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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Guppy35 on March 17, 2008, 01:27:17 AM
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.....or am I missing something. (which is entirely possible)
Between the torrent of clueless posting, the terrible grammer and spelling on the BBS and some of the strange stuff in the arenas, I'm starting to wonder what's in the cartoon air in the game.
Hopefully it's just my Alzheimers setting in and I'll forget about it quickly, but I'm starting to get worried. :huh
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Has the AH player base IQ dropped dramatically lately.....
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I think this is just us getting old and loosing gray cells... but it is hard to think clearly.
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QUIT!!! :rock :t
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eye doint no wart yaw tawking aboat
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the terrible grammer and spelling
grammar
Hopefully it's just my Alzheimers setting in
Alzheimer's
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There's a sort of critical mass effect to SNORKELCOPTERZ discourse's consonnance in the heads of those posters, sort of like crickets in the night, that'll get em chatterin to no end about the loose gobbledegook on their mind regardless of how meaningless it is.
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grammar
Alzheimer's
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As long as it's the Alzheimer's, it's all good. I won't remember it tomorrow then :)
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It's called The Air Quake Effect.
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Air quake (before gv's got taken out) & Air quakeII rocked.
*Glares* :furious
http://ikq.planetquake.gamespy.com/airquake/airquake.htm
Had jets, hummer's tanks, choppers.
First game i ever replaced models/sounds on.
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yes. (Bish)
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People have always been as silly Guppy, it's just that your getting older and noticing it more.
I'm turning 30 and stuff that used to seem important and funny ain't so important and funny anymore.
It's just that as we age it gets narrower and narrower untill eventually it contricts to that tunnel of light we go down when we get to the end of the road.
The older you get the less likely you are to care or put up with crap cause you've been there before. Kids just do it, differently but i'm sure you did some of the same silliness.
And yes i believe the AH fanbase is getting younger, kids are more able to handle computers and get this stuff better than some of the older folks these days.
You know all this why am i telling you....
Grandpa :P :D
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Not your as much as you know am I Guppy?
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:huh
Can you repeet, er, reppeat, er, say the question again?
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Whether or not the player base of Aces High has a measurable IQ is still up for debate.
Stay tuned. :aok
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i do nat tink dat wee r getin eny dummer. i kan nat fegur out whi u wood cey dis. ey hav twintee yeers ov edookashion cause i gradooaded tenth grayd twice. :D
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It's a squeaker epidemic, and it gives me migraines.
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yes. (Bish)
I'm hurt.........
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IQRPA
hilite----------->IQ Retentive Pilots Association
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Don't worry Guppy - the answer is simple, and no it's not your imagination.
It's inertia. Or more exactly, the fact that the original inertia of what you remember is running out.
At one time, we payed 2.00 an hour to fly. Before that, some folks payed as much as 6.00 an hour. The result was a player-base made up of guys who were fascinated with the aircraft of the time period, and who envisioned themselves as the aces in them. It required a huge commitment to participate, and people (for all that people are always people) treated it like what it was to them - a huge investment of time, energy, and money into a hobby.
Note "hobby". To 97% or more of us, it wasn't a game. It was a hobby.
And so the "sim machine" chugged on, picking up speed and becoming what we remember it being, up until the Internet made connections cheaper and flat rate pricing changed the rules. First 30/month flat rate, and now 15. But for the longest time the status quo that was built up when it was costing us hundred(s) of dollars a month to participate continued to run on, of it's own inertia, and so the changes - the reaction to the change in rules that changed the demographics of the player base - has taken place gradually despite the immediacy of the change that caused it.
Eventually though, the machine ran down, and over time the game has attracted an increasing percentage of a completely different player - one who sees it as a challenging game.
I'm not criticizing, although it might seem so. Just pointing out what I see changing over time, and why. And why it's a fool's hope to wish for it to be more like it was - the conditions that conspired to make it what it was then are are now vanished, only memories.
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Im scareed :noid
I need a hug :cry
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.....or am I missing something. (which is entirely possible)
Between the torrent of clueless posting, the terrible grammer and spelling on the BBS and some of the strange stuff in the arenas, I'm starting to wonder what's in the cartoon air in the game.
Hopefully it's just my Alzheimers setting in and I'll forget about it quickly, but I'm starting to get worried. :huh
I think theres something in the water. I mean I was flying a twin engined plane with no wep and a big glass ting in front of me. I dont know whats happening. :cry
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Eventually though, the machine ran down, and over time the game has attracted an increasing percentage of a completely different player - one who sees it as a challenging game.
The big majority of the players today grew up playing FPS games like Quake. To them this is just another form of that. WWII is just so much boring history to them.
