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Title: Can this make you a sharp shooter?
Post by: GmanJoe on October 16, 2002, 09:36:52 AM
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How about this one?

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What about this controller? Surely it makes somebody a sharp shooter?

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Yes? No?

I asked you a dumb question, didn\'t I?

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/10/12/sniper.media/

Doug Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association "The notion that using a mouse or controller in a video game can teach people to be a sharpshooter is absurd."
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Post by: Kurt Angle on October 16, 2002, 09:43:58 AM
Biggest load of BS I ever heard.
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Post by: Bozco on October 16, 2002, 09:52:21 AM
How long will people stay undeducated on games?
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Post by: kopking on October 16, 2002, 10:29:53 AM
oy yeah cos all sniper guns are used my pressing a stick on a bit of plastic...... to be honest shooting a rifle, or even with telescopic sight isnt hard.... i know to be very good you needs lots of training.. but i mean a game doesnt make u a sniper
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Post by: Luke on October 16, 2002, 10:36:22 AM
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"You go to video game chat rooms and you have the proclamation \'I am God\' all over the place," said Thompson, an advocate of regulations to keep violent video games out of the hands of minors.


jesus jst when i start to feel better about the world i live im reminded how ignorant and flat out stupid people are.
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Post by: alienmagic on October 16, 2002, 10:37:29 AM
I don\'t know, but if you grab any of those controllers by the cord and swing the controller over your head like a cowboy yelling "Woo Hoo", you could probably give somebody a pretty good concussion with it.

:alien:
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Post by: Unicron! on October 16, 2002, 10:49:54 AM
They always blame videogames and movies.And I say there are millions of gamers and movie viewers outhere.I am.You are.Almost everyone is.


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"This murderous spree is the act of a deranged and sick individual," he said. "It\'s not violent media that create sociopathic personalities."

"The notion that using a mouse or controller in a video game can teach people to be a sharpshooter is absurd," he added.


Well said.
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Post by: fastson on October 16, 2002, 11:50:33 AM
Hhaah!

Sad..

My bro is a good sharpshooter in CS, but he cant hit shit in real life.

I on the other hand am excellent at both :p
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Post by: Heat on October 16, 2002, 12:04:56 PM
:rolleyestilltheybleed:
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Post by: Samwise on October 16, 2002, 12:05:57 PM
Lol, don\'t let them see this game:

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Post by: Unicron! on October 16, 2002, 12:39:27 PM
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Originally posted by fastson
Hhaah!

Sad..

My bro is a good sharpshooter in CS, but he cant hit shit in real life.

I on the other hand am excellent at both :p


Yeah there is a lot of difference.You have to control your breath,hold the gun the right way so it wont slip from your hands,and keep the appropriate scoping position.You also have to adjust the scope with sighting shots.And needs occasional precise adjustment to be sure your sniper scope and the gun are targeting accurately.

Even with the sniper scope adjusted at prone position and having all the targeting time in your possession its difficult to hit the target precisely or even hit the target.

I ve shot with a G3A3 and Zastava a few times and beleive me its not very easy the first times..A gaming pad no way can teach u to shoot that accurate.

That sniper is trained.
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Post by: MPTheory on October 16, 2002, 01:28:49 PM
thats such crap.  Someone like this has a mental problem.  Video games have not driven him to do what he is doing.  His victims can\'t be randomly picked.  They just havent found out the pattern yet.  killing his victims gives him a feeling of power or invicibility.  Give it awhile longer, they will figure out the pattern.  He\'s already shown some of his characteristics by leaving the tarat card.  He feels like he has control over who lives and who dies.  that has nothing to do with video games.  He will only get sloppier that this point.  Crazies, like this guy, are their own worst enemy.
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Post by: kopking on October 16, 2002, 01:32:19 PM
oh wait i just remebered there wasn ever snipers before computer games, infact someone saw it on a com game, then mde a rifle...
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Post by: ben_high on October 16, 2002, 02:29:21 PM
Charles Whitman pwn3d at CS.
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Post by: Titan on October 16, 2002, 02:30:46 PM
God damn I hate these kind of people. Shooting in real life is different than shooting in a game. I\'ve fired rifles before and it is definitely different. The weight of the gun helps throw you off. You have to have training in shooting a gun accurately or its just talent. Scarily, I\'m pretty accurate and video games had nothing to do with it (yeah, there\'s autoaim in real life :rolleyes: )
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Post by: CHIZZY on October 16, 2002, 04:31:02 PM
Anyone else here think that all of this has a terrorist lean to it?
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Post by: fastson on October 16, 2002, 04:49:05 PM
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
Anyone else here think that all of this has a terrorist lean to it?


