TomOnSteam

oh man, is December 2016 yet? lol :D

so how's the starving going? lol BTW I've recently been reading about addictions. What happens with the chemicals in the brain, and stages you go through. The short of is: 3 weeks cold turkey and you can kick anything(including hard drugs like heroin). (although some things like alcohol require medical treatment too otherwise you can die, but most things don't). After 3 weeks the chemical bond in your brain is broken. You are no longer physically addicted, and you just have to be conscious about it because while the cravings and excuses and desires will be gone, the ritual or habit of things will still be there, but it won't be urging you. So you still need to change your habit so you don't put yourself into a situation where you might restart the chemical addiction. But I guess if you've managed to go 3 weeks without caving into your addiction, you've probably changed your lifestyle or timetable to avoid that activity anyway. This is why nicotine patches have a low success rate. The brain will remain addicted to nicotine, since you're still feeding the strongest part of the addiction with the patches. Also, while 3 weeks isn't a long time, the 3rd week will seem to take forever and up until the point of complete release from the addiction your brain and body will be doing anything and everything to make you cave into your addiction. It is very difficult, but you keep counting down, one day at a time, and all of sudden. Nothing. I did this with something pretty tame, that being chocolate and cheese.(although it is said that these are the two hardest foods to quit due to the casomorphins in them from the dairy, which have a mild opioid effect. And while it's effect is quite mild compared to hard drugs, I bet even now if I told you a valid health reason not to eat cheese, you would already be making excuses not to stop eating it, I did, but that is the addiction weaving it's magic spell. It's not you making the excuse, it's the addiction, and I know this because I did it too, I made those same excuses, but then after the addiction is broken, the excuses no longer apply, often being illogical and trivial). For example I know someone that has rheumatoid arthritis, caused by very specifically the dairy proteins. It causes immense pain, and if not treated it causes disfigurement. The simply solution here would be to stop eating milk and cheese, and other things with milk powder in them. But of course this person would rather take life shortening toxic chemicals which have side effects only slightly better than the disease, and they only treat the symptoms, they will never cure the disease it self. This is the power of addiction at work. People would almost rather die than give up what seems to be a fairly innocuous group of food. Also if you are suffering from an addiction, cure it with someone suffering from the same thing, work on it as a team and keep each other strong! IMPORTANTLY if you fail, try again immediately, don't wait for a significant date like new years resolutions. Making retrying this challange your habit, like anything with practice you will get better at it, and hopefully you won't fall for the tricks that you're has up it's sleeve again, since you'll know what to look out for. Of course if you're addiction is DCS I have a hard time believing it would impact negatively on your life(but of course I might just be an addict making an excuse hahah). Financially possibly, if you spent a lot of money on constantly getting the most realistic rig and cockpit. But even then you are probably learning now to use tools or even some programming etc. As long as your loved ones aren't missing you, than I believe it's a fairly harmless addiction.

Here's to another trip around the giant burning ball :)

Surely it's more ecological and economical to eat things like rice, wheat, potatoes, beans and lentils. *shrugs* According to the W.H.O it's possible to get all your protein and most of the vitamins from simply eating 9 potatoes a day(easily done in 3 meals).

I can't believe this actually was funded..... I would sooner eat people than worms but hey...call me old fashioned.

LOL

I'm having a great time with the Mirage too :) There is of course still a lot of work to do on it before it is complete, and I hope RAZBAM will finish the Mirage before starting any new modules (like a lot of other developers).

What parts of the Warthog throttle are you unhappy with?

very cool! I love hexagons!

I remember someone on the forums posting this a while ago(razer orbweaver with relegendable keycaps). It's a good idea, however not as cheap as a spare old keyboard..... LuaMacros might work http://www.hidmacros.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=241#p794

and even then, "arcade" IFF is going to be perfectly fine for the time being.

Thanks! That's interesting that there are two movement modes. Is there a way to change the sensitivity or slew speed?

Who needs IFF? Shoot them all, and let God sort them out :P

does the mirage have flaps for take off and landing?

It's safe to assume that something someone says is their opinion. Hopefully they aren't going around talking about other peoples opinions if they don't agree with them....unless they are brainwashed by advertising haha.

I would never buy a civilian only aircraft, but I can see the benefits of a larger audience, so yes I hope someone creates them, as long as it doesn't stop the progress of the tiger helo :P

very nice. even with shipping from the other side of the planet, this is still much cheaper than trackIR. You will need to back up this great hardware with some software instructions because freetrack is painful to get working with dcs. even for $35 it has to be a turn key / plug and play solution to be successful. at least providing an automatically installing software to setup this up for dcs with good documention for support. I bought a trackIR because it was easier and a lot less frustrating for me to work overtime rather spending a day researching and fiddling with old software, drivers, and free track settings / curves. good luck! p.s. I'll be buying this as soon as it is available because the whole kit is cheaper than a replacement for my broken trackClip Pro attachment lol.

OMG anyone else notice the Viggens!?? Merry Xmas :)

Please no, the UHT has no gun turret on the chin! That takes away a lot of fun for me, and is an iconic weapon for any attack helicopter :) I think the HAD version is probably the most diverse in it's capabilities. But also the ARH seems interesting with the laser guided rockets. (might be able to hit something with rockets for a change haha) Maybe if we ask nicely we'll get all 3 varients UHT/HAD/ARH :P

It will Moscow time :) of course we still don't know if that means morning of evening.

RWR and and flares - very cool! Is it pushing it asking about the gun pod? :)

The thrustmaster t.16000m has all of those, and also it has hall-effect sensors instead of potentionmeters in the x/y axis. Edit - it is also one of the only joysticks that has the ability to be changed into left hand mode. Vesele Vanoce :)

The discounted price will be over but you will be able to buy at the normal price :)

wow that looks really fun! I hope one day there will be a map with this kind of terrain, nice big trees to hide behind :) The last video mentions gun pods - are we getting those too ? :D

The metal is very brittle in the warthog - similar thing happened to my throttle. The throttle plane and throttle box have separated as the screw holes have cracked from the frame.