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PaperclipPerfector  14d ago (text post)   2534 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 18, 2025

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My incredibly off-topic comment justifiably saw no response, but it reminded me of one question.

Imagine you’re on a flight where somebody tried to smuggle murder hornets and they got loose. Only three people were immune and survived: you, and a basement dweller who spent thousands of hours in MS Flight Simulator including the plane model you’re on, and a real fighter pilot who has never flown a commercial plane ever. They look at you to decide who will be landing the plane. Which one do you choose?

I don’t want to be a dick, but you’re a brand new account and the only two responses you’ve gotten (within minutes of each other) are usernames I don’t recognize that were each created within a week of this website’s creation.

Does that seem weird to anyone else?

No. What would be the purpose of this conspiracy? You can't just throw these aspersions into the wind, make it interesting.

And I'm gonna go with the basement dweller. I had almost the exact hypothetical situation happen to me last month. My brother had received a small, remotely controlled airplane toy, but he couldn't keep it in the air for more than 15 seconds, even though he can jump higher than me. Thanks to my extensive experience watching youtube videos on airplane crashes, I just leveled the wings and stopped giving it gas when the AoA was too high, and voila, stall averted and everyone saved.

Many troll accounts that have already been banned were dormant usernames that were registered in September of 2022. There's no need for a conspiracy.

I take it I was being a dick.

I mean, mollie the mare has 200 comments, it's not a dormant troll. And two accounts posting within 2 minutes of each other is well within the realm of innocent events. The worst troll here, post-nazi-insider-spat-and-delete-guy, uses new accounts that date from the time his last one was banned, so if he ever used them, he's out of prime dormants.

I mean, mollie the mare has 200 comments, it's not a dormant troll.

I appreciate you posting this. Pretty rich for a guy with their posting history hidden to accuse someone else of being a troll. I don't post as much as the more prolific users of the forum, but it would have been trivial to check if I was a sleeper account.

I sincerely recommend you also hide your post history. I think it’s bad the mods disabled the option for newer accounts.

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