Beketov

8GP =/= 8 Starts

7 seasons done (yes 7, not 8) and people still can't spell my name

+4 Sokolov

User Name: Beketov EASTERN CONFERENCE (A2) Ottawa vs (M2) Pittsburgh Winner: Pittsburgh # of Games: 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE (P1) Anaheim vs (W2) Nashville Winner: Nashville # of Games: 7

Not gonna lie, this episode of the CoDCast is a bit all over the place. We start playing IW and going for sniper / pistol camos, then quickly switch to trying a challenge involving shooting down streaks, then get fucked by a lack of lobbies and switch to MWR. It's... something. Anyway, while not yelling at all those annoyances I answer questions from @Phil and @punkhippie to the best of my abilities. *For Holik

S54: The year of inconsistency

Were they ever on this board? I thought they left during the SMF board.

Getting credits is always fun. The glow wears off a little bit it's always still cool when it pops up. Sadly I haven't managed the big screen yet since the only feature I worked on didn't credit me (long story) but even the TV screen is pretty fun, plus it means 8-12 a year depending on the show haha. Still, I gotta say, this project seems significantly more interesting than what we usually get on the east coast. Or at least less French. Edit: As an aside, we have at least 3-4 Filmmaker's as members or former members of this site. It's honestly a travesty that we have never actually made "VHL: The Movie" (working title) a reality.

I'll always take good wins against Quebec. GG.

Might keep recording these at 1080p30 to keep the issues at bay but we'll see. Either way I'll be needing some questions! @eaglesfan036 @The Bread Man @der meister @Phil @tfong @Molholt @Banackock @gorlab @JardyB10 @evrydayimbyfuglien @Jericho @DollarAndADream @Kendrick @mpclardy @hedgehog337 @Devise @Smarch @Will @Streetlite @punkhippie

+4 Sokolov

Would have been nice to get the SO to keep that S% but Toronto loves to ruin that so I'll take the W at least.

What. The. Fuck

Oh boy I wish I hadn't just accidentally refreshed my page because I feel as if I can't express the anger I just had written, don't worry though, I'll try. What facts are we blind to? Please, enlighten me. The facts as I see it are the facts we have presented. Meanwhile, you have simply spouted back the rhetoric of a sociopathic liar. So please, explain to me how universal health care is flawed. Your boy Donny praised the Aussie version of it just this week (LINK) and has claimed several times that he's in favour of universal health care and a liberal when it comes to health care (LINK TO JUST A FEW OF THEM) Also, you use the word liberal as if it's a dirty word. I will gladly be called a liberal, any day of the week, bring it on. If being a liberal means I give a rats ass about my fellow man then I kindly accept it. Since you clearly don't know anything about how our health care runs let me explain it to you. I pay a few dollars extra in tax every pay so that myself, and every Canadian, has access to medical services when they need it. So does everyone else, that's how the cost stays low, because it's spread over millions. Will I ever need that health care? Maybe, maybe not, but it's there and I'm happy to keep paying for it. Even if Iived to be 100 and never once visited a hospital I would still be more than happy to have paid it. Not because I needed it but because perhaps my family did, perhaps my friends did, or my neighbours, or just anyone. That's not being foolish or a "liberal" (if you want to use that as some horrible slur) it's called having human compassion. I don't want to have other people suffer because I wanted to keep a few extra dollars in my pocket. The ideology that you would rather your fellow Americans suffer because you don't want to pay a little every pay cheque for them is mind-blowing. In total my health care costs account for less than 6% of my income; take a look at American costs and see if you can say that. So go ahead, call me a liberal, call me whatever you damn well please. But every other developed country in the world has realized that the health of it's citizens should come before the profits of it's richest. America apparently has not received the memo. I look forward to seeing how you defend that.

What are those long term projections based on though? Nothing I have found shows any reason to believe that prices will come down. Insurance companies will want more overhead because fewer people will be paying them which means they will charge vastly more. The tax credits you mention seem like a great way to mask this as a positive thing. Sure, you're receiving some money back but it's far less than you will be paying in extra. If I owe my insurance company $8000 more than I did before it really doesn't help me much that the government cuts me a cheque for $4000 does it? The bill also removes the ACA's limitation on pre-existing conditions which means that insurers can charge more if people have them: and before you say it the list is pretty extensive regarding what they deem pre-existing conditions to be. Yes, in Canada we have a similar list and it does make it hard for people with them to get extra coverage. However because our healthcare is guaranteed we can get basic coverage that we need without being left with a bill. Meanwhile in the US you can be completely ignored by a coverage provider. That's bad enough for serious stuff but it also allows insurance providers the freedom to deny people insurance over trivial things such as Acne, being overweight, or having kidney stones. You know, things that 90% of people experience at one time or another. Honestly a single payer / universal system is the only logical route for a developed nation. The United States spends more on health care than most countries while simultaneously offering less coverage. That makes absolutely no sense at all. You have a right to own as many firearms as you want but not the right to survive being shot by one. If that's not backwards I don't know what is.

