Hmm... Should I get into dumb VR games like BeatSaber? I want to do something that feels like intense fighting. Biking fast enough it's satisfying is too dangerous. Maybe unrealistic point based karate would be fun. I tried fencing once but it was shockingly lame. I'd join a dodgeball league but there aren't any, everyone wants to do like baseball and volleyball. Hmmmm. I wonder if paintball would be fun or tedious, I could see it going either way.

  • culpritus [any]
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    8 months ago

    Certain kinds of paintball might be worth a try to get a feel for it. Most places are all about speedball because selling paintballs is a big part of the business model. Speedball is all about constant covering fire. I got bored of it eventually because it’s mostly about having 800+ ammo and a ridiculously high rate of fire. Then there’s brushball which is mostly stalking the woods in camo.

    • JustSo [she/her, any]
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      8 months ago

      brushball

      What's brushball? cursory web search is returning.. something else. Is it a paintball variant?

      • culpritus [any]
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        8 months ago

        Ya, I played some pickup games with folks in the community over a decade ago in a smaller city. We would play out in the 'brush', just public land with lots of trees and foliage. There's private paintball parks that have some of these kinds of spaces. Often they will also have a plywood fort and other 'buildings' for scenario play like CTF or escort the VIP, etc.

        • JustSo [she/her, any]
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          8 months ago

          Ah yeah I think we just called that generic "skirmish" where I grew up. There was a great field for that near by, but the bursts of action could be pretty sporadic.

          • culpritus [any]
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            8 months ago

            It can involve a lot of people camping for long periods which can get tedious. Having a round timer is usually a good idea. I used to have 3-4 friends that I would play with regularly, and we became fairly competent at some basic tactics. We even had some radios for coordinating eventually which was really fun.

            • JustSo [she/her, any]
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              8 months ago

              Yeah if I hadn't been so broke I probably would have enjoyed it more. The paint was extortionate haha.

              I just had a little random memory of running out onto the field at the start of my very first match and getting nailed right in the eye of my goggles. Like instantly and thinking "Ahh, so that's what war would be like." heheh.