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God I don't miss that time. So much bickering with the SBA guys while also trying desperately to control our own members who seemed hell bent on actively making things worse. Made us better in the end but was definitely hellish to go through.
 
But yes, was also really running that it happened on Beav's first day and I definitely never let him live that down,

And that’s how you finish a series in style! Good to k ow our playoffs are running like the start of the season so far, not the middle.
As far as we can tell it’s a bug with the current version of STHS, nothing we can control.

Another week, another 150 words for TPE, let's go!
 
Anyone who hasn't seen Wildcard game 3 between NY and Chicago, or really anyone that looked only at the main link, needs to go in and hit full game to see the true madness of it. Spoiler alert, it was OT6! Aka they played nearly 3 full games in that one game since our OT periods aren't shortened, they are the full 20 minutes. I don't know the record for the longest playoff game, I'm sure @Victor has a spreadsheet for it mind you, but that's gotta be damn close. What an absolutely insane game.
 
DC finished off the season strong so that's nice, was that done last time I wrote one of these? I don't actually remember. Shame we took such a nose dive mid season but hopefully we are heating up when it counts. Plus Calaway managed to finish with 32 goals as a D which is pretty crazy even if I was a few points under where I was last season and probably won't get any award votes. Who knows, maybe a really good playoff run and I can somehow pull my first Kanou...... hahaha yeah right. Toronto is uf first either way, I imagine no one gives us a chance at winning it but who knows.
 
Trivia has still been stupid simple.

Another week, another 150 words for TPE, let's go!
 
Anyone who hasn't seen Wildcard game 3 between NY and Chicago, or really anyone that looked only at the main link, needs to go in and hit full game to see the true madness of it. Spoiler alert, it was OT6! Aka they played nearly 3 full games in that one game since our OT periods aren't shortened, they are the full 20 minutes. I don't know the record for the longest playoff game, I'm sure @Victor has a spreadsheet for it mind you, but that's gotta be damn close. What an absolutely insane game.
 
DC finished off the season strong so that's nice, was that done last time I wrote one of these? I don't actually remember. Shame we took such a nose dive mid season but hopefully we are heating up when it counts. Plus Calaway managed to finish with 32 goals as a D which is pretty crazy even if I was a few points under where I was last season and probably won't get any award votes. Who knows, maybe a really good playoff run and I can somehow pull my first Kanou...... hahaha yeah right. Toronto is uf first either way, I imagine no one gives us a chance at winning it but who knows.
 
Trivia has still been stupid simple.

Another week, another 150 words for TPE, let's go!
 
Anyone who hasn't seen Wildcard game 3 between NY and Chicago, or really anyone that looked only at the main link, needs to go in and hit full game to see the true madness of it. Spoiler alert, it was OT6! Aka they played nearly 3 full games in that one game since our OT periods aren't shortened, they are the full 20 minutes. I don't know the record for the longest playoff game, I'm sure @Victor has a spreadsheet for it mind you, but that's gotta be damn close. What an absolutely insane game.
 
DC finished off the season strong so that's nice, was that done last time I wrote one of these? I don't actually remember. Shame we took such a nose dive mid season but hopefully we are heating up when it counts. Plus Calaway managed to finish with 32 goals as a D which is pretty crazy even if I was a few points under where I was last season and probably won't get any award votes. Who knows, maybe a really good playoff run and I can somehow pull my first Kanou...... hahaha yeah right. Toronto is uf first either way, I imagine no one gives us a chance at winning it but who knows.
 
Trivia has still been stupid simple.

It was late, I was in a rush, I counted wrong.
 
Also I’m fucking old.
Fun fact that you probably already know: that’s a genetic thing. Some people have a gene that makes it taste like soap and others don’t.

I mean that also applies to anyone who ever took a team over from @Devise

Another week of backup simming means another week of needing to do the peasant supplemental tasks so more random word vomit for TPE!
 
