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Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: rv6 on June 22, 2006, 06:14:46 AM
Did ya' ever sit down for a "short" AH flight, just to kill 10 or 15 mins..  As soon as you liftoff the sounds in your house (wife screaming, kids fighting, dog barking, cars crashing, etc) fade away.  Next thing ya' know? 2? 3? 6? hours are gone?  The house is in darkness, everybody asleep in bed.  And there you sit,, saying; "Huh? Wha' happen?"..

This damn sim is like a time-machine..

RV6
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: DaPup on June 22, 2006, 06:42:35 AM
Honestly I haven't done that in quite a while, there was a time when I could lose myself in the game and the hours would slip by but those days have passed as the game seems to have changed and it doesn't hold my interest like it once did.
Title: Re: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: badhorse on June 22, 2006, 07:04:34 AM
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Originally posted by rv6
 Next thing ya' know? 2? 3? 6? hours are gone?  
RV6


Yep, know just what you mean. I often stumble into work, bleary eyed because I wanted to fly just one more sortie. Or because I just had to take an ostie out and defend that blinking base.
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: mussie on June 22, 2006, 07:18:52 AM
LOL....

I have done a number of 12 shifts on no sleep thanks to this dam game


When my boss asks what’s wrong with you I reply Insomnia........

But I think he knows I am bull chitting cause he caught me trying to plug my X45 into the mainframe.....
:rofl
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: FiLtH on June 22, 2006, 08:22:22 AM
Ive been on for hours and often get ready to call it a night at 11 or so and someone will come in and do something that makes me want to stay and the next thing I know its 2am. Yes its a sickness. If I could have the time back Id probably have my house completed among other things.
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Kazaa on June 22, 2006, 05:48:21 PM
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Originally posted by FiLtH
Ive been on for hours and often get ready to call it a night at 11 or so and someone will come in and do something that makes me want to stay and the next thing I know its 2am. Yes its a sickness. If I could have the time back Id probably have my house completed among other things.


Oh so true.
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Vudak on June 22, 2006, 05:59:31 PM
Back when I was in JG2 I used to be ready to log pretty late at night and then Lazerus would pop in for the first time in weeks, we'd get into our usual trouble and next thing you knew it, Moot signed in from an island near Madagascar.  Not a good sign ;)
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: ramzey on June 23, 2006, 12:36:09 AM
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Originally posted by FiLtH
Ive been on for hours and often get ready to call it a night at 11 or so and someone will come in and do something that makes me want to stay and the next thing I know its 2am. Yes its a sickness. If I could have the time back Id probably have my house completed among other things.


its can be fixed, im a example ;-)
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Clutz on June 23, 2006, 01:26:40 AM
My wife told me if I didn't give her some family time she was going to take the infant son and leave. I told her get the hell out and take the little b tard with you. Not really. :cry  I'm not married and got no kids. My bad sense of humor only reflects in a sarcastic way my sense of guilt for all the hours I spend here. Please realize this. But this game does definitely affect my income level cause I don't go to work to much anymore (self employed). I'm starting to worry about my old age and what I will have when I get there.  But hell! Its fun as hell and I just love it!  We only live once, we should enjoy it while we are here. Most all of us would do the same for their kids by letting them enjoy the fun things in life. Wouldn't we? We can play in moderation, maybe? So everybody should be happy and its all good. Life is good. Imagine the old days when they didn't have all this cool stuff we got now. TY God I say. Its a blessing
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: DamnedRen on June 23, 2006, 03:48:46 AM
If the average sortie is 45 minutes then 3 or 4 sorties sure adds up. Who only flies one or two sorties anyway? :)

Ren
The Damned
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Schatzi on June 23, 2006, 03:56:47 AM
The worst i ever managed was a film in TA... 9 hours straight....



Makes you start thinking :D.
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Mustaine on June 23, 2006, 09:22:25 AM
once played from 9PM on a friday night to 7PM saturday night straight.
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Eagler on June 23, 2006, 09:35:06 AM
moderation - it prevents burn out
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: viper215 on June 23, 2006, 11:07:48 AM
AH is the reason for my bad grades.:D :D :D
Title: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Whisky58 on June 23, 2006, 12:17:26 PM
It's due to the physics of relativity.  In the cockpit of your virtual reality you are travelling at 300mph-ish.  Einstein demonstrated that the faster something moves the slower time passes.  Thus your virtual time passes slower than those left behind in the kitchen, watching tv etc.  So 20mins on AH = 3hours elsewhere in the house.

Simple really, but no matter how hard I try to explain, my wife just can't grasp this concept.

:)
Title: Re: Time Flys' in Aces High..
Post by: Solar10 on June 23, 2006, 12:53:45 PM
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Originally posted by rv6
Did ya' ever sit down for a "short" AH flight, just to kill 10 or 15 mins..  As soon as you liftoff the sounds in your house (wife screaming, kids fighting, dog barking, cars crashing, etc) fade away.  Next thing ya' know? 2? 3? 6? hours are gone?  The house is in darkness, everybody asleep in bed.  And there you sit,, saying; "Huh? Wha' happen?"..

This damn sim is like a time-machine..

RV6


For me it's the opposite.  The house will be quiet, I drift over to the PC, surf the net a little, find myself loading the game, put on the head set jump in a perk ride, get in the air, then all hell breaks loose.....

Wife ack starts ... "you and that bl**dy game, blah blah, you don't spend family time anymore, blah blah"... kids start killin each other... chores need done, etc

So as any good hubby and father does, I turn up the volume and loose myself in the game.
Title: o man
Post by: London on June 24, 2006, 09:35:19 AM
i just downloaded that waffles sound pack. and CRAP!
i sat down at my computer and started flyin around, vulchin in a 262 listenin to that sweet 30mm cannon effect. when i started noticing glare from the sun on my monitor.
my alarm clock for work went off shortly after 9 hours of continous AH2 "action"