RE: RE: Curious Case of Houdini

[Boomcheck]

[div align=\\\"center\\\"]Alright so I feel the need to respond and clear the air a little as I think these people took things a LITTLE too far thinking I am hounding the user and that isn't the case but here I go.

People really pulling out their pitch forks here. What is this Fairy Tail? People out here trying to pull out the power of friendship to defeat me or something smh.

1) Not sure why you're ripping on San Jose management here. Don't know about the NSFL but in other leagues not all teams contact every single prospect in the draft, and so what if they didn't get contacted 5 days after the draft. Did the off-season end in 5 days? Do they get to be a FA after 5 days? Did they miss something important 5 days in? Sometimes it takes certain people to build a culture and you just seem to be naming guys that aren't cut out for it.

2) No, NOLA aren't some world beaters. They barely beat Austin off some miracle comeback and then got smacked by Orange County. Running game looked non-existent there and Toriki straight up went missing in action-- I'm not sure i've seen her since. This is the first winning season they have had since like S11 so lets pump the breaks when you go trying to ''disprove' my claims. I shouldn't even call Marcella by name anymore, she is now dubbed 'Houdini' after that disappearing act she pulled vs the Otters.

3) You lost me at legend Jordan Von Matt, my boy JVM been inactive in SHL for a minute. See when I say 'weapons' I am talking about legit prime meat horse WRs that are ready to kill. You're out here naming water guns. Chicks that are just coming out of the egg getting ready to stumble around. You saying all those draft picks you had and none of your assets could have been flipped for an improvement at WR? It's cool keep being the old folks home for send off tours since hanging on to corpses worked out well the past few seasons eh? My bad though, I completely forgot people here can change their positions at will. brb converting to QB and then CB real quick.

4) Nah I get it. I can just do whatever I want in this league to be 'happy'. We'll just all hold hands while singing and circling around the camp fire. People got the thickness of 1 ply toilet paper out here. We really going to be out dropping hammers and tossing players out for different opinions? Am I not allowed to think The Disappearing Act is over-hyped and bad? People thought I was spewing some lethal venom to poison the league wide ecosystem, but that's far from the truth.

5) This is the problem though. People thinking I am attacking the user when I am making fun of the player, the situation and what holes there could be. People keep telling me that I am not remorseful for my actions like I shot someone down or something or tried to attempt a stabbing in broad daylight. Lets say I post some lengthy apology, you still won't believe it. Why? I keep telling you folks that I have zero intentions of targeting the user and this is solely focused on the player but no one believes me for some odd reason. If you can't hear me out there, what good will an apology do? You folks keep saying I am attacking the user when I say I am not. I can show you examples of my characters in other sim leagues if you want for a better idea. I have never come across a response like this, it's crazy.

6) This article is based off a few things. I heard about it on a podcast, i read her wiki for background information and used the 'read user's topics' function that jcink shares cross multiple sim leagues. I framed it specifically without attacking the user and used character narratives but no one seems to believe me? The friends line refers to teammates she had in Norfolk, nothing irl or anything so idk why I would mention the Yeti in that manner. The mentally fragile stuff is similar to how I described Owens and the other shots are mainly how I dislike there is no compensation and that Houdini has no honor for walking for free-- but this is FA and she has the right to do what she wants and go to whatever team she wants. Just as I have the right to rip her for the decision.


7) Cool her stats are better in NOLA than in San Jose but that makes sense right? Houdini is one season better with improvement and New Orleans runs the ball by far the most in the entire league. (Which is how I framed the 'she threatens teams to bend to her will or will bounce' narrative, pointing to her carries in the DSFL and how even as a RB2 she got more chances). I'll walk back what I said about Houdini if she can prove she' legit by lifting the Ultimus or something, maybe even make the finals instead of pulling a Casper and ghosting in the OCO game.

8)I feel like I have to reiterate this BUT I AM NOT ATTACKING THE USER, BUT THE PLAYER. Sure it can be a controversial opinion but I don't see anything wrong with that? Maybe I should have prefaced it better but I had largely positive responses to the Owens one, but people think this to be different. Debate, disagree with me etc ... I'm cool with all of that but some folks just lost their marbles, I have never quite seen anything like it. I only used Houdini as an example because they left after one season and since i'm new I don't know any other people that did it recently. Yes I made some outlandish conclusions since I based this SOLELY off the player with out other factors involved and it's supposed to have inaccuracies.


Houdini was out here-- And then she wasn't. [/div]

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[Buttersqauch101]

Damn ok wig

[Mooty99]

I feel some what compelled to comment here to say that not everyone thought it an attack on the user but rather about the player (as you intended) just the same as the Ashley Owens article and enjoyed it for the piece of pure speculation and fiction that it was. I guess as soon as the defensive comments started it would have the been best to remind people that it is about the player but too late now I guess. Anyway, I look forward to your next article

[IsaStarcrossed]

I'm not even bothering to respond to the rest of this because it has become clear that you don't actually understand how this league works or operates, which is fine. You're new here, I can only expect you to know so much. I'll just be amused by the fact that head office locked your last thread because they felt any responses would be unproductive and the opposite of what we want in our community. Instead of accepting that, you decide to go over HO's head and respond anyways? Why would you think that was a good idea? I'm looking forward to this getting locked as well, but I am so glad to have someone who blatantly goes around and ignores this league's higher ups in our community. Welcome.

Side note though, as someone who has been huge in media during his entire career in the NSFL, I'm not entirely sure I'd be able to grade this as media. This is more like thunder dome material than media, but I suppose we'll see how generous the graders are feeling when they get to it.

[TeyonSchavari]

Let me break this down for you:

- You received this sort of response because you don't understand that even though you are going after the player, the decision was still made by the user and any attack on the player is still an attack on the user's decision, whether you mean for it to be or not. There were a few lines in particular that went too far, even against a fictional player, and responding to the first negative responses to you in the way that you did didn't help your case. If your words are hurtful to someone then it doesn't matter what your intention was.

- Your thread was not locked because of your article, but because the thread was becoming hostile. We locked the thread because this generates a negative attitude around the league and creates an atmosphere detrimental to our userbase.

- You don't have to be remorseful, or even apologize, nobody can force you too. But when you see a response such as this, you drop it and forget about it. LET IT GO. It is becoming quite clear that you are not trying to 'smooth things over' with everyone or make them understand, you want more attention.

I'm not asking you to stop writing articles. If you want to be contrarian or 'stir the pot' then by all means, do so, but don't be surprised if some people don't take it as well as others. What I am asking you to do is to stop doubling down when people take it negatively, just drop it and accept the fact that people will react in various different ways. Most importantly, when we deem a thread is getting out of hand, do not circumvent it by creating another post about it. Like I said, let it go. If you continue on this subject, we will be forced to take further action. Consider this a warning.

Since this thread is a response to a media post that was only posted because that thread was locked, we will be moving it away from media and you will not be graded for it. Locking the post - this discussion is over and no further responses are necessary.

[Mavfatha]

Your definition of clearing the air is very off my friend.

Closing this one as well.