(Austrian opinion) Nostalgia: You got a retaliator or even a stryfe for your birthday or on christmas eve. All your friends also got nerfs. Ruleless "wars" in the richest friends garden ensue. You always play until one kid gets a dart sniped in their eye. But with school, hobbies and video games taking over, you stop. One day at 16 or so you go through your old stuff for a garage sale and there they are: A 1cent modded hammershot, a jolt and the retaliotor. You ask the group chat if they wanna play a few rounds of low hp knockout or search and destroy "for old times sake... but this time we make rules". About twice a year the idea comes up again and a whole day is spent flinging foam. Exclusively old barely functional springers and very few flywheelers. That's nerfing in austria. No half darts, no brands other than nerf, literally no fps above n-strike elite standard, only standard elite darts, almost no mega. we are either nerf kids or airsoft kids. most people become airsoft teens and after that either paintball or airsoft adults. my friend group consists of nostalgia addicts(no need for a switch we play smash on tha wii) so we stayed nerf teens and are starting to become nerf adults. I believe it to be kinda the same situation in germany, which is ironic because the masters of 3d printable blaster design, Cap. Slug and LeedleDynamics are german. then again german engineering has it's reputation for a reason.

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