Originally posted by storch
many of those "legend in your own mind" types that think they are somehow special due to the fact they were paying per hour to play an online flight game plus paying to be logged on to an isp plus paying long distance charges all use shade accounts. why is that? 
Weelll, long, long before I came to AH in 2003 I was reading about on-line sims and thrilled by the idea. About 1996 I was fascinated about Warbirds and even longer ago a friend had a copy of Air Warrior for DOS.
We couldn't even play it on-line in those dark ages of the internet. But one of the contributors of the AW manual was a Doc Gonzo. To me that counts as pretty legendary as far as on-line sims go...
Of course everybody now plays on-line games so there seems to be a lot of longing to the days of yesteryear when people playing on-line still had valour and honour. I guess the community was much tighter then.
Even a casual and very average player like me sometimes gets a bit annoyed by completely clueless people, but isn't that how we all started?
It all comes down to that it isn't any more as it once was. And the human brain tends to keep the good memories. But you can't turn back the clock, nor can we change the way people want to play. The lost thing I read from Doc G. was a rant on the horde mentality in the MA, here on these boards...
