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the cultural history of the headshot
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this is god damn fascinating
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for a long time, headshots were not in the cultural zeitgeist like they are now
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people were shot in the chest/heart
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what changed that as the indication of death to a shot to the head was two main things
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1. we got better at keeping people alive from damage to the heart
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and the concepts of alive/dead were medically redefined to be based on brainwaves
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2. the JFK assassination
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the video game obsession with the precision of the headshot has almost no basis in reality
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people whose job it is to sometimes shoot people almost never aim for the head
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it's basically for volatile hostage situations and nothing else
moontouched
it does kinda make sense since the skull is all solid bone and you presumably don't want to aim anything there
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even snipers aim for a triangle in the upper chest
moontouched
shooting people in the chest is like, a bigger area
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torso shots are much easier and generally just as lethal
moontouched
yeah
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Goldeneye considered having a bloodier headshot animation but the more realistic brutality of a headshot struck the devs as not bondian
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too brutal for someone with bond's professionalism
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(this seems silly to me, have you SEEN the ways bond kills people)
moontouched
bond is like a sierra point and click protagonist whose job is to murder people
moontouched
combine body + [whatever]
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Diamonds Are Forever bikini choke scene
like what's your problem bond
moontouched
it's not great
Rama
moontouched : That is the best description of James Bond I'd ever heard
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side note but that might actually be the youtube video where the comments are the most personally distressing to me
Rama
And yes, in real life, you shoot people in the chest
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It Just Works Better
Vehrec
Bond's problem is that he's the agent of a decaying capitalist empire, explicitly using violence to perpetuate that empire's influence and power even as it inevitably fades from relevence.
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it's like 99% either people going "if you pause at the right time you can see her bobs" or "this is what made old bond so great you couldn't get away with it in a modern bond movie"
Vehrec
James Bond is just about the perfect example of Special forces run amok.
CrowsbeforeBros
like good lord, Ian Fleming never intended for Bond to be admirable, he's a tired, alcoholic thug that is too broken for any other kind of life
RobotApocalypse
as someone who was ostensibly trained to shoot people professionally (ie army basic training), i can confirm that they do not tell you to aim for the head
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"center of mass" is what you get taught in training
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because if you're aiming center of mass, and your shot is off, you'll probably still hit them somewhere
RobotApocalypse
that's probably the logic behind the triangle area snipers are trained to go for, too
RobotApocalypse
except in their case it's narrowed down to a more consistently fatal area even if your bullet goes wide
RobotApocalypse
anyway. this was an absolutely fascinating video about a subject that never even would've crossed my mind to wonder about
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