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Deus Ex gave you bonus experience points for finding secret areas. I think it just said "Area Location Bonus" but we all knew what it meant.

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They do genetic profiling at birth, and only those predestined for greatness are allowed a name that would result in the initials JB. It's true! Joey Buttafuoco

If I was an extreme super secret agent type and my agency wasn't on a budget, I'd get Q branch to buy me an SVI Tiki or something similar.

They do genetic profiling at birth, and only those predestined for greatness are allowed a name that would result in the initials JB. It's true! Joey Buttafuoco

No, damn it!

They do genetic profiling at birth, and only those predestined for greatness are allowed a name that would result in the initials JB. It's true! Joey Buttafuoco

You know how much back pain a Desert Eagle carried daily in a shoulder holster would cause you? Johnny Haircut McSneakers would have to spend experience points in yoga or hire a chiropractor NPC.

This guy is clearly too extreme for any of those bozos.

He's jumping off that wall to land on a Triumph Bonneville with a chromed gas tank, isn't he? His name is J.E. Stu, isn't it?

Plus he is completely disregarding proper trigger discipline! Look at his finger! He's jumping over a wall extreme style with his finger locked around a very light trigger. Even if CIA operatives aren't issued weapons, they're taught not to do that. That's a negligent discharge waiting to happen.

Regardless of how he got it, IT MAKES NO SENSE TO HAVE A DESERT EAGLE. The thing weighs four and a half pounds and is loud enough to tell the whole world where he is. Even if the bad guys are using Desert Eagles and they're all eccentric big game hunters, it's going to be silly.

Well most CIA agents will never wield anything more deadly than a rubber band during those deadly Langley office wars. If the few agents who actually go out and do stuff in the field are even issued a standardized weapon, I've never heard of it. I imagine what they're issued is dependent entirely on the mission and the geography. If they're in Afghanistan undercover, they'll get an AK47. If the mission calls for it, they'll be issued a rifle or a suppressed pistol. I can't think of a single situation in which a CIA operative would be issued or would request a Desert Eagle, even if he's doing extreme soapshoe moves over darkened brick walls.

Also, the handgun Haircut McSneakers is wielding on that front cover appears to be a Desert Eagle. ...and he's a CIA operative. I am not pleased.

The quintessential question: Will we be able to reload our own ammunition?

I'm supposed to take penicillin every day for the rest of my life. I think it's BS too.

John Silence Thomas Carnacki (ghost hunters, technically) Solomon Kane Jules de Grandin Dr. Hesselius Carl Kolchak

Pirates of ****ing dark water. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgx8WjZ_0TE

I used to like that Pirates of Dark Water show before it was canceled.

Yeah I'm sure this was supposed to be inspirational but if it'd been me I'd have been offended that my religion somehow made it seem unusual.

There has to be a way to deal with extreme threats, true, but taking regular cops, training them in soldier tactics, and dressing them up in black ninja suits, balaclavas, and supressed submachineguns so they can pose for pictures is not the way to do it. When you let cops dress up and act like soldiers, they will act like soldiers when they should be acting like peace officers. I don't know the solution, but when we have incidents like this one or the one a while back where an unarmed kid failed to make a court appearance so a SWAT team burned down his house and parked a tank on top of his neighbor's Volkswagon, something isn't right. And that's not even mentioning Ruby Ridge and Waco and a slew of innocent people shot dead because the SWAT team just got the address wrong.

This may or mat not surprise some people, but I am completely against the use of no-knock warrants and in fact SWAT teams altogether. There's just something about regular police men dressing up and acting like military special forces that bothers me. Peace officers simply shouldn't require flash grenades and armored tanks to do their jobs, and when they have them, they're going to use them, and they're going to stop acting like police officers and more like Navy SEALS. And then we have incidents like this where they not only get the address wrong, but spook an innocent man out of bed without announcing that they're police, almost get themselves killed (if he'd had a rifle instead of a shotgun, we'd have several dead cops), and then fire "20 to 30" rounds with submachineguns into a home filled with six children, all of them completely off target.

She's an ex traffic cop. The amount of training they'd have given her professionally would have been very basic--I know with absolute certainty that the average traffic cop shoots no better than the average CCW holder. I don't know her level of skill, but if she's better than average it's due to her own self-honed ability rather than police training. And while I won't belittle the danger of stray shots, I'd think friendly fire from any hundred handguns would be less likely to hit a person than the shots from the gunman's rifle specifically aimed at helpless pedestrians.

Damn it. I thought you were telling me to make one.

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