Cringe in Airsoft

[Cannonfodder]

46 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

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.

You've hit the nail on the head there. I think what most people here are posting about are the ones who either base their whole enjoyment of a game solely on the result (yes it's nice to win but that's not the be all and end all), or will scream and shout at others (often people they don't know) to follow their plan no matter how bad it is while staying so far back they might as well be in the safezone

[Mtemprell]

10 minutes ago, Cannonfodder said:

You've hit the nail on the head there. I think what most people here are posting about are the ones who either base their whole enjoyment of a game solely on the result (yes it's nice to win but that's not the be all and end all), or will scream and shout at others (often people they don't know) to follow their plan no matter how bad it is while staying so far back they might as well be in the safezone

For me it's just this. Ive had a guy on one game day pissed out team didn't achieve one objective all day that he wouldn't say anything nice to any of our team. Bearing in mind we had a big disadvantage from the off that the other team had 90% regulars on and they worked with the marshalls to make things in their advantage (another thing I don't agree with as Marshalls should be neutral no matter who it is) and our team had all the first time players and rentals. 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

Trying to single out the cringiest things in airsoft is a bit like pointing out the lemoniest part of a lemon.

 

Still, the brief has been set so I’ll try…

• The Compensator.  Desperately masculine, loud, edge-lord, every morale patch is practically peeling itself off it’s own Velcro to tell you, your mates, anyone near you, that this guy, this guy right here is not someone you want to mess with.  Nevermind the fact that he’s playing with a toy gun, just because his boss talks down to him and his wife doesn’t respect him, YOU should know what you’re dealing with.  Every sentence starts and ends with swearing and you’re gonna hear it, oh yes mate you will, no matter how far away from him you try to stand.  Brought your young kids with for the day?  Well this is a man’s game, it’s not his problem they hear grown up talk and he’ll just swear a bit louder to make sure they fuckin well do.
• Scene of crime officer.  You cross his path, both bring guns to bear, your hits land milliseconds apart.  It’s a trade, you can both be in and out of spawn in less than two minutes.  Or so you think.  Mr SOCO wants to stop you in your tracks, he hit you first he claims and before you can utter the first syllables of ‘yeah mate let’s just call it a trade’ he’s already describing to you moment by moment what just happened to prove, at length, that you are wrong.  You walk away back to spawn.  You think he’s still there, telling someone else who happened to stumble past him and who is now considering a BB to their own head just to get away.
• Clique-Ops.  These guys showed up together, they’ve got squad patches and identical uniforms.  You’ve not seen them speak to anyone else all day.  You got lumped in with them to balance the numbers.  ‘Alright?’ You offer as your opening gambit before the round starts.  One of them glances shyly at you, the rest proceed to ‘mic check, mic check’ before continuing their conversation that excludes you.  The klaxon goes, they make a beeline in the opposite direction to the objective whilst you resignedly set off to move a jerry can from one oil drum to another by yourself.  You finish the round covered in BB welts and cuts.  Your team has lost.  You scored the only points.  You see them back at the safe-zone celebrating how well they played.