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As I've gotten more involved on AIM and in leagues I have had some interesting discussions with guys. And listened in on many others. It makes me wonder what you guys do all day. So tell me what you do besides play NHL 94. I'll go first. All images and videos are me and my dogs. https://vimeo.com/55829125

http://www.nhl94online.com/html/standings.php?lg=43&sublg=SNES Gl buds!

2.07 - The New Jersey Devils select Scott Stevens

I'll select Mr. P. Roy of the elite status goalies. Kkkkk.

Love it and so do they. They sleep and eat well. We run the same stuff all summer. Searching for new terrain and staying in shape. Though some summers including this one we will be skiing well past 4th of July. I've got 2 girls 12 and 8. When they were little we use to hook sleds up to the dogs and have them towed around. Skijoring looks very cool, I'll try it when I come to Segathon. My girls are really into Endurance Riding and they have towed me behind their horses. Maybe I'll make a video of that. Animals and Snow = FUN! I love your pigeons and site. Somewhere I saw the thing about your geese and turkeys. Segathon or tecmobowl.org, I actually run into you quite often on the internet. I think our dork factor is pretty close. Anyway your homing pigeons look cool. You are a rock star in the Phillipines. The champ has spoken. Come on out there, tell us your story. I actually think things would run better and we would treat each other better online if we knew each other better. If we were actually people instead of avatars. It is why the Live Events are so cool and important.

Wow! that looks beautiful. Lucky guy to live where you are! In MN I used to Skijor with my Dog since we have no Mt's (xcross country ski and have the dog pull you) your way looks a lot more fun! To answer you question if I am not chasing my girls around (3 of them under 6 yrs old) I'm either going to weekly curling league or feeding my birds. Yes, you didn't think I could get dorkier but I raise homing pigeons and have some chickens too (used to have geese/turkey but they started biting the kids) Even have a facebook site about the pigeons with 4,000 followers but most followers are from the Philippines for some reason https://www.facebook.com/RacingHomerPigeons/

NOT PLAYING '94? What else is there to do? For me, M-F is mainly working my 9 to 5, coming home for dinner and an hour or two to be with my kids before bed. I'm near a computer/connected almost all the time, which is why I can be on AIM during drafts, but I rarely play '94 during the day. The majority of my actual playing comes at night when family is in bed and work is done. Other than that, I spend the vast majority of my weekends/free time with my family. I recently started bowling, which I also enjoy going nights after the kids go to bed. If you find a book called "settling down 101", that's pretty much me. Married, kids, house, suburbs, white picket fence, local bowling league, Disney vacation, coaching kids soccer, building crap in my garage, etc.

Down 7-1 heading into the third.... http://www.nhl94online.com/html/box_score.php?gameid=29451

I brought up the term to elitist approach from my past experiences and how I see similarities here with the current situation. What Plablegs has done is great, it was greatly needed to work as a cultural change towards slacking and while in general I would have given Ice & Chef a chance to get their games in the next day, it probably was required to boot to have that sensation that the league has not failed to provide on those strict rules. This league or a league of such type has a place for the hardcore gamers, it must exist to keep the core happy. Such a fast pace and such strict rules cannot however be placed upon the whole community or the pool of players will become very short and the rules on micro scheduling will not be able to save the community in the long run. Just don't attack other leagues leagues like they are taking something away from you, there must be room for many kinds of leagues and for those as well who need a bit more flexibility in a less paced league, slack rules can still be implemented and no one wants to go back to how things were. That the other leagues don't use Plablegs rules does not mean it doesn't provide a cultural change to things. Attacking other leagues if they don't follow your mean is elitistic and that cuts you off from the rest very rapidly. Players still have the ability to choose what leagues they want to play in. I think this is just a misunderstanding here, both want the same thing, but there is just a failure in communication. People care about the community so it also gets emotional forcing your own viewpoints of things. I tried to also bring up the discussion of a macro schduling for the leagues on this community and what we could afford to play without players getting overcommited and drained up with the current player pool. What Plablegs changes is the micro schedules to be able to the keep macro rolling properly. It's just a small part of the solution to problems, but a good place to start. We still have to create more structure overall to the site leagues and to make the site more efficient, appealing, better marketed to make the community grow. We have had good ideas in the thread. What Plablegs has done is only part of the solution. It's not the whole solution, but an important part of it.

