Beketov

Going live in about 2 minutes. Here’s the link: https://www.twitch.tv/beketov_vhl @evrydayimbyfuglien @Kendrick @Phil

If everything goes well I'll be starting up a live stream sig in an hour or so (maybe a little less). I'll leave the link here when I go live but for now I just wanted to generate a bit of hype for anyone that will be around. If you wanna come see my mind at work come for that, if you want to see me answer questions live come for that, if you just wanna hang out and chat that's cool too. Just make sure you show up so I'm not just talking to myself! A few people off the top of my head that I think might be interested: @gorlab, @evrydayimbyfuglien, @ADwyer87, @Phil

Gonna record this on Saturday as per usual so get your questions in! @eaglesfan036 @Shaka @ADwyer87 @boom @der meister @Victor @YEAH!stlemania @Phil @tfong @ChrisF @George Costanza @Molholt @Mr. Power @Draper @Banackock @gorlab @JardyB10 @evrydayimbyfuglien @Jericho In the meantime however, and I'm leaving this here because some of those tagged have expressed interest, would any of you be interested in seeing a live sig tonight? Will probable be sometime around 5:30 EST if I were to hazard a guess. I would want to get at least a few people in the chat asking questions so that I can keep it VHL related. If this is something you'd like to tue in for let me know now and I'll get it set up tonight!

I had an odd feeling there was some kind of rule like that but I couldn't recall. Alright then, I shall sit here twiddling my thumbs. Other GM's, feel free to make your claims now. Dance for my amusement.

Ssshhh, I'm old and don't remember rings very well

I don't believe I've ever had a chance to play with @Jericho and I wish to rectify that so I accept!

The Beketov player agency has one of the longest stories in the VHL, dating all the way back to it's founder, Alexander Beketov, who joined the VHL in Season 6. Since his retirement at the end of Season 12 there have been 6 players sign to the agency. These players have come from all across North America and Europe but have always played either a forward, or goaltender position. All that changes today, however, as the Beketov Player Agency is pleased to announce their newest signing: Roman Sokolov. Roman hails from Beketov's home country of Russia and his the first defenseman to be picked up by the VHL Hall of Famer. When asked why this is, VHL.com received the following statement from Mr. Beketov. "I'm not sure why exactly I've never signed a defenseman. I think part of me has just always understood the way a forward's mind, and in turn the mind of goaltenders, work. For that reason I always gravitated toward those positions in the players that I signed. I couldn't possibly ignore the things that Sokolov has been doing though. This kid is lighting up the minor leagues in Russia and wants more than anything to have a VHL career. It does help I think that he's a very offensively minded defenseman so it seems like a perfect mesh with the kinds of players I usually sign. I hope that I can help bring Roman the kind of success that I had in my VHL career." Roman is currently set to sign with a VHLM team and is entertaining offers. He was unavailable for comment regarding what teams have thus far shown interest but the list is expected to be long. Beketov's agency is one of the oldest and most respected in the league and has created some very talented players; many of whom have their named etched into the VHL's Continental cup. *For Holik

All our stats are held in engine; aside from re-creating the players after their draft season there’s no way to have anything they do not count toward their totals. For me the biggest problem here is that re-creates who get a good amount of TPE could be decent depth players but new people coming in are going to get destroyed. Yes, they see a more active locker room and that’s great but they’ll get obliterated in the sim. You’re talking players with 30 TPE going up against defenders and goalies nearing or above 1000. That’s not even considering goalies themselves who would sit on the bench for all but 8 games and then get obliterated for those 8 games. I feel the effect of being thrown into the VHL at such low TPE numbers would dishearten a lot of new members.

Got more IW Beta gameplay for you guys including the longest killstreak I’ve had in the game yet. Meanwhile I answer questions from @gorlab, @evrydayimbyfuglien, @boom, and @JardyB10

BTW I changed my DNS server to 208.67.222.222 and it fixed it. It's a workaround I'm sure and probably won't fix all sites / last long but it at least allows me to work for now. Fun fact, apparently CBC's server address to upload broadcast files run's off a Dyn DNS because I haven't been able to use it since this morning haha.

