Shindigs

Why are all goalies like this?

Would you be inclined to change your opinion if I let you know that I purposefully set the opacity to the white highlight to 69%?

Acquired a food allergy for ice cream about 2 years ago. But prior to that, the cinnamon roll Ben&Jerry's was nice. As was Half-baked. Would usually buy one of each.

I mean Ledge purely because he's my GM. Because those eyes are hilarious.

Beef or beans depending on if I'm feeling vegan that day or not. Soft or with nachos. The spicier the better, if you're not sweating and questioning if you're going to live to see the end of the meal you are probably not trying hard enough. But yeah tacos and its derivatives are kinda overrated. I mean they're good, but if you rolled up and said "You have contracted a lethal case of tacoitis. You are now deathly allergic to tacos" I'd be like "kay" and go on with my taco-free life.

Oh, really? Would you like to say that to this guy's face? He'll be pecking mad, I tell you!

Honestly was really hard to pick one. Had two favourites, but went with my gut reaction for which one to pick. The canvas size does really force a certain layout though, which is made pretty apparent by the fact that every single one went with near identical setups for the presentation of the three teams.

So what you are saying is that we'll be getting a reading of the adventures of donald trump and Mia Khalifa in the Miami locker room? No way that can end poorly.

@bobinettusProbably one of the best logo swaps I've seen. A tip when recolouring to green. When light hits green it ends up looking more yellow than green in the highlight areas. If you're working in photoshop, try using a gradient map going from the green you intend to have to a brighter yellow/green/gray hybrid. That way the highlights end up looking slightly more realistic. With most colours you don't have to bother, but green and blue end up looking "too perfect" when you don't. If you're going for the very saturated look. Like most forum sigs do, then the "too perfect" part can actually be a positive. But for this more realistic/natural looking swap it ends up slightly off. This isn't a review, but it is a review. So let's go with 9^2/10^2 to be a bit different. Almost forgot: Did you try and make the "Aces" reversed colours? It does almost entirely blend into the background, trying out the gray background colour for it might make it pop out of the green a bit more. While also tying the text and the background theme together.

Yeah, but my counterargument would be this: You were going to borrow it from a library yes? I'm not super savvy on how library royalties work/if they even exist. In Sweden I think they don't, but I could be wrong. So basically if you were going to borrow the book. But instead got a non-legal copy of the same book. You never were a paying customer. So they didn't actually lose any income from you not buying it. Because you were never going to buy it, right? That being said, if you really like a book. Even one you were only going to borrow from the library. Depending on their individual setup some authors may have options for crowdfunding sites/etc. Never hurts to show you appreciate good work at a place like that. Back in the days when pirating wasn't actually illegal in Sweden. My rule of thumb was to treat pirated games like demos. If I liked it I bought it. If it was garbage (usually the case) I'd uninstall after what would have been the demo period in the olden days. If you want to support the author but you can't get your hands on a legal copy as easily as a pirated one. So long as what you care about is the moral side, not the legal side. Just get the copy and find a way to make it worth it for the author. Sadly in a lot of cases that just isn't possible, since the industry isn't really up to speed on crowdfunding. At least not usually.

I mean logically you're not doing that. But legally, yeah it's the same. But you're an individual. Not a corporate entity. So what you do to their poor, poor ebooks behind locked doors doesn't actually hurt their ability to protect their IP. Do with that what you will.

From this point on, I'll imagine that every time Vasile Lamb scores. His celly is to do with his arms, what that lamb is doing with its tail.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with roleplaying OEL!

It's got to do with patent law. Another example that had people up in arms because of the same principle happened on YouTube a while back, with a car guy who was making a Mustang "Eleanor Spec". To car guys it's just a car. But legally it's a movie character from the car movie "Gone in 60 Seconds", which means it's intellectual property. Which means that they have to defend that patent or their inaction will be used in court against them, if they ever have some larger corporate entity try and steal their IP. So they had to impound his car and force him to take down all his videos. Because if they didn't and another studio put a "Eleanor" in their movie. They would have a very real chance of losing that case once the defense turns the case into "You're not protecting your IP. You're protecting your IP from US, specifically". Applying the same principle to books. They are intellectual property. The library owns the right to x amount of those books, and x amounts only. If they start copying it and giving out said copies, they would be forced to destroy those copies and likely forfeit their existing legal copies. Not because the publisher wants them to destroy them etc. But because they have to force them to do so, to protect their future selves legally. Counterpoint being that they should just give libraries more copies. But we all know some industrious soul would find a way to abuse that. Which is likely why they keep # of copies to a minimum. I'm not a patent lawyer, but that is my best understanding of how it works. It's still really stupid, but at least there is a logical explanation.

