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I think it's funny that this same conversation has been had within the Paintball community across decades.
There are those (almost a literally dying breed) who believe that Stock Class pump Paintball (sort of like speedball, kind-of) is the only Paintball, and anything else is a mutation and/ or dilution of the essential game. Maybe an entertaining and worthwhile mutation, but not "it" at all.
These same people typically have no aversion to Airsoft; they may not like it or play it for a whole host of reasons, but they're pretty lessaiz faire about the whole 'issue' so it were, so long as nobody else tries to 'WOODSBALL' or 'SPEEDBALL: RPS IS BETTER' or 'AIRSOFT' them out of their own space.
I'm still pretty young, but I've been active in Airsoft and Paintball long enough to remember when Woodsball and guys in camo were a notable point of contention within the 'splat' community.
We're all working on our own things here, I can argue for AND against both Airsoft and paintball. However, different groups have their own things going, and diversity makes everything more exciting overall, so long as we establish and maintain communities where people can freely cross the floor.
Kinda like how I personally view the lowly Hamburger to be one of working-class Humanity's finest creations. It is in all it's possible variations possibly my favorite food. I would eat one every day if I didn't know my heart would explode.
All that is true to me, but if I couldn't go get a Shwarma, or Dim Sum, or some other monumentally motherfucking excellent food, I would feel very sad and unfulfilled indeed.
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