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    Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream

    How Many Hard Drives Does It Take to Stop a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round?

    How Firearms Work In Super-Slow-Motion

    NYPD Sharp Shooters May Get Cameras on their Guns

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    Image of FuturePastNow FuturePastNow
    08/08/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream

    Don't know who originally created this...
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    Image of MyNameIsTooAwesome MyNameIsTooAwesome
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    This guy must have been raped by a wiimote or something...
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    Image of Qwertyfreak Qwertyfreak
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    Ohoho I guess he showed you, huh John?
    /s
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    Image of Michael Wiegand Michael Wiegand
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    Jack Thompson proves he's a moron again.
    Maybe we should just do away with the "M for Mature" label for violence in games altogether and just have shrinks posted at Gamestop to evaluate people before selling them a game.
    Because apparently people OVER the age of 18 can't tell the difference between games and reality either. I mean, Jack certainly can't.
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    Image of SamburgerHandwich SamburgerHandwich
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    "I'm the guy who opposes this stuff, who has lobbied against it for ten years, and who has been doing everything I can to stop massacres, not foster them."
    I think you can do more. Sure, you may have been disbarred, but you still haven't done anything to get you imprisoned. You've gone soft, Jack.
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    Image of highfloydelity highfloydelity
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    So do you get to run up to the wall with a real crowbar when you want to smack a headcrab?
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    08/07/09

    @highfloydelity: I guess so! That would be amazing.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    Maybe Jack Thompson *is* capable of picking up irony. Dude used "wet dream" three times in his response before asking "why would you use such a gross image?"
    "You have....a Jack Thompson obsession."
    The height of narcissism right here. I've been reading Giz for about a year and barely recall hearing anyone mention Jack Thompson more than maybe once or twice. When you do, it's to make fun of him.
    *Clearly*, John, *you* need some *immediate* therapy to deal with your *obvious* obsession with crap that really isn't that big a deal.
    /me does not expect Jack Thompson to get it.
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    Image of AOClaus AOClaus
    08/07/09

    @OCEntertainment: Does Jack cruise the internet every day Google searching his own name to see what pops up or is he just incidentally a fan of Gizmodo?
    And if he is a fan of Giz, does he know what the rest of Gawker media's websites are about?
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    Image of KefkaticFanatic KefkaticFanatic
    08/07/09

    @AOClaus: He's a regular Fleshbot reader that just so happened to hit the Giz link.
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    Image of invictus2006 invictus2006
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    did they just say "please try this at home, with real guns"
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    Image of [Medic]iEro-Sennin [Medic]iEro-Sennin
    08/07/09

    @invictus2006:
    "Please try this at home, BUT not with real guns"
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    obama . . . obama . . . obama . . . democrats . . . democrats . . . democrats . . . rabble . . . rabble . . . rabble
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/07/09

    @Nick: is a peelin': PS

    this setup is Dick Cheney approved.
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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    08/07/09

    @Nick: I love Nick: Are we attaching accelerometers to our faces or something? Or is that his latest excuse?
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    08/07/09

    In reply to Half-Life Played With Real Guns Is Jack Thompson's Wet Dream
    Anyone who has ever fired a real weapon will tell you that playing an FPS pales in comparison to the forces involved with hefting a rifle/pistol/shotgun and pulling the trigger. The only way to make the setup realistic the other way around would be to have a force feedback system that punches you in the shoulder/hip/wrist with varying intensities. A little offset weight in the controller doesn't do it justice.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    08/07/09

    @DeusExMach will still be strong after the boys...: They were using real guns to aim, which is by far the most realistic way to do this. So there was real recoil.
    I do agree though, shooting a real gun compared to video game guns is by far and away a different experience.
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    08/07/09

    @DeusExMach will still be strong after the boys...: They were using real guns to aim, which is by far the most realistic way to do this. So there was real recoil.
    I do agree though, shooting a real gun compared to video game guns is by far and away a different experience.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/07/09

    @DeusExMach will still be strong after the boys...:
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    Image of RG_Shrike RG_Shrike
    08/07/09

    @Scotland: what the hell kind of gun were they shooting with recoil like that!?
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    Image of Giblets121 Giblets121
    08/07/09

    @RG_Shrike: .577 Trex, used for stopping large game from charging like elephants or rhinos. The ammunition is larger than most people's hands.
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    FooSchnickens promoted this comment Nick: is a peelin' approved this comment Giblets121 was starred Giblets121 was unstarred
    Image of taking_this_easy taking_this_easy
    08/07/09

    @Log1c, M.Sc.: [home.novint.com]

    stupid dbl post.. ignore this
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    Nick: is a peelin' promoted this comment Edited by taking_this_easy at 08/07/09 1:27 PM taking_this_easy was starred taking_this_easy was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    08/07/09

    @taking_this_easy: ignore what?
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    08/07/09

    @Giblets121: I thought it was a 700 Nitro Express?
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    Image of jason51873 jason51873
    03/23/09

    In reply to How Many Hard Drives Does It Take to Stop a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round?
    I think the bigger question here is - Why in the F$@K does a civilian need a gun like that?
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    03/23/09

    @jason51873: Because we can. Also AFAIK it's illegal to hunt with a .50BMG. At least it is in Alaska.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/23/09

    @Barry99705: It also doesn't make sense, as shooting a deer with on of them would result in one bambiurger left of meat. ;)
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    03/23/09

    In reply to How Many Hard Drives Does It Take to Stop a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round?
    give me a sec while I cover myself in hitachi deathstars and go out for a walk in the town
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/23/09

    @discounteggroll: Well, you seem to have made it home safe after Saturday. ;)
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    Image of Justin Dohrmann Justin Dohrmann
    03/23/09

    In reply to How Many Hard Drives Does It Take to Stop a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round?
    Could you try it again using users this time? I'll be happy to get them all lined up for you.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/23/09

    @Justin Dohrmann: If they are Facebookers, you will have no problem drumming up support.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    03/23/09

    In reply to How Many Hard Drives Does It Take to Stop a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round?
    Takes 3 to stop a .45-70.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/23/09

    @Barry99705: That's also how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.
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    Image of SJRNWT SJRNWT
    03/23/09

    In reply to How Many Hard Drives Does It Take to Stop a .50 Caliber Armor Piercing Round?
    I know this is my inner hippie coming out but...


    What's the point of even doing this? They're just mindlessly destroying hard drives when they could either reuse them, donate them, or get them recycled.


    I'm growing tired of things like hard drive shooting, smashing, blending, etc... along with pretty much any other mindless gadget destroying. I just don't see the point.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/23/09

    @SJRNWT: Well, we will assume they were dead. OK, so they couldn't be re-used and/or donated. They still exist physically, thus they CAN BE recycled. So what exactly is your problem? One might ask why you ruin perfectly good clothing by dipping it in dye. Or ruin perfectly good smokin' hemp by making it into clothes.


    For some reason, I have the urge to see a hippie stick a daisy in a rifle barrell.

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