Tate Thoughts (Feb 22)

[Tate 450]

Well, here we are at another theme week, and it is much of the same. I saw someone post (might have been Spartan) that this theme was used back in 2020 and yet it feels like it was only a season or two ago. I don’t fault the blue team for trying to come up with new ways to engage the community, but I really think that recycling the same ideas is quite boring for veteran members. For me it would be better to constantly think outside the box.

 

I recently asked Jardy a bunch of questions for his podcast, all of them fun, and none of them VHL related. I listened to his subsequent show and one of the things he mentioned a couple of times was that he would only claim the pod for one week because the questions were mostly non-VHL related, and I say fuck that. Just go on and claim for two weeks bro. Not every pod should be VHL centric, as the members of this community deserve to be highlighted just as much as their players.  In my opinion it’s a fresh take each week to make things different, and it perks my interest far more than seeing who everyone’s dream team is.

 

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[Spartan 4,402]

3 minutes ago, Tate said:

Well, here we are at another theme week, and it is much of the same. I saw someone post (might have been Spartan) that this theme was used back in 2020 and yet it feels like it was only a season or two ago. I don’t fault the blue team for trying to come up with new ways to engage the community, but I really think that recycling the same ideas is quite boring for veteran members. For me it would be better to constantly think outside the box.

 

I recently asked Jardy a bunch of questions for his podcast, all of them fun, and none of them VHL related. I listened to his subsequent show and one of the things he mentioned a couple of times was that he would only claim the pod for one week because the questions were mostly non-VHL related, and I say fuck that. Just go on and claim for two weeks bro. Not every pod should be VHL centric, as the members of this community deserve to be highlighted just as much as their players.  In my opinion it’s a fresh take each week to make things different, and it perks my interest far more than seeing who everyone’s dream team is.

 

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I think that with just two blues with a bunch of tasks to complete, thinking of theme week topics is just not up there in priority. I'll try to accumulate some ideas with other inputs to stockpile some ideas for the future to potentially help out. I agree, we need some freshness to it, but I do enjoy getting to do dream team again after about a year and a half of experience meeting new folks and building new relationships.

 

As for podcasts, we actually do allow non-VHL specific content as long as a decent chunk of the podcast is still VHL related. I'd say half makes sense, and just talking about personal stuff, answering questions or just providing entertainment can factor in as well. I think Bek used to do CODcasts literally playing Call of Duty, and we've seen other podcasts just playing games or ranking completely non-VHL related things that then get claimed for 3 weeks. Podcasts seem to get a lot more leeway, which I don't know if I love - but it is all claimable to your point. 

 

Cheers Tate, have a nice day

[Shindigs 1,771]

For your podcast to not be claimable requires an updater to listen to it, and we know that ain't happening. But I agree that Jardy's last podcast was a ride. Not a lot of VHL in it, that's for sure. But I agree that it doesn't always need to be. But at the same time, if it was never league related it would be a bit of an issue.

 

It's kind hard to tell what is league related sometimes, like half my Clue endorsement stuff isn't ACTUALLY league related. It's only league related because I made being a corporate shill for a board game my player's quirk. Still managed to get away with claiming a graphic of the Titanic with the board game clue in it as league related. So I think I'll call that a win?

[Beketov 9,025]

23 hours ago, Spartan said:

I think Bek used to do CODcasts literally playing Call of Duty

To be fair I did answer VHL questions while I played, it was mostly just because it was more fun for me to have something additional to focus on rather than straight answering questions.