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wouldnt structuring missions based on this be anachronistic though?

lmao this is the howmanyeth time you've said that? you'll buy them both see you next time

pretty bad taste

or this: if one patch isnt that good for you, just wait and do something else until the next patch. you're not gonna die, dcs isn't gonna die. video games shouldnt be a drug.

lmao why would i buy if i could just keep making accounts and cycle trials

i agree with this, the responsibility is there -- the ai is still owned by someone and so there will always be accountability. theres accountability here on all sides; accountability on the owner of the machine for employing it, and accountability on the opposing side for dealing with it. if you don't want to get shot by a robot then you better figure out how to not get shot by one whether it means using force or diplomacy. i don't see any issues at all.

when stat analysts decided what acceptable casualty rates are do you think that's any less impersonal than machine recognition? hot take: ethics is a triggerword used to disable critical thinking

it's just proxy warfare, we've already long been in it. soldiers are proxies for leaders, bullets are proxies for soldiers, we're just now at the point where proxies get proxies (missiles shooting missiles aka ucavs). ai will be tied up helping us manage our own proxies while making sense of the enemy proxy network for exploitation. the job of the pilot of the future is to direct the exploitation of the enemy network and to that end should be more of a hacker type than an airman. the tactical execution end will be almost completely taken care of by a unified land-air-sea drone complex, all you need are shepherds creatively directing the proverbial finger of god in all sorts of rude and disruptive manners. things won't really feel any different under the thumb of ai, we already live our lives controlled by numbers. just look at how doggedly people follow around sales numbers and other statistics, absolutely lmao

"restricted open" you guys cant even be trusted with the english language

lmao you think development is like some sort of video game where you can just drain resources away from one thing and dump it into another and it just automagically translated into higher output if this isnt proof video games rot your brain i dont know what is

played arma, skyrim, all these highly modded games, and i can say for sure that modders have some of the most overinflated egos it doesnt help that they get praised to high heaven because you have this fine self-compounding effect where the modders threaten to pull the plug when their feefees get hurt and so the sycophantic userbase is scared to death that their free handouts are gonna get taken away at the end of the day modded content is bad. they cause problems and they have low quality standards. even the most well-constructed mod does not come close to matching a professional production. i honestly could not give any less of a rat's wet fart if they ceased to exist.

that rear pop gun wont hold off anyone hollywood lies will only cause you grief

i dont get it, you will wait years regardless so whats the difference? unhappy you were somehow unable to control the money leaking out from your wallet? how its it anyone else's fault you guys have zero self control? tell me.

top one has radar lower one doesnt, look carefully at the nose we only have the lower av-8b in dcs

please id like to hear all about it

the actual illumination needs work still but technically the light is present.

turkish F-16 shot down that su-24 a while back?

ever wonder what they do with avocado skins yeah

even if you were excused for missing the straightfaced sarcasm because you're an english-as-second-or-third-language speaker tell me xilon, what does the url say?

but you cant make a 1:1 comparison between aircraft like that. one aircraft that may adroitly win a fight with a flat turn, another may lose in the turn but win easily with rolling scissors. how do you evaluate what is "easier"? here the concept of ease is dependent on which way of maneuvering is more familiar to you, not the aircraft. maybe you're not lazy, maybe you work very hard to avoid finding out that you've baked a ton of bad habits and assumptions into your concept of bfm

ias:mach relationship is not static. go up to 38000' and then tell me your ias @ 1.3 mach?

oh no thats nothing for ran skyhawks

its too loud especially with hih and the aim-9 launch sound is cartoony as hell, its agonizing how blantantly dubbed-in it sounds

wow i guess everything else in dcs must go too since nothing is current

been reading this over the holidays, thanks