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Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II)
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"How'd I get here? Ah, it's a long story. I graduated from UMSOT (Undergrad MS Operator training) and test pilot school in '77, back when it was on side 6. Oh, yeah, back then it was something different, we didn't have mobile suits back then, it was MWOTC... Anyways, when the war started, I was a ball pilot for a few weeks, flew three sorties and scored a lucky kill on a Zaku I, and 'cause I was the only one with a kill under my belt, I got chosen to fly with some secret squirrel things on the White Base (back then they just called it the Pegasus). Turns out in order to work on that top secret, feddie zaku ripoff, we couldn't be active EFSF personnel. We got discharged from the service so we could fly for some private shell company. Yeah, we lost MIL benefits, but the pay was so good we figured we'd go for it. We had three weeks to study the manuals and get trained on the simulators while we flew out to our assignment. They put me on the RX-78(a3/4) , but when we were en route to rendezvous to Side 7, the EFSF gave me my walking papers. Turns out, get...get THIS shit: They didn't "need my services any more." Can you believe that? One of the only guys trained on their new, crazy invincible MS, and they fired me.They tossed me, an ace, a qualified TEST PILOT out on my ASS. FOR A G/D FOURTEEN YEAR OLD. Yeah, you know who?! It was the doctor's kid, right? Remember that Tamm Ray guy from the training videos? Yeah, he got HIS kid to be the gundam pilot. Oh, no they tossed all of us. The entire team of mobile suit pilots, gone. Didn't even reassign us. So we're sittin' there, just lookin out the window, watching the stars go by, just angry as all hell, y'know? Fuming. I get an idea, right? So I says to the other guys, who cares? The zeeks need us more than the feddies do, so I went up front, showed the captain our discharge papers, and turned that sum'bitch around. Anyways, long story short, boy do those GM's explode easy! Oh man, jokes on them, the feddies drafted a LOT of stupid 14 year olds to drive those death traps.....so uh, what brings you to Axis?"

Everybody loves the ontos until it’s time to get out of the hatch and reload them under fire

We have a harsh split, you’re either in your 60’s or under 35. That’s it. The olds LOVE corny boomerisms, everyone else rolls their eyes.

I keep telling the punks I’m breaking rank and joining the old timers since they have all the cool stuff

After I’d literally told them about how 14 yo boys are describing how to defeat a stack up of guys (w/ their backs turned) as they enter a house

Their solution was to add more armor from the front. They really can never fathom the idea that they’re unanimously loathed in the zoomer/mill population. You try to explain it’s like serving a draft notice in afghanistan in 2006 and they pooh it away like you’re crazy for thinking that, it’s only “a few crazies” that have nothing to live for, an adderall prescription, and a will to fuck

Literally more interested in Elder Scrolls lore about “Kim”

Is the following phrase a suitable normie-ish aphorism? Doing a bit where I’m always doing the cheesy office stuff like “uh oh….here comes trouble” and “hey everyone, just one more day til hump day!” and I’m trying to get increasingly offbeat as time goes on.

“Everybody wants to be the garfield of the group, but someone’s got t’ be the Nermal“

(it’s not supposed to be funny to anyone under 60, deliberately playing into what the old people love saying and hearing because they eat this stuff up

“other girls are jealous that you started dating a girl without herpes”

“wow how cool! Can you believe he found a girl without herpes! I hope we can find more of them!!!”

that’s what made me pick up the site. Saw the catalog in the bathroom and wanted to daydream about one of these babies:

https://i.poastcdn.org/4a219e369ad5560bd4e67aaf713b86debb5a30ade2e380b99f8aad3de33e7424.webp

I think a lot of those youtubers from the period didn’t want to be youtubers. They never had the understanding of what life would be like doing it as a career, and it’s surprisingly un-fun and tiresome. But the money is good enough, and they have freedom, and after years on youtube they’ve basically burnt through all their chances of regular employment anyway, so they just keep at it.

Seems to be the cycle for those few early 2010’s channels that have stuck around. They continue the grift just to keep their fanbase on life support because it’s all they have. Newer stars getting into it FOR the youtube lifestyle maintain their enthusiasm better because they know what they’re getting into.

Very funny how many Buchons are sold as me109s, they all do it

But that’s the catch: Watch it like you’ve never seen it before and it sucks.

I didn’t give them a try until recently, and I came away wondering why everyone holds such goodwill for them. It’s that, the fact you know and like them and seeing their progression is enjoyable in itself. Without that relationship, without preexisting enthusiasm for RLM, their product is just like any other 10-year youtuber: Running on fumes to keep the bills paid because they can’t go back to day jobs

Watch RLM like you’ve never seen it before….it’s not good.

They’re just tired old men dutifully going through the motions to keep the patreon going

“oh man you just don’ GEDDIT this kid is a real good one, he comes from a broken home, you know that? He came from NOTHING, and now Deshontay demetrius brown is playing for the Denver BRONCOS making millions of dollars. You could learn something from him, he’s a hard worker, not spoiled like you kids”

“look at him! Look at him run! Look at how hard he’s workin’!!!!”

It’s not the safety, it was the masks, lines, cancellations

Rich people got tired of paying a couple thou for 1st class and then putting up with covid nannery, so they just got fractional cards and chartered aircraft instead. I don’t think it’s too sustainable, and many of the smaller ones overextended (of course)

Literally see this dude in every app/channel/subculture I’m in but never ONCE heard about a substack

buying a sex doll and dressing it just like that to counterbalance your zoomer gf’s ugly ass donnie darko wall art

Yeah….I foresee a glut of them on the used market, lots of operators really overextended over the last couple years in the boom from people fleeing airlines for private aviation.

Oh, and those “drop tanks”? You can fill them with fuel, or get ones that are just storage containers for your cargo. Pretty cool