bulid your least favourite airsofting type

[Tinkerton]

My least favourite airsofting type? easy.

 

Take young guy, 17/18 kinda age, get his parents to buy everything he wants /doesnt need, take him to games, pay for his driving lessons, car, insurance, tax, fuel, etc etc etc.

 

Then make him a geardo, but an arrogant one. "dude, thats so not milsim, only xyz unit would use that gun, and they use xyz camo, you're doing it all wrong"

 

THEN, make him intollerant of other peoples beliefs. "my friends know not to say "happy christmas" to me, becuase they know i dont beelive in it." I mean come on. Its *fruitcage* Christmas, it doesn't even have any religious significance anymore, apart from in churches, and primary schools where the perform the nativity. Next he'll tell you that Hot Cross Buns (mmm, tasty food of awesomeness) are racist and he wont accept people talking about them in his presence.

 

And finally, FINALLY, make him think he's uber cool and tactical and awesome, because "i use the same tactics and weapons as the seals! lol, zomg!"

 

 

and that there, would be one person i would HATE. vehemently. i think i'd even stop playing half way through the day.

 

nb: all likenessess to people on arnies are entirely intentional, and i mean all the offence possible to those people. ######.

[doc_newstead]

Where is the love? I think we need some hugs in here.

[twiglet]

Any moron convinced that because hes seen black hawk down hes a delta force sniper.

[tom lawson]

Any moron convinced that because hes seen black hawk down hes a delta force sniper.

 

 

You mean to say that I'm not

 

You break my heart..

 

 

 

Anyways, i suppose i dislike airsofters who take things wayyy tooo seriously, and get hung up on tiny little things..

[doc_newstead]

Anyways, i suppose i dislike airsofters who take things wayyy tooo seriously, and get hung up on tiny little things..

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Attention to detail, dear boy. Today a button, tomorrow a safety catch...

[Bengali]

Where is the love? I think we need some hugs in here.

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awww, giz a hug Doc,

 

spread the wub

[GuzziHero]

Im still fab though...

 

...arent I?

[Bengali]

Im still fab though...

 

...arent I? 

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of course,

 

as long as i am too.

[sekiryu]

Anyways, i suppose i dislike airsofters who take things wayyy tooo seriously, and get hung up on tiny little things..

 

Like kvetching about wearing real unit patches? That one ###### me off. Airsoft is a reenactment of sorts, and wearing real unit patches in reenactment are completely acceptable.

[tom lawson]

no, wearing patches is cool, its just that i feel that some regiment's patches shouldnt be worn as a sign of respect...

[Tinkerton]

I've got no major problems with people wearing unit patches. what'd get me would be people wearing medals, or so.

 

 

what i dont understand is people bitching about people wearing swastika's when performing a Nazi/SS loadout. I mean, i know it's offensive to some people (which is silly, because after all, it's just a symbol, like the american flag) but its part of the loadout. Its more usefull than having x many ###### plasticuffs or medical shears, becuase its part of the uniform.

 

Obviously, i'm against the arm bands, but only becuase they give your position away.

 

 

nb: I in no way support any fascist regime, or anti-semitism in any form.

[GuzziHero]

THEN, make him intollerant of other peoples beliefs. "my friends know not to say "happy christmas" to me, becuase they know i dont beelive in it." I mean come on. Its *fruitcage* Christmas, it doesn't even have any religious significance anymore, apart from in churches, and primary schools where the perform the nativity. Next he'll tell you that Hot Cross Buns (mmm, tasty food of awesomeness) are racist and he wont accept people talking about them in his presence.

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Im not that bad, but I never send christmas cards People automatically know not to send me any, either.

 

But in my defence, I dont celebrate birthdays either. 31 today and I got 1 card (that I didnt want) I do give cards to my immediate family on their birthdays though.

 

Edit:

Immediate family = mum and dad. Dont sent cards to my sister anymore.

[Sledge]

I don't send Christmas cards, but mainly because they're totally pointless.

 

[xDieter736x]

Holy ######, some of the fact spewing sounds like me. Except I only answer when spoken to. Phew. But, we do have someone on our team who had a gun that was amazing (STAR M249), but in clasic tesitmony to STAR internals, it caught one fire in the middle of a skirmish (no joke). He sold that and bought a Maruzen Mac 11 with a 10 cent red dot and two lasers and a MM grenade launcher. But that also broke so now he "Sparta's" people with a pool noodle. And yes he misses skirmishes for World of Warcraft and he also gets kills with the pool noodle .

[immutep]

can i add my two cents in here? i agree with tink that if your doing a wannabe loadout that any matching logo's and patches are fine, be it nazzi symbols or royal green jackets. with ww11 airsoft becoming more popular we're gonna see more of them in the future i think.

 

as for worst aspects in airsofters? well there are the ones that when you hit them they jump back into cover then come out two seconds later trying to shoot back, but on balance there are those that F&Blind about people they "think" are cheating using language their mothers wouldn't be proud of even tho some lad of fourteen who's come with his dad is in earshot. . . . . no i'll stop now or i won't be able to! one thing that people who know me know is i'm quite happy when i'm having a moan!

