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

[CrimsonTurkey]

I have LARPed before... It's a great way to get back in shape for an open melee tourney (Basket hilted claymore man here). Basically instead of getting good at fighting a single opponent who you may be afraid to really smack, you have a few dozen different ones who you don't know and generally feel perfectly fine about hitting upside the head.

Basically, it's good combat experience... if you need that sort of thing.

[Glickman]

hahaha




larping at """shatnerball"""


lets see how well shatner does against an entire AO army of slightly-dissapointed-but-still-anxious orcs

[Carbon]

Turkey that is interesting.

I kinda understand the role playeing aspect of it, i grew up comic books and video games. I think the experince of mock combat would be a challange too.

For the most part it seems like it is a bit of healthy drama.

[Conversekidz]

http://www.darkonthemovie.com/darkon_video.html

larping docu drama

I have a friend that does that...well a person I went to school with....and there is something fun about hitting someone as hard as you can in the head with a broom handle.

[ntn4502]

you guys are dorks

[Thordic]

Also, as a note, Darkon isn't really LARPing. Its more combat-based than anything else, as I understand it.

If you want to see how lame LARPing truly is, go look up the ogrebattle video.

[Jotsy]

first of all, i airsoft, and i suppose you can consider me as doing it "seriously" if you measure "seriousness" by how much money you've put into it. however there are many levels to how you can play. Sure, some ppl may do the whole comanders and training drills and whatnot, but not everybody do that. heck, i've even seen paintballers do that. in fact, the only difference between airsoft and woodsball is the cost of ammo.

no, thats a little cynical of us, but i do know from experiance that the ones ive talk to on airsoft forums have been inconsiderate to newbies.

"if you dont start with a $500 gun dont bother idiot" was one of the main accepted things there

its unfortunate you got that experience, but not all airsoft forums are like that. there are some airsoft forums that actually quite friendly and are filled with intelligent discussions, even more so that AO IMO.

oh and fyi, you can actually get started playing with a full (and decent) setup for just $100-300. i know some ppl who play with just pistols and do very well at it.

What is fun is when you go to the shooting range and watch kids who play airsoft shoot real guns for the first time. They brag about how wellt hey handle their gun which is "just like this one even when you shoot"

Another thing is.......they always rent the Desert Eagle.

those are what we real airsofters call "springer kiddies". the go out and buy cheap $10 springer pistols then ruin it for the rest of us by doing stupid things. sound familiar? yeah, paintball has em too.. the kids who buy cheap markers at walmart and then go do drive bys....

real airsoft is played at actual airsoft fields. here in the UK, its actually illegal to fire them anywhere else.

[Konigballer]

"http://www.darkonthemovie.com/darkon_video.html

larping docu drama"



that was the dorkiest thing I've seen in a LONG time. It had the same effect on me that the movie 'Trekkies' had the first time I saw it. I wanted to laugh and puke at the same time when I saw these people.

I know it's just roleplaying, but it was more like their costumes had a 'medieval theme' rather than any actual basis in historical accuracy. A couple of people were wearing surplus cold war east-german helmets with stripes painted on them in lieu of anything remotely 'medieval looking' on hand. What a joke, the 'combat' looked like one big 'smash 'em bash 'em' were the participants did'nt have even the slightest understanding about how people actually fought with those weapons in battle. Looked like a bunch of dorks trying to relive their favorite parts of hollywood movies like 'Braveheart'.....

I think even the most hardcore airsofter is still step up from those guys.

[Warewolf50]

"http://www.darkonthemovie.com/darkon_video.html

larping docu drama"



that was the dorkiest thing I've seen in a LONG time. It had the same effect on me that the movie 'Trekkies' had the first time I saw it. I wanted to laugh and puke at the same time when I saw these people.

I know it's just roleplaying, but it was more like their costumes had a 'medieval theme' rather than any actual basis in historical accuracy. A couple of people were wearing surplus cold war east-german helmets with stripes painted on them in lieu of anything remotely 'medieval looking' on hand. What a joke, the 'combat' looked like one big 'smash 'em bash 'em' were the participants did'nt have even the slightest understanding about how people actually fought with those weapons in battle. Looked like a bunch of dorks trying to relive their favorite parts of hollywood movies like 'Braveheart'.....

I think even the most hardcore airsofter is still step up from those guys.

That was really sad, hey lets all run around and beet each other wiht padded sticks made to look like axes, How do they determine when someone dies or what not, hey i killed u, NO i have a migical malee attack repellant charm TAKE THAT.