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I think I'm out.....

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skyhawka4m

skyhawka4m

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Well......its been fun but I think I'll be taking a break from SOH.

Its too bad that when you express your opinion a couple things happen:

1. you get the usual crew who go on the personal attack wave who always find the time to degrade others just because they expressed their opinion or distaste for something or a practise.

2. Developers show no spine and defend their products and just take their ball and run home.

3. Developers just ignore issues because they "think" they know better.


So...my two cents will be saved for a while....maybe I'll save up enough to get the A-10 when it comes out......hopefully.
 
Unfortunately, these things are often a part of life. I've learned to have a pretty thick skin about things, at least until I'm attacked on a personal level. I've given my opinions and advice on projects, sometimes developers don't listen or don't want to hear it, but that's their problem, not mine. I feel that my place is to give constructive criticism and advice, it is other people's place to listen or ignore, but I'm simply not going to let their actions destroy my enjoyment of flight sims or SOH.
 
Sometimes everyone needs a bit of a break. I'm on my way back from a very much needed 2-3 month break from SOH...

Whatever your decision, I'm sure we'll see you around again. :salute:
 
Welcome home KIWI !


@skyhawk... as the others have pointed out. This is just an internet forum. No point getting all worked up over anything said or done in cyberspace......it's not like it's real life ;) :)
 
Great idea, a man's got to know his limitations. I hit my tolerance threshold and took a break from November to Febuary.
 
Ahhh Bummer Bud,I always enjoy your commentary and input you bring to SOH,I hope to see you back soon.
 
You may want a break and that is not a bad thing, but I have learned over the years, and years, and years, that alot of the personal attacks are because of the shallowness of the the attackers. There are few all over the net forums to be sure. I have had my posts done that way too. But I won't let the idiots win, some folks like what I bring to topics, so for them I am in it for the long haul. With out the genuine support and advice from the real members here and elsewhere, fsx and simming would not be as interesting and the technical advice I have had from some members like Ted and a few others, I would not have had if I turned tail. If the nut cases bother you, just don't post for awhile, and lurk. This forum still has a lot of useful info and some fine people in general. The wack jobs, well, just consider the source. Yea I will probably get some for this post but nothing I can't handle. Please reconsider. Don
 
A little civility always helps

The whole world is becoming uncivil and crass. I think that individuals on these forums who engage in personal attacks should be penalized by prevention of their posts for at least one month. I am sorry for this gentleman who was offended by these attacks. Indeed they are offensive, but there should also be room for forgiveness.

My 2 cents.

Sid
 
Sid2008 said:
The whole world is becoming uncivil and crass. I think that individuals on these forums who engage in personal attacks should be penalized by prevention of their posts for at least one month. I am sorry for this gentleman who was offended by these attacks. Indeed they are offensive, but there should also be room for forgiveness.

My 2 cents.

Sid
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Amigo you are doing the right thing....I did that about a year ago, took off and stayed away totally!!!! after a while you get refreshed, like after a cool shower, you walk the other forums and chat here and there with other pilotos, designers and just simers of all types and backgrounds, not the same all crowd!!!! but surely with some crows!!! maybe......then you visit a Brontosauros store, they have different dinosaur shields, of all shapes and some pretty good swords and lances (mental ones at that), so you get a few.....after some months you wake up one day and having had a crash the night before in some lonely freeware airfield you start a flight and notice that the compas points to SOH!!!! you wonder what´s going on.....and open the url.....WOW!!!! you find your old buddy, Gulky Burly, with a disk crash and crying all over for his lost TR33 (??)..so you PM him and after 45 minutes you are back chatting with, sure, your old buddies and, not too buddies, at the well known address.......goodby have fun and, welcome.......
 
dharris said:
You may want a break and that is not a bad thing, but I have learned over the years, and years, and years, that alot of the personal attacks are because of the shallowness of the the attackers. There are few all over the net forums to be sure. I have had my posts done that way too. But I won't let the idiots win, some folks like what I bring to topics, so for them I am in it for the long haul. With out the genuine support and advice from the real members here and elsewhere, fsx and simming would not be as interesting and the technical advice I have had from some members like Ted and a few others, I would not have had if I turned tail. If the nut cases bother you, just don't post for awhile, and lurk. This forum still has a lot of useful info and some fine people in general. The wack jobs, well, just consider the source. Yea I will probably get some for this post but nothing I can't handle. Please reconsider. Don
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The man speaketh the truth. :salute::ernae:
 
I just finished a two month break. Went inactive on everything and just did other things. It was really refreshing. Battles that seemed important then are ancient history now. New people come online and others fade away. There's new sim stuff to explore. A break can be really good.
 
Jee's, it's just a chat forum and I don't mean to belittle the site in anyway. There's people dieing all over the world and a chat forum becomes too much for people, how out of perspective things must of become :isadizzy:

A break definitely needed !
 
I think we should have a weekly poll about who should have a break next. The 'winner' gets to nominate the next half a dozen candidates :engel016:
 

I think everyone needs to stop and breath. Take a walk outside. Stand in the rain for a couple of minutes. These food fight threads sometimes remind me of those big car crashes on the interstate. Some people were just minding their own business and got wiped out. Some people were going too fast. Some people were “rubber-necking” and caused another crash. Nobody thinks they did anything wrong. Everyone thinks they know what happened. And always two or three cars don't make it out the other end of the fog bank... It is, in the end, “just a game.” Lets try and practice the “let being helpful be more important than being right” part of our “mission statement”...
 
Never have truer words been Spoken

skyhawka4m said:
Well......its been fun but I think I'll be taking a break from SOH.

Its too bad that when you express your opinion a couple things happen:

1. you get the usual crew who go on the personal attack wave who always find the time to degrade others just because they expressed their opinion or distaste for something or a practise.

2. Developers show no spine and defend their products and just take their ball and run home.

3. Developers just ignore issues because they "think" they know better.


So...my two cents will be saved for a while....maybe I'll save up enough to get the A-10 when it comes out......hopefully.
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Sir, I Agree 100%, But Sad That You are Yielding to a Few, I cant say that I Know you, But I have Always thought that You have Told it like it is, And Respect you for it, Hate to see Someone Being driven away because of Anyone!!!!, Stick by your Guns!!!! Hold your Ground!!!!:salute::salute::salute:
 
I have had those times in the past as well skyhawka4m and thought I would just walk away from it and find something else to do, but invariably, within a few days I was right back in. . .lurking for a while and not posting, but not completely out of it as i had promised myself. It's too much fun here to just trash it all for the egotists who see themselves as legends in their own minds, lol.

For the most part, everyone knows who they are and gives them enough rope to hang themselves more often than not. Funny thing is, the offenders rarely see it that way and always walk away from the offending thread feeling quite righteous and self gratified, while everyone else is whispering behind their backs, lol.

I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of thinking that they got to you to the point that you felt compelled to leave. . .that's what they want. . .one less voice against their rantings. I say, stick around and make them miserable. . .it's a lot more fun.:salute:
 
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