I'm not reading some thread for 10+ years ago dude. TL;DNR
You walked out of friendly Match play fights after switching to your best plane and taking a face shot to win a single fight lol(Please post so we can compare the fights). Sounds to me like you're the one with the ego. I was not fighting differently than any of our other duels with the exception of it being asymmetrical plane choices. You were being abrasive even before we finished our first fight in the I16-P51B.
Watching Skyyrs video, It seems to me he was being very respectful and accommodating to what you wanted out of the Matchplay session. I think you just get frustrated and don't know how to vent it out properly, like many others in this game.
Let me correct you on several aspects.
If you had only read the tl;dnr ego vs fun that should suffice to make my point. Did you even read that?
You were gladly taking front quarter shots (and stalling HO shots) that in the past we would forego on - something changed on your end. I'm not there to help you work on your front quarter or HO stall shots.
The i16 all I said was you were lucky, and indeed you were, or are you thinking, nah?
The first jug vs 51 were the front quarter shots and ur seeming refusal to be willing to roll out of the way, expecting me to yield (and in DA I generally do because collisions suck, except when I also shoot while rolling out of the way.)
The ta152 was, just, well.. lol, really. That gave clarity to where you were at mentally in DA at that moment.
You're complaining about a mismatch of planes when I'm complaining about a mismatch of motivations. I'm not there for that and gave you the la7 vs 47n as an example of what you're trying to justify here - any shot after the initial merge is valid because win. I had guns on you, you didn't on me; plane choice was irrelevant, I just decided to make it a quick lesson.
I walk out of DA when it becomes about the "win." No big. Take whatever front quarter shots you feel you need to work on... with others. It's certainly anything goes in the MA which has its own fun vs ego dynamics.
That's exactly what Skyyr was about - he asked if anyone wanted to go to the DA not long after he had officially returned. I said sure because I had heard of him and figured if he were back recently, maybe some rust I could help him with - just an expectation of fun wringing planes around. I got his lame low-e merge and front quarter ego shots right away. Recognized. Ego, not fun. Left. And Skyyr keeps bragging on this, lofl. You seem to think his cordiality was in search of fun when it was a guise for his ego. This is entirely what Skyyr is about - *his* ego. He even brags on kills and claims as "wins" those he goes down himself after he weebly ho/rams me. At least twice, lol.
And this is the guy you're seeking validation from? I can see his influence on your "pulling out all the stops" with the ta152, toggling engine (twice wasn't it?) and taking anything for win shots.
Few days ago vs today - what changed? Your mindset, so it changed mine. You even saw TheSig say he tries for rear aspect shots, and generally that's the case between us, or any other fun fights that you know are good but Skyyr will disparage because ego: Bunnies, Shida, Eagler and several others.