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Offline Taristin

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Reply #20 on: July 31, 2005, 11:20:21 pm
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I don't think this compares to a video game.


Not even close...
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Reply #21 on: July 31, 2005, 11:26:23 pm
I'm shocked by some of the reactions here.





Well, not that shocked.
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Reply #22 on: July 31, 2005, 11:30:48 pm
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I see you've never played a First Person Shooter, and thus have never experienced the crippling frustration of shooting a man dead on, perfect shot, could kill anyone!...only to see them get up and walk away and/or later kill you! :hopping:

This video is a live-action reproduction of that event...



I have played many FPS games. :p


And real life != video games.


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I'm shocked by some of the reactions here.


How so?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Reply #23 on: July 31, 2005, 11:34:53 pm
People comparing war to video games. I really shouldn't be that shocked. My friends would probably say the same things said here already.
 

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Reply #24 on: July 31, 2005, 11:42:00 pm
Some of the people on Hard Light truly need to get out more.
 

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Reply #25 on: July 31, 2005, 11:44:23 pm
EtherShock gets it.
 

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Reply #26 on: July 31, 2005, 11:45:10 pm
Yeah. That's the big problem with most young people these days (at least in this country), they just think war is just a video game.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Reply #27 on: August 01, 2005, 01:15:27 am
It's funny how you people think cs actually teaches u something about real life guns.

They had lag give em a break, it's not like other countries. I bet they only have dialup in the middle east.
 

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Reply #28 on: August 01, 2005, 01:47:03 am
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I bet they only have dialup in the middle east.


Nope... well, at least I have broadband. :p

And the "correct" transliteration of that phrase (which, incidentally, is what suicide bombers shout out before pressing the self-destruct trigger) is "Allah hu akbar", "Allah" being their name for God, "hu" meaning "he (is)", and "akbar" meaning "great".
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Reply #29 on: August 01, 2005, 03:58:16 am
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Yeah. That's the big problem with most young people these days (at least in this country), they just think war is just a video game.


Blame TV news.... it's strange, when they had the first reporting in WW1, and then TV in Nam, it turned generations against war.  Now, it makes it look cool.
 

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Reply #30 on: August 01, 2005, 05:10:14 am
this is....interesting. The man must have been really, really lucky if it missed all the vital organs and allowed him to get away safely, or for the armour pad to have deflected/absorbed the shot as well as it did.

Either way, he is indeed a very lucky (and judging from the story where he treated hte sniper's wounds) a very good man. Probably couldn't have happened to a nicer guy I bet.
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Reply #31 on: August 01, 2005, 01:38:28 pm
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this is....interesting. The man must have been really, really lucky if it missed all the vital organs and allowed him to get away safely, or for the armour pad to have deflected/absorbed the shot as well as it did.


If body armor didn't stop that bullet, it is highly improbable that he would have gotten up.
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Reply #32 on: August 01, 2005, 02:53:37 pm
*Is glad that body armor actually works...*
 

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Reply #33 on: August 01, 2005, 03:07:24 pm
Well, at least there is armor on something.
 

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Reply #34 on: August 01, 2005, 04:33:07 pm
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Yeah. That's the big problem with most young people these days (at least in this country), they just think war is just a video game.

Hey, I'm still young. Give us a little credit.

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Blame TV news.... it's strange, when they had the first reporting in WW1, and then TV in Nam, it turned generations against war.  Now, it makes it look cool.

Yeah, because it's awesome to die when you have your whole life ahead of you or have to have a limb amputated or become disabled in some other way. That just rocks! No, you're right. The media isn't helping this. No one has the balls to show bloody and gruesome material like they did during 'Nam. But they sure know how to say, "War kicks ass!"

I will admit that it is amazing the guy survived. I didn't think bulletproof vests stopped sniper rounds. I wouldn't say it's cool though. The fact that this guy then arrested and treated the sniper will be all over the damn news for a week. You can be sure the military will use this in an attempt to counter all the negative publicity, proclaiming that our soldiers are heroes. I'm not going to spit on them when they return, but I wouldn't call them heroes. They're just doing their job, which is to do whatever The Man tells them to do, a job I don't agree with.

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Reply #35 on: August 01, 2005, 04:42:05 pm
You're at the wrong place kid. Nobody gives a ****. That's why they're still dying. Get it?
 

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Reply #36 on: August 01, 2005, 06:10:17 pm
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I didn't think bulletproof vests stopped sniper rounds


It depends on what kind of ammunition is used and also what kind of rifle is used.

If one of the "cop killer" bullets is used (which the NRA didn't want banned, but that is a different story), then you're screwed even with a bullet proof vest. They were designed specificaly to take out people with bullet proof vests.

Something like an AK-47 with regular ammunition is a different story. It has a reletively low muzzle velocity, I think.
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Reply #37 on: August 01, 2005, 06:15:03 pm
IIRC heavy body armour - that designed to stop, say, an ak47 - are or have steel, titanium, etc plates to reinforce specific trauma areas.  Some can stop a .30 caliber armour piercing bullet - the only problem with them is the weight and potential movement restriction.
 

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Reply #38 on: August 01, 2005, 06:26:21 pm
Level III or IV ballistic armour can, in theory, stop most 5.56 or 7.62 rifle rounds. Level IV plates should be able to stop certain sniper rounds (certainly not .50 cal, as far as I know there is no personal body armour that can do that) but the insurgents are most likely using smaller calibre snipers like the Dragunov or M76.
 

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Reply #39 on: August 01, 2005, 09:20:48 pm
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I don't think this compares to a video game.


I wasn't comparing it to a Video Game, i was simply highlighting how interesting it is how much Life can imitate Art, and viceversa...
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