speedball --- dont like it

[Marek]

Originally posted by Zimbo
So just say it Murder is a sport

M-W gives and old *** definition of sport. Either agree that Murder is a sport or disagree. If you disagree the whole definition and you are wrong. So i guess you have 2 choices. Be a sick bastard or be wrong. Either way its going into my sig.

Listen, I'm sure that you enjoy twisting words and semantics and all that good stuff, but what you are saying is beyond that.

Murder is not something to joke around about. It is something that is demented and wrong and very rarely justifiable. If you, or anyone for that matter find murder enjoyable and pleasureable, then you are one sick minded person. That should answer your question.

Now, you strike me as a person that is small in mind and opinion. Raping a small child is a gross obstruction of life, yet you parade it around like a toy for your amusement. People's lives are affected by events such as these, but you jest in it for a stupid argument on meanings and words. If you don't think that cheerleaders are athletes, then fine. Don't drag autrocities of man into this like it's a cute anecdote. What you mentioned are crimes against people's lives, and are only thought of pleasure by a few sad pathetic people. For whatever reason, they enjoy the pain of others. You are a sad pathetic person who would try anything to try and win an argument. Put it in your sig. Frame it, I don't care, but I do not wish to debate with a person like yourself. You are beneath me and others here on levels which you have no understanding on. Continue to write, but you disgust me for speaking lightly on so many things that are far from that.

[Marek]

Originally posted by JT2002
looks like we got a "who can write teh best essay on what is/ isnt a sport and why speedball does/doesnt suck"

Not anymore. Murder and rape is not something that is funny. I'm out of this mess.

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by Marek


Listen, I'm sure that you enjoy twisting words and semantics and all that good stuff, but what you are saying is beyond that.

Murder is not something to joke around about. It is something that is demented and wrong and very rarely justifiable. If you, or anyone for that matter find murder enjoyable and pleasureable, then you are one sick minded person. That should answer your question.

Now, you strike me as a person that is small in mind and opinion. Raping a small child is a gross obstruction of life, yet you parade it around like a toy for your amusement. People's lives are affected by events such as these, but you jest in it for a stupid argument on meanings and words. If you don't think that cheerleaders are athletes, then fine. Don't drag autrocities of man into this like it's a cute anecdote. What you mentioned are crimes against people's lives, and are only thought of pleasure by a few sad pathetic people. For whatever reason, they enjoy the pain of others. You are a sad pathetic person who would try anything to try and win an argument. Put it in your sig. Frame it, I don't care, but I do not wish to debate with a person like yourself. You are beneath me and others here on levels which you have no understanding on. Continue to write, but you disgust me for speaking lightly on so many things that are far from that.

Ok so i must be a sick twister person because you assume i enjoy murdering people and raping little boys. Anyway....


So youre not gonna answer. super. So i guess this is over because you cannot answer a simple yes/no question to support what you say. This could cause problems later in life.Lifes full of hard choices. This isnt one of them. And by the way im not twisting your words. Im taking the most literal definition possible. So answer or dont. Either way you lose.


Class Dismissed

[GT]

Originally posted by gtrsi
sounds like this thread has gone from 0-pointless in 3.5 pages

what page are we on now? wow this is bad.

phil, scue? you guys out there? close this thing fast.

jb

[Zimbo]

Originally posted by gtrsi


what page are we on now? wow this is bad.

phil, scue? you guys out there? close this thing fast.

jb

Why close it?

Merak wont admit he's wrong so we can close it once he answers my question

[cphilip]

Boy did this one go off the deep end.

Zimbo, sometimes there is not a yes or no answer to a crazy question. For instance "are you still beating your wife?". And your avoidance of the curse filter gets you a warning. I not going to tolerate any more of this talk. Get back to the original post issue or I close this and start the spankins.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by Zimbo


Why close it?

Merak wont admit he's wrong so we can close it once he answers my question

No one has to answer anything if they do not want to. Leave it alone.

TO EVERYONE. If I see anymore flamming or curse filter triggering/avoidance I am going to issue bans. No arguments and no more warnings.

