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Offline Torquila

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Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« on: April 06, 2012, 06:49:20 PM »
We have all seen it, or done it, or been 'victims' of it so its time to be honest with ourselves.

Who are we really kidding?

Collisions are usually the result of either:
1) Fixation (Bad SA)
2) Realizations that we might lose a fight, or an opportunity to end a fight that we don't feel up to finishing; so we put ourselves in a position in which the possibility of luck comes more into play then "skill".

The rare time when a collision is completely unavoidable never makes anyone mad or annoyed because they understand that it could not be avoided. Whereas a situation in which someone *knows* they could have avoided it but did not try, is what makes them angry. They are not angry at the Front-end based system or the other person, in reality they are angry at themselves for listening to "that little voice" and allowing the situation to unfold.

I am not Dr. Phil; I am just another casual flight sim player (like most players are) who knows these things because he has done these things in the past and for the same reasons mentioned. Even a complete newbie would try his hardest to avoid a ramming situation by jerking his stick crazily (most likely dying in a stall from said movement), because its the normal, default instinct. Its only those with heavily invested feelings and emotions in these situations would not.

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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 08:09:13 PM »
1) No
2) No
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 08:11:56 PM »
Collisions in AH are like collisions in real life...they just happen sometimes.  Unlike real life though, we get a brand new plane to do it all over again.

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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 08:12:14 PM »
I agree it's a choice. Especially when I host FriKOTH and I choose to turn on collisions, which I only do in Rounds that start with the letter R.

Like round 1, round2, round3, etc.  :D
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 08:15:00 PM »
I agree it's a choice. Especially when I host FriKOTH and I choose to turn on collisions, which I only do in Rounds that start with the letter R.

Like round 1, round2, round3, etc.  :D
But you never know if Colisions are on, do fly like they are!  :banana:
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2012, 08:19:03 PM »
But you never know if Colisions are on, do fly like they are!  :banana:

Didn't catch the silver text, did you?  :D
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2012, 10:56:18 PM »
I zig while they zag and we end up kissing canopies.  No more, no less.
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2012, 11:01:32 PM »
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2012, 11:03:31 PM »
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2012, 11:07:50 PM »
Didn't catch the silver text, did you?  :D
I couldnt see that!  :rofl :O
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2012, 11:24:18 PM »
I agree it's a choice. Especially when I host FriKOTH and I choose to turn on collisions, which I only do in Rounds that start with the letter R.

Like round 1, round2, round3, etc.  :D

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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2012, 05:21:59 AM »
1) No
2) No

And that is why you collide.

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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2012, 07:39:38 AM »
     Rarely seen anyone try so hard not to get it  :rolleyes:
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2012, 08:26:53 AM »
And that is why you collide.
No. That's why YOU collide. I don't get into collisions because I'm lazy and don't pay attention. Don't project your poor skills on me.
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Re: Why Colliding in AH is usually a choice
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2012, 12:22:01 PM »
When why you mad bro?  :P

The context is not about one person and that was a-given; I don't know anything about you or how you fly, so for me to say "you" did *not* mean you specifically, its a symbolic example of the inability to be honest with one's self in light of the topic.

Unless of course you were threatened by the thought and it somehow stumbled upon this "don't project on me" self-defence mechanism junk.

I suppose I will be straight with you, people who are genuinely thinking as you claim to be in your response, generally don't respond in knee-jerk reactions because they are aware it would reveal their own attempts of projection or the fact that their thought processes have been compromised by someone else's ideas.

Unless you have other collision conditions which are completely unique in principle then the ones I mentioned, then I don't see how saying "no,no" adds to this conversation?

It helps if people add to topics instead of just trying to stomp them out right away, right?