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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1240 on: September 08, 2011, 03:43:01 AM »
Quote from: Büge on September 08, 2011, 03:34:08 AM
Quote from: McDohl on September 08, 2011, 03:25:39 AM
I don't know much about guns, but it seems to me that they're using an M-16 as a sniper rifle.
And you call yourself a military man.

McDohl is the least "military" military man I have ever known.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1241 on: September 08, 2011, 04:48:59 AM »
Quote from: Büge on September 08, 2011, 03:34:08 AM
Quote from: McDohl on September 08, 2011, 03:25:39 AM
I don't know much about guns, but it seems to me that they're using an M-4 as a sniper rifle.
And you call yourself a military man.

And you call yourself a-wait, no.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1242 on: September 08, 2011, 05:19:58 AM »
Quote from: Defenestration on September 08, 2011, 01:55:38 AM

Japanese people are good with guns.

BEHOLD:

IN ADDITION TO THE ALREADY-MENTIONED FACT THAT IRON SIGHTS ARE BEING USED AS THOUGH THEY WERE A SCOPE, THE SHOULDER-BRACE IS FLOATING USELESSLY OVER THE SHOOTER'S SHOULDER!

He's just going to hurt himself.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1243 on: September 08, 2011, 05:32:49 AM »
don't I feel like a derp for not realizing the joke was that def takes manga seriously
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1244 on: September 08, 2011, 05:58:08 AM »
Hey man I played Golgo 13 before and I know that he sees everything behind a crosshair.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1245 on: September 08, 2011, 06:23:59 AM »
Quote from: Ted Belmont on September 08, 2011, 04:48:59 AM
Quote from: Büge on September 08, 2011, 03:34:08 AM
Quote from: McDohl on September 08, 2011, 03:25:39 AM
I don't know much about guns, but it seems to me that they're using an M-4 as a sniper rifle.
And you call yourself a military man.

And you call yourself a-wait, no.

Being definitely not a military man, I can't much tell why that's an M-4 over an M-16.
But I do know that an M-16 is good enough for the Duke.

EDIT:
Oh goddammit smiler.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1246 on: September 08, 2011, 07:04:35 AM »
Mostly the size and the stock. The M-4 is quite a bit shorter than the M-16, especially the handguard, and the collapsible stock is usually only found on M-4s(although some M-16s have been retrofitted with collapsible stocks, but it's kind of dumb, really).
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1247 on: September 08, 2011, 07:34:14 AM »
The real mystery is how do Japanese people not have the internet?

Actually, I realized something else. In the upper left panel, it appears to be a digital camera reticle.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1248 on: September 08, 2011, 07:36:01 AM »
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1249 on: September 08, 2011, 08:19:46 AM »
Quote from: Defenestration on September 08, 2011, 01:55:38 AM

Japanese people are good with guns.

I also like how his left hand is just gingerly, gingerly raising the barrel.

This gun is going places
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1250 on: September 08, 2011, 08:27:53 AM »
Well, in panel 4 or 5, he seems to have a better grip on it, but the muzzle is still level with his nose, so if anything he's raised the weapon's stock further from his shoulder.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1251 on: September 08, 2011, 08:40:54 AM »
Poorly gripped firearms aren't just a Liefeld trademark anymore.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1252 on: September 08, 2011, 12:14:51 PM »
Quote from: Beat Bandit on September 08, 2011, 05:32:49 AM
don't I feel like a derp for not realizing the joke was that def takes manga seriously
More like my amazement that this mangaka has apparently never seen anyone or anything hold a rifle ever.

He obviously googled "rifle" in order to get that kind of detail on the M4, but completely completely missed or ignored anything that showed guns being held.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1253 on: September 08, 2011, 01:35:49 PM »
Thus was my point, It's manga. There is a targeting reticle on the back of the dude's head. The fact that he was holding the gun stupid doesn't really stand out to me on that backdrop, I figured it was intentional.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1254 on: September 08, 2011, 07:50:08 PM »
I'm not going to be arsed to translate that tiny shit right now to see if the context is immediately apparent but I'll lay even odds that the fact that he's using the gun stupid is intentional.  It's probably not even real.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1255 on: September 09, 2011, 07:11:13 AM »
If the author was manly enough to know the correct way to wield a rifle, he or she wouldn't be drawing what looks like gay romance manga.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1256 on: September 09, 2011, 07:29:58 AM »
Ahhh, so the gun is a metaphor.
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1257 on: September 09, 2011, 12:42:27 PM »
Is it ever not?
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1258 on: September 09, 2011, 06:17:46 PM »
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Re: Imagery Unload
« Reply #1259 on: September 09, 2011, 08:10:45 PM »
yes

YES
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