Rin

Man, I used to be huge on ROBLOX back in the 2010-ish days, especially as a clothes maker. Some of them still sell frequently, I have more robux on that dormant account than I know what to do with.
 
Bought the 1k one, godspeed soldier

Man, I used to be huge on ROBLOX back in the 2010-ish days, especially as a clothes maker. Some of them still sell frequently, I have more robux on that dormant account than I know what to do with.
 
Bought the 1k one, godspeed soldier

Man, I used to be huge on ROBLOX back in the 2010-ish days, especially as a clothes maker. Some of them still sell frequently, I have more robux on that dormant account than I know what to do with.
 
Bought the 1k one, godspeed soldier

Man, I used to be huge on ROBLOX back in the 2010-ish days, especially as a clothes maker. Some of them still sell frequently, I have more robux on that dormant account than I know what to do with.
 
Bought the 1k one, godspeed soldier

So a while ago, I stepped back from the VHL. Going into reasons why would be a media spot-length article all on its own, so I really just want to touch on one of them that I felt most passionate about.
 
I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. We moved when I was in elementary school to the hockey-less Houston area when I was young, but I never really identified as being from Houston, if that makes sense. There are sports teams here to cheer for, but being a fan of any of them would feel more forced than anything. Instead, I cheered for Chicago teams throughout my life, since that's where my parents and extended family are originally from. I got into the White Sox, the Bears, and above all- the Blackhawks.
 
I'd always dreamed about getting a "hometown" sports team in Las Vegas one day, but I'd resigned myself to the fact that it would likely never happen. When an announcement was made that an expansion team in the desert was being considered, however, I was immediately on board. I followed the process religiously until the Golden Knights were officially revealed, and immediately prepared myself to fully back this new roster. Since their first ever game happened to be a reasonable drive away in Dallas TX, we got tickets behind the bench and attended in person. If you look up highlights of the James Neal goal that made it a 2-1 game, you can see me behind the bench in a Knights jersey.
 
The entire situation felt like a Monkey's Paw scenario, though, because ever since I started cheering for Vegas I'd been blatantly disrespected by every other hockey fan online. Even though I grew up watching the Blackhawks religiously, I apparently now knew nothing about the sport. Neither I nor my team were good enough to participate in the watching or playing of hockey just because it's a desert. Everyone clamored that it would never work, and Vegas would never get a true home-ice advantage. And then when the Knights started winning, those opinions turned into unbridled vitriol whenever the discussion turned to hockey in northern-heavy settings. I could go on an entire rant or tangent about how genuinely awful the greater hockey fandom has been towards Vegas, I could go on and talk about how much the community NEEDED this team after the events of October 1 (which impacted some of our friends in LV directly), I could cite just how much the game has grown in the area (there's a casino being torn down near the practice facility to make way for MORE ICE RINKS), but I've gone on a billion rants like that before that have fallen on deaf ears. It really felt like nobody respected Vegas- fans and players alike.
 
But not even a week after I got laid off, the Knights would be playing in the Stanley Cup Final. We already had plans to try and go, and now that I didn't have to negotiate time off of work...it was a lock.
 
Everything fell into place. Game 5 was fucking unbelievable. One or two Panthers fans were drowned out by the loudest building I will ever be inside of. After six years (and more considering how long we didn't have a team) of everyone going on tirades about how I didn't deserve to be happy about my team, right after the indisputable low point of my post-college life...the Knights fucking lifted the cup with me in the building.
 
And with that win, I was reminded just how much I honest to god love this game.
 
Fuck you, Vegas is a hockey town.
 

So a while ago, I stepped back from the VHL. Going into reasons why would be a media spot-length article all on its own, so I really just want to touch on one of them that I felt most passionate about.
 
I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. We moved when I was in elementary school to the hockey-less Houston area when I was young, but I never really identified as being from Houston, if that makes sense. There are sports teams here to cheer for, but being a fan of any of them would feel more forced than anything. Instead, I cheered for Chicago teams throughout my life, since that's where my parents and extended family are originally from. I got into the White Sox, the Bears, and above all- the Blackhawks.
 
I'd always dreamed about getting a "hometown" sports team in Las Vegas one day, but I'd resigned myself to the fact that it would likely never happen. When an announcement was made that an expansion team in the desert was being considered, however, I was immediately on board. I followed the process religiously until the Golden Knights were officially revealed, and immediately prepared myself to fully back this new roster. Since their first ever game happened to be a reasonable drive away in Dallas TX, we got tickets behind the bench and attended in person. If you look up highlights of the James Neal goal that made it a 2-1 game, you can see me behind the bench in a Knights jersey.
 
