Aren't the boys and I so cool? Does anyone else like my Whitechapel shirt? I used to listen to Nickelback and now I listen to Deathcore!

I unironically miss playing paintball

>>63905116
Then go play it, retard.

Can me and my boys join up?

>>63905116
As opposed to ironically missing paintball?

>>63905157
Correct, which I also do occasionally.
>>63905124
It wouldn't be the same.

>>63905171
>which I also do occasionally.
How?

>>63905124
Paintball is dead as fuck. A year or so back I felt like getting back into it and it's a shell of what it once was. For a while it seemed like it was going to take off as an actual sport with TV deals, big sponsors and paid players but it seems everything just fizzled out. I'm not sure what happened.

>>63905187
Maybe its a regional thing, but I feel the same about airsoft. There was a period from 2009 to about 2016 where every kid played or had at least tried it, and it was popular enough that even small country towns could support a dedicated airsoft store and a few fields, but now it seems to be receding back to obscurity like it was in the early 2000s. Since covid I dipped back in and found it was primarily 30 year olds still playing it, not that there weren't a few teens but not nearly the proportion as in the early 2010s.

>>63905254
I actually used to be super into paintball in the mid-late 2000’s. I watched NPPL on ESPN and always wanted to play on the field they would set up on Huntington Beach. The thing is, things were already “dying” by this point.
Paintball got very popular in the 80’s and 90’s. It was dudes running around in the woods shooting each other and having a great time. We would call this “woodsball”. Sometimes people would organize massive games with hundreds of people and objectives to accomplish to make the game a bit more interesting than just shoot at each other. Those were called “scenarios”.
It’s important to understand that these were really what made the game popular. These groups of guys going out into the woods fucking around and having fun.
There was (and still is) this one place in socal that changed things up a bit. Instead of playing in the woods, their field has no trees and was like a little shantytown of wooden huts and buildings. This made it easier for spectators/people recording to see what was going on.
Some people (especially the professionals) did enjoy this style of play more. It was more action packed, less fucking around in the woods and maybe seeing someone. The fields got smaller and smaller, and the wooden huts turned into inflatable bunkers which meant you could really slide and dive into them. Now you could see the entire enemy team before the game even started and everyone was running around like a psycho. This is called “speedball”.
Massive paintball companies like smart parts convinced ESPN this was the next big sport, they paid a ton of money to host legit tournaments at legit places, it was really cool if you were one of the few thousand dudes playing on a pro or even D3-D5 team.

>>63906070
Cont…
The problems were 1. Paintball actually isn’t that much fun to watch live and it’s hard to really capture the game with a TV camera. It’s not like there’s a ball to follow. 2. The true backbone of paintball, the woodsball dudes, had become completely alienated. All the companies were focused on speedball. The game was INCREDIBLY expensive to play, and this extremely gay and annoying toxic and “agg” culture developed in the speedball scene. Be a fucking douchebag to everyone, if there’s a new kid trying to play, rush his ass down and shoot him 15 times and then laugh at him, shit like that. It was really really really bad. Xbox360 live culture but in real life.
So new players dwindled, woodsball players got into airsoft because airsoft guns catered to their preference and new technologies made them better and better, and speedball was bleeding money and viewership. It was never going to work out, and the financial crisis was basically the final nail in the coffin.

>>63905108 (OP)
>no trannies in sight
Not a real /k/ meetup.

>>63906072
I played NCPA in 2008 and D2 NPPL from like 04- 08. 08 is when the game REALLY started dying. BPS roll back, markers stagnating in technology, and big push for TV for a very unwatchable sport.

Yeah, the culture was shit, but a lot of culture was shit back then. Kind of was the time and place for it to peak because it matched the culture. Think of b and ST then being THE internet at the time. PBN was like a top 10 forum from like 02-08 before reddit. No different the then 90s being the EXTREME era.

>>63905127
>fighter
>wizard
>ranger
>warlock
Pick two, the other two will try to kill you.

