Rogerborg
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Batteries, mags, foregrip, optic (not listed as included). None of which explains why it's £160 more than a brand new one. William, please understand that the retail price isn't what you paid for it, or the highest price that you can find. It's the lowest current price, which is indeed ~£210. And that's new. Used, you can knock a third off of that. That's if you actually want to sell it. If you don't, that's good too. Lots of folk list stuff that they don't really want to part with.
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The guy selling them out of a suitcase on the beach assured me...
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^^^ BLOCKED AND REPORTED.
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I'll round your 2p up to a whole 5p. Very well noted.
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Mrs B forgot to buy D cells for Miss Borg's robot arm kit, so I spent a happy hour diking[1] and soldering[2] a 7 cell nimh crane stock battery down to 5 cells /~6V, then crocodile-clipped it in to power it up.
Needless to say: BEST CHRISTMAS EVER.
[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dike.html
[2] 59.5 minutes swearing at Chinesium peasant solder, then 30 seconds getting it done with German master race solder.
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First time I've quit half way through the day.
No shout for chrono opening, a rambling, incomplete briefing that left newcomers baffled, "10 minute" breaks that dragged on for half an hour while the marshals yakked it up in their office, then to top it off, getting shouted at because the chief marshal had forgotten where he'd said the spawn points would be, and blamed the players.
Given that lunch would doubtless have dragged on for 90 minutes or more, I wasn't minded to hang around for more of the same.
Shame, as the actual play was fine, there just wasn't enough of it.
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I asked a question before in the brief and was told it was already covered instead of having it answered. Then it turns out they didn't cover it and both teams are stacked at a stairwell because no one knew who was up or down.
Was the chief marshal the young boy?
Problem with the Depot safe area is that it's too good so everyone sits down and wants to be "last out" to get maximum arse on chair time before the games. I too wish for less down time more pew time. No one needs more than 10 minutes between games in the safe zone.
Going to try Biohazard out this month hopefully. You maybe should give it a bash too.
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Sites need feedback like this though. On X day it was awful and as long as you can give constructive reasons then they should take note of this. Also by the same action, positive feedback should always be given where due.
If you weren't a level headed individual you could have come on here, really blown off about it and discoloured lots of other peoples opinions and given them really bad press.
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Great to hear that you've thought it through! One staircase per team sounds like a decent, simple solution. Something more complicated might be to put a riot shield in each staircase, which can only be used in that staircase. So once it's been used to push up, it gets left at the top, and can be grabbed by the other team and used to push back down again, rinse and repeat. Getting airsofters to listen though...
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How many staircases? Got plans to stop them getting choked? I ask because it can become an issue at the Depot even with 5 staircases in play over 2 floors. It only takes a couple of defenders per staircase to lock them down pretty effectively.
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Eh, I just LARP this stuff online based on reading statute and case law for giggles, I don't even do it as a part of my day job any more. My understanding is that absent eliciting information about members of armed forces, police officers or the intelligence services which is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, privacy is a civil matter cobbled together from the Human Rights Act 1988 (which only applies to public bodies) and prior and subsequent common (judge-made) law which has been influenced by the HRA and ECHR. The cases that turn up are mostly cause célèbres rather than Joe Public. Despite many broken promises, privacy expectations between private individuals hasn't been codified in statute law yet. tl;dr version - you won't know if you have a case unless and until you get it before a court. One thing I would mention is that the distinction between public and private places is also blurred. Any place to which the public enjoy a general right of access can be considered public. In Scotchland in particular, with right to roam, this makes pretty much every outdoors airsoft site a public place, in which you should have no expectation of privacy.
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Now your channel is just like everyone else's.
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Aaand I've just unsubbed from the otherwise excellent Bad Influence Airsoft because he posted a clickbait CHEETAR video. You don't need to adduce statistical evidence that showcasing being a Dark Knight Punishertm normalises and promotes that behaviour in others.
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That he has one and it seems to be out of stock at most UK retailers. But you'd have to really want one to pay £20 more than new retail for a pre-licked one.
