MrMaestroIRL:
I am posting this out of frustration please don’t @ me.
I am 46 years of age. I grew up with games, simulators, the original Bruce Artwick sim was installed and played. I enjoyed it all.
I was lucky enough to design scenery, add-ons and work with very talented people to get fsdeveloper.com up and running. I was then lucky enough to be involved with the Microsoft ACES team on getting them all blogging and talking to the community on various forums around the world. The community was excellent, and in the main very welcoming for the developers, designers, newbie flyers and old-timers.
Alas, it is not the case now. It’s a sess pool of hate, judgement and general unpleasantness. Examples of flaming development teams on here and other forums is now the norm. I joined the discord to try to have a nice chat about history and where the game was going only to be attacked by some 16 year old who wanted to be the boss of that particular chat channel a the time.
No, I do not have the answer or fix. I guess this is an old man rant!
Welcome to 2021. Society in general is going mad, not just gamers who fly simulators. At some point we as people need to learn to respect each other again in order to go forward and do great things.
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