Maybe I'm getting Alzheimer's, but I don't recall seeing all the chest thumping and smack talk back in the day of Air Warrior when it cost two or more dollars to play. :frown:
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There are more and more young players coming to fly in the "game". And, as many of you have experienced, most youth of today are just stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. That's how I describe today's youth. I may be 14, but I'm smart enough to know. (unlike many of today's youth)
I'm describing mainly America's children. Stupid weaklings that have no common sense and spend most of their lives in front of a screen. I'd much rather live in Germany or Switzerland compared to America. Alaska still has a small percentage of smart, strong children, but it's slowly decreasing.
So no, it's not your Alzheimer's :)
*Modification. I'm interested in America's history of war. I know at least five times as much about WWII and Vietnam than any average American student aged 10-16. (Estimation)
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That's unpossible.
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That's unpossible.
Or, as the squeakers would say, "d@+z unp0z1b13".
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That's unpossible.
At a minimum nonprobable.
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yes. (Bish)
:noid :rofl
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Bighorn forgot to attend our pre-planned grammer lesson, so now I no sprell riwght :rolleyes:
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I just read some of Dadsguns posts...Eye fell alot lees more smarter know
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It's not just your craziness (though I'm sure that's a significant factor, old man!). I don't even remember it being this bad two months ago, it may have been, but the fights now seem terrible. The whole ENY whine coming around again isn't helping either. But it's been this way before, just good and bad trends I guess. I hope we're near the finish of this one.
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I hope we're near the finish of this one.
Summer break...
:noid
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You've only noticed the average IQ dropping in Aces High? I thought it was the whole damn country. :uhoh
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I would have noticed it, but my own dropping IQ prevented me from doing so... :(
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Yeah, but with squeaking comes easy targets :).
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it's the maps.... :noid
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.....or am I missing something. (which is entirely possible)
Between the torrent of clueless posting, the terrible grammer and spelling on the BBS and some of the strange stuff in the arenas, I'm starting to wonder what's in the cartoon air in the game.
Hopefully it's just my Alzheimers setting in and I'll forget about it quickly, but I'm starting to get worried. :huh
Well, idk, I've gotten suprisingly better with non-dweebish planes like the F4U. So........... me being less of a dweeb makes things worse?!?!?!?! :noid
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Well, idk, I've gotten suprisingly better with non-dweebish planes like the F4U...
:rofl some F4Us are pretty dweebish, IMHO.
Fly the Hurricane Mk. 1 like me :t
But I still say the damn country's youth is, whats the word for it...I will just say declining in intelligence, rather rapidly too.
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.....or am I missing something. (which is entirely possible)
Between the torrent of clueless posting, the terrible grammer and spelling on the BBS and some of the strange stuff in the arenas, I'm starting to wonder what's in the cartoon air in the game.
Hopefully it's just my Alzheimers setting in and I'll forget about it quickly, but I'm starting to get worried. :huh
I thought summer was back already... :(
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Nope, I think we have until around August before squeaker season is open again. :cool:
Until then I will enjoy the functionality of my eardrums. :aok
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:rofl some F4Us are pretty dweebish, IMHO.
Fly the Hurricane Mk. 1 like me :t
But I still say the damn country's youth is, whats the word for it...I will just say declining in intelligence, rather rapidly too.
:lol I do fly it. It's just always against pickers. Ruins the purpose of a turn fighter :rofl
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I'm not sure if the playerbase IQ has ever been stellar (even if I'd like to think so too) and I don't really agree in bashing new players who do not, or cannot have a clue -yet.
Just take it easy and do not scare them away with too rough handling.
After all it is in HTC's best interest to get new players into such marginal genre of games and it is (in a way ;)) good to see that they are active in posting and hopefully in gathering information. Young people do not necessarily have the same emphasis on WW2 knowledge as we older ones, BTW.
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After all the BBS is a good way of sharing information, although it seems that usually people do not "share" information but take a stance with what they got and engage into debates with intention to squash any opposition promoting their favorite, themselves, and denying any critique.
But I have to say that AH BBS is not the worst I have seen -nor the best, unfortunately.
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always been this way.
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I just read some of Dadsguns posts...Eye fell alot lees more smarter know
NOT VERY NICE
Apparently all of you criticizers know all the answers, are very open minded and also can read our minds (I'am 51, Dads is about 38)
They also said the sound barrier could not be broken.
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We know all the answers to your proposals because they were already suggested and passed thru the peer review QC process.
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also can read our minds
Content makes it easy :noid
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As the game gets more and more mainstream, you're starting to see the mainstream types come in. Kids, basically. Wait until (if) CT comes out, and some people think this game is RPG. Then we will really see the end of grammar.