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Just to confirm, mine has lost the LEDs on one side, 2 out of the 4 in there. There's no obvious breaks in any of the solder, and a dip in isopronol and then a blast with a heat gun to try and reflow it hasn't helped. They're surface mount LEDs with the surface on the inside, so I can't even solder in some wires to bridge the bad ones to the good without tearing the thing apart. Oh, and despite having only a few hundred rounds through it since the last "charge", it was down to 3.3V, so it''s not charging properly either. They're vendor trash, I'm afraid. At this point, I'm considering just gutting it and using the shell and battery (210mAh 3.7V) to power some manually switchable LEDs instead.
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The 'What have you just bought' Thread
Rogerborg replied to Cameron364's topic in Guns, Gear & Loadouts
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As the most recent Lighter-S trouble topic, I thought I'd BUMP this thread to report that both I and ex-workmate Eddie have been having problems with our Lighter-S tracer units. Mine is still stroppy. It will sit ostensibly charging for many hours, but then if you disconnect and reconnect the charger, will show as full. It requires several on-off cycles before it stops flashing red error / bogus low battery, even when freshly charged. Once it's on, it will stay on, but the intensity has dropped off significantly since I first got it (with both ASG blasters and AirsoftWorld green tracers), leading me to suspect that some of the LEDs have failed already. Ex-workmate Eddie dropped his Lighter-S and wrecked it, so had a brand new one on Sunday, freshly charged, and functional at home. On site, it failed immediately, ostensibly turning itself on (green light flashes) but then it wouldn't turn off, and didn't function at all. I really couldn't recommend them. Nice idea, but the quality is shoddy even by airsoft toy standards.
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Currently tea-dying a shirt that's not quite the right shade of beige. I suffer for my art.
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Morrisons You Can't Afford Any Better teabags. 40 out of a box of 80, an hour steeping, soaked overnight, washed, came out pretty well. Changed "fawn" to more like "camel", if not full "coyote".
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With fixed bayonets?
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At least my eyepro won't fog up. As you said, everyone's LARPing online.
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Absolutely they do it because clickbait works and viewers are culpable for rewarding it. Me, I just report sidebar CHEETAR PUNIHSED!!! as harmful/dangerous now, because it's harmful to the hobby. And I truly believe that it is, because I doubt that everyone who watches is doing so in order to tut and disapprove. If sites don't want that sort of play (whether it's real, or the magic of editing), then it's up to them to put a stop to it, and I'm glad to see it happening at long last.
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He plays one in his videos, for share-like-subscribes. That normalises caddishness, and encourages others to play that way because they've seen it done and bragged about with (up to now) no consequences. And that's the problem, not what he's actually like in the safe zone or the pub.
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Ah, but Licking Mustard is Super Delta SAS Ranger Elite, he can guide his BBs on target with Operator Telepathy. And the issue we're discussing is him taking deliberate face shots (with whatever depleted uranium style sniper BBs he's slinging) and holding that up as an exemplar of what to do if you think someone isn't taking hits. It's the latter part that I have a problem with. He's a toxic player for many reasons, and I don't want people emulating his out-of-bounds, inside-MED, spawn-camping, face-shooting, I-hit-you-but-you-never-hit-me ego driven grumpiness. Since he's been bragging about this stuff for a while, it's long since past time that sites told him that he's no longer welcome.
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IIRC (and I may not) didn't he proudly claim that he'd taken headshots against some players who offended him by talking to each other while dead? As in, he deliberately headshot already dead players to punish them for not standing there silently. Quite how he heard what they were saying from outside of a 30m MED escapes me, but I'm sure his Super Sonic Sniper Hearing managed to determine from that range that they were talking about in-game things rather than just chatting.
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Popular YouTubers set expectations for new players, and for players who seek to emulate them for the attention that it demonstrably generates. Licking Mustard clearly sets out to seek drama. HEDSHOOTED CHEETAR!!!! is pretty much his stock in trade now, along with shooting from out of bounds or inside MED. Anyway, good riddance to him, and I hope he gets BTFO'd from every site in the UK. Video reported as harmful / dangerous acts @0:15, for promoting deliberate face shots. Which it does.
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They now appear to be sending out limited-distribution Facebook messages, because nothing says success like keeping your venue a closely guarded secret.
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Neat, thanks. If I get the magwell LEDs in, it'd be great if I can pew a few reds through it to see if they light up OK before I buy my own. Hah, I've just bought 5,000 greens as well. Don't suppose you know the colour temperature of the LEDs in your tracer unit? The Emperor protects. I mean, apart from the billions who die in His name.
