General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: nrshida on November 05, 2026, 02:43:26 PM
Title: The Last Laugh
Post by: nrshida on November 05, 2026, 02:43:26 PM
I've been reading a lot of old threads recently and I made a realisation. The last really bloody good laugh I had on this forum with basically everyone here at the time was right after we got out of hospital with my premature son. I informed the forum I'd made a painting to articulate my traumatic experiences and posted a photograph of a painting made by a six year old I found in the Ronald McDonald house and claimed I'd done it. Obviously after a decent bit of teasing and gaining (fake) assurances that no one would mock me even if it wasn't very good. The ensuing japery and banter was genuinely entertaining & really helped me recover from the actual experience and it felt like a functional community which was very supportive and I was glad to be part of. I know it wasn't a utopia, there was always jerks and arguing but that was part of it, not most of it. At least there was balance.
That was in October 2012. Something big changed then, eventually my friends drifted away, the fun duelling sessions stopped, the DA Breakfast Club petered out obviously closed forever with AH2 and some of the real personalities simply left. I started disappearing from the forum for longer and longer periods. Something had shifted and the fun was displaced by something else. A weird kind of seriousness or a total focus on score and results and hierarchy started to emerge of which some wanted no part of and left or those who remained became accustomed to it. Little factions generally based on disrespect and differences became more normal than sharing a common interest.
I'm questioning now if this is a functioning community anymore or if many of us simply come here because we've been coming here for a long time.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: Copprhed on November 05, 2026, 03:31:01 PM
I remember those days, and miss them very much. There were fewer people spouting politics then. I remember how worried we were about your son. I still lurk in the forum, which is enough to convince me that I don't want to come back.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: Animl-AW on November 05, 2026, 04:03:24 PM
Easy, the worst chased the best off and former players think they have the most say here chasing off even more and no recourse delivered to them. You yourself got into insults as a firmer player.
Allowing firmer players to trash the bbs for laughs is a problem. We didn’t put up with this crap in AW.
More crap was started here by former players than actual players, even breaking laws to do it, yet just overlooked and ignored. Paying players becoming targets by degenerate former players is not a selling point. Grow some balls and dump the former player harassing crap
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2026, 04:22:21 PM
More crap was started here by former players than actual players, even breaking laws to do it, yet just overlooked and ignored. Paying players becoming targets by degenerate former players is not a selling point. Grow some balls and dump the former player harassing crap
I know who he is talking about here but who is he telling to "grow some balls"? Dale?
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: Animl-AW on November 05, 2026, 04:38:01 PM
I know who he is talking about here but who is he telling to "grow some balls"? Dale?
Too bad You’re damn right you know who I’m talking about and I’m by far not alone
For god sakes, you former players even killed a music thread just to vomit your toxic poison everywhere. Sad part you think it hurt me. I just say it because you guys are that deep in the garbage can.
I don’t cate if that offends people like you. It’s the purpise
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2026, 04:55:30 PM
So who are you telling to "grow some balls" and dump harassing players? Grow some balls and tell me who you are demanding this of.
Spread the hate around a little.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2026, 05:12:55 PM
That was in October 2012. Something big changed then
Your first child? Yeah, kids bring about very big change.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: Copprhed on November 05, 2026, 05:17:21 PM
The butthurt is strong in this one,Shida. You know, the bit dog always yelps loudest.... I'm gone for another few years.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: nrshida on November 06, 2026, 12:18:31 AM
This thread has so far demonstrated my point. Not so much fun so far and some came out swingin at each other!' - as Max would say. In the olden days Zack would've said something funny involving soft fruits, reading and perverse sexual preferences of various posters, but Zack was awesome. :old:
Your first child? Yeah, kids bring about very big change.
He was. Ideally your first words seeing your first child ought not be "Oh toejam", but his foot would fit across my thumb. We've all been that size at one point, even you Iron, we're just not normally meant to see that part.
Are you the fellow that made his own very professional looking switch panels? What did you do and fly here when active?
You've made me wonder were Redbul1 is. Doing extremely well at something I hope. And Hlbly, I actually met him in Washington State. He dropped off the face of the earth at some point. Slimmer and Maxous I lost after I left Facebook. Maxous sent me a bottle of Champagne from France when I graduated.
