Cringe in Airsoft

[Mtemprell]

First off before I start I want to say this post is not for poking fun at people who do cringe stuff in Airsoft it's merely a discussion on what you find cringe worthy in the sport, end of the day people doing these things are still having fun and enjoying them selves so I don't intend any offense towards anyone that does these things. Keep doing you and what you enjoy. 

 

Disclaimer done. 

 

 

I was wanting to know what do others in here find most cringe worthy in Airsoft as I'm finding I have a few that I find worthy. 

 

First for me is probably people who play as if they are someone in the real SF and post online pictures of them playing but allways blank out or blur their faces. Just don't get the reasoning behind it unless your embarrassed to admit you play Airsoft, even worse are the ones who go further and on game days will hang around all day with their face covered and not interact much with others, it's like come on man we are all here to have fun at least join in on the fun and socialise. 

[tside]

Anyone who gets genuinely angry when they lose a game mode. This isn't real life or death stuff. It just makes me think they never moved past the mentality of screaming down microphones on computer games.

[Mtemprell]

2 minutes ago, tside said:

Anyone who gets genuinely angry when they lose a game mode. This isn't real life or death stuff. It just makes me think they never moved past the mentality of screaming down microphones on computer games.

Agreed. I had it last skirmish a guy shouting to me to push but he him self wasn't moving. Then moaned I didn't move. 

[Tackle]

Teams who assign themselves ranks & roles based on real steel.......

Get over yer selves ya walts 🤦‍♂️

[BIGwat]

people getting outplayed and their fragile ego's can't take it so they try to square up, had it a handful of times. They always walk away when you call their bluff. 

i miss the good old days when there was sportsmanship and could have a laugh with new people you meet 

[Tackle]

8 minutes ago, BIGwat said:

people getting outplayed and their fragile ego's can't take it so they try to square up, had it a handful of times. They always walk away when you call their bluff. 

i miss the good old days when there was sportsmanship and could have a laugh with new people you meet 

Lol, i have a sporting background where throwing hands was pretty much compulsory, & getting banned or nicked wasnt even a thing, so having to bite my lip with some of these mouthy "toy soldiers" can be really difficult, but im too pretty for prison 😜, so gotta behave.

[LMKipper]

Oh god it's people who forget that these things are pretty terrible consistency/accuracy wise and end up accusing others of not taking hits. I was marshalling a few weeks back and a player I was stood behind told another to take their hits. I had to tell him his hop was too high, because I was watching his BBs get about 3/4 feet in front of the other player then flick up and over his head. 

[EvilMonkee]

Geardos and those trying to take it too seriously.  The funniest thing I have ever seen at Airsoft (pull up a sandbag) was at the old Urban Assault site a few years back.  There was this team of geardos who spent their lunch break running through CQB drills, stacking up, clearing corners etc.  Fine, but they were doing it wrong and the Chief Geardo was getting more and more irate.  It was fucking hilarious.  Anyway, post lunch my mate and I were in an end room of a building (Urban Assault was an old RAF base) when said bunch of geardos burst in and clear the room even though we were in the same team and had been sat in the enemy less room for around 10 minutes. Utter bunch of knobs.

[LMKipper]

Ha, magnificent. As an aside, that was a great site. I did the original Town Assault there about 20 odd years ago.

[Emergencychimps]

I find people who criticize others for blanking their faces in pictures cringe. 

 

Having spent a long time in in house recruitment for some pretty massive and well known companies, you'd be amazed at the things I've seen used for not hiring someone, so a picture of them holding a "gun" isn't something id want to be tracked back to me. I like the pics etc, I just don't want them tracking back to me. Likewise sometimes it's a great picture and I'm just pulling a derp face that ruins it. I mean, how ridiculous would it be to have my career derailed and earnings reduced just so that my face can be in pictures from when I'm playing toy soldiers. 