>>63906072
Yeah, speedball is gay as fuck.

>>63905108 (OP)
The saw is the LAW nigger, and don't you EVER forget it.

>>63906070
>>63906072
Im not really in the know when it comes to paintball but this does match (albeit more abridged) what Ive read on /pbg/
the ludicrous prices of paint are also commonly mentioned there as another hurdle

>>63906421
>PBN
home of deer gore and some paintball stuff

>>63905108 (OP)
>NOOOOOOO, you can't have fun!
>you have to run SERIOUS drills with SERIOUS individuals at the range with your SERIOUS $5,000 URGI setup and MIL-SPEC ENABLERS
>you can't just go in the woods and shoot paintballs at your friends for fun
>you just- you JUST CAN'T, that's why
I had more fun sneaking around in the woods at night hunting my friends with my wal-mart spyder MR1 than I've ever had in the military.

>>63905187
>>63905254
>>63906072
>>63906421
08 was the housing crash and that really made it hard to justify $60 for a case of paint and then going through two of them every weekend. Even 40 or 45 for garbage field paint was a lot. The used market was massive and there were plenty of good budget markers like the ion and axe, so getting into it wasn't that bad. It was always the cost of paint that limited how much I got to play. I actually played a lot at an indoor field that used rubber balls, but it wasn't profitable enough to maintain and they eventually didn't even have enough for people to fill pods.

>>63906759
I just checked online out of curiosity and a thousand count case of paintballs are like 25 bucks. That doesn't seem that bad, I remember it being around that way back in the day

>>63906614
why is it so bad?

>>63906820
>>63906910
Im just parroting what Ive read on /pbg/
but from what they've told me paint isnt expensive, but most if not all fields dont allow you to run your own paint, you have to run theirs
doesnt even matter if its the exact same paint because they'll just argue:
>you might've swapped different paint into the correct bottle

>>63907724
*and fields charge a ridiculous markup

Nobody likes our $600 airsofts?

>>63906072
>The game was INCREDIBLY expensive to play, and this extremely gay and annoying toxic and “agg” culture developed in the speedball scene. Be a fucking douchebag to everyone, if there’s a new kid trying to play, rush his ass down and shoot him 15 times and then laugh at him, shit like that.
Ah, that makes sense! Because I have a distinct memory of that! I'd go play paintball with friends as a kid, a few times with a groups of family and friends for birthday parties, and we'd dress in surplus camo and essentially try to do the woodsball thing at the local paintball venue, and I can very much recall one of these speedball types with the jersey and outfit and everything rushing me and proceeding to shoot me point blank which hurt like a motherfucker. Thanks a lot, asshole!

>>63905108 (OP)
>AAP nigger
>HPA niggers
Bet none of you even run GBBRs

>>63905108 (OP)
>Guys being bros
Best post on /k/ in years.

>stay-at-home loner tries to bully people in a picture for having fun

alt tab back to hearts of iron

>>63905127
I think any of these guys individually would be a good weird friend.
>Yeah that's my buddy Cedric he never wears shoes. Funny guy tho

>>63905187
>>63906070
>>63905254
>>63906072
>>63906614
>>63909597
I got into airsoft (UK) in a big way 15 years or so ago. There's a local guy who ran a club anyone could turn up to and hire guns and equipment. When I first went you might get 40 or so guys turn up, he would share sites with paintballters and off road driving clubs. It got increasingly popular over a couple years and I trailed off as I grew up and did other things. I went with a few friends a couple years ago and now he has 120+ players, he gets the whole paintball site to himself on some days, he has a large farm complex only he uses and has turned into a proper site, has another woodland site he's got a long term hire on and is looking at another so he can run a different event at a different site every month all year round. Airsoft has got increasingly popular and beats paintball in pretty much every way. And I did a lot of both

>>63905171
Listen pal, you are probably too young to even know of Steele Dan, muchless his lyrics. But they wisely council
>I'm never going back to my old school
Literally and metaphorically advising what the Navajo domestic violence and gang rape victems say
>be weak, go back
>be strong, move on
Or what the Old Testament teaches about Lot's wife when she looked back at the happy party town of Sodom and was turned into a pillar of salt. Bitch.
Or what the first rule of Italian racing tells us
>what is behind you doesn't matter
In this sense and in every sense you do not go back, look back or think or feel that what is in the past matters. Denial>nostalgia.

