STZ 5,280 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) TL;DR I had fun. I make new player. Long Version I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I recreated with Benny Graves. I had left the VHL after stepping down from the GM role for NY, and then becoming inactive for the first time in my career. At the time I left, I had felt as if I had already kind of done everything and experienced everything I could from VHL. I honestly felt as if there was nothing more for me to get from this experience. On top of that the forums were kinda dead, most of the guys I talked to on a regular basis here were not around as much, and I was going through a lot of personal life changes. When I left, I really didn’t think there was a place for this community in my adult life. When I came back for the first time since leaving, the site looked pretty much the same. I saw there were new teams, but other than that pretty much as usual. When I left the portal was in its infancy stage; I believe I had even helped Will create some of the buttons for it before I left. But, sure enough as I dug in a little, I got the urge to make a new player. When I created Graves, I wasn’t sure what to expect. There were a lot of new members who I didn’t know; many more that didn’t know me. I did have the feeling as if I needed to redeem myself from going inactive. I wanted to prove that I still had the grind in me, and that I could still make a good player, and be an influence for a team’s locker room. I quickly found the portal to be a game changer. It was incredibly easy to use, and made updating your player fun rather than a tedious task of formatting a bunch of forum codes. I joined discord, and that was a learning curve. I didn’t quite like it at first, I found it frustrating to try and have a conversation if it wasn’t real time. The pings and tags, I just didn’t know how to use; VHL was legit my first experience with discord. However, it’s won me over; I really think it has made the community a lot more tight knit. I quickly found myself falling back in love with this community. The new members weren’t toxic, and the leadership group for the league were all level-headed good members who I thoroughly enjoy and respect. I got drafted to an expansion team, and joined a really fun group of members in DC. It was a subset of the community that were made up of members I had never met, and also ones that I really liked from my first run. I started to chat more on discord and meet new members and reconnect with old ones. I started to make it a point of wanting to spend my time watching Leaf games while having discord on as well. I tried games I never have before, and played with a lot of cool people on here. It’s just been a really great social place in a year where virtual social gatherings are really the only thing you can do. So maybe the pandemic had a big influence over me coming back to fully-active. Maybe the site changes and the decision makers for the league have fine-tuned it into an inclusive place where anyone can find fun here. I know at one point in Graves’ career I thought to myself; I got my 1000 TPE, I proved I can still do it. I thought maybe I would take a break, maybe I wouldn’t recreate. However, as the Trade Deadline approaches, I find myself thinking, why would I not make a new player. I’m excited at the prospect of another run. Meeting a whole new group of members. Potentially playing with great members that I have before. I’m excited to get back into doing graphics more regularly, and grinding like you do when you have a new player. Hell, I’ve even enjoyed writing this, maybe I’ll go back to writing more. Anyways, this is far too long for a VHL.com article, so I’ll wrap it up. Thank you everyone who made this last run and enjoyable one. I look forward to re-creating in the next few days and starting another year here in VHL. Edited February 15, 2021 by STZ Fire Tortorella, Victor, solas and 3 others 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 8,639 Posted February 15, 2021 Commissioner Share Posted February 15, 2021 9 minutes ago, STZ said: leadership group for the league were all level-headed good members who I thoroughly enjoy and respect aww, thanks bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOM 8,401 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Best recruit ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,526 Posted February 15, 2021 Admin Share Posted February 15, 2021 As a fellow former hiatusee this is relatable content. I am simultaneously nostalgic for old VHL and I would have not come back to old VHL. Crazy how we've ended up at a place with so many more people and yet so many fewer being pissed off with something. STZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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