Jericho

1. Fuck yeah dude!
2. Was drafted
3. Lotsa Dubs
4. Stop pucks and give no fucks
5.All of the draft hype!
6. More two dollar shot nights!

Today the first draft took place since my return. I definitely spent longer than I'd care to admit trying to find it since the whole thing is in the portal now and I was still looking for it on the forum. Went full Boomer again on that one. It's cool to see how streamlined that whole process is. You get a push notification when you get drafted now, which is dope as hell. Back in the day it was sitting in a thread constantly hitting refresh with the rest of the league. We've come a long way since our roots as degenerate forum lurking monkeys who shouldn't have been allowed in public. It's cool to see things evolve and progress as the years go on, technologically as well as socially. Having the option to add pronouns to your profile for example, it seems like a small thing, but it's significantly more welcoming to the non-binary members of the community. Back in the day that wouldn't even have been considered, but MOST of us have done a lot of growing up and realized being inclusive is way cooler than trying to pretend to be edgy or trying to use dipshit pseudo-science to invalidate someone's identity (except for you Gen Chat you guys are a fucking nightmare factory that should be flushed down a toilet jesus christ. I'm proud to see most of the people I knew ten years ago have gone on to be relatively well-adjusted members of society. For those of you who didn't, well have fun in Gen Chat.

Today the first draft took place since my return. I definitely spent longer than I'd care to admit trying to find it since the whole thing is in the portal now and I was still looking for it on the forum. Went full Boomer again on that one. It's cool to see how streamlined that whole process is. You get a push notification when you get drafted now, which is dope as hell. Back in the day it was sitting in a thread constantly hitting refresh with the rest of the league. We've come a long way since our roots as degenerate forum lurking monkeys who shouldn't have been allowed in public. It's cool to see things evolve and progress as the years go on, technologically as well as socially. Having the option to add pronouns to your profile for example, it seems like a small thing, but it's significantly more welcoming to the non-binary members of the community. Back in the day that wouldn't even have been considered, but MOST of us have done a lot of growing up and realized being inclusive is way cooler than trying to pretend to be edgy or trying to use dipshit pseudo-science to invalidate someone's identity (except for you Gen Chat you guys are a fucking nightmare factory that should be flushed down a toilet jesus christ. I'm proud to see most of the people I knew ten years ago have gone on to be relatively well-adjusted members of society. For those of you who didn't, well have fun in Gen Chat.

At least all you got was a title and not an avatar lol.

Tldr; transparency and open discussion are mutually exclusive.

Publically releasing the votes would be a bad idea. The discussions can get pretty heated among the voters and those are MOSTLY people who have a fairly nuanced take on what's going on. They've generally been expected to be able to justify it to the other BoG members and the Blue team, so there wasn't a complete lack of accountability.
 
The issue you'll run into is that there are cases where there isn't an objective right or wrong answer, and two differing takes could be valid but the guy who loses may or may not see it that way. Way back in the day it was voted on by GMs (which was terrible because you'd have cases where a GM would vote for their guy when he had worse stats in every category than the winner in some cases). But people are going to be pissed if someone votes the other way, and people hold grudges. I've seen people get mad about objective awards before (Most Goals, Most Assists, etc), just because they're mad and they want to blame someone for something.
 
Awards voting is super complicated, and not every member is qualified to weigh in on that discussion critically. The headaches they'll get from angry members aren't reasonably something to expect them to put up with.

Publically releasing the votes would be a bad idea. The discussions can get pretty heated among the voters and those are MOSTLY people who have a fairly nuanced take on what's going on. They've generally been expected to be able to justify it to the other BoG members and the Blue team, so there wasn't a complete lack of accountability.
 
The issue you'll run into is that there are cases where there isn't an objective right or wrong answer, and two differing takes could be valid but the guy who loses may or may not see it that way. Way back in the day it was voted on by GMs (which was terrible because you'd have cases where a GM would vote for their guy when he had worse stats in every category than the winner in some cases). But people are going to be pissed if someone votes the other way, and people hold grudges. I've seen people get mad about objective awards before (Most Goals, Most Assists, etc), just because they're mad and they want to blame someone for something.
 
Awards voting is super complicated, and not every member is qualified to weigh in on that discussion critically. The headaches they'll get from angry members aren't reasonably something to expect them to put up with.

1. Good. Been earning that hot TPE
2. No conversations yet, nothing to be surprised about though.
3. It's the VHLM draft, I'll be there for a season so I'm not picky.
4. I'd like to put up respectable numbers and make post season.
5. Masturbation
6. Somewhere without Covid

What excites you the most about the VHL? 
Probably watching it evolve/change over time. Also watching more and more folks go from first gen to established members. It used to be so easy to follow but it's actually a nice thing to just get lost in "oh this persons super legit and I didn't even know it."  Do you have a specific team you would like to play for? Are you playing for that team now?
I'm not going to be overly particular with my player, that said there are a couple of VHL franchises I've never played for, some of them staple franchises. I don't believe I've played for either Helsinki or Davos yet for example, but the expansion teams who I haven't played for as well would always be fun.  Everyone has a pre-game ritual. What is yours?
A good meal and deep meditation.  Is there any music you listen to to pump you up for a game? Do you have a playlist?
No music. Music is for post game thought processing dependent on mood. If there was any other sport you could play what would it be?
Esports, League of Legends to be specific because as @Advantage and @Jericho have taught me anything it's that you can always dominate if you use the Butcher of the Sands.  What's the worst hockey-related injury your player has endured?
Broken ego.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

100%, you just give a little more leeway when it's someone who still has a chance of picking it up. I know tons of people my age and older who can't/won't use it. Those people are a waste of breath.

It's more of understanding who you're dealing with. A 15 year old who's tossing out his first conspiracy theory where he ignores half of the evidence that doesn't support his claim hasn't been taught critical thinking and genuinely believes hat he's saying adds value. If the same argument is being made by someone in their mid 20s they either A) Have been taught the difference but chose to ignore it or B) Are too stupid to be able to tell. In these cases that person isn't worth investing the time into, whereas the kid might be.
 
Outside of a community like this I only see these takes out of adults, because that's who I associate with, and so my reflex is to automatically dismiss the person as arguing in bad faith. In the case of younger kids here that isn't necessarily the case, so it's important to keep that in mind.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

This is possibly the stupidest interpretation of the announcement that could possibly have come out of the announcement. Are you intentionally missing the point? Literally nobody from Blue or BoG said it was their idea originally. This was a topic of conversation that dated back as far as the mid 40s and has apparently been brought up numerous times since. Trying to turn this into a weird BoG flex they were in no way making is incredibly dishonest.

Man it's really too bad keyboards don't have any way to go back after you fuck up.

Can confirm I visited you, and that doing so would have kept you from harm.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.