I read in the newspaper yesterday that the police has arrested a man with a white van like the one seen on the crime scene.

The cops found a note inside with the text Jihad, it was misspelled.
I think he\'s a "fan" of Usama or something. He’s certainly sick that’s for sure.

And if he was a terrorist I think he would write something else than "Dear Policeman, I am god" on the card.. Maybe "You dirty Americans!"

;)
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on October 16, 2002, 05:18:38 PM
....their just looking for something to blame to make the feel safe i guess. My bet is once they find this @sshole, theyll see one marylin manson cd and blame everything on him(or any other heavy metalist..just using manson cuz he was blamed for columbine)
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Post by: SwifDi on October 16, 2002, 06:18:00 PM
Hasn\'t already been established that the sniper appears to be of Muslim descent?

Stop blaming the games. Or I\'ll kill you.

I am god.
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Post by: Halberto on October 16, 2002, 06:34:12 PM
This kind of crap still exists? Words can\'t expressed how amazed I am.
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Post by: Seraphim Pride on October 16, 2002, 06:41:54 PM
It\'s pretty pathetic they use anything as an outlet to prove videogames are the cause of all our problems.
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Post by: SwifDi on October 16, 2002, 06:44:19 PM
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When I practice sniping I prefer to use this one.
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Post by: Kurt Angle on October 17, 2002, 08:43:40 AM
May as well just blame Bret Hart, after all they call him "The Hitman" don\'t they. Let\'s not forget his finishing move "The Sharpshooter".:rolleyes:
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Post by: mjps21983 on October 17, 2002, 09:27:46 AM
Fact is most people realize that games aren\'t wrong. It\'s the experts that can\'t seem to realize that it\'s bad parenting not video games that is the problem with our society today. They don\'t wanna blame it on there generation, because that\'s where most of our experts our from. My parents let me play Mortal Kombat when I was ten, I\'m not thinking of some way to launch a harpoon out of my hand and pull someone over here, and rip there head off, or  am I. Didn\'t think so!!!
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Post by: Unicron! on October 17, 2002, 09:38:10 AM
My mother is the kind of person that blames everything on videogames.:mad:
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Post by: Hawke on October 17, 2002, 10:30:29 AM
I aimed to become a sniper in the army. Didn\'t get there, but boy can I pop some skulls with a standard finnish assault rifle. Gimme a melon at 300 meters and it\'s toast, whammo.

Hide yer melons.

Before the army I trained with a LogiTech roller mouse and a DualShock 2.

I wonder when will they stop blaming games for stuff like this.

Here in Finland, a 19 year old chemistry undergraduate blew up a homemade bomb (and himself) in a shopping mall, killing 8 and injuring over 70, including many children. Just guess how many people have said that it was because of games. You guessed it; too many.
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Post by: Toxical on October 17, 2002, 01:56:11 PM
it is scary when "Educated" people start saying shit like that.

If kids decide to go ape-shit, is it the video-games that are to blame or the ****ing parents, or lack of parenting? a couple shots across the face and the kid would run straight i say.  :laughing:

what a ****ing load of crap, other countries don’t\' have idiot\'s shooting up their schools, or "snipping" at innocent people, so i guess all the video-games in America must have special code that brainwashes them to do so: :rolleyes: