Cant read everything, but I can say that having a plane I like that never gets old to me, and having a good bunch of wingies to team up with against the horde, is always enough to make it so I more rarely notice or care how lame the flying gets. It's not hard to see why you can get tired of the horde, if you're flying an SBD.. I mean cmon, an SBD 
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Don't be too hard on yourself Snap... Just take whatever comes in stride and make the best of it. Maybe fly a better plane and make mince meat out of the horde, like e.g. Shane, and still have a blast flying well (cause you still would have to have great fights to beat the horde).
WELL, I think i see his point....i THINK. it seems he fls the sbd to challenge himself. i had a 1v1 with him a couple weeks ago, and in all honesty, the only reason he didn't shoot me down, was because i had a faster plane, and could bravely run away.
it was a good fight though. fun. i learned a lot from it.
before that, i dropped into shuffler and a couple of his wingies. none of them ganged me, although i was pretty stupid. i knew who it was, thus my hellkitty had no advatnages over those lightnings.
same when i fought soulss. was a fun fight. but i didn't get ganged, nor did he.
what it seems to me that snap's gettin dissillusioned about, is the "win at any cost" mentality in a fight. thus, you get a tart in a highly maneuverable plane, that could easily maneuver for a good firing position, but instead, chooses to face shoot every pass.....or ram. or he can't get into position, so he calls for help.
that'd be fine, if he were defending a base, but i rarely ever see snap attack a base.
just an FYI.......beware the SBD O DETH.