Yup I would rather pay a little extra in tax every pay cheque then be worried that if something ever happens to me I'll be in debt forever. Like I said, if not for Canada's health care system I would be either buried in debt or dead. Instead I'm alive and well with an amazing credit score.

This puts the control back on the insurance companies though, and allows them to charge whatever insane rates they want, especially in regard to pre-existing conditions. The ACA limited the insurance companies so everyone got it but the costs were lower. While what you explain is how it should THEORETICALLY work it isn't how it will work in practice. Without the government oversight insurance companies will massively overcharge (as they always have) because the only option people have is them or nothing. The ACA offered an affordable option. So sure, you won't get more coverage than you want but because the costs will go up (when have insurance companies ever not been greedy) you'll just end up with less coverage at a higher rate.

Aside from Trump's word (which isn't worth a damn) there is no evidence premiums will drop; at least for the vast majority of people. Pre-existing conditions especially will be nailed. Asthma: $4400 extra. Diabetes: $5000 extra. Oh, and god forbid you get pregnant, that will be an extra $17000. As for the may not even use: everyone will need it eventually, it's just a matter of time. People should not have to be forced to choose between bankruptcy and death which is what a system like this forces. 3 years ago my appendix decided to explode on me. I was freelance so I definitely didn't have money for any coverage and didn't have any through work. In Canada I don't need it (thank god) and only had to pay for my prescriptions out of pocket. In America that surgery, plus the week long hospital stay, would have ruined my credit for life. Plus, like STZ alluded to, the whole point of insurance is paying for something you may not use. I'm legally forced to have tenant and car insurance; I've never used either but that doesn't mean I shouldn't have them. The ACA (which Trump approved off when it was announced, fun fact) allowed you guys to keep your rediculous consumerist viewpoint of buying health insurance while also allowing everyone access to it. Without that you end up with significantly fewer people who "don't want it" and significantly more who simply can't afford to have it. Often times the ones who don't want it are people who can risk paying out of pocket if something happens anyway. All taking away the ACA does is screw the poorest of your nation who actually need it while aiding the pocket books of the rich that can afford whatever is put forth.

Sorry it’s still processing., Shouldn’t take long but I need to get to work. Technical problems yesterday lead to a rushed CoDCast today. I answer questions from @BOOM, @punkhippie, and @Devise while proving how terrible I am at sniping in Infinite Warfare. *For Holik

Putting this in the thunderdome because honestly it could get messy. Usually I leave political discussion off the VHL but I really want to try and understand this. What is your aversion to universal healthcare? You're government is pushing through a bill that will destroy premiums for anyone who could afford insurance before and kick off millions of people who can't afford it now. Premiums will either go up or coverage will disappear. You are one of the few Countries IN THE WORLD that does not deem health as a human right. Your love of the free market has allowed insurance companies to completely control you resulting in some of the highest prices and lowest coverage of health care amongst developed nations. So yeah, rant over, but wtf America? What reasoning could you have to justify this.

That was my reaction.

Just recorded this entire thing but frame drops made it completely unwatchable so annoyingly I will have to re-record it tomorrow Really need to get this setup sorted out.

I saw, it got me thinking about it. Don't worry, I'll go into more detail when I record that tomorrow.

I honestly never thought I would be getting to this point but I'm starting to wonder if I'm getting burnt out on the VHL. This isn't really a statement of "the league is going down and then end is near!" but rather just an old fart of the league that maybe has been doing this for just too long. Honestly I'm not even 100% sure why I'm writing this at all. Probably because I need 1 extra point to get a full attribute point that I'm missing so I need to get it somewhere; but also because I think it needs to be known. Anyone who's in the NY locker room with me has probably noticed that about the only time I post it's talking about my current stats or how the team is doing. That's likely because all I seem to do anymore is check the games every morning and then more or less stop paying attention. I don't want it to be this way and doing the CoDCast has really helped but I feel as if I'm not engaging in the site in the same way I used to. I feel like I don't belong in any of the discussion that's happening. Have I just been around too long? Am I too jaded? Maybe I just need to take a break for awhile and not have to focus so heavily on the sim for my entertainment. The VHL has always been fun because of the community, not the sims, and I feel as if I've lost that in the past couple of seasons. It feels as if I've gotten so caught up in my own stats being less than I want (as they always have been to be honest) and that has caused me to forget what I enjoyed about being here. Maybe after Holik retires I'll take a break; focus on Sokolov which I never really intended on doing. Maybe I'll bring another player in at some point after but who knows. It feels like all the years of being on this site are starting to catch up with me. This is probably getting pretty ranty at this point so I should probably end it but does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe some of you guys that, like me, have been simply around the block a few too many times. I don't want to leave the VHL by any means but I don't want to feel as if I'm just going through the motions either; it's a tough situation. *For Holik

We seriously need to figure ourselves out against Stockholm. When STO G is beating us it's a bad sign. Also, fuck you @Kendrick