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Our Other Hobbies; what else takes your time?
Topic Started: Apr 6 2009, 02:34 AM (1,095 Views)
Schrodinger's Cat
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Music mainly, I play a variety of stuff, Trumpet I'd consider my first love. I'm no where near good enough to make anything out of it, so its purely a hobby. I also like to cook, Sweets more than main courses, Cakes are fun! :$

Other than that, your usual PC games, Books (Getting through a lot of Steven King atm), etc. I'd love to write a novel, but its finding that "golden" storyline.
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Christian
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Ah cool! Great idea for a thread.

I play a lot of different games outside of War-ish ones. I have an ample collection of board games, and also do RPGs with my friends every now and then.

I also recently started playing squash which I really like (and I'm pretty good at it turns out!). I don't ride my bike as much as I used to but I also really enjoy mountain biking.

I play lots of instruments like guitar, bass, a bit of percussion/drums as well as some traditional south american instruments like the charango, quena and bombo. My family is from SA, as well as my gf's. I play in a band a few times a year at Chilean festivals.

Other than that... I do a bit of visual arts stuff like drawing and painting, but I haven't really done anything major since uni.

I also like to read :) Pretty much anything really.
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thewizardofoz
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well cool. quite a few musicians, and even another paintballer/airsofter or two. for any of you who havent tried it out, well, put it on your list of things to do before you die. it is incredibly fun. paintball is more adrenaline pumping than airsoft because of the greater pain involved in it, but that is half the fun.

laters,
Oz
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Christian
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Yeah, I've played Paintball once. Loved it. Only got hit a few times. Stupid kids we were playing with wouldn't take it like men and would just stay in the game despite getting shot to pieces. Jerks. Anyway... was all good!
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thewizardofoz
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aww... i hate it when people play on (after being shot). there is only one thing i like about it. the perfect excuse to completely shoot the living fuck out of someone :P . i mean like empty the rest of my hopper on them/ shoot until they cry/ i draw blood. when people cheat, i get vicious...
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Ross
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I'd hate to see you playing your average GW teen then :D

"I saw you thumb that dice to a 6 maggot, try doing that with a broken thumb!" <dives across the table with evil intent> :rofl:
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thewizardofoz
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lol, yeah really

why would we have knuckles if not to bludgeon the worthless waste-oids that have no code of honor in the games they play. on a related note, i've never been in a fist fight... i have pretty good anger control, usually :P . just on the paintball field, i feel it is my duty to destroy those who try and mess with my kill:death ratio... my god have mercy on them, for i shall not...

oh, i just paintballed today, too. twas fun. sooo fun...
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v_lazy_dragon
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People don't cheat at gamesoc - all the regualr gamers are honest, and we take offense at people dicking with our games... As most of us are 6 foot+ and on the heavier build (or martial artists) we don't tend to get much in the way of trouble :)
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Dimitri
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Actually, I used to do a lot of airsoft stuff with my buds. Always grabbed a metal AKM whenever I could; Melee attacks were automatic kills for the victor. :D

I'm also a decent cook; Prefer Cajun/Creole dishes, along with some Mexican and Italian classics/adaptations.
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mattblackgod
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Right people - fire up the old wag! We are off to Dimitri's for dinner! Go for a pee - its a long drive and I dont like stopping the old wreck as it probally wont restart! :D
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Just Another Raider
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WIZARD! I dissagree with ou on the paintball is funner then airsoft!

Now, before you hunt me down ,let me explain. First of all, most kids that i know play airsoft. So, its mainly 'Do you wanna play with 1 other guy, or 5 other guys?'. 2nd, i like how the guns at least look real...and finally, i'm a wimp. I don't take pain very well....i lose most hockey fights.
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thewizardofoz
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Apr 12 2009, 11:29 PM
WIZARD! I dissagree with ou on the paintball is funner then airsoft!

Now, before you hunt me down ,let me explain. First of all, most kids that i know play airsoft. So, its mainly 'Do you wanna play with 1 other guy, or 5 other guys?'. 2nd, i like how the guns at least look real...and finally, i'm a wimp. I don't take pain very well....i lose most hockey fights.
i can sympathize with the lack of players... but there are still enough paintballers around me to keep me on that.

as for real looking guns, check out the BT TM-7 (looks like the MP7), smart parts SP-8 (looks like the now canceled XM8), and all the milsim guns that either look like m16s/ak47s or have mods to make them like that. plus the rocket launchers, mortars, grenades, and two paintball pistols on the market that use magazines pretty much kills that argument point. if you want realistic paintball guns, just check out the milsim/woodsball section of the market. i even found several companies that made magazine fed paintball guns. i geeked out.

for the pain... well, i guess that is a personal choice, but i like the pain. i know its weird, but i like knowing that i'm out and the adrenaline rush of it. you haven't lived until you had a rapid fire firefight at 20ft with no cover. and i hardly felt a single one of the 20 or so paintballs that smacked into me. adrenaline is great.

the only big advantage to airsoft (imho) is how much less it costs. unless of course you go spend $600 on a really nice airsoft gun that can empty it's 700rnd mag in 2 seconds and you go through 2500 shots a game... then you are pretty much saving about $20 if that...

sorry if that seemed like a rant, but i just had to counter those points, mostly the realistic guns one. i find that most people who have made that argument never looked away from the speedball guns and looked into the woodsball market (not sure if you have). i play mostly woodsball, so it kinda bugs me when people completely discount that large part of the game that more than 80% of paintballers play...

and i started rambling again... sorry...
Oz
Edited by thewizardofoz, Apr 13 2009, 02:47 AM.
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v_lazy_dragon
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Its all a bit different in the Uk - you need to be a registered skirmisher to *Buy* airsoft guns these days, which tends to make it the more 'serious' of the 2 by a long shot. Paintbaling usually seems full of teenagers on birtday's, work do's or massivley drunk stag party members. Not the most thrilling of opponents....
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Ross
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What can be more fun than peppering a bunch of rowdy teenagers with bright coloured high velocity balls?
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v_lazy_dragon
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Peppering them with high velocity lead balls! lol?!
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Benny
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Balls of lead? Pah... We aussies use copper projectiles these days. Thought the rest of the world had caught up by now ;)
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Just Another Raider
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True, mister. Wizard about the certain mod's. Tippman A7 i belie can be made to look like a MP-5, but, those things cost a fourtne. I still like both sports, and there is no denying that paintball gives you a massive adelriene rush. However, i still play airsoft more.
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Dimitri
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Actually Mr. Danny, I just made a -delicious- Red Velvet (Or Red Chocolate, to some of you.) cake yesterday. Butter-cream icing is right up there in man's greatest inventions, along with the telephone, high-speed internet connections, and gaming miniatures. (And the games we play with them, of course!)

As far as the paintball/airsoft debate goes, I prefer airsoft. There were more local dealers for airsoft equipment than paintball where I lived, plus, no way in hell was I getting -any- kind of paint on my shock fatigues or gasmask!
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Just Another Raider
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Exatcly! Airsoft lets you look spiffy!
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Dimitri
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Yeah, running through thick subtropical vegetation, wearing black fatigues, a balaclava, vietnam era gasmask, and an AKM at the ready... of course, this was done while trespassing on a military base's old training ground, along with 6 other guys.. the one MP that caught us just said to keep out of sight, and we obliged him.

Good times.
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