>>63910062
i hate when millennials type like genxers

>>63905108 (OP)
Playing airsoft with friends in high school was a good time. But as soon as I turned 18 I started buying real guns. As a 30-something now I couldn't buy a toy gun, airsoft or paintball. I rented a paintball gun at a field for a bachelor's party a few years ago. It was a fun few hours but not truly as thrilling as putting 500+rds down range at a time.

>>63910087
larpsoft events can be fun. the field i went to did a cool event with 5 different factions with enemies and neutrals.

>>63910087
Airsoft beats paintball for being young and shooting at other people 'just like in call of duty'

>>63910101
I went to an event with 3 factions off 300 a side on a massive area, the senario lasted Saturday to Sunday with an optional night game as well. They even had a milsurp m113 driving around that would be transport for whichever faction controlled its fuel depot.

>>63906072
>>63906070
>>63905254
>>63906759
man back from like 2005 to 2010 I used to play woodsball with a bunch of my friends
>rural Indiana so a lot of our families had property with woods or at least hills
>my parents had 10 acres of mostly flat land but we had a tree line and go-carts
>three or four of us each would pile on a gocart and do drivebys on each other
>at another kid's house we'd dig foxholes in the woods and play capture the flag
>this one kid would ALWAYS get hurt somehow. kidney shot, fall down, take ball under his mask to the mouth
>one time we all ran out of paint/air so we threw horse shit at each other
>this one kid had a full auto and would freeze his balls and crank his velocity up. he was an asshole but we still invited him
>any time a new kid would join we'd agree on a code word and everyone (12+ kids) would gang up on him as initiation
>every now and the dads would play, kids vs dads and we'd fuck each other up
I used a Tippmann 98 custom with an M4 stock and a flatline barrel. I still have it on a gunrack above this very computer. I got a Sheridan PGP after I got my first job, but by then we'd all drifted apart and stopped playing so I never got to use it.

>>63905108 (OP)
Glowing

>>63910081
Try GenX/Boomer, loser. Btw, the Italian driving quote was Raul Julia in 'Gumball Rally', best road trip movie ever.

I wish I had enough free time and energy to waste on pointless spite.

>>63905187
America ceased to be a White country and all that implies died in the change
>>63910062
Tradition is the preservation of fire not the worship of ashes. Keep the feeling of the golden age alive for future generations. Or if you're that much of a blackpilled nihilist then lay down and die right now.

>>63906820
I don't know where you looked but empire and hk army cases are still 40 to 75 depending on grade. I was going to add that the industry at one point tried pushing .50 cal paint instead of .68 to cut down on costs, but they apparently still sell it.

>>63910162
>would freeze up his balls
What he probably had was monster balls, which was the cheapest paint you could get at Walmart. The shells were way too thick so they wouldn't break and that made them hurt so much more. Freezing paintballs makes them more brittle. Pro teams would freeze their paint to decrease the chance of a bounce.

>>63906556
>Dwarf
>Dark Elf
>Halfling
>Ork

>>63910162
>Tippmann 98
I literally never thought I would see those words ever again. Wtf.

>>63905108 (OP)
Christ I loved playing paintball all through highschool, I still have my old dangerous power g3 kicking around somewhere.

This whole thread has filled me with a deep sadness and longing for my youth. My kingdom for a time machine to play 2005 woodsball one last time.

