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#3828673 - 08/29/13 03:10 AM DUMP CLOD!!  
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I posted this in another thread on another board.. but it was such a release that I had to get it off my chest in a seperate thread.. wink

Look my take on it is this.. Yes... CoD was a pig out of the gate.. granted.. Old news. It has gotten better.. but regardless, it is a player and it has a spot in the pantheon of WWII sims over the past decade for better or worse.. and even though there was a lot of worse.. especially initially ... there is a lot of better.. especially now so one way to reflect that is you guys need to STOP calling this sim CloD. PLEASE... PLEASE.... PLEASE stop calling it CloD.

PLEEEEAAASSEEE!!!!

Check it...

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clod (kld)
n.
1. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
2. Earth or soil.
3. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
[Middle English, variant of clot, lump; see clot.]


Yeah guys I get it.. I do .. You didn't want to confuse this product with Call of Duty.. but do you really think that anyone would connect aircraft with Call of Duty? Or that FPS CoD junkies would actually GAF about a G50 or how it was modeled? Besides... that was then.. this is now... Think about it...

SO WHAT if it's the same acronym! DUMP CloD. DUMP THAT HANDLE!!!

Clod... CLOD!! YIKES!! GADZOOKS man I could never bring myself to even use the term.. and fans of the sim are.. wait for it... waaaaiit for it.... Clodites??!!!

WTF!!

C'mon guys.. fugheddabouddit.. forget Clod. Turn that page.. rip it out of the book and burn that sucker. Hell if you want to distinguish it from Call of Duty then do the extra work and type IL2CoD .... ANYTHING but CloD ....

BoS is coming and unless it tanks.. which I highly doubt.. It will wind up, I think being the WWII sim of choice.. even if just for a while.. (I got no crystal ball ... ). This RRG/DCS thing is coming.. but we don't know much about it yet, but CoD is here and it is a much better product that it was.. and you have a dedicated team of modders out busting their chops trying to knit that silk purse together.. so dump that looser moniker.

Keep the genre alive!!


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#3828676 - 08/29/13 03:20 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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That's a clodoliscious post Bearcat you bloody clodite, hmmm I actually kinda like that lol wink

So let's rename this bugger then......

#3828684 - 08/29/13 03:43 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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I wouldn't call myself a "fan" of CoD .. but it has gotten better and it is worth the time to check out.. If it had been like this upon release it would probably be well to the second or third theater by now.. It is what it is... I still have some issues with it.. but it is enjoyable and it does not deserve to be crippled by that moniker any longer.. That is worse than a boy named Sue..



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#3828693 - 08/29/13 04:04 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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poignant video

I really enjoyed that song!

Boy Named Sue reflects well the stance CLOD [insert new name] fans must assume; strong, if not slightly standoffish.

#3828699 - 08/29/13 04:24 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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I can't wait for BaOS. CloD is lookin good too of late. wink


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#3828726 - 08/29/13 06:39 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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Post composed with speech to text, it woks grape!


Clod
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#3828732 - 08/29/13 06:59 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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I thought he was going somewhere else when I read the thread title.


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#3828763 - 08/29/13 10:25 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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CloD is dead!
Long live CoD!

Let's just hope BoS does not turn out to be PoS........ wave


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#3828767 - 08/29/13 10:37 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: 2Lt_Joch]  
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Originally Posted By: 2Lt_Joch
CloD is dead!
Long live CoD!

Let's just hope BoS does not turn out to be PoS........ wave


LoL ... I don't think it will but we will surely see.


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#3828774 - 08/29/13 11:05 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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If ever a flight sim deserved the name "CLOD" it was Cliffs of Dover. It will always be CLOD to me, even though I will acknowledge some improvement since release.

I couldn't call it "COD" anyway, as that has been "Call of Duty" for a decade.


I refuse to buy a flight sim that I have no interest in playing, on the off chance that MAYBE someday they'll make the one I really want to play.

#3828782 - 08/29/13 11:36 AM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: HogDriver]  
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Yep the whole point of it being shortened to CLoD was to stop the confusion with CoD, so personally I don't have an issue with the moniker.

Originally Posted By: HogDriver
If ever a flight sim deserved the name "CLOD" it was Cliffs of Dover. It will always be CLOD to me, even though I will acknowledge some improvement since release.

I couldn't call it "COD" anyway, as that has been "Call of Duty" for a decade.


#3828790 - 08/29/13 12:04 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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No. CLOD is fine. It's an acronym, not a word. Besides, it's not as if anyone's mother is being called a whore or something.

#3828792 - 08/29/13 12:11 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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If the hat fits....

Actually I just re-installed it after a loooong absence to try out Heinkill's Malta mod.It's a lot better than it was at release.


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#3828800 - 08/29/13 12:51 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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Originally Posted By: Georgio
Yep the whole point of it being shortened to CLoD was to stop the confusion with CoD, so personally I don't have an issue with the moniker.

Originally Posted By: HogDriver
If ever a flight sim deserved the name "CLOD" it was Cliffs of Dover. It will always be CLOD to me, even though I will acknowledge some improvement since release.

I couldn't call it "COD" anyway, as that has been "Call of Duty" for a decade.




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To each his own... I tried.. reading Still sounds stupid to me..


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#3828839 - 08/29/13 02:19 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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Almost three years belated. smile

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3. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.


After all this is what some haters say about people that who bought... CloD™ smile

So, appropriate. wink

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#3828847 - 08/29/13 02:34 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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LOL... yeah .. but I never liked CloD.. Even from the start..


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#3828878 - 08/29/13 03:17 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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How about Storm of War, I mean SOW is a atep up from CLOD smile

#3828885 - 08/29/13 03:27 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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I thought the whole SoW idea was great to begin with.. I imagined... Storm of War:Battle of Britain .. Storm of War:Battle of Malta... Storm of War:Battle for Moscow.. Storm of War:Mediteranean Air War etc etc etc.. but alas it was not to be. I wish Ilya & DCS success.. but for the moment my next gen sim hopes are riding on 1CGS.. and my current sim jones is being fed by the big daddy .. good old IL2 1946.. with a smattering of DCS and CoD (the FFB issues in CoD really turn me off because that is the only stick I have.. hopefully TF can fix that) ..


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#3828932 - 08/29/13 04:55 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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I'm calling it CloDo. (which is french and ...)

uuups, i'm out a here... copter


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#3828963 - 08/29/13 06:03 PM Re: DUMP CLOD!! [Re: Bearcat99]  
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Well I'm with Bear on this one. I never liked the word ClOD, as it does insinuate that it is a bit of a turkey, and really it is more of an ugly duckling... and we all know how that song ends!


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