I've met more awesome & cool people here than bad-eggs, but as Animl says they're noisier.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2026, 08:10:29 AM
It's been 10 years since I played this game online, as animl likes to regurgitate ad nauseam. I visit here because I know some here from earlier years. I do play other combat flight sims though. I made some arduino switch boxes but they were far from professional. I went back to my touchscreen and streamdeck though and shelved the arduino boxes.
Made this when I was using the boxes.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: Mar on November 06, 2026, 08:19:37 AM
Zack rules :old:
Very smart of you to leave BookFace. So strange that only recently are people talking what their teams and teams of psychologists did for the platform. Still nothing is being done about it of course.
Sad that you lost contact with your friends though. :(
We can still have our own fun :banana:
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: -gg- on November 06, 2026, 08:27:04 AM
The forum was best before 2008 and when people had thicker skin and when we didn't have 69 rules and heavy moderation. The best were chased off or went away. Now what we have left are basically a bunch of Karens.
Threads getting locked because people "report" every little thing. Everything is technically a rule violation.
Go look through some old posts from before 2008. The forum was fun, funny and alive. Now it's just a miserable place with the same 15 guys reporting each other over and over.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: nrshida on November 06, 2026, 10:56:24 AM
I made some arduino switch boxes but they were far from professional. I went back to my touchscreen and streamdeck though and shelved the arduino boxes.
I thought so but couldn't find the link anymore. Been using Arduino for many years now. Handy.
That was years ago after that farm animal cartoon with them saying Ïsn't this great, the food is free, the accomodation is free, we can do what we want...
Sad that you lost contact with your friends though. :(
I've embraced inconvenience and loss productively in all sorts of domains lately. Nice quite about passing through that barrier. I want to retrofit wind-up windows on our family car :old:
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: Animl-AW on November 08, 2026, 09:53:14 AM
It's been 10 years since I played this game online, as animl likes to regurgitate ad nauseam. I visit here because I know some here from earlier years. I do play other combat flight sims though. I made some arduino switch boxes but they were far from professional. I went back to my touchscreen and streamdeck though and shelved the arduino boxes.
Made this when I was using the boxes.
Ya you play that innocent card a lot. Not a damn thing innocent about you. Biting my ankles for 4 yrs like a lil girl then telling us how innocent you are. Like doxxing. You are a professional victim. You are only a victim of yourself. You take responsibility nothing. It’s always some else isn’t it. Like posting dcs in every thread you can fit it in. Then someone like me doesn’t take your crap and it’s poor lil you. You guys act tough and think you’re thick skinned but actually you can’t take anything you put out. The group of 5 causing as many flames as possible. You can’t get away with it at dcs you you come crap in our yard.
Btw, ya just got your political clock cleaned too
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 08, 2026, 10:15:59 AM
I'm done with you animl. From now on I'll let the moderators handle your political and disrespectful posts.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: nrshida on November 08, 2026, 12:03:43 PM
Doesn't look like other folks are having all that much fun anymore either. Would it be fair to categorise this as Anti-Social Media? :banana:
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 08, 2026, 01:13:50 PM
I call it FakeBook. Seems everything there is fake.
It's not just fake, it's designed by many teams of psycologists specifically to make people hate each other without ever being aware that they're being manipulated. It's also the worst invasion of internet privacy that exists.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: LCADolby on November 08, 2026, 03:15:45 PM
I have that F16b50 module with an Apache, also a Huey, AAAaaand recently got the F5E, tooling around in 4GG's PvE server making things go pop is fun. I finally don't regret buying the Thrustmaster Viper Hotas over a year ago, it had been collecting a serious amount of dust.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: AKIron on November 08, 2026, 04:23:05 PM
There's a new stand alone free mod, F-15EX. The cockpit looks pretty good but not quite pro quality. The AIM-120Ds are very nice.
Well, I should say version 3.0 is new.
Title: Re: The Last Laugh
Post by: hazmatt on November 08, 2026, 08:24:19 PM
I just got the F100 in my game of choice and I must say it's rather fun after some getting used to. I made a 1/48 scale model of it as a kid and i always liked it's lines. It's perdy like the P-51, although for some reason I prefer the looks of the 190ies from that time frame. I think they look more menacing.