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mod98commando
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Topic: There once was a forum...Posted: 16 April 2015 at 1:27am |
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...where people posted quite frequently. This forum was provided by Tippmann and was home to thousands of conversations about paintball and other miscellaneous nonsense. WHERE DID THAT PLACE GO? I take a few years off to be all adult-like and start a career and this place is now a ghost town compared to what it was when I left.
What did I miss? What has everybody been up to in the last 5 years?
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SSOK
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Posted: 16 April 2015 at 6:01am |
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I'm still at NJIT..
What did you major in again? CS? What have you been doing since graduation? Edited by SSOK - 16 April 2015 at 6:35am |
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Reb Cpl
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Posted: 16 April 2015 at 6:59am |
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Everyone took time off for adult-like things. For me the last five years have found me two kids, and two career changes. A lot of us are still here, haunting or just checking in. The place isn't dead, but the core of the members have moved on or found out that adulthood brought with it less free time than we'd thought. And, the dynamic of the sport has changed some, so as the old hands went out, new ones didn't replace us. |
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tallen702
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Posted: 16 April 2015 at 10:51am |
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I don't know if it's the dynamic of the sport that has changed as Reb said, so much as the dynamic of social media. This is a post-Facebook/PBNation world we're living in where people are more apt to ask general paintball questions in larger all-encompassing forums and use Facebook to keep in touch with people who they talk to outside of the paintball world. We still get a few folks here and there asking about newer models and upgrades, feast or famine where those are concerned.
As for the core people, most of us have more pressing events going on in our lives. I got married, bought a house, and had a kid. Whale is perverting... errr... I mean teaching young minds, Choop gave up on being a Canuck and moved to Commiefornia and is busy taking our jobs, etc. The OMHW guys pretty much gave up on paintball except for EE, myself, and one or two others. They don't even use their own forum that much anymore and stay in touch with e-mail chains for their yearly event. Shorty's access to here is blocked from work (stupid gov't) and raising a kid an keeping a 1940's house in good repair is taking up all of his non-work time. Heck, most people on here don't play anymore, or only get out once in a blue moon, but we still come on for socialization. |
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usafpilot07
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Posted: 16 April 2015 at 2:56pm |
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I was thinking yesterday about how way back when the first 2, sometimes 3 pages of T&O had active threads.
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Eville
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Posted: 16 April 2015 at 7:47pm |
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I don't know what happened to you folks, but I find myself with plenty of free time after my adult stuff is done for the day.
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Posted: 17 April 2015 at 12:32am |
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I still check in regularly, but I just don't have as much to say anymore, so I lurk. I might start making borderline-spam posts again just to get some updates up in here.
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Posted: 17 April 2015 at 3:47pm |
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I still play and lurk every so often.
Got divorced in June of last year, and bought a vacant home that was pretty trashed, and have spend the past 9 months redoing it, have about 6 months of work left on it I think... I still play paintball, and started writing paintball articles for paintball online and Tippmann. Latest one is about paintball snipers! heh, heh, heh! http://paintball.tippmann.com/blog/how-to-paintball-sniper?utm_content=13869833&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook I dated for a while last year, and found an awesome chick, and I put a ring on it... So we will be married end of September. But, mostly I post stuff on facebook or instagram. @trailsofdoom is my instagram There are pics on my facebook of the new granite I just had installed in my house today. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206518158779357&set=pcb.10206518163019463&type=1&theater
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Posted: 17 April 2015 at 4:55pm |
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FE wasting no time!
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 1:47am |
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Are they holding you captive in the dorms? Lol. I majored in information technology and minored in computer science. I got an internship during my last year at NJIT which turned into my first full-time position after graduation in 2010 and I've been in web development ever since. I've also started branching into mobile app development at work which is pretty cool. I registered a business name and have plans to make some apps but it's hard to find time to work on prototypes between work, keeping the house from falling apart, etc. so that hasn't really gotten very far yet. I had to take a break from paintball (and here) to focus on school and getting my career started. I bought a house a few years ago which sometimes feels like a full-time job in itself but I love having my own place. Now that things are somewhat stable I'm getting back into paintball. So much has changed since I stopped that I was completely lost in terms of what companies still exist and who the top brands/products are. I recently joined a scenario team and have been going to a lot of big games. I have to dial it down a bit since the house needs siding which is very much not free but I still make an effort to hit the field at least once a month. I actually live about 10-15 minutes from NJIT now and occasionally I'm at the school for meetups and whatnot. They built some interesting stuff over by that Greek village or whatever they call it.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 2:01am |
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2 kids now? Good for you. I think I stopped coming on here shortly after you had your first. I definitely agree that adulthood came with less free time than expected and I haven't even made it to parenthood yet. My house was built around 1913 and even though a ton of work was done to it before I moved in it just seems like my to-do list never ends.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 2:27am |
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Yeah, facebook has definitely dominated online communication over the years. I've seen a ton of paintball related groups/pages there and my team does everything through facebook. Having worked for a company that operated a few forums, I totally get why forums seem to be fading. It's a pain to keep out spammers and it's a lot of work to maintain, not to mention you have to pay to store all the posts and support many users. Or you can setup a facebook page for free and just make sure nobody posts anything foul. For a business, that's a no-brainer. I initially scoured Meetup when I wanted to start playing again but most of the groups either weren't very active or just weren't what I was looking for. I did meet somebody on there though that knows nearly everybody involved in scenario paintball and she actually introduced me to the team I joined so I guess I'll count that as a win.