Not that it really matters but for those that might be curious why shit isn't working today: you aren't alone. I just spent the last 2 hours at work trying to figure out why our internet is working for some sites but not for all; only to find out it isn't our internet but rather the internet. Apparently Dyn, which is a company that controls DNS for a large amount of websites (though not the VHL apparently, yay for that) is being hit today with waves of DDOS attacks and it's taking out large chunks of the internet. Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, PSN, etc, etc. So, yeah, if you've been wondering why some sites are going to shit this morning, that would be why. If you aren't on the east coast of NA and haven't been seeing this yet then consider yourself lucky but it's coming. There are reports that Europe and the West coast are getting hit now as well. I Blame Anderson, and Russia. Just because.

That's my thinking. Ideally I would have some VHL people in the chat of the live sig and I could answer questions so that's VHL related. The fact that it creates something also VHL related at the end is simply a bi-product.

So this never went anywhere but I wanted to bump it to see if the blue team or others are actually interested in seeing it. I'm thinking mainly of using live streaming as a form of podcast. Basically answer questions live instead of getting them and then just going through them in a regular podcast way. Assuming we wanted to allow this would people be interested in taking part in live podcasts like that? Could be gaming, could be sig making, could be anything really. Obviously we would need an audience so I'm curious both on the "is it something we could do" side as well as the potential viewers.

Probably not this week. However, since it has been brought up a few times, @Draper, if I actually did this could the live stream (and the accompanying VOD obviously) and the sig count as 2 different PT's?

So, this week kinda flew by and I didn't notice, planning on recording this tomorrow so could I get some quick questions perhaps? @eaglesfan036 @Shaka @ADwyer87 @boom @der meister @Victor @YEAH!stlemania @Phil @tfong @ChrisF @George Costanza @Molholt @Mr. Power @Draper @Banackock @gorlab @JardyB10 @evrydayimbyfuglien

It's simple, I apparently had a stroke halfway through the season and can't play for shit anymore.

I seriously don't get it. I went from having amazing stats to being sub .900 in every game and losing to the league's worst teams. What the ever loving fuck.

Wtf happened to me? I played amazing for the first half of the season and now I can't buy a win.

Looking up a porn star at work, probably a bad idea haha. But anyway, I looked at her wiki page. She was born in Antigonish, NS I guess. No specific mention of NB.

I can see where you were going with this but unfortunately it feels unfinished to me. The elements are all there and the colours are really nice but the exposure is just slightly different on a few things which makes it feel as if they don't belong. Add a few exposure layers to balance everything out and I think it will really help. With that all said, the render effects look great and the stocks are well used.

This is pretty dark but the actual style is very good. The colours are perfect, the text is great, the BG looks nice, the blending is perfect. I would like to see a little bit more light overall, and especially on the face, but it works pretty well dark so that's a minor complaint.

Render effects are really the saving grace on this one. The colours feel very disconnected and the text; while relatively okay, looks very LQ. I feel like not having the large stroke around it would help a lot. The Shawn text also looks very slapped on. Try to do more with the colours to make them match and give a little more to the BG so that it feels less flat. Your render skills have come a long way though so good job on that.

This is decently creative but I've definitely seen you do better than this. The grid in the BG looks very odd and distracting, the elijah text looks very plain and slapped on, the render effects and main text are really the saving grace for this piece. Lighting is also pretty decent which helps; I just can't get over how little everything seems connected.

While the yellow doesn't fit great with a Bears player I think it overall does look very good, it's a lovely splash of colour. Render effects, lighting, and text are all on point. The contrast does seem a little odd in a few spots though, mainly the white spot over his arm and in regards to the duplicate render in the BG. A extra exposure layer or two could have helped balance everything out.

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