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  1. Is that Marie Curie? Can't quite tell - looks similar enough, but not so close that it's definitely a match. If so, you definitely read up on where at least part of the name came from. In any case, the render is fantastic and the card looks great, regardless of who it's supposed to be
  2. #Phamily

    (Yes, my current player is on DC, but I think there's justification for me to be celebrating with Prague given the circumstances)

  3. I care, but I am notably not a single person, so this doesn't actually prove Cow wrong. It does, however, speak to a strange target demographic - not sure why the Commie Cup would appeal more strongly to those in relationships, but I can't reasonably prove otherwise.
  4. young whippersnappers making me actually do work. i miss the days when an old man could walk into a sim league and all the kind younger folk would help him walk out to the car with all the bags - er, do the pt and earn the points for it...
  5. I'm super in favor of having a bunch of people represent a country that's a bit more obscure - Tynan was listed as being from Belize, for example. It just has to be a country.
  6. Oh, and one additional rule - international teams must be countries, or groups of countries. You can't make an international team out of a non-country that is an overseas territory of a country. AKA Team "Greenland" is actually Team Denmark (or some larger place that contains Denmark, such as Europe). Having a team "Greenland" is essentially the same thing as having a team "New Caledonia" or a team "Guam" or a team "Nagorno-Karabakh" - these are not countries. EDIT: I'd actually just have the techie people add a word filter that changes the word Greenland to Denmark, similarly to the word filter for snubbed
  7. So we as the members of the VHL have been given a challenge for Theme Week, which is to suppose we were to be given full commie powers for 1 day and state what our grand designs might be for such a thing. As someone who has been a mini commie (VHLM) for two separate runs, I have a glimpse behind the curtain, so to speak. No one, not even the bluest of blues, can unilaterally change a rule. There's so much discussion that goes on behind the scenes for nearly everything that gets rolled out as a feature (and even the things that would later turn out to be bugs) and on the rare occasion something is decided relatively unilaterally, those are often the things that end up later reversed or modified *cough no help on trivia cough* so it's just not really done that way. This, unfortunately, makes this whole exercise rather pointless. A single day of blue would enable none of us to do any of the things we'll be proposing. However, for the sake of the exercise, I have a few things I'd do (in an incredibly non-serious way). 1. We stop caring about pesky little things like "real life teams" and revert back to the Ottawa Ice Dogs. Furthermore, as an addendum, all Lynx championships, records, and accomplishments are said to have been Ice Dogs accomplishments. We use either the old logo with the cute little dog, or a new logo with an even cuter little dog. 2. We create a 4th league, full of only inactives, just in case they happen to come back. This league is called the VHLF, and is comprised of only teams in Finland. Kolari comes back. Turku comes back. Oulu, Joensuu, Espoo, Kuopio, Vantaa, Tampere, Jyvaskyla, and Rovaniemi each get teams, divided into the Vowels Conference (for the teams with more vowels than consonants: Oulu, Joensuu, Espoo, Kuopio, and Rovaniemi) and the Consonants Conference (for the teams who have at least as many consonants as vowels: Kolari, Turku, Vantaa, Tampere, and Jyvaskyla). 3. The Helsinki Titans remain in the VHL, despite now having an entire league in their country, but just for confusion's sake, the Titans would now play in Mariehamn and would be closer geographically to Sweden than Finland despite being technically still in Finland. Despite playing in Mariehamn, they would still be called the Helsinki Titans. Anyone who questions this will be asked to point out the existence of the East Rutherford Jets and/or Giants. 4. The VHL will add an entire additional conference, but this conference will be entirely in Africa. The inaugural winner of this conference will be the Abidjan Elephants, who will have a history of regular season success and underwhelming playoff experiences. This is similar to their now-defunct IHL counterparts. Their minor league franchise, the Nairobi Rhinos, will also have a team in this conference, and the Ouagadougou Kudu will be a team name simply to twist people's tongues. The other 5 African teams are free to go where they please. 519 words
  8. i like that "online articles" were part of the first option - might balance out the two numbers a bit
  9. Are these still available? Sorry I know this is much later
  10. Not entirely sure, but if I'm going to compare it to people who've already posted in this thread who joined near the time I did, I'm going like late 2010 early 2011? Later than Adv, later than Mubble's initial joining date, but earlier than his first commitment
  11. I'm only opposed to one team, and that team has no picks near where I would be expected to go, so this draft should be pretty fun

