3 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

Sorry, no intent to offend anyone.  Now, in a first draft, I had a quote from one of my favorite American novelists, Chester Himes, about Harlem Holy Rollers. I was prudent enough to cut it out 😄. You are never too prudent.

No worries mate.  I totally get it, but there are some that are not so cordial.  I said my peace and moving on to see how this MSFS2020 is going to shake out.  Should be a fun ride.

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by SmokeDiddy

1 hour ago, Ron Attwood said:

Whilst I agree with what you say, it's still fresh in my addled old brain, what happened to another thread urging us to be nice to each other. It went 'tissia ylös'.

Bon chance.

Not often do you see a Finnish expression being used around here. Thanks for that. I'm afraid the translation to English would turn into a 'word not allowed' lol.

13 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

- Just one thread per topic.

- Posts should remain on topic. 

The whole "just one thread per topic, just one topic per thread" doesn't work very well in practice.  Come back to the forum the next day and find 200 new posts in your favorite topic... you'll get tired of trying to keep up.  

It's happening on the Beta forum.  Someone makes a new thread to ask a question that you're interested in the answer, the new thread gets merged with an existing generic one with hundreds of posts, and you're lost.

And when has anyone ever stayed on topic?  What does your post have to do with circuses and churches? 😄 

I'd like to see more subforums, like we used to have in FSX.  It made threads on a subject you're interested in a lot easier to find.

Hang in there.

Hook

Never mind all that hooey while I'm waiting for the 18th -  just please pass the Eucharist basket... 

4 minutes ago, overspeed3 said:

Never mind all that hooey while I'm waiting for the 18th -  just please pass the Eucharist basket... 

'You are cleared to transubstantiation altitude.'

45 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

- Just one thread per topic.

- Posts should remain on topic. 

I'm good with that!

 

......as long as every topic is about the gargantuan trees that are ruining my immersion 🌲🌳🌴🤣

2 minutes ago, snglecoil said:

I'm good with that!

 

......as long as every topic is about the gargantuan trees that are ruining my immersion 🌲🌳🌴🤣

If the trees appear really massive, this explanation will help:

 

14 minutes ago, Chock said:

If the trees appear really massive, this explanation will help:

Interestingly enough, Outerra, which just released its new version, was gifted through its partners with what would otherwise have been a prohibitively expensive whole-earth database of trees. (buildings, too)

Guess what? Those trees are pretty much all huge.

Might come with the territory.

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by HiFlyer

1 hour ago, tpete61 said:

It appears that for some it is all consuming of their life or free time.

It certainly beats constantly rearranging my PPE collection! Which reminds me, must clean my Kalashnikov 🤪

3 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

This forum now grows rapidly and this will accelerate The Day After^TM. An explosion of posts. Raving and ranting in all directions.  Like with any other release but with a twist. A large crowd of beta testers will open their big mouth. The Insiders forum is said to have been a dumpster fire as of late...

And this brings the question, what do we want ?

A forum, this wonderful invention of  the Greek and Roman Antiquity to which the Information Age has given a new life, where people debate, sometimes hotly but gentlemanly, the affairs of the day ? A free-for all circus with flaming one-liners and mob behaviour ?  A church  where fanatics have always a bundle of wood ready and reject the outer world. FS20 is a-comin' ! FS20 is a-comin' ! Burn the nitpickers !  P3D is dead ! XP is dead !  

Lets be cool, happy for the many new good things that Asobo brings to us, not blind  to what is wrong and vindictive toward those who say it.

FS20 is not a gift, we do not have to be grateful for it. It is a product sold on a market for a price. Like a new car,  a new utensil to make bread, a pound of strawberries. You may be glad to have bought it  but you don't send Valentine cards to your local grocery, hardware store or automobile dealership, do you ?   

FS20 is not the second coming either. It is a significant step, fascinating on several levels (for me at least, re : AI on GIS data), to integrate modern technologies into our favorite past time. It is a milestone in the history of simulation and maybe more than that (Earth Digital Twin). But from what I selfishly and narrowly see as a simmer (FS20 should be my 17th sim I reckon), from I hear here or on other forums and private conversations, it is both breathtaking on some aspects and has flaws on others. And some of the flaws are annoying and might not be so easy to fix. Lets be ready for it.  

Yes but what about Microsoft long-term commitment to FS20  ? Well, there is this old saying which rules large organization and politics which says 'promises only bind those who believe in them' or , to say it another way and plagiarize Santayana  'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to cry their eyes out again'. I hope that MS will be true to its word, actually I think they will for the next two or three years at least, but  the only thing I know for 100% sure is  that we have several rather good sims these days to choose from and I wish that the situation lasts. You never know. 

Again, lets be cool ! 

 Ah yes another thing before I forget, good luck to the mods 😉.

 

The best post so far since the whole magnanimous affair rolled into play around this time last year Dom.

2 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

I feel also there is a need for many to say things they felt they had to keep for themselves (NDA etc.). 

I‘m not sure if this will be possible. I read somewhere that the NDA should be kept in place (eg for alpha screenshots), but I don‘t know to what extent. 

Thanks for that great opening post by the way. I for one thought the church analogy was pretty funny.

These forums are so sweet 🙂 A whole lot of people worried about how others will react and trying to make sure we take care of eachother. I do appreciate that! On the other hand, I must be pretty socially backwards because I never seem to notice anything major going on in form of bullying or the like. There is a little hickup here and there, but then again I'm a social worker used to working with drug addicts and serious criminals with a pretty colorful vocabulary... 😄

11 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

I'm a social worker used to working with drug addicts and serious criminals with a pretty colorful vocabulary... 😄

You must feel right at home then. 😄 

Hook

You guys think you're pretty bad@ss, but you aint 😉

Which is a good thing btw

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by Andreas Stangenes

2 hours ago, LHookins said:

I'm retired.  What else should I be doing?  Watching TV?  😄 

Hook

This.

:: wonders if MSFS 2020 will be as big as the Amiga Bouncing Ball Demo (I wandered like a cloud for months after that one) ::