[GuzziHero]

What annoys me as well is people who say "Kids shouldnt play cos theyre all noobs and cheats". BS, Ive seen some adults cheat FAR more.

 

On the other hand, my local site had a couple of 12yr olds play a few weeks back and other than their height, youd never have known they were so young. They impressed everyone with their maturity.

 

Never judge a book...

[mightyjebus]

woohoo..my turn to add my 2 pence worth (thats about 1 cents at the current exchange rate).

I have 4 medals that i got while in the military and I couldn't give a hoot if someone was wearing some medals that they didn't earn. it's the same with rank. anyone in the military (well almost anyone as there is always one) couldn't give a fig if job bloggs is wearing his badge, rank, pants etc. well maybe his pants as he might need them.

oh and to keep on topic i hate people with way to many guns..hang on..thats me.arghhh.....

[CobaltSky]

woohoo..my turn to add my 2 pence worth (thats about 1 cents at the current exchange rate).

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I think you'll find its 4 cents

[DarkLite]

I hate people who judge others by age.

 

Case in point - one game a 34year old consistently refused to take hits.

 

The youngest player put us onto it by quietly coming aside and saying that he thought the 34year old was cheating.

 

So me and another regular went along with the kid the next game and checked it out.

 

All three of us tagged him at different times - confirmed hits and flinches etc.

 

When we challenged him with it he then tried to blame the youngest player because apparently they hated each other - blithey ignoring the fact that I could actually see a welt that I myself had caused a few minutes ago on his forehead.

 

######.

[tr1gg3r_h4ppy]

Eh, I'm very easy to get along with, I'm agreeable on most everything. But there is one type of person who ###### me off to an extreme. We used to have a guy who used to come up to us (my squad, or my team), and complain at atleast one to two people of not calling our hits. He claims that flinching is only a reaction reserved for being hit.

For instance, I snuck up upon him and opened fire and missed. He raised his gun and fired and I flinched back behind my cover.

At my VERY FIRST freaking game, of actual airsoft not backyard soft. This guy comes up to my buddy (who had no BDU's whatsoever.) And started yelling at him for not calling his hits. My buddy is one of the most honest guys you will ever meet. He never played again after that because of the guys abuse over that.

 

Long story short, if you are a tool, unsafe, or otherwise dishonest I probably have beef with you.

 

Another type is the complete and total moron guys

They have this strange tendency to never call hits, violate minimum engagement distances, and do such stupid things.

 

At an event a week or so ago, (that I didn't attend) some guys who were known for being unstable showed up. After game off, they began firing at each other goggles off in the parking lot. Then they proceeded to jump in their vehicles and did a few drive-by's on other players.

 

Unsafe, Unsound, Unfit to play...

[Pants of Death]

I've got no major problems with people wearing unit patches. what'd get me would be people wearing medals, or so.

what i dont understand is people bitching about people wearing swastika's when performing a Nazi/SS loadout. I mean, i know it's offensive to some people (which is silly, because after all, it's just a symbol, like the american flag) but its part of the loadout. Its more usefull than having x many ###### plasticuffs or medical shears, becuase its part of the uniform.

 

Obviously, i'm against the arm bands, but only becuase they give your position away.

nb: I in no way support any fascist regime, or anti-semitism in any form.

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Completely agree. I'm now running a Soviet loadout, but I'd never support such an oppressive gvernment in reality. I like playing in a manner as real as possible, but the field is like an actor's stage.

[aikidoholic]

He claims that flinching is only a reaction reserved for being hit. 

For instance, I snuck up upon him and opened fire and missed. He raised his gun and fired and I flinched back behind my cover.

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I'll second flinching not necessarily meaning you've been hit, I played my first game last week and when making a mad dash for one of our objectives I heard a pistol go off (from the nearby doorway I'd stupidly failed to spot, it was a night game in my defence ) and the resultant bb bounce right next to my foot, my instinctive reaction was to flinch, then brain kicked in and I tried to duck and run, by which time of course the second, third and forth shots had all hit me but I didn't actually flinch from those, only the one that had gone off right next to me but not hit me because I hadn't expected it, I'd expected the follow up barrage . So yeah, back on topic, people moaning and claiming that flinching MUST mean you'd been hit would annoy the hell out of me too, despite having played only one game so far I have also already experienced people not taking hits which was marginally annoying, at first I assumed I was just a bad shot but then somebody on my team confirmed they'd shot the same guy I was aiming at at least a couple of times!

 

I also got caught out when I was trying to play honorably, when on the assaulting team at an urban site, I snuck along the outside of a wall of the building the defending team were in, looked through the window and saw a guy in the small room looking through the doorway inside, oblivious to my presence, now in my inexperience I seemed to recall hearing somewhere that to call surrender at close you can shout 'BANG' or similar at your opponent to indicate you've basically just shot them but are being nice and saving them a bruise, so maybe I just said the wrong thing (more than likely ), but the reaction I got was not one of admittance that he'd been had, but rather getting a paniced looking guy turn around and shoot at me, that annoyed the hell out of me, my first game so I'm trying to be nice and play honorably like you're supposed to but I get shot at for my troubles, thankfully I was on the ball though and rapidly backed away from the window before he could hit me, the rotten swine!

