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I was planning to fly online tonight. But I have to get ready for my first day flying a desk tomorrowā¦which means getting up early and a traditional commute to work. My goal this week is to annoy all the admins at the office so much that they decide to just send me home while I recover.
Good idea! Discord has no performance impact on average-performing system so I just keep it open all the time unless I am feeling a little anti-social.
Itās a gambleā¦ You either do so bad that they never schedule you for the desk again or you get scheduled for extra duty for remedial training.
Sure I can make the coffee, how hard can it be?
For the coffee meme you should have stuck with Austin Powers! āItās a bit nutty.ā
Iām going on Discord for a bitā¦I have a pretty limited timeframe for playing tonight now that Iām a 9-5 goober. Ugh. What is this Monday-Friday schedule thing? Any-whoā¦if I can remember the right order to fire up things, I might be on DCS here in a bitā¦Iāll post back when I figure out what server. Probably just up to do some cats and traps or tool around the neighborhood since I canāt get too involved tonight (sigh)ā¦
Looks like it will be 4YA_Caucausus_Capture Base serverā¦just for some tooling aroundā¦
Nix thatā¦that server the carriers arenāt movingā¦ arghā¦
Looks like maybe 162nd Training Serverā¦Iāll be thereā¦hopefullyā¦ SRS doesnāt seem to be working with my PTTā¦but Iām on Discordā¦
Sighā¦itās night on that serverā¦lemme look again. I really need to get my server box configured for DCS Worldā¦
How about SFROG #2ā¦Iām in there in an F-18ā¦FPS looks good.
That was fun!
My first DCS and MP for 4 months! Muting the deedle deedle helped. 
Yes it was. Non-hurt-the-brain fun around the boat. Wellā¦the part about getting SRS to work hurt my brain a itty bitā¦but heyā¦
Frog coming down the slotā¦
I think this was @smokinhole
The deedle deedle was like background music for me. And our simultaneous afterburning cat launch with Top Gun and applauseā¦I meanā¦how great is that!!!
Currently in Buddyspike Syria but Iām gonna be flying a 101CCā¦so just look for the black smoke next to the craterā¦
So Iām proud to report that I actually survived a C-101CC mission on Buddy Spike. Hard to believe. As I was explaining to @smokinhole - the 101CC has no RWRā¦so you spend the whole low-level flight looking around like a madmanā¦trying not to run into the groundā¦not knowing when you will just suddenly eat a missile.
I took off from Meggidoā¦just barely clearing the fence at the end of the runway with two bombs, rockets, and about 60% fuel. Proceeded due east toward King Hussein War College, took a bend to the north to engage whatever red targets I came across. Found a red FARP, zoomed across it, dropped two bombsā¦donāt think I hit anythingā¦heck, they might not have even been fused. Ate a SAM but managed to keep flying. The batteries were shot out so after about two minutes all my electrics died. Had the whisky compass and set a southerly headingā¦waiting to be bounced and āsmotedā (new word!) but it didnāt happen. Couldnāt get the gear down (neglected to find that manual gear extention) and the engine was eating itself up and losing power gradually. Belly-up landed. Apparently that field at the War College is neutral because I couldnāt repair.
Awesome. Fun. Totally ineffective.
So @BeachAV8R now that you have the time, when are you joining us in Elite: Dangerous? Iāve got availability I think Saturday night.
I might join you @Navynuke99 I wouldnāt mind someone showing me the Ropes. I feel like Iām missing something vital when I play elite.
Paging @HavlokUK
Let me talk to the better half and see what we can set up for the next week or two, because time zone differences.
Well if itās european time zones weāre talking aboā¦
Awwwshieeeit. Of course this weekend we go to the in-laws. Now that we live close byā¦
Anyone interested in some Star Wars Battlefront 2 tonight? I could be on around 8pm EDT. It was fun when we had four guys on coop a couple months ago. I got busy with something else and didnt have a chance to try it again.
