What's the difference between Chairsoft and Airsoft?
 

I never really got the concept of this chairsoft thing, can someone fill me in on what chairsoft is?

airsofters go to games.

Look it up in Wikipedia, someone was kind enough to put an article there.

oh, so chairsofters are just enthusiasts who just shoot random stuff flying around in their backyards?

Or come to this site, post like they know everything even though they've never touched a gun (Example being Gamer123, banned yesterday).

No, chairsofters are people that like to "talk the talk" but can't or don't "walk the walk".

Kinda like not putting your money where your mouth is.

Basically, 'armchair quarterbacks'.

Chairsofters are basicaly peoples who think they know everything about airsofts, but never played a game in their life.

ROFL...many chairsofters are people who bitch and moan...and spend more time talking about their airsoft and don't even bother pulling the guns out to go to games. I'm itching to go to a game but I'm 17 so currently I'm chairsofting for a while...well I have small skrimishes so that counts...

You're dead wrong if you're calling pantless a chairsofter. This guy has been playing airsoft longer than me and I'm quite sure I've been playing airsoft longer than you!

chairsofter
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...php?i=106&c=31

airsofter
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...php?i=197&c=30

haha...words can never describe a picture but a picture can describe a word.

Haha, nice pics, I'm more like the first one right now because it's the off season. But I'm getting involved more and more in different ways and fully intend to come out to games in the summer. It's sad to see the people who just jump on the airsoft bandwagon because they think it's cool or that they can pretend to be a "soldier".

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Ah... sorry, then. Today's just boring, I'm stuck in a house with 2 tweenage girls and a 4 year old, who are currently running around in circles with a pair of glowing lights. There's honestly nothing to do today, and I'm not out there...

Edited out 2 posts because you're polite and present a good argument, and to save bandwidth.

they also get a gold membership
wait a minute......................
Greg

Chairsofters would rather spend time posting, opposed to playing.

Chairsofters think that Counterstrike Source and Battlefield 2 is real battle in real life. That you can jump to dodge the bbs, roll and make some matrix move to kill any opponents ! :confused:

They'll probably come to an airsoft event with their Keyboard and mouse ! :smack:

Here's how I do it. In the on season, I airsoft. In the off season, I chairsoft.

They'd probably whine about the fact that the people who get hits on them are "wallhackers" or have an "aimbot" :grin:

whats with all this hate, what about good will to all and peace on earth ? It is chirstmas after all..... :tup:

Nah, it's Boxing Day. We can bitch as much as we want, and fight over 50-percent-off bags of useless items.

I used to play paintball, and got into airsoft toward the end of this year. I have a lot of fun plinking with my airsofts and chatting with the knowledgeable folk here on ASC about tweaks and tips for getting the most out of them. I personally don't feel obligated to field my airsoft rifle to justify its purchase. I'm currently quite content to take it apart, put it back together and shoot holes in everything in my apartment with it. Chairsoft Pride!

Or you can go to games regardless if it's on or off season ;)

Not everyone has the advantage of our Vancouver warm weather year round. I sure as hell wouldn't take my AEG out in anything lower than -10 degrees Celsius. Luckily, in Vancouver, that's not all that likely to happen.

If I go to a game and I just bring a really nice chair and sit all day...is that chairsofting????

I know you're joking but yup.. it is. Sitting around in the safe zone for long durations of time during a game u signed up for is the worse form of chairsofting (unbalances teams)

There's an off-season?!!

Wait are you telling me people pay good money to dress up in all their gear and just sit at the safe zone all day??? Whoa...i guess if they're hurt its understandable but wow...just wow...

LOL

The requirement for attendance can also be misleading.

Sometimes 'real life' and other priorities go far above attending games.

What bugs me is not the game attendance; I've seen folks who do attend games and still dont know shit. It's people who arrive, know everything because they read it someplace, never tried or owned a product or something sufficiently similar type to make an informed comment.
Those people give tons of advice to equally new folks who take it as gospel.

Currently, I fully qualify as a chairsofter. I think I could earn the Golden La-Z-Boy award. Why? Real life deeply SUCKED for me in the past few years; games became quite secondary. So if for that I get lumped along with the ignorant, so be it.

"What's the difference between Chairsoft and Airsoft?"
About $1000

Uh, how many times can people answer the same question in this thread? Post whores ;)

i know chairsofters with more guns than i have. he has 7, i have 6.

If only this were true... I wouldn't have bought 5 new guns since my last game (about 3 years ago) :grin:

I AM A POST WHORE...POSTJOBS 5 DOLLARS

traaaaaaaaaash

In Kelowna, there IS an off-season. I'm just heading out to a game right now with me and a couple of friends, more of a social thing than actual airsoft though. I just get sexually frustrated if I don't play for extended periods of time.

Actually, most of those you describe show up to have pics taken all day in their uber hi-speed gear, in cool poses and such, and when finally bitched at for not playing, they relcutantly head out to play and won't even kneel in the dirt in case they put a scratch or two on their brand new (only a year or two old you know) Hatch kneepads. Also easily ID'd as the only ones who are completely dry and clean at the end of the day, even if it rained constantly. :lol:

Or they are the ones for whom kneeling or lying on cold wet ground means limping for a week or simply not getting up without help.
Arthritis sounds really stupid and wussy until you learn just how much spectacular pain it means. I'd like to emphasize the 'spectacular' part.

I don't have arthritus but I think i'm developing RSI from chairsofting...

i can vouch for that my girl friend has just been diagnosed with rhumatiod arthritis and i can honoustly say a couple months ago i have never seen somone in so much pain. she asked me to kill her on several occations.

is arthritis like genetic?

