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That doesn't make any sense though? He's keeping Mexico out and making Mexico pay for it so if we're keeping Google out shouldn't Google pay for it?

F - Max Molholt @Advantage

First goal of my career is the team's first goal of the season; plus a win to boot. I'll take it!

Even though I couldn't stay long I will confirm that @mpclardy is a fantastic host for guests and people should go hang out with him.

Not sure when the next time you’re planning on doing a podcast is but might as well get my questions in: 1. What do you think the North American Conference playoffs in the VHL will look like this season? 2. Any teams you think will make a big push this year? 3. Do you think Podcasts are starting to take over from the more traditional Point Tasks? If so, why do you think that is? 4. Do you think people should give the same questions to multiple Podcasts or come up with original ones? Personally I like hearing different people’s takes on the same questions. 5. Would you ever consider being a guest on the CoDCast if I could ever figure out a way to do it or would the timezones be too tough?

1. What do you think the North American Conference playoffs in the VHL will look like this season? 2. Any teams you think will make a big push this year? 3. Do you think Podcasts are starting to take over from the more traditional Point Tasks? If so, why do you think that is?

1. What made you decide to join back up? Be honest, was it the CoDCast? 2. Coming from an outside perspective, what do you think the North American Conference playoffs in the VHL will look like this season? 3. Any teams you think will make a big push this year? 4. Why stop at 1 TPE? Why not make it longer and go for the full 6. 5. Do you think Podcasts are starting to take over from the more traditional Point Tasks? If so, why do you think that is?

Got a new adapter ring just in time and got my mic orientation fixed so that (lack of pop filter aside) everything sounds perfect. Gonna record 2 CoDCasts this week, 1 tomorrow and 1 Wednesday so get your questions in while there is still time!

No doubt. I'm not concerned about it not getting done really, just bringing it up as a point that would need to be watched out for. Especially given how busy updaters are at the start of every season.

Gotcha, fair point. Definitely would need policing in that case to really make sure people don't keep them since we' could potentially be talking about a fairly sizeable boost.

You said it would bump from 80->95 though which isn't true. At 15 TPE it would bump from 80->85

Doesn't leadership still follow the update scale? I thought only experience didn't. Either way I like this idea but we would definitely need a way to police it to ensure people aren't keeping their boosted leadership during seasons they don't have a letter. We would also need to make sure teams are only assigning 1 captain and 2 assistant's as there have been times teams have done more. With it doing basically nothing it doesn't matter but if it's free attributes it does. I'd also like, if this goes through, to remove the bias against goalies being captains but that's never actually been disallowed, just not normally done.

Aw come on, I'm at the top of the leaderboard and Victor's at the bottom: just let me have this one haha.

That should be plenty for 1 CoDCast this week which is great! I'll try to get it recorded tomorrow or Wednesday. If people want to leave anymore though I'll gladly move them forward and maybe have time to do 2 CoDCast's this week! Also, I will do my very best to offer questions for those that have offered them to me.

G - Ariel Weinstein @Tylar

The effects are a little out there but actually work very well. Render's face needs a little more light to stand out against all the colour but it isn't too bad. The main glaring problem here is the text. It feels so ridiculously slapped on that I would much rather it not be there at all. The colour doesn't match, the font is weird, it's half opaque. The text IMO is ruining what could be a fantastic piece.

Not your best work IMO. The text doesn't fit the style at all, the BG and render effects look unfinished, the lighting is mediocre. You can definitely do much much better than this IMO. It just feels like a sig that yu got halfway through and then gave up on. Some stronger effects, better lighting, and a few adjustment layers would go a long way here.

Simple and clean but also beautifully effective. Love the lighting on the shoulders and the clean text. I also really like that the blue permeates through the entire piece, makes it feel much more real. I would like to see a bit stronger lighting on the render's face to really make it pop but that's a pretty minor complaint.

Render's face is far too dark, especially against the almost pure white of the canvas. I also feel like the green is a tad over-powering. It's probably how the jersey was but with the jersey and the pas and the mask it just looks like there's too much of the same colour. Maybe even making one of them a shade slightly different would have helped. Text is very sexy though and great use of depth overall.

Something about this feels very LQ to me, I think it's that the whole thing feels a tad under-lit and under-exposed. That much stock work just feels like it should really be making the render and lighting pop a lot more than it is. Get some strong lighting on this piece and it's absolute fire (no pun intended); especially with how sexy that text work is.

I have to disagree with Muffins unfortunately. I don't find the exposure is right here. The jersey, face, and especially text all seem over-contrasted. I think an extra exposure layer or twi could have toned everything down better. With that said I like the style for the text and the overall lighting and effects are on point as usual.

Bring on the questions fellas! Let's see how early in the week I can get this recorded. @eaglesfan036 @Shaka @ADwyer87 @boom @der meister @Victor @YEAH!stlemania @Phil @tfong @ChrisF @George Costanza @Molholt @Mr. Power @Draper @Banackock @gorlab @JardyB10 @evrydayimbyfuglien @Jericho @DollarAndADream @Kendrick

If this claim is true I demand Sharpe be allowed back in the league and a spot in the HoF as back-payment for my illegal suffering.

It definitely would not be fair to have any rewards for overall. Those of us in Group G would have a pretty major advantage because guys are available who simply shouldn’t still be. Plus we’re in the group literally because we signed up late. Wouldn’t make sense that we end up with that kind of advantage over anyone else. Might be interesting to see an overall standing amongst all the groups at the end but I don’t believe there should be any overall rewards.

F - John Sleeman @Advantage you're up with back to back