What's with all the negativity?
This is got to be one of the stupidest f*cking things I've ever seen in my f*cking life. An insult & slap in the
face to those who served. Bloody f*cking insulting.
edit: to answer post #23:
Then your looking to troll or flame with this thread. Against the forum rules I believe. your original title was only 'Re: "Strike Witches" skins for IL2"
Ice Eagle I could'nt have put it clearer.....is there nothing sacred????....cartoons all over 109's..190's...ZERO's??...I guess I've gotten too old..I just can't see it!
That which is sacred cannot by definition be sullied by mundane things. Therefore it's really of no use to get all worked up about something that supposedly insults your sensibilities, and is also the reason why I think blasphemy is by definition impossible. Personally I am of the opinion that there is no division between sacred and mundane, and all that exists just forms one category of existence, but that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.
What you're actually saying is,
should some aspects of history be respected enough not to be used as source material for <insert media here>? And, apparently in your opinion they can be used as source material for certain types of media but not for another types of media, which is in my view somewhat hypocritical. It's not about insulting "those who served" as you say, or "historical integrity", but rather insulting
your personal opinions about whether something is insulting to source material or not.
And, while you may see <insert media here> as insulting, I doubt the makers intended it to be so. If you don't care for it, feel free to ignore it; what harm is there in it? I might actually agree with you in that this particular animated series is, quite frankly, rather dull and doesn't make
justice to the awesomeness of the supposed background material (read: The source material could be adapted to animated series with
much higher level of awesomeness, see:
The Cockpit), but really, the connection between the actual show and the source material is so thin to be virtually nonexistant. I only watched few episodes because there were supposed to be airplanes (according to my sources) but it soon became apparent this was not the case, and dropped it because otherwise it wasn't exactly what I would call a good series.
But it doesn't insult me, and whether it insults your opinions is your problem, not the problem of those who like it. I'm not an admin or moderator here, but if you were saying stuff like this on another board where I have such powers, I would ask you to formulate your opinions in a less inflammatory way or, better yet, if you don't have any constructive feedback, stay silent altogether.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else... you're the one getting burned.
Regarding Zeroes: The problem can be fixed (sort of) by installing a mod that reverts Zeroes to the old model. This has the advantage of being compatible with all the mass quantities of skins made for the old one, but obvious disadvantage of reverting to a slightly lower-quality 3D model of the Zero.
Converting skins to the new format may not be very easy or simple, but re-making the skins for new zero is certainly within plausible scenarios. All you would need to do is find the original source images, and insert them into the new skin. Depending on how adept you are at using graphics editors such as GIMP or Photoshop, this may be easy or less than easy to do.
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