Airsoft "Pet Peeves", time to vent guys!

[L473ncy]

Originally Posted by Steven

Shake it off, its a game after all. My pet peeves are the new people who buy thousand dollar guns for their first day of airsoft

Really? REALLY? That would be a godsend. There's way too many players who want to enter the sport on a limited budget of less than $300. I mean I see your point but the bigger problem is people cheaping out. Maybe not a $1000 gun but something that's at least a decent performer like a $600-800 gun.

[kalnaren]

Originally Posted by L473ncy

Really? REALLY? That would be a godsend. There's way too many players who want to enter the sport on a limited budget of less than $300. I mean I see your point but the bigger problem is people cheaping out. Maybe not a $1000 gun but something that's at least a decent performer like a $600-800 gun.

Agreed. If someone wants to drop the dough on a good gun right away, I have zero issue with it.

[Steven]

I should rephrase that. I do not like it when some new player walks in thinking hes the best players there BECUASE of his 1000$+ rifle.

[L473ncy]

OK That makes more sense now. It's like just because you have a newer/better bike than me doesn't mean that you can pedal any faster.

[Steven]

Exactly.

[Strelok]

People who have nothing else to contribute to the topic other than to their own post count... Hmmm.

Really getting tired of these 'Baby noobs' that seem to be flooding the site lately.

I call them baby noobs simply because, much like an infant, you have to feed them the information spoon by spoon and be careful about it. And they leave you a nice little mess in that thread they left smeared on this forum like a soiled daiper.

Best to toss it in the trash.

[theguy]

Originally Posted by pusangani

Noobs that fret themselves over upgrading their guns before they've even seen their first game

This!

Of course, I did that with my first gun, but still, in retrospect, it was really not a smart call

[MoreToasties]

Originally Posted by Strelok

I call them baby noobs simply because, much like an infant, you have to feed them the information spoon by spoon and be careful about it. And they leave you a nice little mess in that thread they left smeared on this forum like a soiled daiper.

Best to toss it in the trash.

Now THAT is a metaphor.

[Ripperman79]

I hate when people call a magazine a Clip there is a difference. Clip=Stripper Clip like for a Bolt action Magazine=Cartridge Like for an AK

[Yannos]

Originally Posted by Ripperman79

I hate when people call a magazine a Clip there is a difference. Clip=Stripper Clip like for a Bolt action Magazine=Cartridge Like for an AK

Yeah thats mine too. Each time I hear clip for mags I get mad. Specially if they think they know what they are talking about. Its more funny lol.

[yuhaoyang]

from now on yannos can say "non AV'ed people".... braggin rights?
Anyways... ignorant, yet arrogant bastards... They go for all walks of life, but is especially bad in areas like this, and automotive.

[Drow]

When your gun was fine the night before, then stops working in the first game of the day.

[Skladfin]

guys who are just a big pile of muscle and can't do jackshit in a firefight =\

and guys that brags endlessly at the safe zone, ya we know you totally ramboed the shit out of the other team, too bad no one saw it.

[TokyoSeven]

Cheap people, not poor people, cheap people.

[Wilson]

Originally Posted by TokyoSeven

Cheap people, not poor people, cheap people.

I hear ya. I see this all the time and its usually because people have a hard time justifying spending real money on real gear (or at least the quality copies) for a game revolving around toy guns and pretend scenarios.

I make the least money out of all the people on my team yet I have the highest percentage of "real" or quality gear. Go figure. Though, I can't blame people for making wise purchases, it's not like they're going to be trusting their life to their airsofting equipment (I have yet to meet anyone in airsoft who genuinely plays airsoft as a supplement to their real world training).

What pisses me off about airsoft lately, or perhaps it has always been this way, is that every game that claims to be "MILSIM" never actually is. In fact, "MILSIM" seems to be the new AMPTGARD (or however its spelt) with guns, run by dungeon masters who feel the need to micromanage nearly every aspect of the game to cater the entire experience to their own vision of how it should play out. Now, don't get me wrong, these scenarios are almost always hilarious and usually fun, but sometimes they kill what would otherwise would have been a fantastic game had they just let it go with the flow.

It gets progressively more difficult to motivate people who are new to the sport to stick with it when the majority of the games we attend in a season turn out to be this way.

I've been to two enjoyable games this year.