 

Also, people who are so "not competitive" that they actively do things to be not competitive, like bright gun/gear or talking down people who do put effort in, especially when they aren't effective players themselves. I'm there to have fun and my version of fun isn't being a moving target, 

[MSSNAFU]

Difficult to think of things that won't offend somebody🙃, but eg a player who turns up with new top of the line shiney speedsofter at a normal woodland skirmish. Guys who bring their lady friends with them but forget to tell them not to wear skintight tops and trousers. Player with lots of expensive kit who barely if ever gets out of the safe zone (thats me btw 😄)

[sam_91]

12 hours ago, Mtemprell said:

even worse are the ones who go further and on game days will hang around all day with their face covered and not interact much with others, it's like come on man we are all here to have fun at least join in on the fun and socialise

Hey dude, this would be me but i have a medical condition so everyones lynx and deodorant and cig smoke etc hurts my head, causes head pressure, breathing difficulties/coughing,  blurred/double vision makes me feel like i have motion sickness , i zone out constantly like focal seizures and also a chance i end up bedridden with joint and muscle pain (my body attacks itself) for 3-4 days. Everyones fragrance to me smells incredibly strong or if i breathe through my mouth it tastes like ive licked the can  .

I live in complete isolation outside of airsoft and can only meet family or friends outside which most wont do so i sometimes go months without seeing anyone.. and airsoft is one of the few things i get to do so yeah i have to have my face covered all game, in safe zone , also in the shops the bus the train etc i get less weird looks at airsoft wearing a respirator than on a train or bus though 🤣 (no i dont wear a mili one on transport, is a half face one) 

But before this when i used to play many years ago i would always interact and chat with others also at lunch and in safe zone, examining various guns and also subjecting people to my really bad jokes. I sure do miss those days.... now i always sit on my own at lunch in the car park 


What i find really cringe in airsoft is the elitists who spend thousands but then shittalk new players or people returning who have purchased some guns and gear and just getting into it again i guess not everyone has a hefty budget or rich outside of the game 

Edited 7 hours ago by sam_91

[Emergencychimps]

1 minute ago, sam_91 said:

Hey dude, this would be me but i have a medical condition so everyones lynx and deodorant and cig smoke etc hurts my head, causes head pressure, blurred/double vision makes me feel like i have motion sickness , i zone out constantly like focal seizrues and also a chance i end up bedridden with joint and muscle pain (my body attacks itself) I live in complete isolation outside of airsoft and can only meet family or friends outside which most wont do so i sometimes go months without seeing anyone.. and airsoft is one of the few things i get to do so yeah i have to have my face covered all game, in safe zone , also in the shops the bus the train etc i get less weird looks at airsoft wearing a respirator than on a train or bus though 🤣 (no i dont wear a mili one on transport, is a half face one) 

But before this when i used to play many years ago i would always interact and chat with others also at lunch and in safe zone, examining various guns and also subjecting people to my really bad jokes. I sure do miss those days.... now i always sit on my own at lunch in the car park 


What i find really cringe in airsoft is the elitists who spend thousands but then shittalk new players or people returning who have purchased some guns and gear and just getting into it again i guess not everyone has a hefty budget or rich outside of the game 

You're so cringe......

 

Actually, that sounds like a really hard way to live - well done for still attending even with the struggles you have. 

[Mtemprell]

8 minutes ago, sam_91 said:

Hey dude, this would be me but i have a medical condition so everyones lynx and deodorant and cig smoke etc hurts my head, causes head pressure, blurred/double vision makes me feel like i have motion sickness , i zone out constantly like focal seizures and also a chance i end up bedridden with joint and muscle pain (my body attacks itself) for 3-4 days. Everyones fragrance to me smells incredibly strong or if i breathe through my mouth it tastes like ive licked the can  .

