To the few people here I won't name..

[Automaggot68]

thats definately true automaggot68, but its a whole lot worse on the other major forums.

Regardless.
Does it make it right?

I'm not even surprised that this thread is above the IAO one.(or was for a while)

[slade]

magman007, do you realize this thread is partly about you probably?
you've never posted anything positive, and if you have, i sure as heck have never seen it. in case you haven't noticed, this is a MAG FORUM. maybe you should keep that in mind when you say how much more superior your dm4 or imp or whatever you shoot is. just a thought though.

people don't come on here to hear you say how mags suck. people come on here to get USEFUL, RELIABLE, and UNBIAS information based on facts. not to hear how much you hate mags compared to every other marker you've ever owned. this is one of the few forums around in paintball that you can still actually find useful information, and you do nothing but taint AO.

maybe you should go to pbn.

as ive said before, this isnt a mag forum, its become a paintball community. i dont think ive seen him seriously (as in not joking) flame anyone for owning mags, and when he was at AONE im fairly certain no one had a problem with him... tunaman included. and in case you were wondering, for information to be useful, reliable and unbias it does not have to be pro-mag. i loved my mag, its a great gun, and some mags certainly can compete on the field... but they arent the absolute best markers, and there certainly are better deals to be found.

oh, and he owns a DM5.

[magman007]

DMC now slade :)

Dahoeb, you must not realize that i am quite pro mag, but im even more anti hype. ponder that for a moment. I am great friends with many pro maggers, tunaman, and rogue factor as well. I was a founding member of team AFTICA, i have shot mags longer than you can probabally imagine, but i have found something better, i have moved away from my cloudy notion that everything Tom made was gods gift to paintball. Mags arent bad guns, they just dont suit my style of play, where as electros do. The Sfl stopped suiting my style, i wanted no kick, so i went to the matrix. The e-mag stopped suiting me, i wanted eyes and a modular body, hence why i got a sfl, the rt was mech, so i went to an e-mag. etc etc, If this post is in relevance to me, im taking it with a grain of salt.

AO is my home away from home, Sure i surf pbn, but ao is where i started, and where i will remain, untill arsehats like the starter of this thread drive me off.

[golfy1486]

come on guys

come on guys MadPSience is from Canada that why he doesnt understand

[Automaggot68]

come on guys MadPSience is from Canada that why he doesnt understand

So is Mayhem, and everyone loves him

I know I do.

[Vex]

I thought it stood for .org

Actually, it's Automags Online = AO.

Automags.org is/was a community forum for owners of AGD products. Don't give me any crap about how it's "a forum for paintballers in general"--No, that would be PBN.
It is a forum for paintballers in general who use AGD products (minus the one section about Angels).
Now--there are those of you who keep saying over and over again, "AO isn't what it used to be!" Well guess what? If the Mag owners, whom this forum was intended for, would like to take AO back over and make it "the way it used to be", and you can't handle it--Deal with it in your blog! Don't pollute this forum with your spew about how "AOers are fanatical zealots who hang on TK's every word"! It's crap! If Tom Kaye says something, AO listens. Why? Because he is a trustworthy individual. He has stood behind his products and has admitted his failures. That's a quality person.
Show me any other owner's group who isn't extremely loyal to their brand!
People don't continue to buy a company's products if they are crappy!
For instance, take the Ion: It's not quite the gun that the Shocker and Impulse are, right? So why do people buy them? Because, like it or not, Smart Parts makes a quality gun. So, based off of that reputation, people will keep going back to SP.
It is no different with Automags. Jesus H. Christ--why can't people see that?
Just because AGD hasn't put out any new products in a while, doesn't discount the fact that what they have put out is quality--hell, even a good majority of the aftermarket products are revamped AGD parts--all that's changed are the looks!

Holy crap, I've digressed too much.
If you can't handle people righteously praising their Mags, don't come to Automags.Org!
Simple.

[slade]

DMC now slade :)

Dahoeb, you must not realize that i am quite pro mag, but im even more anti hype. ponder that for a moment. I am great friends with many pro maggers, tunaman, and rogue factor as well. I was a founding member of team AFTICA, i have shot mags longer than you can probabally imagine, but i have found something better, i have moved away from my cloudy notion that everything Tom made was gods gift to paintball. Mags arent bad guns, they just dont suit my style of play, where as electros do. The Sfl stopped suiting my style, i wanted no kick, so i went to the matrix. The e-mag stopped suiting me, i wanted eyes and a modular body, hence why i got a sfl, the rt was mech, so i went to an e-mag. etc etc, If this post is in relevance to me, im taking it with a grain of salt.

AO is my home away from home, Sure i surf pbn, but ao is where i started, and where i will remain, untill arsehats like the starter of this thread drive me off.

damn!

you and your discount sponsorships ...want a player for the IAO OGD next year?

heh, im actually half serious, i read the rules and i wont be able to play on either aftica or AKA. And after this year i want to play, but by the time i became interested it was too late for this year.

Automags.org is/was a community forum for owners of AGD products. Don't give me any crap about how it's "a forum for paintballers in general"--No, that would be PBN.
It is a forum for paintballers in general who use AGD products (minus the one section about Angels).
Now--there are those of you who keep saying over and over again, "AO isn't what it used to be!" Well guess what? If the Mag owners, whom this forum was intended for, would like to take AO back over and make it "the way it used to be", and you can't handle it--Deal with it in your blog! Don't pollute this forum with your spew about how "AOers are fanatical zealots who hang on TK's every word"! It's crap! If Tom Kaye says something, AO listens. Why? Because he is a trustworthy individual. He has stood behind his products and has admitted his failures. That's a quality person.
Show me any other owner's group who isn't extremely loyal to their brand!
People don't continue to buy a company's products if they are crappy!
For instance, take the Ion: It's not quite the gun that the Shocker and Impulse are, right? So why do people buy them? Because, like it or not, Smart Parts makes a quality gun. So, based off of that reputation, people will keep going back to SP.
It is no different with Automags. Jesus H. Christ--why can't people see that?
Just because AGD hasn't put out any new products in a while, doesn't discount the fact that what they have put out is quality--hell, even a good majority of the aftermarket products are revamped AGD parts--all that's changed are the looks!