The entire situation felt like a Monkey's Paw scenario, though, because ever since I started cheering for Vegas I'd been blatantly disrespected by every other hockey fan online. Even though I grew up watching the Blackhawks religiously, I apparently now knew nothing about the sport. Neither I nor my team were good enough to participate in the watching or playing of hockey just because it's a desert. Everyone clamored that it would never work, and Vegas would never get a true home-ice advantage. And then when the Knights started winning, those opinions turned into unbridled vitriol whenever the discussion turned to hockey in northern-heavy settings. I could go on an entire rant or tangent about how genuinely awful the greater hockey fandom has been towards Vegas, I could go on and talk about how much the community NEEDED this team after the events of October 1 (which impacted some of our friends in LV directly), I could cite just how much the game has grown in the area (there's a casino being torn down near the practice facility to make way for MORE ICE RINKS), but I've gone on a billion rants like that before that have fallen on deaf ears. It really felt like nobody respected Vegas- fans and players alike.
 
But not even a week after I got laid off, the Knights would be playing in the Stanley Cup Final. We already had plans to try and go, and now that I didn't have to negotiate time off of work...it was a lock.
 
Everything fell into place. Game 5 was fucking unbelievable. One or two Panthers fans were drowned out by the loudest building I will ever be inside of. After six years (and more considering how long we didn't have a team) of everyone going on tirades about how I didn't deserve to be happy about my team, right after the indisputable low point of my post-college life...the Knights fucking lifted the cup with me in the building.
 
And with that win, I was reminded just how much I honest to god love this game.
 
Fuck you, Vegas is a hockey town.
 

1) Definitely underperforming. There have been a good handful of games that a roster of our caliber really shouldn't be dropping, but there's plenty of time to course correct.
 
2) I think Rin's performance so far has been admirable, but I personally would like a bit more production out of her. My goal was to try and sit around the top of the point leaders among defenseman, but so far that isn't quite panning out.
 
3) Things have been sort of quiet in Saskatoon, but I'd say guys like Mograine or Janser should be at the top of the list.
 
4) My head's already there because of the first two questions, but definitely our performance so far. I think we're capable of a lot more than the record shows.
 
5) Easy one. Magical Mirai in Tokyo, JP to experience not only the biggest Vocaloid concert of the year, but also the surrounding convention and culture. The amount of albums and artwork on sale during Mirai weekend are insane, and that's not even mentioning the side concerts/sets being performed by specific producers who might not have a track on the official Mirai setlist.
 
6) Every meal is a cheat meal 😓
Honestly, I've really started to hold a taste for specialty mac and cheese. Get some quality pasta and cheese and spice it up with some meat and sauce, like a buffalo chicken kind of thing or even a brisket/BBQ direction.

@Yahtzee

Me, casually browsing through Media Spots as a 5 TPE welfare person, who already busted my ass on 2 players and is happy to cap at 11 most weeks so I can spend time doing other things:
 

Me, casually browsing through Media Spots as a 5 TPE welfare person, who already busted my ass on 2 players and is happy to cap at 11 most weeks so I can spend time doing other things:
 

Please make me a massive Bobandy sig to piss @Rin off 🤣🤣

This one comes with some fun context. Much like my last Rin signature, this sig is based off an album cover by my favorite Vocaloid producer. Coincidentally, the artwork is done by my favorite artist as well, so this is sort of a match made in heaven as far as my interests go. The text in this one is fairly simple- “開始“ is just kanji for "start," or a commencement/beginning of something (thanks DeepL) which is fitting for the kicking off of Rin's draft season. The bottom right text is just "Sonnet ft. Kagamine Rin" to cheekily implement the "Hikarisyuyo ft. Kagamine Rin" text from the original album cover.
 
The album cover is Hikarisyuyo's most recent release, "Twilight"

 
The Saskatoon render was kind of done by me- the lines and logos were added on top of a blank jersey artwork done by kwkunai.

 
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't include a sample song off of this album since I'm making the effort to invoke its imagery. I'm rolling with "Sunburst," which for some reason gives me FFXIV boss fight vibes with the tempo and melody of its hook.
 

Standard used to be 400x100
 
Pixelinflation has increased it over the last decade and a half to being ~500x200+

Oh, the plain one was commissioned then modified by you after.  Interesting way to get a player render!

1) No lower than cup champs, we have the talent to do it
2) I think I've gotta give it to Jigglejawns, one point for every letter or character in their name.
3) Vegas! I'd have to rep the hometown colors. No question.
4) With Jorji being right at the TPA cap for the M, I think they're a pretty safe bet for the season.
5) Honestly a fantastic question, I feel like it could be one of a few. I won't EVER turn down a good pizza though, I think I'll have to lock it in.
6) An even harder question. I controversially really like the Grape flavor, but Glacial Freeze is up there in a 1A/1B situation.

Listen up, homies. We need to have a talk about your forum sigs and how the fuck this is supposed to work.
 
(And as a disclaimer before we get into the meat of it, this is tongue-in-cheek. While I do unironically want to present the opinion, the tone isn't that serious and it ultimately isn't a big deal. I hate having to clarify, but people have taken the bait before...you've been warned).
 
My brothers, sisters, and otherwise in Christ. The resolution of my desktop monitors are 2560x1440 pixels. You know what I expect to be that large? My wallpaper. You know what absolutely SHOULDN'T be that large? Your fucking forum signature.
 