>>63906072
Ya I was going to say the same thing, speed ball killed it by alienating the core fan base and exacerbating the costliest part of the sport, the paint itself. You could easily get a day of woodsball in for 500 balls or less. 500 balls in speedball wouldn't even get you through a match. It also gamified it as much as possible, further driving away the core players that liked the tactical feel of woodsball. Designing the inflatables to allow balls to curve around them, gear that was heavily padded and tailor made to deflect balls that weren't perfectly square on and high velocity, shit like that

When I was 14 I lit one of my classmates the fuck up during a birthday paintball event that was held indoors and used the rubber balls. Him and I were on opposite sides of the same inflatable bunker without realizing, but I think my team started suppressing him because he started high crawling away and put himself directly in my line of sight. I zipped him from the lower thigh to the opposite shoulder, the 3rd or 4th shot must have hit him square in the asshole because he raised his torso in a jolt and started sprinting the fuck away from the field on his knees while grabbing his ass with both hands.
Next Monday morning at school he was asking who was the sadistic motherfucker who had pulled that stunt on him.

>>63905127
That fucked up bow and assfucked arrows and absolutely niggered string and… his shit is all fucked. He never shot that bow. He doesn’t know how to shoot a bow. Fuck this picture. No matter how many times I see it

>>63912948
Such is life.
Got the money, time and land now... but no one to play with...
At least I got on the water today.

>>63914036
getting raped by a rubber ball and then getting lit up might be one of the most painful things that can happen to you short of torture

>>63906677
IT'S NOT ABOUT FUN

>>63905127
>time for me and the boys to go down to the russ carnahan circuit court building and let the fascists know that st. louis is OUR city
every time i see this photo i just end up staring at it for like ten minutes it's so perfect

>>63912890
Bruh they still make them. Kind of look like ass with the picatinny rail instead of the weaver though. I'm pretty sure Tippmann also make .22lr ar pattern rifles too. It's the same name and they're both in Fort Wayne.

>>63905108 (OP)

>>63905127
>the creatures calling you 'brown' on /k/

>>63910162
>rural Indiana so a lot of our families had property with woods or at least hills

if you were born in the 80's and didnt have this experience you probably arent male (or a nu-/k/ poster)

Loved my spyder-compact and gator joes lol

>>63905127
What is the backstory to this one???

>>63917531
>What is the backstory to this one???
/k/ meet-up during the summer-of-love™

>>63917671
why are they saying "glory to russia" in this totally real, organic maymay?

>>63917684
Its a slav bumfight meme between shills calling eachother gross trannies

>>63906626
PBN was honestly great. I really miss that era of dedicated forums. I would do anything to see Forumplanet again in all its pride.

>>63905108 (OP)
LARPsofting is fun

>>63917684
>why are they saying "glory to russia" in this totally real, organic maymay?
/k/edditors were so dumb back then they unironically could not tell you the first thing about the people they felt inspired to kill, kinda like ted cruz or something, their ignorance became an internal badge of honor of sorts

>>63917531
libertarian /k/ posters running security during a black lives matter protest in 2020

>>63905127
There's no way he could afford woodland IBA but not a rifle

>>63918217
>There's no way he could afford woodland IBA but not a rifle
lmao, its a /k/ poster...what did you actually expect?

>>63905127
Wearing the armor collar on TOP of the IBA cracks me up every time.

>>63918217
It's an older pic. There was a time not too long ago where woodland IBAs were cheap as fuck at the right surplus stores. Even with the soft armor they are still cheap because the front armor in IBAs is worthless in anything but an IBA

>>63918522
>collar on TOP of the IBA
Always gets me too. I bought an IBA years ago and the collar separately, took me all of about half a second to see how it goes together. It's braindead simple and that retard was still too stupid to figure it out.

>>63905108 (OP)
>I used to listen to Nickelback
Didn't somebody figure out that one of the major common denominators of school shooters is they listen to Nickleback?

>>63906677
>I had more fun playing a game than I did at my job
Amazing insights you've provided for us.

>>63918179
>Hastily made up explanation to cover his embarrassing fuckup
Lol, lmao

>>63905108 (OP)
What's wrong with Whitechapel? Hell, I can't even make out the name of the other bandshirt.

>>63905108 (OP)
Faggot