Big Dud Issues

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Huge pay, people wanting to be your friend, women fawning all over you, agents wanting to take you to expensive restaurants, fast cars, private jets, picture in all the magazines, seeing yourself on the big screen...




Who needs it? Sitting in a black pit playing video games is much more fun.

LOL, Steve.

Hmm. I think I'm so screwed up that I actually prefer the black pit. Or is it just that I'm getting too old to care about fast cars and fawning women.

Then again, it might be possible to have both the pit and the stardom...

Who knows, maybe Sailor Steve is really Brad Pitt, Jimbuna Colin Farrell and Frau Kaleun Natalie Portman. Hiding in the anonimity of the forums.

[sublynx]

Oh yeah, and the dud torpedoes. 8 in a row does sound really curious. Might be something wrong with your setup there. Maybe try taking dud torpedoes off and see if they function then?

However, historically 8 in a row has happened. Prien experienced that during the Norway campaign. In the end he had a few eels left, stumbled into a convoy and decided not to attack, since the torpedoes didn't work. Dönitz approved the decision, which kind of tells of the huge amount of frustration felt at the time.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by sublynx

Who knows, maybe Sailor Steve is really Brad Pitt, Jimbuna Colin Farrell and Frau Kaleun Natalie Portman. Hiding in the anonimity of the forums.

I can't speak for Frau, but Jim's pictures and my pictures are indeed the real us. Jim has a woman who fawns over him (well, since they've been married for a long time it's more like she dumps all over him [but he loves it]). Me? Well, I have my band and my video games. That's about it.

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I can't speak for Frau, but Jim's pictures and my pictures are indeed the real us. Jim has a woman who fawns over him (well, since they've been married for a long time it's more like she dumps all over him [but he loves it]). Me? Well, I have my band and my video games. That's about it.

This reminded me of a story someone once told me. According to it a man in ancient Athens told a philosopher that the man's wife had all these nice qualities, but also bad ones, and that the man's mistress had all these other nice qualities, but also some bad qualities, all different from the man's wife, though. He then asked the philosopher which one should he choose. The philosopher answered: "Whichever you choose, you will regret your choice."

I don't know if this story was connected to anything, but I like the story My choice is a bit of a compromise, I have my family and I try to have some time in the black pit too. And yes, I have to keep my pit time limited, otherwise my wife will dump all over me - and I haven't even learned to like that yet.

[Sailor Steve]

[Willem VonBoom]

Update on this... I turned duds off in realism and the problem disappeared. Apparently just a streak of luck.

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Willem VonBoom

Update on this... I turned duds off in realism and the problem disappeared. Apparently just a streak of luck.

Now if you turn duds on and experiment playing in 1942/1943 onwards you shouldn't have duds very often. If you still do, then it must be something wrong with your setup. Hopefully it was just bad luck

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Willem VonBoom

Update on this... I turned duds off in realism and the problem disappeared. Apparently just a streak of luck.

Glad you're sorted, but eight in a row? I'd be checking for broken mirrors or black cat stowaways!

[Willem VonBoom]

Inorite?