Why not .....................................Ho

[Yeager]

Only for the dull witted.  You are dismissed. I've no inclination to try to cure your stupidity. 

the door out of here is in front of you, I suggest you use it before you hurt yourself.  silly little childish banter will get you nowhere with me.

[DamnedRen]

Hmmmm...took a HO thinking I had avoided snailman but he stood so hard on his rudder spraying and preying that he got a 20 in and plaster me I couldn't roll and stand on the pedal fast enough to avoid his HO.  . I was actually surprised it would have been him. Go figure.

Ren

[Yeager]

IIRC, Air Warrior on AOL actually disabled bullet damage from a certain range of front-angles. 

did AW have a collision model?

[frosty]

did AW have a collision model?

You mean in terms of airframe collisions?  Good question...that I don't recall.  I do remember flying H2H straight into newer players' gunfire and letting them waste their ammunition (on AOL...I think Kesmai online had HO shots enabled). 

[Lusche]

Hmmmm...took a HO thinking I had avoided snailman but he stood so hard on his rudder spraying and preying that he got a 20 in and plaster me I couldn't roll and stand on the pedal fast enough to avoid his HO.  . I was actually surprised it would have been him. Go figure.

Ren

Hmmm... You talking about last night?

If yes, that's how that HO looked like on my FE :





 

[Steve]

Hmmm... You talking about last night?

If yes, that's how that HO looked like on my FE :

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Oh noes!  Taters!

[frosty]

Hmmm... You talking about last night?

If yes, that's how that HO looked like on my FE :

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That first pic....

Were you jumped by an airshow team?

[Shuffler]

Enough of this silly obtuse stuff.  Just define it.

Why don't you get off your lazy duff and reread the definition. People can't be holding your hand all the time. The only thing silly in this thread is your ignorance of what has been posted many times on these threads. If your actually that ignorant..... well I feel sorry for you. If your just playing ignorant... well your really good at it.

[Lusche]

That first pic....

Were you jumped by an airshow team?

Neg, the two spits and 190 were on poor Spartin2 in his low & slow P-47. I tried to save him, but to no avail. I did a good job at shooting empty air most of the time that night

[frosty]

Why don't you get off your lazy duff and reread the definition. People can't be holding your hand all the time. The only thing silly in this thread is your ignorance of what has been posted many times on these threads. If your actually that ignorant..... well I feel sorry for you. If your just playing ignorant... well your really good at it.

Uh huh.  Go follow Steve.

[Shuffler]

I prefer to watch you kids make a fool of yourselves in front of others

[frosty]

I prefer to watch you kids make a fool of yourselves in front of others

Who started the name calling and hostilities?  Lordy, some of you guys get so off-base.  It's not healthy.  Relax.  It's a game.  You certainly should holster your invocation of the "kids" label after such a tirade.

I ask a guy a simple question: tell me what he thinks an HO is, plain and simple.  Instead he resorts to child-like posing and arrogance, rather than answering said simple question.  It's ok though, as someone already answered for him.

[Crash Orange]

Enough of this silly obtuse stuff.  Just define it.

The fact that the other guy swerves before the moment of impact doesn't change the fact that you were playing chicken.

HOing is playing chicken in cartoon airplanes, with the addition of automatic weapons. More or less. HTH.

  

[frosty]

The fact that the other guy swerves before the moment of impact doesn't change the fact that you were playing chicken.

HOing is playing chicken in cartoon airplanes, with the addition of automatic weapons. More or less. HTH.

  

Right, so here's my question.

Everyone can agree that it takes two to play chicken, correct?  That was the point that I was trying to get Steve to acknowledge.  My thinking was that one could avoid that HO shot by simply refusing to play chicken in the first place. 

Or is ANY frontal-angle shot on the initial pass considered cheap?  Honest question.  I feel like there is a lot of disagreement there.  I'd like to avoid being a cheapshot (unless it's warranted  ). 

[Crash Orange]

Right, so here's my question.

Everyone can agree that it takes two to play chicken, correct? 

I would say no, because whether you're playing chicken depends on your intent. To extend the car analogy, I'm thinking of the scene in "A Clockwork Orange" (hope you've seen it) where Alex & his droogs are playing "Hogs of the Road" - they were playing chicken, the other cars weren't, because the other drivers' intent was for the cars to pass each other in adjacent lanes.

Or is ANY frontal-angle shot on the initial pass considered cheap? 

I can't speak for Steve or say there are *no* exceptions, but generally, I'd say yes. (But of course not everyone agrees as to how lame or not it is to take a cheap shot.)