Wow, I think you were still in school last time I was on here, lol. Congrats X 3 to you sir.
I completely forgot about OMHW. I don't blame them for ditching their forum but going from there to email? Why not a private facebook group?
I totally sympathize with the old house time-suck. I've heard it comes with the package when buying a house but buying an old house makes it exponentially worse.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 2:33am |
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Seriously. I nearly crapped my pants when I came on here and saw that there were only like 1 or two threads in T&O that had a post from the last few weeks. After all the other paintball sites I was familiar with had vanished I saw that and thought "no way, not the tippmann forum too". There is apparently still a pulse though, thankfully.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 3:07am |
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Sorry to hear about the divorce. It's unfortunate that nearly everybody I know that has been married has been divorced at least once but usually both parties end up better off in the end. And that house will surely keep you busy. My house wasn't trashed when I moved in and I never struggle to find something that needs to be done so your list must be a mile long. I have to say, even though doing work to a house is almost always very expensive it does tend to be very satisfying afterwards.
I did notice that you've started putting some content out there. Great stuff. I actually watched one of your videos about modding the A5 internals a few months ago and might try some of your suggestions. I used to be able to run my A5 at 600-650 psi with no issues but after not using the gun for years it can't seem to even get the velocity to 280 fps anymore let alone run at lower pressures. I also tried using some Rap4 cyclone upgrades I bought years ago and have had terrible luck with that so those are coming back off. Getting that gun back to it's former glory has been an adventure to say the least, lol. Fortunately I have my ancient 98 custom and even more ancient 68 carbine as backups while I tinker with the A5. I have to say, the 68 carbine may be super basic but I love that thing. The trigger is really heavy so long firefights can be rough but with an aftermarket barrel and HPA I was shooting +/- 2 fps accurate shots for hours with no barrel breaks after having all kinds of issues with my A5 that day.
Awesome news, congrats dude.
Very nice. The counter space in my kitchen is literally about the size of the part between your sink and the oven, lol. I had to buy a portable kitchen island thing in order to have any sort of usable counter space. Eventually I'll probably need to do something more drastic but that's a massive bill I have no interest in paying at the moment.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 5:14am |
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I've been really interested in this for some time now. I've had an idea bouncing around in my head for a good while now, and I know it meets a demand, and I imagine people would pay for it, I just don't know who to approach about it.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 11:53am |
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Hah. I'm graduating in May thankfully. After one year in Redwwod, two in Laurel, and two in the UC I'm commuting now. I haven't played paintball since probably 2009. I moreso gravitated toward guns now along with the rest of the forum it seems. I used to go to Paintball Depot in West Milford. It is still my 'local' field but I now live in both Hopatcong and the water gap because I'm going to school. I keep saying I would like to go to D-Day this summer. NJIT is really investing in everything. I worked at the call center that harasses alumni for money so I was forced to know every detail of how they're improving. Also, I too am ridiculously out of the loop with paintball companies lately. I have no idea who is high end anymore. |
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 6:39pm |
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Social media ate it.
I got a Ph.D. and now I'm a professor.
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Posted: 18 April 2015 at 6:41pm |
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 4:00am |
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Feel free to PM me if you think you want to make that idea into something tangible. Even if I'm not the one to make it for you I'm sure I could at least help steer you in the right direction.
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Posted: 19 April 2015 at 4:05am |
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Congrats on your upcoming graduation. It's an awesome feeling to finally be done with your degree. I did get one of those alumni calls last year, wonder if it was you, lol. They're always asking me for money. Glad to hear that they're putting that money to use and making things better though.
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