I mean I'm late to the party here. But wouldn't Beaviss and Buttledge be slightly more glorious?

The more the Cluier! But really the Clueception of The Board Game Clue on Skates in a Clue ad would just be glorious.

If I put in a Clue based graphics endorsement campaign for any player/inanimate object, I'm pretty sure @MubbleFubbles has to bid on that bad boy.

Exactly. Your performance in Game 3 (for them) made them go from 1-1 in the first two to 1-7 in the next 8. Sounds like you did some real damage to them. Just wall things, I guess.

Side note on the ongoing slaughter of Miami. The one game we beat you I believe is the only game we started our starter against you. So let's get some hype for Ben Dahl. See you can comment on your goalies by praising your starter instead of throwing your backup under the bus. For shame! Also that schedule is just nuts. Not a review, but since you seem to go for the more structured approach. A tip is that when you're editing/listening back to the recording. Count your "Umm"s. It's one of the most common and natural things to do when recording/doing public speaking. Every time you need to think you say "Umm" instead of just taking a moment of silence. Before I did public speaking training I didn't really think about it. But it's one of those things that after it's been pointed out to you. It can't be unheard and it almost always detracts from the end product. It's a practice thing and I catch myself doing it all the time still. But since you seem set on holding yourself to a higher standard, I think attempting to cut the "Umms" down would really help with the more professional/structured vibe.

1. It's been a mixed bag really. But the overall trend in my possession game has been positive. Still really need to work on those giveaways though. Been applying some Clue Glue™ to my stick and it appears to have really upped my passing game over night! 2. As mentioned above, I have to get those turnovers out of my game. The first pass is so important nowadays. But now that I've added Clue Glue™ to elevate my game. I'm going to start working on my edge work and give my green biscuit a nice workout too! 3. Not to point any fingers. But a SV% over 80% would be pretty neat. #DroppingTheGAA 4. We're a young team and I'm seeing improvements in practice every day. As long as we keep giving it our all, anything is possible. 5. Ottawa, no doubt. That roster is more stacked than my D partner! 6. I mean honestly I expected Halifax to be doing way better. Looking at their roster I was expecting them to be right behind Ottawa. But I guess they hit a wall going up against @Collusion

No, I didn't really mean mine in particular. Sure I wasted about 12 points. But that's not that bad. I've seen some things looking around the league though. My thinking is this: You can fix that mistake in maybe half a season or so? Probably less. But then you end up with the player retention issue. It takes a lot more willpower to grind out 12 TPE a week with a player that is just being dumped in the sims because you did a whoopsie. Than if your player starts off doing at least *something*. On the 1000 TPE scale of things. Wasting your starting TPE doesn't matter. But it is the kind of thing that can lead to ragequits before even getting into it for a 1st gen player.

1. Your days of legendary benders may be over (old man) but when you were still a young lad. What was your beverage of choice? 2. What happened to the plane crash-cloud-hurricane-storm in your previous nodesode? Did it really just disappear? or was it <insert tinfoil hat of choice>? 3. In your opinion. What would need to change to move the community away from being metaslaves? 4. What is your stance on suspicious raw fish that disgusting things have been done to? (Asking for a friend) 5. If you could invite any guest, living or dead (though I hear dead guests are frowned upon) who would it be, and why? 6. Do you have a favorite VHLer who didn't make the HOF, but who is still a legend to you? Who and why? 6½. Does this general memery count as asking 6 questions for a presser? @Cardi B hmmm that didn't work @JardyB10 Oh right, that's the one.

Sweet! Got another 16 TPE waiting in the wings as I just hit 100 today and finished muh GFX. Gotta get swole for the draft. @MubbleFubbles

That spreading attributes is bad. I just saw those sexy TPE and was like "let's spread them in a reasonable way that might look something like a real player". It's really easy to completely ruin your player in like 10 seconds right after joining. Honestly wish there was a popup asking you if you are aware that you are an idiot and should probably read some guides before letting you press it the first time... Though if that was there I would have ignored it and pressed continue anyways, so there's that. Hell that might even have been there, I don't remember things that happened a week ago.

Aww, if you compiled it 2 days later I woulda made it! But now that I have the power Clue Glue, nothing will stop me! @MubbleFubbles