Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Guppy35 on July 11, 2008, 06:05:07 PM
-
....That while we would like to believe we are like the image below, and that we're really doing something important and putting our lives on the line for something that matters.....
BTW this guy went down twice to flak. Escaped from POW camp, stole a motorcyle and rode it to safety across the Remagan Bridge. Forget Steve McQueen, he did it for real
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/TSpence.jpg)
We are in fact like the image below, and just a cartoon caricature of something from a long time ago. As long as we remember we're like the cartoon and act as such, the game is what it is, just a game for fun. This image from the logbook of a Spit driver who in 3 years of combat flying, was shot down and walked out through Spain, bailed out and rescued from the English Channel and finally down to be a POW due to mechanical failure. It was serious for him, but even his cartoon pilot kept a smile on his face and was only in his imagination :)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/NewSpitsTS.jpg)
-
:aok
-
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/salute.gif)
-
dream a lil dream :aok
-
:aok
-
:aok
-
BTW this guy went down twice to flak. Escaped from POW camp, stole a motorcyle and rode it to safety across the Remagan Bridge.
You know, that makes me think of all the guys who went down to flak and were killed, all the guys who escaped from POW camp but got killed after and all the guys who rode their bikes to safety but hit the truck at the other end of the bridge and got killed for not wearing a helmet.
Did that make sense? :rolleyes:
Anyway, war is bad... bad war, games = funny...
...just got shot down in FSO gotta go get my head screwed firmly back on. :D
Btw I think Shifty and Jester stole my leather underwear and dropped them over the channel. I saw them chasing pixels down to the drink guns blazing. :confused:
-
I would be proud to wear that bottom sketch's noseart in the game.
-
in r/l........a friend of mine survived 2 tours in viet nsam. didn't get o much as a scratch.
comes home, working in a depot.....a noob forklift driver knocks over a stack of something. it falls on my friend. he's fubared now.......constantly on pain meds etc...........
-
Btw I think Shifty and Jester stole my leather underwear and dropped them over the channel. I saw them chasing pixels down to the drink guns blazing. :confused:
If ya want em back they'll be on eBay tomorrow. Jester tried them on though after a hard night of drinking... You might think twice. :D
-
I don't get it, I miss the point of this thread. So, If some like to romanticize and emulate actions and tactics of the last real heroes of this world in a recognition of their sacrifice and valor, they're just not cartoon enough for your attention deficit disordered little mind?
-
I think this is a kind of neat post. I don't think it warrants picking a fight with Gupp.
-
yeah well, you drank less than me, lol
-
they're just not cartoon enough for your attention deficit disordered little mind?
I think the moral of the story is 'relax, its a game'.
Comparing yourself to them in any fashion (or worse, like a Navy Seal as one person said) is laughable in the extreme.
That said, I'm in the process of building as much of a P38's controls as I can. Not because I want to know what they went through because I will never know... my part in AH will always been dweebish and will remain that way.
-
Yep nice light hearted post, i wish we would see more of em in General Forums :salute
-
I would be proud to wear that bottom sketch's noseart in the game.
I used that guys name for my AH ID for a while as Slack, for Tom Slack. The Nose art was "The Micheldever Monarch". It was a cartoon of himself with a crown and a blue and white checked scarf he wore all the time while flying.
-
I don't get it, I miss the point of this thread. So, If some like to romanticize and emulate actions and tactics of the last real heroes of this world in a recognition of their sacrifice and valor, they're just not cartoon enough for your attention deficit disordered little mind?
I've spent a lot of time with those guys, and stayed in the home of the guy in the photo on the top. I was privilaged enough to get to read Tom Slack's biography and proof read it for him before it was published. They're my hero's. To try and put anything we do in are cartoon game up against what they really did is just silly to me. That's my point. I'm not in their league and won't ever pretend to be.
-
I used that guys name for my AH ID for a while as Slack, for Tom Slack. The Nose art was "The Micheldever Monarch". It was a cartoon of himself with a crown and a blue and white checked scarf he wore all the time while flying.
Hell.. I'll find one of those vintage goggles and wear that too :lol
-
Umm, m00t? Don't tell anyone I told you, but here is a link for you.
http://www.hartfordyork.com/product/644/gift-ideas
-
Mein Gott, nicht zind luftgogglen! :P Thanks, I bookmarked it.. Gonna make a nice present for myself this christmas.
-
I've spent a lot of time with those guys, and stayed in the home of the guy in the photo on the top. I was privilaged enough to get to read Tom Slack's biography and proof read it for him before it was published. They're my hero's. To try and put anything we do in are cartoon game up against what they really did is just silly to me. That's my point. I'm not in their league and won't ever pretend to be.
I totally agree with that but... don't belittle yourself either. You don't know what you'd do in their situation unless you've been there, that is what separates you from them. The fact that they lived through it is a combination of luck and skill. Who is to say you lack the skill to survive a situation you have not yet faced? To say that you're not as good as them is as stupid as saying you're as good as them. During military training a man is measured in many ways, in war, he is measured by the situations he face. Some guys go through armed conflict without ever facing a dangerous situation, let alone a life-threatening one. Does the sole fact that they've been part of a war make them men? Not from my point of view.
-
deleted- no point in banding my head against a wall
-
and he was nothing but a kid :salute
-
I'm not sure But I'll go out on a limb. I think he is comparing AH Cartoon Pilots and the Pilots of WW2. For us is a Game, for them it was Real. But I'm no Rocket Surgeon :huh :huh :O
Crims