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Offline Shane

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« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2003, 04:12:32 AM »
i found this quote hilarious...

"will teach you more about dogfighting and combat-maneuvering tactics in one week than most sims will in a year."
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Offline GrimCO

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« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2003, 10:16:30 AM »
I'm guessing WB's places ads in PC Gamer whereas AH does not.

Whoever spends the most money on ads gets the best reviews.

Found this out with Car Audio Magazine. We've been making high quality car audio amplifiers for years and never got mentioned in a single thing till we placed a few ads in the magazine. Suddenly, our amplifiers were touted as the best things since sliced bread.

When we stopped placing ads in the magazine, we drifted into obscurity once again.

Just the way it goes.

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« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2003, 06:08:43 PM »
Wow, Grimco-this was a relevation?

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« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2003, 06:51:23 AM »
That may be true for some magazines, but not all.  At least, it's not the case with the computer magazine I worked for the past 3 years.  In the labs at least, we were too concerned with how close lunchtime is to really care about favoritism. :)

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« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2003, 09:47:49 AM »
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Wow, Grimco-this was a relevation?


Yeah, I was shocked...LOL

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« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2003, 11:53:31 AM »
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Whoever spends the most money on ads gets the best reviews.
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Just the way it goes.


That's why I quit using "Car and Driver", "Road and Track", and "MotorTrend Magazine" as new-car shopping resources.  With the exception of the photos, I couldn't trust anything that was printed.

"Consumer Reports" rules!

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« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2003, 12:51:51 PM »
WHat the hell plane has a 30mm?

They got an A-10 over there?:eek:

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« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2003, 12:55:25 PM »
109G6 and up in the 109 series can carry 30mms in the nose in place of a 20mm.

190A8s can carry 30mm gondolas under their wings.
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« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2003, 12:58:01 PM »
Then there's the P-39 with the 37mm in the nose and those belgian-waffle planes that have the 37mm too.

2 40mm in one of the Hurricanes over here.

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« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2003, 01:01:18 PM »
109's baby !

the infamous Tater gun

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« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2003, 01:32:52 PM »
I need to start expanding my horizons and start flying something besides my F6F.

Nah, took me 2 years to figure the damn thing out.

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« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2003, 01:37:31 PM »
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WHat the hell plane has a 30mm?

They got an A-10 over there?:eek:
off the top of my head (im @ work):
109g6
109g10
190a8
110g2
ta152
me262
me163
I don't know what to put here yet.

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« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2003, 02:32:40 PM »
This one line destroyed the guys credibility for me:

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A shortage of subscribers knocked Air Warrior completely off the radar last year


Airwarrior had a reduce player base but truthfully they still had a very strong one; at least as strong if not stronger and with more people playing it than what you all say WB has right now. If he had done his homework he would have known that EA pulled the plug not because people weren't paying for it and playing it but for other internal reasons.

Sounds like the guy just got tasked to write an article and did very little research and just took some stuff he quickly found and made some glib assumptions.
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« Reply #28 on: June 16, 2003, 04:00:51 PM »
Mahoooood has mentioned Warbirds several times in the past. I believe it's about the limit of his experience with the genre. PC Lamer sucks anyway, CGW doesn't kiss as much advertiser/potential advertiser bellybutton with their reviews.

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« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2003, 04:04:28 PM »
Game mags are crap, all of 'em... their laminated pages don't make for good TP either.
-SW