I live in complete isolation outside of airsoft and can only meet family or friends outside which most wont do so i sometimes go months without seeing anyone.. and airsoft is one of the few things i get to do so yeah i have to have my face covered all game, in safe zone , also in the shops the bus the train etc i get less weird looks at airsoft wearing a respirator than on a train or bus though 🤣 (no i dont wear a mili one on transport, is a half face one) 

But before this when i used to play many years ago i would always interact and chat with others also at lunch and in safe zone, examining various guns and also subjecting people to my really bad jokes. I sure do miss those days.... now i always sit on my own at lunch in the car park 


What i find really cringe in airsoft is the elitists who spend thousands but then shittalk new players or people returning who have purchased some guns and gear and just getting into it again i guess not everyone has a hefty budget or rich outside of the game 

Hey dude from your prospective I can fully understand why you do what you do. No point making yourself ill. Well done on playing and doing what you do.  So for you it's definitely not a cringe moment. 

 

Agree with the players who ridicule new or returning players because they haven't paid 1000s on guns and equipment. We all have our budgets and not everyone can buy expensive stuff. People forget some of these might be on an average wage and don't have the disposable income that others do, your life and wellbeing away from Airsoft comes first so can make the difference if it means paying the rent/mortgage or buying a new RIF and modding it. 

[ButcherBill]

My only cringe is players who take our hobby too seriously, I get the excitment of playing to win but it's airsoft not life or death. I like to see groups all kitted up in a milsim kind of way whether it's WWII Wehrmacht, GI Joe's, British army etc, etc, etc... but it's the players who try herding cats & lose their shit when it doesn't work that make me cringe most.

Edited 6 hours ago by ButcherBill

[Lozart]

13 hours ago, Mtemprell said:

First for me is probably people who play as if they are someone in the real SF and post online pictures of them playing but allways blank out or blur their faces. Just don't get the reasoning behind it unless your embarrassed to admit you play Airsoft, even worse are the ones who go further and on game days will hang around all day with their face covered and not interact much with others, it's like come on man we are all here to have fun at least join in on the fun and socialise. 

 

I agree with this....and I don't. In these enlightened times, prospective employers WILL scour your social media footprint to see if you align with their perception of what a good candidate is (and to make sure nothing is going to bite them in the arse later down the line). Blurring out your face in photos can be an attempt to stop playing a game that quite a lot of people might think is a bit... odd, interfering with your job prospects.

 

If they're doing it to try and be "more ally", then yeah, cringe as fuck.

[ruskitseller]

This actually happened.

 

Guy behind tree: "Push up lads!"

 

2 minutes later:

 

Guy still behind tree: "PUSH UP LADS LETS SEE SOME AGGRESSION - SECTION ATTACK NOW!" 

 

2 minutes later - he grabs a bunch of new players after trying to rope me in to it all and proceeds to explain to them a rough section attack. He then watches them try it and all get hit and then goes back to the tree.

 

ENDEX 

 

Guy still behind tree: "We lost because we didn't push up."

[Cannonfodder]

Everything. You're all a bunch of cringy buggers and you know it😁

 

Re the photos on social media, blurring out your face is pretty pointless to me. If a prospective employer is seeing them on your profile then it's going to be pretty obvious it's you whether faces are visible or not. Either don't post them or at least sort out your security settings so any random Tom Dick or Harry can't see them.

 

One thing I find properly cringeworthy are the excuses people come out with when losing. No they're not cheating and no they don't have more players, you just got out played. Rather than whining, acknowledge that they did well and learn from it. I suppose this is part of the winning is everything mentally which has started to creep into the game and I just don't get as some of the best games I've had have when I'm on the receiving end of an arse kicking

Edited 5 hours ago by Cannonfodder
Bloody auto correct

[EvilMonkee]

27 minutes ago, ruskitseller said:

This actually happened.

 

Guy behind tree: "Push up lads!"

 

2 minutes later:

 

Guy still behind tree: "PUSH UP LADS LETS SEE SOME AGGRESSION - SECTION ATTACK NOW!" 

 

2 minutes later - he grabs a bunch of new players after trying to rope me in to it all and proceeds to explain to them a rough section attack. He then watches them try it and all get hit and then goes back to the tree.

 

ENDEX 

 

Guy still behind tree: "We lost because we didn't push up."

Reminds me of a certain Scottish based Walt we both know.....

