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Mubble hit the builder thing head on for me. Boom was basically the main guy you'd go to for a graphic on a new player for ages. That has to mean something, even if it's not an official job. I'm also 100% behind Dil given a big chunk of the technical side of it (although I don't really understand a lot of that side of things tbh).

Makes me wish I'd dropped Prague a season earlier, @Advantage deserves to be ahead of me

1 hour ago, Gaikoku-hito said:

What a amazing series that looked lost after the first two games. To comeback and win against my former team like that in Game 7 is completely heartbreaking for Prague but amazing for the Wolves. Happy that it went seven and it was close!!

 

Also no one is mentioning the General Fight in the middle of the game!!

It was a War on the ice!!

the irony of it being you

if people want it, and there arent really any drawbacks to it, i say do it

On 9/6/2022 at 1:49 PM, Ptyrell said:

You take an extra long shower and find...

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Dratini	23
Ponyta	22
Ponyta	25

 

Swinub	23
Celebi	30
Rhyhorn	25

 

Scyther	24
Magikarp	25
Swinub	26

 

 

Wow these are some good showers

 

https://pa1.narvii.com/6473/6dcec49abd2d05e8dcadfde7ed4ff4ab1b75d3a9_00.gif

 

edit: why cant i post pictures anymore

 

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.

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

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.

On 12/6/2021 at 10:36 PM, Ledge said:

I'm currently reading Once a Runner by John L Parker Jr, and I'm really enjoying it so far. Even though hockey is my main sport, I did cross country for the first 'trimester' of sports, and my dad has this huge bookshelf of sports books, so he gave me the best one about running he had after I did well in a race and was enjoying the sport. I'm not too far into it, but it's definitely one of the more adult-oriented books I've ever read, so I find just picking up on some of the linguistics is fascinating. It's also a real neat perspective, I highly recommend it so far.

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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Team 1-4 here - I feel like with a potentially longer path to the bigs, it just makes more sense

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Also, if someone else needs credit for donating, let them piggy back off this

46 minutes ago, Dookie420 said:

I WISH TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS ALBUM! I WILL SING A TRADITIONAL PITTSBURGH XMAS CAROL

santa claus is coming dahntahn i assume?

EDIT: to make it clear, i am guessing what dookie is suggesting, not suggesting i will sing anything myself

entry time

in this thread

Having recreated at the actual end of the season while i was vhlm commie to avoid picking a team, i never really got used to the deadline process

40 minutes ago, Beketov said:

I did warn you it was a manual process and wasn’t likely to be done immediately haha. Strictly speaking it’s also midnight PST that matters but I’m not gonna be an ass about it.

 

I do hope you didn’t apply your TPE, makes changing o you over a lot easier

No i specifically didnt apply anything bc i figured that would make it a mess

1 minute ago, jacobcarson877 said:

glad to see you back in some capacity! best of luck with this player!

Clicker central, but I figure I can lend an experienced voice to someone's LR, so that has to be worth something! 

1 minute ago, Dil said:

Cool story, I’ll be referring to your player as Greg because there is no way I can pronounce that

Yeah it's not the easiest name, but that's also kind of the point, if it's an authentic Polish name it's not going to be. I figure most people will probably use ESD or something like that, I just want to give the draft announcers a little bit of fun too

A few other things:

Origin of the name -
Eurydyka is the Polish equivalent of Eurydice, as in "Orpheus and Eurydice" - Eurydice dies and Orpheus tries to bring her back from the dead. Appropriate since the consensus seems to be that I was "dead" (ia) - I have actually been around the site, but I digress.

Skłodowska is a reference to one of the most famous Polish people in history - Maria Salomea Skłodowska, or after marriage, last name change to her husband Pierre, and modern Anglicizing, Marie Curie. 

Dudzińska is in a roundabout way, a reference to my wife. While she has a Polish last name herself, I'm not about to dox her like that, even though those of you who have me on FB already know. Instead, her grandmother's maiden name was Dudzinski. Polish naming customs are such that "ski" names are the males, and the same last name for a woman ends in "ska" instead - personally I think that sort of thing is sexist bullshit, but if the player was born in Poland to a family who has remained in Poland the whole time, storyline-wise she'd have kept the custom. 

Team-wise - 

I won't be joining San Diego, Ottawa, or Vegas. San Diego and Ottawa don't need the help, and Vegas I won't be enough. 

Any other team, I won't be piling on with a bunch of other recreates, I don't want to ruin the user experience for newer guys. I'm happy to play down the lines a bit, behind people who are experiencing this place for the first time, rather than the 7th or 8th time. 

I also won't be saying some ridiculous phrase, I will simply quote your offer and say accept. I don't expect you to modify the copy-paste thing for me though.

Also, technically the name is Eurydyka Skłodowska Dudzińska, but the player creator does not consider ł and ń as letters