Why So Serious?

[waystin2]

If Rogent ever offers me advice again I'm gonna...














take it if I am in a Pony D!

[maddafinga]

I've long said that the mark of a truly great game is that it can make you extremely angry.  Just look at any of other types of great games.  Remember how mad you used to get at, say, Tetris, or Super Mario Brothers, or poker or any number of other great games.  You get emotionally involved in them, deeply, and when things go against you, it just makes you angry.  Human nature, coupled with immersion.  My .02 anyway, and I've been saying that about games for years.  I remember some years ago when a group of good friends and I used to play Magic the Gathering a lot.  People would get so angry there would be actual shouting matches over fine points of the rules.  Not that we weren't all still close friends, but a really good game has the capacity to infuriate you.  

[Guppy35]

The key to the whole thing is simple.  There is nothing to get worked up about

No one really dies, planes are free. 

You can be competitive while remembering it' just a game.  What you think, even when mad, doesn't have to translate into typing.  How you are seen by others in the game is dependent on you.

So lighten up Francis and have some fun

[palef]

Only proffer advice if asked for. Offering without prompting from the loser can be perceived as rude in a communication medium of emotionless text.

[Soulyss]

There is so much in life that is worth getting upset over I spend a great deal of time and energy trying to make sure that this silly little game that lets me play cartoon fighter ace isn't one of them, save those feelings for things that matter.

Others have hit upon reasons how the PM's mentioned by the OP could dig up some resentment.   Both the bent feelings at "losing" and the limitations or open interpretation of text on a screen are likely to blame.  If it is the intent of the OP to offer tips and advice I would recommend a little friendly banter on 200 or other channels to establish a friendly tone to the conversation before launching into what they did wrong. 

[Chalenge]

Thats it then tonights movie will be The Dark Knight. Thanks again for playing! 

[SPKmes]

The truth hurts..plain and simple... some people are having bad days and just after they know the messed up it can be rather rrrrrrrrrr to get told so...I have my little tantrums from time to time but will always apologize once I have gotten over myself.... there are those few though, who are knob ends full stop.

Score really does have alot to do with it....Not so much the becoming top dog but more if you have been improving and it is showing to you and you have a rubbish night...you know the nights..the ones where you wonder why you keep upping....just like gambling at times this game....just one more....I can get 3 this time and make up for that death ......

[Bruv119]

cartoon airplanes IS serious business!!     

[gyrene81]

today we are anonymous players. you cant see me, i cant see you.

therefore the mentality is that i can say anything i want, cause you don't know me, you don't know where i live and that's that.

people can hide behind a computer. if you knew that the player calling you a dork, was little jonny renfield from down the street you would go beat the snot out of him and he probably wouldnt do it in the first place cause he knows you would. but as long as you only know him as mebigbwana, there is nothing you or anyone else(except for skuzzy) can do about it! thats why they get so serious, cause they can!

  That is a vast majority of AH pile-its.   


Rogent, if you did that to me the worst I would say is "yeah, it's no big deal".

[froger]

I take AH as serious as I take this guy, my hero   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3eNx0LBrmY&feature=related   

 

[froger]

I knows the Rodent,
He's a good dude n all and has that BnZ thang down to a science.

What i do is come in @ 30 k in a pony and BnZ hims when he @ 20 k,

that way i can take my nice photos of the sun and the cloud deck and never hit the ground like an angry
lawn dart  

saw the space station go by once...

this method works well wits da shawk too.

  that is all  


froger

[Threeup]

So it would follow that if someone shot you down you would pm them and point out what they did that was better than you?
Or do you dole out instruction only from the gold medal dias?
Why so serious???? Line up 10 people who like to have their faces rubbed in it after they've been belted?

For the greater "why so serious?" - if Aces High represents more than 10% of your interests in life it's time to either;
1) Go the whole way and live Aces High - no-one likes a non committed individual. If you can spend 8 hours a day at your job 8 hours at a keyboard should be a cakewalk. Is there anyone above the 250 hours per tour?
2) Scale it back to the 10% or less line. In which case "you can't be serious!!!"

And I don't need my mistakes pointed out to me by a fellow pilot - my wife, kids and clients have got that all sewn up.
Happy Trails

[ozrocker]

Bad manners.  It was not always so.

Twas a day when everybody saluted regardless of who won.
BTW <S> Hap


                                                          <S> Oz

[Shuffler]

I generally ask if they want a few critiques unless I know them well enough.

[dedalos]

Okay I just got bored in the game being it was slow. I decided to jump in here to ask the universal question of on why people are “so serious” and get    when it comes to the game and when things don’t go their way.    I admit, I myself have stirred the pot few times and even I’ve had days I should just practice foot in mouth. One example was just little while ago, and I won’t say names. Whenever I fight someone and win, if I see the apparent mistake they made, I will comment it on 200 or by private messenger if they are not tuned in 200.  I caught this person in a climb and scored some good hits before he quick snap roll/stir, I overshot and pulled up since I had good E and  he didn't hit me but thankfully he was not    I looped    over and saw him completely stalled out  and crashed. I didn’t say it as announcement or even as attempt to egg him on; I simply pointed out his mistake and he completely flips out over it.    I was going to compliment him on his flying but decided not to. In short, why is it people get so prissy over a game? 

Well, lets see, you fail at the cherry pick, almost get killed in the process, the guy crashes, you are probably alive only because of your good luck, and you point out the mistake they made?  Yeah, going afk was a mistake but you see why they may not be interested at your suggestions?  I mean, what did you point out as their mistake?  The fact that they went AFK? lol.  And how exactly do you know who is tuned to 200 and who isnt so you can PM them instead? 

Did you also point out your mistakes on that engagement? lol