    1. samx

      samx

      i expect u to go 1903

  12. Makes me wish I'd dropped Prague a season earlier, @Advantage deserves to be ahead of me
  13. This would have been so hard for me. As an old person, with nostalgia of playing Gen 1 Red on Game Boy, Celebi would not have been a legendary I'd have cared quite as much about as, say, a Zapdos or something. Paired with a Rhyhorn, and you guys know how much I love rhinos... let's just say I'd have possibly done the right thing and gone for the legendary first, but this is one of the reasons I don't join these things.
  14. Donated this on thursday (as the pic says) but put it in the wrong thread, and don't want it to be missed for any counts
  15. Also, as for my own personal reading history, I'll admit I'm the guy who genuinely likes some of the "school made me read it" books - I'll put a row of asterisks after the ones I first discovered through various classes, if you only want strictly outside of that realm, although as a literature/journalism double major I had some fairly out there classes so they're not all ones where you'd expect that to be the source. (I also most strongly suggest the last book mentioned before the asterisks) I saw someone early in the thread mention Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, and yes. Definitely a fan of that one. As far as other ones specifically from the country who must not be named I liked Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, as well as a few Chekhov plays (even wrote an additional act to Cherry Orchard back when I was in high school - that was like 20 years ago don't ask me to find it). Other books I enjoyed that I first encountered through various classes: first off at the risk of sounding really strongly like "that guy" I do like some Joyce. Portrait of the Artist? Dubliners? Yes. Finnegans Wake? Noooooo. I appreciate the artistry but no, that thing is a mess, it's more puzzle than book and I quite like not having a headache. Speaking of artistry, basically any Kimiko Hahn poetry collection has to be pretty high up for me, not your traditional "school" type book but it was in one of my poetry electives back at Pitt so I count it. Hahn is my favorite poet by a mile, which is saying a lot since I'm technically one as well (one poem published in an anthology - not nearly enough to have a real accomplishment, but hey it's something). This leads me to my single biggest recommendation of all books, ever: A Universal History of Iniquity by Borges. It's a collection of semi-historical accounts of famous disreputable figures of history, where he weaves some of the truth, some of the lies, and some things occupying the space in the middle, all into cohesive narratives and you never quite know which parts are the true parts. In some of these cases, the figures aren't entirely real themselves, so it's more a combination of "false that has been known as true" and false than strictly true and false, but most of them at least allude in some ways to a real person and a real story. ***** Fantasy novels: I very much enjoyed the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist, it was one of the series that first got me into the genre (the other I'll mention in a bit). One of my SBA players was even named after a character in this series, Arutha ConDoin. (Or for his full title that I made sure to put in a handful of game threads until the simmer expressed annoyance at it: Arutha conDoin, the Prince of Krondor; Lord-Marshal of the Western Realm and of the King’s Armies of the West, Heir Apparent to the throne of Rillanon.) I loved this series and recommend it highly - Silverthorn is slower but it's necessary to set up Darkness at Sethanon, which has more going on. The other series that got me into the genre was the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, although I'll admit that has a bit of a younger target demographic. The characters very much play out the normal knights and castles stuff but they're also all animals; mice, weasels, foxes, badgers, etc. Still definitely something I enjoyed at the time and might look back in on at some point, even if it might be a bit odd for a 37 year old. Others etc (sports books mostly): Fittingly for VHL in particular, Bill Boyd's Hockey Towns was a good one, about basically the lives of the more minor figures in the sport: guys in juniors who will likely not get drafted and this is kind of their last desperate crack at it, all the way up to former NHLers just getting out there in older players' leagues to keep doing the thing they enjoy. Given my running background, there's quite a few there for me. Obviously I won't rehash too much of Ledge's recommendation of Once a Runner, or the slightly-less-but-still-good sequel Again to Carthage, but another running book I enjoyed (and yes it's a bit cliche among the running community) was Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. It's about the Tarahumara tribe and how they run in their community, and when a few of their members entered Western States (big legendary ultrarunning event) and did better than most of the people who'd specifically been training for that race. Also Eat and Run by Scott Jurek, and a few Dean Karnazes ones (especially Ultramarathon Man) but I don't expect those to have much interest for people who aren't already runners. Surprisingly, I didn't get that far into Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, despite it being Murakami, a well known and established author, rather than a runner who happens to have written a book. I might have to give that one another shot sometime.
  16. Sorry, I know this is old, but given just how much of my life centers around running, I've read this several times and it is a fantastic book. Was less a fan of the sequel, Again to Carthage, primarily because of which specific character from the first book does not appear in the second (the one most similar to my own experiences in that regard). It's also good, just less good imo.
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