A wise man once said, "the ideal signature graphic is 185px high by 400px wide. And that wise-ass man set the standard for generations of sig makers to come, putting into stone the holy words that governed our functioning society. Deviation from the norm was common, indeed, but never so egregious as to completely detach themselves from the holy light of our divine spirit.

 
And yet, despite the holy teachings of those that came before us, we somehow have hordes of people rocking fucking desktop wallpapers (yes, plural!) after every single post they make on the forum. We're talking gargantuan tomes worth of screen space taken up by ludicrously large and unnecessarily hi-res renderings, enough to literally triple or quadruple the amount of real estate taken up by your response that just contained the phrase "lmao."
 
"But Sonnet Rin, my idea couldn't be contained in such a small box!"
Absolutely fine. Not a problem whatsoever. The sacred texts did not define a requirement, but a guideline that future artists could refer to when sculpting out their masterpieces. I don't care if your graphic is wider, a bit taller, if the aspect ratio has more of a hockey card kind of look. But if its resolution starts creeping into that 4 digit range, maybe it's time to take a second look.
 
"But Rin, if you don't like someone's sig, why don't you just mute it? The forum lets you block certain signatures from showing up fairly easily."
Because I like looking at all the cool shit people make on this site. We have some wildly talented people here, people who have been around eons longer than I have and have honed their craft over their tenure. People who are just getting into things, showing incredible progress or unique ideas that introduce a whole new concept or approach to the idea of a forum signature. I don't want to mute someone's dogshit, phone book lookin graphic sig on one day, only for them to change it to something fantastic and real estate-considerate the next. Actively blocking myself out of good content is a last resort "emergency" kind of action that I would rather not take.
 
TL;DR: If it's over 4 digits, it's time to revisit. Happy sig making, homies

The second I saw "Guastav commented on..." I knew it would be a single word, and I knew EXACTLY which word it would be

This one comes with some fun context. Much like my last Rin signature, this sig is based off an album cover by my favorite Vocaloid producer. Coincidentally, the artwork is done by my favorite artist as well, so this is sort of a match made in heaven as far as my interests go. The text in this one is fairly simple- “開始“ is just kanji for "start," or a commencement/beginning of something (thanks DeepL) which is fitting for the kicking off of Rin's draft season. The bottom right text is just "Sonnet ft. Kagamine Rin" to cheekily implement the "Hikarisyuyo ft. Kagamine Rin" text from the original album cover.
 
The album cover is Hikarisyuyo's most recent release, "Twilight"

 
The Saskatoon render was kind of done by me- the lines and logos were added on top of a blank jersey artwork done by kwkunai.

 
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't include a sample song off of this album since I'm making the effort to invoke its imagery. I'm rolling with "Sunburst," which for some reason gives me FFXIV boss fight vibes with the tempo and melody of its hook.
 

100%, everything could use just a little more anime

The second I saw "Guastav commented on..." I knew it would be a single word, and I knew EXACTLY which word it would be

100%, everything could use just a little more anime

AGREED

This one comes with some fun context. Much like my last Rin signature, this sig is based off an album cover by my favorite Vocaloid producer. Coincidentally, the artwork is done by my favorite artist as well, so this is sort of a match made in heaven as far as my interests go. The text in this one is fairly simple- “開始“ is just kanji for "start," or a commencement/beginning of something (thanks DeepL) which is fitting for the kicking off of Rin's draft season. The bottom right text is just "Sonnet ft. Kagamine Rin" to cheekily implement the "Hikarisyuyo ft. Kagamine Rin" text from the original album cover.
 
The album cover is Hikarisyuyo's most recent release, "Twilight"

 
The Saskatoon render was kind of done by me- the lines and logos were added on top of a blank jersey artwork done by kwkunai.

 
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't include a sample song off of this album since I'm making the effort to invoke its imagery. I'm rolling with "Sunburst," which for some reason gives me FFXIV boss fight vibes with the tempo and melody of its hook.
 

This one comes with some fun context. Much like my last Rin signature, this sig is based off an album cover by my favorite Vocaloid producer. Coincidentally, the artwork is done by my favorite artist as well, so this is sort of a match made in heaven as far as my interests go. The text in this one is fairly simple- “開始“ is just kanji for "start," or a commencement/beginning of something (thanks DeepL) which is fitting for the kicking off of Rin's draft season. The bottom right text is just "Sonnet ft. Kagamine Rin" to cheekily implement the "Hikarisyuyo ft. Kagamine Rin" text from the original album cover.
 
The album cover is Hikarisyuyo's most recent release, "Twilight"

 
The Saskatoon render was kind of done by me- the lines and logos were added on top of a blank jersey artwork done by kwkunai.

 
And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't include a sample song off of this album since I'm making the effort to invoke its imagery. I'm rolling with "Sunburst," which for some reason gives me FFXIV boss fight vibes with the tempo and melody of its hook.
 

Love it! We need more weeb shit in the league