Yes, yes. It's just that I got used to answering this question. :^P
Sorry.
Ahh, no. Not this discussion again.
We call them clips because Hasbro calls them clips. Everybody knows it is a magazine, come on. But it is the name of the product they sell. The Rapidstrike CS-18 comes with a 18-dart clip, not a magazine.
Besides, we try to distance ourselves from the gun hobby as much as we can. It's not a gun, it is a blaster. It is not cocked, it is primed. They are not foam bullets, they are foam darts.
I guess Hasbro knew people would use real guns' nomenclature, but it is in no way official, and as we are a Wiki about the products, we use the proper terms Hasbro chose.
It does not make that much difference, trust me.
In Brazil, all blasters have gray triggers, but I have access to orange-trigger blasters because of some friends here.
I tested them out and the gray ones have, like, fifteen feet less range? I think the loss is negligible, because you'll be playing against gray-triggers too.
Also, there is always the other option... If you mod them, they will perform just like orange-trigger modded blasters. ;^)
Slendoo is right. I mean, when people talk about dart blasters(like parents or adults that don't care about the subject), what do they say?
Nerf gun. No matter which brand, bootleg or not, if it fires darts, it is a Nerf gun.
Like Xerox, which became a synonym for photocopy machines, Nerf is the most popular brand of products which involve foam flinging for the regular consumer. It sort of became a synonym too. You ever heard someone say "I bought an Alex Toys' Abraham's M16 for my kid and he loved it"? It is way more common to hear things like "bought a Nerf gun for my kid".
Imagine if we renamed this place to Blaster Wiki. I doubt we would have so many edits here. People don't even know Nerfers call them blasters. :^P
Slendoo is right. I mean, when people talk about dart blasters(like parents or adults that don't care about the subject), what do they say?
Nerf gun. No matter which brand, bootleg or not, if it fires darts, it is a Nerf gun.
Like Xerox, which became a synonym for photocopy machines, Nerf is the most popular brand of products which involve foam flinging for the regular consumer. It sort of became a synonym too. You ever heard someone say "I bought an Alex Toys' Abraham's M16 for my kid and he loved it"? It is way more common to hear things like "bought a Nerf gun for my kid".
Imagine if we renamed this place to Blaster Wiki. I doubt we would have so many edits here. People don't even know Nerfers call them blasters. :^P
Hey! Yeah, it has been a while. I'm doing pretty good, actually! Do you still use that e-mail? I sort of lost it when I changed my smartphone...
The IMRs worked fine for a good time- like a year or so- but now they are just like yours. They stop working very quickly after recharging too.
Anyway, let me steer back to the topic. A real budget blaster would be the Blaze Storm Jolt-like blaster(all their blasters are called Blaze Storm, with the exception of the Firestrike, which is called... Hot Fire).
In Brazil, you find NIB 2-blaster sets of it for +-30 reais. In the day I am writing this, it corresponds to... 7 USD.
Nevermind, with 7 dollars you can get two Stingers. You guys got it easy in the US, huh?
Well, 30 reais is a very low price for me. :^P
Of course it's the Rapidstrike. And since we are on a budget, @Elliottw , it could be like that one- you know which one- with the extra powerful batteries.
And if your money is really, really tight, stick with the Longshot. :^P
I agree with the first part. This looks way easier to find information in.
The second, though, is pretty confusing. This is a Wiki, and it's in this place's essence to split things into categories. They want a page with... Everything in it? This makes absolutely no sense. If I want to know about blasters, I will look into blasters. Accessories, into accessories.
THIS will make the page cumbersome. Because imagine how large it will be.
The third would be amazing! Everyone would love it. And it would ease a lot of the difficulty on checking if you are looking for the right thing. Like, let's say I have a N-Strike Pinpoint Sight, which I don't know the name. I went to the N-Strike Elite Pinpoint Sight page. Of course it is different! But how am I supposed to look for it then?
Now, if we just place the mouse cursor on the N-Strike Pinpoint Sight link, the image would be there, making the whole ordeal easier.
Sorry if it's confusing to read... It's been a while since I wrote something like this.
TL;DR first idea ok, second idea no, third idea yes, please
Oh boy, I wish I had seen this thread earlier!
I work as an Endemic Diseases Combat Agent in Brazil. Here, Dengue fever is a extremely serious disease(not that it is not serious anywhere else, but here it happens all year, everywhere, not only on warm climates) and, as you know, mosquitoes are responsible for spreading the disease.