It appears the VHLM Schedule was screwed up and became only 70 games per team; so that's fun. We have a plan so everything should be fine soon but yeah, bit of a panic moment to wake up to I gotta say.
 
DC Managed to scrape out a quick 6 game win streak to stabilize a bit but man was that ever a plummet for like 2 weeks. Went from being top in the league by a decent margin to barely in the playoffs with individual performances taking a similar nosedive. Safe to say I don't expect Calaway to end up on the Labatte ballot again this season. Like I didn't expect it coming into the season anwyay but with how things started I did have some hope... until I had to sim and then we took a fast drive off a short cliff.
 
Trivia continues to be easy and I continue to believe people just aren't looking.

Man Simon really decided to just fucking kneecap is in the second half of the season didn’t he?
 
@Josh I’m never doing backup sims for you again, I cursed myself somehow.

@Members We're live! Everyone come hang out!
 
Also blame @samx for the idea of the members tag  

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@Members We're live! Everyone come hang out!
 
Also blame @samx for the idea of the members tag  

So I hate to do this so last minute but due to a number of unforeseen circumstances (worked later, high winds and thunderstorms freaking Luna out, etc) I’m gonna have to postpone Zoo Tycoon night until tomorrow when things should hopefully have calmed down enough that it’s less likely my power goes out or my dog loses her mind the entire time. Start time should still be the same if everything goes to plan, just one day pushed.

I do try to convert people 1 at a time. I did not come up with the name but I will certainly defend it haha

I do try to convert people 1 at a time. I did not come up with the name but I will certainly defend it haha

@Tetricide can’t be bothered to google “Halifax” and “21” confirmed. The name continues to be divisive purely because people don’t want to understand how perfect it is for the VHLM.
 
FWIW as well there was a period where it was the basic thought that VHLM cities should be the smaller cities and save the larger ones like Montreal for the VHL. We kinda got away from that mentality when we moved all the M teams to NA but we were also rapidly expanding at the time so figured “eh, we’ll get some teams in the big cities later” and then kinda just didn’t. It’s also why Boston and Detroit have long been ignored. It wasn’t really intentional, it just kinda happened.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a wild fox in NS but I can confirm that they definitely are here, you can hear the little buggers all the time.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a wild fox in NS but I can confirm that they definitely are here, you can hear the little buggers all the time.

@Members
 
Normally this would just go to the ban thread but given the circumstances I think it's best that everyone know what's going on.
 
It has unfortunately come to the attention of myself and @Acydburn that @Josh has been embezzling league funds for his own purposes. Via his access to the league PayPal he was stripping donation funds as payments for portal, forum, and domain hosting with amounts far higher than were actually needed. Because the line items were things he was paying for we had no reason, for a number of years, to think anything of it and were unaware that the costs were actually far less than what he was reimbursing himself which amounts to potentially thousands of dollars; we're still working out the total figures.
 
Obviously we are completely shocked at this behaviour and have immediately stripped Josh of his role as commissioner pending potential future legal action. We have always held firm that the league funds are used exclusively on league related activities so I am quite frankly pissed that a member of the blue team would take donation money for their own uses; whatever his excuses may be. Please be aware that we will be launching a further investigation and audit of all our costs and funds to be sure that no one else has done anything of the sort in the past.
 
Sincerely,
@Commissioner
 
Edit: In case any future people see the is and don’t see the date; it was purely an April Fool’s joke, Josh was in on it (in fact it was his idea) and the donation money is not only safe but audited.

This is actually something we have moved away from in a major way since retracting the E to 6 teams. Last season we had 0 inactive veteran players, this year we have two per team because the GMs voted 4-2 that they wanted them this year. I personally think we can be completely healthy with 0. 
 
The actual issue with any "delete the E talk" stems from the cap question you mention. We've been over this many times since even before the inauguration of the VHLE, but there basically has to be one of two outcomes here. 
 
Either: a)we keep cap at 400 as you suggest, but we don't think there's any appetite for brand new players to play against a good chunk of players at 300+ TPE, or b) we move the cap to 200 or 250 and the VHL supports the excess, but right now the excess is big enough to require either expansion or raising the cap, which comes with it's own issues as well. 
 
The long and short of it is as long as there is some form of recruitment effort, deleting the E would most likely require either expansion or forcing new players to play against too strong of opposition early on, neither of which have been at all appealing based on multiple discussions. 

As I work in film this has been a hot topic for the last couple of years with opinions ranging from “we’re all fucked, it’s gonna replace us all” to “it’s fucking dumb and doesn’t stand a chance in creative fields.” On the whole I fall in the middle, I think it’s a useful tool in some circumstances but people need to not trust it too much. Ultimately it is easily mistaken and fooled because it’s pulling from incomplete information. As for specifics, I think stuff like coding can benefit from it greatly because it’s the kind of thing it understands well and you can save hours of debugging. As for what it should stay out of: almost anything creative. It’s a machine, it lacks creativity. All it can do is effectively copy and steal from others and badly mimic it. Useful as a planning tool for something maybe but not as an end product.

I had the above all written already when @Kisslinger took those questions so I’m gonna just leave it and answer his haha
Well I first started in S1 when no one knew anything about any of the teams and also, I’ll be honest, most of the logos were fucking terrible ripoffs. With that said Amstel had the first pick so I was quite pleased to be taken with it haha.
 
I mean wrestling seems the obvious choice, IYKYK I would say… and if you don’t well google my player’s name.
 
Probably teleportation. It’s not one of the more obvious ones but man, it would be such a time saver wouldn’t it?

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1. If you could pick one food item to be banished from existence and you’d never have to risk tasting it again what would you choose?
 
2. How do you think the league is going to celebrate its centennial season?
 
3. If you had to choose a player, both real or VHL and from any era, to emulate who would you choose?

Hello @Members!
 
Man the two months between these seem to fly by every time don’t they? Or is that just for the blues since we have to come up with ideas. It is, however, that time of the season again, theme week! Everyone’s favourite week (aside from the blues) since you all get that sweet extra TPE.
 
Of course, that also means that the Trade Deadline is Monday, April 15th at 3pm EDT. This also means that anyone wishing to re-create for the S95 draft can do so starting at midnight that same day.
 
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Trade deadlines are boring though, you wanna know about theme week don’t you? The theme for S93 is:
 
It’s your lucky day @Frank! Have a team whose location is bugging you? Or maybe you just really hate the team name or logo? If everything bent to your whim what would you do with the branding of a team, or hell multiple teams, whatever you’d like? What would the league look like?
 
To earn your Theme Week TPE, write an article, create a graphic, or record a podcast with some connection to “Rebrand”. 
 
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In order to claim the theme week bonus of 6 Uncapped TPE, simply submit your Themed PT (Graphic, Media Spot, or 6-TPE Podcast), and claim it as normal. After claiming the PT portion, you can use the same link, and claim the uncapped portion as follows: Claim Uncapped > Other > Doubles Week. (Note: you do not need to post your link in this thread to claim either portion of TPE). 
 
If you have already submitted a Point Task for this week, or are in the midst of claiming a multi-week Media Spot/Podcast, you may still submit a Theme Week PT this week, and claim the capped portion on the next available week, following your multi-week claim.
 
Also, if you have a single job that pays 6+, you may claim the theme week bonus as long as you complete your duties for the week. If you are in the SBA and have completed their most recent Media Week, you may use that to claim the Uncapped theme week bonus, but a PT must be completed this week in order to claim the Capped portion, whether that is completed here or through Affiliate Welfare.
 
Note: Only players who are S94 or older may claim the theme week bonus.
 
@VHL GM
@VHLE GM
@VHLM GM

Hello @Members!
 
