Rogerborg

To the point where he's messaging about for-sales from years ago. But you'll have to post it, and he's only got £300 to give himself a birthday present. I feel such a connection to him now, I'm really rooting for him on his quest.

It seems to be a complete lottery whether you fall foul of the law, much like playing informal games at a local scrapyard.

Good news. I shudder to think what uses were intended for those seized RIFs - it's not like it's hard to get a defence.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions.

Great work all round. I'm starting to get performance anxiety about my gobs of hot melt glue and Poundland rattle can black now.

No, see, what I like isn't an addiction, it's wholesome virtue. This is easy to understand, your brain is just clogged with bread and pasta. Same with airsoft. My highly realistic imitation firearms are laser accurate and an investment. Your silly toy gnus are over-priced trinkets that will break then burn your house down then call your insurance company and claim that you started the fire yourself for the money.

<Thread derail> At this point, I wouldn't touch anything with sugar in it, and no, not even "fruit sugars". With the possible exception of arena speedsoft, airsoft just isn't that intense, and healthy humans (or even me) do not need to burn significant amounts of carbs for energy. I went all day Sunday on ham salad and peanuts (for the salt) plus copious amounts of water, job done. No peaks or crashes, no feeling of hunger or bloating, no brain fuzz, and now I can reach past doughnuts to get to the cabbage without feeling any urge to gorge on empty calories. If you find that hard to believe, that's your addiction speaking.

And "Oh yeah m8, plus PayPal fees, m8". Do we reckon Harry1 is dreaming about having an M4 posted to him?

Oh, that often happens, but I'm kvetching about taking a skin-breaking burst in the side of the face after shouting, waving, then walking away with my gun held over my head and still waving, with no other players anywhere near me. Sometimes it really is just a case of a complete nobwaffle deciding to send another burst downrange for giggles. But they had some classic bantz, finished that really crucial phone call, and got to smoke the best cigarette ever. Hah, I'm rocking the keto bro lifestyle now. Carbs are Satan's spooge, get them behind thee. Memeing aside, I really would recommend low carbs, it's amazing how addictive and unnecessary they are, and how much better you can feel and perform without sugar rushes and crashes.

Mmm, I used to do steel historical reenactment, and lost teeth and fingernails to that without complaint. But the goal was always to minimise pain and injury, and due to the hand-to-hand nature of the activity, anyone who couldn't or wouldn't restrain themselves was very quickly identified and invited to sod off. Airsoft however lends itself to rogues, with some degree of anonymity and plausible deniability, and the ability to inflict pain without serious injuries meaning it's usually shrugged off. I'd really like to see much more pro-active marshalling on MEDs, overkill, or shooting dead players: and no, it's not "just part of the game", it's the difference between everyone having a good day, and only the sociopaths going home with a grin on their faces.

Mmm, I never used to be bothered about MEDs until I started running a BASR and DMR (not at the same time, pedants). Now all I see is players disregarding MED and ROF, and it never being picked up on by marshals, even when you point it out. It's a very slippery slope - once you see someone else taking the piss with them, there's always a temptation to get a few metres closer, or twitch your finger a bit quicker.

Really good today, due to some well thought out fallback variant games that kept things moving. If I never play another game with infinite respawns for both sides again (regardless of what gimmick you try and layer on top of that), I'll be happy.

Good, that's the letter of the law - selling "for the purpose of". A future booking says more about your intentions than past behaviour. Their risk, their choice, there's nothing dodgy going on. Enjoy. Today I learned that even when you're at a site that chronos in Joules (huzzah), and even when you personally set the chrono to your BB weight, and even when you point out the Joules figure on it to a marshal, he might still say "Hang on a second..." and look up the FPS number versus BB mass on his phone. I mean, I don't mind the thoroughness, but... it's right there on the chrono.

