No longer are new aircraft made with hidden bottles of alcohol, and the hidden graffiti on the aircraft. No longer do we have giant squids in the oceans, giant beer and pizzas. Not even aliens.
Furb, that part of it is on Hitech's end, not ours. I'd like to see some of those things coded back in, though (Or, maybe something new and different?)
Instead this has been replaced by land grabbing and rank, people too highly strung to have fun and a bit of banter, too obsessed by their ratio's to salute the person who has just outflown them.
Now, THAT part is the community. Why the change in AH's social paradigmn is only open to guess. The only thing I'd be willing to say about it is that the change has been noticable since...well, IMHO, the 9/13 arena split.
Now, I know that we just made it through the season of squeakers, which we all refer to as summer, but I'd say that things' were headed the way they were since the split.
I'm gonna say this now, too, even though I haven't talked to my squad CO or XO(Dh367th and Cooley, respectively.)
During that split, we had some of the nastiest fights on these boards ever. I've often wondered if things said here on the boards, during that time, were carried as grudges into the MA's. For a long time, you could hear things' said over local vox, that, well...I'd just like to say that I've never blamed any squad, or any person, for unhapiness during the split. I just wish I could say that of everyone.
However, most of that happened over a year ago. I'm sure that bygones are bygones, now. I hope.