Man the two months between these seem to fly by every time don’t they? Or is that just for the blues since we have to come up with ideas. It is, however, that time of the season again, theme week! Everyone’s favourite week (aside from the blues) since you all get that sweet extra TPE.
 
Of course, that also means that the Trade Deadline is Monday, April 15th at 3pm EDT. This also means that anyone wishing to re-create for the S95 draft can do so starting at midnight that same day.
 
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Trade deadlines are boring though, you wanna know about theme week don’t you? The theme for S93 is:
 
It’s your lucky day @Frank! Have a team whose location is bugging you? Or maybe you just really hate the team name or logo? If everything bent to your whim what would you do with the branding of a team, or hell multiple teams, whatever you’d like? What would the league look like?
 
To earn your Theme Week TPE, write an article, create a graphic, or record a podcast with some connection to “Rebrand”. 
 
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In order to claim the theme week bonus of 6 Uncapped TPE, simply submit your Themed PT (Graphic, Media Spot, or 6-TPE Podcast), and claim it as normal. After claiming the PT portion, you can use the same link, and claim the uncapped portion as follows: Claim Uncapped > Other > Doubles Week. (Note: you do not need to post your link in this thread to claim either portion of TPE). 
 
If you have already submitted a Point Task for this week, or are in the midst of claiming a multi-week Media Spot/Podcast, you may still submit a Theme Week PT this week, and claim the capped portion on the next available week, following your multi-week claim.
 
Also, if you have a single job that pays 6+, you may claim the theme week bonus as long as you complete your duties for the week. If you are in the SBA and have completed their most recent Media Week, you may use that to claim the Uncapped theme week bonus, but a PT must be completed this week in order to claim the Capped portion, whether that is completed here or through Affiliate Welfare.
 
Note: Only players who are S94 or older may claim the theme week bonus.
 
@VHL GM
@VHLE GM
@VHLM GM

Fun fact: I had that post scheduled since last night so it was already written several hours before this.

Hello @Members!
 
Man the two months between these seem to fly by every time don’t they? Or is that just for the blues since we have to come up with ideas. It is, however, that time of the season again, theme week! Everyone’s favourite week (aside from the blues) since you all get that sweet extra TPE.
 
Of course, that also means that the Trade Deadline is Monday, April 15th at 3pm EDT. This also means that anyone wishing to re-create for the S95 draft can do so starting at midnight that same day.
 
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Trade deadlines are boring though, you wanna know about theme week don’t you? The theme for S93 is:
 
It’s your lucky day @Frank! Have a team whose location is bugging you? Or maybe you just really hate the team name or logo? If everything bent to your whim what would you do with the branding of a team, or hell multiple teams, whatever you’d like? What would the league look like?
 
To earn your Theme Week TPE, write an article, create a graphic, or record a podcast with some connection to “Rebrand”. 
 
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In order to claim the theme week bonus of 6 Uncapped TPE, simply submit your Themed PT (Graphic, Media Spot, or 6-TPE Podcast), and claim it as normal. After claiming the PT portion, you can use the same link, and claim the uncapped portion as follows: Claim Uncapped > Other > Doubles Week. (Note: you do not need to post your link in this thread to claim either portion of TPE). 
 
If you have already submitted a Point Task for this week, or are in the midst of claiming a multi-week Media Spot/Podcast, you may still submit a Theme Week PT this week, and claim the capped portion on the next available week, following your multi-week claim.
 
Also, if you have a single job that pays 6+, you may claim the theme week bonus as long as you complete your duties for the week. If you are in the SBA and have completed their most recent Media Week, you may use that to claim the Uncapped theme week bonus, but a PT must be completed this week in order to claim the Capped portion, whether that is completed here or through Affiliate Welfare.
 
Note: Only players who are S94 or older may claim the theme week bonus.
 
@VHL GM
@VHLE GM
@VHLM GM