Holy crap, I've digressed too much.
If you can't handle people righteously praising their Mags, don't come to Automags.Org!
Simple.

Automags.org was created as a forum for owners of automags. but it became a general paintball community (still populated largely by mag owners) when people began leaving mags for other guns, but stayed on the forum because of the community and friends they made. i dropped my mag as my main marker for a freestyle, which in my opinion is a better marker (i know many of you may differ in opinion, and that is your choice. use whatever marker you want). but i still come here and will continue coming here because i know people here, both online and especially in person, and this is where i met the team i am on now. i will not leave this forum for an ICD forum now that i changed my main marker because of that.

[SCpoloRicker]

Out here in Cal, AO is about different groups of players that come together to have fun, play clean, and enjoy each others company. AO the site helps us co-ordinate when to get together, and lets us chat about paintball and other things.

Relax, its just teh intarwebs.

[smilestyler]

This thread actually seems important to me. It shows how negative AO has really become towards mags. Maybe that is what is missing from the old AO.
Madpsience, keep posting. I'll still read them. If anyone is insulted by a broad insult, maybe it hit a little close to home.
Alpha, and Phaseshifter among others said it best. Why should a Mag owner have to come to AO and read through a bunch of sensless mag bashing(not constructive, just bashing). There are lots of other forums for that.
I just hope that this allows everybody to vent, so things can get back to normal. Remember when the most heated debates were about pie vs. cake. pie wins BTW

[Vex]

In NO way am I saying "If you don't own a Mag, you shouldn't be on AO"!
I realize that a lot of people have moved away from Mags--that's not a big deal to me, and it shouldn't be to anyone else!

A lot of the AO oldhats have other markers, but they've built up a reputation here. I wouldn't and don't expect them to just disappear. However, the Mag "bashing" on this forum has to stop sometime. If you want to criticize YOUR Mag for poor performance, etc...go right ahead! Don't bash Mags altogether though! Just because YOUR experience(s) with them may not have left a good taste in your mouth, doesn't mean that everyone shares your feelings. There are a LOT of folks on here who are quite content and happy as a pig in slop with their Mags. I, for one, have never had a problem with mine in the almost 10 years that I've owned them. I just happen to like it a lot; it suits MY style of play; it's for ME.
If you don't/didn't like YOURS, tell us what you don't/didn't like about YOUR Mag(s)--and that's it.

How difficult is it really?

[CoolHand]

http://gprime.net/video.php/reallifevsinternet

Shartley = Win.



I laughed my hind quarters off watching that.

Thank you Sam, you just made my evening.

I have nothing else to contribute, other than to say I'm glad this is all in text. If you guys were actually speaking, the din would have drowned out all other discussion on the board.

Just break out the dueling pistols and get it over with.

[JoshK]

I have nothing else to contribute, other than to say I'm glad this is all in text. If you guys were actually speaking, the din would have drowned out all other discussion on the board.

Just break out the dueling pistols and get it over with.

Haha...and now that I have thought about it, and I am not half asleep, I am actually half glad you made this thread mad. It has really made me that much more prideful of my mag, because I love it...it is made for ME.

No after that being said...I have nothing else to say.

[Conversekidz]

I read the first couple of post, and decided not to read the rest and just say my 2 cents of my feelings about this site.

I personally owned a mag for 10 years, i loved the thing, then i realized the style of play has evolved and have moved on to a e-marker.

This is my take on the site, I think its pointless and dumb when people come to this site and bash on mags, expecially when they are comparing a mechanical gun to an electric gun. I mean honestly, it would be like bashing a mechanical spyder and saying a DM5 is a better gun, its two different style of markers.

If you are going to be bashing a mag, and you are bashing it based off a mechanical marker then you have a foot to stand on. If you are bashing it because its a different class of gun that you are comparing it to, that is just plain stupid.

Pretty soon I could see people bashing pump markers because they can't shoot as fast as a ramping timmy.

The mag has its place, its place is in the mechanical world. In that world its an excellent gun for what it was designed for. Its an awsome gun for a front player, its small, light (when compared to the other technology of the time) and got enough shots of that was required for that style of play.

If you think your timmy is better than a mag, then yes congrats you have the number one cheating gun in the industry, that must make it better.

[MadPSIence]

You know I went into this thread really thinking I may get torn apart. But for the most part I'm proud I did. I'm happy to see a lot of people here still have that AGD Pride.

Mags don't have to be the best gun on earth for people to love them. And you know what? To some people they are the greatest. And to anyone saying this is a general paintball forum. It's not. General paintball discussion is here but this place is sacred to mag owners.. and as long as the name is automags.org.. people need to have respect for the product and company this community is built around.

Once again, there may be a general paintball talk forum, even an angel owners forum and an off topic forum. But you still need to look at the words in the titlebar of the window and just have respect.

[magman007]

Paintball Talk is the main forum for Automags.org. Here is where we talk about the sport of paintball in general and make announcements relating to the forum and website


I think that sums it up that it is a paintball comunity, and everyone can voice their opinion however they wish. if they couldnt, more people would be banned wouldnt they?