Airsofting? What is that?
And no sleep till sunday? Proplus may be your best friend this week!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:12, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Sort of like paintball, but with BB guns, and much more fun. It was my first time on Sunday, took a while to get used to it, but managed to get 3 confirmed kills on the last game by hiding in a dark part of one of the buildings. Would have had more if I hadn't tried to move, but it was that or get grenaded (one of the people I killed had spotted me, had a ton of grenades, and their team had infinite lives in that game).
Cant take much in the way of wake up stuff, on so much medication that I'm avoiding anything else out of self preservation, and caffeine gives me headaches if I have too much. Though the next couple days of no sleep are a 3 day LAN/party/bbq/games day/general hang out round a friends house, so definitely worth it
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:18, Reply)

That's what it is? Sounds interesting
Kind of like lazerquest stuff then.... Well, yeah, meds and caffene pills don't always work well at all, so that's probably for the best, and if you're doing plenty of social stuff, shouldn't be too bad :D
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:23, Reply)

Like laserquest of you go with a bunch of crazy millitary people
I swear we were the only people there not in full combats. And there was a huge variety of weaponry on show (including a foam katana with a moscart (a little thing that fires out a bunch of BBs when triggered) attached). There are also flashbangs, smoke grenades, and BB grenades.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:30, Reply)

Ha ha ha!
For some reason I'm getting a mental image of that episode of spaced when Tim and Mike go paintballing....
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:39, Reply)

It's not that bad
All the people there were pretty nice, and its mostly pretty fair (considering it was our first time going and we were a bit crap). The guy with the sniper rifle (easily an extra 5 meters of range on anyone else, and very good at hiding) was rather annoying though.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:47, Reply)

Ahh, so there are different kinds of guns and such?
Sounds pretty cool realy. I might check out something like that... Sounds like a lot of fun, and I did used to love lazerquest stuff.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:51, Reply)

As far as I can see, if it exists in the real world, someone probably sells an airsoft version. If it doesn't exist, someone has probably made one for themselves (the TF2 minigun, the GoW Lancer, a henry hoover modified to become a flamethrower (not seen any of these, but a friend has))
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 28 Jul 2009, 22:59, Reply)

How does a bb flamethrower work?
Does it like, spray bb's everywhere? I'm guessing it doesn't actualy fire real flames!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 23:05, Reply)

By the sound of it, it just sprays everywhere. No real flames, the worst you have to contend with are thermobaric flashbangs (very loud, wasnt silly enough to look at one as it exploded, but saw a room light up orange from the outside when one went off.), On a side note my friend once used one of those on a couple in his uni accomondaton who were being a little too noisy with each other at 2 in the morning.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 28 Jul 2009, 23:11, Reply)