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Curious what exactly you mean, like do you have specific things? There's obviously a lot at play on the forum so it's difficult to go through where everything is but we try to keep the important stuff relatively easy to find. Mind you a lot of us have grown up on forums like this over the past 10+ years so we might take for granted our ease of navigating them vs. someone who's used to say Discord or Reddit that are much less structured.

Rice robbed of first star for sure.

That’s what welfare’s for buddy

Must be it.

I’ll answer if you have specific things you want to know

Lahtinen trying to become #1 contender I guess.

He’s still the heavyweight champ isn’t he? I wanted that belt. Also Lahtinen is a fucking goon.

Just moving this over to suggestions for now.

I will say this, @boubabi brings up a good point in regards to a “too many cooks in the kitchen” situation so I would want to probably keep the group relatively small but I am okay with the idea of a specific GFX crew for the league. I would think probably 3-4 people and then the commish team to over-see it? Don’t see a reason to make it larger than that, would just end up with opinions overstepping each other.

The biggest negative for me will always be the return plus the VHLM franchise of the same name. If they had just been moved and then contracted there could be more of an argument for them returning. However they moved, were brought back, were a VHLM franchise, and were then moved again and contracted from the VHLM. It’s just too much for me. Vasteras had their chances.

Agreed but most of the discussion was about different routes to go, not directly related to what we got.

You’ve inadvertently hit the nail on the head for why we kept the expansion logos from the BoG. Miami’s expansion alone took over a month of back and forth on the logo because of differing opinions. 4 logos was not going to happen in a timely fashion.

Had nothing to do with the OP, was just Motza's response. Alright, copy that. Just thought you were talking about this round of logos specifically which was really just Quik, Beav, me, and the individual GM's. So under that guise it made it sounds like you were saying the people who chose were all GFX noobs who will fawn over anything. Rather it was a more general statement which you aren't completely wrong about. Sometimes the inexperienced won't notice stuff that the more experienced will.

FWIW I don’t mind entertaining this suggestion because it certainly seems interesting but what exactly do you mean by this? It’s not as if @Quik and I have 0 graphics experience and no clue what we’re talking about. I don’t know if it’s your intention but it comes off very “the people who decided these logos know. I thing about GFX” which isn’t true. I trust I’m just reading it wrong?

6 one way half a dozen the other. You can either retire and we’ll delete the guy and apply your carryover to the new guy or we can reset all your stats and give you bank for starting 30 + carryover / change your draft season. Doesn’t matter to me.

Thank you to everyone that applied! The BOG looked through and debated all of your applications and at this time we have decided to add @rjfryman, @Acydburn, @fonziGG, and @Doomsday to the BOG. This doesn't mean any of you had bad applications or aren't suited to the job, simply that right now the above 4 were deemed to be likely the best fit for BOG roles. Everyone will still be considered for any future openings we may have and we appreciate all the interest. If you have any questions regarding what you could do more to be considered in the future or any concerns at all please feel free to PM me.

Nah, like 5.5, rounds up.

Honestly not much to critique. Most of my complaints would be audio related. Some of the SFX just didn’t seem to line up well and the music to me just didn’t really fit the cut that well. Like it felt as if it should have built a lot more than it did. In general the pacing was a bit slow but I guess that was the point? Just kinda had nothing happening and then everything happening, would have liked to see things maybe building more tension. Like I loved the mist crawling up through the house, give me more of that tension building the whole time to get the creepy atmosphere going. Being picky there were a couple of shots that weren’t super blended. The phone dangling felt like it didn’t belong in the atmosphere for some reason to me and a few shots of the mist felt like it wasn’t clinging to surfaces as I’d expect. Overall though, very well done. Some scenes obviously looked better than others (the fish on the beach was A+, looked like live action aside from its eyes feeling weird) but nothing was truly bad.

Hey, no skipping letters to avoid the filter damnit!

We discussed initially that the flag present wasn’t technically the Union Jack. It was decided that an interpretation of the flag would be fine to get the point across and not make the logo as cluttered.

