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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:11:34 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
   > Turn on monitor
   > "oh cool it's like the matrix font, every black has green, moving striations and blinking pixels"
   > oh wait this isn't the matrix my machine is dying
   The day approaches
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:13:38 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     IDK about you all but I actually kind of like it when a machine dies, gives you an excuse to upgrade without the guilt of wasting it. You know you done wrung every last drop out of that little sum'bitch

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:16:35 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     This is a british Lysander, BTW. While I generally dislike the british, their culture, their ideology, and their peasant blood, I am quite charmed by the industry they once had.

     Liason courier aircraft, always a cutie

   • Soyak (hwabag@bae.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:03:10 JST Soyak

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot what is the best piston plane ever built for combat?
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:03:10 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Soyak

     @HWABAG IDK, probably goes down to whatever variant of the mustang was cheapest or something. They all have tradeoffs, what you see as a weakness in a model is generally made up for in its strengths.

     The P-47 is an undersung hero of the allied war effort, but it was ludicrously expensive for the time. Could take intense levels of damage, huge payload, etc. But it was large and costly so people don't think about it as much. Not as sexy.

     The BF109 is decried for its narrow landing gear track, but that same thing allowed them to manufacture it way easier and make it one of the most-produced fighters of the war (maybe history? IDK like 35,000 of them)

     That's leaving out the superprops, which are all cool. Something very charming about the very best of a breed on the precipice of extinction