I'd like to comment on this though: I'd love to see this site more active. I believe that it's a real fun game and most of the guys come here wanting to have some fun and play a game I love too. Some think everyone comes here to compete. I believe IF I wanted the BEST of the BEST, I'd go play a game with like a million players playing the game, instead of 20-50 people. Then being the "best" would mean so much more. To me, I love a lot of Depch's suggestions and think they have more chances of being successful than your delusional idea. Many years ago, if you were SO RIGHT, you had options. You both could have created your OWN SITE. You could have invited any of the SO MANY GREAT players to your site, built it up with your strict rules and leagues and had like 500 players by now. The reason you didn't is noone likes you & you two would be playing by yourself. You don't want to see how this site's limitations contributed to anything, or you are playing a flawed game setup in an age when you can just plug in a console and jam with 50 guys plus ONLINE and chat, taunt, talk to them, email, etc. But, you did NOT create your own site. Instead, you find it easier to haunt here with your stupid rants & do your "I told you so, Hokkee told you so..." blah blah blah I have run the most leagues of late by a mile. I have everyone's cell phones. I get guys telling me they don't have time to play and I get involved when guys struggle to find each other. I had to replace so many coaches over the past few GDL's it's stupid. We finished the last GDL WITHOUT enough coaches to RESTART the next season. The reasons those coaches quit/didn't play was they didn't have the time to play or couldn't play when most other guys were on. SO, time goes by and you start a league. You had to kick 3 of your 16 out. The completion percentage of the entire league was 6 games off, so quoting 100% is just BS. TO RESTART Plabs Season 2, you have to drop down to 13 coaches now. AND YOU DON'T SEE Depch warning you that the more elitist you go, how it quickly dwindles to not having enough coaches to even run a league???? You will be at 10 coaches before Season 3.

I'm not mad and drink like once or twice a month. Appreciate your concern but you can go back to your Looney Toons programming without me. I call you out when you when think your constant complaining in a league chat doesn't ruin it for everyone. I've asked many guys, and you are a buzz kill. You've changed & that's why I keep calling you out. I know that I've watched Plabax try to steer conversations numerous times before. This one was obvious as he pretends to want opinions and then does his norm. Number of guys who left the site cause of me to date is zero, FYI. Skipped over that part of Raph's post cause it doesn't fit your narrative. I've had guys ask me before joining Plabax was joining cause they hate you. I've now had a few ask about Seth cause he complains so much. i thought Depch has given you numerous solid suggestions that don't sound too far off some of the aim chat groups I had with both of you during the last 2 GDL's. You want to just keep booting everyone but miss the math. There are not & will not likely be 16, much less 24 coaches that will fit into your rigid formula. I'd prefer to play in these type of leagues TOO. I'm the guy who always plays his ganes, plays exis & joins all the leagues I can, so faster pace & stricter guidelines help me. But, you ignore Depch solid points. You ignored them when I made them. Now you want to claim my league effects the progress Plabax made. That's lunacy at its finest. I make my own league & set rules & let guys IN you wouldn't, you don't join, but I'm hurting the site. And next time I've got 10 hours to try to search through this dumb forum, I'll try to find hokkee's post about you ruining the game. It's there. But aside from that, there is NO PROOF that lack of structure in leagues is what caused the games decline in members. It's your opinion & I just don't agree. And aside from you two pounding the same drum, I don't hear it elsewhere either. Does it help, NO! I get that. But you guys miss all the other relevant points. Which is part of your mental challenges. Again, everyone but you two see you two have obvious issues, for real.