[Cannonfodder]

14 hours ago, Tackle said:

Teams who assign themselves ranks & roles based on real steel.......

Get over yer selves ya walts 🤦‍♂️

Even worse when they expect others to call them by said rank. Yes I've seen this happen. Said bellend wasn't happy when we obliged but added a few colourful words to the end 

[MSSNAFU]

3 hours ago, sam_91 said:

Hey dude, this would be me but i have a medical condition...

 

A medical condition is what keeps me in too - Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis - hence my user name, as SNAFU is a perfect decription of life with MS! 😆

But at least we both keep trying!

[Egon_247]

I tend to play on the "under 18's" kids type days with my boys and the ultimate cringe is the guy we refer to as "full auto dad" (or FAD for short).

His boy is great, good player, get stuck right in, but dad has to keep yelling at him to do this, and do that, raar raar etc, the kids having a blast and completely ignoring his dad. 

Heard him telling the kid at lunch to move like this and shoot like this.

Dad however runs around like a speed laced chicken, blasting everyone with full auto (hence the name). 

Once he cornered my boy and from about 2 meters, lit him up, full auto and really upset him. 

We had a quick word and that was it, FAD was on a hate offensive for me..... I mean, grow up, we're just LARPing with plastic guns ffs. 

 

 

[sam_91]

24 minutes ago, MSSNAFU said:

A medical condition is what keeps me in too - Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis - hence my user name, as SNAFU is a perfect decription of life with MS! 😆

But at least we both keep trying!

sorry to hear mate , i find the game offers me a distraction at least 

[Lyndication]

For me, the objective of Airsoft is to win, and I do my best to win while playing fair. The *aim*, is to have fun doing so.

 

It's a balancing act IMO. On the one hand, going all drill sergeant at your team and getting up in people's faces over the results is bad in any hobby. On the other, you kinda ideally want your team to be energised and giving it a good go. A very small minority of players seem to think trying at all is a bit cringe, lmao.

 

I find it's fun to try and gin up folks for a push, or to hold a spot. Most people want to get stuck in but get a bit lost or a bit overwhelmed, so giving them a job tends to work. If they're hiding behind a tree all game as the action moves away from them, a gentle nudge to come along with a few others seems to work. 

 

Especially if you remind them why they're there. That's way to cool a gun to not come push up with us, you wanna cover our flank while we try and go straight in?

[Mtemprell]

2 hours ago, Lozart said:

 

I agree with this....and I don't. In these enlightened times, prospective employers WILL scour your social media footprint to see if you align with their perception of what a good candidate is (and to make sure nothing is going to bite them in the arse later down the line). Blurring out your face in photos can be an attempt to stop playing a game that quite a lot of people might think is a bit... odd, interfering with your job prospects.

 

If they're doing it to try and be "more ally", then yeah, cringe as fuck.

I can really get that from a modern prospective. One reason I only post Airsoft content on my Airsoft Instagram that has no connection to my main main socials. (Other than my photography one tagged in it) And Facebook I don't even use anymore so that doesn't worry me. But fully understand that concern. 

53 minutes ago, Egon_247 said:

I tend to play on the "under 18's" kids type days with my boys and the ultimate cringe is the guy we refer to as "full auto dad" (or FAD for short).

His boy is great, good player, get stuck right in, but dad has to keep yelling at him to do this, and do that, raar raar etc, the kids having a blast and completely ignoring his dad. 

Heard him telling the kid at lunch to move like this and shoot like this.

Dad however runs around like a speed laced chicken, blasting everyone with full auto (hence the name). 

Once he cornered my boy and from about 2 meters, lit him up, full auto and really upset him. 

We had a quick word and that was it, FAD was on a hate offensive for me..... I mean, grow up, we're just LARPing with plastic guns ffs. 

 

 

The full auto players are always annoying when they only use full auto even at 5m engagement distance. Like come on man over kill. But then again I'm a GBBR player so full auto is a rare thing for me. Suppose to some I may fall into a cringe as I use real caps and only engage when I can clearly see the enemy.