Colorado theatre shooting at Dark Knight Premiere

#141

There actually are legit hunting handguns used for varminting with scopes. They can also be used for target shooting.

As for the rest of that video- lawl. I wish they DID have some kind of seeking bullet (You know, other than baby head seekers). That would cut down on the length of firefights drastically and save bunches in military spending on ammunition, at least if the cost of bullets were low enough.

More practically, however, seeking bullets would be great for hunting faster game like gazelle. A shame we haven’t figured out a way to do that yet…

EDIT: Also, a Pyro Vision filter for TF2 would be amazing.

#142

you mean you want to have a way of killing even faster than with bullets?

#143

It has military and civilian applications, both of which can be legitimately defended. The problem lies in the cost of the thing- the military just got airburst grenades working. Besides, when it comes to the composition of ammunition it’s physically impossible.

Bullets are composed of the actual bullet at the tip, the propellant, and the casing which houses the firing pin. When a bullet is fired, the hammer on a weapon contacts the firing pin, igniting the propellant and expelling the bullet out the barrel. The only “guidance” for the bullet itself is the rifling in the barrel. This gives the bullet the necessary ‘spin’ to get the thing to fly straight for the duration of it’s journey to the target.

Making a guided bullet would be daunting- you would have to have a secondary power source that activates mid-flight, effectively turning each round into a micro-missile. With current technology, it’s just woefully impractical.

EDIT: Another thought crossed my mind- trying to put maneuvering fins on a bullet that somehow work in tandem with laser targeting would probably require electronics mounted on a bullet, increasing weight and slowing the shot proper. Plus, even if the fins were pop-out fins that retract into the bullet, firing ammunition like that through a standard barrel would wear it out very fast.

Overall, even if there WERE seeking bullets out there, they would be exclusively the territory of military black ops budgets and exceptionally rich collectors.

#144

wow thanks for explaining in detail something that did not need explaining

#145

People who think that there’s a link between violence and violent video games are either really idiotic, or old. You can see how violent video games and violent acts have no connection to each other here.

#146

The government just needs to make someone or something responsible for violents, so they just picked video games to be their victim. Most of them dont actually know a shit about video games. In Germany some politician was talking about dead and in blood covered little girls in Counter Strike. Of course he never took a look at the game on his own.

#147

DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FEED A STONER SCRAMBLED EGGS.

#148

Christian Bale visits Colorado shooting victims

#149

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: Dafuq!

-“Something’s wrong with my daughter… Today, she crawled down the stairs backwards on all fours while turning her head 360°”
-“No biggie, I wouldn’t worry about it too much…”
-“Gee, thx!”
-“Wait, she WAS wearing clean socks, right?”
-“Uh, no”
-"… Oh dear god…"

Big Lebowski, they really screwed that one too?? … LOL!

Also this:
“I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!”

I heard something about a facebook page asking Bale to visit them.
Nice gesture by the man !

#150

YIPPIE KAY EYE, MISTER FALCON/MY FRIEND!

JEEPERS CREEPERS THAT THING’S REAL?!?

#151

Lol, didn’t know about those too.

Still, that kind of censoring in the US might be ridiculous, but what I personally think is really ridiculous is dubbing, like in Germany, France. I mean come on, what’s wrong with subtitles?

#152

Rodney Dangerfield to Sam Kinison: “All right, I’ll say it. Because Truman was too much of a p-wimp TO LET MACARTHUR GO IN THERE AND BLOW OUT THOSE COMMIE PIPSQUEAKS!”

Original source

#153

You think french dubbing is bad? You should hear the fucking horrid dubbing they do in Russia, Ukraine or Lithuania. They don’t even bother turning off the original soundtrack, but rather dub on top of original voices. So you hear two different voices coming out of one characters mouth with a slight delay between them.

Also: Where’d you get that beauty scar tough guy? Eating PINEAPPLE?

#154

Monkey fighting snakes? Monday to Friday plane?
So there are monkeys being fought by snakes on a week long plane trip?

#155

So what is the right way of dealing with it?

Oh, I know: Let’s go on television and START BLAMING COMPUTER GAMES! Yes, that will make the loss of lives meaningful.

And we better start blaming someone quick, or it might turn out that it’s not the movies or games that’s spawning these retards, it’s our retarded country where 60% of children are conceived at the backseats of a car that’s spawning them.

How come there was a 6 year old shot at the movie? What the fuck was a 6 year old doing at that movie??? Shouldn’t someone blame the theatre for allowing such young kid go to a movie like that?

Careful, now, such thoughts are dangerous! If we dug too deep, we might realize that our whole rating system is retarded, when it rates “Display of nipple” as more dangerous (15+) than the display of cruel violence (PG-13). No, stop thinking in this direction, place the blame on someone else, quick!

BAN VIDEOGAMES! Quickly! Call the disbarred lawyer who was suing computer game companies!

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All right, now seriously: Humor is evolutionary perk which humans developed over the ages as a psychological self-defense mechanism. It is a way how to deal with THINGS THAT DON’T WORK AND WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.

That’s why you have so many jokes about cops and mothers-in-law, and so few jokes about train conductors and fathers-in-law. That’s why you have so many jokes about cancer, death, war or education institutions, and so few jokes about men-to-men friendship (and even those few are more of an anecdote than a joke).

So, in a sense, the humor is a sign that those joking about it are past the initial thought of “OMG it’s horrible”, and now in the stage “How the fuck could something like that happen, considering how fucked up our civil liberties in USA nowadays are? What are all the cameras, screenings, coat-checks, infrared goggle guys etc. for, if a man can enter a cinema with automatic weapon and start shooting? There’s something fundamentally wrong, and {I} suspect that the action our powerful will take will NOT be for the better, it will actually make things even worse. That’s why {I am} joking about it. I disagree with the situation and cannot improve it.”

#156

The link between games and violence is real guys.
Seriously.
I mean, just look at history. There were never any wars until Pong was released.
In fact, every time a kid plays a violent video game s/he goes out and commits an act of aggression.
Saddam Hussein was a huge Quake 3 fan. George Bush Jr. loved Tetris.
Stalin practically created DDR (lolz, my joke has two levels to it. I’m so cool)

#157

Wow, I don’t know if the joke I’m seeing is the one you thought of, but DDR is the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic), i.e. one of the 2 parts of Germany after WW2.

#158

(lolz, my joke has two levels to it. I’m so cool)

#159

The worst part about this supposed outrage over video games is that he didn’t even play shooters. They’re trying to blame World of fucking Warcraft.

How does that even make any goddamn sense? They pretty much accused the game of depriving him of a normal social life, to account for his psychosis. Media are idiots, that is all.

#160

People need a way to explain the unexplainable. They think the fault must lie somewhere.

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