Game Companies are Morons.
POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Monday, August 31, 2026 15:48
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Got the news yesterday that Ace Combat Infinity will be shutting its servers March 31, 2018. This is really the only online game I've ever played, and I've played it near-daily for almost four years now. I have several maxed-out aircraft, lots of top 20 tournament finishes, and have made a whole community of friends, even doing admin duty on the largest Ace Combat Infinity group on facebook, as well as coordinating online matches and setting up "rental" or "loaner" accounts for noobs so they can try out top-level superplanes in matches.
I'll be sorry to see it go, but I've been expecting it for some time. Last year I had a choice of Xmas present from my wife: a new PS4, or a new camera. I went with the camera, a Nikon P900 with 83X optical zoom, and have been very happy with that decision. I spend much more time out in the world now, and the camera gives me a chance to be out among people without being *WITH* people, which plays perfectly with my Asperger's and my social anxiety. It's also given me several opportunities to embrace my love of photography and art and science. I scheduled a day off for the eclipse in August, and spent the day taking pictures of the Sun through a solar filter. My best shots include visible sunspots and sharp edges of the mountains on the Moon silhouetted against the disk of the Sun. I took over 1400 pictures that day alone. I've been playing with astrophotography, Moon shots, airshows, races, concerts, distant planets, downtown nightlife, protests, local scenery, pets, nature, and more. A few of my shots hang in local galleries, and I'm having quite a bit of fun.
This year, my wife offered me the same deal: PS4 or new camera. I'm going with the camera again, opting this time for a full-frame Nikon D600 that I picked up for a song. It should really open up the skies for me, especially when mounted to a nice telescope.
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Angry Kitty and collector of Fiestaware?? Is that you??
Wowza, good to see ya 
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Faith and begorrah!!
Merry Christmas, Kwicko!!
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Ho Ho Ho.
Nice to see you again, Kwicko.
Got too much on my plate, plus ever growing health issues to hang round here much anymore, alas.
For mine own I've mostly gone back to retro-gaming, cause that always-connected and having to have someone elses permission to play yer own damn single player game was the last damn straw for me, eff em, cause you KNOW that is eventually gonna get used to hold peoples paid for content hostage for more money, fuck that noise.
-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God.
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Aww, everybody dropping by for the holidays? Where's Chrisisall?? 
Google those health problems, man. Don't wait for the docs, you'll be long gone by the time they figure anything out. Reading comments in forums has taught me more about my issues than the medical crimeunity.
Good to see you though. Always happy to hear you are still kicking!
6ix says he's sober and has a job, btw. He's still desperately trying to find a clue though
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Angry Kitty and collector of Fiestaware?? Is that you??
Wowza, good to see ya
Indeed it is. A couple years into a new gig, running a warehouse for General Mills (I'm in the all-natural Annie's division, where we're trying to change the corporate culture from the bottom-up, inside-out), shaming people less than half my age with my work ethic, and generally kicking ass and doing what they say can't be done, on the regular. It's how I roll. :)
I grew up around photography, and used to develop my own 35mm black and white pics, and took some photography courses in college, but that was back in the 80s. Nowadays, I still have a few film cameras, but film and processing are so expensive any more that I really never use them. I'm a pure digital boy now. I love that I can go out, shoot literally hundreds to thousands of shots in a day, download them all to my laptop, save the raw files to an external hard drive, wipe the SD card and reformat it, and I'm ready to go for the next assignment.
And now instead of working in a darkroom, I work (or play, rather) in Lightroom and Photoshop, digitally manipulating the images to maximize the good and minimize the bad. Before, my pictures tended to look a lot like snapshots; now they look like *photographs*.
It's a lifelong passion, rediscovered.
Here's a shot of the Moon. Bear in mind, this is not maximum zoom. :O
A bluejay in my back yard:
One of the first pics I took when I got the camera. The Stevie Ray Vaughan statue in Austin, with the full moon acting as a halo behind Stevie's head.
Just a little taste of what I've been up to.
Happy Holidays to all!
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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
Ho Ho Ho.
Nice to see you again, Kwicko.
Got too much on my plate, plus ever growing health issues to hang round here much anymore, alas.
For mine own I've mostly gone back to retro-gaming, cause that always-connected and having to have someone elses permission to play yer own damn single player game was the last damn straw for me, eff em, cause you KNOW that is eventually gonna get used to hold peoples paid for content hostage for more money, fuck that noise.
-Frem
I do not serve The Blind God.
I am surprised & glad to see you, Frem.
Like you, I'm going back to stand-alone-at-home olde games.
I don't think my Windows7 can keep up with the new stuff anyways.
I'll try out Dragon Age Origins.
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Like you, I'm going back to stand-alone-at-home olde games.
I don't think my Windows7 can keep up with the new stuff anyways.
I'm using 8.1, I didn't go to 10 either. I tried once and when my computer still was off and not doing anything 8 hours later I said hell with it...
If they dissolve the net neutrality thing I may be giving up internet anyway.
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Net Neutrality?
Never heard of it :(
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Am I glad I stopped in here!
Wow, KWICKO and FREM in one thread??? How did we get so lucky???
I like the photographs, KWICKO. I'm using my phone to take "snapshots" now, definitely not a good photographer but I appreciate good ones when I see them! Are/were you in Texas?
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Heya, FREM, good to see you! Sorry to hear about the health issues ... anything we can do?
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Now all we need is CHRISISALL and ANTHONY, and it will be like old times. 
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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