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[Gretik]

Grunts...

If ya look at them grunts hardly ever hit squat, usually because they are out of ammo, they have those pitieful stick mags which i guess they can change, although I have never seen them do that. Doesn't mean they don't.

I have a question though, do they pick people who are even thicker than the contestants (Planet Eclipse excluded) to be the grunts, or get amateur paintballers to do it, knowing that they will be expected to get shot two minutes into a firefight?

Lastly, if any of you did play as a grunt, do you think you would play dum, or go out on an offensive and then kick the contestants rears?

 

[Rob Lloyd]

I just wana know what the merc dudes are up to.
They strut about like Arnie, thinkin their all that, with their little
grunt accolites,den bam some dumb ass tax worker beefs it up to them.

 

[jeevusmaximus]

If I was a grunt, I would try to convince the producer to let me use my cocker. If not, I would lay some major smackdown on those poor *******s.

Grrrrr.........

 

[Gretik]

I would...

I would like to know how they make tha mg, seeing as full auto is illegal in this country...

 

[KillerOnion]

Oh geez...

Great, that's just what you need. Tons of viewers thinking either "Oh, that's what paintball is like" and proceed to brand you all (and myself and the rest of us elsewhere) as lunatics, martians, or rejects from a cheesy Star Trek spinoff...and then possibly show up to the sites asking to play like that. As if the existing scenario crowds weren't annoying enough as it is: "When can we go play the fort?" "Follow me, I have the atomic bomb!" "Oh, I know. I've only been shot twice. It takes ten to get me out of the game, right?" ...And the laughable but tedious stuff drones on and on. It's bad enough when you have to tell a 9 year old kid for the trillionth time "No we don't have any green radioactive rabbits, magic castles, and 30 foot tanks armed with grenade launchers, WE'RE NOT GOING IN THE WOODS BECAUSE IT'S A PAIN IN THE REAR TO GET COVERED IN TICKS AND TRY TO KEEP YOU AND YOUR CRETIN FRIENDS FROM WIPING, so we're going over to the pallet or the pipe field and having a fun time." Having to stoop to Disneyball junk for publicity leaves a horrid mess to clean up: OK, they know we exist, but no way does that present any concept of organization or sport. After they figure they've gotten the message across, whatever it is that they're trying at, it will take twice as long to get all the stupid commando crap (That, if you recall, we spent all our years with SUPAIR, FOR EXAMPLE, to get rid of!!!!!!!!!) out of the public mind and what we do into it.

Bravo, X-fire. You just cleaned every window in the house by throwing rocks at them.

 

[Robin Hood]

Oh geez...

Originally posted by KillerOnion
Great, that's just what you need. Tons of viewers thinking either "Oh, that's what paintball is like" and proceed to brand you all (and myself and the rest of us elsewhere) as lunatics, martians, or rejects from a cheesy Star Trek spinoff...and then possibly show up to the sites asking to play like that. As if the existing scenario crowds weren't annoying enough as it is: "When can we go play the fort?" "Follow me, I have the atomic bomb!" "Oh, I know. I've only been shot twice. It takes ten to get me out of the game, right?" ...And the laughable but tedious stuff drones on and on. It's bad enough when you have to tell a 9 year old kid for the trillionth time "No we don't have any green radioactive rabbits, magic castles, and 30 foot tanks armed with grenade launchers, WE'RE NOT GOING IN THE WOODS BECAUSE IT'S A PAIN IN THE REAR TO GET COVERED IN TICKS AND TRY TO KEEP YOU AND YOUR CRETIN FRIENDS FROM WIPING, so we're going over to the pallet or the pipe field and having a fun time." Having to stoop to Disneyball junk for publicity leaves a horrid mess to clean up: OK, they know we exist, but no way does that present any concept of organization or sport. After they figure they've gotten the message across, whatever it is that they're trying at, it will take twice as long to get all the stupid commando crap (That, if you recall, we spent all our years with SUPAIR, FOR EXAMPLE, to get rid of!!!!!!!!!) out of the public mind and what we do into it.

Bravo, X-fire. You just cleaned every window in the house by throwing rocks at them.

Ha ha! That's hilarious - and the poor guy hasn't even seen it yet!! I'll record the final episode or something and convert it to the US video tape thing and mail you a copy when I fly to the states in July KO - just so you can see how close to the truth you are!!

Gretik - I agree. But at one point I see 'Helut' (Que big, muscular german dude with dodgy Austrian accent) tapping away at the trigger as if it was a semi-auto, then it changes and you see the balls in the hopper bouncin' around as if the inferno's were full auto modified and you see a stream of paint?! Then the camera cuts to the back of the MG and you see the cocking rod rocking away like there's no tomorrow?! Then que the sound - which I am almost convinced is dubbed over machine gun fire.....what are they trying to do? Get it to look full auto, cover up the fact it is full auto? I dunno....

 

[KillerOnion]

Uhm, couldn't they at least have done it right and gotten Imps or Bushies or something remotely near good to play with instead of all the cheesed up martian zappers? I swear if I was over there I would be calling those twits day after day, from different pay phones of course, until they if nothing else got something sexy to shoot. By the way, what paint do they use?

 

[Fleisher]

X-fire what a pile of sweaty pants,I for one will not be buying a TV licence out of protest.

 

[Robin Hood]

Originally posted by KillerOnion
By the way, what paint do they use?

That I don't know, I'm pretty sure it''s patterned though. I recorded the last episode though, so when I'm bored enough I'll take a digi-pic of the stuff in one of the hoppers and e-mail it to you, maybe you can deduce what paint it is - or is it Micah who I read about who can tell what kind of paint it is that hits him!! Maybe he should concentrate more on trying not to get hit!

 

[Gretik]

The paint...

The paint is, as far as i can see, a football patterned type that flies fairly, uh, cheaply. It breaks well as far as i can see but they probably edit out bounces... Bullets don't bounce in real war of course...

As for going to all those lengths to make it look like an mg, they could just stick two angels together and make a linked trigger, fast as you can press.

One more thing, why don't they take the van, kick the driver out, and use it as armoured transport...