If you THINK you're safe at a state park....Don't......

Devils Horse, I was not posting about you. I was merely posting about Internet "tough guys" in general. My apology if you inferred that I meant you personally. I did not. :o

I think that the main point that Geo was trying to make was that the Park Officials and the police didn't really do much. The guy how tried to break into Geo's cabin was not arrested or taken to jail. I just hope he never tries that on anyone else in the future. But when some people get to drinking there is no telling what they may do.

I thought about using that Wasp/Hornet Spray when I walk to ward off big dogs. I use it on wasp nest and it's pretty effective it the can is new and full. I keep two can's of this stuff inside my attached garage and up on a shelf and use it quite often on wasps around my house. You have to account for gravity and the steam dropping down. It reminds me of a online Multiplayer WWII flight sim game that I use to play where I had to aim higher to account the the imaginary 50 caliber bullets falling down after exiting the gun on my airplane. It was like using a fire hose to put out a fire. The water starts falling due to gravity as soon as it exits the fire nozzle. I stopped playing that game back around 2008 or so and had a heart attack a year later. The game was very stressful to those that are type A personalities and don't like to lose. I played that game for about ten years and got pretty good at it. It did create a lot of stress for me though. It was very addicting too. I don't play those type of games anymore as they were just too stressful. And my computer is not up to speed for being competitive for those type of games. The game I played went out of business after ten years on the internet. I'd probably still be playing it today if they had not gone out of business and if I had not had the heart attack.

[QUOTE=Moveon;557950]I think that the main point that Geo was trying to make was that the Park Officials and the police didn't really do much. The guy how tried to break into Geo's cabin was not arrested or taken to jail. I just hope he never tries that on anyone else in the future. But when some people get to drinking there is no telling what they may do.

I thought about using that Wasp/Hornet Spray when I walk to ward off big dogs. I use it on wasp nest and it's pretty effective it the can is new and full. I keep two can's of this stuff inside my attached garage and up on a shelf and use it quite often on wasps around my house. You have to account for gravity and the steam dropping down. It reminds me of a online Multiplayer WWII flight sim game that I use to play where I had to aim higher to account the the imaginary 50 caliber bullets falling down after exiting the gun on my airplane. It was like using a fire hose to put out a fire. The water starts falling due to gravity as soon as it exits the fire nozzle. I stopped playing that game back around 2008 or so and had a heart attack a year later. The game was very stressful to those that are type A personalities and don't like to lose. I played that game for about ten years and got pretty good at it. It did create a lot of stress for me though. It was very addicting too. I don't play those type of games anymore as they were just too stressful. And my computer is not up to speed for being competitive for those type of games. The game I played went out of business after ten years on the internet. I'd probably still be playing it today if they had not gone out of business and if I had not had the heart attack.[/QUOTE]

Which game, if I may ask............

I used to really like Janes WWII, and Janes ATF.

Even played Microsoft Combat Flight Sim a little..........

Now, I ain't got time for games. :) .

Later,

Geo

I started out playing Figherace, Warbirds, Ace High, MS Combat Flight Simulator and a few others. Those were fun times.

I played in the Figher Ace Realistic theater with full cockpit views and enclosed cockpits and with stalls and spins on. Limited ammo and fuel. We used Roger Wilco voice coms in the squad and won the contest of squad vs Squad in the last round of Fighter Ace 1. We were the _65th Scream Demons. **** good group of virtual pilots from all over the worlds. Voice coms were a hoot. The competition was 6 planes on 6 enemy planes. We used Robert Shaws Squad Tactics in the game. We were the equivalent of the Red Tails of WWII. We flew P51D mustangs at the highest altitude and fought well. We fought against other virtual fighter pilots from all around the world.

Some were form Canada and some were from Germany while others were from Russia and most were from the USA. But we had two guys in or Figher Ace II Realist Squad that were from French Algiers. They lived in Toronto Canada.

Today most people use Team Speak as there are many more channels to use. I've not played much since Figher Ace shut down in 2006 or 2007. I forgot. At one time I was flying the Mig15 Bis in a Korean Style Map and or the USA 86 Sabre Jets. Those high flying and fast jets had fast closure rates and where harder to model in a online game. Any lag or delay in the data packet would make it harder to hit the other guy's plane. They would warp or jump all over the screen and the game was not smooth at times. But the developer of the Fighter Ace game, Mark Vange, had an algorithm that smoothed out the game plane for everyone but those with the worst internet connection. The game would run smooth as silk on a 28K telephone modem if you had a good connection to your ISP. That was the main reason why I played FA and not War Birds. IN WB ever time and I do mean Every time I got in a head to head with another plane/player the other plane would side/warp several hunded feet one way or the other and I could not stand that. They didn't know how to smooth out the transition on the computer sceen for a plane at long range into the median and short range distances without causing the planes to warp around on the screen. That was maddening to me and I could never play like that. When I was lined up on a enemy plane in a head to head situation and closing within gun range the other plane would slide over about 1/4 of the way across my computer's sceen when it got within 4000 ft and I had to compensate my heading to get a shot or to avoid the enemy planes fire. That never happened in FA. The transitions from far range to medium ranges and then to close range was smoother and easy to handle. Remember that these planes (WWII Prop planes) were going from 350 to 400+ mph each and the closure rates were 800 mph. That's pretty fast and you have to decide how to maneuver your plane before they get within 2000 ft away. They can travel that gap of 2000 ft in less time that you would imagine. And with the jets of the Korean era the closure rates were even greater. Each jet was going over 500 mph in a head to head battle. So the closer was over 1000 mph.

I probably ran across some of you guys in those Microsoft Combat Simulator Games. But they were not what I played the most. I just checked them out a few times. I was fond of FA ever since it started in 1998.

After the game closed down I decided that it was time to get back out in the sunshine and go fishing again. That's when I joined fishing.com and started my crappie fishing journey. Actually FA lasted for ten years. It started in 1998 and ended in 2006. Is that ten years? I know that I've had three Tom Collins tonight and my math may be off a bit. :) Anyway it was a lot of fun and good times.

One of my squad mates was a former NHL Ice Hockey Player who retired and lived on a Ranch in Alberta Canada. Some were former air force guys. Most were just regular guys like us. FA had about 200 guys playing at one time for a lot of the nights. Getting into a dog fight at low level with no speed was suicide in a P51D Mustang. So we flew at higher altitude where the little Russian Mig 3's were not as effective. They lost power above 20K feet asl. So I would drag them up high slowly and then have them chase me until I got about 7 K feet ahead of them. Then I could safely turn 180 deg and come back on them head to head and blow them out of the air with 6 of my 50 cals firing at the same time. They could not do the early turn up at that high altitude and when they tried to get out of my way like they could at the lower altitude their plane turned to mush and they were sitting ducks.


[QUOTE=GeoFisher;557966]Which game, if I may ask............

I used to really like Janes WWII, and Janes ATF.

Even played Microsoft Combat Flight Sim a little..........

Now, I ain't got time for games. :) .

Later,

Geo[/QUOTE]