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siddhus · 02-28-2021, 10:54 PM

It stands for the Sad Hugs League. Everyone practices giving hugs to people that they think look sad. Honestly very educational and I am very happy that I joined the league.

***SDCore*** · 02-28-2021, 11:05 PM

Simulated Huge and Love. That is what the league is, its a place were sad people collect and try to be nice to each other but fail miserably. Welcome to the SHL, where nothing changes but the name.

Zomp · 02-28-2021, 11:06 PM

Ethan Price is does not need any sort of excuses to explain his time spent on the Simulation Hockey League website. The man doesn't listen to no one, no obligations needing his attention or anything of the sort.
The Simulation Hockey league stands for one thing and one thing only, the Simulation Hockey League.

Nhamlet · 02-28-2021, 11:21 PM

For the most part I have been fairly upfront with my involvement in the SHL, explaining what it is seeing that DnD is a way more widespread hobby than I would have ever expected as somebody who doesn’t participate. So far there’s been a lot of acceptance (typically from those around my age of the 20’s-30’s) as forum based interaction and role playing outside of video games is a common and completely normal thing. Thankfully while my workplace has noticed some evidence of my involvement in the league, I’ve kept it to various spreadsheets I have, which at the very least on the surface appears like work instead of the graphic laden signatures on the forums.

Even with my partner who is very obviously dislikes how much time I spend messaging, testing and whatever else that is involved with the SHL, has accepted this as a hobby as my means of social interaction in a pandemic world and being a stranger in city where I have no real interpersonal relationships, at least I have not gone crazy with loneliness or attempting career in content creation or streaming...at least not yet.

If I had to tell my parents, I would have no idea quite honestly. On one hand I could say it’s the Spreadsheet Homework Lessons where it would be pretty accurate. I’ve learned more about excel and google sheets as part of the SHL than I have before since I had no real reason or incentive to ply my trade at the functions of spreadsheets. Even now I still am amazed at the skills and knowledge of various people who can program with R, working on the database or the functions they can use as part of a spreadsheet. Without them I would have definitely spent more time doing things manually, and goodness knows I don’t need to spend anymore time on here to begin with.

dogwoodmaple · 02-28-2021, 11:21 PM

South Hospital Laboratory

Because we're in the middle of a global pandemic, I tell my parents that I've been working at South Hospital Laboratory here in Atlanta to help develop a COVID-19 vaccine. I tell them that I can only say so much because the government is working in conjunction with our hospital leadership and us higher ups have been given codeword clearance. They don't push me too much for additional information and also don't question me spending a ton of time on my computer. I tell them that my role in this live-saving endeavor is to run inoculation models on my computer to determine who needs the vaccine, where we should distribute it, and what type of rollout we should have. There's also cover for when my team goes on a winning streak and I'm happy (We had a breakthrough at the lab!) or when we get steamrolled and I'm frustrated (Long day at the lab, but I can't talk about it). It's also convenient because of the different times of the sims, I am able to slip out of any function at a moment's notice to watch the twitch channel. I simply tell them that I have to take a COVID-19 related call and have to leave their immediate vicinity because the information is classified.

Even after we have successful rollout of the vaccine, this charade can continue indefinitely as I can then transition to either the different variants of COVID, the seasonal flu, or any other viral infection that may besiege the population. No matter what's going on in the world, they will always need me at South Hospital Laboratory and my parents will never be the wiser.

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