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[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Little Crow"]I'm more than a little surprised and disgusted by several aspects of the Zoran Djindjic assassination. There's so many examples of fucking incompetence here, where to even start? 1. I know the Serbian equivalent of the Secret Service isn't like over here in terms of effectiveness, but for FUCK'S SAKE. An assassination plot is discovered last fucking June, detailing a plan to kidnap Djindjic's wife and kids and/or outright kill him. Then, JUST LAST MONTH, an assassination attempt is foiled against him. Now, they finally manage to put two slugs in him. SLOPPILY. But I digress. More later. If it's so fucking obvious criminal types are making an <i>extremely concerted effort</i> to kill the guy, then WHY, for the love of the black baby Jesus, wasn't his security team on the fucking ball? 2. If you don't have the resources, intelligence, whatever, to reasonably lock down the areas Djindjic will be travelling through, can't you at least secure the <i>obvious fucking lines of fire to the main government buildings?</i> Form a human shield around him when he's away from the armored limo or what have you? At the very least, insist he wear a goddamn armored vest? 3. The reports I've heard say Djindjic was shot in the stomach and back by "at least two snipers." AT LEAST TWO. I'm doubtful of that, but maybe they're counting a spotter. You mean to tell me that at least TWO men got into position early enough to have a clear line of fire and just camped the government complex? Fucking idiots... 4. On a personal side note, the extremely poor craftmanship of the shot grouping leaves me disgusted. Shot in the stomach? WHERE DID YOU LEARN YOUR TRADE, YOU CUNTS? Whoever taught you to shoot should be strung up by their hairless nutsack. Even against such incompetent security, you couldn't score center-of-mass? Dragunovs usually have a fucking sweet built-in angle of the dangle calculator, too, assuming they used an SVD. Hell, a child can calculate distances with that. Fucking amateurs. *HOCK P-TOO* They got the job done, yeah, but take a little pride in your craftsmanship. After all, with a crack security team like Djindjic's, you might only get 3 or 4 more tries. 5, tops... LC <i>Take a deep breath. Now let half of it out and hold it. Caress the trigger like it's a woman's nipple. Is that so fucking hard?</i>[/quote] I wish to God a video of the event had made it onto the 'net - I would just about *KILL* to read your commentary on such a thing and get a chance to see what it is you're seeing that I'm not. One of the things that's always interested me is how trained soldiers break down their environment into a series of octree-like lanes of fire, cover, etc. - I would LOVE to see such training put into the introductory level of an FPS. I can't help but think that it could really help. In Counter-Strike (brief aside - did you realize that 12,207 man-years of Counter-Strike are played EVERY GODDAMN MONTH on the public servers alone?) there are small, obstacle-filled 'speedball' levels that entirely focus on this, but it's broken down into a simplistic bricks-and-walls setting so all of the lanes of fire and such are very, very obvious. Making the transition from this to the larger maps is where most people, myself included, seem to fail and it's what seperates the good players from the 'great' ones. It would be wonderful if the Army Operations game had included a series of increasingly complex drill levels against increasingly difficult AI opponents that really beats this stuff into your head and slowly forces you to both upgrade your ability to breakdown new environments quickly and categorize everything you see as well as constantly upgrade your stress threshold. It's ability to handle stress and pull this shit off quickly that makes the Spec Ops soldiers (there's been a slew of articles lately reporting the findings on how Spec Ops soldiers have been biologically demonstrated to handle stress hormones better than normal ones) so much better. Gamers who actually care about their game would eat this shit up and it seems like a video game project that would seriously be useful to the military for helping to train their own soldiers. --SB[/quote]