At least you're better than me, I wanted to be a fighter pilot as a kid after playing the Ace Combat games. My thought process was basically fast jet = cool. Then when I got older and realised that will involve killing people if war ever broke out and noped out of that very quickly.
The games stories are usually very anti war, but as you said it doesn't stop the military fetishizing people. My PC is definitely not strong enough for DCS lol. Also my country has basically no use for the brand new fighter jets they have, so they are using them and their special camera modules to hunt down poachers. Just think of how inefficient it is to spy on poachers in a Mach 2 fighter plane.
until we break our capitalist chains, we can't get the musks to fuck off. it's just permission for them to abuse earth harder, because they have their walled garden they can flee to.
I got even closer than you, lol. A couple years out of high school I applied and got taken to some base to test. There were little games and aa paper test, they rate you on how you did (there were math games, flight controller games, one game where you had to do some math on heating a house on the fly, one where you had to determine if you had enough fuel to make it.)
I apparently did very well, but I was just a little too tall to fit in the trainer planes and ultimately for the fast jets. They "offered" (pending medical and fitness approval) me a direct entry into an air traffic controller commission and some military college. I thought that was cool and then I could do that after leaving the military, but I got fucking work related asthma from my job! Got passed over after some medical test, cant remember what its called something like methane choline?
I felt bitter at the time, but looking back now I'm glad I couldnt do it. I didnt end up doing air traffic controller school in just civilian world, but maybe could give it a shot for after the pandemic if air traffic ever goes back to normal, lol.
At least you're better than me, I wanted to be a fighter pilot as a kid after playing the Ace Combat games. My thought process was basically fast jet = cool. Then when I got older and realised that will involve killing people if war ever broke out and noped out of that very quickly.
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The games stories are usually very anti war, but as you said it doesn't stop the military fetishizing people. My PC is definitely not strong enough for DCS lol. Also my country has basically no use for the brand new fighter jets they have, so they are using them and their special camera modules to hunt down poachers. Just think of how inefficient it is to spy on poachers in a Mach 2 fighter plane.
best option? no. most awesome option? pretty close.
DCS is a real joy in VR, though it's becoming increasingly clear I need a better headset than my og vive.
I wanted to be an Astronaut. Turns out it's mostly janitorial work in the worst OH&S environment imaginable.
I wanted to be an astronaut so bad when I was a kid.
Back then, I thought humans would be places other than Earth and Low Earth Orbit, though :sadness:
and aren't we glad they haven't yet? imagine spreading capitalism to the stars! fuck that! no more space til we fix our shit!
Honestly, I think space will help, if we can get the Musk types to fuck off. Socialism is mandatory in space, or you die.
until we break our capitalist chains, we can't get the musks to fuck off. it's just permission for them to abuse earth harder, because they have their walled garden they can flee to.
I got even closer than you, lol. A couple years out of high school I applied and got taken to some base to test. There were little games and aa paper test, they rate you on how you did (there were math games, flight controller games, one game where you had to do some math on heating a house on the fly, one where you had to determine if you had enough fuel to make it.)
I apparently did very well, but I was just a little too tall to fit in the trainer planes and ultimately for the fast jets. They "offered" (pending medical and fitness approval) me a direct entry into an air traffic controller commission and some military college. I thought that was cool and then I could do that after leaving the military, but I got fucking work related asthma from my job! Got passed over after some medical test, cant remember what its called something like methane choline?
I felt bitter at the time, but looking back now I'm glad I couldnt do it. I didnt end up doing air traffic controller school in just civilian world, but maybe could give it a shot for after the pandemic if air traffic ever goes back to normal, lol.
They've removed the height requirements now for the most part, be glad you're not younger lol