 

Having only played that one game so far I haven't expereicnced a lot of the common themes people are mentioning but from reading I already know a few things that are going to annoy me if I do come across them, most of which can be summarised by the categories or cheating, arrogance and people taking it too seriously, yes airsoft is about as close to mil sim as you're going to get short of joining the TA, but at the end of the day it isn't real war, isn't it supposed to be a honorable team game that you can just have fun doing, can't we all just get along

[immutep]

He claims that flinching is only a reaction reserved for being hit.

 

i agree that in most cases flinching doesn't mean hit it means you know if you don't move you will be hit. however, i was at an urban shoot the other weekend when my aeg went out of action. not too big a problem but it meant till i got back to the safe zone i was borrowing a sniper rifle from a mate. i shot the same guy three times, the first two times i shot him in the chest & through the scope i watched the guy look down at his chest where he'd been hit and duck back round a corner. on the third time of him poking his head round the very same corner (disregard the fact he was cheating his ### off that level of idiocy alone was irritating! ) i'd had enough of wasting rounds on this guy as at my local site snipers can use 500fps so long as they're semi at best, use only sniper-cap mags and don't engage within 20m with the sniper rifle, they also use a gentleman's agreement that you should go for torso shots. my third shot landed square on his forehead leaving him rubbing it for about a minute. (i still don't know wether he took the hit though as i had to move location at that point)

[aikidoholic]

i agree that in most cases flinching doesn't mean hit it means you know if you don't move you will be hit. however, i was at an urban shoot the other weekend when my aeg went out of action. not too big a problem but it meant till i got back to the safe zone i was borrowing a sniper rifle from a mate. i shot the same guy three times, the first two times i shot him in the chest & through the scope i watched the guy look down at his chest where he'd been hit and duck back round a corner. on the third time of him poking his head round the very same corner (disregard the fact he was cheating his ### off that level of idiocy alone was irritating! ) i'd had enough of wasting rounds on this guy as at my local site snipers can use 500fps so long as they're semi at best, use only sniper-cap mags and don't engage within 20m with the sniper rifle, they also use a gentleman's agreement that you should go for torso shots. my third shot landed square on his forehead leaving him rubbing it for about a minute. (i still don't know wether he took the hit though as i had to move location at that point)

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If you ask me, a gentleman's agreement is a 2 way thing so should only apply to people who are playing fair themselves, so if he was refusing to take his hits then I'd say you were well within your rights to headshot him , proves a point if nothing else, proves to him that if you annoy people too much then they're going to do something about it, so maybe he'll think twice about not taking hits next time .

[Janno]

I can't stand the "All mouth no trousers" airsofter, who'll quote you his opinion - AS FACT - on a number of things:-

 

1. Places he's never been.

2. People he's never met.

3. Equipment he's never used.

4. An industry he's never worked in.

5. Experiences he's never had.

 

 

In addition, the "Keyboard-hero" types slay me (the guys who'll threaten you and slag you off on a forum, but when they come across you in person, sh*t their brick and look for a corner to hide in), as do the "WannabeHasbeen."

 

What's a WannabeHasbeen?

 

Well, a Has-been is somebody that thought they were the hot-sh*t in the past (back in their own personal little golden age), and are unwilling to accept that this has absolutely no bearing on the fact that they are, at this very moment in time, an incompetent moron.

 

A Wannabe is someone who is convinced that they are something they're not, and gets off on lecturing someone on their shortcomings, seemingly oblivious to the fact that far from portraying themselves as an expert on the subject matter, they are simply emphasising the fact that they couldn't pass the physical to work in Burger King, let alone complete the cover and move drill that they are criticising you on.

 

Now, neither of these people are particularly pleasant, but many of us, on a daily basis, are forced to tolerate their ways, and so we grow accustomed to them. However, there then comes...

 

THE WANNABEHASBEEN!

 

This is the ultimate synthesis of all of the above - these are guys who'll give it all the mouth, and expect you to take their word as gospel. If you don't, they'll simply use their "i was in the army" status to put you in your place, and if you still don't buy it, they'll tell you to watch your step since they "know people in high places" or they're a "trained killer." This is the Has-been part talking. The Wannabe part manifests itself when you find out that their contribution to being in the forces extended no further than being in Cadets for a few years, and fantasising about Andy McNab on a regular basis. They're not even a Has-been! They're a WannabeHasbeen!! AARGH!

 

Personally, i don't care much for tall tales and speculation, hence i try to steer clear of these people. However, it's not just airsoft that's full of them - if you look around in any industry, you'll find them. In the private security industry for example, you'll find people introducing themselves as close-protection officers, security consultants, and hand-to-hand combat specialists. In actual fact, many of these people are little more than bouncers who've been given a gun, and whose combat experience has consisted of nothing more than punching some kid in the nose outside a nightclub (if that!). At least in airsoft, you don't have to trust these kinds of people with your life!

 

.. Just your sanity...