From what I have learned, the food chain is a VERY complicated thing. It sure does not look like it, but a lot of animals eat mosquitoes on a regular basis. Frogs, toads, fish, spiders, lizards... These animals have the mosquito as their main source of food. I read on a paper somewhere that if all mosquitoes went extinct, the overall migratory birds population would decrease in almost 50%.
Another detail about the importance of the mosquitoes in our ecosystem is that only female ones need our blood to survive and reproduce. Male mosquitoes never go after people: they eat sap from flowers. And, while doing it, they pollinate other plants. With the bees slowly decreasing, the mosquitoes are more important than ever.
So, as much as I also hate being bit by them, we cannot just kill them all. You can do population control, though... Which is what we do in my line of work. :^P
As long as you keep your legendary Bigshock, why not? :^P
Keep it as a memento. If you lost interest, which is pretty normal, go ahead and donate them. If you ever get interested again...
Well, Nerf is not going anywhere, and even if it goes, there are plenty of other brands.
And there will always be someone here to talk to you about them if you want to come back.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to donate that Sledgefire, I would totally take it out from your hands. Shipping and everything.
If that interests you....
I said it literally yesterday. :P
Trust me, it's pretty active. There were times in which there was ABSOLUTELY no feedback on the forums. Nothing.
I asked "how's everyone". CJK is probably talking about it.
Hope everything goes alright! I sort of know how it feels to be meh. It's not cool, and I really hope it goes away.
Pretty good, Boss! What about you? How's work?
Now that COVID seems to be slowing down, I have some time to spare. Finally!
I intend to give a helping hand here and there on the Wiki when possible.
Heh! I am very glad to know that you still remember who I am. My time here was amazing. I learned so much.
This just reminded me of you all. How are you doing? I used to be an active Admin here some time ago.
I see there's a lot of new people here. That's very good. Having so many regular users on the Wiki was somewhat unusual when I was active here.
I see Jetcell is still active. Is Mr. Elliott still here too? I want to say hi.
For those who know me, hello! How are you doing? I hope you are okay.
For those who don't know me- I have seen a lot of new faces here- name's Pedro.
I have been here since 2014, and I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I am also an Admin. Editing articles has never been my sort of thing, though, so I always took care of the Forums the best I could. And this is exactly why I am here today.
When I first got here, in 2014, stuff was WAY different. I wasn't able to speak English properly, I wasn't able to buy Nerf blasters(living in Brazil, they were rare and expensive) and I didn't, obviously, know anyone. But the people here were always so good to me. They were patient and lenient about my mistakes on editing articles and the Forum, and this made me strive to become an Admin.
When it happened, I took as a personal objective to make people feel as good as I did when I first came by. And, as time went by, this place became a sort of safe haven to me. I have been through so many things in my life. But Nerf Wiki was always here for me to hone my social skills, my English and to calm myself down after a long day.
Here I learned how to speak English and how to translate stuff on a near-professional way. I got to meet amazing people- Jetcell, GameGear, Elliott, Mojo, Flat, Cerr, Rskm... those are the ones that come to my mind right now (but I really like everyone here. Sorry if I forgot your name. It's not personal).
And being around those people made me very happy.
There's some of you that I proudly call my friends, and to me that's a lot.
However, now, my life has once again turned around. I got a really good job that, unfortunately, takes a lot of my time. I have a family to take care of too now, and it's a lot to me. I am not used to it yet. And this is why older members may notice that I have been less and less around here. I haven't been able to dedicate myself as much as I wanted to this place.
For real, I cannot even remember when it was the last time I edited an article. It's been, at least, months. And I don't want this. I wish I could be as active as I used to, but if it is not possible, having in mind everything I have been through here, I feel like I need to explain to you guys what's happening.
Well, basically, this is a goodbye for now. I will still keep an eye on any news. But, after the Forums changed to this new platform, I finally understood that my time was over. And I want to end this just like I always felt here: happy. This is why I am writing this.
If anyone needs me, you guys still got my E-mail, right? Jetcell and Elliott have it. You can ask them. But let's be honest, with such a good-natured userbase and an amazing Admin that I always called my Boss, you guys won't need me.
You can always come for a quick chat, though!
So long, guys. Thanks for all these years. It has been so fun.
-Pedro
