Fight Club: Ramping

[Missy Q]

1--you can call me Gramps if you like.

Deal

2--well, what about your failure to spell, 'their' correctly? Or, 'repetoire'? Or the NPPL's failure to come to terms with the PSP in the off season. There's different degrees of failure and the one I was refering to was the failure to acknowledge the real scope of the problem, instead claiming some moral high ground amid the wreckage.

Below your usual standard, but I'll tolerate it as you're clearly rattled by my devastating wit.
The spelling thing is ridiculous and you can't be serious. For someone who does not type their posts in Word first I think I do just fine.
The PSP thing is ridiculous. Turn up at the first NPPL event of the year before you decide who needs to come to terms with what. I doubt Texas won't be tricky to beat. The HB event is taking great shape.
On the gun rules, you'll get no argument out of me on that score, in fact I doubt you'll find anyone that agrees with you more than I. I am totally against the NPPL gun rules, and the PSP gun rules. I don't think either is adequate and I don't like one more than the other. I have a solution in mind but like you, it seems people think it's too draconian. I would argue that desperate times call for desperate measures, but thats me.

3--nice try but the one ignoring reality ain't me, Thunder Thighs. (Flowers maybe, but no chocolate. For your own good.)

Its not a case of ignoring reality, its a case of dealing with it, and moving on, rather than spending so long arguing over it that 'reality' takes the form of 'fantasy' anyway. And besides, you started the whole 'tourney universe' thing, and if you want to leave doors open, expect people to walk through them

5--I know you are but what am I?

is that really a retort to this:

5--You started it. Me and my ilk indeed. Shame on you.

If it is, then your slip is showing. And if it wasn't completely showing after that, then your feeble sizist water retention remark will do the rest.

I expected better from you Gramps, but then I think sometimes you build yourself up too much...

 

[Ralph]

Originally posted by Missy Q
the 'Tourney Universe' will surely implode, and tons of spoilt, whimpering brats will rain down on the earth, .

Not in my air space. Let me go get my proper gun

 

[Chicago]

Originally posted by Baca Loco
I do rather like the recognition of two travel point, essentially a firing position and re-arming position. On its face that sounds like it might actually serve as a starting position to return to real one pull, one shot operation.

Now all you gotta do is find somebody who'd buy that gun.

Anybody who wants to play a tournament.

That assumes, of course, that people running tournaments (or the people in a position to force them to do it anyway) have the forsight to look at their long-term best interest over their short term best interest.

Not likely though. Most people running tournaments are waaaay too worried about paying the bills next month to bother with having any customers at all 2 years from now.

 

[Chicago]

Originally posted by Baca Loco
There are NO semi-auto guns by that definition.

Now that's just a silly statement. Maybe you meant there are no ELECTRONIC semi-auto guns. But we've had true semi-auto guns since the 80's. And we could have electronic semi auto guns too, except that people making the guns know their markers will shoot faster and they'll sell better if they "omit" the code that would make their guns semi-auto.

 

[Baca Loco]

Originally posted by Chicago
Now that's just a silly statement. Maybe you meant there are no ELECTRONIC semi-auto guns. But we've had true semi-auto guns since the 80's. And we could have electronic semi auto guns too, except that people making the guns know their markers will shoot faster and they'll sell better if they "omit" the code that would make their guns semi-auto.

Don't be so pedantic, Chi-town, you're infringing on my territory. Nobody cares about blade frame cockers or Old Skool Tippmanns et al as they aren't the core of the this particular issue.

 

[Chicago]

Why not? Whether any guns commonly in use in tournamnets are CURRENTLY legal semi-auto has nothing to do with whether there is agreement on what semiauto is or whether it's feasible to have it.

I don't think anyone was arguing that true-semi auto guns are common. But that wasn't the discussion. The discussion was whether there was a valid definition of semi-auto. There is. We all know what it is (to a point where, given accurate information aboout a marker, we could all agree as to whether it was semi-auto or not 99.9% of the time).

Countering that with "Most people's guns don't shoot semi-auto and they think they do" is about the same as me selling you a nice vegetarian marinara with meat in it. We both know what vegetarian is, even if what you think is great-tasting vegetarian marinara really only tastes good because of the meat I put in there without telling you about it.

Just because you bought a marker advertised as semi-auto even though it's got a little "meat" thrown in there to shoot faster than semi-auto doesn't mean you don't know what semi-auto is.

 

[Missy Q]

I concur