Airsoft = "tuff guy" L.A.R.Ping

[Carbon]

less fantasy more reality?


no diss.
i dont LARP or Airsoft myself.

[xXHavokXx]

Yeah it is, my friend is the sniper on his "squad" and he sits around reading webpages to learn lingo and chatting with "real life scout snipers and SEALS" on airsoft boards. so when he plays he likes to be called by the names of famous snipers of the past and they get all subordinate to commanders, like a BDSM thing. I think it has tendencies of LARP and bondage.

[Thordic]

You guys are idiots.

[-=Squid=-]

You guys are idiots.

This guy knows his stuff.

[Glickman]

me and my friends do airsoft. we um... shoot each other...


if you think pbn is bad, try going to one of the airsoft forums. they are incompetant, disrespectful supremicist bastards

[Alpha]

Airsoft is best for shooting cans in the backyard. So much fun

[Konigballer]

I still airsoft occasionally, but not "traditional" airsoft at all. Me and my friends were to poor to buy the nice AEG assault rifles so we got GBB pistols and machine pistols like 1911's and MAC-11's and just fought in our college apartments. We called it 'Grand Theft Auto' style airsoft play since we didnt dress up as Navy SEALs or something. It was like an upgrade from are usual goofing around the apartment and playing FPS games like 'Goldeneye' or 'Perfect Dark".

To me it really is cheaper and a little funner playing that way with friends than playing paintball. Theres no noobs, no jerks, no attitudes and temper tantrums, and I wasnt shooting something that looked like a water gun. It rules

However, traditional airsoft play is to weird to me and so are the guys doing it, thats why I dont like it. Dressing up like your 'favorite' special forces group and trying to mimic their tactics is kind up retarded to me. They just remind me of the one really nerdy guy from 'Office Space' who had Navy SEAL posters everywere... If you ask, almost all of these people have NO military experience what so-ever, or if they did they were grade-A 'remfs'. Even fewer, if any will have had any actual 'combat experience'... So what your around are a bunch of guys who get off 'playing' soldiers and war because they never were one or were never in one. They remind me of other nerd groups like D&D'ers or 'renactors', but with a more pronounced need to feel 'macho'.

I like guns though, and it's cool if someone just likes their guns to look realistic. Because a DM4 is ugly enough to turn anyone to airsoft guns or scenario markers, but guys who seriously have a whole soldier/war fetish are pretty lame to me. Just looking at them though, its hard to tell who is THAT in to it until they start talking, then it becomes obvious.

But to each their own I guess. Theirs more than enough room for both hobbies and paintballers can be pretty dorky too.

[Destructo6]

chatting with "real life scout snipers and SEALS" on airsoft boards

There's a lot of people running around calling themselves "SEAL\S", but most couldn't tell you their class number.

[desslock]

I dont understand this role-playing thing....I thought airsoft was like the new generation bb guns, I remember playing with bb guns in the woods as kid, shooting cans, trees, birds each other, etc. So do these dudes dress up like swat? Is it like those star trek conventions but with airsoft guns? Whatever floats ur boat I guess.

[CrimsonTurkey]

Whatever you do... don't do this.

[onedude36]

^^^

SERIOUS Airsoft seems kinda silly, but then again, people prolly say that about paintball too.

[Glickman]

you tell me..



vs

[Alpha]

I really want a springer now. Just to set up soem cans in the backyard and have some fun.

[Konigballer]

"There's a lot of people running around calling themselves "SEAL\S", but most couldn't tell you their class number."--- Destructo6

Theres actually an organiztion called 'VeriSEAL', made up of ex-seals, who actually defraud people who go around saying they're 'ex navy seals', usually they used that lie on applications to even help get them jobs. Then these guys happily try to destroy the lier's life by exposing him as a fraud and trying to get him fired. Real SEAL's take that stuff VERY seriously.


"I dont understand this role-playing thing....I thought airsoft was like the new generation bb guns, I remember playing with bb guns in the woods as kid, shooting cans, trees, birds each other, etc. So do these dudes dress up like swat?"--- desslock

Airsoft has been around in Japan, were it originated, since the 60's or 70's I believe. In Japan its illegal for civilians to own firearms there so it developed as a way for citizens to 'collect' replicas of real firearms and target practice with them. Because true airsoft guns, and the magazines that feed them, are the same size/dimensions as their 'real steel' counterparts, many accesories meant for use with the real weapon will work with their arisoft counterpart. So if you have an airsoft M4 carbine, you can buy the actual combat vest with all the magazine pouches, pistol holster, etc, that the actual military uses for soldiers armed with a real M4. Because you can go that far, most take the 'realism' all the way and deck out in full combat gear. Because of the whole nature of Airsoft, it's game formats don't have a speedball counterpart so airsoft teams dont go around in colored jersies.

[onedude36]

Me and my friends did the air soft thing for a bit with the spring pistols. we set up random crap in the back yard and played 'speedball' give me a break though, we were like 12