One at a time, or did you finish it? If so just link it.

You are exaggerating. To make your point for sure but still. If I’m not mistaken didn’t you join when Higgins was still simming the M and we’d get 3-4 days missed at a time? Yet you’re still here. I’m not saying it’s perfect but I think it’s a bit extreme to say if a single day is missed all retention efforts disappear. It’s just not a good faith kinda debate tactic since it basically comes off as you saying if simmers aren’t machines everyone leaves. Personally I think there’s a compromise to be had here and it mostly starts with @Devise and I. Specifically that if a sim is going to be likely missed we simply ask someone else to cover it within a reasonable timeframe. I’m not saying a strict deadline or that backups must be ready every single night at 9PM sharp or what not just a simple request. “Hey, it’s a busy day. Could someone cover for me”. Worst case we find the time we didn’t think we’d have and we get it done anyway and no one needs to step in. This would be combined with 2 systems to make it easier. First, that lines get sent in a better manner. We’ve been working on this for a bit but there must be some way to make it work. Part of the issue of multiple email addresses is not knowing what’s been done and what hasn’t so lines and stuff can get missed; which we’ll also be given shit for but I digress. If we had a button to download any lines since the last sim we wouldn’t have the question. Second would be a more conscience effort to do things at the same time. We already try to be consistent and I will always argue against a set schedule but IN GENERAL if you guys would be able to say “sims are usually around 6 EST” (for example) then it would at least make you all look better. If we can’t get a sim done at our usual time at least what we can try to do is get on and post why. This would also be, worst case, when we ask for help.

1. I’m not streaming my sims for the same reason I have mentioned countless times before. I sim from Work on my lunch break. It’s a pain in the ass enough to teamviewer into my sim computer to do it without also needing to set up and control a stream. I’ll do it in the playoffs when it’s more important but not on a daily basis. I don’t see how that is here or there to this conversation though. 2. No one is shutting it down. All we’re saying is that you are making it out to be an end of the world style situation when we’re perfectly consistent 97% of the time. That number by the way I’m not pulling out of my ass, that’s assuming 4 missed sims (so two per league per season which almost never happens) out of 84 (42 days for an average season, 2 leagues). We aren’t machines. 97% consistency is pretty damn good and far and away not a bloody pattern. 3. My issue from the get go in here hasn’t been the suggestion or the discussion it’s been the attitude you’re showcasing. Cool that and the discussion is going to go much better for you to be honest. I’m trying to be civil here but you’re basically coming in and saying we’re single handedly ruining retention by not being sim bots. Not originally but that’s what it’s starting to run into. People can disagree with you without it needing to get nasty. 4. We’ve already explained that it is an official position in that Quik and Josh already do it. I’m not seeing how we need more than that. Perhaps some more official structure but I don’t think brushing off Quik’s concerns, which are valid, does much to the discussion of that structure. I don’t see us needing more simmers, that’s just likely something gets stomped on that shouldn’t. Better communication maybe, I dare say probably, but not more simmers. 5. As I’ve already stated many times even before this thread but also a few times in here, we aren’t scheduling sims. This is a hobby for everyone, not a job. We try to be as consistent as we can do you guys can notify people if they ask but it’s not reasonable to say that anyone, be that main simmer, backup simmer, or whatever you want to call it should have to be on daily at a set time, 7 days a week, without fail. It is a hobby, not a job. There’s no reason we should treat it as a job. I get wanting more consistency but we’re people too and I want you to understand that.

The thing that’s being ignored is that we literally have backups in place already. I’m not sure if this is an extra job that’s needed really because we already have them. Devise and I can cover each other and Quik / Josh are on standby. I feel like it’s moreso we need formalized “this is when to step in” guidelines more than we need to add simmers. For example last week I realized that it was super late and I had gotten busy and forgot to sim. I pinged Josh and he did it no problem. We just need to formalize that kind of system so that if I had actually completely forgotten someone would step up immediately.

Leaving a comment so I don’t forget to watch this later. Years of Boubabi giving me GFX criticism so now with him in my world it’s my turn