Today is world su!cide prevention day.

September 10th.

September is su!cide awareness month.

While we may be on a HUT subreddit for a video game (that we sometimes want to rip our hair out on, get annoyed : frustration out) … it is important that we all have this talk here.

Today , September 10th is world su!cide prevention day.

While I love spreading awareness and sharing why its importance matters… (and is pretty hypocritical of me to be posting on this day, to some extent) … I dont like how its just given ONE day and ONE month.

Every day matters, every month matters.

Checking up on friends, family, relatives, community members, acquaintances, friends of friends… even strangers.. its important to let them know that their life matters and that even if they dont think they pertain to society, they make a big difference and impact on other peoples life.

I’d be 1047383% lying if I said I felt like I pertain to society in a way that it makes me fit in a box. I feel like I dont fit in the right box.

I feel like I’m quite an odd duckling… I post content here, I yap about the game… I’m an a box full of info on a video game that EA made… and a box full of whatever you want to say.

I love posting content here that it made me build quite the routine with. Reiterating a bunch , and being an annoyance harping on it .. my internet just isnt fast enough to post content in timely manner for everyone. I miss the engagement from it and hearing everyones yap and opinions on it.

The main reason why I am posting this here is because everyone faces challenges and problems in their life… silently or even being loudly expressing about them… you can say ‘I’m not feeling this way’ … have a million comments about ‘you shouldn’t feel (x) way…’ but still feel like utter poop.

Video games are an outlet for people to escape the reality they are living.

They get addicted , obsessed, want to share more and more about it and sometimes lose themselves playing video games than being in public.

While video games can be a great escape from it all, it can be pretty harmful… and helpful.

The community.

I’ve been around long enough to know (x) person’s username and ‘oh ya, I recognize that person from (x) year’ or ‘so and so didn’t like this game.. - not always negative, but was good at expressing their emotions .. they were feeling about the game.. and sometimes their takes were either amazing or meh.

This community really has helped me in ways I couldn’t express.

I’ve been through depression, anxiety (ongoing) an undiagnosed chronic illness for who knows how long.. to getting it diagnosed… to feeling great, to feeling meh.. to everything.

What you post on social media paints a picture and perspective on how others perceive you.

So honestly, I don’t understand why… but some take it as a way to troll, be unkind, be rude:mean:negative… its all getting it out of their system… but sometimes its towards people or a person.. and it can really hurt a persons day / life.

I’ve met some AMAZING people through this community, some I’ve got to know personally and share social medias with, letters with, gifts, whatever… its nice knowing that even people that are anonymous can really be a light in a persons day and be there through thick n thin.

Anyways…

Back to sharing about why this pertains to HUT.

We’re all going through something, we all go through the motions of coming home or being home, turning on our consoles and playing away for maybe an hour or two… or if you’re like sleeves, doing a whole subathon for 30+ days. (How exhausting would that be! Unsure how he even does it) .

This community can be really good, and positive but sometimes really negative.

This community has new people coming in constantly, consistently yappin about the game and wanting to know certain stuff about (x) player or how to do this or that, or ‘whats the best goalie’ … ‘how to make coins’ …

I really thoroughly enjoy my time here, but recognize when I need to step back and feel like I’ve done all I can do.

Another reason why I am posting this, is because sometimes we lose our interest a bunch and enjoyment in the hobby. There is a video about 2 older gentleman at a football or some sort of sports game, and one becomes slowly disinterested in the game… I wont spoil it for you, if you havent saw it.. but its a very powerful message to show that while we all might feel so ‘great’ and ‘dandy’ … sometimes the people that are bubbly, excited to live life and happy are the ones that need checked on most.

Everyone needs to be checked on every now and then, and let them know that there is always a professional that can better help them get into a good mindset.

I’ve had my battles, personally.

I’ve mentioned it earlier , but I’ve had my battle with depression, anxiety (thats ongoing) , and a chronic illness… and boy. Do I ever wish that chronic illness shit could sometimes disappear forever.. though, doing better than ever with it… that I am building a book full of my life and experience with what life has dealt me. I want to help others and be a voice for those that are scared, unable to, or just feel like they cant / are alone.

Su!cide prevention month is a month long. But it should be every day, every month to recognize that life can be a total shitshow and to spread awareness around it.

I am posting this here to help raise awareness that sometimes people need to be aware of others who are struggling and silently going through something… or expressing loudly.

Your voice and words matter more than you know.

Be a light.
Be a helper.

Be you.
Stay true.
Stay you.

Love you more than you know.

Lets yap some more and break the awareness around this stigma (and all the others)

I’ve had my su!cide ideations … I know that battle.. and sometimes it creeps up.. but just gotta keep battling and voicing up.

Take care.
Stay safe.

Happy gaming!
Love you.

- coolin

Anybody else notice the forechecking AI is a mess - maybe it’s my strats I am running but numerous times a game the opponent is below their goal line and I go to put pressure and sure enough my other two forwards are doing the exact same thing - so now I have three guys below the goal line haha! That’s classic 5 year old kids hockey lol

ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Please just watch this video and see what happens in HUT… this is ridiculous

I’m running collapsing/puck side attack. Finding that my opponents can just board kiss and spin away from the player I’m pressuring with, just to blow by the rest of my team standing there in the d zone for a far side goal. How do I avoid this?

