First of all, thank you to all the veteran filmmakers that I have been following over the years. I’ve seen and read a whole heck of a lot and it is much appreciated! In ABC order and probably forgetting many… AK’s et al, Animl, DLO, Fugi, LCADolby, MDStampf, Xanax, and sooo many more. Also to Molsman, JoeSee, and Fess who had to deal with my nonsense for this run.
For my first group I first have a sanitized YouTube set wide and short. I also made my own music mixed group that the tube might not enjoy I iwll upload to my own site later. And yes... it is purposely cinematic and chaotic because that’s how it felt to me in real time. I had to manually make the widescreen vidoeo 1080p when I watched it and its pretty clear. It defaulted to 360p. I highly recommend some headphones towards the end.
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I Missed the Shot of a Lifetime! | No MUsic | Widescreen | Watch in HD for Best Quality!Mobile/Short Version | I Missed the Shot of a Lifetime! | Looks Nice on the Phone!I did labor over one of the shots you’ll notice at about 0:18 when I take a piece off the 262 and it comes flying toward the screen. I spent an entire day trying to get that thing to be fully locked in and encompassing the entire screen smack dab in your face like a jump scare. Even though I could make it happen in the film viewer a bunch, I could never quite duplicate just right with a screen record or a shot set up. I’m getting a lot closer and will update the film if I get it exactly like I want it.
For my next one I am going to use some four engine bomber runs since thats what a lot of the other games are missing I often see griped about.
Anyway, here you go enjoy, feedback welcome.
Setting the Scene:As habit generally dictates for me upon logging in for my daily session, I looked for the biggest Dar Bar I could reasonably reach from a couple sectors away and pointed my ride of choice toward it. On this night it was NIK2-J taking off towards one of our medium airfields under heavy assault from a determined swarm of Knights. I did not really think much of it as I lifted off since it was heavily defended by my intrepid band of fellow Rook countryfolk. Their footprint was strong enough that I easily figured by the time I got there, I would just be coming in for an easy mop-up operation. So I did what many of us do and went outside to enjoy an herbal libation while my glider auto-climbed up into the wild blue yonder. (Or whatever you like to do while your plane is doing that). Thankfully, over the years I’ve become pretty good at timing my absences so I arrive just on time wherever I am headed to. No, it definitely does not always work out.
This time when I got back on station I was 20,000 feet above a fight that had just ended and high over the streets of our town that were already overflowing with the swarming Knight’s dots of red dots. Every Rook that I first saw when I left earlier, was now turned to dust save for one last fighter, HotShot! Having put in his time over target, he peaced out and headed home. So I did what any other dedicated Rook would do in my spot… I clocked the F! in and went to MotherF’n work!
I knew two undoubted things for true. I had a lot of juicy choices to pick from and no matter which one of them I picked on, there was no earthly chance I would be making it out of there alive. Once I spotted Molsman’s 262 low on the ground angling for a landing, our fates were sealed and I pushed it all in. At some point he finally saw that I was bearing down hard and it seemed he thought briefly about extending with his turbos, but he realized I was moving way too fast for that. I’m super glad he did because it was at that very same moment where I realized I was moving way too freaking fast too… 500+ mph diving hard Jack! I immediately jammed the throttle back to my butt and I was just able to hold the turn as he headed for the comfort of their new base. Luckily, I had enough juice to stay with it to take him out and slide past the ack, but not enough to escape the fight. If I had waited half a second later to slow down before the turn, I would’ve hit the ground no doubt!
I made a good effort to escape, but there were just too many of them and I lost a lot of energy by then. Yet, I still had a chance to go out with a blaze of glory right before Fess put me to sleep, and I absolutely completely missed
The Shot of a Lifetime!!!! If I had only been looking in front of me just a millisecond prior, I could’ve pulled the trigger on an epic post up shot over JoeSee. Alas…
Narrator: DadTallica did not pull the trigger when he could have and in fact instantly suffered a gruesome unimaginable death. Well, he had fun doing it anyway!
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