[HN Gopher] The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator...
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The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server
Author : tmfi
Score : 68 points
Date : 2021-05-27 09:32 UTC (1 days ago)
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| capitalbreeze wrote:
| Arturas Kerelis sucks wow
| fnord77 wrote:
| > A community of air traffic control roleplayers gets torn apart
| by a lawsuit, and the founders scatter, trying to pick up the
| pieces.
|
| it's kinda fascinating such a community exists
| dkarp wrote:
| For those interested, I think these are the main virtual ATC
| services:
|
| https://www.pilotedge.net - paid service, used by student
| pilots
|
| https://www.vatsim.net - totally free with regional chapters
| all over the world. Have their own certification system for
| pilots and ATC.
|
| Both of these work for multiple different flight simulators and
| not just MS FS. They work through an in game plugin that
| connects to their servers. Both take things pretty seriously.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| Many do it to get practice speaking English, which makes it
| mostly a win-win as players get to have controllers who take
| the game seriously and the controllers get to hone their
| language skills. It's only a problem if someone's accent is
| very heavy or they haven't achieved enough English skills yet
| to be able to communicate the basics of ATC but neither happens
| very often.
| mulmen wrote:
| Sometimes I can tell where my ESL coworkers learned English
| based on phrasing and idioms. It would be interesting to come
| across someone who honed English skills with such a domain-
| specific application.
| endymi0n wrote:
| Negative. Mike Uniform Lima, please descend to flight level
| one zero, turn heading zero tree one abeam Sierra and
| request alternate approach.
| sanxiyn wrote:
| I was told I speak like writing of LotR. Must be true since
| that's really how I learned English.
| atatatat wrote:
| Look up "do the needful". It's not a myth, just regional.
| zeropoint46 wrote:
| Oh man this is a flashback to a previous job that I did
| not need.
| gundmc wrote:
| I've heard this phrase used by non-native English
| speakers, but are you suggesting it comes from practicing
| within a particular domain? If so, which?
| nerdponx wrote:
| Also using "doubt" as synonymous with "question".
|
| There was a pretty interesting cluster of threads here on
| HN a while ago about English in business environments
| with lots of anecdotes about learning English in various
| "non-English" societies.
| bobthepanda wrote:
| People like all sorts of things.
|
| There are various reasons to enjoy this but not actually become
| ATC:
|
| - its fairly common that people don't want to ruin their hobby
| by making it their job
|
| - ATC requirements are pretty strict for application
|
| - US ATC is high stress and stagnant pay, and that combination
| means there is an ATC shortage which means that the employed
| ATCs are being worked very hard
| [deleted]
| zentiggr wrote:
| Another story of Anyone can get involved in just
| about anything on the internet Some of those people
| are misguided or unstable or actively malicious Chaos
| ensues in all its various forms
|
| We humans are just an interesting bunch. With a technology that
| gives everyone access and a voice, we get to see the whole range
| of human behavior.
| kahrl wrote:
| What a gem. This is the guy:
| https://www.dailydot.com/debug/arturas-kerelis/
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturask/
| sosuke wrote:
| I feel like I'm missing most of the story. I only get the hero
| image and one paragraph of content.
| steverb wrote:
| I had to open it incognito to see the story.
| sosuke wrote:
| Thanks that did the trick!
| azinman2 wrote:
| Same. It feels like anti-scraping protection gone awry. This
| isn't the first website I've seen that happen to.
| Bancakes wrote:
| Of course it has to be a disgruntled mod that ruins the fun.
| gffbkugf wrote:
| >they do it for free
| monkeywork wrote:
| I would hope they "ruin the fun" for free because charging
| for that service isn't likely a great idea.
| zatertip wrote:
| Like Freenode in the skies :-)
| orzig wrote:
| Snakes on a plane, the Geekquel
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