Information on Arthritis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis

In no way was I refering to those that have health issues Greylocks. Only those that spend more time keeping clean and getting pics taken than actually trying to accomplish what the team is doing (playing the mission no matter what) on the field.

Myself, I'm a chairsofter most of the time (only get out to actually PLAY twice per month on average), the rest of the time I'm on forums digging around or answering questions (Pms upon PMs sent to me regularly). Hey, my thoughts on chairsofting? "Can't play airsoft 24/7!" ;)

Understood. I call it the Real Life Reality Check.

Look man you're like buring me like non stop today. I admit I didn't do a search but you know that guy never makes clear titles and seaches too. I just read the thing you posted about arthritis and i sort of understand it now.

i have Arthritis in my knees and still make to has many games as my life/walet well let me go to but i still go.

I have knee problems... so I use knee pads... they're purple :P
Even then sometimes I can't kneel, in which case I'm lucky I don't have a job like Treadstones.

Ouch, BURN!!!!! BTW, what's the exchange rate on $20 these days anyways?

You might be a chair softer....
 

To borrow from Jeff Foxworthy....
If you have more Aegs Than senario game stories... you might be a Chairsofter
If you have blisters on every finger but your trigger finger ... you might be a Chairsofter
If you have more photoshop pics than game pics... you might be a chairsofter
If you have more posts than BB's you might be a chairsofter
If you bought an FRS to get your mom to bring supper to your room.. you might be a chairsofter
If the idea of a large sweaty man watching your "six" frightens you.. you might be a chairsofter.
if your board name is not easier to pronounce than your asian name... you might be a chairsofter
If you have memorized all the PC RPG small arms ... you might be a chairsofter.
If you need permission and a hallpass to Pee.. you might be a chairsofter
If you think a bad crossfire is getting locked in the ASC chat room with a couple noobs... you might be a Chairsofter
If you sell a two years old BDU set as NIB... You might be a chairsofter.
If you ( yeah go nuts guys) .... You might be a chairsofter
Cheers

- If you buy AI Silicone Oil for sex rather then lubing your airsoft guns you might be a chairsofter.

You Know Your An Airsofter When....
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=17230

Reason 295: Your about to have sex with your "partner" be it man or woman only to realise your out of sex oil so you reach for the AI Silicone Oil from your GBB pistol case.


AI Silicone Oil is Great!

in kamloops most of us run non-upgraded guns, as we are a fairly new club, so off season isnt a huge deal for us. if we were a longer running group with more cold wary guns, we wouldnt be out as much as we have this time of year. the good thing is this warm spell has opened the season up for pretty much all of southern BC.

get up out of your chair and go play a game, your AEG deserves the exercise

I'm not joking, it actually does work as lube. I speak from experience.

Gee, I wonder why Droc didn't post this info before anyone else. Maybe it explains why his GBBs all smell like KY. :lol:

hahaha that's great. 3rd Infantry, Chairsoft Division, etc.

I don't airsoft anyways. I airhard.

There is an off season where I live in Saint John,NB...I mean come on it's atlantic Canada , it goes down to -40ºC here!

Amen.

Mirage13 - Remove the gun ad out of your signature. You guys are not allowed to by-pass the verification system buy placing gun ads in your signatures and it will not be tolerated. One (1) point warning given.

Removed.

Sorry, lack of thinking.

I'm with Grey on this one. Real life DOES get ahead. I have a few higher priorities in life. I have a business to run, school to attend, another job, a girlfriend who had a surgery not so long ago, numerous miscellaneous appointments, a trip down to T.O. to get my restricted PAL (next week ;)), volunteer work for the CPC, etc. etc. Fill in that I'm chasing stuff around just to apply to the Canadian Forces, not even a guarantee of entrance, I'd have to say 2005/2006 has been / will be a busy year for sure.

I don't think thats good for you though...

http://www.fatwillie.net/cpg/albums/...ernet_cock.jpg

Never put money in your mouth. Its dirty.


Seriously Though.. Chairsofting is Fun, you get to mock others and feign that you have reams of knowledge that your more then willing to dispence at the drop of a hat.

Where as Airsoft involves alot of complex tools* (as seen in fig 1a) and often requires propane for some reason..


http://www.northerntool.com/images/p.../168713_lg.gif
Fig 1a

You can call me a chairsofter, but I'm not an idiot who brings my keyboard and mouuse to games, or thing I can talk the talk, or mostly any of the stuff you said. I collect, I try to know about airsoft, and I read alot, but I don't see myeslf going to a game :?

Chairsofter.

Anyone that brings a keyboard and mouse to games isn't a true airsofter... they actually go to games.

make that 12

lol hahaha 12! and still goin i bet.

When you have more guns than games - you just might me a chairsofter.

When you've got more posts than total BBs - you just might be a chairsofter.

When your posts start with "I've read that..." - you just might be a chairsofter.

Ultimate chairsofter's "tactical sitting device":

http://fishki.net/picsn/podbor5_19.jpg

Do you mean BBs or single type of BB? I've got about 2000 GBB/sniper grade BBs, but only about 1000 AEG 0.25g BBs left from last fall. Damn, I might just be a chairsofter!!! Crap. Oh well, back to the mechbox....... :hammer:

haha it would be awesome to have that tactical chair...good for inspiration and strategic thinking! =P

you know i'd like to see some really fat guy sit in that chair, especially if there's a round left in a chamber..

Chairsofter not by choice. Damn age restrictions.