Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 06:30:05 UTC No. 215907

>Threadly Topic
Why is airsoft """""""culture"""""" so bad online, while it is so harder to see it in actual person?

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:52:15 UTC No. 215915

>>215907
What do you mean by bad culture? Idk if it's any more toxic than other hobbies.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:08:36 UTC No. 215916

>>215915
>every airsoft teching discourse having mostly redditors who never did any of it but will repeat what someone with lots of upvoots estabilished
>youtube and whole perception of the hobby is muddied up by ghilliefags that try to be second kickingmustang and call everyone and everything a cheater
I admit I overdramatized that question as a massive aspie I am, moreso should have asked if you guys see similar dispoportion between discourse online and how it looks like in practice.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:23:17 UTC No. 215917

>>215916
ah that stuff. Yea i agree but i don't think it's exclusive to Airsoft, but yes people giving advice or just straight up parroting shit because someone popular told them what to think is annoying af. I generally just don't care about what people have to say until i know for a fact they own the shit they talk about. On the ghilliefags i think i can count on one hand the amount of times i've heard or talked about Airsoft youtubers lol. Generally don't see too many ghillies and if i do it's always the shitty aliexpress one or novritsch that also sucks. Ghillies in general i feel are kinda overrated. I use a viper hood and i feel like that's plenty to stay concealed. People in general have kinda t-rex vision so if you sit still most won't see you.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:59:37 UTC No. 215921

>>215907
it's like any online vs irl discourse. It's harder to be a dick in person. Online you disassociate from people and treat them like adversaries

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:31:09 UTC No. 215933

>>215921
You're wrong!

And I'm going to spend the entire thread telling you that you're wrong!

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:27:33 UTC No. 215967

Decided to run my rookie zone kit last weekend. Situational awareness under this mask is hilariously bad, breathing on top of that also is a bitch. But was fun nonetheless.
>>215907
I think that is mainly limited to the US and UK. The airsoft community over here is very small, so if you are a retard word quickly spreads and everyone will know you for being a retard. This also translates to the online sphere, so people are barely able to hide behind pseudonyms and anonymity.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:32:21 UTC No. 215968

>>215967
What did you do for eyepro and how was fogging?

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:43:27 UTC No. 215970

>>215968
>eyepro
Had to swap out the gasmasks glass with polycarbonate, marshalls even testfired it to make sure it withstands 1,5j with the barrel pressed against it.
>fogging
It wasn't that hot so it was not as bad as one would expect. During sprints and heavy breathing it would fog when breathing out, the moment I breathed in it would clear up again.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:44:38 UTC No. 215971

>>215970
cool

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:20:02 UTC No. 215976

>>215970
could you show how you replaced the lenses?

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:39:26 UTC No. 216000

>>215970
I thought about doing this with my PBF. We have a laser engraver at work so cutting the circles lenses out of some poly would be easy. Ended up selling the mask since nobody does theme games anymore.

I've also thought about taking an old Soviet filter, ripping all of the internals out and installing a fan instead to get some airflow into the mask to maybe keep it from fogging.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:50:36 UTC No. 216002

Speaking of which, is the lack of themed/scenario-driven airsoft games limited to my area or has that been the way the whole of airsoft has trended? We used to have tons of cool games. Vietnam-themed games with half the guys doing their best impressions of Viet Cong, Cold War themed US/Nato vs. Warsaw Pact. Op. Irene had people playing as Somali civvies/militia. I remember hearing about cop/robber type games and post-apocalyptic themed stuff too, although I didn't get the chance to go to one.

Everything nowadays is just green vs tan. Sometimes they throw in 'Civil War 2.0' with no other context, sometimes they don't even bother to do that. And 'big' events are pretty hard to find, most of the fields are pay-to-play where half the people show up wearing paintball clothes. That's WAY less fun than 'Fortunate Sun' and coolie hats.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:40:18 UTC No. 216004

>>215976
I just bought them from ebay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/272833416122?_skw=gp5+replacement+airsoft+glas) and followed that tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3eiCdOq8yk&
>>216002
Nothing like that really going on here, I personally just run my autistic loadouts during normal games, which usually puts me at quite a disadvantage against the average mutlicam running airsoft player.

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:44:45 UTC No. 216043

>>216002
For me it's the opposite. I used to just play casual games but now I do mainly historical stuff like WW2 and Vietnam games. One field I frequent has started doing Easter front, western front, Finnish winter war, Vietnam etc.

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:13:38 UTC No. 216051

>>216004
>against the average mutlicam running airsoft player.
why is multiscam so prevalent?
milsurp like m81, fleck, and even jigsaw depending on where you live can be had for next to nothing, with way better build quality than whatever chinkshit the average 0p3r8t0r runs
it cant just be muh tacicool and muh matching pouches right?

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:53:24 UTC No. 216068

>>216051
Multicam was used from 2004 until the late 2010s by the US military and a host of other countries (some of which still use it), as well as numerous imitations of it by even more countries - a large amount of known gear and tactical clothing manufacturers make stuff using it, a decent chunk of used gear and uniforms can be found in it, and it's an easy way to have something that at the very least conveys the simple aura of imitating a modern NATO combatant
It's not the most original, and it doesn't blend into *every* environment, but I get why it's a common sight among those wanting to make a generic soldier kit - even if I too wish people would pick something more interesting every now and then

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:30:06 UTC No. 216169

xps3/eotechs and T2 clones are too generic and gay.
what cool looking replica optic do I get that's also decent, looking for something in line with a comp m4 or something.