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« Reply #120 on: December 14, 2003, 11:26:11 AM »
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Yet another amazingly poor analogy.


Remember those thingies in the SAT tests?  They looked like this:this :: that:that?  Those  are called a-n-a-l-o-g-i-e-s.  Here, let me give you an example to help you out.  Leviathn : mold :: God : pond scum.  Hope that clears things up for ya. :D


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Explain to me how shopping for groceries in any way approximates a game where the entire purpose is to shoot down opposing players?


Ooh, I'm so flattered!  The great Leviathn is asking for my advice.  I would be honored to assist you sir. :)  Let me begin by asking a question, because it never hurts to be too sure:  do you cut in line at the supermarket?
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« Reply #121 on: December 14, 2003, 11:29:09 AM »
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What's funny is that you seem to actually think this was a killer statement pointing out the hypocrisy of my ways.  Alas, all it shows is your inability to understand even rudimentary arguments.


Oh, Leviathn, how could you insult me so?  I thought you loved me!  :(  I feel...betrayed! :( :(   It's not my fault I'm stupid, is it?  I was just born that way! :(  Please, I beg you, forgive me and enlighten me!  Leave me not in my festering pool of ignorance!

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« Reply #122 on: December 14, 2003, 11:30:05 AM »
Hehe ... God: pondscum. :lol

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« Reply #123 on: December 14, 2003, 01:34:02 PM »
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Asking others to play nice in a game where the main object is to shoot down the other guys is pretty laughable.



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Why is it laughable? In the board game Monopoly the objective is to bankrupt your opponents, yet we still play nice. Why should an online flight sim be any different in regards to playing nice?
Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #124 on: December 14, 2003, 01:39:09 PM »
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Originally posted by Widewing
In all other situations it is completely inappropriate to gun down chutes.

My regards,

Widewing


Why?

TBolt

P.S.: You better turn your cheek next time we fly by a chute during a safe rtb.  :D

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« Reply #125 on: December 14, 2003, 01:43:06 PM »
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Yet another amazingly poor analogy. Explain to me how shopping for groceries in any way approximates a game where the entire purpose is to shoot down opposing players? Aces High is, by definition, a zero-sum game with activities centered around gaining by others losing.


It's not a poor analogy. There is no written law that says you can't cut in line. Some will do it, some won't. Many will consider it impolite to do so, some will try to justify it. In Aces High there is nothing that says you can't shoot a chute. Some will do it, some won't.

The most common reason people shoot a chute is to aggravate or annoy the person who is helplessly dangling in their chute.
It is NEVER ok to intentionally anger/annoy/aggravate our fellow human beings. Thats what I mean by playing nice. Some people just can't understand something that simple :)
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Corkyjr on country jumping:
In the end you should be thankful for those players like us who switch to try and help keep things even because our willingness to do so, helps a more selfish, I want it my way player, get to fly his latewar uber ride.

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« Reply #126 on: December 14, 2003, 01:47:02 PM »
Some people are gonna go to their graves annoyed. ;)

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Jeese...
« Reply #127 on: December 14, 2003, 01:47:26 PM »
Three pages already...
Spit the hook
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« Reply #128 on: December 14, 2003, 01:50:13 PM »
I cant beileve this thread is still going.  The quote from Delta's something or other is a load of wishfull thinking crap.

Years ago, when I started flying.  
1) Call of 1v1 was honored
2) Call of bingo ammo might be honored
3) Chute shooting usually at request of the chute (lol)

All that has gone by the wayside at least 5 years ago.  Geesh, deal with it.

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Re: Jeese...
« Reply #129 on: December 14, 2003, 01:51:03 PM »
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Originally posted by afool
Three pages already...
Spit the hook
Spit the HOOK!


Do you shoot the chute, Anton?   :D

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« Reply #130 on: December 14, 2003, 04:40:29 PM »
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Originally posted by Elfie
Alllows for yes, promotes? I doubt that. I think HiTech left that part up to us.



If HT didn't want us to shoot chutes, he wouldn't make them with those pretty explosions when you blow them up.  Now, if only he added screams to the pilots in their chutes as we blow them up, it would go a long way to make it even more enjoyable than it already is.  Hopefully we'll see something like that in AH2, along with an orphanage and a children's hospital in the town that we can destroy.



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« Reply #131 on: December 14, 2003, 04:42:26 PM »
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Originally posted by Elfie
I think it would be funny if HiTech made chutes unkillable. Imagine the whines we would hear from all the dedicated chute killers :D



I'm sure there will be other ways we can make you whine.



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« Reply #132 on: December 14, 2003, 04:56:18 PM »
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Now, if only he added screams to the pilots in their chutes as we blow them up, it would go a long way to make it even more enjoyable than it already is...along with an orphanage and a children's hospital in the town that we can destroy.

ack-ack


Jeez I like the way you think.

If they could all be running from the building as you open up on'um..

WHOOT !!
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« Reply #133 on: December 14, 2003, 05:08:38 PM »
The quote is off my site, and I've been waiting a long time for someone to take that bait. :D

Sometimes in H2H you can find an honest 1v1 without dweebling interference. But the odds are about the same as Funked buying a Honda. For the most part, it's a free-for-all even in the MA: everything that can be shot is a valid target. Though if you get caught firing on the sheep HT just might cancel your account.



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« Reply #134 on: December 14, 2003, 06:10:59 PM »
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Originally posted by F4i
Why?

TBolt

P.S.: You better turn your cheek next time we fly by a chute during a safe rtb.  :D


But, that would fall under the "for the hell of it" rule.  ;)


My regards,

Widewing
My regards,

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