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    Re-imagining the League with some..uh..moves...

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    A few of these I personally think there are better options for, even if we largely work under your existing framework:

    Would go Buffalo for NY's farm, rather than doubling up on the NYC metro area.
    Would go Portland for Seattle's farm, if Tacoma happened it would likely be the least relevant place ever used for the league other than when Minot, North Dakota had a team - yes, that was a thing.
    Like the option you went with in Milwaukee, proves you weren't just 100% going within state lines.
    Winnipeg seems a bit far from Toronto to make it work as a farm, although I'm not super up on internal Canadian stuff and that might be more reasonable than I think. If I'm right and it's weird, maybe that's where the missing Mississauga could fit.

    Seconding Ahma's mention of Turku, especially as we had a Turku before.
    Would go Glasgow for London's farm, just to cover a second "constituent country" of UK rather than double up on England.
    Would go Vilnius for Riga's farm, since "the Baltics" are a thing and not really Belarus.

     

     

    If we are working *outside* of your framework: I disagree with the idea of removing DC, and not just because I play for them (you know historically my heart is with Prague, and prior to that Calgary, so this isn't bias talking, although all credit to Frosty as I've very much enjoyed DC and couldn't have asked for a better landing spot if I was going to branch out a bit). 
     

     

    (Coincidentally, although completely unrelated other than sharing cities/states that get a mention: the Milwaukee Lakefront is one of my expansion teams in my 40-team NHL23 save, as are the Portland Owls, and since you mentioned Alaska briefly in the M section, the Anchorage Narwhal)

     

    S89 Commissioner Cup

    in VHL Top Prospects Game

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    On 8/7/2023 at 7:50 PM, MexicanCow123 said:

    Not a single person cares

    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.

    Happy 16th Birthday VHL!

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    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...

    Blue is the most stressful color

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    Posted · Edited by diamond_ace

    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

    Blue is the most stressful color

    in Media Spots

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    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.

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    Thoughts on killing the lotto tournament?

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    I feel like if you're a team bad enough to have a genuinely good lotto odds (and even if pick 1 is "even" the fact that you can't drop too far still keeps this point valid) then you should really have kept your 1st. Bad teams giving up picks before the value is set is always going to be a questionable move, so if we have instances where a lotto team doesn't have their 1st and someone else does, regardless of what that team then goes on to do in the lotto tournament, you kind of did it to yourself. 

     

    Having said that, yeah get rid of the lotto tournament. Just not for that reason in particular. People don't really follow it, set lines for it, bother changing much of anything for it.

    Official Reading/Book Thread

    in Off-Topic Discussion

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    On 1/28/2023 at 3:53 PM, fishy said:

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    hi all, i'm trying to clear out my bookshelf and am throwing an offer out here to y'all. if you want any of these books, i'll be happy to send them to you. preference would be to split shipping cost, but i don't need anything for the books themselves. feel free to send me a dm if you're interested. i have most of them because i read them in college, but despite being assigned reading, most of them are actually good reads. they'll otherwise be donated to a thrift store or put into one of the little libraries we have around town

    Are these still available? Sorry I know this is much later

    Moderation and the Needs of the Community

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    12 hours ago, Baozi said:

     

    So I do want to point out to this example which I feel was definitely in the back of my mind. I think being anti-abortion is hateful and wrong. So this and some other things I feel are probably why I wanted to bring about the original discussion with the "bigotry and hate" line which to me doesn't necessarily mean homophobia. In my mind, Roe v Wade issues is actually a clear example of "right vs wrong" and I really don't see how that can be thought of otherwise. This along with a host of other stances I personally feel are things we should likely decide upon to either support or allow or at least give a semblance of what we deem as right/wrong.

     

    This. Honestly I'm not sure how this can even be considered "opinion" it's pretty clearly a rights issue. 

    Moderation and the Needs of the Community

    in Archive

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    Re: section 1

     

    I've always deferred to Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance on that one. True tolerance must necessarily exclude tolerating the intolerant, because intolerant ideas will eventually tear down tolerant ones and take over if allowed to take root. I'm firmly on the side that bigotry and hate are 100% to be kept out of the community, even if it means we go against the purest form of "free speech" in doing so. We're an independent community, not beholden to anything larger than that. A city might legally have to allow a permit for a neo nazi rally for example, since they're an extension of the government - we don't have to do anything of the sort. 

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