> > I heavily doubt. The simple fact that already these small kids are so > > much influenced by depiction of war/crime, that they consider taking > > the flute for a rifle (even resp. especially if it's just a game) as > > common practice, should scare us - and certainly this doesn't justify > > turning serious flight simulation into a shoot-em game ! > Horsepucky. Combat in Flight Gear would _never_ be a "shoot-em game". Virtual != Real. EVER. If your little linoleum lizard can't understand that, it's YOUR fault. Don't nanny-state me because you can't grow a pair.
> > For what it's worth, the R/C modeling community apparently has this same > basic problem ... > > http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXJDU1&P=ML > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5ekEu9G3o > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XHOqgd8hY > Now I've seen some irresponsible behavior before, but wow. That's just beyond the pale. Jerks like these give all of us R/C fliers bad names. > Oh, and I'm surprised that no one has brought up the notion of building more > spectacular crashes. Search youtube for R/C jet crashes and you'll find > some spectacular ones. The R/C community is way ahead of us on that one. > Also you might want to search youtube for "bill hempel". Or you might not > like youtube and not want to search at all. :-) > Hehe. Mechanically accurate crashes would be great eye-candy for sure. Bill Hempel is probably the best model pilot I've ever seen. Here's unassailable proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaXMrFh3n7M g. -- "I'm not crazy, I'm plausibly off-nominal!" Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
