I DEMAND TO PAY MORE

[Brooke]

Back the earlier days of Air Warrior, it cost $6/hour to play.  Some folks paid $600/month.  That's $1200/month in 2022 dollars.

It's an outrage that Aces High costs only $15/month.

Such pricing erodes the moral fiber of our youth.

It deranges the population's comprehension of intrinsic value.  Which in turn leads to a dangerous skew in assessment across the spectrum of human endeavors.

One can only wonder:  is this just an unfortunate accident, or is it intentional?  Is it perhaps part of a darker purpose, one only now becoming faintly noticeable at the thinnest edges of perception?

[FLS]

AOL saved a lot of people.

[-gg-]

haha

I heard stories of massive bills from AW when it was 6 or more an hour. Crazy bills.  That was a bit before my time. I got in when AOL started carrying it. I bought AOL dial up, even though I had COX cable, just to play Air Warrior.

[Mayhem]

GEnie was not your friend (I think it ran on Delphi to).

I played a bit on my roommate's account back when Air Warrior ran in DOS and CPIDs where numbers. but I could only play for a couple of hours per week, as an enlisted (E4) 11 bang bang I could barely afford booze and strippers and since the 101st wasn't a real airborne unit I didn't get jump pay..

I didn't get heavy into AW until AW4W (Air warrior for windows) on AOL when AOL Went unlimited for a flat monthly fee which also Included all the games. (CPID MAHEM and MAHYM)

When Kesmia started Gamestorm I joined Cularo Mage and Moggy as a game op and later as a CM and tech support. Gamestorm was $10 per month for subscribers and included Kesmia's entire library.

EA eventually purchased Kesmia and we all know how that goes. Ironically EA offered AWMV (Millennial Version) for free but due to disinterest and low player count they shut the servers down. I think This was just after AH came out of beta and went live.

I participated in the AH open beta but when AH went live it had a high subscription fee, so I didn't subscribe till the price came down.... I think it had an hourly fee and a $30 per month flat rate subscriptions. A short time later HTC was offering some squads the subscription at half off ... a very short time later every one got it half off at $15 per month which hasn't changed in over 2 decades.

[zack1234]

I agree we need to pay more to poor people.

[decoy]

GEnie was not your friend (I think it ran on Delphi to).

I played a bit on my roommate's account back when Air Warrior ran in DOS and CPIDs where numbers. but I could only play for a couple of hours per week, as an enlisted (E4) 11 bang bang I could barely afford booze and strippers and since the 101st wasn't a real airborne unit I didn't get jump pay..

I have only heard that term once in the last, I don't know, 30 years.  More, maybe.  I'm a sucker for the homeless, and if a guy has a sign that says, "Homeless Vet" I always stop.  But I ask, "What was your MOS?" and sometime I get "Door gunner on a Huey."  I pass that guy.  But, if he says something like "86Mike" I pop him $20.  Maybe 1995 a guy said, "11 bang bang" and I knew I had a winner.

Thank you for your service, Mayhem.

[decoy]

Back the earlier days of Air Warrior, it cost $6/hour to play.  Some folks paid $600/month.  That's $1200/month in 2022 dollars.

It's an outrage that Aces High costs only $15/month.

Such pricing erodes the moral fiber of our youth.

It deranges the population's comprehension of intrinsic value.  Which in turn leads to a dangerous skew in assessment across the spectrum of human endeavors.

One can only wonder:  is this just an unfortunate accident, or is it intentional?  Is it perhaps part of a darker purpose, one only now becoming faintly noticeable at the thinnest edges of perception?

If you think you should pay more, just make a check payable to Aces High Donations and send it to PO Box 212, Pinehurst, GA 31070 and I'll make SURE it gets to Dale. 

[Brooke]

If you think you should pay more, just make a check payable to Aces High Donations and send it to PO Box 212, Pinehurst, GA 31070 and I'll make SURE it gets to Dale.

Here's what I'd rather do.

I'd rather have that guy in Pinehurst, GA come by the Nashville, TN area sometime, and have his pal Brooke take him out to a nice lunch or dinner and some beer! 

[Arlo]

Here's what I'd rather do.

I'd rather have that guy in Pinehurst, GA come by the Nashville, TN area sometime, and have his pal Brooke take him out to a nice lunch or dinner and some beer! 

Go to Pinehurst and eat there.

[Brooke]

I like chili dogs! 

As it turns out, Krystal has some pretty good chili dogs.

[Arlo]

Of course, they have more than that.

https://www.facebook.com/57DINER/photos

 

[DmonSlyr]

THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!

[decoy]

Go to Pinehurst and eat there.

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The 57 Diner is in Unadilla, Georgia.  My hometown, but we actually live outside Pinehurst.  The thing is, the 57 Diner advertises "Pool Room Style Chili Dogs."  See, in Cordele there's pool hall, the Cordele Recreation Parlor, that everyone calls 'The Pool Room.'  For decades it sold the best chili dogs on the planet, or, in Georgia south of the Varsity in Atlanta.  About ten or twelve years ago, it caught on fire, but they were able to save the building.  A friend of mine, named Randy Bridges bought it and remodeled it and reopened and the old place was gone.

The snooker tables, all the 8 foot tables, the old men who'd rack the balls, the hustlers, all gone.  Now there are just four coin operated seven foot tables.  No smoking allowed.  They made the dining area bigger, took out the pinball machines and put in tables.  They hired women to serve the hotdogs and started letting women inside.  The chili dogs?  Gone.  The guy that made the chili died and very few people can imitate it.  The chili dogs at the 57 Diner aren't even close.  FWIW.

[decoy]

Here's what I'd rather do.

I'd rather have that guy in Pinehurst, GA come by the Nashville, TN area sometime, and have his pal Brooke take him out to a nice lunch or dinner and some beer! 

I'd rather do  that too, but we don't get up that way much.  We are taking a trip at the end of the month, but that's from here to the Outer Banks and coming home through Kentucky.  I like to wander every so often.  Thanks for the invite.

[AKKuya]

Just send cases of alcohol to Hitech. That's the type of over payment he prefers.