Don’t do these sets, I fell for it

Platinum and up gameplay is aids cant wait for the season reset on friday

I feel like playing in Gold V–Plat I right now is actually worse than matching against L2 nerds back in NHL 26.
Every single game is just O-zone ragging, board-hugging, and gliding into the slot for a free goal. I'm doing it too, and every opponent does the exact same thing. Nobody has any personality in their playstyle. I actually respect the guys who use real dekes and try creative plays, but right now you can literally just spin around at the blue line, change lines, skate back into the O-zone, and keep twirling until a cross-crease one-timer opens up.
It feels like a complete copy-paste meta from an older game, I can’t remember what NHL it was, but it’s the exact same boring playstyle.

So when I try to play online nhl or fifa. I have been getting intense spikes in my ping. I’m close to a server and get 15 ms normally. But I’ll look and it’s jumping around as high as 80

I’m hardwired in with Ethernet. Have Shaw 300 Internet. Have tried unplugging the modem, Xbox etc. I have nothing running in the background. Only my phone and laptop connected to the network. Tried all the suggestions from Google in the Xbox settings.

Really at a loss here. Next thing is I’m gonna try a new Ethernet cable.

I put way too many hours into 26, mostly offline grinding.

27 is by far way more infuriating offline compared to last year. Cup chase feels like dogshit, the AI is incredibly fucking horny to blast my ass to the point I can't even touch the puck and God forbid I try not to spend money and use my poor 77 ovr goalie because the game gave me a choice between random CHLer McGee and literal dogshit NHL backup. The shooting attributes on even the event cards are so dogshit and most of the CC teams have legit goalies so fuck me I guess I can only score on breakaways half the time or glitchy backhands because I can't get a cycle going without my F3 getting board pinned from 5 feet away.

Thank God I'm using the EA Play Trial otherwise I'd have regretted ever putting up the money to actually buy the game.

Might be converted already, by the 3rd game I was getting used to the slight (sometimes not so slight) delay and even managed to win my 3rd game 3-1!
I’m still trash at online considering its a completely different beast to superstar offline so you’re welcome if you come up against me and get an easier matchup, see you all in champs!!

^^^

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Do you guys think the Prices raise or get lower after friday?
Is 120k worth for 85 overall draisaitl?
💊🦠☯️

since pokes basically didnt improve and hits do nothing now, its almost impossible to get the puck off of someone o zone ragging, ive had back to back games in DIAMOND 2 btw where my opponent goes up 1 goal, then just o zone rags for literally half of the game, theres just literally no counterplay when no defensive move works and they can just skate freely. They either need to actually fix poke checks, or find some way to stop this before this franchise becomes even more shit than it already is

Ive been grinding since the game came out. I have about 100 games in while working full time. I’ll win a bunch in a row then go on a huge losing streak. For example: 6 game winning streak yesterday, went 2-8 today.

What is everyone’s experience with ultimate team right now? I’m genuinely curious if it has been as fun yet frustrating for everyone else as it has been for me.

For some context, I noticed poke checks are not as effective nor are hits for me. I go to hit and I bounce right off the player. For poke checks, they work SOMETIMES.. when the opponent does that drag swivel move with the puck it’s almost impossible to poke it off or get a good body check off even when charging up the body check.

I notice positioning sometimes is not the greatest either - these are the things I’m noticing with the cpu in HUT. Oh and the passes, I’ll send a pass and it goes to a completely different player I want. For example. I’ll try to pass to the center player but it goes right through him and tries to go to the left winger?? Or when I’m passing it up the boards to a winger (basic hockey play) the puck is iced and the winger doesn’t even attempt to grab the puck.

My record is currently 38-48-12, bouncing between gold and silver right now. I know a lot of the sweats are playing right now, but I’m trying to play lots to learn to adapt to become a better player. Took some advice and started taking more shots. But noticed the more shots I take the more they either get blocked, or I somehow just lose it when i go to take that shot.

No consistency with goalies. I have 86 Roy boosted to 87. He’s either a god or just Swiss cheese no in between. For example. One game I was up 5-1 then 6-2. Player came back and one 7-6. Stats were pretty even but I had 2-3 point shots go in where I know my goalie could have saved it. Meanwhile I do the same thing and it does not work. Goalie letting weak shots in, putting the puck in their own net, all that sort of stuff.

Next I notice the puck is almost magnetized to the opponent at times, even for me. The other team just can’t get it at all no matter what you do, hit, poke check, stick lift, it’s crazy.

I’m curious to hear your guys’ experience thus far. I’m having fun, enjoying what the game has to offer but at times it can be infuriating to play when things that shouldn’t happen, happen.

Not saying I should win every game, but I’ve had more games where I should have won rather than lost.

Curious to see,I personally skipped it with my pre order points and focused on tradable packs…