were borderline active but still somewhat around with McNeil and I.

To this day that Season 12 cup remains my favourite.

Everything I touched at work today seemed to break so let's hope this goes better. Day 15 coming at you.

Clearly @JardyB10is just waiting for the deadline so he can create with me.

Not necessarily much better than this tbh. I was stuck in a bit of a rut near the end doing the same kinda thing over and over again. Being out of it for so long meant I actually forgot how to do most stuff so I was kinda forced to do things differently. Still got the old Beketov patented field blur though, can’t drop that.

@Toast won the Christmas Auction for a sig from me, my first in about 3 years based off my photoshop folder. Took awhile to drag me out of retirement for this piece but hopefully he’s happy with it. Who wants to roast the commish with some CnC? P.S I know this isn’t the player render you’ve normally been using but I’m rusty on cutting and couldn’t find a good render of him so went with someone else haha

Day 14, we've hot the 2 week mark of the season. Let's go!

Weird that I can only get assists lately but they're still something. I'll take 3 points and 2 wins any day.

Oh completely. Don't get me wrong, auto-6 was a game changer for the league and I know why we did it but the drive to improve is definitely lower when you know that you'll get the same 6 TPE whether you spend the time to improve or not.

Having now gone a full career with them: I kinda agree. It was an idea we took because the league wanted an experience that lasted longer than just two articles written immediately and the idea itself may have held weight in theory but in practice I don’t find it works. They are too easily forgettable and make it feel somehow even more like a chore (probably because there’s like 5 instead of 2). I think, like you, I did the first two and forgot the rest. Hell I’m part of the first class to now be able to write the bio (S70) and there’s only 3 of us left active that haven’t retired. It’s super limiting potential content. Might re-evaluate it. Others have basically covered it. Old recruitment rules, HoF articles, and league desperation. We were in full fledged “throw anything at it to survive” mode when Eno joined and he took full advantage of that. We were throwing huge piles of TPE at everything because we were honestly close to dead. Since then most of the avenues to inflate TPE that much have been changed or closed so I wouldn’t use him as much of a metric of what’s possible. Most graders weren’t really that harsh and it was how sims leagues operated at the time, it’s not like we were different in some way, so you just kinda accepted it. It wasn’t really fun to lose points but anything under 5 was almost never seen and even 5’s were relatively rare. Did it drive a few people away? We’ll never know for sure but I’d wager not many. I would say 5’s were more common than @Doomsday implies but even then if the next grader came in and gave it a 6 it would round up. Is old fucks like to exaggerate and it did happen that you’d get less than 6 but it definitely wasn’t for simply missing a single comma. I didn’t do MS’ so I’m not completely sure how strict they were but I know with GFX 5’s were relatively common, 4’s and lower were super unlikely.

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Funnily now it’s basically invisible on dark. Your best bet if you’re going for pure visibility is to not change off the default colour. It will adjust between black and white depending on the light / dark setting so everything will always remain visible.

Man we just cannot find our stride can we? On paper we should be doing pretty damn well but we just keep getting obliterated.

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Day 13, let's do this.

Light users are very confused.

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These aren’t exactly expensive cases, they are all plastic except for the brown ones which are wood and glass. I just didn’t like they look of them just lying around.

Day 12 going live momentarily

@GrittyIsKing09 since you mentioned the pucks, here’s all of them: I do have an extra case for the three on top now, I just need to actually get them into it. Turgeon is two to the right of the big case, Biron is one to the left. The three in the big case probably aren’t the most valuable by far (Barnaby on the left, Daze in the middle, Momesso on the right) but they are from the first three episodes I ever cut so they get preferential treatment.

Get to be? Look at this guy thinking it’s some great prize But no, blue team would be awfully full of simply beating me in VHFL was the criteria.

If it were decided today you definitely wouldn’t be. Both sides of the ice matter so a solid lead in goals / points can make up being behind in hits as long as you still have a decent amount. I’ve won 3 with Lahtinen and 4 with Thompson while never once leading the league in hits as far as I can remember. It’s all relative.