What is the Edelman patent that kept getting brought up? I’ve never heard of it before and google isn’t returning anything useful.
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Dude patented the first pneumatic gun to use an electronic circuit to fire back in 1985.
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Brokeass_baller thanks for the patent link. I gleaned enough from the Gardner thread that this is the earliest example of an electric firing mechanism.
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I feel like it was dead years ago. Stopped visiting the site a long time ago.Comment
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There is still some decent life in spots. Jack wood of PE posts fairly regularly in the one thread as well as John from Dye. Not super lively but enough to be worth checking in on semi regularly.Comment
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Yup, FB, Reddit, anything that was the less formal, sophisticated & labor-intensive. People are lazy ****s, this we all know. But this age of the internet has really ratcheted this laziness to a whole new level. Formalities & anything resembling proper form are falling by the wayside. This is not just a thing on the internet, but in many other aspects of society. But that's a broader topic, so I'll leave that at that.
As for myself, I visit PbN sporadically. I've been on a few times in the last month, but I've gone 6+ months without checking it.
As much as I really don't care for PbN, I'll give credit where it's due. What PbN is good for is it's technical information. O-ring sizes, screw sizes, part lists, things like that. I'm damn near certain at least some of that was part of MCB's reconstruction. I know I've cross-posted info from there. And I think PbN tends to have paintball news posted there sooner than on here & provides a different insight as opposed to what the MCB hive would think. It's always good to get different perspectives on new products.
Plus, where would we be able to laugh at product flops (& the subsequent ****posting) like the JT Triad loader and Dye DLS?
PbN still has a place on the paintball internet, regardless of the changing times.Comment
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Yep, this pretty much sums up PBN for me. Their library of techichal information, as well as photos of different versions of a specific marker, has been a veritable life saver from time to time. Apart from that, I have always regarded PBN as a wretched hive of scum and villainy and thusly stayed clear of it.Originally posted by glaman5266 View PostComment
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PBN had an amazing thread.
"a revised list of ever spyder ever." or something along those lines.
it was awesome.Comment
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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany...Comment
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I still go to PBN for research. Want to know every body, bolt, QEV variant, trigger, bottomline, and aftermarket mod for all of the Ion variants? There’s a mega thread for that. Know that you’ve got a weird Timmy but can’t quite place it? Yup, there’s a fully documented picture-laden thread that’ll tell you exactly what you have.
BST or active threads? Nah, I go to MCB for that. FB is cool for finding BST deals (read: decent prices) but unlike forums it’s just a huge mess to search and find things. I love forums because they slow conversations down and organize them in a way that doesn’t make my brain overheat.Originally posted by Chuck E Ducky:
“You don’t need a safety keep your booger hook on the bang switch.“
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when I first started using Internet forums back around 1990, the Usenet software made you take a test on proper etiquette. Similar for the Listserv readers. Imagine that!. But this age of the internet has really ratcheted this laziness to a whole new level. Formalities & anything resembling proper form are falling by the wayside
things were pretty civil until aol connected around 97 or so. Then it became an ever increasing dumpster fireComment
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Thanks for that link. Learned a thing today. 👍
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lol thats awesome.
as with most social interactions (direct and indirect) there is cause and effect. Direct or "in person" interactions provide quick feedback as to how youre doing. indirect or "internet interactions" have a kind of delay between cause and effect. could be days, weeks, or even years... even when it happen quickly, its still enough time for the action and reaction to become disconnected.
maybe im completely wrong about this or im simply not typing correctly but, i once looked back at my old posts on a car forum back in the early 2000's and the posts are pretty cringe. the learning curve is much greater on internet interactions. ie, it takes longer to figure out how to interact with others on line than in real life. heck, some people never learn lol
i remember when FB was only for college students and you had to have a college ID to join.
and i also remember when they opened it up to everyone and thinking to myself, "well, there goes that..."
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Go away for a few days, come back and check your email- 12,000 new messages. Oh Listservs, how I miss you. Kind of.Originally posted by Hp_lovecraft View PostComment
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