I give up!

[JB11]

See Rule #5

[nipper]

I'm thinking of trying to learn the drums, but now I'm not sure. Why should I get my hopes up on learning how to play the drums when I KNOW in the end I'm just gonna fail at it too!

As far as the drumming thing goes go for it. I've been drumming in bands for 20 years and there's little better therapy than beating 7 shades of dooh-dah out of inanimate objects. It's fun, just remember at the end of the night the rest of the guys in the band will be backstage with the beer and the girls whilst youre packing all your stuff down.
My short term memory also sucks but that goes hand in hand with gigging for the last couple of decades.

[skribetm]

See Rule #6

First of all, you don't know me enough to call me a "sick fool." But oh well, I shouldn't be surprised at the abrasive nature of the people here.

I have and am taking Latrobe's problem seriously, as a member of this community, and have offered him good advice. Obviously, you do not have the depth nor insight to appreciate the nature of such advice.

I have seen human affliction at its most grave, and if this picture shocks you, you haven't seen half of what I've seen and fought against.

[skribetm]

See Rule #5

[shreck]

Latrobe! sounds like a "LIFE" obstacle,  Identify the ONE thing you are most afraid or intimidated by, to deal with HEAD ON---> CONQUER IT and a new page will open for you! I guarantee it! 

          good luck 

[oakranger]

Latrobe i have play AHII since 2005 and still i suck, but have improve.  look at it this way. you up, get kills, u get kill,u get assist, or nothing at all, you done something right.  u just have to find what you have done wrong.

A old friend told me this about life: Failed, Pass, Success.  Now take that and put it in your situation.  

[thndregg]

Skribe, your reply (and pic) is why newspapers have editors, and this BBS has Skuzzy. Highly suggest you remove it.

LaTrobe, from one p!ss-poor fighter pilot to another, if it doesn't work for you, find another nitch in this game. I'm terrible, but I find success in bombers (i.e. I make it painful for 262 pilots to come at me). Some guys are really great in GV's, others enjoy making missions (another enjoyment of mine). So, there are aspects one can get comfortable with. This is why HiTech designed the game the way he did. It helps his pocket book by bringing in a broader scope of players.

[lagger86]

Start playing the drums!!!!! I've been playing for 17 years, and whenever I get frustrated with anything in life, a few minutes behind my trusty kit and I'm in my happy place.

I have been playing AH for 2 and a half years, and I strive to achieve mediocrity...still not even close. This is just a silly game that (once you take it for what it is) can be fun. I have gotten frustrated and quit, I flew my first sortie in a month last night, and it was fun. I realize that your goals in AH are far higher than mine, but just relax and focus on the simple stuff(that is the key to most things). People seem to complicate everything and put pressure on themselves to succeed at all costs which causes mistakes and frustration...if you get back to the basics and focus on the little things, chances are you will find what you're trying to accomplish.

[Simaril]

See Rule #6

It's shocking --

but that seems to be his point.

Don't you think it's absurd that we in the developed world live in unbelievable comfort and abundance, but that we still get whiney about how miserable things are? Listen to the news in US and all you'll hear is "recession this, job loss that, shooting here, assault there...." -- If we open our eyes to what REAL suffering is, then smaller things like success in a video game get a lot less stressful. I  think (I hope..) that's what the guy's trying to point out.


I guarantee that even the proudest, loudest, most obnoxious member of the AH community would come back a totally different person if he spent a month working with the poor in a Brazilian ghetto, or trying to get food and medical care to people in a famine. Most of us could benefit from a serious dose of the reality that's outside our little bubble.


Is the pic too shocking for the boards? Not up to me to decide. But I gotta say this -- unlike most of the obnoxious drivel that gets people smacked with the Skuzzy stick, THIS picture shows something real, something that OUGHT to get us worked up. Even if you think the guy ought never to have posted a picture of a starving kid with vulture in the background, think about what it means that stuff like that really happens...and consider doing a little something about it.  Cause like it or not, it's real, and its happening right now.

[1pLUs44]

See Rule #6

He isn't a shade


Oh, and Latrobe, man, just take up a BnZ plane. You may get ridiculed about it, but hell, they're dead, you're alive. I usually do awful at the beginning of the month. You just gotta fly your "lucky" plane. Mine happens to be the P38G.

[Bruv119]

how the hell did we go from giving latrobe some mutual support to solving world hunger!!

[uptown]

It's shocking --

but that seems to be his point.

Don't you think it's absurd that we in the developed world live in unbelievable comfort and abundance, but that we still get whiney about how miserable things are? Listen to the news in US and all you'll hear is "recession this, job loss that, shooting here, assault there...." -- If we open our eyes to what REAL suffering is, then smaller things like success in a video game get a lot less stressful. I  think (I hope..) that's what the guy's trying to point out.


I guarantee that even the proudest, loudest, most obnoxious member of the AH community would come back a totally different person if he spent a month working with the poor in a Brazilian ghetto, or trying to get food and medical care to people in a famine. Most of us could benefit from a serious dose of the reality that's outside our little bubble.


Is the pic too shocking for the boards? Not up to me to decide. But I gotta say this -- unlike most of the obnoxious drivel that gets people smacked with the Skuzzy stick, THIS picture shows something real, something that OUGHT to get us worked up. Even if you think the guy ought never to have posted a picture of a starving kid with vulture in the background, think about what it means that stuff like that really happens...and consider doing a little something about it.  Cause like it or not, it's real, and its happening right now.

  Great post Sim 

[Squire]

Everybody has slumps, "this too shall pass". 

[shreck]

Skribe, your reply (and pic) is why newspapers have editors, and this BBS has Skuzzy. Highly suggest you remove it.

Ahh! the picture is just a reality check I believe!  "THINGS COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE" In other words stop wallowing in your own misplaced despair, and take a look around 

Hiding visuals such as these from real people, does a great disservice to HUMANITY-----------------------------------------------------> " Out of sight, out of mind " 

[thndregg]

Well, in that case every displeased complaint concerning a video game must be followed by scenes of dispare and suffering because someone believes someone else is bereft of the cognative ability to visualize it for themselves.