Custom Callsigns in Mission Commander
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@Cloud:
And what would your adversary think??
At any rate, Adversary/Enemy is one of the definitions of satan!!
C9
LOL well I’ll venture that he thinks he is an archangel and on the side of the righteous. Either that or he’s an unwilling cog in a fight he doesn’t care about, or finally, he’s a sociopath.
Anyway, my point wasn’t about whether I am being reasonable or not. My point was that if something ticks you off – like the callsign satan ticks me off – you can frag an identical mission and delete the one you don’t like.
Beyond that for some reason I am feeling quite chatty today and I find the definition debate about satan and words in general quite interesting. Satan, I am sure, has a multitude of definitions and meaning which I am likely to find compelling or valid in a variety of contexts. However, I think it’s fair to say that the concept of satan represents the embodiment of evil for a lot of people. And it’s me being associated with evil that I don’t like. You can embody evil in whatever name you like, Sith, Charles Manson, whatever, as long as I perceive the callsign as being largely associated with evil, it’s going to tick me off to be pushed into using it.
If a bunch of my real life friends put together an BMS squadron and called it Satan’s Crew, I am pretty sure I would not join or fly with them. Now if we were, fighting Hitler or Stalin in the day and in real life and I was assigned to a squadron with that for its nickname, I’d be pissed off but I’d fly (assuming I had the courage to be a combat pilot at all) because of the real life consequences. But here, in a game, where I get to call the shots – I’ll go ahead and do my workaround. And with regard to my real life friends, it’s more important to me to promote symbols of honor and truth than to promote one’s own badass-ness. I don’t know, maybe I’ve just seen enough bad things and cruel people in my day that for the most part I am no longer impressed by or want to be associated with people that want to assume the badass mentality? I’m not really sure. I sometimes like movies like John Wick even though the only thing that I think made that character sympathetic was he loved his wife and dog. Otherwise, he’s just a badass right? Anyway, a very complex set of issues regarding associations and symbology which for some reason today, I (and I am probably the only one) find this to be an interesting subject. I better go take a nap or meds!
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Guys, big, BIG problem: my BMS install is now haunted!!!
I made a massive package with “Devil”, “Satan”, “Nightmare”, “Spirit”, and “Ghost”
Now all my bullseye coordinates read 666 666 and the night vision is red instead of green!!! holyf**ingsht
Uninstalling BMS as we speak. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT mess with this stuff!!!
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hahah
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Hmmmm… Vandal… have ya looked that one up?
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@thereisnotime F15E gets assigned satan all the time when I frag missions – which actually ticks me off bc I like to imagine myself as fighting for good rather than evil. And yes I do think satan is a symbol of evil. I’ll actually go so far as to frag an identical mission, get a different callsign, and then delete the satan mission.