This thread is wether or not you like Speedball. Not about anything else. And I think we all can understand why one would like one of them over the other. Fortunately we have choices. And we all share the same common ground of paintball. No need to get ugly about it. Or go off into all this other crap. Stick to the subject and quit the personal attacks.

[TequilaMockingbird]

There's always a lot of flaming and baseless opinions around this subject, the somewhat-anonymous internet just fans it and brings out the immaturity in people.

It's not really an issue of "which is better" or "which should be forced out", it's a matter of respect between the two ends of the game. On the whole, more people play recball than organized events. Recball isn't exclusively woods, though it might be a slight majority. Most fields are small-time operations and have both. Mock towns, jungle villages, and expansive inflatable courses are time-consuming and expensive to construct, so usually fields just have a couple of roped-off wooded areas, one inflated course, and a couple of spools or pallet set-ups. No elaborate D-Day or Castle Conquest, no IAO or Super 7 facility. On any given weekend, you'll see a kid with an Orracle or GZ Timi and Dye jersey, a 30-something guy in BDUs with a nice E-Mag or Cocker, a newb in old jeans with a Rebel Extreme, and a fat 50 year old with an A-5 waiting for a chance to break out the ghille. A general mish-mosh made up of all the paintball sterotypes, all there to have a good time, and at some point of the day, any one of them can make or break a game. That is the overwhelming bulk and future of paintball, not X-Ball, not Naughty Dogs, not paintball tanks, not Moist Donut. THAT is reality.

Most of the arguments I've seen about woods vs. speedball aren't about reality. It's about image. Are we a legitimate sport or militia wanna-bes? Are we in-your-face ultimate athletes or playing cops and robbers? Does it matter? Are our egos so fragile that our good time solely depends on what others think of us? If you're a 16 yr old Amateur A hopeful, decked out in a jersey and toting a tricked-out Impulse, talking smack and tearing up teams on the Sup Air field, why feel threatened because someone else is playing in the woods with a ghille and a flatline Tippy? If you're a 40 yr old scenario player going to a 48-hour scenario game for some woods-skulking with your Armotech setup, does it really affect you that someone in Las Vegas is setting up a X-ball scoreboard and blowing up bunkers?

No, it doesn't. So why should it matter on a paintball forum? Why does everyone have to validate their game by demanding everyone else conform to their idea of what paintball "should" be? For every person that plays paintball like you do, there's four that don't. Every style of play, whether it's stock class, scenario, NPPL, milsim, pump, or X-ball, is a minority when compared against the rest. There's absolutely no reason they can't all coexist, and they don't diminish each other.

[Konigballer]

"and knowing is half the battle..."

[iownamag]

Originally posted by Sir_Brass


Funny, but last time I looked, the same applied to speedball. Yesterday I played woodsball and we kept the same teams all day. There was more teamwork in those games on both sides than there was when I played speedball.

hah, that just goes to show.... you people who hate/dislike speedball in comparison to recball do so because you (bad word, is this a curse filter thingy you talked about? I hope not) at it! If your team wasn't using teamwork on the speedball field than I'd bet you got whomped.

[rathbaster]

Originally posted by TequilaMockingbird
There's absolutely no reason they can't all coexist, and they don't diminish each other.

Wow, I read through all 5 pages of this thread to get to TequilaMockingbird making the point that was building in my mind. (And rather well written as well.)

I play paintball.

'nuff said.

[Sir_Brass]

Originally posted by iownamag


hah, that just goes to show.... you people who hate/dislike speedball in comparison to recball do so because you (bad word, is this a curse filter thingy you talked about? I hope not) at it! If your team wasn't using teamwork on the speedball field than I'd bet you got whomped.

Read the rest of what I posted. My point was NOT whether or not I like speedball (personally, I hate it), but that teamwork is NOT inherent in ANY of the styles of play. k?

thing is that the majority of speedball players are walk-ons, NOT teams. SAME THING in woodsball. You only have teamwork if everyone on that team decides to work together towards the common goal of the victory. No style of play can FORCE that cooperation on anyone.

[Zimbo]

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