So's a fair-sized chunk of the franchise's fans, let's be honest.

Please do. It helps.

Understandable, really. I've honestly found the best thing to do is just minimize social media as best you can; maybe check it once or twice, or take a week where you're just using it to post stream releated stuff. It's too easy to start doomscrolling otherwise.

....Looks like a commercial plane interior, or a military cargo plane, more than what I remember the cockpits of the kinds of planes you'd normally fly in an Ace Combat game looking. I'd ask the one person I know for sure, but I don't think I want to imitate the War Thunder forums by asking.