On- Line Flight Sims and the BBS

[Shifty]

Maybe I'm just looking at this from an old farts perspective. I started on-line flight sims with Red Baron online in 1992, then went to Air Warrior in 1994. After nearly going broke over it I gave up the hobby until I started Warbirds in 1997. In 2001 I came over to AH. I remember in the old days there was a little trash talk but for the most part people got along even if they were rivals. I don't recall the current level of cyber hatred and ingame flaming until the BBS Alt Games Warbirds (AGW) came out in the 90s.

It seemed once people had a place and the time to type without fear of getting shot down doing it behavior in the sims changed forever. The flight sim community just seemed a little friendlier before AGW was opened. I'm not knocking all you smack talkers, you have your ways and I have mine. Because I remember a time when things were different is why I ask. Maybe it was just the same then and I just don't remember it that way. My eyesight and hand eye coordination have gone to the chiter maybe my memory has as well.

[Shane]

naw man, you're just peering into the fog-misted past thru rose colored glasses.

[Denholm]

Yes, those days of a loving community has almost vanished. Wouldn't want to be a new pilot entering the community and the first word you see on country is the F-bomb.

[Kazaa]

I blame the youth of today, dam those whipper snappers. 

[Squire]

They wont stay off the grass.

[Denholm]

My neighbor is that way. He practically has an affair with his lawn. I'm convinced he would shoot any animal that dares touch a blade of grass on his lawn.

[Oldman731]

Maybe it was just the same then and I just don't remember it that way. My eyesight and hand eye coordination have gone to the chiter maybe my memory has as well.

Yah, your memory is fading (takes one to know one).  It wasn't that there was no smack talk - any AW people who remember Slug and Homer and Brat and Subby, the list is almost endless, recall that the smack talk was profuse (maybe you Warbirds people were more refined) (but I doubt it).  The difference is that the smack talk was of a vastly higher quality than most of what we now see ("I am so IN!") ("Why don't you just go to the DA?") ("You a CHEATER!").  I put this down to the lower age of the current AH population.

At least, that's what I hope it is.

- oldman

[Shifty]

Yah, your memory is fading (takes one to know one).  It wasn't that there was no smack talk - any AW people who remember Slug and Homer and Brat and Subby, the list is almost endless, recall that the smack talk was profuse (maybe you Warbirds people were more refined) (but I doubt it).  The difference is that the smack talk was of a vastly higher quality than most of what we now see ("I am so IN!") ("Why don't you just go to the DA?") ("You a CHEATER!").  I put this down to the lower age of the current AH population.

At least, that's what I hope it is.

- oldman

Well I'm going way back to AW DOS on the Genie network. The damn planes were all grey and names like Drum and Tominator are a couple I remember, not as smack talkers just guys I remember. Never heard of Slug or Homer There was a little back then, but it seemed everyone was busier flying. There was smack talk in Warbirds  too though it funnier back then. Then again the whines over getting shot down have always been there. I suppose the smack has been too. It still seems to me it got worse when Warbirds got a BBS or a lesser quality anyway..

[daddog]

We started in WB at the same time Shifty, 1997. Prior to that I was using KALI, (DOS version) to play WB head to head. That is where I met Ghosth and Vondoom.

Let others say what they want Shifty, but from this old timers perspective the trash talk has amplified. Much like the increase of crime you see per capita in the populated cities.

[oakranger]

shifty, it is just them dam kids w/ there dam music, clothing and no respect for other attitude. 

[Shuffler]

I think they are unhappy cause half their crack is showing.

[Guppy35]

Yah, your memory is fading (takes one to know one).  It wasn't that there was no smack talk - any AW people who remember Slug and Homer and Brat and Subby, the list is almost endless, recall that the smack talk was profuse (maybe you Warbirds people were more refined) (but I doubt it).  The difference is that the smack talk was of a vastly higher quality than most of what we now see ("I am so IN!") ("Why don't you just go to the DA?") ("You a CHEATER!").  I put this down to the lower age of the current AH population.

At least, that's what I hope it is.

- oldman

The numbers were fewer, the personalities more distinct.  I don't know that the smack talk was more refined, there were just less of them trying to do it.  I thought it  was pointless then, and I still think it's pointless.  That doesn't mean it can't have it's place in the game but I think for the old timers, it kind of loses it's appeal, cleverness, originality etc.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Thats why two weeks without a credit card is like opening your small town to tourism.

Sure some are there for the sights, while others could care less if they J walk,and far less care if they start a riot on the way out, if you get my drift.

[Shifty]

Daddog and Dan, I think both of you have pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I guess aging is for old people. 

[glock89]

shifty, it is just them dam kids w/ there dam music, clothing and no respect for other attitude. 

It true but most of them have ADD or some other crap.