>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

You can see why he got the job as the cameraman, with that steadiness you couldn't snipe anything. Ever.


Well, having 15-20 snipers pointing at you while you're standing up, waving around your iPhone, might be a bit worrisome.

You can see why he got the job as the cameraman, with that steadiness you couldn't snipe anything. Ever.

This isn't a game review, this is a campaign review. Dammit Yahtzee, do you never play online? Bitch about the god-awful matchmaking, the shitty hit detection, the fucked-over sniping, and general fucktardedness of ragequitting hosts and failed migration.

Honestly, I've never seen that one before. Then again, I was also the guy that once sat under the stars from about midnight to 4AM waiting for my friends to round up snipes. At least this one was over quickly!

He's going for the vehicle's battery core.

That's pure capacitance gel.

Wesley Snipes curiously absent from the scene...

Blade in prison: http://videosift.com/video/Wesley-Snipes-goes-to-Prison-Animation

It's a Snipe!

I'd guess that it's more: A weak government, proliferation of arms comparable to the government's, and the willingness and desperation of the people to use them to take what they want destabilize a country.

So: The US doesn't have violent crime because there are guns. The US has violent crime because the population of poor, disenfranchised people that think they have no other option is large. More shootings happen because these people (criminals) have access to guns. More homicides occur because a gunshot's more damaging than a stab wound (and gives more of a sense of invincibility, probably, meaning they're more willing to take the risks that lead to the situations in which they have to use them).

Of course there are also crimes of passion and psychos--and these will also likely be more fatal with firearms than without (but not necessarily--see recent string of Chinese knife-wielding maniacs). But what is the ratio of burglaries/other crimes-gone-wrong to man-kills-man-in-bed-with-his-wife or man-goes-on-sniping-spree or man-hacks-apart-school-children? Dunno, but I'd guess the first is probably the larger portion by a huge amount.

Any discussion of "Guns do X" is definitely oversimplifying the situation. You can't compare the US to Germany to Canada to Somalia purely on gun ownership, because the cultures and social security nets (and any number of other things) are different as well--ranging from "pretty cushy" to "non-existent."

I would be smoking cannabis if I was there too. Hell I'd be smoking cannabis if I was chopping wood or building a sky scraper baking a cake or sniping a Nepalese bush-monkey.

Damn your superior sift sniping skills, Arvana!

Meanwhile, more details about the *asian bot via Youtube:

Developed by Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai at the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan.

>> ^grubert:
>> ^Payback:
>> ^grubert:
It's not necessarily a murder. I mean the editing was done in such a way that you don't see the crow killing the squirrel.

Ummm... my facetiousness detector is kinda fritzy today. Should I assume you know a murder is what a "flock" of crows is called?

Yes it was a pun. However considering you got more votes than me for doubting my capacity in forming a humorous construct I shall abstain henceforth from wasting Sifters' time and disrupting a perfectly good series of comments with my disputable wit.


Oh no, don't give up. You should go see some of the groaning bouts of verbal diarrhea I come up with most times. I sometimes hit gold, but man, it's like sniping with a shotgun.

Shooting a target that is on the move is not very hard provided you've practiced it enough.

It's all very complicated, I think Gunny Hathcock called it SWAG. In a book called One Shot one kill.

Now as I understand it, once a sniper has taken a shot they EXFIL their hide depending on how bad the situation is. If shit hit the fan I'd imagine they GTFO, but if it was a successful one shot one kill job then they would make their way to the extraction point very slow like. So as not to give away their positions and fuck up on the one yard line.

Sniping you have a lot of shit to deal with. Weather, range, ballistics, and trajectory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper

Once you understand how a scope works, and how to deal with the ballistics of the shell you've chosen for the job the rest is practice.

Looking at the targeting section of the Wikipedia entry on snipers I can't say that is easy. Because I sure as hell don't understand it with just a cursory glance.

I would wonder why the "special forces" in the movie are called special at all. They looked like a ragtag team of douchebags to me.

I actually missed that big lug-head of yours. Welcome back! How'd you avoid the snipes?

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^rougy:
Oh! Who will save us from this inequity!
If only we had a majority in the executive, senatorial, and congressional branches.
Then, by golly we'd change things, you betcha!

I'm not sure what you think will help. Apparently your idea of changing the world is to go around sniping at me sarcastically, even when all I do is assign a channel.
But then, I guess you're not alone. A lot of people act like insulting me the best way to fix a broken system that I didn't create and don't support.


Just giving you shit, NR.

No insult intended.

>> ^rougy:
Oh! Who will save us from this inequity!
If only we had a majority in the executive, senatorial, and congressional branches.
Then, by golly we'd change things, you betcha!


I'm not sure what you think will help. Apparently your idea of changing the world is to go around sniping at me sarcastically, even when all I do is assign a channel.

But then, I guess you're not alone. A lot of people act like insulting me the best way to fix a broken system that I didn't create and don't support.