The "S" word

MeanMan wrote: Roll Tide wrote: You seem to be frustrated a lot lately, DeTrev. Hot pies vs cold pies. This is a tough decision. Hot pies, with.... Ice cream on the side.

Oh snap! Nice combo.

My personal favorite would have to be key lime pie. Cold, of course.

Do you like your flex 8 camo? Some people say it doesn't give good ear and neck coverage.

for some reason when i read this thread i got hungry for pie

A-5R/T wrote: Click here http://www.specialopspaintball.com/positions/asn.asp To end this debate

Any halfheaded numpty with a penchant for expensive gear and a copmmando fetish can buy crap from special ops and try to pass him off as a sniper. The fact that special ops has worked the word sniper into their (admittedly impressive) marketing scheme adds no credibility to the constant claims about paintball snipers.

If I were to poo on a rag, smear myself in it, gorilla glue a few branches to myself, fall asleep in a shrub somewhere and occasionally wake up long enough to shoot some poor sap who didn't happen to be looking at me, does that make me a sniper? No. So then why does wearing an overpriced ghillie suit and firing an overpriced marker? It doesn't.

Special ops doesn't count for a bloody thing except as an interesting case study as having developed a highly succesful marketing gimmick that has attempted to hijack an entire sector of the sport by pigeonholing people into those retarded 'positions' they pulled out of their collective butt. There are no paintball snipers. I wear camo. I hide in bushes. Doesn't make me a sniper. Using concealment and placing your shots carefully just means you're vaguely competent, and/or have a paint budget. There is nothing you can do in the sport of paintball to make you a sniper- not until you find me a marker that at 300fps or lower can consistently put one shot on top of the next at three hundred feet or more. Hint: It doesn't exist.

EDIT: LOL @ Specops. Their description of 'snipers' is hilarious- not to mention the not so subtle hints that basically add up to "BUY OUR GEAR!!!11!!!one!!' . "Keep your barrel clean". "Used compressed air. "Use a light gun"...


*sigh*

As long as there are newbs, there will be Special Ops Paintball.


Edited by brihard - 29 July 2007 at 12:52am

Brihard is full of win in his assessment of Spec Ops. Quoting that company is like quoting the Conservapedia. It's full of bias and lies.

SSOK. The way sniper cards in scenarios works, is you call a ref over to you and he radios the closest ref to the target. Each card you have represents a single shot. It is taken away from you after the shot and in some cases, logged in as a used card. It's the closest thing we can get to really sniping, unless you want to try to create a round that can withstand a 450 fps shot out of a paintball gun, be deadly accurate, create no more of a welt then regular balls, and to get refs to watch players with this sniper equipment.

Brihard is right dude, Spec Ops uses the fact that newbs dont really know all that much, and their overzealousness to their advantage, which is a brilliant market strategy, I'll give em that, but that doesnt mean they're right.

and to the "snipers" who just call in people with their dumb little sniper card things or whatever, come on, thats not sniping, sniping takes skill, thats a fat kid sitting in a bush who is to lazy to get a job to pay for a gun...

That question is the true reason why i started "The S Word" topic.

A-5R/T wrote: I my self am not a sniper when i play

Second, in my mind, if big name companies like spec ops recognize that snipers do exists in paintball i think that it only strengthens the legitimacy of the position.  People have been playing paintball longer than spec ops has been around, and during that time certain people have been playing like snipers. Paintball snipers where not created from Spec ops marketing campaign, Spec ops marketing campaingn was created because of the paintball snipers.

bravecoward wrote: Who wants pie?

I already said I want some damn pie.

So why doesn't any one answer my question? or should i just start a new thread.