Funniest Airsoft Fallacies

[Adolf Hamster]

Well, when I first got into airsoft I genuinely believed suppressors would actually work.

In fairness they do eliminate barrel pop, but only certain systems have low enough action noise for that to matter.

 

[Shamal]

Yeah my mk23 is darn whispery 

Regards 

 

[Skara]

They do, but most of the sound on an AEG comes from the gearbox.

Yeah my mk23 is darn whispery 

Regards 

I know, I have one too  imma buy another one soon

 

[John_W]

Airsoft International employs quality jounalists who never use hot guns or illegal home made pyros...

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

I've just heard a fantastic example of which audience Novritsch and Silo products are aimed at. In a recent video, Silo is talking about the SSP18 having an internal hammer unlike the Marui Hi-Capa (which he had on the desk)....oh and "The Hi-Capa is an SSP1 with Tokyo Marui parts"

Also in the Novritsch SSP18 gameplay video, Josef talks about how he's the one who lead the design team on the development of it....that doesn't stop him from releasing a review video of it on his own channel.

OK bear with me because this isn't just an anti-Novritsch rant. My entry in to airsoft fallacies is trustworthy/independent reviews. I mean most airsofters would be overly positive about a skirmish site for a free game day, start chucking free RIF's at them and they'd do whatever you want. 

I've said it before but another prime example is "Airsoft Mike". Comes across as a nice guy but I would never trust the review of someone who works so closely with so many retailers.

 

[Samurai]

About every youtuber who is at least a bit "famous" got one for reviewing. They are just advertising channels for Nov and similar companies.

 

[Skara]

Stopped watching (and following) half of the airsoft channels because of that.

 

[alxndrhll]

Largely the same when it comes to previews/reviews/first impressions. Though not solely due the legitimacy of the opinions give... which leads me nicely to one of the more frustrating fallacies.

That good, consistent QC exists within RIF manufacturing. Just because the fella on the internet got a good one, doesn’t mean you will.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

That good, consistent QC exists within RIF manufacturing. Just because the fella on the internet got a good one, doesn’t mean you will.

not to mention that often the guns given out to reviewers are likely engineering sample guns, put together by the design team rather than the production floor.

needless to say a mostly hand-built prototype is probably going to perform better than the same gun smashed out in a factory as quickly as possible.

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

That good, consistent QC exists within RIF manufacturing. Just because the fella on the internet got a good one, doesn’t mean you will.

When someone asks "Which Glock should I get?" there's always one bloke who's beaten his stock WE to hell for a decade and it's still going strong, then another whose arrived broken. 

 

[EvilMonkee]

The ONLY reviewer I trust is Badabing

 

[L3wisD]

The ONLY reviewer I trust is Badabing

And MachSakai - even though I've not idea what he says, somehow I actually learn stuff from his reviews!  

 

[Skara]

MachSakai

His shooting tests are hilarious though

 

[Rogerborg]

I like Bad Influence for his no-nonsense reviews showing all the important stuff and very little else.  I particularly appreciate that he reviews lower end stuff on exactly the same basis as anything else, right down to 15 Euro springers.

And then I saw this...

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(Still a better love story than Twilight)

 

[EvilMonkee]

The thing that continually irritates me about reviews is that they blatehr away, chrono the thing etc but very few actually show you it shooting at any distance much less what the actual range on it is.  This is why I like Bada's reviews, plus he doesn't hold back where he thinks something is bad.

 

[Smiling-Dutchman]

Speaking about reviewers, did you guys hear about the youtuber who did an "honest review" where he was absolutely positive about Nov's SSP-18, and then it turned out that he directly works for Nov?

https://www.reddit.com/r/airsoft/comments/iwj8wd/exposing_novritsch

 

[Dogsbody100]

7 minutes ago, Smiling-Dutchman said:

Speaking about reviewers, did you guys hear about the youtuber who did an "honest review" where he was absolutely positive about Nov's SSP-18, and then it turned out that he directly works for Nov?

https://www.reddit.com/r/airsoft/comments/iwj8wd/exposing_novritsch

This is just the kind of sneaky bullshit I can’t stand. I think we all knew that this sort of stuff would eventually be happening like it’s somehow ‘ok’ seems this is the lengths novrbitch will go to to sell his shit. 
 

 

[Adolf Hamster]

The thing that continually irritates me about reviews is that they blatehr away, chrono the thing etc but very few actually show you it shooting at any distance much less what the actual range on it is.  This is why I like Bada's reviews, plus he doesn't hold back where he thinks something is bad.

indeed

as a general rule i don't give a shit what a gun chrono's out of the box because odds are any version i get will have been downgraded anyway.

actual range is a big one, and they never try different ammo types, nothing along the lines of "this can lift up to X weight", same with accuracy, if your standard is hitting an a4 target at 10m then a nerf gun could be the greatest thing ever......

i also really, really, don't give a crap how ambidextrous or not a gun is......

what i want to see in reviews is things like which parts are proprietary, what's the long-term reliability like, in the case of gas guns how cold can it get before it waves the white flag? (also inb4 just run it on black gas, been there done that don't work).

for example i plan on reviewing the WE Dragonuv at some point, but i refuse to do it until i can answer the question definitively on wether or not you can put RS furniture on it and if any modifications need to be made.

 

[Cannonfodder]

The one that gets me in reviews is when a gun has loads of parts changed before it's fired a shot. Personally I'd like to know how it performs out of the box before spending half the cost of the gun on upgrades. 

 

[Tackle]

The one that gets me in reviews is when a gun has loads of parts changed before it's fired a shot. Personally I'd like to know how it performs out of the box before spending half the cost of the gun on upgrades. 

Amen brother, especially the noobs that think power is the be all and end all, half the time they end up making it perform worse not better, & eventually have to admit defeat before handing it over to a pro, ends up costing 3 times it's RRP lol