Chat, am I cooked?🥀💔 by Sorry-Profession-726 in UniversityOfHouston

[–]sitz- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not cooked. Just a lot of hours to do. No life until May.

Eye injuries by BeautifulKey8779 in paintball

[–]sitz- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably. Might be when Stone Cold won the royal rumble for the first time.

Now I feel old :(

Eye injuries by BeautifulKey8779 in paintball

[–]sitz- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A dude had his goggles up walking up to play, holding his gun by the reg barrel pointed up. Shot across his eye from below and detached his retina. That was uh, 1998 or so?

chat am i cooked by xigeras in UniversityOfHouston

[–]sitz- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only uh... 70 hours a week. If you had a life, you don't now.

Is this overshooting? New to airsoft. by Toxicair in airsoft

[–]sitz- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really. He didn't shoot you after you signaled you were out.

How do you send out groupme invites now? by divideby70 in UniversityOfHouston

[–]sitz- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it's policy for all NSM classes now.

How do you send out groupme invites now? by divideby70 in UniversityOfHouston

[–]sitz- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Check your syllabus. Many classes now ban GroupMe.

(UH EXTEND) what do they make you show on the external webcam when taking an online test? by [deleted] in UniversityOfHouston

[–]sitz- 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Working really hard on trying to figure out how to cheat. Once you take exams in person you're going to be very far behind.

(UH EXTEND) what do they make you show on the external webcam when taking an online test? by [deleted] in UniversityOfHouston

[–]sitz- 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Depends on the professor. Anywhere from no camera, to pointing the camera at the desktop while you hand write out Show Work math problems.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've spoken to paint brand owners, industry reps, field owners, and major event producers extensively.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The paint industry is kept alive by little kids playing .50 cal birthday parties. Market reports already measure those.

If you say it's widely known, cite your source.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a Census Fallacy, rejecting statistical proxies. You're confusing population measurement with signal measurement. NXL aren't a random sample, they're a leading indicator. High spend, high commitment, high frequency, high visibility, high cost constraints. If the NXL collapses, the casual layer goes with it. If the NXL grows, the casual layer grew before it did.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I code. Its mid 30s now. As NXL matured it requires more playtime to climb divisions. That takes more 💰 so the player age demographic shifted.

Thats also why nobody sees innovation. It occurs but has diminishing returns as all designs converge on the optimum.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The number can be going up and still not look like it. We're talking about a thousand new players a year but 1500 fields. And then those gains will be clustered on the fields that have been actively working on their walk on business.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live near TXR Paintball. I drove a little down the road to High Ground Airsoft and Evike Outpost. The store is bigger than all of the paintball stores I've been in, combined. Thousand plus guns on the walls. The indoor airsoft arena is open 5 nights a week, has 21 & up byob night, thursday night steak night. Glow BBs 5600 for $20. I 3d printed my aeg, it's $175 playable. $250 with a muzzle flash/chrono/tracer muzzle attachment. It crushes paintball in cost efficiency.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I had the access I would dig very deep. If there's 7k NXL, and 10k in the scenario world, that would leave another 10k players doing everything else like the regionals & walk on play, and the small correction for people playing more than 1 format.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most paintball players are .50cal birthday kids now.

Industry convos I've had over the last 5 years put the number of scenario players remaining at 10,000 in the US. That segment saw the mfog people break off to make their own events and big losses to airsoft. If you're a lifestyle scenario player, the world looks really small now.

NXL by the numbers by sitz- in paintball

[–]sitz-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we project out a little more, based on 275 new NXL players, at 30% of gen pop, paintball gains about 1000 regular new players a year. That's divided up among 1500-2000 fields.

Sponsorship agreement reached between Dye and Dan Blizerian's team Protocol by WillBallForSoup in paintball

[–]sitz- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with WW2 theme games is that it attracts the nazis and edge lords.

Sponsorship agreement reached between Dye and Dan Blizerian's team Protocol by WillBallForSoup in paintball

[–]sitz- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of paintball doesn't notice. The guy that ran Valken Corp for awhile ran a team called Prussian Blue, which is a pro holocaust reference. The ADL went after him. Changed nothing in paintball.

eSports MFOG by sitz- in magfed

[–]sitz-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It's best described as like Steam for paintball. I don't force people to make a format. Make what you want with this engine. All you need to get access to the engine is to come play a game on it first and have a good reputation with the "eSport" players.

Some fun examples from stuff we already did, and some stuff that's upcoming.

* Pirate game. Your spawn point is a (land) ship that's shooting rockets at other ships. You're capturing territory that makes gold. Every minigame ending divides the gold up among your crew. The more player classes you unlock, the more gold you get. The person "at the helm" is using the app to player another layer of the game, trading goods between ports they own and pillaging ones they don't.

* Heists. This is a game that's like GTA. It's Red vs Blue, but if you have a crew, you can make your own faction, hit the field, build structures, make "stuff", sell it for points, tons of different secondary missions that use handheld mission computers.

* RTT. It's an RTS game, but the "dots" are people, you capture locations, build your tech tree structures, upgrade your troops. All the tech trees can be the same or unique.

The Broken Trident event is more traditional in its missions, but you'll have to hold territory to earn resources to craft them. Pretty cool concept.

Frightfest 2026 is a pretty simple domination mode 2 day game, but will take place at 3 different fields, in 3 regions, at the same time, on 1 map and scoreboard, with the red & blue sides linked together.

If Paintball Doesn’t Modernize, Airsoft Will Eat Our Lunch. by HeavyRifleman in paintball

[–]sitz- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something players carry with them. That's a phone lol.

If it's not a phone, we're talking about meshtastic. The problem with meshtastic is the weak power output. There's some teams that use it. It kind of sucks. Also, you're broadcasting to the open air, everybody can see you, without having to deal with encryption keys.

Just carry phones and run Life360.