You're fine to ask, but you might have more luck on the site's Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/RIFTairsoft

There are two things that we could assume. 1) That everybody is honest and knows what they're doing, in which case a site chrono is just a tool for players to self-check. 2) That at least one person will have maliciously or accidentally cheated the chrono, and if they aren't strutting around cackling "Ha ha, the perfect crime!", the only way to catch them is to test everyone in game. In the first case, mandating pre-game chrono isn't necessary, and in the second, it's not sufficient. I do like the idea of actually measuring energy, but it's a tricky one. We don't have a lot of energy to play with, so we'd need a very light mechanism, and/or a very sensitive measurement of deflection, which would be skewed by the slightest sticking and would need to be regularly calibrated and maintained - which, let's be honest, isn't going to happen at an airsoft site. The elasticity of the collision against a hard surface (as opposed to meat-parts) would also be a consideration. Non-moving solid-state solutions don't seem great either. This vendor is honest enough to admit that their force sensitive resistors are yes/no rather than accurate.

In my fantasy world, we'd get in-game chronoed with 0.4g, then the tiny, tiny minority of people who come in over could get looked at harder, using the BBs that they've actually got loaded. If you could set something up for point-and-pew, that would give a clear, unambiguous reading, in any conditions, while being effectively maintenance free. Bearing in mind that there are still sites and staff that can't cope with the concept of Joules. But a borg can dream.

But adds in another, Joule creep. Sites should be chronoing with 0.4g+ You either care about it, in which case you chrono in-game with heavy BBs, or you don't, in which case you're just wasting everyone's time with voluntary pre-game chronoing with 0.2g, or worse, trusting players. I mean, if you trust us, why bother chronoing?

Great to hear that you enjoyed it, and also good that they were chronoing in-game. Did they chrono on site BBs (0.2g?) or on the ammo that folk claimed to be using? Every site I've played at has threatened to start games without waiting for tardy people, but none have ever - ever - done it. It winds me up a treat, but it's just a part of airsoft, where people pay to play, but then find any excuse not to.

Begone, spamthot.

Sure, I wouldn't open a gearbox on site, but barrels and buckings and hops (oh my) are absolutely basic stuff. I was just bemused at the number of folk who made a point of coming over not to offer help, but to declare proudly that they never touch their internals. Kind of a weird flex. I say "number", it was maybe six over half an hour. But, you know, fishing and airsoft tales.

Good points, I've learned that it's always a good idea to bring at least one backup AEG and the box-o-bits. I got a full day on Saturday via playing with backup #1, then cannibalising backup #2 to get DMR Prime sorted at lunch. It was surprising (and a little disappointing) the number of folk who made of point of saying "Rather you than me, mate" or "I'd never risk working on my gun, mate", as though ignorance is a virtue. Come on, M4 hop units are one bolt then a circlip, you could train a monkey to work on them. And not a monkey from the top of the tree either, one who's fallen out a few times and hit his head on every branch on the way down.

I've learned that the only way to deal with toxic, pugnacious people is segregation.

True, that, and half the time they're doing it from so far back that they're thrashing the bushes 5 or 10 metres short of where they think they're hitting. However, the other half of the time they're doing it against advancing players who run into a hail of BBs the instant we leave hard cover. It's all part of the game, and I'm certainly not advocating semi auto for woodland. However, I do very much appreciate it when folk keep it to short, controlled bursts. When I was running a stock CYMA shooting 8 rps in a sort of generally downrange direction, I'd cheerfully hold the trigger down. Now that I've got some half decent toys, I'm much lighter on the trigger. Just because you can doesn't mean that you have to.

I've just had to drag my finger off the "buy it now" button. I blame Gun Jesus promoting "additive manufacturing" to create new stripper clips for Forgotten Weapons. My head was still in the "those things cost thousands, right?" space, I was astonished to find that they can be had for under £200 now, with plenty of happy users. Luckily, I don't have anything specific that I'd actually want to - oh my Emperor, I need to print aquila and purity seals! Must... resist... urge...