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Originally Posted by LordCucumber
I play for my own fun, on my own difficulty, and I have an audience who enjoy what I do. So no Dick o'Kane, no perfect plane dodging, no super math solution crap, none of that. I aim by eyeballing and estimating most of my shots, and I am proud I can actually do so quite effectively. I stopped doing things on auto aim a very, very long time ago.
And my boat goes where ever the hell I want it to go. Dumb or not. Deal with it  |
Arrogant about being..... how do I even say? It's what I figured though. A willful intention not to progress beyond the very surface features of the game, a prisoner of false preconceptions and idiosyncratic fantasy. And proud of not knowing. Surely this is a different type of individual we're dealing with today.
This forum has been infested by those who rather than learn how the war and the game work, insist that the game work THEIR way when there is no way for the authors of the game to know what their way would be! Then these willfully ignorant people proceed to blame the game developers and the modders, demanding changes to the game.
Whether you yourself are prone to the reaction of blaming others for your mistakes is not at issue. I don't see any evidence of anything but good-natured entertainment on your part, and that makes your videos very interesting and entertaining. I especially enjoyed your comments at the beginning of episode 24 about your "drubbing" in episode 23. And I noticed that there was a sunk ship marker. You obviously didn't let them maul you for free and sometimes that's the best anyone can do in war. Make 'em pay if they want to play.
But I guess we are just approaching the game from two different viewpoints. I see it as simulation. Simulation demands that the participant/player invest time learning about the people, the war, the machines, how they were used, the tactics and strategy of the actual people in the war. I play Silent Hunter to answer the question, "what if I were there?" I see any reward in playing a simulation as flowing from that pretty large body of knowledge. Blindly surfacing the boat without knowledge of what was above would have been a court martial offense, possibly resulting in hard labor in prison, certainly in loss of command.
To me, it's unthinkable to act in such an unrealistic manner in the game. Without understanding, the game is meaningless. You're guzzling a fine wine and bragging about it. You're pounding out Chopsticks on a Steinway, running a new Rolls Royce in a demolition derby. Dumb or not, deal with it.
Note: please do not ask I'm Going Down about my dealings with the USS Essex......
