What DOES matter...?

[DavidBoren]

I do agree that regardless of fancy features and bells and whistles and all the ribs for her pleasure... what matters most is that you have fun playing with it. And that you do, indeed, play with it.

Tangent:
I think I am just currently burnt out on Spyders... oversaturated with Spyders, honestly. I have half a dozen of the things in various states of completion laying around my apartment, right meow. I have to navigate my way through all the Spyders. Lol.

I think it's time for me to just assemble them in random grab-bag fashion, each gets whatever I pull from the hat... or in this case, box... so many boxes of Spyders.

You would probably think that I am an Arachnologist if I counted all my Spyders. Or that I had Arachnophelia... but I don't, because it's a Java coding program and I don't know how to code Javascript.

100% guilty of having a sick obsession with stacked tube blowbacks, though.

[scottieb]

Been there. Done that. Many years ago. Built the total number of Spyders I had into the triple digits. At least things were in boxes though. Just had to dodge all the boxes, not the markers and bits. I'm down to half the number now though.

[DavidBoren]

My apartment is very small. Lol.

[Interl0per]

Personally as an old fat guy without a competitive bone in his body, the Pro-Carbine I got for $50 off of CL is all I will ever need to be able to play, and it's what usually comes out after the latest project goes down during the first game (or at the chrono)

But my project guns are part of the hobby for me and it's just a matter of what speaks to me. Right now I'm working on a Typhoon and sourcing greeblies for my Phantom, but I've got my eyes on a 25 year old pump that I couldn't afford back in the day and considering what I can do to bring it up to reasonable modern performance without destroying its retro mystique. I like quiet guns with tight high quality barrels for the aesthetics and because I hate rollouts, low pressure is a bonus simply because you can shoot further into the tank, but obviously none of my above examples meet all of those criteria. Oh, and budget is always high on the list, probably because I was dirt poor when I started out and still not exactly rich.

[Tarsun2]

Marketing sells an image, not a product.

The food you see on TV isn't actually edible.
The hair in a shampoo commercial isnt the woman's actual hair.
The picture of women in makeup are photo-shopped.

IDK how they get away with it, honestly.
The picture of the BK taco and the actual taco contained different product.

I got a bottle of "Single Batch - PURE MAPLE SYRUP taste" and didnt catch the last little bit. I assume they make single batch vats of a few thousand gallons at a time, right..

Platinum motor oil vs Titanium Technology motor oil (are you kidding me...)

all marketing is lies. Weather its in food, products, or paintball.

Did ya know that the Arctic Air personal cooler will cool down any size room in a few seconds or less...

Products are no longer sold on what their worth but rather what someone is willing to pay.

[wunderbarsafari]

This sounds like AR burnout, which I think I saw you mention in the real steel thread. Modularity and too many options can be a curse. You just find yourself perpetually starting over and revising as you split hairs over this bit or that. Some projects just stay projects that way with no end goal of use, sale or gift in sight.

I’ve definitely gotten into that trap with a few hobbies in the past. That’s why I come here to enjoy other people’s old school builds but don’t collect myself. Paintball (or anything) is easier for me when I don’t have a pile of pieces sitting around to tempt me.